Speaker 1: Laura, come on there, oh Hao Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Hi girls, I'm glad you finished that mouthful of snacks
Speaker 2: just before he said hello, Mitch, you really went down
Speaker 2: to the wire. He waits for the last thirty seconds,
Speaker 2: then puts like a burgery in his mouth.
Speaker 3: All right, it was one armand and I thought I
Speaker 3: could handle it, but I don't have enough saliva.
Speaker 1: Choked. Imagine if died live on it.
Speaker 2: You really looked like you were trying to like dry,
Speaker 2: like hock it back just at the very last minute.
Speaker 4: I can resuscitate.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you.
Speaker 3: Were going to choke, get that almond out of my mouth.
Speaker 3: Laura knows had to stop choking. You know it's done it.
Speaker 2: On the show, only if you stuck the almond up
Speaker 2: your nose and you're told I could.
Speaker 1: Blow it right, not in my nose.
Speaker 3: I was scrolling Twitter, and I was distracted because I
Speaker 3: completely forget that RuPaul's drag Race down Under the new
Speaker 3: season which has Michelle Visage's host come out this Friday.
Speaker 2: You're obsessed with this show?
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it, and you too should be as well.
Speaker 3: Like drag races for not just for the gays, it's
Speaker 3: for everyone.
Speaker 4: I do love it, But I'm not as obsessed as
Speaker 4: you are.
Speaker 1: I've got a drag name, like a queen name if
Speaker 1: I ever were to do drag. What is it?
Speaker 3: It's Emily Bellish, but her friends call her Embellish.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. So my brother is a drag
Speaker 2: queen like, he does drag himself, and he does it
Speaker 2: overseas in Boston, and his name is Vagina Jesus, Vagina veggiemite.
Speaker 2: It's a body part. Are we no.
Speaker 1: Disrespect to you? I think it's meant to be a pun.
Speaker 3: Again, Bellish is in Bellish, but it's China Veggie.
Speaker 4: How do you come up with a drag name? How
Speaker 4: would I come up with?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: It can be a funny pun or it can also
Speaker 3: just be the kind of way people do it is
Speaker 3: your first pet's name is your first name, and then
Speaker 3: your last name is the street that you grew up on.
Speaker 2: Street Snowy Princess.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is brilliant, that's brilliant.
Speaker 4: That was good, Gizmo Dixon, that.
Speaker 1: Works perfectly, that's perfect.
Speaker 2: That's so good?
Speaker 3: All right. The brand Newstand original series Rports Drag Race
Speaker 3: down Under Premiere is this Friday only on Stand I
Speaker 3: will be watching. I'm very excited now speaking of the gays,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, they are any bit of a tizzy.
Speaker 3: And I have a lot to say about this. And
Speaker 3: I don't know if you girls have heard, but Sean
Speaker 3: Mendes has Yeah, he's addressed his sexuality for the first time.
Speaker 1: Did he No? He did?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Lorges, Oh yeah, did he know?
Speaker 2: Because I heard the quote and I was a bit like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's kind of don't spoil it, lay come and.
Speaker 3: Run up lots of allegations and a lot of talk
Speaker 3: about his sexuality.
Speaker 1: Next we'll tell you what he said on the pick up.
Speaker 2: What's the girls at the moment?
Speaker 3: With the election going on, there's so much news in
Speaker 3: the air, and you go, where do I get my
Speaker 3: news from?
Speaker 1: What publication do we go to?
Speaker 2: Of course they come here, Yes, listen to us.
Speaker 3: Why would you not come to the pick up to
Speaker 3: unpack all the great That's what we do every Wednesday.
Speaker 6: You can't.
Speaker 3: I bring Britain Laura the biggest news stories of the
Speaker 3: middle of the week, and then they decide whether we
Speaker 3: pick them up, we keep the conversation going, or we
Speaker 3: put it down.
Speaker 1: We never speak on the topic again, are we.
Speaker 2: Ready, girls, we aren't ready a right pick up?
Speaker 1: Put down.
Speaker 3: Anthony Albanesi using his Prime ministerial power to get free
Speaker 3: update upgrades on Quantus flights.
Speaker 2: Kick it up, Kick it Up. I was having this
Speaker 2: conversation with my mother in law surprisingly yesterday because like
Speaker 2: everyone was up in arms that Albo recently bought himself
Speaker 2: an expensive property. It was like a four million dollar
Speaker 2: property that was beach front. You did, okay, And I
Speaker 2: understand that in the cost of living that seems crazy.
Speaker 2: But he also is the man that runs this country.
Speaker 2: And if it's not like a well paying job, who's
Speaker 2: gonna want to do it? Like, no one's gonna do
Speaker 2: that for free, So I do kind of expect that
Speaker 2: like it comes with its per Well.
Speaker 1: Here we go. The details had come out.
Speaker 3: He asked Alan Joyce, the then CEO of Quantas, for
Speaker 3: twenty two upgrades on economy tickets.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Some were personal holidays to Hawaii, Europe in La. These
Speaker 3: were during his time as Transport Minister, not during his
Speaker 3: time as Prime minister.
Speaker 7: You have to.
Speaker 4: Transport to La gotta get h so it checks out.
Speaker 2: I mean, if anyone's gonna have a perk when it
Speaker 2: comes to transport. It probably should be transport minister.
Speaker 5: Can I just say, I don't know many people in
Speaker 5: this world that if they have an opportunity to upgrade
Speaker 5: themselves in some way, that they would say no.
Speaker 3: But you know, we get we get free donuts every
Speaker 3: now and again, Like if you're a baker, you get
Speaker 3: to take on croissants at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: There are perks in your job. Give them a break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's far worse things he could be doing,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: It's all allegedly, of course as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't see us, Ebo.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's far too busy to suit the pickup.
Speaker 2: In his beautiful beach front mansion.
Speaker 3: Okay, what about this pick up? Put down ladies and gentlemen?
Speaker 3: Sewan Mendez, finally addressing his sexuality.
Speaker 4: What I'm gonna put it down.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pick it up. And I don't know
Speaker 2: whether you're angry about it or happy, Mitch, because you've
Speaker 2: kind of what I don't know, like, why is everyone
Speaker 2: up in arms about this?
Speaker 1: No one, No one's up in arms.
Speaker 5: I'm only putting it down because I don't think we
Speaker 5: should have to be in a society where someone has
Speaker 5: to come out and address their sexuality.
Speaker 3: No, I agree, but I think we need to talk
Speaker 3: about it as someone who is gay and who struggle
Speaker 3: with their sexuality. I want to play you what Sean
Speaker 3: said at his concept overnight. This is pretty breaking news.
Speaker 3: He has faced the poor thing. Allegations are being gay,
Speaker 3: not even allegations. For God's sake, people have outed him
Speaker 3: four years because he's slightly more feminine, he's a musician,
Speaker 3: he looks after himself.
Speaker 1: This is what he's had to say after all these years.
Speaker 8: The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man,
Speaker 8: I'm just I'm just figuring it out like everyone and
Speaker 8: I don't really know sometimes and I know other teams,
Speaker 8: and it feels really scary because we live in a
Speaker 8: society that has a lot to see about that. And
Speaker 8: I'm trying to be really brief and just allow myself
Speaker 8: to be a human and feel things. And yeah, I
Speaker 8: just that's all I really want to say about that
Speaker 8: for now.
Speaker 2: But Mitch, how do you feel listening to that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: It makes me so proud of him because I know
Speaker 3: how hard it is to come out. For some people,
Speaker 3: it's easy, and I know there's young kids listening to
Speaker 3: this old parents that have gay kids that go, it
Speaker 3: was easy for my kids. He's twenty five, twenty six,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm twenty nine, different time, and I don't
Speaker 3: think it matters where you were raised, how old you are.
Speaker 3: Your own sexuality is your own journey. And I really
Speaker 3: struggle before I came out, everyone thinking I was gay
Speaker 3: already assuming putting a label on me, And that is
Speaker 3: why it delayed me for so long, because I hadn't
Speaker 3: come to the point myself, but everyone else wanted to
Speaker 3: tell me first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think I could not not in a
Speaker 5: bad way. I could not care less if Yeah, you're
Speaker 5: figuring it out. He's an incredible artist, and that's where
Speaker 5: we should stop it totally.
Speaker 3: And you know what we owe to him now is
Speaker 3: to just shut up about privacy and let him date
Speaker 3: who he wants to tell.
Speaker 4: I love that you said that, but you also brought
Speaker 4: it to discuss it.
Speaker 1: No, but I brought it to discuss it because I
Speaker 1: think it's important to talk about.
Speaker 4: And now I want to shut up and.
Speaker 3: Now shut up about sham Menders. Yeah, we're gonna play
Speaker 3: Shamande's song ironically next.
Speaker 1: I believe that's big up put down. We happy with
Speaker 1: the stories.
Speaker 2: Girls, I'm happy with the stories. Mitche well done today,
Speaker 2: thank you so great to unpack them all. Things all
Speaker 2: were coming up. I wanted to talk about something that
Speaker 2: you would think. I mean, it was heartfelt, It really
Speaker 2: was heartfelt, but also it didn't exactly go to plan.
Speaker 2: And that is on the weekend we scattered my grandparents' ashes.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you some things went down that probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't have the ashes. No, guys, it's just this. You
Speaker 2: have an idea about how something's going to go in
Speaker 2: your head, and it certainly doesn't always go to plan.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for that one. So I kind of
Speaker 2: toyed with the idea as to whether I would tell
Speaker 2: you guys this story or not, because every so often
Speaker 2: I do have these moments in life where I'm like,
Speaker 2: should I keep this one private? But it also is
Speaker 2: a story that didn't pan out exactly as I expected
Speaker 2: it to. So on the weekend just passed, we scattered
Speaker 2: my grandparents' ashes. Right, and it's a thing that you
Speaker 2: think is going to be this really reverend beautiful sentimental
Speaker 2: moment to memorize their you know, remember their life. And
Speaker 2: so my grandparents per perspective that my Nana and Papa
Speaker 2: I lived with them growing up, like they were real
Speaker 2: parental figures for me and my nana. Papa always said,
Speaker 2: when I die, just cremate me and throw me off
Speaker 2: Mount Kira, which where they're from is like the big
Speaker 2: mountain that kind of overlooks the.
Speaker 5: Town, so they knew exactly where they want to spend.
Speaker 5: My man would say it all the time.
Speaker 2: Christmas Lunch, throw me off Mount Kira, Easter, throw me
Speaker 2: off Mount Kira. So here it is, the weekend comes
Speaker 2: and it's the time that we're going to throw them
Speaker 2: off Mount Kira. So we get there and my mom arrives,
Speaker 2: and I hadn't really thought about how this was going
Speaker 2: to go down, right. I didn't think, like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: what's the process. So I've not been to the lookout
Speaker 2: in a really long time. And back in the day
Speaker 2: he used to just be able to walk up right
Speaker 2: to the edge, and we walk up to what is
Speaker 2: now a massive fence to stop people from going too
Speaker 2: close to the edge, so it's just rock fence more rock.
Speaker 2: All of these families are there because they're all at
Speaker 2: the lookout, enjoying, taking selfies and stuff, and my family's
Speaker 2: there with some roses and the kids, and my mom
Speaker 2: rocks up with a Wooliess bag and she pulls out
Speaker 2: mag Nana and Papa were in the Wool's bag else
Speaker 2: you want to be. Nana was in a giant ziplock
Speaker 2: plastic bag bag, massive, big glad bag. This is how
Speaker 2: we were giving it from the funeral. That was just
Speaker 2: Mom hadn't transferred Nana, so that was Nana. And then
Speaker 2: in another which was more like a plastic burn that
Speaker 2: was very challenging to open, let me tell you was Papa.
Speaker 2: So we mixed them together.
Speaker 3: So Britt made a good question, how did you know
Speaker 3: Papa was Papa and Nana was Nana?
Speaker 2: Because they didn't They dined at different times, so Papa
Speaker 2: had been waiting for Nana on the on the mantel
Speaker 2: piece had gone.
Speaker 1: On, so he gets an urn and then.
Speaker 2: We knew Nana wouldn't wait for long, so they were
Speaker 2: going to do it together.
Speaker 1: I didn't deserve it.
Speaker 2: It's just guys have some respect. So my mom says, Okay,
Speaker 2: the way that you've got to do it is you've
Speaker 2: got to cut a corner in the plastic grouplock bag
Speaker 2: and then you can scatter it so it doesn't all
Speaker 2: come out at once, like how you pipe. Yeah, So Alicia,
Speaker 2: my sister, goes first, and she tips it out and
Speaker 2: then she hands it to me and I have my
Speaker 2: turn of scattering the ashes around. But as I started scattering,
Speaker 2: the top of the ziploc bag came undone, and so
Speaker 2: it was spilling out from both sides, and my Mom's
Speaker 2: in the corner going.
Speaker 3: Don't wasted.
Speaker 2: Everybody needs the ten and I freaked out because I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I'm gonna be the one
Speaker 2: that scatters everything, and everybody needs to have a goal
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 3: You're getting both legs, arms, shoulders, you get all of them.
Speaker 2: So I went to stop and like I kind of
Speaker 2: like the motion of me trying to stop it from
Speaker 2: scattering meant that it stopped scattering. But the bag whipped
Speaker 2: up and a whole cup of ash just came flying
Speaker 2: out and hit me straight in the face. You ate, Grandpa,
Speaker 2: and then went down my.
Speaker 1: Top, and Grandma passed down the top.
Speaker 2: And went straight down my pants. And then everyone just
Speaker 2: stood there laughing at me whilst I was covered from
Speaker 2: him to toe.
Speaker 1: Grandma in your mouth and grand Dad and.
Speaker 2: Your nickers, Mitch, not funny everywhere too far.
Speaker 4: I don't think you meant it like that.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: Grandpa was down your pants instead everywhere.
Speaker 2: They both work together, seventy three years and everything.
Speaker 5: That's quite selfish of you to decide to take some
Speaker 5: of your grandparents home and not scatter them at Mount Kira,
Speaker 5: which is what they asked.
Speaker 2: Well, it just made me realize that I think, you know,
Speaker 2: you build something up in your mind that's going to
Speaker 2: be something, and then it can sometimes turn out to
Speaker 2: be completely the opposite. And I think that we need
Speaker 2: to rework the scattering. No, you get not the bags,
Speaker 2: you get it in the urn that you get it in.
Speaker 2: None of this is conducive for actually scattering you ate
Speaker 2: your grandparents.
Speaker 4: We're not going to normalize eating your grandparents.
Speaker 2: No, we need to. I think funeral parlors out there
Speaker 2: need to consider how they provide the ashes because it
Speaker 2: is not good for scattering. And I reckon other people
Speaker 2: have had the same.
Speaker 4: Experience out Here's something I never thought I was gonna say.
Speaker 4: I never thought a story that tell us your ash story.
Speaker 4: Everyone must have an Ash's story.
Speaker 2: Maybe not as bad as law as maybe worse. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I feel like you're not alone. I
Speaker 2: also do want to prefit this like sorry, sorry, Papa.
Speaker 2: They would have laughed. My nan and Papa had a
Speaker 2: great sense of humor, and I do think it was
Speaker 2: my Papa just out there like woo. Laura will laugh
Speaker 2: at this. She can take it.
Speaker 3: We say this with love, and you know, I'm sure
Speaker 3: the calls will come with love, I hope.
Speaker 1: So we'll take him next.
Speaker 3: But Laura, you've got some grandpa, and yes, she's got
Speaker 3: somesh in your mister, get your TSSU in the ad break.
Speaker 2: Guys, we're talking about something that might be a little
Speaker 2: on the nose, and that is we're talking about scattering ashes.
Speaker 2: I think we don't talk about it enough. Just how
Speaker 2: scattering of ashes could really go wrong. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of variables there, Like there's winds back in your face.
Speaker 4: Tell everyone what you did? You accidentally ate your grandpa.
Speaker 2: I accidentally flicked Papa into my face and down my
Speaker 2: top and all over me. I was covered from head
Speaker 2: to toe in Nana and Papa.
Speaker 3: Well, you also mix them together. It was a hybrid
Speaker 3: of Nan and Pa, wasn't it? Because because it's a
Speaker 3: little bit about me. It was a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cal My Colombe.
Speaker 2: The reason why we're talking about this is because I
Speaker 2: am certain I can't be the only person this has
Speaker 2: happened to. I think that there's a problem here, and
Speaker 2: I reckon a lot of people who have ever gone
Speaker 2: to a nice scattering of the ashes realized it didn't
Speaker 2: go exactly as planned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what went wrong when you scattered the ashes? Kate?
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi guys, hikay.
Speaker 9: You're not alone. We decided to take my grandfather down
Speaker 9: on a boat down in Baitman's Bay, down south of Sydney,
Speaker 9: where he wanted to be scattered, got the family, it
Speaker 9: was all a really nice day. Eventually got the box
Speaker 9: oven and also lovely words. That was really nice, and
Speaker 9: kill my dad and two of my uncles down the
Speaker 9: other end of the boat started coughing and choking, and
Speaker 9: the wind had picked up, and lo and behold they
Speaker 9: were crunching on.
Speaker 4: You, ate grandpa too.
Speaker 2: This is a theme will live on inside you.
Speaker 1: Honey, Honey, I shrunk the kids.
Speaker 2: Also, no one talks about how hard it is to
Speaker 2: open that damn box so hard? Thank you? Is it
Speaker 2: not hard to swallow?
Speaker 4: The ashes like dry, not with you wash it down
Speaker 4: with right.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's not miss quick. It doesn't turn to
Speaker 1: milk Milo.
Speaker 4: It's like you know the milo cough, the dry miloc
Speaker 4: you know when.
Speaker 3: You have a cappuccino and the bruister was too much
Speaker 3: coffee on top and inhale. First except except it's Grandpa, okay, next, all,
Speaker 3: all right, Amanda, what happened with the ashes?
Speaker 6: Hi? Guys? This one was on the weekend. We were
Speaker 6: spreading my dad's ashes fuck Caloundra and it was thank you.
Speaker 6: It was a beautiful day. And just before we're getting
Speaker 6: ready to, you know, do this thing for my dad,
Speaker 6: my auntie says, well, I hope what doesn't happen to
Speaker 6: Grandma happens again. And I said, well, well what happened
Speaker 6: to Grandma? And she said, well, you know it's the
Speaker 6: same still, the same place. It's beautiful, but the swamps
Speaker 6: And I said, what about the swamps? And she said, well,
Speaker 6: the three three black swamps just came on over and
Speaker 6: started gobbling her up, just started eating Grandma and everyone
Speaker 6: and everyone back on the shore was trying to either
Speaker 6: laugh or cry. And then I was I thought this
Speaker 6: was hysterically funny, but also was semi horror hied and
Speaker 6: then I told my husband, quick, go look this one.
Speaker 6: Get rid of them.
Speaker 2: So I thought it was bird food. They thought it
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 5: I'm shocked at how many people are eating their family's ashes.
Speaker 1: Erin what happened to your ashes?
Speaker 7: Aron? So my grandfather died a few years ago and
Speaker 7: he was cremated and with a double amputee, so not
Speaker 7: much of him was in the ashes container. However, Grandma
Speaker 7: went to have a look at him one day and
Speaker 7: managed to drop him on the carpet and she vacuumed
Speaker 7: him up, so there wasn't much of him there to
Speaker 7: begin with, and then came vacum half of him up.
Speaker 5: It's actually smart because as soon as it goes up,
Speaker 5: you can just detach the little cylinder and then you've
Speaker 5: got to makeshift. Earn he's already in the earth like
Speaker 5: a die.
Speaker 7: Into the bed.
Speaker 6: I'm mad.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's I want to do?
Speaker 5: You know what my parents want, because I think it's
Speaker 5: really important to talk about. Yes, my parents want to
Speaker 5: be cremated and then made into jewelry that I wear.
Speaker 1: Really like a choker or an anklet, or we'll get.
Speaker 5: Them made into rings, necklace and so that like I
Speaker 5: think it's actually really beautiful.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 5: It doesn't look like ash. She gets made into the
Speaker 5: jewelry in the stone, but you know that like your
Speaker 5: dad's on your finger, yeah, it's your.
Speaker 2: Mom's around your neck. We get requests for it all
Speaker 2: the time, so like if anyone doesn't know, like, I'm
Speaker 2: a jewery designer by trade, and people request all the
Speaker 2: time to have the ashes turned into like a resin
Speaker 2: stone that then gets set. But also that's probably a
Speaker 2: nicer way to remember them.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, obviously, you know we touched on some serious
Speaker 3: topics condolences, oil calls and to your your papa and
Speaker 3: your grammar.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's serious, it is.
Speaker 2: But also I think that they're all around us and
Speaker 2: they're laughing along too.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, Well up next, see you tomorrow.