Speaker 1: Laura, come on.
Speaker 2: Oh hi, Happy Tuesday everyone.
Speaker 3: Hello, here you go. Mitchie.
Speaker 4: Oh great, I'm you know, real real one of those
Speaker 4: days where you really appreciate your part. And my boyfriend Steven,
Speaker 4: he messaged me, He's like, have fun on the show.
Speaker 4: I'll be listening from three. I was like, thanks, I'm
Speaker 4: running late, Like I'm a bit frantic. He's like, did
Speaker 4: you have breakfast? You're already. I'm like, no, I didn't
Speaker 4: eat and have breakfast, didn't have lunch, so before the show,
Speaker 4: like like forty minutes ago. He's like, on your way
Speaker 4: to the studio, I've made you some lunch. Swing by
Speaker 4: mine to come.
Speaker 3: And pick up some one as an angel he's sent
Speaker 3: from the heaven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I swing by and I love him. But
Speaker 4: I swing by and he's cooked me a singular pancake.
Speaker 4: He's put a scoop of ice cream on it and
Speaker 4: then put blueberries and strawberries on top on a plate
Speaker 4: and puts it, gives it to me out the window.
Speaker 3: Wait did you drive with it on your lap to work?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: How did that function?
Speaker 4: With a paper towel in between my cross? And I
Speaker 4: was like thanks, babe, Like what it's.
Speaker 3: Driving it's not a real car food.
Speaker 1: But maybe he was expecting you to call in like
Speaker 1: ten minutes early and sit down and need a pancake
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: He knew I was running late. The show's on at three.
Speaker 2: This was two fifty.
Speaker 6: I also think that this is ungrateful behavior, Mitch, because
Speaker 6: you are the one who will eat a hard boiled
Speaker 6: egg in your car. He has seen the crap that
Speaker 6: you eat, and then he's like, you know what, everything
Speaker 6: goes la. There's a different pancake boiled egg and an
Speaker 6: entire pancake with ice cream drippling there is. But also
Speaker 6: Mitch will crack and unpeel a hard boiled egg whilst
Speaker 6: driving like it's a it's.
Speaker 2: A whole portable food. It's like it's like an apple.
Speaker 4: Well, if he gave me a pile at Mignong with
Speaker 4: a you know red wine's you, I'm not going to go,
Speaker 4: thanks babe and sit down with a table cloth.
Speaker 3: No, he went over the top. He went over the
Speaker 3: top with the ice cream.
Speaker 1: If he handed you a singular pancake, great, that is
Speaker 1: a travel food, Like you can go and drive and
Speaker 1: do turns and reverses with a pancake.
Speaker 3: It's a dry flappy who wants a.
Speaker 6: Dry piece of pancake. Though I think he's done a
Speaker 6: really nice thing, I can be more grateful.
Speaker 2: I'm in a great move, all right, Mitch.
Speaker 1: I have am I the a hole that I want
Speaker 1: to throw to you guys, because I got into a.
Speaker 3: Bit of a run in.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a bit, it was a pretty full on
Speaker 1: brawl with a taxi driver. And I want to know
Speaker 1: what you think about who's.
Speaker 2: In the wrong. Just that mental image of Britney in
Speaker 2: a brawl with.
Speaker 3: I could imagine it. I'm scared of it.
Speaker 2: I can see it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll hear about it after this, I'll the pickup.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. Happy Tuesday, everyone.
Speaker 1: I am bringing you a story today, Mitch and Laura,
Speaker 1: where I am looking for someone to back me up.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for someone to tell me that I was
Speaker 3: in the right You have come to the wrong place
Speaker 3: that yeah, I should know better.
Speaker 1: So last week I had to go for work all
Speaker 1: the way over to Perth, right, So I had to
Speaker 1: go and do some talks and presentations over there.
Speaker 3: It was just like a one night thing, and I
Speaker 3: was staying at this.
Speaker 1: Hotel and I needed to leave the hotel and get
Speaker 1: to my next venue with all my luggage, do the
Speaker 1: presentations there, which was it was a big business lunch,
Speaker 1: and then I needed to go straight from there to
Speaker 1: the airport. So I had all my luggage. I'd been
Speaker 1: there for I think two days. I had high heels
Speaker 1: on because I was like gonna dress the par you know.
Speaker 1: So I left the hotel and I went down to
Speaker 1: get a taxi to the venue.
Speaker 3: Now the venue was only ten minutes away.
Speaker 1: It was pretty close, but I had huge luggage wheel
Speaker 1: on hand and high heels. So there's a taxi waiting.
Speaker 1: He's not doing anything. He is twiddling his thumbs. I
Speaker 1: saw him, so I walk over to him. I say,
Speaker 1: are you free? Being polite? He says yes, great jump
Speaker 1: in love. When that happens, pops the boot.
Speaker 3: I put my luggage in, climb into the car, and
Speaker 3: then I say to him, sorry, I'm not actually going
Speaker 3: that far.
Speaker 1: I've just got to get to this venue, which is
Speaker 1: just down the road.
Speaker 6: He saw you with all your luggage and probably instantly
Speaker 6: thought airport.
Speaker 3: You're going to the airport, girlfriend, one hundred percent. Guess what.
Speaker 1: It's irrelevant. His job as a taxi driver is to
Speaker 1: take me to where I want to go. I had
Speaker 1: to go ten minutes, right, and he says, oh, no,
Speaker 1: that's walk and I was like what. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I just need Can you please take me to this location?
Speaker 1: He said no, and I said sorry why? He goes,
Speaker 1: don't be lazy. Oh that's what he said. I wish
Speaker 1: I was making this up. He said, don't be lazy.
Speaker 1: You're being lazy. And he said it's two minutes and
Speaker 1: I said, no, it's not. And I pulled up a
Speaker 1: map and I showed him. I said, this will be
Speaker 1: a thirteen minute walk, which doesn't sound long, right, guys,
Speaker 1: but when I'm in high heels, running late with all
Speaker 1: of my luggage, I'm sorry, I'm not draping that. I said, sorry,
Speaker 1: it's not two minutes. Please can you take me like
Speaker 1: you're free? And your light's on him in my car
Speaker 1: and we had a full on fight. He was no,
Speaker 1: telling me how lazy I am and that I should
Speaker 1: be walking and not using a taxi.
Speaker 3: Why would you? And I was like, I'm paying your bills.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: Pay for you to take me someone money and I
Speaker 1: said please, I literally said wait, it gets worse.
Speaker 3: I said, please, can you take me?
Speaker 1: Please? Just take me down the road and come back.
Speaker 1: Nothing's going to happen in that time. I'm paying you.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for a favor. He gets out of
Speaker 1: the car. I'm still in the car, pops a boot,
Speaker 1: pulls my luggage out and puts my luggage on the street.
Speaker 3: That's so embarrassing. So oh, it was not in bad.
Speaker 1: I got out and we were going each other. We
Speaker 1: were fully going each other, and I was so shocked
Speaker 1: that another taxi drove pass stopped his car in the
Speaker 1: middle of the road and he said, I'm sorry, is
Speaker 1: everything okay here?
Speaker 3: You're all right man?
Speaker 1: Because this taxi driver was going me. I've never experienced
Speaker 1: anything like it. And then I said, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: all right, and he's like, get in, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take you and each to go.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, I just want you to know
Speaker 3: it's only five minutes.
Speaker 1: And he's like, that's fine, and he stopped, and the
Speaker 1: taximan got in and slammed his door, and the nice
Speaker 1: taxi driver took me.
Speaker 3: But then I had this feeling of like, is I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: Is there like an unspoken rule that you can't you
Speaker 1: have to drive more than ten minutes in a taxi.
Speaker 6: No, I'm sure that it's very frustrating and annoying for them,
Speaker 6: especially if they've been waiting for a long time, for
Speaker 6: a longer a longer trip. But also, Britt, if I
Speaker 6: was you and in that situation, I wouldn't want to
Speaker 6: be any in the car with a guy like that,
Speaker 6: Like if he was yelling at me, if he was
Speaker 6: being hostile and I was late, But there is no
Speaker 6: part of me that with him behaving like that would
Speaker 6: make me want to be in that.
Speaker 4: Taxi in the time took him to pick a fight
Speaker 4: with Sorry, I think we were brushing over the faith
Speaker 4: that you were gorgeous. He could have dropped you in
Speaker 4: the time that it took to get out, take your.
Speaker 3: Back and Mitch, thank you, even said I'll pay him more.
Speaker 1: I tried to try to bribe him, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: why am I trying to bribe him? But he could
Speaker 1: have in the time it took him to abuse me
Speaker 1: and pull my stuff out of the car, And.
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm going to report you, and I
Speaker 6: was like writing down, like I'm never going to report it,
Speaker 6: but give it to me.
Speaker 3: I'll write a letter. I love being angry about people.
Speaker 3: He's right me or him? No, you're right. That sounds
Speaker 3: like very, very huge.
Speaker 2: And I did text each other, so I just agree
Speaker 2: with her because I think she's upset.
Speaker 3: As soon as you.
Speaker 6: Started yelling, before you'd even told the story, I was like,
Speaker 6: whatever she says, I'm going to say.
Speaker 1: Genuinely, I don't like confrontation. You're the nicest person I've
Speaker 1: ever met, and you're beautiful.
Speaker 3: Wow. Thanks guys, but needs to coming here for this
Speaker 3: more often.
Speaker 1: Mitch and Laura, I don't know if you have been
Speaker 1: watching the I'm not allowed to say it because of
Speaker 1: that big media blackout thing, but you know, the games
Speaker 1: that are going on were in Paris at the moment,
Speaker 1: off the back of the other games that happened over
Speaker 1: in Paris, like playing charades, isn't it, The Para games,
Speaker 1: the Parrot games, No, the parent Game. Well, I have
Speaker 1: been absolutely loving it. I'm watching it on Syncle.
Speaker 3: And they are just so inspiring. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you've seen any of it.
Speaker 1: I know you were saying Laura that the girls have
Speaker 1: been watching it, but like, it is phenomenal and makes
Speaker 1: me feel like I need to be better.
Speaker 6: I've been watching a lot of the swimming and I
Speaker 6: think it is incredible. Obviously, we have such amazing athletes
Speaker 6: in Australia anyway, and we watch the Olympics, we all
Speaker 6: get so excited about it. But now there's just so
Speaker 6: much more visibility across the paragames and even like even
Speaker 6: the amount that I think that how accessible it is
Speaker 6: for people to watch it.
Speaker 3: My kids have been watching it. It's incredible.
Speaker 4: Have you seen the swimmers right, because obviously, you know
Speaker 4: people living with disabilities, some are missing limbs, so they
Speaker 4: can't do a normal swim start right, They can't hold
Speaker 4: up onto the edge of the pool and.
Speaker 2: Keep their legs.
Speaker 4: So what they do is they'll have an assistant or
Speaker 4: you know, a coach whole, a device it almost looks
Speaker 4: like a towel and they'll bite down the end of
Speaker 4: the tower with their teeth and someone will be standing
Speaker 4: outside the pool holding it and then three two one
Speaker 4: and then they let go of the towel or stop biting.
Speaker 2: That's how they actually dive.
Speaker 4: You think we are so privileged and we sit here
Speaker 4: and you wouldn't even think of that having to be
Speaker 4: an option to do.
Speaker 2: But we just go.
Speaker 4: We can kick off with our arms and they live
Speaker 4: and still compete with better times than I could do
Speaker 4: with all my limbs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, a good friend of mine Ellie Cole, so she
Speaker 1: is one of the most or she is the most
Speaker 1: decorated female Australian Paralympian ever. Like the amount of records
Speaker 1: that she has won is crazy. I was in the
Speaker 1: I'm a Celebrity Jungle with her, but we spoke to
Speaker 1: her recently about this conversation a lot of people are
Speaker 1: having on should the Paragames be separate to the Olympics,
Speaker 1: because we know that the Olympics happened, then there's a
Speaker 1: small break and then the Paragames happen. Most people that
Speaker 1: are watching from home are saying, like, you know these
Speaker 1: things should be combined. Why you know we should be
Speaker 1: putting some of those in. So we asked Ellie that
Speaker 1: as someone that has competed for so many years, as
Speaker 1: someone who has worked there in this industry for a
Speaker 1: long time, we asked her what she thought and this
Speaker 1: is what she had to say.
Speaker 5: I love the fact that they're actually segregated, and most
Speaker 5: people that are ablebodied think that Paralympians want Olympics and
Speaker 5: Paralympics to be together. It's a fair assumption because obviously
Speaker 5: it brings this incredible excitement that kind of kicks off
Speaker 5: the whole game cycle, and then the Paralympians come like
Speaker 5: four weeks later. Also, I think the Paralympic movement and
Speaker 5: the messaging is so different to the Olympics. Like the
Speaker 5: Olympics is all about high performance. It's all about their motto,
Speaker 5: which is like faster, higher, stronger or something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what they be better best.
Speaker 5: But the Paralympics it adds such like a different depth
Speaker 5: to sports that is so much more relatable to the
Speaker 5: general public in terms of overcoming adversity and overcoming something
Speaker 5: incredible and just I suppose just being able to be
Speaker 5: in that position to perform on the high performance level
Speaker 5: is just amazing at itself before they even like out
Speaker 5: on the track or dive into the pool. It just
Speaker 5: adds so many extra layers to the best parts of
Speaker 5: being human that I think the Olympics it still has
Speaker 5: those moments, but not to the same extent as the Paralympics.
Speaker 2: All right, go listen to that episode with Ellie Cole.
Speaker 2: It's a good chat. Next on the show.
Speaker 4: I have a controversial opinion, as I often do, and
Speaker 4: it involves your classic and Nausie Staple, your morning coffee.
Speaker 4: I think our baristas are doing something that they need
Speaker 4: to stop. I'm going to survive the nation. Melbourn's going
Speaker 4: to be pissed off the coffee now, Melbourne. I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna out myself now, ladies, but I need
Speaker 4: you to stick with me for a second.
Speaker 2: I have a controversial opinion.
Speaker 3: You always have a controversial opinion.
Speaker 4: But I feel like half of Australia is going to
Speaker 4: love me, half of Australia is gonna hate me.
Speaker 3: No one could possibly hate you, Mitch.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say thank you for saying that. I
Speaker 2: know I'm handsome.
Speaker 3: Can you just tell us what's so device?
Speaker 2: If you any privilege, I'm like a toothpick. All right,
Speaker 2: we go?
Speaker 4: Is it sometimes better? Is it sometimes better to have
Speaker 4: no personal connection at all with your local cafe, like
Speaker 4: shut up and make my coffee at all?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: Mitch, So hear me out, And I'm so sorry to
Speaker 4: ellenor I don't care make my arm and cap every morning.
Speaker 4: I love you, but today I was just not the
Speaker 4: mood to chat, and I got it all. I got
Speaker 4: all the chat, all the hobbies, all the weekend, and
Speaker 4: I just wanted to zone out, order my coffee, stand
Speaker 4: in the corner, wait for my name to be called,
Speaker 4: and go home.
Speaker 6: No, Mitch, this poor coffee like they can't win because
Speaker 6: if somebody didn't know who you are, you would be offended.
Speaker 6: But they didn't know who you are, and now they're
Speaker 6: not and now they're nice to you and they know
Speaker 6: your coffee order, and now you're complaining about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think you're in control of how it goes down.
Speaker 3: That's what I think.
Speaker 1: I think you walk up if you don't want to
Speaker 1: have those conversations, walk up with conviction. If you're on
Speaker 1: the phone and you're like, hey, just how on give
Speaker 1: me a second, you're like, Hi, guys, I've got a
Speaker 1: great weekend. I'm going to get the usual. Can I
Speaker 1: just get a cappuccino? Thank you so much. Then you
Speaker 1: walk back outside and wait for your coffee phone.
Speaker 3: How in depth are you getting with your coffee person?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: How deep are you with the conversation with Steve?
Speaker 2: And my boyfriend? So she she's lovely, but we're deep.
Speaker 2: We're deep. And every time we talk, I'm there for
Speaker 2: an extra ten minutes.
Speaker 3: That's too long.
Speaker 2: But I do love it.
Speaker 4: Some days when I when it's early in the morning
Speaker 4: and I'm going for my hot girl walk, I'm okay.
Speaker 2: On some days now.
Speaker 6: Under this, I go to the same coffee shop every
Speaker 6: single day.
Speaker 3: Like every day I go there.
Speaker 6: Every day, I get the same coffee, and I walk
Speaker 6: up to the counter and I say, Hi, can I
Speaker 6: please get at large se latte? And she goes name
Speaker 6: the same the same woman, the same woman every single day,
Speaker 6: and I say, I'm Laura. It's really humbling, I quite.
Speaker 6: I mean, a part of me just wants to be
Speaker 6: like I do. We do this every day every single day.
Speaker 6: I know your name, you don't know mine.
Speaker 3: Her name? Her name Sarah? I know her name.
Speaker 2: You wait, you know your Brusa's name. She doesn't know
Speaker 2: who she does?
Speaker 3: She doesn't even know want to drink. I love my
Speaker 3: coffee shop. They know everything about me.
Speaker 1: Some if I walk, if I dare go there without
Speaker 1: my dog, they're like, what's up with Delilah?
Speaker 3: Is you having a weekend?
Speaker 1: And wait, does that mean you're going away to see
Speaker 1: your fiance? Because that's usually what happens when Delilah goes away,
Speaker 1: Like they know.
Speaker 6: Your coffee shop knows your dog's name, and my coffee
Speaker 6: shop doesn't know.
Speaker 4: When I house sat for Britain looked after Delilah last week,
Speaker 4: I would walk down the road and I'd be people
Speaker 4: would go Delilah, Delila.
Speaker 2: It was the cafe luring me, and then I felt bad.
Speaker 2: I had to pay twelve bucks for.
Speaker 4: Aciche lorain so dramaze. You know what you should do, Laura.
Speaker 4: Your problem is let me break it down for you. Okay,
Speaker 4: your problem. You need to walk in and go regardless
Speaker 4: of the cafe. Hey, guys, give me the usual, and
Speaker 4: that puts pressure on them to remember your order.
Speaker 2: Just say the usual.
Speaker 1: I reckon, I reckon if you had to go to
Speaker 1: it'd be a soy Cap. If someone walked in and
Speaker 1: was like the usual, I think you'd just be like,
Speaker 1: soy CAP's pretty stand.
Speaker 3: I don't reckon.
Speaker 4: If a barist is listening, yeah, I reckon, I reckon.
Speaker 4: It would be a cappuccino, a full fat who.
Speaker 3: Drinks normal milk. These days everyone's drinking weird milk.
Speaker 2: Would you do that?
Speaker 4: Would you walk into a round a cafe and just
Speaker 4: say give me the usual and see what they say.
Speaker 3: No, Laura wouldn't die. I don't like these things. I
Speaker 3: don't want to walk into a cafe. I would embarrass myself.
Speaker 3: You've got that conviction.
Speaker 2: At the end of the show, we simply be just
Speaker 2: another time.
Speaker 6: Well, last time we made Mitch go downstairs to the cafe,
Speaker 6: he ended up paying for someone's meals.
Speaker 3: So this time okay, So this week.
Speaker 2: This is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: Miss you.
Speaker 1: You're the cafe person now, so you're going to walk
Speaker 1: into a shop that you've never been to.
Speaker 3: We'll pick a coffee shop locally. You're gonna walk in.
Speaker 1: You can record the audio and you're going to say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: just gonna grab the USh.
Speaker 3: Thanks, and then we're gonna see it. This was your gay.
Speaker 2: Hey, give me the hush.
Speaker 3: That's what the pool good to see you.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'll read their name. Take Hey, Mandy,
Speaker 4: how the kids give me the hush?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Do you know what? You go to my local coffee shop?
Speaker 3: Say hid to Sarah.
Speaker 2: She's got no idea, A hand in my heart. Let's
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 4: Let's do the barista prank this week on the pickup stop,
Speaker 4: the presses.
Speaker 3: Anyway, guys, not today, that's what we got.
Speaker 2: Time knocking on it. That's them.
Speaker 4: Hurry up the studio way back tomorrow with a coffee prank.
Speaker 4: Tell the press we'll see wal tomorrow.
Speaker 3: See you, guys,