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Speaker 2: Hi guys, and welcome back to another podcast. That way hi,
Speaker 2: way too long. I'm taking over.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut.
Speaker 2: I'm Brittany and I'm Laura, and like to be fair,
Speaker 2: this is a podcast. Welcome back to a podcast. Who
Speaker 2: knows what one it is. I'm never giving you a
Speaker 2: week off again? You weeks. Oh that's the problem. You've
Speaker 2: forgotten own a podcast, forgot money, do everything? Do you
Speaker 2: know what? Maybe it's because I'm a whole new person.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's because I'm not Laura Burn anymore, you know
Speaker 2: I am. It's because I'm a married woman. Hey guys,
Speaker 2: welcome to the podcast. This is a podcast. What a
Speaker 2: fucking mess. We could start that again, but we won't. Look,
Speaker 2: I got married and did and I haven't been here
Speaker 2: and we've had producer Keisha filling In doing a fantastic job,
Speaker 2: really amazing job, and Keish have been holding the fort
Speaker 2: thus far.
Speaker 1: We did attempt to not message you. We attempted to
Speaker 1: not bring work stuff your way. Obviously there are a
Speaker 1: few messages here and there. But did you have a
Speaker 1: good week two weeks off?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: It wasn't off. Well, it wasn't off like okay, so
Speaker 2: the wedding was do you know what? Before we go
Speaker 2: any further, we'll just tell you what today's episode is about,
Speaker 2: because it is a deep dive into all things wedding.
Speaker 2: But not just with me. We have who else, My
Speaker 2: lovely husband, Maddie Jay joining us shortly to tell you
Speaker 2: everything that went down. He's running late.
Speaker 1: He's a bit of a diva now, isn't He gets
Speaker 1: married now? He won't turn off on time?
Speaker 2: Is that what happens after you get married? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know. I feel like usually that stuff happens
Speaker 2: after you start doing breakfast radio. No, I'm on time. No,
Speaker 2: So Matt's going to be joining us in a little bit,
Speaker 2: so we won't get into the wedding chat. Now that's
Speaker 2: all coming, it's all coming. It's all coming. So we
Speaker 2: had like five days down the coast, down in Mollymook,
Speaker 2: which we were trying to keep secret so that the
Speaker 2: paps wouldn't find us, but surprise, surprise, they did. Where
Speaker 2: there's a Wilder's away, there certainly is. So we spent
Speaker 2: five days down the coast and then we came back
Speaker 2: up to Sydney and things just kind of went back
Speaker 2: to normally. The kids went back to daycare, we got
Speaker 2: back to work. But we are recording this very very
Speaker 2: late on a Monday night because and the reason for
Speaker 2: that is what.
Speaker 1: I thought, we're going to say it at the same time.
Speaker 2: I was gonna yell at the same time, but then
Speaker 2: I thought that that might blow people's ear drums out.
Speaker 2: The podcast A Training Podcast Awards were last night and
Speaker 2: we mind blown. We won the People's Choice Award, which
Speaker 2: is the one that we just really loved and came about,
Speaker 2: which the only reason why we won this is because
Speaker 2: all of you guys have voted and this so the
Speaker 2: People's Choice Award. It's the same award that we've won
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. This is now our third
Speaker 2: year in a row, which is wild to even say. Well, honestly,
Speaker 2: and look, we'll tell you a little secret. We didn't
Speaker 2: think that we were going to win this year. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously the last two years have been incredible, but this
Speaker 2: year we kind of thought there's so many more podcasts
Speaker 2: out now, Like every day there's a new podcast that's created,
Speaker 2: there's so many incredible podcasts out there. But you guys
Speaker 2: did it for us, and we're so incredibly grateful, Like
Speaker 2: you're fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: There really are so many incredible podcasts now and so
Speaker 1: many talented, talented people, and we were, I mean, we
Speaker 1: were up there with the best. Our company was amazing.
Speaker 2: Mom and Maya out loud. Yeah, bloody love those ladies,
Speaker 2: love them genuinely. I think the big thing with podcasting
Speaker 2: is that, especially because it's such a female dominated space,
Speaker 2: there's this belief that everyone must be in competition with
Speaker 2: each other and that the competition can't be friendly. But
Speaker 2: it's such an incredibly supportive space, like Mea and Holly
Speaker 2: and Jesse have been so supportive of our podcast, and
Speaker 2: it's actually just an incredible privileged be alongside such a
Speaker 2: powerhouse of a female lead podcast.
Speaker 1: But we do really just want to say from the
Speaker 1: bottom of our hearts. Thank you, because if it's not
Speaker 1: for you, guys, every I'm about to get emotional about
Speaker 1: to cry. If it's not for you guys every day
Speaker 1: tuning into us, and sometimes Laura and I need to
Speaker 1: Why am I crying?
Speaker 2: I don't even have my.
Speaker 1: Periods Because we're so great, We're so grateful, because it's
Speaker 1: not lost on us how lucky we are to do
Speaker 1: something we love and have this huge extended family, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what we are. I feel like
Speaker 1: you guys are part of our family. We're only here
Speaker 1: because of your love and support and because.
Speaker 2: Laura and I are crazy and just for some reason
Speaker 2: never gave up.
Speaker 1: It's still here but because of you guys, and the
Speaker 1: fact that you actually took the time to go on
Speaker 1: and vote for us at the awards. You know, I
Speaker 1: know it didn't take long, but you still had to
Speaker 1: make an effort. And the number of you that wrote
Speaker 1: to us to say that you did that, we read
Speaker 1: every single message.
Speaker 2: We're so appreciative.
Speaker 1: We just want to say we love you so much
Speaker 1: and we appreciate you all so so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the only thing I want to add to
Speaker 2: that is, just like, what an amazing community life on
Speaker 2: cut is we can't wait to like head into twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three and keep creat content that you guys love.
Speaker 2: If there's anything that you want us to talk about,
Speaker 2: if there's new guests that you want to have on,
Speaker 2: you run this as much as we run this, so
Speaker 2: point us in the direction of the stuff that you
Speaker 2: want to listen to, and that's exactly what we will
Speaker 2: look at doing.
Speaker 1: The community is absolutely after this will stop talking about
Speaker 1: the community. You guys is our favorite part of the
Speaker 1: podcast for us to look in the Facebook discussion group.
Speaker 1: And over the last year, you guys have helped I
Speaker 1: mean Dennis, We love Dennis. Dennis was a man that
Speaker 1: was facing homelessness. He was an older man that one
Speaker 1: of our listeners went out of her way to help,
Speaker 1: and then everyone got on board and we raised so
Speaker 1: much money for him. There have been countless numbers of
Speaker 1: charities we've helped and families we've helped, and I'm so
Speaker 1: emotional and proud to see it. But I really love
Speaker 1: you guys, and I'm proud that you're all such fucking
Speaker 1: good humans.
Speaker 2: And I don't know why I'm crying.
Speaker 1: It's all cry because it's in this day and age.
Speaker 1: In this world, it's really hard to just find a
Speaker 1: group of people that just want the best for each other,
Speaker 1: and they want the best for other people in life,
Speaker 1: and they go they'll take the shirt off their back
Speaker 1: to help someone else, and it is it's a rarity
Speaker 1: these days. It really is people always competing.
Speaker 2: Against each other.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's hard if I people that want
Speaker 1: to lift people up these days. But we have this
Speaker 1: community that's like I have tears rolling down my face.
Speaker 1: We have this community that's like, I I just bloddy
Speaker 1: love you guys.
Speaker 2: That's all I want to say. Okay, everything the British
Speaker 2: just said, I absolutely echo. And the only other thing
Speaker 2: I want to add is as much as we love
Speaker 2: the positives that come our way, we also appreciate the criticism,
Speaker 2: and we also appreciate it when you tell us destructive
Speaker 2: constructive criticism. I don't just say with fucking hate us up,
Speaker 2: but like, we appreciate the criticism and we are always
Speaker 2: trying to do better. But not just was it a
Speaker 2: big week in the world of podcasting. On Sunday night,
Speaker 2: something else that I wanted to touch on, which was
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a really remarkable thing to be
Speaker 2: a part of but also I think it all changed
Speaker 2: the face of television and also change the face of
Speaker 2: female fronted television. I got to be on the Project
Speaker 2: on Sunday as one of the fill in like ringing
Speaker 2: hosts last minute, They're like, Laura Ben, what are you doing.
Speaker 1: You're doing a great No, don't understell yourself here the
Speaker 1: first pick. You're doing an absolutely great job. You've been
Speaker 1: sporadically filling in. You're doing very very well.
Speaker 2: Not that I did do a great job, but I
Speaker 2: did sporadically fill in like I did.
Speaker 1: I saw that they've got a name card for you,
Speaker 1: a placard on the door. I saw that on a
Speaker 1: post it note.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's really official. Yeah that is get more official
Speaker 2: than that. But Okay, the big thing about that show
Speaker 2: was that at the end of it, Lisa Wilkinson announced
Speaker 2: in a very touching speech that she is removing herself
Speaker 2: from the Project effective pretty much immediately, and that she's
Speaker 2: taking some time out from being a broadcaster and being
Speaker 2: on TV in general. And I think like this year,
Speaker 2: not just Lisa's story, which obviously there's a lot of
Speaker 2: backstory there around the Britney Higgins case and there's some
Speaker 2: negative parts to it where I think she felt very
Speaker 2: forced into it by the negative backlash that she's received
Speaker 2: through media. But we have lost a lot of wonderful
Speaker 2: female led journalists this year. Carrie Bigmore is leaving The Project,
Speaker 2: Lise Sales has left her news reporting role, Tracy Grimshaw,
Speaker 2: Lisa Wilkinson. It is, I personally think devastating to see
Speaker 2: such incredible female journalists leave the field and for us
Speaker 2: to not yet have women to replace them. It seems
Speaker 2: like more women are leaving before women are coming up
Speaker 2: in the ranks, and that's a really worrying and frightening
Speaker 2: space because they are the people who have been held
Speaker 2: up as the role models within the industry, and I
Speaker 2: think we all grew up with these female powerhouses and
Speaker 2: to see them kind of leave our TV screens, I
Speaker 2: think it's just so so sad it is.
Speaker 1: And I didn't get to watch it, but I did
Speaker 1: listen to Lisa's speech this morning, and it was very emotional.
Speaker 1: It was very emotive, very moving, and you could tell
Speaker 1: it was very heartfelt and she has had a very
Speaker 1: long and incredible career. And that's not to say it's over,
Speaker 1: because it most certainly is not. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: the transition and the pivot, and she has said she's
Speaker 1: staying with Channel ten. I'm very interested because all at once,
Speaker 1: like you just said, in this very short amount of time,
Speaker 1: we've lost these key female players. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: moving parts, a lot of people are moving around, a
Speaker 1: lot of people, people are moving networks, moving on resigning.
Speaker 2: I'm very interested.
Speaker 1: To see what happens and who feels though she's maybe
Speaker 1: Laura Burne, I think you're free available.
Speaker 2: You could be an option. I mean, that's very subtle, brit.
Speaker 2: Do you think we just cut this bit of the
Speaker 2: recorder and send it across to Channel ten hats? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: why not sent it straight to them? Hi, guys, here
Speaker 2: it is. Here's my resume in my application form for
Speaker 2: our position that I think became available on the project.
Speaker 2: Please Dick, yes, no, maybe no, Lisa, we absolutely love you.
Speaker 2: We were amazing. Okay, there's something else before we get
Speaker 2: into all things wedding chat. There's something else that happened recently.
Speaker 2: And look, this is a tricky one and I know
Speaker 2: that you might find this a bit challenging to navigate, Brit,
Speaker 2: because it has to do with Rebel Wilson. You may
Speaker 2: have seen on the eighth of November that Rebel Wilson
Speaker 2: announced that she had had a baby Vias surrogacy. Now
Speaker 2: that little baby's name is Royce Lillian Britt. I know
Speaker 2: how excited you were. I know you guys touched on
Speaker 2: this on the podcast when I was away. But the
Speaker 2: thing that we wanted to talk about is that Rebel
Speaker 2: has made headlines since this, and it's not because of
Speaker 2: the wonderful news of her baby, but it's because of
Speaker 2: the actions and something that she did which caused a
Speaker 2: whole lot of backlash, a whole lot of mum shaming.
Speaker 2: One might say. Now, this isn't a new thing for
Speaker 2: us to talk about. We actually spoke about mum shaming
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago when we were speaking about
Speaker 2: Ashi Bynes. So. She's the influencer on the Gold Coast.
Speaker 2: She's a fitness chick, very big on Instagram, like over
Speaker 2: a million followers. Now, if you don't remember that story,
Speaker 2: it was basically like Ash binds her baby was three
Speaker 2: months old, she went away for a girl's weekend and
Speaker 2: the baby stayed with her dad. With the baby's dad
Speaker 2: were not with Ash binds his dad, which was alt
Speaker 2: to be fine, okay. But the reason why we're talking
Speaker 2: about this is because the week after Rebel Wilson had
Speaker 2: posted that she'd had her baby Bia surrogacy, she also
Speaker 2: posted a video about seven days later that she and
Speaker 2: her partner Ramona were at Leonardo DiCaprio's party. And now
Speaker 2: the judgment came in quick, and it came in fast.
Speaker 2: The judgment being that the people who were writing on
Speaker 2: her Instagram were writing things like she's a new mum
Speaker 2: and she shouldn't even consider being away from her child
Speaker 2: to be able to enjoy a party. How selfish it was,
Speaker 2: how unbelievable it was that a new wouldn't be connecting
Speaker 2: with her child, spending every single waking moment with her baby,
Speaker 2: that she would be out partying. And we have a
Speaker 2: few feelings about it.
Speaker 1: Well, it did come in fast and hot. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: it came in heavy. There were a lot of people
Speaker 1: in her corner as well, for sure. And I want
Speaker 1: to start this conversation by saying we would have this
Speaker 1: conversation regardless of who it was. It just so happens
Speaker 1: to be somebody that is a friend of the podcast
Speaker 1: and it is a friend of mine. That doesn't change
Speaker 1: my thoughts whatsoever. I think we need to have a
Speaker 1: very honest and real conversation about mum shaming. I am
Speaker 1: not a mum, so I do not know what it
Speaker 1: is like to have a baby. I do not know
Speaker 1: what it's like to be at home with a baby.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like to have a surrogate.
Speaker 1: I cannot comment from that. All I can comment is
Speaker 1: from a human on the outside looking in. I think
Speaker 1: it really needs to be said, Like relationships, like people's
Speaker 1: life journey, there is no one right way, there's no
Speaker 1: one right paths. What's right for someone else is wrong
Speaker 1: for someone else. Why is it so bad for a
Speaker 1: woman that has had a baby in the last two weeks?
Speaker 1: And to be clear, this situation is different to a
Speaker 1: normal birth. She has a surrogate, she is a Hollywood superstar.
Speaker 1: She's in a very privileged position. We don't know the
Speaker 1: details of what she is, but we know her family's
Speaker 1: over there, her mum's over there, she has nanny and
Speaker 1: a night nurse, and she's in a very very privileged position.
Speaker 1: This is to be clear. So it's very hard from
Speaker 1: the get go to compare our own journeys to somebody
Speaker 1: like that. And I think that that's a really important
Speaker 1: place to start. Not that we should be comparing anyone,
Speaker 1: but she's in a privileged position. What people were saying is,
Speaker 1: how dare you go out to party when you have
Speaker 1: a newborn at home? But would it be different, and
Speaker 1: this is my question, do you think it would be
Speaker 1: different if she took that hour two hours away, which
Speaker 1: she did, It was only a couple of hours. Would
Speaker 1: it be different if she was like, Hey, look at me,
Speaker 1: baby free, I'm going to get a massage, I'm going
Speaker 1: to have a meditation, I'm going to do some yoga
Speaker 1: to distress so I can be better for the baby.
Speaker 1: Would it be a different conversation if that was where
Speaker 1: she spent her time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally. It's the context of what was done,
Speaker 2: I think obviously, because it's partying, it's seen as frivolous.
Speaker 2: It's not seen as filling your cup up. Because she
Speaker 2: was somewhere where she was having fun. It goes against
Speaker 2: the rules of being a new mum. And now the
Speaker 2: unspoken rules of being a new mom is that you
Speaker 2: are a martyr. You sacrifice your time, your life, your
Speaker 2: everything to being a mom twenty four to seven, especially
Speaker 2: during those first few weeks. I'm going to be fully
Speaker 2: honest with you, and I had to check my own
Speaker 2: bias with this. When I very first saw it. My
Speaker 2: very first initial reaction and instinct was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go to a party after having a baby.
Speaker 2: But then I had to think about it, and I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, of course you wouldn't, Laura, because you
Speaker 2: birthed a baby, you physically could not have gone to
Speaker 2: a party. Trust me, if Leonardo DiCaprio had invited me
Speaker 2: to a party, could want to go. Amen. No, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be there because I couldn't be there. I physically
Speaker 2: couldn't be there. My body wouldn't have let me be there.
Speaker 2: The only thing I could do in the first couple
Speaker 2: of weeks after having a baby was be at home
Speaker 2: and be with my baby because I physically couldn't do
Speaker 2: anything else. So the surrogacy journey is very different. I
Speaker 2: think unless you have experienced that, it's hard to compare
Speaker 2: my motherhood journey with Rebel Wilson's motherhood journey. Right, and
Speaker 2: the things that were normal to me are never going
Speaker 2: to be normal to her. Because her whole experience is different.
Speaker 2: But I do think it comes down to this idea
Speaker 2: of like, just because you take time out for yourself
Speaker 2: initially in those first few weeks of being a mum,
Speaker 2: regardless of what the activity is, I think we can
Speaker 2: all make the very important assumption that she wasn't off
Speaker 2: like getting blind at a party. She just attended a party.
Speaker 2: Rebel actually very very very rarely drinks. That's just not
Speaker 2: who she is, It's not what she enjoys. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I think that there's obviously partying has the connotations that
Speaker 2: she must be out getting blind. But I think, you know,
Speaker 2: going and leaving your baby in the care of someone
Speaker 2: else for a couple of hours, does it really matter
Speaker 2: what that activity is. Doesn't matter if you're going through
Speaker 2: massage as you said, Britt, or if you're going to
Speaker 2: a party, Like why are we able to determine what
Speaker 2: is a good use of a woman's time if it
Speaker 2: fills up their cup.
Speaker 1: The other wild thing about this that I wanted to discuss,
Speaker 1: and it does open a whole other chapter of discussion,
Speaker 1: is that this would never be the commentary if it
Speaker 1: was a dad that went away for a couple hours
Speaker 1: to a party and I know Laura that you.
Speaker 2: Have experienced this in some capacity with Manny Jay. Look,
Speaker 2: it's a hard one because Okay, we spoke about this,
Speaker 2: like I said, with Ashy Bynes, and I gave my
Speaker 2: honest opinion around how I think that there is these
Speaker 2: unrealistic expectations on mums in the first few weeks, and
Speaker 2: how there is a very different set of standards for
Speaker 2: dads and the backlash that we received because of those
Speaker 2: opinions came through. We even received a review from someone
Speaker 2: which was I'm paraphrasing it because I remember it when
Speaker 2: it came through because it made me mad, but it
Speaker 2: was mum chat, ain't it? And basically the review was
Speaker 2: saying exactly what these opinions of people who have written
Speaker 2: in comments was is that as a mum, there's something
Speaker 2: really special and sacred about it and you should be
Speaker 2: sacrificing and giving your time to your children. It's expected
Speaker 2: that that expectation is different to being a dad. And
Speaker 2: I guess for me, I struggle with the fact that,
Speaker 2: like so when I and I know I've told this before,
Speaker 2: but when I gave birth to Lola. Five days after
Speaker 2: giving birth to Lola, Matt started Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: It was the same week that she was born.
Speaker 1: And Dancing with the Stars is a very for those
Speaker 1: that don't know, very grueling schedule.
Speaker 2: It is a thirteen to sixteen hour day, often because
Speaker 2: they were either on filming and if they're not filming,
Speaker 2: they are practicing. Not one person messaged me, not one
Speaker 2: person slid into my DMS and said why is he
Speaker 2: not home with you? Or why is he not home
Speaker 2: with his baby? But there's a very different expectation of mums.
Speaker 2: If I was to have gone on Dancing with the
Speaker 2: Stars a week after having a baby, people would think
Speaker 2: that I was the most neglectful mother. Oh, I mean,
Speaker 2: you would have heard about it, that's for sure. And
Speaker 2: now I'm not saying I'm not saying that being a
Speaker 2: mum and a dad need to be exactly the same.
Speaker 2: I understand that there's different roles. You know. As a mum,
Speaker 2: we do take on a more nurturing role. We do
Speaker 2: end up being the carers because for a lot of
Speaker 2: women who choose to breastfeed, we're also the food sauce
Speaker 2: right physically, the food source. But I think we need
Speaker 2: to keep that in mind when we judge someone like
Speaker 2: Rebel Wilson. Rebel Wilson is not the food sauce. So
Speaker 2: if she is feeding her baby, it's by bottle. If
Speaker 2: Ramona is feeding her baby, it's by bottle. And if
Speaker 2: their mum, you know, the nana, is feeding the baby,
Speaker 2: it's by bottle. So I just think that we can't
Speaker 2: compare what is right for one person's motherhood journey and
Speaker 2: imprint that on every single person's motherhood journey. Ultimately, the
Speaker 2: big take home message for this, and something that I
Speaker 2: had to check my own bias with, is that just
Speaker 2: because someone does something different or something that you don't
Speaker 2: agree with in how they mother, in how they choose
Speaker 2: to bring up their children, it doesn't automatically make them
Speaker 2: a bad mum. So just because Rebel took time out
Speaker 2: to go to a party for two hours doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that she's instantly a bad mum because she broke these
Speaker 2: arbitrary rules.
Speaker 1: You can be rest assured that child is very loved
Speaker 1: and very safe and very wanted.
Speaker 2: Sara.
Speaker 1: Guess he doesn't come out of the blue. People that
Speaker 1: go down this path they want this very very much.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I want to just point
Speaker 1: out is that it is a difference to you cuation.
Speaker 2: Rebel ended this. She is the mother, she is the breadwinner.
Speaker 1: She still has to go to work, she still has
Speaker 1: to have a life, she still has to provide for
Speaker 1: her family. I think we all just need to stop
Speaker 1: making things so hard for other women without judgment and
Speaker 1: always try and remember that you don't know what someone
Speaker 1: else is going through.
Speaker 2: Absolutely ever. Yeah, and I think that the last thing
Speaker 2: to wrap this up on is that you know, we
Speaker 2: say you, but obviously like this is not directed at
Speaker 2: you as a listener, like never when we are talking
Speaker 2: about these things that were like you're the one who
Speaker 2: left nasty comments, uh, people just in general, you know
Speaker 2: that the general feelings that we get. And I know
Speaker 2: that you know there is so much mum shaming that
Speaker 2: goes on. It's not a new thing to talk about,
Speaker 2: but we'll probably keep talking about it for as long
Speaker 2: as it keeps on happening. And ultimately, Rebel Wilson did
Speaker 2: feel really shamed because she ended up removing that Instagram post.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can only assume, but the judgment was
Speaker 2: so thick and so fast. It wasn't the reaction that
Speaker 2: she expected on that video. And a lot of assumptions
Speaker 2: can be made by a single point in time. You know,
Speaker 2: one Instagram post, one video only shows that ten seconds
Speaker 2: of the day. And so I think we fill in
Speaker 2: the blanks then with all the information that we don't have.
Speaker 2: She may have popped in for half an hour, she
Speaker 2: may have gone for two hours, she may have gone
Speaker 2: for ten hours. We don't know. But we're filling in
Speaker 2: the blanks with information. And what often happens when you
Speaker 2: fill in the blanks is that you'll automatically go to
Speaker 2: the worst possible option. You automatically make the worst possible,
Speaker 2: almost negative assumption about someone.
Speaker 1: And that's such a good point, Laura. You just made
Speaker 1: me think this has no similarity whatsoever. But when you
Speaker 1: just said, Okay, so she puts a video up and
Speaker 1: she's at a party, you have no idea how long
Speaker 1: she was there for. I remember times where I've gone
Speaker 1: to the beach or something in a work day. I reckon,
Speaker 1: I've been there for ten minutes. I've gone down, sat down, swum,
Speaker 1: got out, and Lawa is like, oh, I'm like, fuck,
Speaker 1: you go to the beach and oh, I said, I
Speaker 1: literally didn't even like put my stuff down. I went
Speaker 1: for a dip and got out and came back to work.
Speaker 1: But that's what you want to assume, right you see
Speaker 1: a video, you're like, oh, they must have had an
Speaker 1: amazing eight hours at the beach.
Speaker 2: But it's it's.
Speaker 1: Again, it's just this idea of coming full circle that
Speaker 1: you don't know. I mean, social media is a whole
Speaker 1: other world. You don't know what someone's doing, you don't
Speaker 1: know what someone's going through. So let's all just be kind.
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, the last thing I wanted to touch on
Speaker 2: before we get into accidently Unfiltered and then a wedding
Speaker 2: chat is I walked in today and Britt's dog, Delilah
Speaker 2: is wearing a pair of old undies with a whole
Speaker 2: cut out of the backside, like a nappy that has
Speaker 2: a period pad liner inside it. Well, Delilah, she's a woman,
Speaker 2: she guys, this is a really exciting time in a
Speaker 2: dog mom's life.
Speaker 1: Delilah got a period, she's I mean, which means aka,
Speaker 1: she's on heat.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I have no like, I have
Speaker 2: no adversions to period like. I will talk about periods
Speaker 2: all day long. You will care I But I was like,
Speaker 2: dog periods are ill I don't want to talk about
Speaker 2: your dog getting periods. And Britt was like, how dare
Speaker 2: you be so judging of her? It was like block
Speaker 2: your ears, Delilah.
Speaker 1: Delilah got her period, so a heat, I don't it's
Speaker 1: her first heat.
Speaker 2: Now happens? Do you take it to the park and
Speaker 2: everything just tries to mount her? Oh? Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2: You Actually, the like strict rules around when you can't
Speaker 2: let them.
Speaker 1: Off the lead because they put out this smell right
Speaker 1: that means like, hey, I'm here and available. Dogs can
Speaker 1: smell a female on heat ale away, and they can
Speaker 1: get quite aggressive.
Speaker 2: Because Delilah I saw it.
Speaker 1: I thought she was coming to heat because the day
Speaker 1: before they must put out a little tiny smell that's
Speaker 1: like it's almost here.
Speaker 2: Some dogs a yeah.
Speaker 1: Some dogs started like snipping around and one tried to
Speaker 1: hump her and she was like not having a bar
Speaker 1: of it. So she cracked it and I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: that was my first insight into what could go on.
Speaker 1: Apparently you can get pretty big dog fights because they
Speaker 1: really want to have sex. If there's multiple dogs, they
Speaker 1: all come in, it's like a group fight.
Speaker 2: It's bad. So there are some things that you do
Speaker 2: have to do.
Speaker 1: But what it is is like little It's not a
Speaker 1: period like an adult gets right.
Speaker 2: It's not like a constant like an adult dog or
Speaker 2: a human.
Speaker 1: I mean like like a human. It's not this constant period.
Speaker 1: But it's droplets of blood around the house, little tiny droplets.
Speaker 1: And so what you can do is I have ordered them.
Speaker 1: They're coming today. I think they're dog diapers like you.
Speaker 2: Literally, Delilah is wearing moody bodies with a hole cut
Speaker 2: in them.
Speaker 1: I did put some moody bodies on her, but now
Speaker 1: she's got some red. I think she's got some red
Speaker 1: Calvin clients. I have to shave you a video. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a video because we've cut a hole in
Speaker 1: them for her tail to come through. It's actually the
Speaker 1: cutest thing you've ever seen. I think it's cute, and she.
Speaker 2: Doesn't care, but this way it stops a little spotting
Speaker 2: around the house.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like, you know how you have
Speaker 1: these milestones with like Lola and Marley.
Speaker 2: I'm like, my children walked and now they're saying mummy,
Speaker 2: and Pritty's like my dog got her period, and I do.
Speaker 2: I look at her like, I'm like, oh my god, kittie,
Speaker 2: are you Are you all right? You're a grown up.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it like she's a full adult. So
Speaker 2: she's gonna be climbing out the window and going out
Speaker 2: meeting boys. I've got a look her in because they
Speaker 2: do they trying to have sexy time. I've only ever
Speaker 2: hate boy dogs, so I don't know these problems, these
Speaker 2: trials and tribulations.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, she will probably be getting desex soon. Anyway,
Speaker 1: enough of my doggies period.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, see even that can't apear period. Shame
Speaker 2: is just okay. I have an aversion to dog periods
Speaker 2: like that's all fair? No, not fair, fair, Okay, let's
Speaker 2: get into accidentally unfiltered this one. This is pretty spicy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're allowed to do this. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think there's some crossing a bit of a line here.
Speaker 2: Hi, ladies. I was a little.
Speaker 1: Naughty and I started a situationship with my physio to
Speaker 1: spice it up. I thought i'd go to his clinic
Speaker 1: after his last patient. Things started to heat up. I'm
Speaker 1: on the physio table on my back after plenty of foreplay.
Speaker 1: He goes to enter me, and I arch my back
Speaker 1: and grab the end of the table.
Speaker 2: Surely, surely you're not allowed to fuck your patience. I
Speaker 2: think this is not okay.
Speaker 1: I arch my back, grabbing the end of the table,
Speaker 1: trying to be very sexy. Little did I know there's
Speaker 1: a bar that drops the head end down. In an instant,
Speaker 1: the head half of the table totally drops, just like
Speaker 1: a Mister Bean episode when the hospital bed springs into
Speaker 1: a V, but in reverse. I slide straight off head
Speaker 1: first in shock. He dives forward to catch me. I'm naked,
Speaker 1: legs everywhere all the while, I'm in hysterics. To make
Speaker 1: things worse, I'm lactose intolerant, so something me something and
Speaker 1: upset my tummy. I couldn't even use my tummy muscles
Speaker 1: in an attempt to hold myself up because I had
Speaker 1: a fear of farting or shining. I just think it's
Speaker 1: funny because she's what she's saying is she's upside down,
Speaker 1: sliding off the edge of the bed. But she could
Speaker 1: have activated her core to hold herself up, but she
Speaker 1: was too shot because she happened. She was like toosing tolerance.
Speaker 1: So she's like, do I tumble off naked, embarrass myself
Speaker 1: or al I was try and stop the tumbling and
Speaker 1: shot like these were two options.
Speaker 2: I think the real lesson here is that you probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't fuck your physio in his physio clinic. Well, she said,
Speaker 2: I made up for it with a great blowing. How's
Speaker 2: that sign off? Do you think that this is actually legal? Like,
Speaker 2: could you get into proper trouble for having sex with
Speaker 2: a client? Yeah, you can't do that. Yeah. If you're
Speaker 2: working in a private clinic and you were like radiographying
Speaker 2: and then you're like, oh, that guy's really hot and
Speaker 2: then you had sex with him in the clinic, would
Speaker 2: you be for you'd live?
Speaker 1: I think this is different because I think what this
Speaker 1: is was she was a patient and then they've decided
Speaker 1: to hook up, and I think now she's just come
Speaker 1: back in at the end of the day as like
Speaker 1: a That's what I think. I think she's scooting around
Speaker 1: the whole not allowed to do it, lose your license
Speaker 1: thing by coming in now not as a patient. It
Speaker 1: sounds like she came in up to the last appointment.
Speaker 1: That's how I think she You scootered around it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so I scared she didn't.
Speaker 2: I think there's.
Speaker 1: Couples now that fucked on the physio table, but I
Speaker 1: think they started off as phisio and patient, so it.
Speaker 2: Sounds on the borderline. I don't know about that one,
Speaker 2: all right. My one is Miss for said she was
Speaker 2: hungry and wanted a banana smoothie. Bananas were still green,
Speaker 2: so I grabbed a frozen banana from the freezer and
Speaker 2: added some milk, yogurt and berries and blended it all up.
Speaker 2: I gave it to Miss four, her child is four
Speaker 2: years old, and she was like, Mom, this doesn't taste
Speaker 2: very good. Please can you make me a better one.
Speaker 2: I was like, don't be ridiculous, So I took it
Speaker 2: off her and I sculled some of it back. Sure enough,
Speaker 2: it tasted pretty horrible. Turns out I blended frozen raw
Speaker 2: chicken sausages into her smoothie instead of frozen banana. Pray
Speaker 2: for us, because I think my whole family now has
Speaker 2: food poisonous. Now, Manella, you can't have rawed chicken like
Speaker 2: I feel like, if it's fresh and raw it'd be fine.
Speaker 3: No, No, Aura, what do.
Speaker 1: You mean you feel like if it's fresh and raw
Speaker 1: it's okay? What is supposed to frozen? No, it happened.
Speaker 2: This has happened a very similar thing as HA been
Speaker 2: many many years ago, a very similar accidentally unfiltered came
Speaker 2: through chicken breast. I remember it was something like chicken breast,
Speaker 2: this is chicken sausages. But if you picture, I can't
Speaker 2: make sausages in the skin.
Speaker 1: If you picture in the fridge, right, you know, if
Speaker 1: you have a bit of chicken breast and you wrap
Speaker 1: it up in clean rap, it does once it gets
Speaker 1: a bit frosty, it looks very similar to like I
Speaker 1: wrapped up banana.
Speaker 2: I can see how this would happen. Feel so sick
Speaker 2: thinking about it. Also, the fact that you sold it
Speaker 2: back to try and make a point is absolutely effing rak. Anyway,
Speaker 2: with all that out of the way, let's bring in
Speaker 2: Maddie Johoo, mister and missus Burn Johnson. Queue the wedding
Speaker 2: bells and let the doves out. Let's get into this
Speaker 2: wedding chat.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I have interviewed some people in my time. I have
Speaker 1: been very, very lucky with the people who've had on
Speaker 1: the podcast on the radio.
Speaker 2: But today I'm gonna call it. It's probably gonna be
Speaker 2: one of my favorite interviews.
Speaker 1: Laura Burn Johnson and Maddie j Welcome to Life on
Speaker 1: Hi guys, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2: I didn't know how to do that. Did I welcome
Speaker 2: you to the podcast? I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 2: you should have pumped up our tires a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I'm actually really upset that no one's even offered me
Speaker 3: a drink.
Speaker 2: There's one here.
Speaker 3: I've got you a water that's a quarter of a
Speaker 3: cup of warm water.
Speaker 2: It's literally half drunk glass that Brittany had for the
Speaker 2: last recall, but.
Speaker 3: I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Beggar Beggar's can't be cheers?
Speaker 1: Is here many Jane? We are recording this. Does it
Speaker 1: feel weird? We're in Marley's old bedroom when you guys
Speaker 1: lived here.
Speaker 2: That's where the podcast office is now. Is that weird
Speaker 2: to you? For anyone who is new to the podcast, Basically,
Speaker 2: britt moved into our old apartment and so the podcasting
Speaker 2: room is Molly May's bedroom and not for me. I've
Speaker 2: been coming here for a long time, but Matt, this
Speaker 2: is your first time back in our old apartment.
Speaker 3: How do you feel It feels smaller in this room
Speaker 3: than I remember.
Speaker 2: I just think that's because you're in a bigger house.
Speaker 3: It's very different to how we had it set up.
Speaker 3: Your furniture is a lot nice than what we had.
Speaker 2: It looks like we're living in trash. And then you
Speaker 2: walk in here now and you're like, oh, actually, it
Speaker 2: could move back. I could have stayed here a bit longer. Well,
Speaker 2: you guys, it.
Speaker 1: Was a very big life milestone. This past week was
Speaker 1: how long ago? Ten days now?
Speaker 2: I kind of keep ups. So we got by the
Speaker 2: time this comes out, it was two Fridays ago. So yeah,
Speaker 2: look it was on the eleventh of November. Matt and
Speaker 2: I we made it official. We stopped living in sin
Speaker 2: were husband and wife. Congratulations till death.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Do you feel any different or does life just go
Speaker 1: back to exactly what it was?
Speaker 3: I had a bit of post wedding blues. I think
Speaker 3: obviously it feels pretty much the same.
Speaker 2: Although wasn't the moment that you realized that all the
Speaker 2: planning of the wedding was over and you just have
Speaker 2: to spend the rest of your life with me.
Speaker 3: The invoices started coming through and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 2: Holy like, we spent how much I'm broke? Do you
Speaker 2: know what? Though? So we got engaged four years ago
Speaker 2: and we've been like four years.
Speaker 3: No, you exaggerate that it was three It was four
Speaker 3: years ago because it was Marley was born three and
Speaker 3: a half.
Speaker 1: See, yeah, so you guys, I remember, it was not
Speaker 1: I think we just met. So it wasn't that about
Speaker 1: long ago. I think you've added to Mayo on this.
Speaker 2: Okay, so three and three quarters of a year. I
Speaker 2: added three months. God sue me. Anyway, it was quite
Speaker 2: a long time ago to the people who want to
Speaker 2: be extremely specific. The wedding got delayed once officially because
Speaker 2: we had a set date, but kind of twice because
Speaker 2: we had kind of mentally pushed it back a year
Speaker 2: and then I had to get pushed back for two years.
Speaker 2: We were like, let's just throw it so far in
Speaker 2: the future.
Speaker 3: Two years. It was a year and three quarters.
Speaker 2: Nay, stop splitting strogg Okay, so such a.
Speaker 3: Little squabbling couple. Now. The only time I feel different
Speaker 3: is when we argue, and in my head I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's such a little arguing.
Speaker 2: No, But I do think I think it's an important
Speaker 2: question do you feel different? Because I think so many
Speaker 2: people have asked that, and also I think that there's
Speaker 2: this thought that you will feel different after a wedding.
Speaker 2: I know, I've spoken to a lot of married couples
Speaker 2: and they said, like, there's something about just being married
Speaker 2: that makes you feel more solid and like settled in
Speaker 2: your relationship, that makes you feel more secure. Almost.
Speaker 3: The ring makes me feel like that a little bit. Well,
Speaker 3: when I wear the ring, I walk around and I'm like, sorry, leaders.
Speaker 2: They're all lined up down the street. You have to
Speaker 2: push them away all the time. Well, I guess I
Speaker 2: think for me, I was almost expecting to feel something different,
Speaker 2: not that I needed it, like I'm so happy in
Speaker 2: the relationship, but with this extra thing. But I feel
Speaker 2: exactly the same. And I love that I feel exactly
Speaker 2: the same because I think the security for me in
Speaker 2: our relationship came when we had kids. I already felt
Speaker 2: that at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: It's just made it that little bit harder to leave now, right,
Speaker 1: once you sign a favor and your the rings is
Speaker 1: a bit harder.
Speaker 2: As hard to leave a relationship as what it is
Speaker 2: to leave a gym. Now that we've got to sign.
Speaker 1: Document, Okay, let's talk about the lead up to the wedding.
Speaker 1: So obviously the lead up was pretty long.
Speaker 2: We've established it.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of postponements, we had COVID, But
Speaker 1: what was the lead up like, now that you it
Speaker 1: was locked and loaded, you had the date, you knew
Speaker 1: it was coming.
Speaker 2: Was it all smooth sailing? So we I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: it was not smooth sailing. I love that that was
Speaker 2: a leading question when no, we had we had some
Speaker 2: real speed bumps. We had some issues without a wedding planner,
Speaker 2: with things not really going to plan and things not
Speaker 2: being booked in. And we got to about five weeks
Speaker 2: out from the wedding and we realized that there was
Speaker 2: still so much to do, like, so much to do.
Speaker 2: We didn't have any transport, any chairs, all flowers were
Speaker 2: still up in the air. Why.
Speaker 3: I was pretty guilty of being that person going well,
Speaker 3: I used to work in events, so this will be
Speaker 3: something that I can do entirely by myself, not realizing
Speaker 3: that it's been a long time since I've done a
Speaker 3: proper event. Now a little bit shit at it.
Speaker 2: There's often this stereotype that the female is the one
Speaker 2: that does all the work, like the female's the one
Speaker 2: that organizes the wedding in heterosexual couples, and not the
Speaker 2: case here. No, and I didn't have any desire get busy.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: But I also think there's so many brides who really
Speaker 2: enjoy like the Pinterest boards and creating the wish list
Speaker 2: of what their wedding is going to look like. And
Speaker 2: I did not have one iota of that desire. It
Speaker 2: did not hit me at all.
Speaker 3: But you were very I only came to you to
Speaker 3: like with options to lock in like flowers. I didn't
Speaker 3: have that either, but you're very good in terms of
Speaker 3: you know what would work and what wouldn't, and you
Speaker 3: still chose the kind of theme, colors and overall style
Speaker 3: of the event as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it came down to the fact that I
Speaker 2: had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted, but
Speaker 2: I didn't go down the fluffy rabbit hole of like
Speaker 2: planning out the wedding. I found that very stressful and
Speaker 2: not fun. So I kind of anything that for me
Speaker 2: is absolutely not critical in the moment just doesn't get done.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't until five weeks out from the wedding
Speaker 2: that we were arranging like what like. I literally sent
Speaker 2: the brief for what the flowers and the decorations and
Speaker 2: stuff should look like five days before the wedding. That
Speaker 2: was when she got the theming for the wedding was
Speaker 2: five days before, so it's wild things kind of came
Speaker 2: together really really quickly in the end. But also I
Speaker 2: think that's a reflection of us as people.
Speaker 3: You know, one I sarck with a deadline, yeah, and
Speaker 3: like it'll only be right until it's crunch time that
Speaker 3: I actually put my ass into gear.
Speaker 2: So actually the opposite to that, you're very fucking good
Speaker 2: on a deadline you needed that means you're yeah, you're good.
Speaker 1: Laura and I do things when we've got two minutes
Speaker 1: left to do them, both of us.
Speaker 2: That's why it's chaos in here. You work to a deadline.
Speaker 1: A big question that people have asked Laura obviously, because
Speaker 1: when a woman gets married that I feel like the
Speaker 1: number one thing is the dress, the first thing they've
Speaker 1: got normal people not normal people, but many women have
Speaker 1: their Pinterest board of their dress. They think about their
Speaker 1: wedding dress from when they're a little girl. They've got
Speaker 1: the idea in their head. It's the biggest day. When
Speaker 1: did you find your dress and how did you go
Speaker 1: about that process? Did you know what you wanted or
Speaker 1: we like I'm just going to go try one hundred
Speaker 1: things on and hope that one fits.
Speaker 2: I can tell you actually a story of what happened now.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's been there's been that space between
Speaker 2: it so pretty amazingly, a wedding dress designer, a very
Speaker 2: very famous wedding dress designer in Sydney reach out to
Speaker 2: me and said that they wanted to make me a
Speaker 2: wedding dress. This is like when Matt and I very
Speaker 2: first got engaged nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, back when I
Speaker 2: was twenty four. Their a wedding dresses is so expensive,
Speaker 2: like twenty thousand dollars. And I went to the fitting.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even a fitting. I went to what was
Speaker 2: the first consultation, and the arrangement was is that they
Speaker 2: would make a dress for me to wear to the
Speaker 2: wedding reception, to the ceremony storry and then I had
Speaker 2: to get something girls to wear to the reception. And
Speaker 2: it was like alone, like they were going to make
Speaker 2: a dress for me, but then I had to give
Speaker 2: it back after the wedding, which I was fine with.
Speaker 2: I was like, you can take the wedding dress back.
Speaker 2: I don't need it. It's nice to just have something
Speaker 2: beautiful to wear for the day, but I don't need
Speaker 2: a wedding dress and I'm gonna hang on to that.
Speaker 2: The whole thing was so it ended up being so
Speaker 2: strange because I went for the consultation and they had
Speaker 2: already designed the wedding dress. They had designed this like
Speaker 2: high neck, long sleeve, very regal. It's something that I believe,
Speaker 2: long sleeve lace, it's something they would envisage someone like
Speaker 2: Kate Middleton wearing.
Speaker 3: It was a very do you look a little bit
Speaker 3: like Kate Middleton?
Speaker 2: That is a stretch, like how many glasses of wine
Speaker 2: do you have to have for me to look like
Speaker 2: Kate Middleton? But is it unusual?
Speaker 1: Because what sticks out for me there is that it's
Speaker 1: one thing to say I'm going to design your dress
Speaker 1: and you say yes, But then to design your dress
Speaker 1: and say this is the design we've done, and this
Speaker 1: is it like to not even talk to you about
Speaker 1: that or like, was there any discussion on this long sleeved,
Speaker 1: high neck dress or is it.
Speaker 2: Just like this is what we think you should wear. Yes. Well,
Speaker 2: I got there for the consultation and it made it
Speaker 2: feel very business actual as well. It was like, this
Speaker 2: is the dress this is how many posts you need
Speaker 2: to do for Instagram. This is the advertising we expect
Speaker 2: out of it. And I felt so I mean, I
Speaker 2: was still grateful for the offer, but I felt like
Speaker 2: my wedding was becoming something that I didn't want it
Speaker 2: to be. And we had a bit of a conversation
Speaker 2: because I was like, look, that's so far from how
Speaker 2: and what I envisaged for myself. Like I thought I
Speaker 2: wanted to wear something that was lace with a low back.
Speaker 2: To their credit this label, they redesigned it more in
Speaker 2: line with what I wanted. I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 2: can do that. And then about six months past, and
Speaker 2: the more time that I spent thinking about it, and
Speaker 2: the more time I actually like really kind of figured
Speaker 2: out what I wanted for my wedding, I felt more
Speaker 2: and more ikey with the whole thing, the fact that
Speaker 2: I had to, you know, provide x amount of posts,
Speaker 2: and the fact that I had to talk about it
Speaker 2: in media. I was like, that's it's just so not
Speaker 2: what I want for my wedding. Anyway, very last minute,
Speaker 2: as some of you might know, I ended up going
Speaker 2: to Melbourne. I have a beautiful girlfriend there named Kaya.
Speaker 2: She does incredible wedding dress dresses. It's Kaya Studios. I
Speaker 2: cut ties with the other brand and I ended up
Speaker 2: getting a dress made through Kaya and she just made
Speaker 2: the whole experience, like from everything from the dress fittings
Speaker 2: through to actually having the dress made, the whole thing
Speaker 2: felt like a like I was the bride, Like it
Speaker 2: was an experience for me, not just that it was
Speaker 2: this business transaction for Instagram. And sometimes you need to
Speaker 2: go with your gut.
Speaker 1: If you walked into that the first one and you're like,
Speaker 1: this dust doesn't feel right.
Speaker 2: I mean, we get those feelings for a reason. Also,
Speaker 2: they wanted the dress back without any dirt or any
Speaker 2: damage to it because they wanted to be able to
Speaker 2: put it into their showroom afterwards. My dress that I
Speaker 2: wore the wedding was fucking trashed, like it had dog
Speaker 2: footprints on the back of the itus just slept on it.
Speaker 2: I felt, okay. There was this one point where I
Speaker 2: was standing at what do you call it? I was
Speaker 2: standing you call it the altar, isn't an altar. I
Speaker 2: was standing in the front where the arbor and the
Speaker 2: flowers anyway alta during the ceremony, and I thought someone
Speaker 2: was pulling my dress out, like I thought someone was
Speaker 2: like laying my dress out so that they could get
Speaker 2: a nice photo of the train or looking beautiful. And
Speaker 2: then I felt this like thud thud, and then the
Speaker 2: pulling got heavier and I was like, what is that?
Speaker 2: And it turned around and Buster had walked onto the
Speaker 2: dress and laid down on the dress as though it
Speaker 2: was a dog bed. It was very cute.
Speaker 3: Though You're lucky you didn't piss on it.
Speaker 1: Matt, what was it like finding your dress? He did
Speaker 1: look beautiful, he did look very hands I feel like.
Speaker 3: It's very different for guys. I feel like women are
Speaker 3: far more sentimental. For guys, it's just like you, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're going to going to.
Speaker 2: You wanted to wear a pink suit and I fucking veto.
Speaker 2: You were like, I'm gonna wear a framy pink suit.
Speaker 2: I was like, please don't.
Speaker 3: I wanted to wear something different. I thought I was
Speaker 3: looking at photos and everyone's wearing either a wie or
Speaker 3: a navy your black suit, and I thought, let's just
Speaker 3: do something different, something crazy. And I saw this pink
Speaker 3: suit and it wasn't like a fluorescent pink. It was
Speaker 3: a baby pink, like.
Speaker 2: A soft pink. Yeah, that's cool, right your lip maybe
Speaker 2: please or not? No, No, that's a very deep pink. No,
Speaker 2: it was like establish. It was like a soft pastel pink.
Speaker 2: Guys on my face, get.
Speaker 1: Your mind out the flatting with my armsband.
Speaker 2: Brittany, you're in the room.
Speaker 3: I'm like, similar to this blackness.
Speaker 2: Britty gets her nipples out. She's like this girl, is
Speaker 2: it like this kind of baby pink? Like a soft
Speaker 2: suppered pink just tasted I mean, just like nothen I
Speaker 2: went to her mouth, I mean, what comment about the
Speaker 2: lists of my face?
Speaker 3: All right, we'll say so. We said we said no
Speaker 3: to the pink suit.
Speaker 2: Thank god I can wear. This conversation would have gone.
Speaker 3: So I went with the Navy. Went with the Navy. MJ.
Speaker 3: Bail obviously wear mjboll suits kind of exclusively just because
Speaker 3: they fit. Hashtag dot com sixty nine ninety five RP
Speaker 3: is the surprise.
Speaker 1: And I think that, well, I think the Breakout Stars.
Speaker 1: I was going to say the show. I guess it
Speaker 1: was break our starves of the show with the girls,
Speaker 1: all the Flower girls. You had your niece there, you
Speaker 1: had your nephews there, but obviously Marley and Lola were there.
Speaker 1: And they were just divine. It was like the cutest
Speaker 1: thing I have ever seen because they were so happy.
Speaker 1: They were chaos Lola's walk around pulling flowers out, but
Speaker 1: it was really beautiful.
Speaker 2: To say, it was so funny because, like I know, everyone,
Speaker 2: so many people don't want kids at their wedding, And
Speaker 2: obviously we did our relationship a little bit back to front,
Speaker 2: so we had kids and then had a wedding marriage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we it is making love.
Speaker 2: We've been living in sin. But we had not just
Speaker 2: our girls, but we had five flower girls. We had
Speaker 2: two page boys. We had a three legged dog. It
Speaker 2: was like a fucking circus. It was like sooner clown
Speaker 2: was going to get out of the car. But it
Speaker 2: was chaos. It was absolute chaos. It was one point
Speaker 2: in the ceremony where Matt and I were saying our vows,
Speaker 2: which were ridiculous anyway, and Laula was standing next to
Speaker 2: me just pulling flowers out of the arbor and walking
Speaker 2: around with fistfuls of roses. But it for some reason
Speaker 2: didn't seem like it wasn't right. Like that scene, Gene
Speaker 2: looked perfect.
Speaker 3: I remember being at other weddings where the kids involved
Speaker 3: and there's moments where the kids going up to their
Speaker 3: mum or dad and wanting a cuddle and they were
Speaker 3: rejecting the child being like no, because they're in there,
Speaker 3: you know, in the process of saying their vows, and
Speaker 3: I think you can't. You got to swim with the
Speaker 3: tide with the kids. Whatever they want to do, go
Speaker 3: to let them do it. And so there's one part
Speaker 3: I was putting your ring on. I think Laura and
Speaker 3: Lola wanted to cuddle, so I was like, I'm going
Speaker 3: to give her a cuddle. Like I was juggling the
Speaker 3: rings and Lola and putting the ring on you and
Speaker 3: it was it was chaos.
Speaker 2: You have to shake her off your leg like she's
Speaker 2: like some away from me. No, it was a special
Speaker 2: What was your favorite I mean, I know what my
Speaker 2: favorite part was of the ceremony, but what was your
Speaker 2: favorite part of actually like saying the vows? You know,
Speaker 2: Because so Matt and I we we had a really
Speaker 2: special night just before the wedding. We went out for
Speaker 2: dinner at Seawan's Panorama two nights before the wedding, and
Speaker 2: we sat down together and we started to write the
Speaker 2: sentiment behind what our vows would be We didn't write
Speaker 2: our vows because we wanted it to be a surprise
Speaker 2: for each other. But Matt had started writing what he
Speaker 2: wanted to say to my family and he was crying at.
Speaker 3: The poor waiter must have been like, what the fuck
Speaker 3: is going on with table four?
Speaker 1: They divorcing and they ringing their diary.
Speaker 3: Come over and be like, here's your chicken.
Speaker 2: I love you so much, Laura, Is there any sauce?
Speaker 2: But it was. It was so beauty wonderful. Though, like
Speaker 2: I think, it surprised me how emotional you were. It
Speaker 2: did not surprise me.
Speaker 3: It surprised me as well. You are a crier, though
Speaker 3: only now that I've had kids. I'm only a recent
Speaker 3: crier like Matt four years ago would have been like, yeah, cool, whatever,
Speaker 3: But now I'm very emotional and I actually wish I
Speaker 3: didn't fight the tears as much, because I was crying
Speaker 3: on the third, on the Tuesday or the dinner when
Speaker 3: we wrote our vows. I was crying the night before,
Speaker 3: I was crying the morning of. I fucking cried so
Speaker 3: much on that day it's ridiculous. My mom came up
Speaker 3: to me and was like, she tapped me on the shoulder.
Speaker 3: This is before we had gone down to the ceremony
Speaker 3: when I was getting ready and she just said, oh
Speaker 3: my boy, and.
Speaker 2: That's that made me cry.
Speaker 3: I was crying at that.
Speaker 1: You know, worse she does like she couse, She's like, hi, Brittany,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm crying.
Speaker 2: You know. She had the most amazing speech, didn't she.
Speaker 2: But Okay, So one of the things that happened before
Speaker 2: the wedding, which was really really special for me. So
Speaker 2: my granddad, my papa, like I grew up, I grew
Speaker 2: up with him. He was my dad for so much
Speaker 2: of my life because my dad wasn't around a lot.
Speaker 2: He was in the army and he lived in another state,
Speaker 2: and my granddad, my papa, stepped in as a real
Speaker 2: father figure for me throughout my whole life. And I
Speaker 2: always thought it would be my papa who would walk
Speaker 2: me down the aisle, something I'd always said. And he
Speaker 2: passed away a couple of years ago. And so I
Speaker 2: think weddings are those real moments where not only are
Speaker 2: you so grateful for everything that you have, it also
Speaker 2: makes you think about the people that can't be there
Speaker 2: that you always thought when you were a kid, when
Speaker 2: you pictured your wedding what it would look like, that
Speaker 2: they were the people who would be there, and oh,
Speaker 2: this'll make me cry. I was at the house getting
Speaker 2: ready with my sister and the woman who had done
Speaker 2: my flowers, she came in with the bridesmaid's flowers and
Speaker 2: my bunch of flowers, and she was like, do you
Speaker 2: have any makeup on? There's something I need to show you,
Speaker 2: but I want to make sure that you're not like
Speaker 2: in the midd room in the midst of getting prepped.
Speaker 2: And she gave me my flowers and on the flowers
Speaker 2: they had sewn a locket onto the ribbon of the flowers,
Speaker 2: and there was a photo of my nana and my
Speaker 2: papa And I wasn't prepared for it, but it hit
Speaker 2: me like an absolute freight train, and I just sobbed,
Speaker 2: like I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed for a good
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. And then everybody in the room was crying.
Speaker 2: And I felt like it was good that I got
Speaker 2: that out because I think it prepared me a little
Speaker 2: bit for the day. But was there there with you? Yeah,
Speaker 2: And it meant that he got to walk down the
Speaker 2: aisle with me, even if he wasn't with me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was really really special, and I think it sometimes
Speaker 2: there's really little things that other people do for you
Speaker 2: that make the day even more special, you know, Like
Speaker 2: my sister thought it was her thoughtfulness that made me
Speaker 2: be able to have that, and that's a memory I'll
Speaker 2: always have from the wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I mean, that's very beautiful. And one thing,
Speaker 1: one big question was who cried first. I think we've
Speaker 1: established that many J Many J was the crier.
Speaker 2: What was it about your vows? Like what part of
Speaker 2: your vows was the part that you liked the most?
Speaker 2: Because I know about my vows, I know that there
Speaker 2: was like a story that I told, which I will share.
Speaker 3: It was the part which I thought I would have
Speaker 3: cried earlier, to be honest, But there was just one
Speaker 3: line in there where I say, I absolutely adore you,
Speaker 3: and for somebody, that was the trigger.
Speaker 2: Adoring me made you cry. You're like, it's true.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's because it was the pinnacle, like you were
Speaker 1: coming up to the you know, the top of the
Speaker 1: roller coaster before you shoot down.
Speaker 3: Yes, And after that I said I love you and
Speaker 3: then so that was when I started crying. And I
Speaker 3: think I turned to everyone. I was like, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: so so rude.
Speaker 1: There was not a dry eye in that house. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you, not even Buster. I think bim Buster.
Speaker 1: There was a part of your vows, Laura, which I
Speaker 1: want to ask you if you're happy to to read out,
Speaker 1: because it was really beautiful. It. Do you something you've
Speaker 1: mentioned on the past, This story something that really you
Speaker 1: heard and it really hit home and you've briefly touched
Speaker 1: on in an episode quite a while ago, but I
Speaker 1: want you to reiterate that.
Speaker 2: You know it was funny because I so I wrote,
Speaker 2: I wrote this, it's a story, and I wrote it
Speaker 2: into my vows.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, what story are you going to tell?
Speaker 3: I was like, tell me what it is?
Speaker 2: What I shut yourself? And that is when I knew.
Speaker 2: As I wrote this, I was like, is this a
Speaker 2: really weird thing to put into your vowels? And then
Speaker 2: I I was saying the story out loud, I said it.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: I read it out to my sister and I read
Speaker 2: out to a few other friends and they were all
Speaker 2: a bit like, where are you going with this? But
Speaker 2: then it ended up being like the one thing that
Speaker 2: everyone was in tears about because I think the message
Speaker 2: of it is important. It's still important to me. But okay,
Speaker 2: I'll read a bit of it out. This is my
Speaker 2: wedding bells, which is weird. Okay, do we have some
Speaker 2: music weekend overlay? We don't have any production much. Someone
Speaker 2: pretend like there's wedding bells playing in the background. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what I read to Matt. I wrote the
Speaker 2: other week. I was telling you about a podcast I
Speaker 2: had listened to where Hugh and Kyleenberg was in his
Speaker 2: kitchen this one morning, stressed out over the kids and work,
Speaker 2: when his nanny came in and asked her how her
Speaker 2: morning was. She said she'd been for a run and
Speaker 2: had breakfast with a girlfriend, all before eight am on
Speaker 2: a Tuesday. After the nanny walked out, he then said
Speaker 2: to his wife that he felt genuinely jealous and a
Speaker 2: little bit resentful of people who can just get up
Speaker 2: in the morning and have no responsibilities. Hugh's wife then
Speaker 2: showed him this article that she had just been reading,
Speaker 2: and it was about how life is made up of seasons,
Speaker 2: and how whenever we are in a season of life,
Speaker 2: we often spend much of it wishing that we were
Speaker 2: in a different season. It'll make me cry again. I
Speaker 2: told you this story and you asked me if I
Speaker 2: felt like that, to which I replied sometimes. You paused,
Speaker 2: and then you said, I don't relate to that because
Speaker 2: I am in the season of my dreams. I have
Speaker 2: thought about that a lot since then, especially when it
Speaker 2: came to writing these vowels. And I want you to
Speaker 2: know that I am in the season of my dreams
Speaker 2: with you, and I promise to never take that for
Speaker 2: grandit as I know life doesn't get any better than this.
Speaker 2: I will cry. I feel like I'm intruding on a
Speaker 2: moment I have right here. But honestly, for me, let's
Speaker 2: leave because I can't endit that out.
Speaker 3: But if you want to leave the room for about
Speaker 3: five or maybe six.
Speaker 2: Minutes to get your nipples out again, well you want
Speaker 2: what do you want? Guys? The nipples are the privacy. Okay,
Speaker 2: So something else I want to talk about and something
Speaker 2: that I'm sure a lot of you saw if you
Speaker 2: were across the Daily Mail. So our wedding took place
Speaker 2: at three pm in the afternoon, pretty standard by yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there wasn't. That wasn't the punchline. I was like, I
Speaker 2: wasn't the stand up. By six thirty pm, there were
Speaker 2: already articles that were out on Daily Mail.
Speaker 3: That's where you were going with the timing.
Speaker 2: Got it with very intrusive photos. So from the paparazzi, Yeah,
Speaker 2: from the papara not from guess.
Speaker 1: I'm just clarifying because you didn't mention it was paparai.
Speaker 2: This has been a real saw point for us because
Speaker 2: we didn't think that the perhaps knew where the wedding was.
Speaker 2: We genuinely didn't think that they had followed us down
Speaker 2: there because we have a very good eye for perhaps
Speaker 2: now like I think we're pretty we're pretty well versed
Speaker 2: in this world. We are pretty aware of when they're
Speaker 2: following you because usually there's a black like full drive
Speaker 2: suv like following you behind.
Speaker 3: But make it sound like such an American movie.
Speaker 2: By snipers, but they're in little like yonda totally. But
Speaker 2: usually usually you can tell when someone's following the car
Speaker 2: basically is what I'm getting at. But we've been down
Speaker 2: in Mollymook for a few days and we had not
Speaker 2: seen a single path, so we really felt like we
Speaker 2: were in the all clear. Our wedding was at Cupert's estate.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a really private little venue. It's a
Speaker 2: winery that you have to drive down a long driveway
Speaker 2: to and there's one single car park.
Speaker 3: Yes, except though it's it's surrounded by another property bush trees,
Speaker 3: so you could you could just trespass into someone else's
Speaker 3: farm and still have a line of sight to the wedding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we had a security guard there and mind you.
Speaker 3: Let's call him Glenn. The security guard.
Speaker 2: Glenn was great. Shout out to Glen. There's a really
Speaker 2: awesome paparazzi photo. Maybe we'll put it up on Instagram.
Speaker 2: On Life on cart podcast, it features Glenn. There's a
Speaker 2: photo of our wedding and it's of the security guard
Speaker 2: watching the wedding, not actually security.
Speaker 3: He was just watching the moment, champagne in hand. He
Speaker 3: was throwing rose petals. But the reception was like and
Speaker 3: he's like, this.
Speaker 2: Is beautiful as he's eating the cake. Basically, there was
Speaker 2: a paparazzi hiding in the bushes so where Matt got ready,
Speaker 2: there's these ten little villas, like ten little houses on
Speaker 2: the site on the property. A paparazzi had set themselves
Speaker 2: up in the bush and was not only were they
Speaker 2: getting telescope, they had a telescopic lens, so they were
Speaker 2: getting photos that made it look like they were a
Speaker 2: guest at the wedding. That's how close the photo second road,
Speaker 2: it looked like they had a front row seat. They
Speaker 2: were hiding in the bush somewhere. But because it was
Speaker 2: over a PA system, they were also able to record
Speaker 2: our entire wedding. So they recorded our entire wedding vowels
Speaker 2: and posted it on the fucking Daily Mail, which.
Speaker 1: Is okay, it's one thing, and it's not okay. It's
Speaker 1: one thing to publish photos, right, Like there's a level
Speaker 1: of and it shouldn't be. There's a level of expectation
Speaker 1: that like, oh fuck, the paparazzi got it, damn. But
Speaker 1: it is a whole nother kettle of fish to go
Speaker 1: and publish someone's vowels. That a very private moment that
Speaker 1: you guys have literally just had. You were still you're
Speaker 1: still at your wedding when your vows are published. I
Speaker 1: cannot imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what, I'm thankful that maybe it
Speaker 3: was just the fact that obviously everyone is in the
Speaker 3: moment during the ceremony, no one scanning the property looking elsewhere.
Speaker 3: But I was really glad that we didn't see him.
Speaker 3: I was glad that he was slightly hidden, because if
Speaker 3: in that moment, if we'd been exchanging our vows and
Speaker 3: we looked over and there was a pap in the
Speaker 3: car park, that would have sucked so much. So I
Speaker 3: was thankful that we didn't notice him at all until
Speaker 3: we saw the photos come out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so right. And I think by the time
Speaker 2: we saw the Daily Mail article, it was like seven
Speaker 2: pm at night. We were already well into the wedding,
Speaker 2: like the ceremony was over, we were like partying in
Speaker 2: the reception. We both very much made the decision that
Speaker 2: we weren't going to allow it to affect at night,
Speaker 2: because by then they were long gone. They were long gone.
Speaker 1: No, it's funny because a lot of people at the
Speaker 1: wedding knew that had happened, right because someone had sent
Speaker 1: the article being like, can you believe this is already out?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, and then all of us went into
Speaker 1: like this full commando mode. So we thought everyone at
Speaker 1: the wedding was like, we cannot let Matt Laura know
Speaker 1: this on any certainstent. Anytime we saw a phone anywhere
Speaker 1: near someone. Someone was like, come here rolling grabbing it
Speaker 1: out of your guys hands. They're like, let's go dance
Speaker 1: because no one wanted you guys to get distracted and
Speaker 1: to know. But I mean it came out. But I
Speaker 1: thought about this. I mean I did say to you.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna put my life on it. There'll
Speaker 1: be paparazzi there and you guys are like, they're not
Speaker 1: going to follow us, and I said, they will find
Speaker 1: a way. This is gonna be like you guys might
Speaker 1: not think about it, but it's one of the weddings
Speaker 1: of the year here in Australia.
Speaker 3: It is what I can't I agree.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, but no I know, but it
Speaker 2: is people of the century. Where are you going with this?
Speaker 2: That's so unlike Maddy j B humble since the Royals. No,
Speaker 2: but do you know what it made me think about?
Speaker 2: It was William and Kate and then Laura and Matt
Speaker 2: Yes close second what it made me think about is
Speaker 2: I reckon, I know what they did.
Speaker 1: When I was on the Bachelor finale in Port mcquarie,
Speaker 1: not the finale, sorry, the hometowns. That was like, wow,
Speaker 1: there really was budget cuts that year was that was
Speaker 1: was tight because of Cummings. The paparazzi came to my parents' house.
Speaker 1: My parents told me so they didn't know the paparazzi,
Speaker 1: that someone knocked on the door. My mum and dad
Speaker 1: opened the door knowing that the hometown visits were coming up,
Speaker 1: and a man was at the door and said to them, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm here with Channel ten. We are just doing some
Speaker 1: background checks, looking at scoping out the place. Did they
Speaker 1: decide that this is where it was or did they
Speaker 1: go with the other place. Yes, and my parents were like, no,
Speaker 1: We've gone over to this place and like great, and
Speaker 1: I just need to confirm your dress. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: the canine and stuff. My parents told them everything the day,
Speaker 1: the location because.
Speaker 2: They didn't know, because it's so evil and.
Speaker 1: It's so easy for them right to be like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's pick some wedding venues. Someone sits down for a day.
Speaker 1: Let's pick some locations that's within a drive. Maybe it's north,
Speaker 1: maybe south. The main wedding places they just call up.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, we're looking for mister Johnson.
Speaker 2: We've got to send some flowers whatever.
Speaker 1: It's very easy to try and find this information if
Speaker 1: somebody really wants it.
Speaker 3: Well, I reckon, And this is me starting to sound
Speaker 3: like I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist, you know,
Speaker 3: like everyone put the ol foil hats on whilst we
Speaker 3: talk about this. But I reckon, you can buy you
Speaker 3: can buy really cheap little tracking device.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, tracking because time is.
Speaker 3: Money, right, They really don't have time to call around
Speaker 3: every single venue because there's just so many it could be.
Speaker 2: And it's not that many celebrities in Australia they got
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: I reckon they would put a tracking device on the car.
Speaker 3: And I know I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2: We're not accusing them that they did this, but this
Speaker 2: is what we think happens because it does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it would just be a fool proof way
Speaker 3: of knowing exactly where we're going to bed got a.
Speaker 1: High car, you should have or you should have got someone
Speaker 1: to drive the car the other direction, like paid someone.
Speaker 3: Who has time for that.
Speaker 2: Brit Yeah, it was one of those things where like
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a shame that paparazzi photos and
Speaker 2: having people who were not invited hiding at our wedding
Speaker 2: kind of like cast a bit of a cloud, but
Speaker 2: also a guest sold our wedding photos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, where's my.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got some questions that the listeners have
Speaker 1: written in the listeners our life on cut family, people
Speaker 1: that are invested in your love life. Let's go through
Speaker 1: some bridesmaids, groomsmen. Now, the Daily Mail made it very
Speaker 1: obvious that I was not one. That was their headline.
Speaker 2: No, but you were the signer of my wedding certificate
Speaker 2: and it is there for the rest of my life forever.
Speaker 3: You were the reason didn't you do a little x X?
Speaker 2: Yeah I did, I had, I lost some songs. You
Speaker 2: were the reason that our wedding certificate has been signed. No,
Speaker 2: it's void and nully like you're not even married. Okay. Firstly,
Speaker 2: it's a weird question to be asked by random people
Speaker 2: when they're like, why isn't brittany one of your bridesmaids? Totally?
Speaker 2: That question wasn't just about me.
Speaker 1: That was like, let's talk about your groomsmen and bridesmaids totally,
Speaker 1: but also Britan.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about firstly, you know how much I love
Speaker 2: you and absolutely adore you. That was never the question
Speaker 2: I know that I never would have asked the question.
Speaker 2: I'm doing this for the people. My four bridesmaids were
Speaker 2: my sister and then three girlfriends who I've been friends
Speaker 2: with for decades, And the reason for that is because
Speaker 2: I was their maid of honor. So I was made
Speaker 2: of honor for each one of them, for my sister,
Speaker 2: for Sarah, for Kaya, and for Lauren. And I found
Speaker 2: that whole process really stressful. Like, I like.
Speaker 3: Your top friends of mine?
Speaker 1: It is, and like, you know how you used to
Speaker 1: movie your friends around on my Space and add change
Speaker 1: songs and stuff.
Speaker 2: Laura didn't have my Space. I don't know. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: you had a top friends list every day.
Speaker 3: Isn't it like MySpace?
Speaker 2: It is like my space. Yeah, you had a top
Speaker 2: friends list. No, but you're in my top friends with
Speaker 2: That's a horrible thing to say. I like, these are
Speaker 2: my top friends and everyone else is below that.
Speaker 1: The only reason we're having this conversation now, this isn't
Speaker 1: Laura and I explaining this to each other. We know
Speaker 1: what this is. We know how much we love each other.
Speaker 1: It did not bother me, and I knew it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: And the only reason we're having these conversation is because
Speaker 1: a lot of people wrote in the question, so we're
Speaker 1: just giving you the space to explain why you hate
Speaker 1: me so much.
Speaker 2: The people we love the most had very important jobs
Speaker 2: in the day, and that's what we wanted to make sure.
Speaker 2: So we had one of our girlfriends was the mc
Speaker 2: britt you were signing the wedding certificate? Ed who is
Speaker 2: Matt's best friend from overseas? He also was signing the
Speaker 2: wedding certificate. And then I had my long term girlfriends
Speaker 2: as my bridesmaids. I think like we wanted to make
Speaker 2: sure that the people that we loved the most had
Speaker 2: a role in the wedding. Also, who did you want
Speaker 2: to sit next to it the way? Was it two
Speaker 2: people you didn't know? Or miss Churr and Keisha?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I had a guy mate we were on the he
Speaker 2: was also on the singles table. Ask her how the
Speaker 2: night went. What's happening bringing for you on the singles table?
Speaker 2: Was it good? I had one sneaky little kiss? Oh god,
Speaker 2: she said it were the kids on the signals table?
Speaker 2: Did I have a choice? No? No, there wasn't a kiss.
Speaker 2: Keisha kiss one too. There's two kisses. There was just
Speaker 2: a little kiss, kiss.
Speaker 3: No more, and can I just say welcome to the family.
Speaker 1: Awkward and now that the drinks are not on board,
Speaker 1: he looks way too much like.
Speaker 2: You a bit young?
Speaker 3: Okay, shut out to my cousin.
Speaker 1: I love you, buddy so much for keeping this one
Speaker 1: a secret. I mean like it was a little tiniest smooch.
Speaker 1: That's it was a tongue in there, just like it
Speaker 1: was just like, okay, yeah, he will hate that. Kisha
Speaker 1: made out with your friend dropping on each other. I'm like,
Speaker 1: Kisha made out.
Speaker 2: With your friends. Keisha had a sneaky kiss too, she did. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kicking in the family.
Speaker 3: Here are we actually just quickly talking about kissing? Very surprised?
Speaker 3: Can I just say that, Laura. When we went for
Speaker 3: our kiss after we'd been pronounced husband and wife, she
Speaker 3: went for tongue.
Speaker 2: I slipped a tongue here, Laura went. I thought the
Speaker 2: leg was gonna cock up. There was there was a
Speaker 2: moment I was like, is this when we consummate the
Speaker 2: marriage needs to turn away?
Speaker 3: She started rubbing my genitals and I was like, Laura,
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 2: You did you were I have a night away from
Speaker 2: the kids. I was well and truly arrested. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe now it's the good And I was like, Laura,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Boy? Yoursm that's our new king.
Speaker 2: We like to have sex in front of people. Did
Speaker 2: you consumate? Did you consumate? Did you consummate the marriage that.
Speaker 3: Was close enough?
Speaker 2: Did you have sex? Did she get down and freaking
Speaker 2: horizontal and of love? I was so tied after about it. No, you,
Speaker 2: that's not even true, I said. I said, should we
Speaker 2: go downstairs? A lot of people way too soupy after
Speaker 2: all that dance floor. No, So we had a whole
Speaker 2: lot of people come back to our We had two
Speaker 2: rooms at banisters upstairs at the penthouse, it was three bedrooms.
Speaker 2: We had about ten people come back there for a
Speaker 2: little kick on, and then we were trying to get
Speaker 2: you to come back there because the guy that he
Speaker 2: kissed was there and anyway, he was very disappointed you
Speaker 2: didn't come back for the after party. But we also
Speaker 2: had a room downstairs. So come about one o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning, I said to Matt, like, let's just go downstairs.
Speaker 2: Let's get to bed.
Speaker 3: You were like, I'm going to bed. You can stay
Speaker 3: up here and have hum more drinks.
Speaker 2: And that was a test and you passed. The testing
Speaker 2: starts early. So I was thinking, maybe we'll go downstairs
Speaker 2: and you know, get to fourth base. No one listens
Speaker 2: what you're doing, but she's doing the I was doing
Speaker 2: a finger in the hole I was. I was I
Speaker 2: was re enacting the sexy times.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not very good at having sex when
Speaker 3: I'm drunk.
Speaker 2: Drunk, and time you were like, we got downstairs and
Speaker 2: you were like, it is absolutely not happening. Did you
Speaker 2: do it or not? So then the next day this
Speaker 2: is how romantic Matt is. So the next day I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, maybe today will be the day that
Speaker 2: we consummate the marriage. But we also had a recovery
Speaker 2: like event on so we.
Speaker 3: Did it like a long day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a long day drinking. We hired out
Speaker 2: a beautiful house. It was a big day. We ended
Speaker 2: up at the RSL club with the kids.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: It was not a relaxing day. And then at the
Speaker 2: end of that I was like, oh maybe now, and
Speaker 2: that was like, ab absolutely not. He's like, I couldn't
Speaker 2: This is what he said. I couldn't think of anything worse.
Speaker 3: I didn't say.
Speaker 2: I couldn't think of anything worse than having sex with
Speaker 2: my new wife. Did I say, yeah, you said I
Speaker 2: couldn't think of anything worse. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's you showered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the reason.
Speaker 2: Well that's probably why. Anyway, we got home, I had
Speaker 2: a shower, We got into bed. It was like eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock at night. And what did you think you were doing?
Speaker 2: All of a sudden you come in for a little cuddle.
Speaker 2: You let just go with it. See what happens esther
Speaker 2: Ester Perrell style? Did you say, just go with it?
Speaker 3: Daddy got hungry?
Speaker 2: Anyway? Oh that was so what was that? I don't
Speaker 2: know what hungry? Just go with it?
Speaker 3: That's my four play voice.
Speaker 2: And and yeah, mummy served him dinner.
Speaker 1: So this is quite possibly the most uncomfortable I've ever
Speaker 1: been in my line.
Speaker 2: He just signed five. That was great. Yeah, so we
Speaker 2: had sex. Missionary was a missionary?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, come on, it was.
Speaker 2: It was maybe to read another style in there, maybe
Speaker 2: it's usually missionary to dog.
Speaker 3: It was all missionary, but there.
Speaker 2: Are not that talkie style. We had a bit of there.
Speaker 3: No, there was no Yes, it was actually it was it.
Speaker 2: Was even less it was on the side.
Speaker 3: It was like that was it?
Speaker 2: Okay, So is there a rule because this is two
Speaker 2: days later?
Speaker 1: Is there some kind of like wizardry sexy time consummate
Speaker 1: a marriage rule that it has to be within like
Speaker 1: the night or twenty four hours or can you just do.
Speaker 2: All is in the wedding is now because you've done
Speaker 2: it two days later? Is that is null now?
Speaker 3: Legally it means that the whole marriage is now void.
Speaker 2: It's a sham.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have to go and do it al.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So I don't think you do it annulmen. I
Speaker 2: think your marriage is just ann old. I think it
Speaker 2: just means it was void. I don't think you haven't
Speaker 2: and get it. You need to secure it. You didn't
Speaker 2: secure the goods. That's a shame to take them. Ring
Speaker 2: my bank account says that we definitely can't do it again.
Speaker 2: But yeah, look we did it. We did the sexy
Speaker 2: times we've done it. We've actually did another time since then,
Speaker 2: which is great for us. We're on a real role
Speaker 2: And yeah, I hope that everyone feels better for knowing that.
Speaker 3: Look at us, look at us having sexis and married couple.
Speaker 2: Not me.
Speaker 1: I guess that's how you know you're married, right, because
Speaker 1: you do it once.
Speaker 2: It's a very different when you have two kids. Like
Speaker 2: we know, like for a lot of people listening to this,
Speaker 2: they probably were in honeymoon wedded bliss. Like we've been
Speaker 2: together for five and a half years. We have two babies.
Speaker 2: Those babies don't just go away because we got married, Like,
Speaker 2: they're still in our house and with us all the time.
Speaker 2: We still own them. We still have to have sex
Speaker 2: around the schedule that is having two children, and that's
Speaker 2: something that's not the sexiest thing to try and navigate,
Speaker 2: all right. A big one was money. Believe it or not,
Speaker 2: did you go over budget? Obviously?
Speaker 1: Weddings are very expensive and they all I feel like
Speaker 1: they always add up and there's always more than what
Speaker 1: you think and what you budget.
Speaker 2: I think there's this misconception when people who are in
Speaker 2: the public eye get married that they get it all
Speaker 2: for free. I think that that's what people think, or
Speaker 2: that we might have gotten big discounts on stuff. Maybe
Speaker 2: some people do, but that was not the case. It
Speaker 2: was really not the case for us.
Speaker 3: Like we everyone's so busy in the wedding industry now
Speaker 3: that no one needs to offer discounts because it's.
Speaker 2: Just a backlog of years. But also on top of that,
Speaker 2: not just no one needs to offer discounts. It makes
Speaker 2: your wedding transactional. It means that you have to spend
Speaker 2: your day worrying about getting content. It makes your wedding,
Speaker 2: which is a really super and special personal moment, it
Speaker 2: makes it about supplying content to providers. And I think
Speaker 2: for me, like we have definitely we have done so
Speaker 2: much on Instagram saying like this is who to our flowers,
Speaker 2: this is who to our dress, this is who did
Speaker 2: a catering our venue, whatever. But that's not because those
Speaker 2: things were for free. It's because we had such a
Speaker 2: beautiful time with such incredible small businesses and small venues
Speaker 2: who did truly incredible job, like they went above and
Speaker 2: beyond our flowers were phenomenal, very good. And so we're like,
Speaker 2: it's such a privilege to be able to push business
Speaker 2: towards people who we know are doing a great job.
Speaker 3: Like the band for example, amazing. I'm so happy because
Speaker 3: they've piece band, seven piece band. There was so stokes.
Speaker 3: I've had so many people hit them up with requests
Speaker 3: that they're like absolutely, especially after such a long time
Speaker 3: of having no business at all, and like they totally
Speaker 3: deserve it, and.
Speaker 2: It's such a privilege, just such a privilege to be
Speaker 2: able to be in a position where we have a
Speaker 2: huge platform and can also genuinely say like, these providers
Speaker 2: are great.
Speaker 3: But you know, I did have the thought this is
Speaker 3: maybe the week before the wedding where you know, I
Speaker 3: question like, is this all fucking Oh my god?
Speaker 2: A look at how much money wise?
Speaker 3: You mean, yeah, I looked at how much was spending
Speaker 3: over and it gets to that point where it's, you know,
Speaker 3: a week two weeks out, we're like, oh, we'll just
Speaker 3: put that a little bit more and we'll get like
Speaker 3: prosecco included in the drink package and we'll pay just
Speaker 3: a little bit more and we can get this, and
Speaker 3: all these little everything just creeps up a little bit more,
Speaker 3: and I should we have just done like a really
Speaker 3: small fourteen twenty people just like family, nothing? But should
Speaker 3: we have just done that considering that we want to
Speaker 3: try and save as much money as we can. And
Speaker 3: then afterwards, I'm so happy that we didn't go down
Speaker 3: that route. I'm so glad that we did have eighty
Speaker 3: odd people there in attendance, because it's that one the
Speaker 3: one time in our lifetime hopefully.
Speaker 2: There was eighty seven. I don't say hopefully like we're
Speaker 2: getting divorced and you've already got a backup. We didn't
Speaker 2: got to say it's the.
Speaker 3: One day, the one time that I'll only ever do that.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm also my bank account is telling me
Speaker 2: that's the one and only time I'm ever going to
Speaker 2: do that. But one thing, Matt, we did a speech
Speaker 2: together at the wedding. It was very chaotic because it
Speaker 2: was not planned, but one thing you said, and I
Speaker 2: really loved it, and I think it's so important. We
Speaker 2: did for a little while there think oh God, maybe
Speaker 2: we'll elope, or maybe we'll just make it small, like
Speaker 2: I genuinely had always thought that I would probably alope
Speaker 2: for my wedding because I never saw myself in the
Speaker 2: big dress and the big wedding, which funnily enough, is
Speaker 2: exactly what we ended up doing exactly. But we have
Speaker 2: a really good friend, Ben Cush, and Matt mentioned him
Speaker 2: at the wedding, and what he mentioned was I went
Speaker 2: to Ben's wedding, Ben and Lauren. I was the maid
Speaker 2: of honor there. Lauren was one of my bridesmaids. And
Speaker 2: it was a really beautiful, small, tiny wedding, and Push
Speaker 2: was quite strict in limiting the numbers he wanted. He
Speaker 2: was like, I'm only having these people, and you know,
Speaker 2: we're going to keep it as small as possible. And
Speaker 2: it was exactly that, and it was a beautiful, beautiful day.
Speaker 2: But since then, some really important people in his life
Speaker 2: have passed away, and I think it was in those
Speaker 2: moments that he realized that you don't get to have
Speaker 2: those same people in a room together, Like we're never
Speaker 2: going to have those eighty seven people who we love
Speaker 2: and adore in the same room ever again. And it's
Speaker 2: such a privilege to be able to celebrate something so
Speaker 2: special with the people that you love. It's just a
Speaker 2: once in a lifetime thing to do. And that's what
Speaker 2: I loved about it.
Speaker 1: So off the back of that, is there anything you change,
Speaker 1: no looking back, because for our.
Speaker 2: Guest, as a guest, it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: We didn't get off the dance floor. The food was incredible,
Speaker 1: the music was incredible, everything for us, except I didn't
Speaker 1: get to eat any cake.
Speaker 2: I'm mad about it.
Speaker 3: Me did I actually neither did I.
Speaker 2: I didn't even taste my own wedding cake. Did you
Speaker 2: do you have it? Did they give it? What do
Speaker 2: you mean?
Speaker 3: We went back to pick up some items the next
Speaker 3: not on the a few days afterwards that we left
Speaker 3: behind at the venue, and then they even said we'll
Speaker 3: put it in a little takeaway box for you, and
Speaker 3: then we forgot to get that.
Speaker 2: So we forgot.
Speaker 3: We forgot to get it. So I would I would
Speaker 3: definitely go back and I would have some wedding cake
Speaker 3: because it looked unbelievable. What flavor was it? Again?
Speaker 2: I told her to surprise us, so I didn't even
Speaker 2: know the flavor of the gh My god, I just
Speaker 2: feel like we really missed it. We missed out. But
Speaker 2: I know a lot of our guests did eat it
Speaker 2: and said it was amazing, So I'm glad that that
Speaker 2: someone got to enjoy it. Yeah, by all reports, was incredible.
Speaker 1: I just kept trying to go get it, but then
Speaker 1: a good the band was too good that I'd walk
Speaker 1: off the dance for I was like, I've got to
Speaker 1: sing band or my cousin, No, not your partner.
Speaker 2: The band. The band was honestly like having a lit
Speaker 2: dance floor is the best thing ever. We looked like
Speaker 2: a bunch of uncle ordinated people, like crumping on down
Speaker 2: on the dance floor. But it was so much fun.
Speaker 3: But one thing I would definitely change is I would
Speaker 3: have got the wedding planner sooner, because the only thing
Speaker 3: that was and it wasn't massive, but still the morning
Speaker 3: of there were so many moving parts in my head.
Speaker 3: I was I got ready at the venue that I
Speaker 3: was talking to the florist, and then the furniture riderms
Speaker 3: were coming and I was still planning. I was in
Speaker 3: work mode, you know, I was worrying about things that
Speaker 3: weren't quite right, and you know, can we change this
Speaker 3: and move that? And then the limo driver went to
Speaker 3: the wrong location to pick up Laura.
Speaker 2: So I walked out in my wedding dress like expecting
Speaker 2: the limo to be waiting to pick me up. And
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm already right on time, and the
Speaker 2: limo wasn't there. He was at the wrong banister's hotel.
Speaker 2: Oh he went one. He was anster's pavilion, had been
Speaker 2: waiting there for half an hour, and then he had
Speaker 2: to come around and pick us up from banisters by
Speaker 2: the sea. So like, there were small things that went wrong,
Speaker 2: but I also think those small things are all pretty inconsequential.
Speaker 2: Things are only a problem if they are a problem
Speaker 2: to you and if you get fixated on them. And
Speaker 2: we just kind of like whatever. Everything was exactly as
Speaker 2: it was, and it was.
Speaker 3: Perfect easy for Laura to say that, as someone who
Speaker 3: didn't plan.
Speaker 1: Anything seamless, it was great.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know. One of the thing I would change though,
Speaker 3: as well, is interested to see if you agree with this,
Speaker 3: the tradition of throwing the bouquet.
Speaker 2: I could have gone, I could have left. I wanted
Speaker 2: to bury my dig a hole lane and.
Speaker 1: Put the.
Speaker 3: Get in the middle.
Speaker 2: I have never been more there was this moment.
Speaker 1: I actually spoke about it on radio on Kyle and
Speaker 1: Jack this week, about this idea of this bouquet throwing
Speaker 1: and how everyone says been single at the wedding.
Speaker 2: Is the best. It's like, you know, there's some other
Speaker 2: single people.
Speaker 1: There is your time to meet people and hook up,
Speaker 1: and that's all well and good. When there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of other single people there, Laura burn walks out into
Speaker 1: the made a Pig song and dance about it bouquet.
Speaker 2: Everyone's like, well, gather around.
Speaker 1: The whole wedding gathers around and she's like, it's time
Speaker 1: to throw the boquet.
Speaker 2: All the single bit is literally She's little City. I
Speaker 2: make me literally. I had four drinks the entire night,
Speaker 2: will at all on a high on my love.
Speaker 1: The vibe was Lady City, like the level of excitement
Speaker 1: that you had an enthusiasm for this moment. You were
Speaker 1: like everyone, all you, oh you singles on the dance floor.
Speaker 2: There were crickets, cricket, and then I was like, I
Speaker 2: haven't stopped the band. I was like, back.
Speaker 1: Away, slowly, Brittany, and I'm backed away to the bar
Speaker 1: and then I was like sync to the ground.
Speaker 3: Chicken wing Brittany on the dance floor being like, you
Speaker 3: will catch this bouquet.
Speaker 2: Okay. In my defense, in my defense, it's not just
Speaker 2: single people. What I was trying to get on the
Speaker 2: dance floor and to do the bouquet throwing, I actually
Speaker 2: wasn't trying to do it for you. I was trying
Speaker 2: to get my step brother Chris and his partner Brock.
Speaker 2: They've been together for over a decade and he hasn't
Speaker 2: proposed yet, and Brock desperately wants to get married. I
Speaker 2: was trying to get Brock on the dance floor. It
Speaker 2: was all around.
Speaker 3: For Brock. So why were you on the mic Britney.
Speaker 1: Literally multiple times, Brittany, and I was like, it's okay,
Speaker 1: you guys do it, And you were like, get on
Speaker 1: the dance floor. There was not Brock it with three rocks. No,
Speaker 1: you were not rock. There were three people. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I have fought to the death once on
Speaker 1: the Bachelor. I will not fight again on the death
Speaker 1: for a bouquet.
Speaker 2: You know that someone's not enthusiastic about getting into a
Speaker 2: relationship when they just stand there and the bouquet flies
Speaker 2: and lands on the ground. I matrixed it.
Speaker 1: It was coming from my head and I was like,
Speaker 1: did that backwards matrix things?
Speaker 2: It passed straight by me. It was wild. But honestly,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, sorry that I did that to you,
Speaker 2: britt But I feel like I had so many expectations
Speaker 2: around what the wedding was going to be, and so
Speaker 2: many people had said to me that it's going to
Speaker 2: be so fun, You're gonna have the best day of
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Where's this going? Is she about to say?
Speaker 2: It wasn't. No. What I was going to say is
Speaker 2: I always thought it would get fun about. I always
Speaker 2: thought it would get fun once the reception had started.
Speaker 2: What I didn't expect is for literally, from the minute
Speaker 2: I walked down the aisle and I saw everyone's faces,
Speaker 2: it was the best day of my life. Like it
Speaker 2: was so much fun. Oh, you were manic.
Speaker 1: You looked like a crazy person because you were so
Speaker 1: deliriously happy. So I go too wide, like I had
Speaker 1: a tab of asset.
Speaker 2: It was crazy, but you did.
Speaker 1: You got out of the limo when it finally came,
Speaker 1: and you just both of you didn't have a smile.
Speaker 1: You didn't wipe the smile if your face the whole time,
Speaker 1: and it was beautiful to see.
Speaker 2: Can I say one more thing? Sure, we were talking
Speaker 2: about this last night. Most people get like a beautiful
Speaker 2: car to the ceremony, which we did a limo. What
Speaker 2: was your favorite part of leaving the ceremony? Matt the
Speaker 2: wedding reception.
Speaker 3: I can't remember his name, but he was a lovely
Speaker 3: cab driver.
Speaker 2: We just called like one three one yellow cabs. So
Speaker 2: you got a cab back to the hotel. Well, the
Speaker 2: paparasa you gone by, now, no one cares.
Speaker 3: That that way, yea, And I was trying to figureut
Speaker 3: where my suit jacket was.
Speaker 2: It was a bit of a mess at the end,
Speaker 2: Like everything else was so lovely. Everyone went home on
Speaker 2: buses and stuff, and there we were. I thought there
Speaker 2: was a car waiting for us, but it was a car.
Speaker 2: Well there was.
Speaker 1: There was this big discussion, right. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys know about it, but everyone's in the car
Speaker 1: park leaving.
Speaker 2: Everyone's like, where we're going? It's your enough party?
Speaker 1: And half the people were like, no one had said
Speaker 1: to me what was happening right. Half the people were like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: we're going back to Matt and Lawis. And I was like, oh, guys,
Speaker 1: I think you need to let them go and have sex.
Speaker 2: I was like, don't think no, I had told you
Speaker 2: to your face. I literally had said to your face,
Speaker 2: come back to ours.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I missed that part I I was trying to tell people.
Speaker 2: I was like, let them. You aren't inviting people to
Speaker 2: the idea party that I had invited them to. I
Speaker 2: was like, let them have sex. I think they would
Speaker 2: have sex. They're like, well, I think they I think
Speaker 2: they told us to come. And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: they would have sax. That is why no one fucking
Speaker 2: showed up because told them not to come. She didn't
Speaker 2: do it wasn't just me. She was like, let them
Speaker 2: have sex. They only get like once in a blue moon. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm glad we did it. Maybe we'll do it tonight, Matt. Well, guys,
Speaker 2: a big, big fat congratulations to you both.
Speaker 1: You finally married. You are the fairy tale. You are
Speaker 1: the bachelor. You know, there's been a few bachelor love stories,
Speaker 1: but I think, and I might be biased, I think
Speaker 1: you're one of the best bachelor love story.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, one of the best.
Speaker 2: There's only five. So when you say like you're one
Speaker 2: of the best, it's not even five. Who is there?
Speaker 2: Sam and Snares, Georgia and Lee, Tim and Anna, Tim
Speaker 2: and Anna, Jimmy and Holly, Jimmy and hollyeen Holy, Irena
Speaker 2: and Lockie like heaps. So when you say we're one
Speaker 2: of the best, there's only six of them. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: there's still a lot.
Speaker 3: But what I mean is like, according to a New Idea,
Speaker 3: they did an article last year that we were awarded
Speaker 3: the number one spot.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're being serious, but it's very facetious.
Speaker 3: I hope people can take the strong tone of sarcasm
Speaker 3: in my voice right now.
Speaker 1: My point is when you stop and think about it
Speaker 1: like that, A one, it's wild that the Bachelor does work,
Speaker 1: and there has been so many success stories, but too
Speaker 1: you've it's wild to think that you guys have created
Speaker 1: your dream life off the back of the reality TV
Speaker 1: show six years ago.
Speaker 3: Like that is pretty Thank you so much, And now
Speaker 3: if you can put your nipples back in your top,
Speaker 3: I'd really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: People don't think I'm insane. It's not a big one.
Speaker 2: But I would also like to just say thank you
Speaker 2: to Water Brothers for making this possible. This is not sponsored,
Speaker 2: they haven't paid anything, but I'm on the challenge tonight.
Speaker 3: Bye.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, you know that we never finished an
Speaker 2: episode without our suck and our sweet, our highlight and
Speaker 2: our low light of each and every week. Brittany, you
Speaker 2: can go first. I think it's pretty fucking damn obvious
Speaker 2: what my sweet is?
Speaker 1: Okay, so my suck, yeah, you'll see, very very you
Speaker 1: had a great week, you had a great sport night.
Speaker 2: It's been a very very good week. I mean, my
Speaker 2: suck could be my bank account. Why it's like just
Speaker 2: weeping now, my sad sad bank account.
Speaker 1: Okay, So my suck this week would be it's two
Speaker 1: things joined into one, right, and it's all around coffee.
Speaker 2: I had a bad coffee week. My coffee machine broke.
Speaker 1: So I've been on the morning show, as you know,
Speaker 1: Kyle and Jack and so these are four ams I'm
Speaker 1: getting up. So I've been making coffees at home. My
Speaker 1: coffee is, where do you get a coffee at four am?
Speaker 2: You know you don't. My coffee machine broke, So this
Speaker 2: was a disastrous start.
Speaker 1: So then I got to work and then I went
Speaker 1: and got a coffee, stopped on the way, got the coffee,
Speaker 1: and I was so tired that as I got back
Speaker 1: into the car with my coffee, I put on my
Speaker 1: roof to get my key out and then I just
Speaker 1: drove off. So A I broke my coffee machine. B
Speaker 1: I left my coffee that I just bought to replace
Speaker 1: the one on the roof, and it just flapped off
Speaker 1: and it was dead.
Speaker 2: I feel like people would have some pretty good stories
Speaker 2: about shit they've left on the roof. You have left
Speaker 2: so much shit on your car roof every week? Insane.
Speaker 2: Every week, It's like my hobby I always because as
Speaker 2: I'm getting the kids into the car. I always put
Speaker 2: things on the roof and then drive away, and sometimes
Speaker 2: you hear the like of it rolling down the roof,
Speaker 2: and other times you just don't, and then you figure
Speaker 2: it out a day later that you left your wallet
Speaker 2: with four hundred dollars in it on the roof of
Speaker 2: your car and it's gone down the middle of a freeway.
Speaker 1: Didn't you leave something really important on a roof and
Speaker 1: it was still there like a week later.
Speaker 2: Have I made that story out? No, you have not
Speaker 2: made it up. But it's one that I said we
Speaker 2: would never tell that story. Okay, there was something important
Speaker 2: Laura left.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember what it was, but I remember
Speaker 1: you just saying wildly a week Yeah, we found it
Speaker 1: stuck in past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was something very very important that we'll never
Speaker 2: talk about. And it was stuck in the what are
Speaker 2: they called in the roof racks?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, we won't go there. Okay, what was
Speaker 1: your sweet my sweets are ti? I didn't get married
Speaker 1: this week, so I can't have that, but we did.
Speaker 1: We won listen to his podcast obviously.
Speaker 2: That's just amazing.
Speaker 1: And I had my first full week on Breakfast radio
Speaker 1: with Kyle, and it's.
Speaker 2: Just such a big learning curve. It's very different. It's
Speaker 2: such a big show.
Speaker 1: They have such an amazing team, they have this whole
Speaker 1: team that's just it's just such a well oiled machine.
Speaker 1: And I'm learning a ridiculous amount very fast, and it's
Speaker 1: really put me outside my comfort zone. It's really challenged me,
Speaker 1: and I'm just having a really great time with it.
Speaker 2: So that's got to be one of my sweets. I
Speaker 2: feel like as well, being able to like i mean
Speaker 2: apart from the mornings and the early mornings, but like
Speaker 2: the being on for live radio is very different to
Speaker 2: how we do podcasting because we can you know, stop, start,
Speaker 2: we can like think about it, we can flash it out.
Speaker 2: We've got low time to think. But also it's like
Speaker 2: long form content, you know, we have time to have
Speaker 2: these really nuanced conversations, whereas radio is fast paced and
Speaker 2: it's such like a different thing to be doing. And
Speaker 2: with Kyle, you don't know what is going to come.
Speaker 2: You don't know what he's going to.
Speaker 1: Throw at you, how many times he's gonna throw under bus,
Speaker 1: what he's going to put you on the spot with,
Speaker 1: so like reaction time, you don't get time to think,
Speaker 1: so it's it's wild.
Speaker 2: How do you with him being mean to you from occasion,
Speaker 2: because I mean, yeah, like, there's definitely been some things
Speaker 2: that I've heard where I'm like, it's fucking me.
Speaker 1: Kyle's an unusual character because he's definitely he'll probably hate
Speaker 1: me saying this. He's definitely has two sides, and I
Speaker 1: guess you don't see those sides unless you do spend
Speaker 1: time with him personally.
Speaker 2: But he's he's gonna hate this. He's like a big,
Speaker 2: soft teddy bear.
Speaker 1: And I know that's hard to believe because of the
Speaker 1: persona he does put out.
Speaker 2: But part of Kyle's I guess, building up your thick
Speaker 2: skin and getting you ready for anything.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's if it works, but
Speaker 1: part of it is to give you shit and put
Speaker 1: shit on you.
Speaker 2: And he'll put it on me.
Speaker 1: And I'm doing really well at holding my own and
Speaker 1: defending it, and I give it back to him now.
Speaker 1: And we do have that relationship where I realize now
Speaker 1: that I can be a bit more fisy, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what he wants. I think he just wants
Speaker 1: a reaction from me. But then in the downtime and
Speaker 1: in the off time, he's always checking in. He's always like,
Speaker 1: you're all right, I don't mind me saying that. Do
Speaker 1: you like giving your heart? You know, there's always this
Speaker 1: checking in, making sure everything's cool, and like figuring out
Speaker 1: with the line is figuring out where line is, and
Speaker 1: that's what the guy's paid for. He's a shock jock.
Speaker 1: He's been a shock jock for twenty years. It is
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 2: But I feel good that I'm getting to.
Speaker 1: Bring parts to that segment, Like I got to bring
Speaker 1: a really big part this week on what's happening in Iran.
Speaker 1: The masa Amini protests that we spoke about in the
Speaker 1: podcast a little while ago. It's escalated a lot with
Speaker 1: what's happening over there, and that's probably not something that
Speaker 1: would normally cover. The team told me they wouldn't usually
Speaker 1: cover that in the mornings, but it was really important
Speaker 1: to me, So they said, do you know what you
Speaker 1: are the host now? If you want to talk about
Speaker 1: that will make it happen. And they gave me a
Speaker 1: space to talk about something I thought was important that
Speaker 1: even though they wouldn't usually talk about it in that
Speaker 1: timeframe or in that space so they are meeting me halfway,
Speaker 1: and I think if I can go onto a platform
Speaker 1: like that and make some sort of a difference and
Speaker 1: talk about things I'm passionate about, as well as all
Speaker 1: the shit, the funny stuff, you know, because it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be lighthearted radio totally. But they're meeting me in
Speaker 1: the middle a bit, and I think that's really cool.
Speaker 2: And also like you can't go into that environment and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden have guns blazing and be like
Speaker 2: this is what we're going to talk about. You know,
Speaker 2: you kind of have to. You've got to do the dance,
Speaker 2: You've got to play the game. I'm in their world, baby,
Speaker 2: this is me in their world, all right. Well, my
Speaker 2: sweet for the week is very obvious. I got married,
Speaker 2: we won the Podcast Awards, Forever grateful have had honestly
Speaker 2: the week of my life. And my suck for the
Speaker 2: week is something that I guess I kind of always
Speaker 2: knew it was gonna happen, but it got so fucking trash.
Speaker 2: My dress, it is so dirty. It's unbelievable how trash
Speaker 2: the bottom of it got. And to think that you
Speaker 2: go through all this process, like this beautiful dress is
Speaker 2: made just for this one day. To then see it
Speaker 2: after that one day with how much dirt and crap
Speaker 2: is just I was like, this is never gonna If
Speaker 2: the dry cleaners can get this out, it will be
Speaker 2: truly remarkable. Well, I think most people's dress and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, right, I think it's even a sign of
Speaker 2: a good wedding. But is it weird that that's the
Speaker 2: thing that that's just happens that you spend all this money,
Speaker 2: that you get this amazing dress and then it gets
Speaker 2: absolutely effing trashed and you're like, oh, okay, signs of
Speaker 2: a good night? So will you keep that dress? Will
Speaker 2: you sell it? What we do with it? So I
Speaker 2: had a like a specialty dry cleaner come and pick
Speaker 2: it up. They have taken it away. They're gonna try
Speaker 2: and clean it. Obviously they do the best they can,
Speaker 2: and then they'll box it up and keep it in
Speaker 2: like a preservation box. So then maybe the girls can
Speaker 2: have it. I don't know they will. Imagine, nobody wears it.
Speaker 2: It's never in fashion. Like they're gonna get it in
Speaker 2: like what twenty years time and we'll like it, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: how longa twenty five years time? And they're all thirty
Speaker 2: years time, and they're not gonna like it. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be like, oh, my mom's giving me this ugly old dress.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that stuff comes back in right, it goes.
Speaker 1: There's a period of like twenty years where it won't
Speaker 1: be cool, and then all come back into fashion.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I saw my mum's wedding dress. That's
Speaker 2: never come back in fashion.
Speaker 1: My mom's I'll show you it. She had like white
Speaker 1: fur on it and everything she had first leaves. Actually
Speaker 1: that is in fashion now, all these dresses with the
Speaker 1: big fluffy sleeves.
Speaker 2: When your dresses back, they're gonna go mum or ready
Speaker 2: for when you get married? Where what twenty fifty fifty time? Alright, guys,
Speaker 2: that is it from us. We hope that you enjoyed
Speaker 2: the episode. We hope that you enjoyed a little insight
Speaker 2: into what was the wedding week of my life.
Speaker 1: I thank you for sharing that with us because it
Speaker 1: is your special day and you guys know the drill
Speaker 1: turn you mum, tell your untelld on to your.
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