Speaker 1: Kate l Brook, Thank you, Thank You, has an inspiring
Speaker 1: true story about moving to Italy.
Speaker 2: We didn't speak Italian, we knew nobody and then throwing
Speaker 2: a pandemic.
Speaker 3: Kate Lanbrook is here, Halla Caate, welcome.
Speaker 1: Back clubbi chesz not bitches your.
Speaker 2: Favorite bit Jess.
Speaker 1: Last time we had you on, you were like in
Speaker 1: the studio, so I imagine we got work Kate, But
Speaker 1: today on the zoom she's kicked back in bed.
Speaker 3: We've got relaxed Kate. Don't forget. You're allowed to swear here, Kate,
Speaker 3: that's the rule.
Speaker 2: Could I see you next Tuesday?
Speaker 3: Go for it? Do you want to do No, I
Speaker 3: don't want.
Speaker 2: To shock anybody, but you know I'm quite partial to
Speaker 2: that word.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I love finding out that everyone that works in media
Speaker 1: is actually a potty mouth behind the scenes. That's my
Speaker 1: favorite thing when I started working in media, being like
Speaker 1: they're all foul like me.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, because when your microphone's on, you really just have
Speaker 2: to banish that part in you. Then that part of
Speaker 2: you has to come out with a vengeance at some point.
Speaker 4: Definitely does a stupid little podcast boys.
Speaker 2: Cake by the way, Mitch Mitch, which one. No, not you, Mitch.
Speaker 2: You Mitch, how did we tell your part last time?
Speaker 1: I think you called me Betty. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember, but you nicknamed me Betty.
Speaker 2: Betty. We're both Betty. But it's perfect that you're betting anyway. Betty,
Speaker 2: you know that I'm moonlighted with Mitch?
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 2: And Monty was Unwell, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, he was your your other half on three PM
Speaker 3: pick Up.
Speaker 1: They thought, you know, typically a show hosted by mums
Speaker 1: and women. They thought Mitch cheer is the next best thing,
Speaker 1: isn't it?
Speaker 2: Slott and writing We had a great chart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a bit jealous about it was the
Speaker 3: jealousy involved Mitch.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course there what but I would have happily
Speaker 2: had you Betty, but I didn't know where you were.
Speaker 2: You're such a mysterious sort of creature during the day.
Speaker 2: Oh god, what does Betty do during the day? Betty
Speaker 2: from Blacktown?
Speaker 4: He films videos and he's a very busy man. People.
Speaker 3: He's doing brand deals.
Speaker 4: He's one of those new ways. Yeah, he's in demand.
Speaker 1: Mitch is being very polite and trying not to use
Speaker 1: the word influencer because he knows I hate that word,
Speaker 1: but in a nutshell, it's basically that in.
Speaker 4: My friend, Yeah, all right, Kate, Mitch has been Actually
Speaker 4: this is true. Mitch hasn't read a page of your
Speaker 4: new book. Kate hasn't even hang on.
Speaker 2: He hasn't hang on. And you know what, I call him,
Speaker 2: Matt Doran, and you know what you will call me.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, he don't be casting aspersions.
Speaker 3: I'm no Matt Doran here.
Speaker 1: I haven't actually read a page, but I was thrilled
Speaker 1: to find that there's an audiobook version.
Speaker 3: Thanks God.
Speaker 2: Oh and that's me reading the audio books.
Speaker 1: And I'm such an audiobook kind of person like my
Speaker 1: ADHD doesn't really Yeah, it doesn't allow me to like
Speaker 1: sit there and read a book, but I can multitast.
Speaker 1: So I've got Kate in me here laughing at her
Speaker 1: own jokes in the book. That was my favorite part.
Speaker 1: While I'm cooking dinner and stuff, it's great. Did you
Speaker 1: have to do that all in one go? Because it
Speaker 1: sounds like you've got the exact same tone of boys.
Speaker 1: That sounds like nothing differs, or do they let you
Speaker 1: do like one chapter a day?
Speaker 2: No, I did, I would do I did it over
Speaker 2: a week, like a working week Monday to Friday.
Speaker 3: It's still a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot. But the guy who did it,
Speaker 2: he was so adorable, Derek Derek. He looked like he'd
Speaker 2: be a doctor who fann. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was kind of waiting for him to
Speaker 2: give me some notes. And then the girl from the
Speaker 2: book company was on Zoom as well, watching and I
Speaker 2: waited for them to tell me. You know how it's
Speaker 2: like when you're at work, people might not know this,
Speaker 2: but in the radio, you know, if you're reading something
Speaker 2: or you're someone will say, oh can you do it
Speaker 2: again with a bit more vim or you know, you
Speaker 2: a direction? Not one bit of direction? Betty, what would
Speaker 2: you suggested to me?
Speaker 3: I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: I mean, you definitely sounded more like relaxed than you
Speaker 1: would when you're kind of performing on the radio.
Speaker 3: But that's what I liked about it. It was very
Speaker 3: you know, chilled and conversation.
Speaker 4: But Mitch, you don't know this because when I jumped
Speaker 4: in on the pickup with you, Kate, Kate revealed, remember
Speaker 4: that giant earthquake, that it wasn't really giant, but the
Speaker 4: earthquake that hit Melbourne a few months ago. Kate, you
Speaker 4: need to send us the audio Kate if you can't,
Speaker 4: because we'll insert it. I have. Kate was recording the
Speaker 4: audio book when the earthquake.
Speaker 3: Hidden and you hear it.
Speaker 2: I'd totally forgotten that, Mitch, and then in it. How
Speaker 2: do you think I reacted, Betty.
Speaker 1: Well, I like to think you're in a professional would
Speaker 1: have tried to sol jerom, but at a certain point
Speaker 1: you would have been like, oh fuck, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: Like surely I really need to hear this. Please send
Speaker 1: it through. I'll put it in the podcast.
Speaker 5: I could see with my mother eyes that his breath
Speaker 5: was high in his chest. He was nervous. And then
Speaker 5: after an inauspicious start.
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 6: It can only be an earthquake?
Speaker 5: Huh? Is that an earthquake.
Speaker 6: Could only be an earthquake?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I thought.
Speaker 6: I was having a stroke or something.
Speaker 5: Anthea, we just had a tremble in the studio.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I just run to the doorway because this
Speaker 2: house is shaking.
Speaker 7: Toy.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Well, you can't be sorry for an earthquake, but
Speaker 2: we should say the book is chow better.
Speaker 4: Six take Italy Katelinebrooks story of a family moving to
Speaker 4: Italy before the pandemic, Then the pandemic hit. It was
Speaker 4: it was chaos, Kate. And Mitch doesn't know this, but
Speaker 4: I know again from the pickup that you're a die
Speaker 4: hard Morning Wars fan, as is Mitch, as am I
Speaker 4: And as I sit there, Cakee and I see, I
Speaker 4: see Mitch Kessler sitting in what looks to be I'm
Speaker 4: thinking like Como.
Speaker 3: It looks like it's like Como.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is that what you pictured an envision for your
Speaker 4: for your Italian lifestyle to be?
Speaker 2: Yes, except you know, Mitch Kesler wasn't really at Como.
Speaker 3: Where did he film it?
Speaker 2: They filmed it at some old nunnery in like Santa
Speaker 2: Barbara or San Francisco or something like that.
Speaker 3: Oh, I fell for it.
Speaker 2: However, all right, can we just deviate for a moment.
Speaker 2: I know we're talking about my fabulous.
Speaker 3: Book, Chop Beller, you're going down.
Speaker 2: We just talked about Morning War was anytime? It was
Speaker 2: a very Have you just watched the last episode?
Speaker 3: Yeah, up to date, I.
Speaker 2: Was not happy with that last episode.
Speaker 3: Neither were we.
Speaker 4: She went full Alex Levey went full Joe Rogan right
Speaker 4: when Conspiracy podcast.
Speaker 2: And also yes and who keys and these old chip
Speaker 2: nodding away or is it Chuck like you know chip
Speaker 2: chip nodding away as though she's doing something amazing, and
Speaker 2: it actually was not amazing. It was just like it
Speaker 2: was actually like someone had just given Auntie nell and
Speaker 2: I and she discovered the video fun I'm not for
Speaker 2: the first time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was way less glued this season.
Speaker 1: Like season one, I was very oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for the next episode, but this one, I
Speaker 1: was like that.
Speaker 4: All over COVID, like we just lived it, we don't
Speaker 4: want to rewatch it, skip it.
Speaker 3: Yes, well here you are.
Speaker 1: It's saying, oh, no, one wants to relive COVID. But
Speaker 1: Kate's book, sorry, it very much touches on COVID.
Speaker 3: But I was actually waiting to get to the COVID part.
Speaker 1: There was so much the build up you had like
Speaker 1: the most heavenly first year. Although the thing that I
Speaker 1: did find surprising I did in factor in the time difference.
Speaker 1: You were still doing your afternoon radio show in Australia
Speaker 1: from Italy, but at what time was it again.
Speaker 2: In the morning? But I was getting up at like
Speaker 2: four or five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Ye see, that's bullshit getting up at four am when
Speaker 1: you're on this you know Italian shape?
Speaker 4: Mate?
Speaker 2: Do you think that was my dear Betty? That was
Speaker 2: David William Hughes, the most persistent person in the world,
Speaker 2: who said, you're not going to give up work, knocking
Speaker 2: out work, can do the show from over there. I'm like, what,
Speaker 2: because now, of course when we say I did the
Speaker 2: show for Italy, people like, well, I do them from
Speaker 2: my office all the time. No one did that. Then
Speaker 2: we didn't even have zoom zoom wasn't a thing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you gave that up.
Speaker 1: And I don't blame you because the rest of the story,
Speaker 1: when you had all these getaways to sicily sounded heavenly.
Speaker 1: There was one thing you actually mentioned in the book
Speaker 1: that I really resonated with, which was I wrote it down.
Speaker 1: You were talking about your son and your husband, and
Speaker 1: you said they clash as often as they bond, these two,
Speaker 1: something I believe is not unusual for fathers and firstborn sons.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, other people do this.
Speaker 1: Oh my little brother is so like easy going, but
Speaker 1: sometimes I just lock horns with my father for fun,
Speaker 1: just because on board, and he always bites back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did something about I think fathers are
Speaker 2: harder on the firstborn son. But I've got girlfriends who's
Speaker 2: say the same, and they end up having the conversations
Speaker 2: with the dads of their sons saying, you know why,
Speaker 2: and then they accuse us of being too soft on them.
Speaker 1: I think I've overheard this exact argument between my parents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would have, you would have? You would have?
Speaker 2: You'd hear the same thing in our house. I not
Speaker 2: that we argue, Betty, but we do discuss things sometimes
Speaker 2: in a very animated, vocal and loud.
Speaker 3: Manner, don't we all? Now, Meg, do you have a
Speaker 3: clash with your dad? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do. I'm the firstborn son. But no, we my
Speaker 4: dad's very soft. Like my dad sends me inspirational quotes
Speaker 4: every day. Oh yeah, you start the day. Yeah, let
Speaker 4: me get let me get what he said. He didn't
Speaker 4: send meone today, actually, but he's on a business trip.
Speaker 4: But let me find the most recent.
Speaker 3: He's on a business trip, Marjorie. He's a businessman.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, no, they don't clash like most elder
Speaker 1: sons and fathers.
Speaker 3: If he's sending you fucking inspirational quote.
Speaker 4: No, it's not the same. Well this is from yesterday.
Speaker 4: Slowing down and or stillness may feel unsafe and uncomfortable
Speaker 4: for you if you're used to chaos or living under
Speaker 4: constant stress, because your nervous system is used to being
Speaker 4: in survival mode. And he said, saw this resonated with me.
Speaker 4: Hope it resonates with you. Love you endlessly, dad, Oh
Speaker 4: I love Yeah, that is very divine. No, but I
Speaker 4: was as smack silly as a kid. So maybe you
Speaker 4: got it out of his system as when I was
Speaker 4: an infant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, did he have it? Did he have a change? Shit?
Speaker 3: He yeah?
Speaker 4: He Oh yeah, he had a change. There was a
Speaker 4: pivotal But.
Speaker 2: What brought about his change.
Speaker 3: Once he he got it? Turned fifty, turned a corner.
Speaker 4: He was a change man.
Speaker 2: Oh really? Oh I love that. God. I love people
Speaker 2: who showed the capacity for change.
Speaker 4: Then I came out. I think he was probably terrified
Speaker 4: of hitting a gay man.
Speaker 3: He didn't do that. So he's like, oh I might,
Speaker 3: Well that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Yah, don't be puffed to bash up.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Now I've said that, Baylor. Anyway, the book is available now.
Speaker 4: You can get it. You can buy it at all
Speaker 4: good booksellers and of course online you can get on
Speaker 4: audio books, which Mitch is enjoying.
Speaker 3: Yes, I am loving it. We wanted to do with
Speaker 3: UKD whilst you're here.
Speaker 2: Mitch, Betty, Oh you're adorable. YouTube.
Speaker 3: Thank We're not done, Kate stay in bed. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: well we've got you.
Speaker 1: Because you have experienced Australia and Italy and what they've
Speaker 1: both got to offer.
Speaker 3: We want to do a quick round of who does
Speaker 3: it better?
Speaker 1: Because I reckon from listening to that book, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that Italy shit's on us.
Speaker 3: With, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, and you don't kind of want to
Speaker 2: be that person that goes oh my god initially there
Speaker 2: but yet I am that person. But there are some
Speaker 2: things that Australia does magnificently. For instance, this morning when
Speaker 2: I was in the stupamarket and the lady was packing
Speaker 2: my bags for me, that doesn't happen in Italy. In
Speaker 2: Italy you have to pack. It's like every store is
Speaker 2: fucking Aldie and you are trying it. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not going for that. Little things like that getting
Speaker 2: out rubbish collected. Oh, my goodness, that doesn't happen initially, Really,
Speaker 2: where do you well, because we lived in a medieval city,
Speaker 2: you know, and there's a lot of medieval cities in Italy.
Speaker 2: So we had to go to the rubbish bin, which
Speaker 2: was these central bins in the in the city. But
Speaker 2: because it was Italy and things are a bit scattered,
Speaker 2: the organico is in one place, the plastico is two
Speaker 2: blocks away, So and you've got five different kinds of rubbish.
Speaker 3: I'd rather be dead than have to deal with that.
Speaker 3: That's no good. Chuck me plastic hit it with some
Speaker 3: other Okay.
Speaker 1: So we've got a few things to get through. Number
Speaker 1: one is traffic. Who does it better Australia or Italy?
Speaker 2: Italy because you're allowed to speed?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Wasn't your husband a little bit frightened to try and
Speaker 1: keep up with their speed?
Speaker 3: Why is that?
Speaker 2: Well, because on the freeway, very rare that you saw
Speaker 2: a speeding sign, like a speed limit sign on the freeway,
Speaker 2: So we really didn't know, but we would often get
Speaker 2: overtaken by a Nona going one hundred and sixty kilometers
Speaker 2: an hour in a little feet yeah, and so we
Speaker 2: would ask our friends and then they would say things like, hey,
Speaker 2: well you know the speed a limit it's one twenty
Speaker 2: kilometers an hour. But if it's a two lane a freeway,
Speaker 2: you can go one forty and if it's three lanes
Speaker 2: a plus you can go one one forty plus whatever
Speaker 2: you like. Shit, So how is that an answer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds like it's open to interpretation. Australia would
Speaker 3: slappy with family fines if you just kind of no,
Speaker 3: we're good.
Speaker 2: Do you know what the freedom initialy the freedom to
Speaker 2: ride your bike without a helmet, the freedom to have
Speaker 2: a cigarette with a glass of wine out the front
Speaker 2: of a restaurant, the freedom to speed, just the freedom
Speaker 2: to take your dog with you anywhere into shop, the
Speaker 2: dogs welcome anywhere, Like just those little freedoms mean a
Speaker 2: lot in your life, Like they're very nourishing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never known a time where those things are freedoms.
Speaker 1: Like if I ever had a fucking dart with my
Speaker 1: rose in a restaurant, I would think I'm going to
Speaker 1: get tackled by someone like that.
Speaker 3: I would just never Yeah, all right, what's the next one?
Speaker 3: Who does it better? Radio Italians or Australians one hundred
Speaker 3: percent Australia. Great, Ye'll take it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, your current show accepted out no no, all of
Speaker 2: Italian pop music and their radio sounds like it's nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty four. Really also WSFM, it's just very uh there.
Speaker 2: And when our producer Sash was over there trying to
Speaker 2: find somewhere for me to broadcast back to Australia from,
Speaker 2: she just couldn't get over how antiquated all the radio
Speaker 2: stations were. She went and looked at about seven in
Speaker 2: Bologna and she said they were just it was. It
Speaker 2: was honestly like nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go on, I bet I bet they can smoke
Speaker 1: inside there too. You could do that back in the
Speaker 1: day in radio studios, couldn't you.
Speaker 2: I remember when I lived with my girlfriend Mish, and
Speaker 2: she had a terrible break up and she comforted herself
Speaker 2: by playing What's that game with that gorgeous little that
Speaker 2: video game with the Emmy's gorgeous guy and he has
Speaker 2: to lassue the horse and.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, Yeah, Zelda the Elder Zelda.
Speaker 2: Anyway, my girlfriend played Zelda seriously for six months on repeat,
Speaker 2: and chain smoked inside. And because she was so heartbroken,
Speaker 2: I learned to play Zelda just to keep her company.
Speaker 2: But I did have to say, after about six months,
Speaker 2: do you reckon? Do you reckon that you might enjoy
Speaker 2: your cigarette, Maria, because the whole house, it was a
Speaker 2: two story house. The whole house just reaked of cigarette.
Speaker 1: Have your darry al Fresco miss much nicer out there?
Speaker 3: Has she bounced back?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's totally bounced back.
Speaker 3: A couple more, A couple more.
Speaker 2: With that, you'd say, that's Mick saying I've given such long,
Speaker 2: elaborate and probably tedious answers. What number are we actually
Speaker 2: going to do? Mitch? How many are going to give me?
Speaker 3: Do you know what? We're on a podcast.
Speaker 1: There are actually no rules about how long the answers are,
Speaker 1: how long we chat for. It's really just a question
Speaker 1: of how many you want to do, Kate.
Speaker 2: Mitchd's got some rules.
Speaker 3: Now I'm thinking of.
Speaker 4: You, Kate lane Brook. I know you're a very busy lady.
Speaker 4: You've got succession on Paul's look.
Speaker 2: At me and beat.
Speaker 3: You know it's actually up to you. You tell us
Speaker 3: when you no longer give a fuck?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Number three wi fi, Hey guys, I no longer
Speaker 2: give a fuck?
Speaker 3: Is it just move? Podcast by a couple of mitches.
Speaker 1: Okay, so who does it better? Customer service Australia, Italy.
Speaker 2: We're pretty good Australia. Okay.
Speaker 1: I feel like you mentioned in the book. I might
Speaker 1: be paraphrasing, but I think you said at one point
Speaker 1: you were a little bit overwhelmed because they're quite aggressive.
Speaker 1: They're almost like what you want to shop here?
Speaker 2: They're not necessarily I found that women in their shops
Speaker 2: they were always They've got a strange manner. It's strange
Speaker 2: to me because I was a stranger, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but things like one of my Italian friends was saying,
Speaker 2: the reason they put everything in the shop window in
Speaker 2: Italy or Vologna is so that when you come in
Speaker 2: you know what you're looking for. So it's not like
Speaker 2: I've just come into brows, all right, but whereas I
Speaker 2: would go in not knowing what I wanted, and they
Speaker 2: thought that was really weird.
Speaker 3: All right, more, have you got somewhere to be?
Speaker 4: I'm just conscious that Kate has a half eaten back
Speaker 4: of Sultan vinegars.
Speaker 2: He's really gone off me. No, they're finished. The Sultan
Speaker 2: vinegars are finish.
Speaker 3: Fucking carry on.
Speaker 1: Well, the next one you waiting for the indigestion. Well,
Speaker 1: the next one is possibly the most important. Who does
Speaker 1: it better when it comes to men, Australia or Italy?
Speaker 1: Who has the finer gentleman?
Speaker 2: It's very hard question to answer, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: I obviously have a massive soft spot for Australian men.
Speaker 2: I love a smart, working class guy. I love the
Speaker 2: Australians do that better than anyone, like, you know, just
Speaker 2: a funny trade or whatever. You know, We're just very
Speaker 2: good at that. But Italian men pay women such attention
Speaker 2: that it is and whereas Australian men have been stolen
Speaker 2: from us by pornography, they don't care about real women
Speaker 2: anymore in Australia. Yeah, they don't care about real women.
Speaker 3: But Italian guys do you reckon?
Speaker 2: Italian men pay such attention to women. It is amazing,
Speaker 2: so that my girlfriend who came over couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, are they flirty? Cave, I've l flirtatious even
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 2: What do you even.
Speaker 3: Be there with your husband? You're beloved, Peter, Back up, This.
Speaker 2: Is why I wanted to start, even with your cardaverous
Speaker 2: ninety year old, horrendously out of shape self. Did they
Speaker 2: muster a little Lazarus like enthusiasm?
Speaker 3: Not what I meant were gorgeous and radiant. But Peter
Speaker 3: Allen Lewis was I'm sure by your side.
Speaker 2: Peter alan Lewis, Well, you know what was funny? One
Speaker 2: We used to go to this restaurant all the time
Speaker 2: that was run by the greatest food and run by
Speaker 2: this really I've written about him in the in the book,
Speaker 2: but I haven't written this story about him in the book.
Speaker 2: Very flirty guy who'd get drunk and sing opera and
Speaker 2: at the end of the night he'd come and give
Speaker 2: you a rose and give his speech and take your
Speaker 2: hand and kiss your hand, and very fun, fun sort
Speaker 2: of guy.
Speaker 3: You don't get that shit here at a restaurant.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, not in a hundred year. So anyway,
Speaker 2: especially not me away. One night we were at his
Speaker 2: restaurant and Peter went to the toilet, and the owner
Speaker 2: came over to my table and sat down. He always
Speaker 2: he sits at your table, and he paused wine and
Speaker 2: you know, and he said to me, why don't you
Speaker 2: come back tomorrow for lunch without your husband. I'm like, mate,
Speaker 2: he's literally a two minute piece away. Like what. I
Speaker 2: couldn't believe it. And also his wife came into that
Speaker 2: restaurant all the time. And his wife came up one
Speaker 2: night and introduced herself to me in a She had
Speaker 2: a strange energy about it, not unpleasant, but just to
Speaker 2: be whatever. And then I realized, Oh, it's his wife,
Speaker 2: and she's got the energy of a woman who's constantly
Speaker 2: cheated on by her husband in the restaurant she works at.
Speaker 3: That's not a good reflection of Italian men. That you
Speaker 3: prove me wrong, Kate, what about that?
Speaker 2: I've still got it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Do you know what? Though?
Speaker 1: Speaking of your husband, people sometimes ask us, oh, like,
Speaker 1: would you ever date a listener? And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've heard this story, Mitch, but can you tell us, Kate,
Speaker 1: how you met your husband?
Speaker 2: So my husband was I met on a radio trip.
Speaker 2: The station sponsor did this thing that they hadn't done
Speaker 2: for a few years, and they would send a broadcaster
Speaker 2: over with a bunch of listeners. And I went on
Speaker 2: the trip with fifteen listeners and Peter was one of
Speaker 2: those listeners.
Speaker 3: There you go, and you did you shack up on
Speaker 3: that trip?
Speaker 2: No, Mitch. He had a girlfriend back in Australia and
Speaker 2: I had a boyfriend.
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Okay, that look in her face? I can't read it.
Speaker 3: It's just one eye.
Speaker 2: I can't read it. It's like my book, can't read it.
Speaker 2: You need the audio book anyway. And so then we
Speaker 2: came back and we sort of tap danced around each
Speaker 2: other for a couple of years, and then we got together.
Speaker 3: There you go, where are you going?
Speaker 7: Hang?
Speaker 2: Oh no, he's Lewis Lewis. Come over and say hello,
Speaker 2: that's Mitch, and that's Mitch. I told them apart by
Speaker 2: calling this Mitch Betty right, Yeah, this is Lewis Lewis.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the book. You can ask Lewis something.
Speaker 3: Hey, Lewis, I have a question for you.
Speaker 4: Did you ever find out the backstory behind the Was
Speaker 4: it a fred Okada or a camel and kohala in
Speaker 4: the letterbox?
Speaker 3: What if I missed here?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Do you want to tell the story quickly?
Speaker 7: Lewis Lewis, We found a we found a letter in
Speaker 7: our letter box.
Speaker 2: And it was during lockdown, wasn't it.
Speaker 7: Yeah? It was during Yeah, we found a letter box,
Speaker 7: a letter in our letter boxes. You know that's where
Speaker 7: the letters are. But it was a like we fred
Speaker 7: of frog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sticky tape to a hand written a handle letter.
Speaker 7: It looked like it was done by a twelve year
Speaker 7: old or a ten year old or something. And we
Speaker 7: weren't sure, you know, it was just a random from
Speaker 7: so you weren't sure what it was, so we didn't
Speaker 7: eat it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that was a strang and it had
Speaker 2: a motivational message on it, like, oh, b you everybody
Speaker 2: else is taken.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was my dad, maybe Jerry.
Speaker 2: What did you come in for?
Speaker 7: Lewis?
Speaker 2: Oh, Lewis is just yeah, we'll go for a drive,
Speaker 2: all right, give me, give me how long with these boys?
Speaker 3: We'll let you go. Are you teaching him to drive? Kate?
Speaker 3: Is he on the ls?
Speaker 2: Yes, he's just We just got them last week and
Speaker 2: I took him for his first ever drive in the car,
Speaker 2: which I realized I didn't really know what to tell
Speaker 2: him to do. It's actually Hardtkes, okay, just start the
Speaker 2: car and start driving.
Speaker 4: I thought you had to keep took your foot off
Speaker 4: the accelerator the car would stop instantly.
Speaker 3: That was my first thought when I started driving. I
Speaker 3: thought it was a stop start.
Speaker 2: You would think that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3: You would anyway.
Speaker 2: So we go to this big car park outside this
Speaker 2: like you know, sports center here. Ah yeah, and then
Speaker 2: we just drive drive around. But then we drove on
Speaker 2: the road back home the other day. And once you've
Speaker 2: driven on the proper road with other traffy, what else
Speaker 2: is there to learn?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually that's actually pretty scary because I grew
Speaker 1: up in the country, so like it was very quiet
Speaker 1: streets to learn on.
Speaker 3: But once I came to Sydney, Oh different story.
Speaker 2: Oh totally. But hang on, in the country, riddle me this.
Speaker 2: Surely you would have driven people's paddock bashes and whatever.
Speaker 2: You would have been more familiar with a car than
Speaker 2: city kids who have never had any quiet street to
Speaker 2: practice on.
Speaker 3: I'd been driving manuals since I was eight.
Speaker 7: What.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is what I said to Lewis, Like, it's
Speaker 2: quite ridiculous. And I was saying this to Petty the
Speaker 2: other night. How ridiculous that our children get to eighteen
Speaker 2: and they've never sat behind the wheel of a car. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 2: not had that experience of bouncing around in a padic.
Speaker 3: Or smoking in with their dog on their lap. Yes,
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you've got to get some country Friendsdale and
Speaker 1: take him out to the farm.
Speaker 3: You'll be fine. Get the get the young one started early.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'd love some country friends. Do you think
Speaker 2: they'd love me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give you. I'll give you Anan and Jane's address.
Speaker 3: I'll meet you there, all right, Ka, let's let Kate go.
Speaker 2: Mitch. Since I first came on your highly regarded show,
Speaker 2: you have been desperate to get rid of me. Who
Speaker 2: you got waiting in the wings? Kylie?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Do you know what? I think?
Speaker 1: It's his inner radio guy. He's like, you know, tight
Speaker 1: five a quick break. I keep reminding him it's a podcast.
Speaker 1: We could do this for days if we so choose.
Speaker 3: I'm also aware of my guest.
Speaker 2: I mean, you guess he's like being bundled out the door,
Speaker 2: and you guess he's.
Speaker 4: Going, but I haven't had Might just sert, have your
Speaker 4: gruppa and get out.
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Do you know what you've clearly got? You know, some
Speaker 1: driving lessons to do. I'll ask you one last question.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I forgot to ask you this last time,
Speaker 1: because we have one question we ask every single guest
Speaker 1: that we have on and that is we get them
Speaker 1: to contribute to our things better than drugs and dick.
Speaker 4: It's a growing list.
Speaker 1: So it's essentially, you know, sweet pleasures, like a little
Speaker 1: small thing in life that you love. Like what did
Speaker 1: Jess male boys say? She said she likes being barefoot
Speaker 1: in a garden?
Speaker 2: Of course it is, yeah, And the thing is, did
Speaker 2: you say the thing is better than drugs and deeps?
Speaker 1: I did because I think we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: younger female listeners who might be a bit partying boy
Speaker 1: obsessed right now. So it's just our way of saying, guys,
Speaker 1: there's more life, yes, listening.
Speaker 3: You know it's true.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of gays, so this applied to them.
Speaker 1: We're just saying, listen, there's more to life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have so many little pleasures. The ocean. You're
Speaker 2: just swimming in the ocean.
Speaker 3: That's literally the biggest pleasure.
Speaker 2: But okay, oh, is that a big pleasure? Is it
Speaker 2: too big?
Speaker 3: It's quite a vast pleasure.
Speaker 1: But the sea is large, all right. Don't if you
Speaker 1: cross that you didn't live over.
Speaker 3: Them once you did cross it to get to Italy?
Speaker 2: All right, hang on, what about this? I love nothing
Speaker 2: more than eating crispy bacon streaky with a mini can
Speaker 2: of coke in bed.
Speaker 1: Grape added crispy yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you baking bacon? Did you put it in
Speaker 3: the oven on a baking dish? No, I din't.
Speaker 2: You can get sucked cry the way the creator intended.
Speaker 2: I and I and you know what else I do.
Speaker 2: And this is going the extra mile. So I also
Speaker 2: removed the rind from the bacon. H and then we
Speaker 2: in the Lewis Langbrok house we cook that separately and
Speaker 2: it goes all crispy and stunning and it's a little
Speaker 2: chef's tree.
Speaker 3: Oh I've never even thought of that.
Speaker 2: That sounds stunning barbery. So cook their bacon with the
Speaker 2: rind on, no get away from me.
Speaker 4: And if you eat, if you eat that bacon and
Speaker 4: the coke in the kitchen, get fuck not on the list.
Speaker 3: You must be in your bed, must be.
Speaker 2: In bed, because one of my little pleasures better than
Speaker 2: D and D is eating in bed. I really love
Speaker 2: to gobble, gobble, gobble in the sat.
Speaker 3: Why was the camera heading closer to your face with everyone? Yeah? OK,
Speaker 3: what are you watching on the screen?
Speaker 2: I started binging when I was sick a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago. I'm just like, I've got her and all
Speaker 2: the time in the world to watch something. So I
Speaker 2: started watching this show called Insecure, and so I started
Speaker 2: watching that. I'm in love with the league girl. She's
Speaker 2: just so incredible. The rest of the show is just
Speaker 2: a bit strange, so strange that I persisted through five
Speaker 2: and a half gee, and now I've actually caught up
Speaker 2: in the bin and then now I'm just smashing down
Speaker 2: a new episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a bit like that with Bloody s for you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, the whole show is strange. But you know
Speaker 1: that Detective Olivia Benson, she keeps me there.
Speaker 3: You watch the killing that Maria, Yeah, are.
Speaker 2: You a crime person?
Speaker 1: Not Normally, I don't like to go to bed, you know,
Speaker 1: to the sound of rape and sodomy, and that's.
Speaker 2: What everyone always does. And she was murdered and they
Speaker 2: slid her from a belly or her throat. Good night.
Speaker 3: I've actually become numb to that shit.
Speaker 1: Just something happens on the news, I'm like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: I need to take a moment to remember that that's
Speaker 1: fucking real.
Speaker 2: I'm just used to hearing that stuff, so you know,
Speaker 2: I've always got a theory. Yeah, my theories. You know,
Speaker 2: everyone's like the wild's so violent, be kind, it's gangstad y. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they're the same people that are absolutely gorging themselves
Speaker 2: on true crime. And you know, there's this Hawaiian religion
Speaker 2: or philosophy called Hoonah. Yeah, and one of the tenets
Speaker 2: of Houna is energy goes where attention flows. And so
Speaker 2: if you're just gorging on violence and women being raped
Speaker 2: and murdered and buried under their things and the teacher's
Speaker 2: pet la la, what do where do you think that
Speaker 2: shit is going in your psyche?
Speaker 1: So if we all listen to podcasts about like winning
Speaker 1: the lotto and shit, we're going.
Speaker 2: Yes, beautiful things and hummingbird. But you know what I mean, like,
Speaker 2: if your soul sick, start with what you're feeding your soul.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. I love that, start with what
Speaker 3: you're feeding your soul.
Speaker 2: Special Victims Unit.
Speaker 3: All right, Kate, let's leave Kate on that.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Bye, I'm sick of you trying to get rid of me.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gone, Bye. So you, Kate, not right?
Speaker 2: But your guest is more fond of you than you
Speaker 2: are of your guest.
Speaker 3: Record I do this out of fondness because I adore you.
Speaker 2: No, I don't accept it. Mitch, he's got all big headed.
Speaker 3: Do you want to stay? You can stay? Okay, you
Speaker 3: can host the show. She's gone, see Kate, Love you,
Speaker 3: Love you?
Speaker 2: Is it just Me?
Speaker 3: A podcast by a couple of meches.
Speaker 1: Make sure you've hit follow on your podcast app.