Speaker 1: Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of.
Speaker 2: Life on Cut. I'm Laura and I'm Brittany. And it's
Speaker 2: been a long week. That's it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And you know what, every week at this time of
Speaker 2: year is a long week. I feel like when we're
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, it's close to Christmas,
Speaker 2: every single person and every single business in existence is
Speaker 2: just being inundated with people trying to get things done
Speaker 2: before everyone goes on break. So I feel like everyone
Speaker 2: can relate right now. It is just a mannic time
Speaker 2: of year.
Speaker 1: All that everyone does has done for like the last
Speaker 1: four days, is spend all their money in Black Friday sales.
Speaker 2: Why are we surprised every year that we get to
Speaker 2: this point and we're like, oh my god, we're so busy,
Speaker 2: Like we're so stressed. We know what happens, we know
Speaker 2: what's coming, and every year we're like, why are we
Speaker 2: so stressed? I don't mean us, I mean every human
Speaker 2: in existence, Like this happens every year.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it and I was like, yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: it's very true. It's exactly. It's exactly the funking thought
Speaker 1: I've been having this last week. Okay, no, Black Friday
Speaker 1: was busy, but I also do you know what happens
Speaker 1: for me, It's like a busy time for work, but
Speaker 1: I always forget to buy stuff from other brands. So
Speaker 1: then it comes and it goes, and then I go
Speaker 1: and buy all my Christmas presents for full price because
Speaker 1: I'm that person that still buys their Christmas presents the
Speaker 1: day before Christmas.
Speaker 2: Soul am, I I actually didn't, and I meant to.
Speaker 2: I had intentions. I didn't buy anything on Black Friday
Speaker 2: week There's been things I haven't bought for the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks because I'm like waiting for Black Friday,
Speaker 2: waiting for Black Friday.
Speaker 1: There's two times of people in this world. There's people
Speaker 1: who buy their Christmas presents early and there's people who don't.
Speaker 2: And I'm so disorganised.
Speaker 1: So if you're someone who doesn't, you were here in
Speaker 1: very good company. But I want to tell you Britt
Speaker 1: had a moment on the weekend. So Matt and night
Speaker 1: we went out for dinner.
Speaker 2: We went out a good moment, bad moment, a weird moment.
Speaker 2: You have a lot of moments.
Speaker 1: Had a moment a date night. I think I saw
Speaker 1: this was a double date. Note, we went out with
Speaker 1: our friends who also have a kid. You've also got babysitters, Like.
Speaker 2: Who the hell is that? Well, who is this other
Speaker 2: friend that Laura has that's not me?
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny when you have like your one girlfriend
Speaker 1: and anytime they have other friends, you're like, how dare you?
Speaker 1: How dare you be friends with other people?
Speaker 2: It's like I told Laura, I'm just interrupting your hijacking
Speaker 2: your story for a second here. I told Laura the
Speaker 2: other day, She's like, what'd you do? And I said, oh,
Speaker 2: I caught up with this friend and I said a name,
Speaker 2: and you were like what, You're like, who is that?
Speaker 2: You don't what? I've never heard of it. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's a friend that's like from a circle you don't
Speaker 2: know about. And you were just so gobsmacked that I
Speaker 2: knew anyone else. Well, I was like, stop making friends
Speaker 2: with other people. Your time is limited. I don't understand
Speaker 2: why you would spend it with people that aren't me. Okay,
Speaker 2: we've all got that friend, but no, Okay. So we
Speaker 2: went out for dinner and we were supposed to have
Speaker 2: this really cute date night and your girl had a
Speaker 2: couple of margreaders.
Speaker 1: I was like, trying to hold Matt's hand through dinner.
Speaker 1: We've been together for a long time now, we're not
Speaker 1: like very public displays of affection couple that we haven't
Speaker 1: been out for so long. So I was like, I
Speaker 1: had my hand on his leg, that I he was
Speaker 1: trying to hold his hand, and I was getting progressively
Speaker 1: drunker through the night. So I was like, because I'm
Speaker 1: more like wanting to hold his hand, and he was
Speaker 1: completely fucking oblivious to the fact that I had been
Speaker 1: trying to hold his hand for the entire night and
Speaker 1: we got home and that I picked a fight with
Speaker 1: him about why he wouldn't hold my hand.
Speaker 2: So of course she were for Margaret his steep, But
Speaker 2: what do you mean you would like, okay, talk me
Speaker 2: through this. Howd he try to hold someone's hands? I
Speaker 2: feel like that's what you do on a first date
Speaker 2: the movies, where you slowly move your hand over it
Speaker 2: and they don't know when they reach for the popcorn.
Speaker 2: Then you're like, that was awkward. When you've been together
Speaker 2: for years and you got kids, don't you just grab
Speaker 2: the hand?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I was holding his hand, but then he
Speaker 1: just wasn't into it, like he would hold it for
Speaker 1: like three seconds and then pat me and then go
Speaker 1: and use his hands to talk and stuff.
Speaker 2: So he doesn't like PDAs well.
Speaker 1: No, he does normally. So he just did the hand
Speaker 1: drop and it made me, do you all know the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift We've all seen the movie, We've all the
Speaker 1: ten minute movie, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Did you take your scarf? He did the hand draw.
Speaker 1: He just kept doing the hand drop and don't worry.
Speaker 1: I made him know about it. We got home and
Speaker 1: I was like, I was trying to give you affection
Speaker 1: all night and you gave me nothing.
Speaker 2: And what did he say?
Speaker 1: And he was like, oh, yeah, you were trying to
Speaker 1: hold me. He's like sorry, sorry, Baby's like I honestly
Speaker 1: just didn't think. He's like, you never try and hold
Speaker 1: my hand to dinner and I was like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I did multiple times. He was like I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll be more aware of it next time,
Speaker 1: and I was like that's not good enough. And then
Speaker 1: I made him say sorry probably about fifteen times. And
Speaker 1: then we went to bed and I was still harping
Speaker 1: on about it, and he was like.
Speaker 2: Can you fucking Okay, this will be a problem with
Speaker 2: me for the rest of my life. I am such
Speaker 2: a physical person, Like, physical touch is my thing, whether
Speaker 2: it's my friends, whether it's my partner, whomever, my family.
Speaker 2: If you're within reach or even if you're not, like
Speaker 2: I'll do a stretch to touch you, but I will
Speaker 2: be touching you at all times. Yeah, it's a real
Speaker 2: problem with me. Like, wherever I am, whatever time of day,
Speaker 2: touch me, I'll be touching you.
Speaker 1: Okay, does anybody else do this? If you're having a
Speaker 1: petty argument with your partner, this is terrible advice.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. Do not do this.
Speaker 1: But if you're having a petty argument about something that's insignificant,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's not insignificant, but do you like do
Speaker 1: little tests. So in my mind, as I had had
Speaker 1: a few more, this is not going to be good.
Speaker 1: I was like I'd realized that I was trying to
Speaker 1: hold his hand and he wasn't holding mine, and so
Speaker 1: I would then purposefully do it, and then every time
Speaker 1: he didn't hold my hand back, I was like, ooh,
Speaker 1: mental note, gonna get angry about you that later. Like
Speaker 1: it was like a test.
Speaker 2: You're putting tallies in your hand, you have one, Yeah,
Speaker 2: said that later in the night you can do You
Speaker 2: did this twenty seven point five times.
Speaker 1: Literally, that's what I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I don't encourage this, don't test your part.
Speaker 2: Maybe if before Margarita's deep, but otherwise I.
Speaker 1: Remve all terrible things. Anyway, we're great. We had makeup
Speaker 1: sex last night. It's been like the first time in
Speaker 1: a month.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's deep down subconsciously, maybe that's why you're picking
Speaker 2: the fight, because you wanted a.
Speaker 1: A excuse and be makeup sex. Well, I just I
Speaker 1: think I was missing the intimacy. And we've been really
Speaker 1: stressed and busy with work recently and like the kids,
Speaker 1: and it's just sometimes, as you guys know, you have
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows in when you're so busy, you can
Speaker 1: get to a point where, like, as much as you
Speaker 1: love each other, you're just not holding hands and you'll
Speaker 1: be I'm a bit transactional with taking care of kids.
Speaker 2: You sometimes have to stop and.
Speaker 1: Be like, oh, that's right, Like I really really freaking
Speaker 1: love this person and I want them to know that
Speaker 1: I love them, But you have to kind of make
Speaker 1: sure that they're reciprocating it, because otherwise it doesn't feel good.
Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to because at the moment you have
Speaker 2: like a little jailbird of a child. Like doesn't help it.
Speaker 2: You've got a little kid that breaks out of a
Speaker 2: cod every night and climbs into your bed. But one
Speaker 2: hundred percent like, no, I'm not going to encourage anyone
Speaker 2: else to pick a fight to have sex. But for you, Laura,
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. Before we get into anymore, because
Speaker 2: there are still two other relationships that I want to
Speaker 2: talk about, but I want to tell you what the
Speaker 2: episode is today. It is such a beautiful episode. It's
Speaker 2: an episode that we have wanted to do for a
Speaker 2: long time, and you guys have actually requested this man,
Speaker 2: the man of the hour for many many months. We
Speaker 2: have Michael from Love on the Spectrum now Love on
Speaker 2: the Spectrum. If you are behind the times, you have
Speaker 2: to do yourself a favor and watch it. It is.
Speaker 2: It's like the modern day Bachelor, but for people on
Speaker 2: the spectrum, people with so much more wholesome, so much
Speaker 2: more wholesome people Asperger's and autism. It's a reality show,
Speaker 2: but it's pretty unproduced. It's very much let's just see
Speaker 2: how they go in these environments. Now there's two seasons now.
Speaker 2: Michael theo who are speaking to you today? He was
Speaker 2: the breakout star of season number one. He came back
Speaker 2: for season number two. I don't want to tell you
Speaker 2: too much because you should watch it and you should
Speaker 2: listen to the episode. But he was just such a
Speaker 2: lovable and vulnerable character. He's recently just become absolutely huge.
Speaker 2: He's been on Ellen DeGeneres, Kim Kardashian A shouted him out.
Speaker 2: He's very much the man of the hour. Because Love
Speaker 2: on the Spectrum in Australia was screening in the US
Speaker 2: and the UK. We're so stoked to talk to Michael,
Speaker 2: and it's just to really get to know Michael outside
Speaker 2: of the reality TV show. It's who he is when
Speaker 2: the cameras aren't on him, and he, let me tell you,
Speaker 2: is an absolute dream boat.
Speaker 1: We also did another episode earlier in the year in June.
Speaker 1: It was episode one hundred and thirty two. If you
Speaker 1: want to go back and listen to it. It was
Speaker 1: all about Love on the Spectrum. We interviewed Jodie Rodgers,
Speaker 1: who is the therapist and psychologist that works on Love
Speaker 1: on the Spectrum. We all so interviewed Cassandra, who was
Speaker 1: another participant. So if you want to know more about
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of how the reality TV show works,
Speaker 1: that is all talked about in that episode. This is
Speaker 1: just a it's a really heartwarming and wholesome chat with
Speaker 1: Michael about who he is as a person, about why
Speaker 1: he signed up to do reality TV, and what it's
Speaker 1: like dating when you are somebody who has Asperger's.
Speaker 2: But we'll get into that interview.
Speaker 1: In a little while. Firstly, before we do, I really
Speaker 1: want to talk about Laura Henshaw and her new husband,
Speaker 1: Dult Henshaw formerly known as Dalton Graham. Now, if anybody
Speaker 1: who doesn't know who Laura Henshaw is, she is a
Speaker 1: relatively prolific Instagram social media influencer. She is also the
Speaker 1: co founder of keep It Cleanup, which she does with
Speaker 1: Steph Claire Smith. It's an exercise app program. She's incredibly
Speaker 1: successful and a powerhouse of a woman. And last Friday
Speaker 1: she got married in Victoria's Yarrow Valley. Now, the big
Speaker 1: thing that's come out from this wedding, and something that
Speaker 1: a lot of the media outlets have picked up and
Speaker 1: are talking about, is that they have completely gone against
Speaker 1: tradition and instead of Laura's subscribing to traditional views and
Speaker 1: taking on Dalton's last name, which was Graham. Dalton has
Speaker 1: actually taken on her last name, which is Henshaw.
Speaker 2: After the wedding on Friday, Dalton did post a photo
Speaker 2: and it was a really beautiful photo. And can I
Speaker 2: just say also, this is the fourth time they've tried
Speaker 2: to get married. The poor things canceled their weddings four
Speaker 2: times throughout COVID. But he did put this really beautiful
Speaker 2: photo of them up cuddling looking into each other's eyes,
Speaker 2: and he said, you can still call me Dalton, dlt
Speaker 2: Dolphin whatever you like. I am still the same me
Speaker 2: and always will be. Just going to sign off on
Speaker 2: one chapter and start another with my beautiful, driven and
Speaker 2: inspirational wife by my side as mister Henshaw. I just
Speaker 2: think that is the most beautiful post and it just
Speaker 2: had such a warm reception. Everybody was really positive and
Speaker 2: really supportive, and I love to see it because that
Speaker 2: is not always the case.
Speaker 1: No, I think that this is such an like it's
Speaker 1: beautiful to see how many people have jumped on this.
Speaker 1: I think like there is this expectation. Well I don't think,
Speaker 1: I know there is a huge expectation that women will
Speaker 1: take their husband's last name, but there are so many
Speaker 1: reasons why a guy might decide, especially in twenty twenty one. Actually,
Speaker 1: do you know what, I'm not that attached to my
Speaker 1: own last name, and the last name of my partner
Speaker 1: is so significant to them, so therefore, like, let's go
Speaker 1: against tradition and let's take her last name. I mean,
Speaker 1: for some people, it could be that they don't have
Speaker 1: a strong connection to their own family, or I know
Speaker 1: somebody else who's taken their last name of their wife,
Speaker 1: and it's because she was the last of their generation.
Speaker 1: There was no other brothers to take on and to
Speaker 1: continue the family name, and so he took on her
Speaker 1: last name so that their children would have a chance
Speaker 1: of continuing their heritage. But it's just so interesting to
Speaker 1: see one. The commentary around it has been so incredibly supportive.
Speaker 1: But even though there have been a few celebrities and
Speaker 1: people who are in high powered positions doing this recently,
Speaker 1: it is still incredibly rare for a man to take
Speaker 1: on a woman's last name. From the studies that have
Speaker 1: been done, only one to two percent of men will
Speaker 1: actually take on their wife's last name. And I think
Speaker 1: you know, we see more and more the hyphenated names,
Speaker 1: but it's very rare that we see a husband fully
Speaker 1: taking on the last name of a wife now. Brian Powell,
Speaker 1: who's a professor of family and gender at Indiana University
Speaker 1: in Bloomington, he said that there is still so much
Speaker 1: social stigma around a husband taking on his wife's last name.
Speaker 1: He said that there is so much worry that a
Speaker 1: man will be seen as less of a man. It
Speaker 1: increases the likelihood that others will think of the man
Speaker 1: as less dominant, as weaker in the household. Pale also
Speaker 1: went on to say that with any non traditional name choice,
Speaker 1: the man's status goes.
Speaker 2: Down in public perception.
Speaker 1: Isn't it fucking crazy that we still live in a
Speaker 1: world that, as much as we think that we are
Speaker 1: relatively progressed, seventy percent of people think that a woman
Speaker 1: should take the man's last name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it actually comes from this patriarchal history that the
Speaker 2: man owns the woman. That's where it comes from. It's
Speaker 2: not about like seeming like you're a family bond. Back
Speaker 2: in the heyday, it was that okay, you are now mine,
Speaker 2: you're my possession, and I own you, and the fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is, whilst it's not about ownership, it's
Speaker 2: just one of those traditions that seems to be grounded
Speaker 2: and rooted in history. But would Matt ever take your name?
Speaker 1: No, We've talked about it. He said no, So you
Speaker 1: asked him. Yeah, I asked him.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna take his name?
Speaker 1: So I think no, yeah, I'm gonna take his name.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not hugely attached to my last name,
Speaker 1: and that's in no disrespect to my dad or no
Speaker 1: disrespect to my family. But I come from a broken family,
Speaker 1: like my parents are divorced, and so our last name
Speaker 1: never held that strong family unit for me. My mom
Speaker 1: has had two actually my mum has had three different
Speaker 1: last names, So I guess for me, it hasn't really
Speaker 1: held that strong a bond or that integrity to it.
Speaker 1: So I'm not attached to it. But in the same
Speaker 1: way like Matt, also, he's not hugely attached to his
Speaker 1: last name. But I know he doesn't want to take
Speaker 1: on burn like we've had that conversation.
Speaker 2: But he hasn't said why.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess as well, like for us, it's not
Speaker 1: that you know, my business is not attached to my name.
Speaker 1: It's not part of my identity so far in a
Speaker 1: way that like if I had written an awesome paper
Speaker 1: and I wanted people to be able to research me
Speaker 1: and go yes, like that's that's Laura Byrne, or I
Speaker 1: was a celebrit Like, I get it. I get why
Speaker 1: people become really attached to their names. PM Muhlenberg, who
Speaker 1: is also quite a famous Instagram influencer. Her husband recently
Speaker 1: took her last name. His last name was Caine Vado
Speaker 1: and he took on mulen Burke as his last name.
Speaker 1: It is definitely happening more and more, and I do
Speaker 1: think that we're talking about it in a way that's progressive,
Speaker 1: and there is a huge portion of people who are like, yes,
Speaker 1: like we love a man who supports his woman. But
Speaker 1: in the same instance, I do think that there is
Speaker 1: still a lot of misogyny that is deeply entrenched in this.
Speaker 1: And you know, as much as Dalton has received accolades
Speaker 1: publicly on his social media, if you do a deep
Speaker 1: dive into the Internet, it's a pretty dark area in
Speaker 1: regards to this, and there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who speak very negatively about men who take the woman's
Speaker 1: last name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all for it. I think it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: The reason doesn't matter either. If you have a conversation
Speaker 2: as a couple and you decide that you want to
Speaker 2: unite under one name, it doesn't matter whose name, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what it's for. I think that's great and yeah,
Speaker 2: unfortunately there are still people that can't get on board
Speaker 2: with it. But the more people that do it and
Speaker 2: openly speak about us, the quicker it's going to change,
Speaker 2: and the more it's going to become accepted totally.
Speaker 1: I just want to leave with one last thing. So,
Speaker 1: according to a twenty seventeen study that came out in Portland,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a United States based study, but it
Speaker 1: said that seventy percent of people said that women should
Speaker 1: take their husband's last name in marriage. The most common
Speaker 1: reason people felt was that this is because they believe
Speaker 1: that women should prioritize their marriage and family ahead of themselves,
Speaker 1: and taking their husband's last name symbolize that, according to
Speaker 1: the study. So it just shows that even though we
Speaker 1: have come such a long way in the meaning behind
Speaker 1: what marriage is the fact that, like you said, brit
Speaker 1: it originally was rooted in this idea that as females,
Speaker 1: you were attached to your father, He had ownership of you.
Speaker 1: That's also why he walks you down the aisle at
Speaker 1: a wedding and gives you a way to the husband,
Speaker 1: because he's transitioning that ownership from him to your now husband.
Speaker 1: And this idea that you now as the wife, as
Speaker 1: the bride, are going to take the husband's name, is
Speaker 1: that you are in some ways subordinate and then you
Speaker 1: become absolved into his family. So it has these very
Speaker 1: archaic concepts around it, but we are still attached to
Speaker 1: the ideas socially that a woman has to take the
Speaker 1: man's last name. Don't even get me started on same
Speaker 1: sex marriages, because how do you choose in those instances?
Speaker 2: I think you just chat about it if no one's
Speaker 2: attached to it, or there's someone's brands attached to a name,
Speaker 2: or maybe someone's worked really hard to have a doctorate
Speaker 2: or something like that. Like, whatever the reasons are between
Speaker 2: you two, you just decide within each other. There's no
Speaker 2: right or wrong, I don't think anymore. And also, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of couples that might not want to
Speaker 2: take each other's name at all, and they individually keep
Speaker 2: their names a lot of actors are like that, like
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively jumped to mind, like they've created
Speaker 2: a life for themselves, They've worked really hard, and they
Speaker 2: wanted to keep their separate names. I don't think it matters.
Speaker 2: What I want to say is, I don't think it matters.
Speaker 2: I think as long as two people in a relationship
Speaker 2: come to the same agreement, and it's obviously gonna get
Speaker 2: tricky if as kids involved, do you want the kids
Speaker 2: to have the same name as the parents? Do want
Speaker 2: the kids have the same name as a mom? Like,
Speaker 2: there's all these conversations that are just going to be
Speaker 2: individual to each relationship the way. Congratulations Laura and Dalton
Speaker 2: for we.
Speaker 1: Are so I love it on Instagram. We will like
Speaker 1: what a guy like? What a guy to go and
Speaker 1: do that. It's weird that we congratulate a man for
Speaker 1: doing it when a woman does it every single day
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It's the old dad taking the kids to
Speaker 2: the park again, and we're like, well done.
Speaker 1: It's a different sets standards, isn't it. It's like we
Speaker 1: hold them up to a different set of standards.
Speaker 2: All right, Moving along, I want to talk about one
Speaker 2: more relationship before we get into the episode. We're really
Speaker 2: we're going a deep dive in relationships right now. I
Speaker 2: just seem to be a lot of it, a lot
Speaker 2: around at the moment.
Speaker 1: There was not a lot of other things in the
Speaker 1: new you know, there was a lot of relationships in
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 2: Something that everyone is talking about right now. It is
Speaker 2: literally everywhere. It is the current relationship. It is the
Speaker 2: hot topic, and that is well, I still don't know
Speaker 2: how I feel about the relationship. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson. Now,
Speaker 2: Pete Davidson is the Saturday Night Live. He's one of
Speaker 2: the hosts. If you don't know him, he's like, he's
Speaker 2: a comedian. He's known as the funny man. He's not
Speaker 2: stereotypically tall, dark, handsome, good looking. He's definitely got his quirks,
Speaker 2: but he has every hot woman in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: He was formally engaged to Ariana Grande. What do you
Speaker 1: mean you don't know if you're here for this relationship yet?
Speaker 1: I need a little bit more from you, Britt. I
Speaker 1: was like, there's a lot of judgment.
Speaker 2: There's no judgment, but you know how sometimes you just
Speaker 2: look and I mean, like we all get so invested
Speaker 2: in Hollywood relationships or famous relationships. You know how sometimes
Speaker 2: you see two people get together and you're like, yes,
Speaker 2: I didn't know I needed this, this is the best
Speaker 2: I just I haven't felt that real pull towards them
Speaker 2: as a couple.
Speaker 1: Yahna, you're wrong. I love it. I think he is
Speaker 1: so sexy. I'm so here for it.
Speaker 2: But also, you and I don't often agree on attraction,
Speaker 2: even though yeah, even though no, even though we did
Speaker 2: date the same guy once, even though once one time, No,
Speaker 2: we do you and I we do. We agree on
Speaker 2: attraction a lot, but often who you were like, Okay,
Speaker 2: it happened recently this week we saw somebody and Laura
Speaker 2: was saying, holy shit, that guy is so handsome. He
Speaker 2: is so good looking, And I was like, what guy.
Speaker 2: I didn't even clock it because he was he didn't
Speaker 2: register to me. We are so different that I was like,
Speaker 2: if we were both single at a bar, we would
Speaker 2: be fine. We would not be competing over the same guy.
Speaker 1: Wait, do you think Matt's Like, would you go for
Speaker 1: Matt if you met him a different if we were
Speaker 1: on the same season as The Bachelor, if we went
Speaker 1: together and competing, would you go for Matt or not.
Speaker 2: Probably because I'm competitive. You can stay out of my
Speaker 2: house and now I'm no Matt, And like, I can
Speaker 2: never answer that question because I've only ever known Matt
Speaker 2: as yours and so immediately I would never look at
Speaker 2: someone like a very safe answer. Yeah it's safe, like
Speaker 2: you were across the other side. No, but it's true.
Speaker 2: The reason I wanted to talk about Kim and Pete,
Speaker 2: it's not just because I think it's like a shock relationship.
Speaker 2: I actually look, I actually think it's really cute, and
Speaker 2: I think he's really funny, and a lot of people
Speaker 2: have come out and said that he's actually just the
Speaker 2: best human and that has to be evident because he
Speaker 2: gets the hottest chicks. But what I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about is the fact that Kim and Kanye split. It
Speaker 2: was over. Everyone knows that it was never coming back.
Speaker 2: It was buried. As soon as Kim has launched this relationship,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, she's everywhere. There's photographs of her.
Speaker 2: It's not just whispers anymore. It's out there. The second
Speaker 2: it was hard launched, Kanye has come out publicly and
Speaker 2: he is groveling, he is begging, he's publicly posting, he's screenshotting,
Speaker 2: he's tagging her, He's doing everything humanly possible. He's even
Speaker 2: talking at his church in his speeches about getting Kim back.
Speaker 2: What on earth? This is the most awkward situation.
Speaker 1: I have an article here Kanye were shares old photo
Speaker 1: with Kim Kardashian in new attempt to win her back.
Speaker 1: So only a day ago, Kanye has posted a photo,
Speaker 1: a black and white photo of Kim and him kissing,
Speaker 1: as like part of an attempt to be like, I
Speaker 1: know that she might be in another relationship right now,
Speaker 1: but we are going to rekindle this. We are going
Speaker 1: to reconcile, and we're going to get back together. And
Speaker 1: it just made me think, I'm sure that there are
Speaker 1: so many other people who are listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: who have been in relationships that have expired. You know what,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you have moved on from your ex.
Speaker 1: The minute that you're happy in a new relationship, then
Speaker 1: he comes out of the woodworks and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like, how are you? I miss you?
Speaker 2: I fucked up.
Speaker 1: I've never loved anyone as much as I love you.
Speaker 1: Why do they do this?
Speaker 2: Well, that's what he's done. He's come out and he
Speaker 2: said I fucked up. He's like, I've made mistakes. I
Speaker 2: made tony mistakes. I didn't act the way her husband
Speaker 2: should act. I publicly embarrassed her. And he even said,
Speaker 2: like by running for president. He even included that, which mate, like,
Speaker 2: at least you can recognize that. But this black and
Speaker 2: white photo that he has put up of them kissing,
Speaker 2: which is a beautiful photo. They're in matching sweats. He's
Speaker 2: posted that. He's then taking the TMZ headline that said
Speaker 2: Kanye West says God will bring Kim and him back
Speaker 2: together and inspire millions. He's put that headline over the
Speaker 2: top of the photo of them kissing. Then he has
Speaker 2: tagged TMZ for the news article, and he's tagged Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 2: Now at the same time, Kim's posting photos with her partner.
Speaker 2: What do you think is going through Kim's mind?
Speaker 1: I mean, also, we know, and it's been very widely
Speaker 1: reported that Kanye suffers with some mental health problems that
Speaker 1: he also has bipolar, So there is probably a whole
Speaker 1: other level queue at play. So I definitely think we
Speaker 1: can't disregard commenting on that. But I'm in agreeance with you.
Speaker 1: I think that this would happen to so many people
Speaker 1: on a small scale, but to be a celebrity and
Speaker 1: to have this play out so publicly is a whole
Speaker 1: other level. And also I do think that there is
Speaker 1: a bit of a level of disrespect here. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, if somebody is in a new relationship, if
Speaker 1: they're saying that they're happy, going out and publicly undermining
Speaker 1: that relationship by saying what you have is so much
Speaker 1: more important. And yes, they have the history, they have years,
Speaker 1: they have children, but going out to publicly undermine that
Speaker 1: over and over and over and using your social media
Speaker 1: to weaponize it is rather problematic. And there's also been
Speaker 1: and that this is all speculation, but there's also been
Speaker 1: a lot of speculation that he cheated on her in
Speaker 1: the relationship, and there was infidelity. He's sung about that before,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of reports about it. So you
Speaker 1: didn't act the way you should have in that time
Speaker 1: in your relationship. You haven't tried to get her back
Speaker 1: until she's launched a relationship with someone else. I just wonder,
Speaker 1: I mean, for all of us plubs, all of us
Speaker 1: everyday people, not the celebrities, because this does happen as
Speaker 1: soon as you've moved on and you're happy, your X
Speaker 1: wants you back. I just wonder, do they really want
Speaker 1: them back or is it just the fact that, like
Speaker 1: they don't want them because they didn't want to be
Speaker 1: the first place, but you don't want anyone else to
Speaker 1: have them. Is there like this sense of ownership where
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't want to be happy with you,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to be happy with anyone else.
Speaker 1: Or is it the whole idea of like you don't
Speaker 1: know what you have until it's gone. I think there's
Speaker 1: many layers of it. I think there is a huge
Speaker 1: ego attached to it. I definitely think that plays a
Speaker 1: part in these situations. And I know so many people
Speaker 1: would have experienced their own version of this. You know,
Speaker 1: Britt and I were talking about how back in the day,
Speaker 1: I would post Instagram quotes.
Speaker 2: That were very much directed at my ex.
Speaker 1: I thought if nobody knew except for him, like the
Speaker 1: really subtle but unsubtle digs when you're trying to like
Speaker 1: get your ex's attention, or even just like the first
Speaker 1: trap photo, like we've all done it. We've all tried
Speaker 1: to not necessarily get an X back, but get an
Speaker 1: ex's attention via social media.
Speaker 2: We've all made that mistake. It's just different when we
Speaker 2: have three hundred million followers, and it's.
Speaker 1: Different when you post an actual photo of them and
Speaker 1: tag them. It's a whole other level. And I do
Speaker 1: think that there is ego and there is a bit
Speaker 1: of ownership that's kind of wrapped up in that.
Speaker 2: Anyway, interesting to see how that old chestnut plays out.
Speaker 2: But I reckon it's time for some accidentally unfiltered.
Speaker 1: All right, I have a goodie for you today. Are
Speaker 1: you doing an accidently unfiltered or are you bringing me
Speaker 1: a confessional accidentally unfiltered on my end? Okay, well, are
Speaker 1: any good one for anyone who's new and doesn't know
Speaker 1: what accidentally unfiltered is. Basically, you guys write in your
Speaker 1: most embarrassing stories for the week or the month of
Speaker 1: the year, and we pick up up a decade the
Speaker 1: existence since you were born. Literally, we pick out our
Speaker 1: favorites and we read them out to you, and I
Speaker 1: have a fucking goody too. It is rather innocent. It
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Pooh, Thank Christ. And here
Speaker 1: it is. I work at a community pharmacy as a
Speaker 1: pharmacy assistant. So the whole day I'm constantly taking in
Speaker 1: scripts and handing them out and being at the register.
Speaker 1: Today due to the rain and the horrible Wi Fi
Speaker 1: connection ow FPOs machine just wasn't connecting to our computer,
Speaker 1: but I had come in late for the day and
Speaker 1: no one had told me anyway. The first person I
Speaker 1: ended up serving was a man who was buying viagra,
Speaker 1: and of course I go to put the transaction through
Speaker 1: the F plus machine, but it wouldn't connect. So here
Speaker 1: I am. I scan the biagra, and I look at
Speaker 1: my colleague and say to her very loudly, I can't
Speaker 1: get it up, to which she looked at the computer
Speaker 1: and then the viagra, and then the computer and then
Speaker 1: at me. Thank god we were wearing masks because I
Speaker 1: could tell that she was holding back the biggest laugh.
Speaker 1: I honestly can't remember the rest because I was so
Speaker 1: mortified with myself. So yeah, in short, I actually fucking
Speaker 1: use the phrase I can't get it up in front
Speaker 1: of a customer buying viagra, and I've been constantly overthinking
Speaker 1: the situation since.
Speaker 2: He probably liked thanks. I've realized that I can't get
Speaker 2: it up. You don't need to tell the rest of
Speaker 2: the world and announce it over the microphone.
Speaker 1: I just wishally he'd been like, yeah, babe, me too.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's that old he didn't hear, he might not
Speaker 2: have heard of.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that he was old. I know
Speaker 1: that there's like a common misconception that just because someone's
Speaker 1: buying viagra at the chemist, they.
Speaker 2: Must be old. Maybe I just want to go for
Speaker 2: a few days, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a lot of younger guys that have a
Speaker 1: rectile problems as well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, either way, yes, love, that was awkward for you,
Speaker 2: very awkward, very good right, give me all o. Heay,
Speaker 2: mine's pretty innocent. But I think it's super cute. It
Speaker 2: really tickled me years ago when I was dating my
Speaker 2: first boyfriend, who I lost my virginity to, he told
Speaker 2: me it would be sexy if I got a landing
Speaker 2: strip style wax. As this was my first sexual relationship
Speaker 2: and I was a bit of a late bloomer, I
Speaker 2: was naturally too shy to go to a beautician. I
Speaker 2: instead decided to take on the challenge myself, so I
Speaker 2: went off to Priceline and I got one of those
Speaker 2: nas packs instead. Let me tell you, I was very
Speaker 2: proud of my efforts and couldn't wait for the big
Speaker 2: reveal to my boyfriend, who needs a beautician. I will
Speaker 2: never forget his face when he took off my underwear
Speaker 2: to reveal my freshly waxed landing strip. I had completely
Speaker 2: misinterpreted the definition of a landing strip, and I reversed it.
Speaker 2: I had waxed this little I had waxed this little
Speaker 2: strip down the middle and left the sides untouched. And
Speaker 2: I'm talking full bush. I nearly died when he told me.
Speaker 2: We couldn't stop laughing. Needless to say, I didn't wax
Speaker 2: myself a yet. But like Jimmy Fair, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Can you just all stop and just have that visual
Speaker 1: image and hold it for three seconds like a hairy
Speaker 1: vagina that is just bawled down the slit?
Speaker 2: I'm all down the middle, Honestly, it makes sense. Like
Speaker 2: you have cleared the strip, you have, it's ready for landing.
Speaker 2: If you don't know when you think about it, that's
Speaker 2: what would make sense.
Speaker 1: Have you ever? Okay, I can't wax. I tried waxing
Speaker 1: ones and it was just horrible. I got the worst
Speaker 1: ingrown hairs from waxing that my boyfriend at the time
Speaker 1: was like, maybe you should wax, it's so soft, like
Speaker 1: this is anyway, I did it and it was a disaster.
Speaker 2: I Brazilian wax myself easy. I could do it in
Speaker 2: three minutes.
Speaker 1: That is horrifying to me, the fact that you can
Speaker 1: give yourself a Brazilian so you could wax your own
Speaker 1: butt crack and you're not like, I don't wax. It'
Speaker 1: not in agony in paint, so just their no, but.
Speaker 2: All the vaginal hair like I could do it. I
Speaker 2: have been waxing. I have never gone to a beautasan
Speaker 2: for wax. I have been able to wax since I
Speaker 2: was twenty, So I feel like the best part of
Speaker 2: ten you anyway, I just think that was so innocent,
Speaker 2: and I think she really was the winner here. She
Speaker 2: got the brief, she did what she was told, she
Speaker 2: created a landing strip.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is enough of that. Let's get into this
Speaker 1: chat with Michael. We hope you guys enjoy it. If
Speaker 1: you have an accillent, unfiltered story, and this is your
Speaker 1: call out because we receive so many. If you're somebody
Speaker 1: who has had an accidentally unfiltered story. If you've had
Speaker 1: your most embarrassing thing and you've been thinking should I,
Speaker 1: shouldn't I? Each week, maybe I'll send it in. Just
Speaker 1: send it in. We need it and we want it.
Speaker 2: We really love the innocent ones too. If you think
Speaker 2: that yours is like, oh, mine's not dirty enough, is
Speaker 2: not poolly enough, we don't have to have those. We
Speaker 2: love the innocent ones, and we really like the dirty
Speaker 2: one well, Laura loves it. But also if you have
Speaker 2: a confessional or anything else that you think is worthy
Speaker 2: of us knowing about, please slide on into the DM's
Speaker 2: Life un Cut podcast. Now let's get into the chat
Speaker 2: with Michael. Michael, this is such an exciting day for
Speaker 2: us because I am such a huge fan of you
Speaker 2: and the show. So welcome to Life on Cut podcast.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Lise, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Can you start, Michael? I feel like the best way
Speaker 2: is to try to get to know you a little bit.
Speaker 2: How would you describe yourself in three words?
Speaker 3: I would say that I'm quite a character, undyingly loyal,
Speaker 3: and apparently a hopeless romantic.
Speaker 2: We absolutely love hopeless romantics here at Life on CP.
Speaker 1: You're from Woollongong. I grew up in Woollongong, so I
Speaker 1: am very familiar with that stomping ground. What school did
Speaker 1: you go to?
Speaker 3: It was Woollongong High School of the Performing Arts.
Speaker 1: So my mum used to work at Kira High which
Speaker 1: is exactly next door to Wollongong High. This is feeling
Speaker 1: very close to home. Can you tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit about what was your childhood like? Who was Michael
Speaker 1: when he was a kid. Just give me a little
Speaker 1: bit of a background of that time in your life.
Speaker 3: Back in primary school, I often sat alone during the
Speaker 3: breaks because that's what I preferred, because I was kind
Speaker 3: of reserved time and I was kind of off in
Speaker 3: my own world. All I wanted to do was just
Speaker 3: watch Thomas and that was it. To this day, I
Speaker 3: kind of look back on all that with some degree
Speaker 3: of embarrassment.
Speaker 1: Why do you feel embarrassment about your childhood.
Speaker 3: Is because kids these days don't really seem to be
Speaker 3: like that. These days they seem to be more aware
Speaker 3: of their surroundings and what's going on in the world.
Speaker 2: When you say Thomas, you mean Thomas the Tank Engine. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's right, you're a big fan of Thomas.
Speaker 3: Yes, ever, since I was three years old.
Speaker 2: I think that there are a lot of kids that
Speaker 2: like to be by themselves. I don't think that you
Speaker 2: should look back on that with embarrassment.
Speaker 3: I suppose not. And in high school I started to
Speaker 3: socialize with the other students more and as the years passed,
Speaker 3: I became more and more sociable. But also in high
Speaker 3: school I didn't enjoy it because not because of the teachers,
Speaker 3: but because the students were often annoying, and also because
Speaker 3: of the academic side. That was the major part of it.
Speaker 1: Michael, you were diagnosed with autism when you were five.
Speaker 1: What was growing up with autism like and what was
Speaker 1: that period of your life like when you receive that diagnosis.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't really remember the diagnosis, but only my
Speaker 3: mother does. I was actually diagnosed with the spurges. It's
Speaker 3: a mold a form of autism. And what was it like, Well,
Speaker 3: basically for my parents, it wasn't very easy. I was
Speaker 3: definitely quite a character back in the day as well.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by your a character?
Speaker 3: I would say probably not normal according to some people, different,
Speaker 3: I suppose.
Speaker 2: And Michael, did you feel different, did you know you
Speaker 2: were or do you think that that's only now when
Speaker 2: you look.
Speaker 3: Back, kind of suspected that I felt different. My mother
Speaker 3: never really told me that I had asperges until I
Speaker 3: was thirteen, because when I was a kid, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have understood what it meant.
Speaker 2: And can you tell us, I guess in your own
Speaker 2: words or the way. I'm sure you've done so much
Speaker 2: research now and you live with it every single day?
Speaker 2: What is Asperger's to you? How can you describe it
Speaker 2: to somebody that doesn't know doesn't understand what it is?
Speaker 3: Aspurge's is basically a moldiform of autism. They just have
Speaker 3: social difficulties at times, but they have a lot of
Speaker 3: unique gifts as well, and they're still able to do
Speaker 3: the same things as everybody else in life. They just
Speaker 3: learn things a different way, and they still want to
Speaker 3: be loved and have friends.
Speaker 1: You've said before that people who have aspergers and have
Speaker 1: autism that it can be a gift. What sort of
Speaker 1: gifts does it bring to your life?
Speaker 3: Well? Being able to memorize certain lines from a show
Speaker 3: be like a walking encyclopedia of facts about certain topics,
Speaker 3: and having this ability to do puzzles in a certain
Speaker 3: amount of time.
Speaker 2: So do you find, Michael, that you remember everything that
Speaker 2: you read. Can you read something just once and you
Speaker 2: just sock it away? Or is it only if it's
Speaker 2: something that's really interesting to you?
Speaker 3: Only something that's very interesting to me?
Speaker 2: So does this mean that you because you went to
Speaker 2: an art school, does this mean that if you were
Speaker 2: going to read a script or something for acting, you'd
Speaker 2: remember at one time? It takes me as so long
Speaker 2: to try and remember a script.
Speaker 3: Well, I would have to read over the script a
Speaker 3: few times for it to kick in.
Speaker 2: Right. So, Michael, you've have a sister, Olivia and a
Speaker 2: brother named Adam. Are you close with them?
Speaker 3: I don't really consider myself close to them. I just
Speaker 3: have a very friendly, loving sibling relationship with them.
Speaker 2: And are they neurotypical or are they do they also
Speaker 2: have asperges?
Speaker 3: Then neurotypical?
Speaker 2: So do you look at your brother as inspiration or
Speaker 2: does he teach you anything? Or do you go to
Speaker 2: him for advice on dating or life advice?
Speaker 3: I would probably go to him for dating advice. Well,
Speaker 3: he gave me a bit of paper. They had some
Speaker 3: dating pointers a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Oh you've got that paper there?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The dating pointers are be yourself above all else,
Speaker 3: remain focused on your date, allow yourself to relax and
Speaker 3: enjoy the conversation. Look for changes in the way she
Speaker 3: responds to indicate if she is interested in the topic
Speaker 3: the conversation. I meant, if she gives you short responses
Speaker 3: with a flat toe, take this as a sign to
Speaker 3: change the topic, allow the conversation to flow naturally, and
Speaker 3: keep your face relaxed while maintaining eye contact.
Speaker 1: So a couple of things that your brother has said
Speaker 1: that you have to move on from a conversation if
Speaker 1: your data is not seeming interested. We've spoken a little
Speaker 1: bit on this podcast before we actually interviewed Cassandra, who
Speaker 1: was on your Season of Love on the Spectrum. We
Speaker 1: interviewed her a few months back, and Cassandra spoke a
Speaker 1: lot about a concept called masking, where you sometimes can
Speaker 1: mask your characteristics of aspergers or autism by doing things
Speaker 1: in a way that may be deemed to be neurotypical,
Speaker 1: but that that can be a really exhausting thing to do.
Speaker 1: Do you find that you try and mask when you're
Speaker 1: in social situations and what is that like for you?
Speaker 3: Nope, I just basically just be myself.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: When we spoke to Cassandra in regards to her aspergers,
Speaker 1: she described different triggers that for her, you know, that
Speaker 1: can kind of set her off or make her feel
Speaker 1: more uncomfortable. Do you have certain things, like whether it
Speaker 1: be loud noises or different experiences that can make you
Speaker 1: feel more frustrated or it can be more challenging for you.
Speaker 3: Well, loud noises are definitely a trigger because I hate
Speaker 3: loud music. And after socializing after an extended period of time,
Speaker 3: and that can also cause me to become tired.
Speaker 2: And what is the result of that? Do you sort
Speaker 2: of just shut down and want to go home?
Speaker 3: I would just remove myself from the situation.
Speaker 2: Give yourself some time to recharge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Michael.
Speaker 1: Can you talk to me a little bit about Love
Speaker 1: on the Spectrum. So this has been such a hugely
Speaker 1: successful show and you have been incredibly loved as one
Speaker 1: of the contestants on the show. Why did you sign
Speaker 1: up to do Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 3: It's because I saw it as my best chance to
Speaker 3: help me find a partner. It was a very enjoyable experience. Actually,
Speaker 3: I always enjoyed being filmed and perc the time. I
Speaker 3: hardly noticed the cameras.
Speaker 2: That's really good. That's the hardest part, isn't it when
Speaker 2: you feel like this camera's on you and you get
Speaker 2: a little bit nervous. Did you find that the show
Speaker 2: was at all scripted or did they say we want
Speaker 2: to encourage you to try and do this on this date,
Speaker 2: or we think you should go to this restaurant or
Speaker 2: did you get to do a lot of it yourself,
Speaker 2: Like did you get to choose the dates and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: I suggested dates and where to go. They would sometimes
Speaker 3: making certain decisions as well, but it wasn't scripted. No.
Speaker 1: What was the hardest part of the process.
Speaker 3: Well, the date that I went on with Amanda, it
Speaker 3: didn't go as planned. It ended before it started.
Speaker 2: Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 3: Amanda had some kind of hanic attack and she had
Speaker 3: to leave.
Speaker 2: I do remember seeing that. But you were such a
Speaker 2: gentleman in that moment. You recognize that she was having
Speaker 2: a hard time as well, didn't you.
Speaker 3: Yep, I could see that.
Speaker 2: In this experiment.
Speaker 1: So when you were going through the process of meeting
Speaker 1: the different participants and going on date, obviously you were
Speaker 1: looking and hoping to find a relationship out of this.
Speaker 1: What did that look like for you. What does love
Speaker 1: mean to you?
Speaker 3: It's basically an emotional bond between two souls being together,
Speaker 3: and then eventually it grows into a serious commitment like marriage.
Speaker 3: It's the spiritual and emotional bond between two souls agreeing
Speaker 3: to share and spend their lives together.
Speaker 1: And do you normally when you're dating? Do you normally
Speaker 1: like to date people who are neurotypical? What do you
Speaker 1: prefer when you're looking for a partner.
Speaker 3: I prefer neurotypicals. It's because I resonate with them more
Speaker 3: because my SPURGS is actually high functioning, which means that
Speaker 3: I guess I'm just as close to being normal I suppose.
Speaker 2: And you dated Heather on the series, and you went
Speaker 2: on quite a few days with Heather, and Michael just
Speaker 2: want to tell you that I really really loved the show.
Speaker 2: I remember calling Laura and I said, you have to
Speaker 2: watch this show. It's the most beautiful show. And obviously
Speaker 2: it's taken over the world. But I remember you going
Speaker 2: on a few days with Heather, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: these two have a connection. You were flirting. I felt
Speaker 2: like you were getting along really well, and then it
Speaker 2: didn't quite work out. What do you think happened? What
Speaker 2: were your feelings like for Heather in real life? Because
Speaker 2: I understand on a show sometimes we see one thing
Speaker 2: and what real life is another.
Speaker 3: Well, to be honest, I was actually sort of struggling
Speaker 3: to feel romantic connection with her at the same time
Speaker 3: she had several commitments to prioritize, and I was actually
Speaker 3: quite surprised when a lot of people in the audience
Speaker 3: thought that she was ghosting me. And on my part,
Speaker 3: I was actually trying to feel something special for Heather,
Speaker 3: but I just couldn't.
Speaker 2: Do you think you need to feel that spark straight
Speaker 2: away to date them?
Speaker 3: If you feel something on a first date, that's actually
Speaker 3: a bit of a sign, because if you don't feel anything,
Speaker 3: it just feels more like a couple of friends getting
Speaker 3: together totally.
Speaker 1: And that does come a point where if you don't
Speaker 1: have that spark, there's no point trying to force something.
Speaker 1: So how have you responded to the fame that has
Speaker 1: come with being in love on this spectrum? So many
Speaker 1: people are interested in your story, so many people have
Speaker 1: loved watching you on TV. What's it like to become
Speaker 1: so famous for your dating?
Speaker 3: It's flatting but also kind of overwhelming as well, because
Speaker 3: it's like having to answer fan mail.
Speaker 2: Where are you at with your dating at the moment?
Speaker 3: Still no partner and still nobody to date at the moment,
Speaker 3: been conversing with a couple of people, nothing progressing at
Speaker 3: the moment, but got some hopes.
Speaker 2: We also interviewed Jodie, who was the I guess the
Speaker 2: relationship therapist on the show. Did you use her or
Speaker 2: go to her for advice at all? Did you find
Speaker 2: her handy on the show?
Speaker 3: I did, yes, In fact, she and I keep in
Speaker 3: touch like once a month.
Speaker 2: Amazing. And what was her best advice or what did
Speaker 2: you learn from her? Because I guess she helps you
Speaker 2: along the way.
Speaker 3: The best piece of advice I can remember from is
Speaker 3: that most relationships start off from the foundation of friendship
Speaker 3: and to find also find common ground.
Speaker 1: I've said that you haven't yet found someone, but like,
Speaker 1: dating is so hard, and I think when we first
Speaker 1: it is it's so hard. When we first started this podcast,
Speaker 1: the reason why we started it was because it was
Speaker 1: a relationships based podcast where we all talked about how
Speaker 1: hard it is to find someone and how hard dating
Speaker 1: can be. What impact do you think having Aspergers has
Speaker 1: on your dating. Do you find it more difficult that
Speaker 1: initial you know, the first date. It's hard as it is.
Speaker 1: Do you find that it adds an extra layer?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that having a spurgs causes a hindrance
Speaker 3: on dating. It's just a matter of finding people that
Speaker 3: are interested. But the thing is, I don't know anybody
Speaker 3: who'd be interested in dating a gentleman.
Speaker 2: What do you mean you don't know anyone who's interested
Speaker 2: in dating a gentleman. Isn't that what all we all want?
Speaker 3: Well, let me put it this way. If you're a
Speaker 3: woman who's immature and looking for some moments of drama,
Speaker 3: a gentleman can't provide that. It depends on the person
Speaker 3: and their age as well, because when you're in your
Speaker 3: teenage years, there's no maturity, and when you're in your
Speaker 3: early twenties, that's when you're slowly starting to phase out
Speaker 3: of that immaturity process. When you're in your mid twenties,
Speaker 3: you're you're getting there, but not quite there yet. And
Speaker 3: when you get to your late twenties, you're extremely close
Speaker 3: to completion. And when you get into your thirties, that's
Speaker 3: when the complete transformation takes place.
Speaker 1: And Michael you are such a gentleman, and that was
Speaker 1: one of the things that people fell in love with
Speaker 1: about you on the show on Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 1: Where did this come from? Where did this chivalry and
Speaker 1: this very gentlemanly mannerisms come from?
Speaker 3: My father raised me to be a gentleman, is what
Speaker 3: he taught me to be. And he also once told
Speaker 3: me that there's enough animosity in the world as it is.
Speaker 3: He's a very wise man and he's taught me a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of his principles over the years.
Speaker 2: What are some of those other principles he's taught you.
Speaker 3: One of them is, if you give goodcarma, you receive
Speaker 3: good karma. If you give bad karma, you receive bad karma.
Speaker 3: And treat others the way you wish to be treated
Speaker 3: as the golden rule.
Speaker 2: What are you looking for in a partner? So you're
Speaker 2: on the dating side, you've gone in Love on the
Speaker 2: Spectrum hopefully, I mean not hopefully, but we would love
Speaker 2: to see you back on season three if you are
Speaker 2: single and you haven't found your match yet. But what
Speaker 2: is it you go into looking for a partner? Do
Speaker 2: you have a list like a checklist?
Speaker 3: I'm basically looking for a beautiful, loving woman with a
Speaker 3: pure heart, somebody who comes from a good family and
Speaker 3: does not get involved with weaponry or drugs or committee
Speaker 3: crimes or hang out with the wrong people, you know,
Speaker 3: things like that. And the thing is that I'm very
Speaker 3: selective when it comes to girls.
Speaker 2: I think you need to be selective, though, and I
Speaker 2: think it's important that we as humans we know what
Speaker 2: we want to look for in a partner, otherwise we
Speaker 2: waste our time.
Speaker 1: What do you think in a relationship is the most
Speaker 1: important thing?
Speaker 3: Well, this is the way I see it. If you
Speaker 3: ever find a partner in life, you should not only
Speaker 3: be loyal, but also grateful because if, in the event,
Speaker 3: you lose a treasure as valuable as a woman, there's
Speaker 3: a chance that you might not be able to get
Speaker 3: her back.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been in love, Michael, I've.
Speaker 3: Only had crushes on girls, but I wouldn't count that
Speaker 3: as being in love. It's just infatuation that happens to
Speaker 3: a lot of people. But being in love is like
Speaker 3: holding hands, kissing each other, and maybe also living together
Speaker 3: and making time for each other as well, even when
Speaker 3: you are busy.
Speaker 2: That time is a really big one, isn't it, especially
Speaker 2: in this day when people get so busy, it's so
Speaker 2: hard to make time for anything that's important to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what are some of the misconceptions
Speaker 1: around aspergers? What is something that you would like people
Speaker 1: to know about what it's like to live with aspergers?
Speaker 3: People in the spectrum they might not be classified as
Speaker 3: normal per se I was using air quotes. They can
Speaker 3: still do great things. They're capable of making friends, and
Speaker 3: they're capable of feeling loved. They just have difficulties with
Speaker 3: social life and just learn things differently. Just because we
Speaker 3: learn things differently doesn't mean that we're not normal.
Speaker 1: I think some people who don't understand aspergers or don't
Speaker 1: understand autism, there can be this misconception that people who
Speaker 1: have Aspergers don't have feelings or don't feel things in
Speaker 1: the same way. But what do you think about that?
Speaker 3: I would disagree with that. People with aspurgers do have feelings,
Speaker 3: they just express it differently. Because there is no one
Speaker 3: way to show someone that you care about them. There
Speaker 3: are many ways, whether it be saying it to them
Speaker 3: in person or by text, or by a song, or
Speaker 3: by taking them out somewhere or even send them a
Speaker 3: gift as many ways to do it.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your podcast that
Speaker 1: you have started. I know that this is a really
Speaker 1: exciting new venture for you. Can you tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about your podcast, why you started it and
Speaker 1: the types of people that you're interviewing.
Speaker 3: I started it because I would like to entertain people,
Speaker 3: bring love and light into people's lives. And it's also
Speaker 3: another way for people to get to know me more
Speaker 3: as a person outside of love on the spectrum, explore
Speaker 3: some of my interests which I probably didn't discuss on
Speaker 3: the show. And it is also to help inspire people
Speaker 3: to become an A plus version of themselves. In other words,
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to turn people into me. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to turn them into them.
Speaker 2: You just mentioned that you want people to know more
Speaker 2: of your interests that maybe they didn't see on the show,
Speaker 2: because we do know on the show that a lot
Speaker 2: is cut out, a lot doesn't make it to screen.
Speaker 2: What are some of your interests, like, what are your
Speaker 2: biggest passions that you want people to know about?
Speaker 3: Acting is one of them, and along with railways, animals, nature, spirituality,
Speaker 3: family and friendships, romance, I think building models, eating out,
Speaker 3: I preferbly prefer eating out with a person one on one,
Speaker 3: a woman preferably, and sitcoms as well.
Speaker 2: You have some rules for the podcast? What are your rules?
Speaker 3: Topics that I forbid from being discuss on the podcast
Speaker 3: include religion, politics, weaponry, drugs, past wars, past shooting incidents.
Speaker 3: Most importantly, it has a strict no COVID talk policy,
Speaker 3: which includes no talking about lockdowns, vaccinations, anything related to it,
Speaker 3: because after two years of hearing about it daily, nobody
Speaker 3: wants to hear about it anymore.
Speaker 1: On the flip side of that, what are some things
Speaker 1: that make you feel really you like? What are the
Speaker 1: things that you love and conversations and topics that you
Speaker 1: love to talk about?
Speaker 3: Talking about acting and celebrities and their lives and also
Speaker 3: television shows because I'm brilliant of pop culture and philosophies
Speaker 3: on life and how to treat a woman.
Speaker 1: With your podcast, you're going to be interviewing a lot
Speaker 1: of people who have been some of your favorite interviews
Speaker 1: so far.
Speaker 3: Shane Jacobson has been my favorite one so far.
Speaker 2: Who's that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: For God's sake, can I guess? Can you give me
Speaker 2: a hint?
Speaker 3: Sure? He was on Little Big Shots and he was
Speaker 3: the host. He was also in those IgA commercials and
Speaker 3: he's also in that film Ladies and Black. He was
Speaker 3: also the voice of Shane in Thomas the Tank Engine.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's why you love him.
Speaker 3: Well, Shane is an Australian tender engine from Australia, a
Speaker 3: seam engine. Actually, I was pretty excited to talk to him,
Speaker 3: and my mother was quite quite giddy about it as
Speaker 3: well when you found out.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's so exciting. It's been a big
Speaker 1: part of your childhood but also something that's come and
Speaker 1: been a big part of your adult life as well.
Speaker 2: Who is the number one person in the world? If
Speaker 2: you could pick someone to interview or to come on
Speaker 2: the podcast, who do you think that would be.
Speaker 3: That's a bit of a tough question because I actually
Speaker 3: have a long list of people that I want to interview.
Speaker 3: There's Mark, Evan, Jackson, miam Bi Aleck and my favorite
Speaker 3: British actress, Rossom and Pike.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Now, Well, hopefully they can get the word out and
Speaker 1: we can get them on your podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 2: So, Michael, speaking about you love the celebrity life and
Speaker 2: you love famous people, and acting. You are a celebrity
Speaker 2: yourself now, but you recently went on Ellen degenerous. Is
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 3: I did? Yes?
Speaker 2: That is congratulations. That is huge. How did that happen?
Speaker 2: Did she reach out to you and just say I
Speaker 2: love the show? Come on?
Speaker 3: Well, her producers contacted Netflix, and Netflix contacted Northern Pictures
Speaker 3: and they got in touch with me about it. And
Speaker 3: when I found out, I was quite surprised to learn that.
Speaker 3: I never expected it, although some time ago I did
Speaker 3: say to myself that I wouldn't be surprised if Ellen
Speaker 3: ever wanted to interview me. She mostly asked me about
Speaker 3: myself and the show, and surprisingly she gave me a suit.
Speaker 2: I saw that. Have you received the suit yet?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Does it fit?
Speaker 3: The pants and that jack are a little bit big,
Speaker 3: so they just need to be taken up.
Speaker 2: Well, you wear that on your next date and then
Speaker 2: you can tell your date that Ellen DeGeneres gave you that.
Speaker 2: That is huge. That is such an inn. That's an inn, Michael,
Speaker 2: I would yes. And also, Kim Kardashian tell us what
Speaker 2: I have heard some whispers that something happened with Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 3: She just basically posted about the show on Instagram, which
Speaker 3: I didn't expect either.
Speaker 2: That is crazy because how many followers does she have?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think like millions and millions and fifty or sixty
Speaker 2: million followers.
Speaker 3: That's no surprise.
Speaker 2: Would you do another reality TV show or another love show?
Speaker 3: I would, but it depends on if I'd be taken
Speaker 3: seriously though you.
Speaker 2: Don't think you were taken seriously?
Speaker 3: Well. Love on the Spectrum is a documentary, and I
Speaker 3: didn't really have any luck on both seasons, but don't
Speaker 3: know if I would have any any different success on
Speaker 3: another love show.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts then? When you compare? Because you
Speaker 2: said Love on the Spectrum is a documentary, what are
Speaker 2: your thoughts on like the Bachelor franchise as a love show.
Speaker 3: I never watched it because I'm just not really interested
Speaker 3: in watching dating shows.
Speaker 1: Was it weird being on a dating show yourself? Though,
Speaker 1: when you've never seen one or seen how it's put together.
Speaker 3: It didn't really feel weird. It just felt weird watching
Speaker 3: myself on screen.
Speaker 2: What do you think is next for you? Michael?
Speaker 3: I'm actually pursuing an acting career because that's my passions
Speaker 3: what I really want to do, there's some things going
Speaker 3: on in the pipeline, but and one of them will
Speaker 3: involve being in the UK, but I can't really go
Speaker 3: into any details about it.
Speaker 2: Oh way to hang us on the end of a line, Michael,
Speaker 2: how are we ever going to know?
Speaker 3: The public will know in good time, and I will
Speaker 3: also be continuing the with the podcast and also continue
Speaker 3: on with my Quest for Love.
Speaker 1: Have you ever auditioned for a show to play a
Speaker 1: character who has Asperger's? Is that something that's come up
Speaker 1: in casting.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's been the case, would you? Maybe
Speaker 3: it depends if it'd be the right match for it.
Speaker 3: I also do have a question for you.
Speaker 2: Brittany, Oh yes, hit me.
Speaker 3: Do you haven't to know anyone by the name of
Speaker 3: Jackson Garlic?
Speaker 2: I do. Jackson Garlic is a really good friend of mine.
Speaker 2: I was on a dating show with Jackson. I know
Speaker 2: that he's a friend of yours, isn't he?
Speaker 3: Yeah, even though we've never really met in person yet.
Speaker 3: And he also invited me to check out his pie business.
Speaker 2: I think that he would love to have you and
Speaker 2: your family for a pie any day of the week.
Speaker 2: He messaged me. Actually, when I said I was going
Speaker 2: to get you on and he raved about you. He said,
Speaker 2: you guys are friends and you're a really good guy,
Speaker 2: and he was really excited that you were coming on
Speaker 2: the podcast.
Speaker 3: But I actually would like to meet him in person
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Definitely let him know when you're coming to Sydney. He'll
Speaker 2: meet you somewhere, even halfway probably sounds good.
Speaker 3: I also got to ask Skip Britney, what kind of
Speaker 3: acting roles are you wanting to pursue?
Speaker 2: Oh, well, do you know what I would love? I
Speaker 2: would love to do a romantic comedy because I feel
Speaker 2: like that's true to my life. Like my whole love
Speaker 2: life has been funny. Your life. It's so easy for
Speaker 2: me to act because everything is ridiculous. Nothing ever works
Speaker 2: out as planned. It's like I feel like my life
Speaker 2: is a movie. So that's I think that would be
Speaker 2: really easy for me to act.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say so. Also got a question for you, Laura,
Speaker 3: what's it like having kids?
Speaker 2: That is a very big question.
Speaker 1: It is unrelenting, it is very tiring, but it is
Speaker 1: the most purposeful, wonderful thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 1: It has been completely transformative for me. And I was
Speaker 1: somebody who didn't think I wanted kids originally, and now
Speaker 1: I want more and more and more because they're just
Speaker 1: the most incredible little humans.
Speaker 2: I have to tell her to stop. Michael, I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: no more. I love I love being a mom, Michael,
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: How many do you have?
Speaker 2: I have two daughters.
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: Nice, I like that. This just turned into you interviewing us.
Speaker 2: He's a true podcast host.
Speaker 3: Well, looks like your partner, Struck Gold. If I was
Speaker 3: to be a parent, I preferably rather have a daughter,
Speaker 3: because I've always resonated more with girls. I always have
Speaker 3: and I'm more comfortable around them. In fact, if I
Speaker 3: ever had a daughter, I would probably name her Rosamund.
Speaker 2: After your favorite actress.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or even maam as in miam Bi Aleck. The
Speaker 3: actress mian Bi Arek is an actress who played Amy
Speaker 3: Farroh Fowler on The Big Bang Theory. And beneath that
Speaker 3: beautiful face lies a brilliant mind.
Speaker 1: Ah right, Yes, I do know who she is.
Speaker 3: That's one of the most important things in a woman.
Speaker 3: That I'm attracted to a woman that has a very
Speaker 3: intelligent mind, because women who are intelligent I could just
Speaker 3: talk with them all day.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is very important.
Speaker 1: And you know, like they say, looks fade over time,
Speaker 1: you need to have that connection, that chemistry and also
Speaker 1: that great conversation for the relationship to be able to
Speaker 1: go somewhere.
Speaker 2: A say bio sexual there call Did you know that?
Speaker 1: No, it's someone who's attracted to another person's intelligence.
Speaker 3: I always have been Well, then you.
Speaker 2: Michael are a CPO sexual.
Speaker 1: Michael, thank you so much for coming on the podcast
Speaker 1: and being a part of LAFE un Cut. We have
Speaker 1: absolutely loved interviewing you. You were a joy to watch
Speaker 1: on Love on the Spectrum. Thanks for anyone who wants
Speaker 1: to find you on social media or they want to
Speaker 1: be able to follow you, where can they find you
Speaker 1: on Instagram?
Speaker 3: Mister A plus? Michael? Can I say plus? I mean
Speaker 3: the word, not the symbol.
Speaker 2: And Michael, if there is anyone out there listening, because
Speaker 2: we have a really big audience, we're really really lucky,
Speaker 2: and a lot of them are female, is there any
Speaker 2: advice you would give the women out there that are
Speaker 2: struggling with dating or they haven't met their soulmate yet
Speaker 2: because there are so many of us, they just haven't
Speaker 2: found the right person yet. Is there any advice or
Speaker 2: motivation that.
Speaker 3: You would give them, I would say, don't give up.
Speaker 3: And if you believe that gentlemen are extinct, you're wrong,
Speaker 3: because that's what I'm trying to prove to women, because
Speaker 3: I'm trying to inspire them to give them hope, to
Speaker 3: hope for a better man, and so that they can
Speaker 3: see that gentlemen still exists even though they're quite hard
Speaker 3: to find.
Speaker 2: I think that's great advice. Definitely, don't give up because
Speaker 2: love is out there for everyone, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's nothing wrong with having high expectations. I
Speaker 3: would say that if she's out there somewhere in time,
Speaker 3: I'll know that she'll only be one thing, treasure.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael, what a way to finish That is such
Speaker 2: a beautiful line. Thanks Michael, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: coming and being a part of the podcast and sharing
Speaker 2: your experiences with Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 3: It was my pleasure. I wish you the best for
Speaker 3: your future with your relationship with your partner Laura and
Speaker 3: your daughters as well. And Brittany, I wish you the
Speaker 3: best of luck with your acting career aspirations continue on
Speaker 3: with it, and I also wish you the best of
Speaker 3: luck on your own quest for love as well.
Speaker 2: You guys know, we never have finished an episode without
Speaker 2: our suck and our suite, our highlight and allow light
Speaker 2: for the week. Laura, actually, I'm going to kick some
Speaker 2: go come on. I just tried to intro suck and sweet.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 2: Fla sark. I just tried to intro suck and sweet.
Speaker 2: And every time we went to talk, Laura quickly said
Speaker 2: something and I was like, You've got to stop talking
Speaker 2: so I can talk.
Speaker 1: Actually, that's a lie. I was speaking and then Britt
Speaker 1: would start it at the end of my sense, so
Speaker 1: I was still speaking, and then she would start it
Speaker 1: and I was like, can you just wait till I
Speaker 1: stop speaking?
Speaker 2: And I said, We'll just stop speaking and then I'll
Speaker 2: start talking. And it was were yelling at each other,
Speaker 2: but like friendly yelling at.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we actually just yell at each like we're like,
Speaker 1: we're literally being.
Speaker 2: Like, stop speaking. She's like just wait, and I'm like stop.
Speaker 2: We were just going at each other. Actually, I think
Speaker 2: the word you used was would you shut the fuck up?
Speaker 2: Is what was yell? Well, we can't stress this enough.
Speaker 1: We literally like sisters, and we we love like sisters,
Speaker 1: and we fight like sisters. Anyway, that her neighbor was
Speaker 1: at the door.
Speaker 2: We're like, I'm going at each other and then i
Speaker 2: hear this little faint knock and I'm like, hello, because
Speaker 2: we're recording my laundry. Hello, She's like delivery. And I
Speaker 2: opened the door thinking it was a delivery person, but
Speaker 2: it was my neighbor who had picked up a delivery
Speaker 2: from downstairs. And she's like, I'm sorry to interrupt, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, you just heard our fight, didn't you. She
Speaker 2: was like I did. She sounds like you're also having
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. And I was like, do you
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that finally your neighbors have heard the
Speaker 1: way you treat me Brittany to me when we're not
Speaker 1: recording and everyone, I just I just I'm glad that
Speaker 1: I'm finally being validated.
Speaker 2: You guys know, we never finished.
Speaker 1: You guys know, stop you keep saying it at the
Speaker 1: top of me talking and just wait two seconds after
Speaker 1: I've finished talking.
Speaker 2: Stop to then start stop. And it was pretty funny
Speaker 2: because we're like, I mean, you would not have sounded
Speaker 2: like a real fight. It sounds like a fake fight,
Speaker 2: like a funny fight. But I just thought it was funny.
Speaker 2: And my name was there being like so to interrupt anyway,
Speaker 2: that's my suck, my sweet of the week.
Speaker 1: Wait, that's gonna be your suck for the whole week?
Speaker 2: Sure, pretty a week? Why not? My neighbors hate me?
Speaker 2: Now it was actually an undeman for week for me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, my names hate me. No. But she did say,
Speaker 2: she's like, oh, I thought she goes she listens to
Speaker 2: the podcast. She's new into my building. If she's listening, Hi,
Speaker 2: good for everyone. She's like, oh, I did think you
Speaker 2: were recording because I can hear you laughing from across
Speaker 2: the hall. Fair. Yeah, so that's my stuck. My sweet
Speaker 2: of the week is if you follow me on the Gram.
Speaker 2: I put some stories up every year. I do this
Speaker 2: with the RSPCA. I love animals, but I become a
Speaker 2: guardian angel of an animal. It's anonymous, like and I
Speaker 2: say anonymous in terms of like you don't know what
Speaker 2: animal you're gonna get. It's like a random you say
Speaker 2: you want to help save an animal over the summer,
Speaker 2: over the season, and they give you an animal, and
Speaker 2: they give you the profile. So you get a picture
Speaker 2: of the animal that you're helping to save, and you
Speaker 2: get a bio about them and every year I do it.
Speaker 2: So this year I did it, put on my stories
Speaker 2: and I always encourage you guys to do it, and
Speaker 2: the response this time was so overwhelming. I get you
Speaker 2: guys to tag me. There were just like over a
Speaker 2: thousand people that have gone and sponsored an animal. And
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean you foster them, like you don't take
Speaker 2: them into your house. It just means you're helping to
Speaker 2: keep them safe and fed and healthy until they find
Speaker 2: their forever home. But so many of you went and
Speaker 2: did that, and it just it was like the absolute
Speaker 2: highlight of my month. It's the best thing. It was
Speaker 2: so heartwarming to see. And I don't know any if
Speaker 2: you did it, you should be really proud that you
Speaker 2: have helped save a little animal. So that's my sweet
Speaker 2: all right, Well, I don't know how I'm gonna follow that. Well,
Speaker 2: you could sponsor an animal, lur I do.
Speaker 1: I buy tickets in the RSPCA ticket thing every month.
Speaker 1: But anyway, okay, So my suck for the week is
Speaker 1: my children. No it's not my children. I love them
Speaker 1: very much, No fucking love my life. No it's not
Speaker 1: my kids, but it is the fact that they keep
Speaker 1: on waking up at four am.
Speaker 2: I'd like that to stop. It's been every day this week.
Speaker 1: That's fair four am, and they kind of tag team
Speaker 1: and one night she'll sleep until seven. The next morning,
Speaker 1: but don't worry, Lola will be up at four am,
Speaker 1: just to really make sure that no one gets asleep.
Speaker 1: So Matt and I have been alternating. This morning was
Speaker 1: his wake up. He got up at four am. Yesterday
Speaker 1: I got up at four am.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's not cute, it's annoying.
Speaker 2: No, And I feel like, you know that that's gonna
Speaker 2: be the next twenty years. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like everything's a phase. Every parent lives with
Speaker 1: that as their mancher. This is just a phase. Everything's
Speaker 1: a fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just that one phase comes after nowther it's
Speaker 2: a con perpetual phase.
Speaker 1: Yeah, until they leave home and then that's still a
Speaker 1: phase because they just want money. But anyway, so that's
Speaker 1: where we're at this week. I'm sure we'll be somewhere
Speaker 1: else in the parenting journey next week.
Speaker 2: So that is my suck.
Speaker 1: My sweet for the week. I've had a couple of sweets,
Speaker 1: but my big sweet for the week last week was
Speaker 1: that we did the very last episode of Batchet Uncut,
Speaker 1: we got through it. It was actually so hard to
Speaker 1: get those episodes done this time around. It was a
Speaker 1: lot easier doing batchun Cut during lockdown when we had
Speaker 1: nowhere to go and just trying to get through the
Speaker 1: episodes and bring them was. It was a really mammoth
Speaker 1: effort for Matt n I and I'm very very proud.
Speaker 2: That we got it done.
Speaker 1: But also we had so much fun doing it, so
Speaker 1: it was great. Their last episode was really enjoyable.
Speaker 2: Also, I think because they were dropping episodes like they
Speaker 2: were doubling up episodes, which is essentially is twice the
Speaker 2: work for you. Yeah, one night when you said one
Speaker 2: episode comes out, to episode comes out, you've still got
Speaker 2: to watch those, You've still got to script them, You've
Speaker 2: still got to record, you still got to edit. Like
Speaker 2: that's a it's a bloody big job. But I know
Speaker 2: the people loved it.
Speaker 1: And also if you listened to the last episode that
Speaker 1: came out on Saturday, Matt wanted to cut corners and
Speaker 1: just do a recap of the recap, but we persevered.
Speaker 2: We did it, and it was a great episode. So
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