Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Speaker 1: Sophie Torba and coming up on today's show, Laura Byrne
Speaker 1: and Maddie Jay's big announcement. Fans set to pay over
Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars for Tammy Hambro's Greek retreat, how She
Speaker 1: Binds surgery update, and our highs and lows of the week.
Speaker 1: But first we need to unpack the mystery of the
Speaker 1: mikinof suitcase name. You've got me intrigued. What has gone on?
Speaker 1: So UK influencer Anastasia kings North shouted around ten of
Speaker 1: her best friends a week in a stunning villa in Mikinos,
Speaker 1: and she vlogged the whole experience and they spent a
Speaker 1: number of nights drinking on the town. Now, if you
Speaker 1: fast forward to the second to last day of their trip,
Speaker 1: Anna opened her suitcase to discover that someone had been
Speaker 1: sick in it.
Speaker 2: Oh, here's what she.
Speaker 3: Said, got a mystery on our hands, guys, My suitcase
Speaker 3: has been done up this whole entire trip. Right, we
Speaker 3: have just opened it. There's sick in my suitcase and
Speaker 3: the full insert with my knickers has been ripped out
Speaker 3: and is gone. We have literally not opened the suitcase
Speaker 3: the whole entire trip, and we can't find the insert anywhere.
Speaker 3: And the second, I've never been more confused.
Speaker 1: When I heard this. I was so confused because I
Speaker 1: was like, why hasn't she opened her suitcase, which contains
Speaker 1: all of her clothes and underwear for the whole trip.
Speaker 1: But she did provide some context when she got back home,
Speaker 1: so she explained that when she packed her suitcase initially
Speaker 1: there was a little insert and it was where she
Speaker 1: put all of her bikinis and underwear, and when she
Speaker 1: arrived at the villa, she unpacked her suitcase but left
Speaker 1: a couple of pairs of her underwear in there because
Speaker 1: she had overpacked. I love that this is so surprising
Speaker 1: to someone actually unpacking their suitcase.
Speaker 2: Why not something you do? No, who can be bothered?
Speaker 1: Now? She did end up putting her suitcase to the
Speaker 1: corner of the room, and she didn't touch it for
Speaker 1: the entire trip until the second last day, when she
Speaker 1: opened it up while strunk and clocked that someone had
Speaker 1: vomited in there and that her underpants were gone. Sorry,
Speaker 1: so she opens it and there's just vomit and no
Speaker 1: one dis Yeah, it looked like someone had got a
Speaker 1: pair of scissors and cut out this insert to get
Speaker 1: the underpants out. She was running late for a day trip,
Speaker 1: so she left her bag like that for twenty four
Speaker 1: hours and thought, I'll deal with it when I got
Speaker 1: back home.
Speaker 2: Smell it would have reagd well.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, she showed video of this suitcase
Speaker 1: and there were a ton of clothes in there, She
Speaker 1: had her curling wand in there. All of it would
Speaker 1: have that smell attached to it.
Speaker 2: It would have been disgusting.
Speaker 1: Now. That night, when she finally got back from the
Speaker 1: day trip, she asked her friends.
Speaker 2: If they had anything to do with it. Here's what
Speaker 2: she said.
Speaker 4: And I asked everybody in the house multiple times if
Speaker 4: it was them, and everybody has told me it's not.
Speaker 4: So I genuinely have no idea what has happened to
Speaker 4: my suitcase. Somebody came up with a theory that we
Speaker 4: got broken into because on one of the nights we
Speaker 4: came back and when the doors was wide open, so
Speaker 4: everybody was like panickin checking their stuff straight away, like
Speaker 4: oh my god, anything on nothing had gone, which was
Speaker 4: the really weird thing, so everyone kind of kept with
Speaker 4: the theory of like, did they come in and they
Speaker 4: went to like open my suitcase to take a load
Speaker 4: of things, and then because they were drunk, they were sick, panicked,
Speaker 4: cut it out, dispose of the piece, put the suitcase.
Speaker 2: Back and laugh.
Speaker 1: This was the best bit of the vlog, because why
Speaker 1: would someone break into your villa, not bother taking the
Speaker 1: expensive logging equipment that was there, or the laptops or
Speaker 1: your jewelry, but stumble across a case, cut out some
Speaker 1: undies and then vomit in it. Like it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: I'm the detective, but it's pretty obvious that this was
Speaker 1: one of her friends who was vomited in the suitcase
Speaker 1: and not had the nerve to tell her yeah, especially
Speaker 1: considering she's just shouted them an all expenses paid trip,
Speaker 1: Like you're hardly going to say, oh, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: me who ruined all of your stuff by vomiting over it.
Speaker 1: I think they've got thrown over the underpants being stolen,
Speaker 1: and they're reading too much into that, like they think
Speaker 1: some kind of creep has gone in stolen these underpants.
Speaker 1: But I think one of the friends has just gotten drunk,
Speaker 1: cut them out and throwing them off the balcony. Well,
Speaker 1: they were talking about what a huge piss up this
Speaker 1: weekend was and that people were absolutely obliterated. So perhaps
Speaker 1: one of her friends can't actually remember doing it, but
Speaker 1: it is so clear it's one of the friends. But
Speaker 1: the friends seemed to be trying to point fingers at
Speaker 1: other people, so they said that maybe it was the
Speaker 1: pool guy there, or the superintendent of the villa, or
Speaker 1: the cleaners. So they made the staff at the villa
Speaker 1: check through security cameras and they said that they couldn't
Speaker 1: see anyone entering the villa, so that also squashes the
Speaker 1: chances that it was a robber who went there. So well,
Speaker 1: Anatatia even asked her audience on YouTube like, what do
Speaker 1: you guys think? Writ in the comments below? And I
Speaker 1: loved so much reading some of these comments. So someone wrote,
Speaker 1: I would be fuming if I paid extra to book
Speaker 1: my mates a holiday for one of them to be
Speaker 1: sick in my suitcase and cut it up. What a joke,
Speaker 1: someone else wrote, But surely no money or belongings were taking,
Speaker 1: just vomit and a cut up suitcase. Someone's lying at her.
Speaker 1: Another person wrote, she really has some sh friends. To
Speaker 1: be honest, maybe this is all a rage baiting technique
Speaker 1: to get people to comment and engage with the video
Speaker 1: because it is so obvious that this is one of
Speaker 1: her friends. It's going to be really, really good. Tammy
Speaker 1: Hembro has celebrated her one year anniversary with her fiance
Speaker 1: Matt Zakowski and hasn't so much happened in a year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because just four months into their relationship they got engaged
Speaker 1: in the Maldives. Then there was that scandal after the
Speaker 1: Grand Prix where Matt got caught out dming a random girl.
Speaker 1: We then had the wedding in Vine League, and now
Speaker 1: we are just three months out from their nuptials. I
Speaker 1: am so excited. I want to thank them for providing
Speaker 1: the goods. There's been so much to talk about this
Speaker 1: year with Tammy and Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there really has been.
Speaker 1: And to mark the occasion, Tammy shared a series of
Speaker 1: photos of the couple hugging and she wrote year one
Speaker 1: of and did the affinity emoji. She also included a
Speaker 1: photo of the presence Matt got her and so if
Speaker 1: you'll be pleased to hear that he has now upgraded
Speaker 1: from the service station flowers. Yeah, I saw he bought
Speaker 1: her a really stunning bunch from a florist. I wonder
Speaker 1: if he's listened to this podcast. There is no shame
Speaker 1: with the servo station flower. I just think it's the thought.
Speaker 2: That counts exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dale got me Audi flowers the other day
Speaker 1: and he said, sorry, these are Audi, but I thought
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah. It's better than nothing. It's definitely a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction.
Speaker 2: I really like that.
Speaker 1: Matt went to the effort of giving Tammy a keepsake gift,
Speaker 1: so he collected all of the corks from the champagne
Speaker 1: bottles that they had consumed together, and on each of
Speaker 1: the corks he wrote down exactly where they were or
Speaker 1: what they were doing when they had had the champagne. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And on the lid of the huge jar that these
Speaker 1: corks were in, Matt wrote dear Tammy, happy one year
Speaker 1: to you always and forever, and.
Speaker 2: Wrote the date.
Speaker 1: But what was a bit weird is that the date
Speaker 1: is actually in a couple of weeks time, so they
Speaker 1: are celebrating this one year anniversary early.
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure why.
Speaker 1: Tammy shared a photo of her holding some of the corks,
Speaker 1: and I spied that a few of them were from
Speaker 1: the maur Dives and also their trip to Port Lincoln,
Speaker 1: so I love that South Australia got a bit of
Speaker 1: a shout out there. I wonder if any of these
Speaker 1: corks were from the Grand Prix because they seemed to
Speaker 1: have quite a large night that night. Matt seemed to
Speaker 1: and he said he was popping a lot of bottles
Speaker 1: of champagne. But I get the feeling they don't want
Speaker 1: to remember that night. Yeah, they were probably left out.
Speaker 1: I always wonder with these keepsake gifts for someone like Tammy,
Speaker 1: would she really want a jar of corks up in
Speaker 1: her aesthetically pleasing house. I think that she would love it.
Speaker 1: It's always very cute when your partner does something sentimental.
Speaker 1: I remember growing up we had a few jars of
Speaker 1: corks as decorations. Maybe this is a nineties thing that
Speaker 1: is coming back in fashion. In the photo that Tammy
Speaker 1: shared where she was holding the corks, it was quite
Speaker 1: unfortunate because her leg was positioned in this way where
Speaker 1: it was a bit of an optical illusion, so you
Speaker 1: could only see her body, and it looked like she
Speaker 1: had this pregnant belly when it was just her knee,
Speaker 1: and it did lead to a couple of people riding
Speaker 1: in saying, oh my god, are you actually pregnant?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I feel so bad for them having to cop the
Speaker 1: comments because Matt has been really open talking about the
Speaker 1: fact he's actually infertile. Yeah, and the couple have said
Speaker 1: that they want to investigate all of their options once
Speaker 1: they're married, so it's not something they probably particularly want
Speaker 1: to talk about right before their wedding. Now, there was
Speaker 1: also something else that people noticed in this photo dump,
Speaker 1: and it was that Matt's nose appeared to be blurred
Speaker 1: in one of the photos. It almost looked like you
Speaker 1: didn't have a nose. Yeah. Well, in the photo he
Speaker 1: is kissing Tammy's forehead, and I think what's happened here
Speaker 1: is that she was blurring maybe a blemish on her face,
Speaker 1: and she's accidentally gone into his nose.
Speaker 2: And being a.
Speaker 1: Typical girl, usually your only look if you look okay
Speaker 1: in the photo and you're like, oh, yeah, that looks great,
Speaker 1: but not realizing too your partner's nose has disappeared. It
Speaker 1: looks like they celebrated with a really fancy dinner. So
Speaker 1: Tammy posted photos of herself in a plunging black gown,
Speaker 1: and she is just a few weeks out from her
Speaker 1: breast revision surgery, and her boobs were getting a lot
Speaker 1: of attention. In the comments section, follower wrote, you should
Speaker 1: be in your post op bra girl, whilst another said
Speaker 1: the girls are girling. Matt added hottest woman alive and
Speaker 1: she is mine. I'm going to put it out there.
Speaker 1: I quite like Tammy and Matt. Now they've had a
Speaker 1: few bumps in the road, but the more I see
Speaker 1: of them on TikTok, the more obvious it is that
Speaker 1: they have a real chemistry together. I've never seen Tammy
Speaker 1: look so happy, and they do look really good together.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Barbie and Ken are getting married.
Speaker 1: And also, I always really liked Matt on his podcast.
Speaker 2: I mean, they's been funny.
Speaker 1: It's been a few incidents like the Grand Prix that
Speaker 1: have put a few question marks of his behavior, but
Speaker 1: I can forgive it because I am just desperate to
Speaker 1: see this woman get married. We've had a few false starts.
Speaker 1: I want to see what her wedding is going to
Speaker 1: be like, I want to see the.
Speaker 2: Dresses that she choose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, she's going to be very busy in the
Speaker 1: lead up to the big day because a month out
Speaker 1: from the wedding, she's holding a retreat in Greece and
Speaker 1: this is in conjunction with the release of her book,
Speaker 1: so to refresh your memories. Tammy released a book a
Speaker 1: few months ago which was a biography which also included
Speaker 1: a mix of motivational content. And the retreat is called
Speaker 1: Show Up and it's being held in Greece between the
Speaker 1: twenty first and twenty seventh of October. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: being touted as this intimate and exclusive event where pretty
Speaker 1: much you're going to hang out with Tammy Hembro as
Speaker 1: if she's a friend. And there's only nineteen spots available.
Speaker 1: So on the website it says you were invited to
Speaker 1: live a week accompanied by Tammy Hembro in Greece for
Speaker 1: a transformative experience. Here's how Tammy described the event. It's
Speaker 1: going to be really, really good and I'm excited to
Speaker 1: get to know personally like each and every one of the.
Speaker 2: People that are going to be on this trip. I'm
Speaker 2: really excited.
Speaker 1: Now, this six day retreat is not cheap, so the
Speaker 1: accommodation is included in the price, but the flights are not,
Speaker 1: so you have to pay to get yourself there. On
Speaker 1: top of this, Now, in the ticket for this retreat,
Speaker 1: it includes workshops with Tammy, daily brunches and dinners, transport,
Speaker 1: a couple of extra experiences, and goodie bags which I'm
Speaker 1: sure are sponsored. Now, there are two different packages, so
Speaker 1: you can either select your own private room or you
Speaker 1: can have a shared room where you'll be put in
Speaker 1: with a random. So how much is a ticket? Well,
Speaker 1: so if you are open to sharing with a random
Speaker 1: it is eighty two hundred and thirty eight dollars, and
Speaker 1: if you want your own private suite, it's nine eight
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five. Surely to share with Tammy for
Speaker 1: eight grand, No, I don't think she'd be staying within
Speaker 1: the vicinity of this villa. I was super curious, so
Speaker 1: I did a reverse image search of the villas that
Speaker 1: Tammy shared on her website, and they're a collection of
Speaker 1: three villas. So one of the villas holds ten people
Speaker 1: and the other two hold six people. So the villa
Speaker 1: that holds ten people costs you one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: dollars a night per person, which I thought was quite reasonable.
Speaker 1: So that works out to nine hundred and sixteen dollars
Speaker 1: for you to stay there a week. Now, the other
Speaker 1: villa that holds six people is a one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two dollars a night per person, working out to
Speaker 1: around one thousand and two hundred and four dollars. See,
Speaker 1: you're basically paying eight thousand dollars on top of that
Speaker 1: for the Tammy experience and pretty much and doing the
Speaker 1: math further, so the accommodation in total is costing Tammy
Speaker 1: and her team twenty three thousand, six hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: one dollars. Yet the nineteen tickets for their total retreat
Speaker 1: work out to be one hundred and seventy one thousand,
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty five. So if we take away
Speaker 1: the money for accommodation, that's leaving her and her team
Speaker 1: around one hundred and forty seven thousand, six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four dollars. Now, obviously some of that money does
Speaker 1: go into activities and the logistics, but still that is
Speaker 1: a fair chunk of money for a seven day retreat
Speaker 1: where you're basically living it up in Greece and hanging
Speaker 1: out with a bunch of people doing breath work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how much of that do you think Tammy's being paid? Well,
Speaker 1: she is running the retreat through a travel and media
Speaker 1: company which is called aw Adventurer, and she's done retreats
Speaker 1: before in Baral, So I'm not exactly sure how this
Speaker 1: agreement works, if the tour company just takes a percentage
Speaker 1: or if Tammy takes a percentage. It's intrigued to see
Speaker 1: how much of this trip Tammy was actually involved in.
Speaker 1: So I had to look at the itinery and on
Speaker 1: day one it says that Tammy will do a meet
Speaker 1: and greet with the guests. Then on day two she
Speaker 1: has a question and answer session, and on day three
Speaker 1: she will hold a workshop on affirmations. Then most of
Speaker 1: the days follow a similar formula, where the morning starts
Speaker 1: with a workout, followed by meditation, journaling, and brunch. Then
Speaker 1: there is a daytime activity like hiking, swimming, massages or yoga.
Speaker 1: There's also a sailing boat trip, but it's not clear
Speaker 1: if Tammy is actually going to be on the trip.
Speaker 1: There was a photo of her on a boat in
Speaker 1: the Greek Islands with her kids on the website, but
Speaker 1: I have a feeling Tammy won't be there. I think
Speaker 1: she's only going to shop for these three spots. Yeah. Well.
Speaker 1: The wording is also interesting on the website because it
Speaker 1: keeps saying with guidance by Tammy hembro or accompanied by
Speaker 1: a Tammy, And I think that they're subtly trying to
Speaker 1: drop Look, she's going to pop in and out, but
Speaker 1: she's not going to be here the whole time, if
Speaker 1: that's what you're expecting. Is there anyone you'd actually pay
Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars to go on and retreat with, because
Speaker 1: the only person I can think of is Taylor Swift. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I paid twelve hundred dollars for a ticket, so I
Speaker 1: think that i'd pay eight thousand dollars to have a
Speaker 1: couple of workshops with her. I wonder if madd and
Speaker 1: the kids are going to fly over and they'll treat
Speaker 1: this as a bit of a holiday, because surely you're
Speaker 1: not going to fly all of that way to Greece
Speaker 1: just to be there for six days and fly home
Speaker 1: as this is a month out from their wedding. I
Speaker 1: wonder for actually going to see a euro wedding, because
Speaker 1: when their invite was leaked, Tammy came out and said
Speaker 1: we've had to change our plans, kind of referring maybe
Speaker 1: they weren't going to hold it in Byron Bay anymore. So,
Speaker 1: I mean potentially they could do some private nuptials over there.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think this wedding is still
Speaker 1: going to be in Australia. I mean we saw Tammy
Speaker 1: taste testing the food at the caterers in the Gold
Speaker 1: Coast the other day, so I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to suddenly move everything over to Europe.
Speaker 2: They're fresh in rolled enough.
Speaker 1: The logies Laura Byrne and Maddie j have revealed they
Speaker 1: purchased a holiday home on the south coast of New
Speaker 1: South Wales. When making the joint announcement, they described it
Speaker 1: as a dilapidated old house, saying it is a little
Speaker 1: glasshouse on the seaside, filled with stories and a history
Speaker 1: that has been left locked up and empty for the
Speaker 1: past two years. I always find it interesting when influencers
Speaker 1: make announcements about property.
Speaker 2: Because if you're in the public.
Speaker 1: Eye, you almost have to do the opposite of what
Speaker 1: real estate agents do. So whilst agents will always talk
Speaker 1: up a house and say what prime real estate it is,
Speaker 1: influencers will often have to downplay it and try to not
Speaker 1: make people jealous, and they still also want to appear
Speaker 1: to be one of the people, and it's this weird
Speaker 1: juggling act that you see them having to do. Well.
Speaker 1: The description didn't really match the photos because the view
Speaker 1: from this house is insane. There was a photo of
Speaker 1: Maddy j sitting on the couch and behind him is
Speaker 1: a huge window, and this house is right on the beachfront. Oh,
Speaker 1: it looks beautiful now. There is a bit of salt
Speaker 1: damage on the exterior of the house, and Laura showed
Speaker 1: that their carpets have mold on them, and there's a.
Speaker 2: Very old looking kitchen. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily describe it as dilapidated. We haven't been there,
Speaker 1: so we don't know the full extent of it. But
Speaker 1: it's all location. Location is oh exactly now. I do
Speaker 1: want to say thank you to so Dramatic because they
Speaker 1: have done the heavy lifting on this one. They reported
Speaker 1: that the holiday home set the couple back two.
Speaker 2: Point one point nine million dollars.
Speaker 1: Now. The property spans seven hundred and forty six square
Speaker 1: meters and has three bedrooms, two bathrooms are study and
Speaker 1: our Fresco area now. The couple also made headlines last
Speaker 1: year when they purchased their five point two million dollar
Speaker 1: home in North BONDI I think some people were shocked
Speaker 1: to hear that Maddie Jay and Laura actually have so
Speaker 1: much money. But I personally wasn't surprised because Laura Burn
Speaker 1: works incredibly hard. She's got a job on radio, he
Speaker 1: does have highly successful podcasts, She's got her own business.
Speaker 1: Maddie Jay's just released a book, he has his own podcast,
Speaker 1: He's got his finger and a lot of pies doing
Speaker 1: influencer work. It's not shocking that they have this type
Speaker 1: of money.
Speaker 2: To drop it.
Speaker 1: I think people were shocked because their brand is built
Speaker 1: on relatability. They don't often brag about their possessions, or
Speaker 1: they don't show much of their house off. It will
Speaker 1: only just be in the background of whatever they're filming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think that that's what led to some people
Speaker 1: being surprised. But I think overall people were quite happy
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, because they do come across as such
Speaker 1: a lovely, wholesome Aussie couple. I think people were happy
Speaker 1: to see them succeed, and I also think because they
Speaker 1: were careful about the way that they broke the news,
Speaker 1: because some other influencers like Karina Irby will be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just bought this, didn't put much thought behind it.
Speaker 2: Yeah whatever, no big deal.
Speaker 1: But they were very calculated in what they wrote, So
Speaker 1: they outlined that it's a very sentimental place for them
Speaker 1: because it's not calculated, more thoughtful in the way that
Speaker 1: they actually told their audience about it. Yeah, because they said,
Speaker 1: this is a sentimental place for us. We got married here,
Speaker 1: were so excited for our.
Speaker 2: Children to experience it.
Speaker 1: Well, they actually seem to be appreciative of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And they were probably worried how followers would respond because
Speaker 1: we've seen Sarah's de coop a lot of criticism over
Speaker 1: her second home that she's purchased. And there is this
Speaker 1: trend where as you mentioned at the start of this segment,
Speaker 1: so where women have to sort of play down their achievements.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because if this was Mitch third, for example,
Speaker 1: and he had bought this house, he would have been
Speaker 1: raving about it, saying what a great guy was and
Speaker 1: that this is how much it costs. I still think
Speaker 1: people would think he was a toss bag for doing that, though, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that that would have been well received,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely a different way that men and women
Speaker 1: share online.
Speaker 2: About jan chievements.
Speaker 1: Well, there were a couple of questions in the comment
Speaker 1: section around whether Maddie Jay and Laura will be keeping
Speaker 1: both properties. So a follower wrote, does this mean you'll
Speaker 1: be selling your North bond Thy house because we don't
Speaker 1: need any more landlords or people pricing locals out of
Speaker 1: their own area now. Laura responded saying this house is
Speaker 1: completely uninhabitable currently and it has been sitting empty for
Speaker 1: two and a half years. Eventually, yes, we will live here,
Speaker 1: which I found very interesting because I wonder what it
Speaker 1: means for their careers. Because the location of this new
Speaker 1: house is about three hours out of the CBD. We
Speaker 1: are constantly seeing Maddie Jay popping up on different TV shows.
Speaker 1: Laura has her radio station where she has to go
Speaker 1: into an office to record. So Laura has her own
Speaker 1: radio show where she has to go into a studio
Speaker 1: to record. Is this because Britt Hockley is eventually planning
Speaker 1: or moving overseas and they've got to do things remotely?
Speaker 1: Am I reading too much in it's a pretty big call.
Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see what happens there. But
Speaker 1: I think it's more so saying, oh, eventually we will
Speaker 1: live there. Maybe they'll live part time there and part
Speaker 1: time in North BONDI God, I'd.
Speaker 2: Moved there for the view now.
Speaker 1: In this announcement, they also revealed that they are going
Speaker 1: to be launching a renovations page. Sure. I was very
Speaker 1: excited to see this because I'm always looking for inspiration.
Speaker 1: So they wrote, we don't know what we are doing
Speaker 1: or what this house will become, but if you want
Speaker 1: to follow along the chaos while we restore this old beauty,
Speaker 1: honor its joyous little quirks, and resist the millennial urge
Speaker 1: to paint everything white, you can follow us here. I
Speaker 1: think paint everything white, that's millennial of me. But as
Speaker 1: soon as Dale and I moved into our house, gosh,
Speaker 1: the paint brushes were out and we were painting everything. Well.
Speaker 1: They shared their Pinterest board last night, and I was
Speaker 1: quite surprised to see the bright colors that they're already
Speaker 1: going for. So Maddie Jay wanted to paint the bathroom
Speaker 1: this really bright blue color with a pink tile. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2: Well, at least it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1: Now in the space of just a couple of days,
Speaker 1: this account now has over sixty three thousand followers, So
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see how many sponsors jump on,
Speaker 1: because it's a great opportunity to promote your product, Like,
Speaker 1: are we going to see them with a Bunning sponsorship
Speaker 1: or Miny Town? Yeah, because Laura and Matt are well
Speaker 1: known for making really funny content as well, and I
Speaker 1: can just see Matt getting around. The Reno content is
Speaker 1: kind of like the social media version of the block,
Speaker 1: is it? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fitness influencer Ashi Biens has received devastating news following her
Speaker 1: planned brain surgery. Now back in March, she was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with a brain aneurysm after experiencing sudden loss of vision,
Speaker 1: and it has been a really frustrating wait for Ashi
Speaker 1: because she was locked in for surgery in July before
Speaker 1: it then got pushed back to August, so it's been
Speaker 1: a real waiting game for her, and she has been
Speaker 1: documenting the process on her Instagram and TikTok, and straight
Speaker 1: after she came out of surgery, she revealed that the
Speaker 1: surgeons were able to remove the aneurism, but they discovered
Speaker 1: that there was a second aneurism that they weren't able
Speaker 1: to remove in the process, so she will have to
Speaker 1: have another surgery before the end of the year. Well,
Speaker 1: that is just awful, and Ash said, I can't count
Speaker 1: how many times I've cried because I'm absolutely devastated. But
Speaker 1: I just have to be strong and know that I
Speaker 1: can do hard things get through this. I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: that they found both of these aneurysms and that I
Speaker 1: can get surgery, because they obviously can be fatal, and
Speaker 1: the recovery process has been much more difficult than she anticipated.
Speaker 1: She said that after her surgery, she was awake for
Speaker 1: nearly twenty eight hours straight, which would be horrendous. She's
Speaker 1: also now on blood thinners for the next twelve months
Speaker 1: and explained that it's incredibly dangerous if she misses a
Speaker 1: day because it could lead to a stroke, but she
Speaker 1: said because she's in such a good routine of taking
Speaker 1: her supplements, hopefully this won't be an issue for her.
Speaker 1: Let's get into our highs and lows of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm going to kick it off with my high and
Speaker 1: I'm giving my husband Brownie points. So he surprised me
Speaker 1: yesterday with a pair of new running shoes because we
Speaker 1: have been saying that we've been seeing everyone getting into
Speaker 1: run club, but we want to do our own little
Speaker 1: run club together with our dogs.
Speaker 2: So my current sand shoes were full of.
Speaker 1: Holes, like they would just discuss they archie or no,
Speaker 1: just I have them for so long they got so dirty.
Speaker 1: I've been wearing them when I've been doing renovation looks.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call you out, but I am
Speaker 1: looking at the new shoes. They are very cool, but
Speaker 1: you are rocking a very ugly ankle sock. And what's
Speaker 1: hilarious is recently, because we've been filming the podcast a lot,
Speaker 1: there have been times where I've taken like a steal
Speaker 1: photo of you or like videoed you wide showing your shoes,
Speaker 1: and you will have one no show sock and one
Speaker 1: ankle sock and it is very so it's very shameful.
Speaker 2: I don't know where all my socks go.
Speaker 1: This is what happens to me. I bought a couple
Speaker 1: of the cool crew socks and I've just.
Speaker 2: Fucking disappeared in my house.
Speaker 1: I think this is part of having a dog like
Speaker 1: I don't know where he stores these socks. I think
Speaker 1: it's because female socks are so small, like there are
Speaker 1: to actually keep a track of sometimes, like they don't
Speaker 1: all get in the washing shit. Anyway, I am not
Speaker 1: very good at that. Now. My love of the week
Speaker 1: is that I have never felt so old in my
Speaker 1: life until I entered Glassons. Like I don't regularly shop there,
Speaker 1: but I really wanted one of their linen shirts. I
Speaker 1: have been looking for a blue and white striped linen shirt. Well,
Speaker 1: I was with you, and you've never looked so uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because you got ushered into this change room and they
Speaker 1: actually I didn't even know they did this. They write
Speaker 1: the name like your name on the door, and the
Speaker 1: girl who was serving you looked like one of Millie
Speaker 1: Fours from TikTok's characters. Yeah, I had no idea. When
Speaker 1: she's like, what's your name, and I'm like why, I
Speaker 1: want to give her a fake name so they can
Speaker 1: be like and Sophie, babe, how's it going in there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did not want to come out, because you know,
Speaker 1: usually you want to go. I want to show you guys,
Speaker 1: because I was trying on a few pairs of jeans.
Speaker 2: Which were a disaster as well.
Speaker 1: I ended up buying the shirt, and they do have
Speaker 1: a couple of cute things in there. I just wish
Speaker 1: they didn't have jewelry or shirts with nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: written on there, because that is my year of birth
Speaker 1: and growing up. You'd always see those shirts and it
Speaker 1: would almost be ironic because it's like, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I kind of like it though.
Speaker 1: It just reminds me of Taylor Swift's album ninety eighty nine. Look,
Speaker 1: my low of the week was being sick, Like I'm
Speaker 1: actually a lot better now. My high is I've been
Speaker 1: influenced by Molly ma so I think it was two
Speaker 1: weeks ago now. She shared a photo of a coloring
Speaker 1: book and some textures, And when I was in office
Speaker 1: works today purchasing a USD card for our machine that
Speaker 1: keeps fucking up, I found some beautiful textures and a
Speaker 1: coloring book involving cats and dogs, and I'm getting so
Speaker 1: excited to actually color in the pages tonight. I think
Speaker 1: it I need a bit of a relaxation for how
Speaker 1: much were the texts, because I want to go get
Speaker 1: some Oh, I think look, I arms and armed about
Speaker 1: getting them. There's about sixty colored textures. I think they
Speaker 1: were thirty five bucks and the coloring book was five dollars.
Speaker 1: I keep seeing TikTok videos where it's like really satisfying
Speaker 1: to watch people coloring with those texts. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: think we should be allowed to have two loads of
Speaker 1: the week because I know you told me not to
Speaker 1: touch on this, but I have to get it out there.
Speaker 1: This is the second time that we are also recording
Speaker 1: this episode. Oh it's been insane. You rang me, and
Speaker 1: this time I was in the shower, not on the toilet,
Speaker 1: in the shower, and you rang me to say, actually,
Speaker 1: day's episode is gone as well, and it was a
Speaker 1: different problem this time.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the microphone.
Speaker 1: I spend so much money on a new device and
Speaker 1: have so many fucking.
Speaker 2: Problems each episode.
Speaker 1: So we have had to re record each episode twice,
Speaker 1: so we put out three episodes. We've done six recordings
Speaker 1: this week and it's only Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm exhausted for it. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: But second time, actually I thought that the previous one
Speaker 1: was Anyway, I digress, but that is all we have
Speaker 1: time for. Hopefully, you do hear from us on Thursday
Speaker 1: and this has worked. Yes, we have definitely gone and
Speaker 1: purchased some new SD cards, We've got new chords. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got everything. So if it doesn't work, I don't
Speaker 1: know what we're gonna do. But thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: If you did enjoy it, could you please leave us
Speaker 1: a five star review?
Speaker 2: I feel like we.
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