Speaker 1: So this past weekend I took my new fiance Ben
Speaker 1: to Port mccruary.
Speaker 2: Do you want to?
Speaker 3: Do you want me to?
Speaker 1: I cant?
Speaker 2: Does it still it feel weird when you say it
Speaker 2: like it? Does it feel like it's rolling off the
Speaker 2: tongue yet? Or are you just gonna let my fiance?
Speaker 3: No, it's not rolling. I'm always like fiance.
Speaker 1: Like a loser anyway. I can't even say normally my fiance.
Speaker 3: As you should.
Speaker 1: I got engaged if you haven't heard, I got engaged,
Speaker 1: just announced it last week, so it's all very fresh.
Speaker 1: But I took Ben up to Port McQuary to see
Speaker 1: my family because that's where all my family live, like
Speaker 1: my brothers, my nieces and nephews, my Grandmam Mount, he's
Speaker 1: my cousin's parents, everyone. Now, my partner, Ben is from Switzerland,
Speaker 1: so he's only ever been to Australia two or three times.
Speaker 3: It's only ever with me.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know much about Australia other than he's gonna
Speaker 1: marry in Australian. So I take him up and we're
Speaker 1: all having a great time, and I don't think much
Speaker 1: of it, and I sort of just make a joke,
Speaker 1: a throwaway comment about how it's a tradition in Australia
Speaker 1: to when you get married the man to go and
Speaker 1: catch fish for the in laws how to win them over. Okay,
Speaker 1: so when you say it was just a throwaway commet,
Speaker 1: how does one's brain even get to the place. So
Speaker 1: you're like, I just had the throwaway commet where I
Speaker 1: created an entire Australian tradition that doesn't exist just throw away.
Speaker 3: It's how my.
Speaker 1: Brain works, and it's how my family is. We always
Speaker 1: like play tricks, but it wasn't a set up as
Speaker 1: a trick. No one in my family knew about it, right.
Speaker 1: I just said, oh, yeah, Ben.
Speaker 2: You've got to go because my dad loves you, gotta
Speaker 2: go catch some fish.
Speaker 3: It's like, Ben, don't you know you've gotta go fishing
Speaker 3: while you're here.
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you mean? And I just made
Speaker 1: up a story off the top of my head. I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, well it's part of and my parents
Speaker 1: all looked at me and everyone just.
Speaker 2: Rolled with it, because lying is a really good foundation
Speaker 2: for a new relationship.
Speaker 3: Like he's a great way to forge into married life.
Speaker 3: We love it.
Speaker 1: When my brother in law Jay, he married my sister
Speaker 1: he's from Scotland.
Speaker 3: When he came over, we played this whole prank on
Speaker 3: him where we.
Speaker 1: Gave him a whistle and he had We said that
Speaker 1: drop bears exist and you have to carry a whistle
Speaker 1: and if a drop bed drops on you, you have
Speaker 1: to blow a whistle in his face and run.
Speaker 3: He carried that whistle on him from months. He truly
Speaker 3: believed it'd be real.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with your family?
Speaker 3: It was very funny and hell. So I said that
Speaker 3: to Ben and we all.
Speaker 1: Rolled with it, and I said, what the tradition is?
Speaker 1: You know it's from the when you know it's from
Speaker 1: the indigenous dream time.
Speaker 3: That's what I said. That's so culturally inappropriate. I know,
Speaker 3: I know. But because he had, he said where did
Speaker 3: it come from?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, it's been making I said yeah.
Speaker 1: I said, it's been here from when Australia started. Like
Speaker 1: it's it's an og dream time kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: I said, you've got it. If you don't catch fish,
Speaker 1: it's indicative that your relationship is not going to go
Speaker 1: very well, because it means it's not going to go swimmingly.
Speaker 3: One might say, how are you with creative writing? In
Speaker 3: high school? Would have been some great stories.
Speaker 1: Brilliant so anyway, but I didn't actually think he was
Speaker 1: going to take it that serious. I thought he'd have
Speaker 1: a laugh about it. So the next morning at five
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. Now Ben is a football player,
Speaker 1: he loves his fashion. He has never fished in his
Speaker 1: entire life.
Speaker 3: It's just mountains, yes, and go and go cows. So
Speaker 3: five thirty in the morning he woke up.
Speaker 1: He's never got up there early in his life with
Speaker 1: my dad, and then my dad stuck to this whole lie.
Speaker 3: It was this whole fabrication.
Speaker 1: He went out rock fishing for the very first time
Speaker 1: to try and catch fish so that our marriage would
Speaker 1: go well. He caught seven fish. He literally you could
Speaker 1: not dream of this. He threw his line into the
Speaker 1: water first time ever. It was in the water for
Speaker 1: five seconds. Huge fish. Well he kind of showed you that,
Speaker 1: didn't he. He was like, I'm good at everything. He
Speaker 1: came back and bless his soul, he came back and
Speaker 1: he goes, Babe, look how good our marriage is going
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 3: And seven fish? And I was like, how do I
Speaker 3: tell you?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: You're lying? So I'm not. He's going to believe for
Speaker 3: the rest of his life.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, if that wasn't rooted in a lie, i'd
Speaker 1: say that he's absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 2: But now it's like a terrible tradition that you have
Speaker 2: to take to the grave.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, now he's going to tell everyone, but that's
Speaker 3: what he is. Do I tell him or not?
Speaker 2: I also enjoy that fish dinner and just get on
Speaker 2: with it totally.
Speaker 3: I think that's so harmless. It's beautiful because no one's heard.
Speaker 3: It's a little prank, silly.
Speaker 1: Also, it's not the worst prank because like now he
Speaker 1: knows how to fish and be I know that he
Speaker 1: can provide for me if all else fails, he can
Speaker 1: go and catch a fish.
Speaker 3: I did in a favor.
Speaker 2: I wonder if you're ever going to be in a
Speaker 2: situation in life where you have to go out and
Speaker 2: catch a fish to provide for you.
Speaker 3: I think you guys are fine. You never know, it's
Speaker 3: not going to happen. I've seen the ring you guys.
Speaker 2: You your ring first, and then you won't need to
Speaker 2: forage for a fish, all right.
Speaker 1: You