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Imagine, if you will, that you are in a place of great beauty. Some teenage boys walk past you, they yell out, they bitch tits. The world you see is a place of paradox of beauty and cruelty. It will cut you off of the knees then gift.
You a pair of easies.
And that, my friends, is why you always always need a buck up.
Mum about it, bad bad, bad bad bet bad.
I'm on the fiddle about instruments.
Did did got into the brack all?
Hang on to the brass section, the brass.
Section, Hang on. I've got to turn this down because remember we made the mistake the other week, and.
You were screaming for fifteen minutes. I think you were probably.
Yes, we were both.
We just take it down a bit hot. Welcome to the buck up strong. Hello Kate Lambro.
Oh, hello Nate.
If we did a whole episode down a notch.
Where we just want to just stay here, let's use our inside voices.
Let's do a whole episode. It's called the Inside Voices Special. Hello everybody, how are you god handle it?
We're going to try and not just trigger you this episode.
Katelin Brook, guess what an ultimate buck up for the year.
Someone got it for sore ass.
Thank you, which this is two weeks old, but it needs to be said into the microphone four times. Ten is forty. Just needed to get that out. You really wigged down that messages. Oh you never take you'd never technically answered. We have got the cochleater out.
You know who enjoyed that?
W highly.
French? Yes, sure, no one asked you that. That was just.
So close to the intro. I must read this out from Buckhead Fiona. Yes, Fiona has instagrammed us d m us love click message on the Instagram, but.
We comes through on our path.
Sometimes it comes through and then there goes into the junk filter sometimes and then also Instagram ban some certain words, so they think that people are sending us hate.
Can you imagine when they're saying buck wheat.
Or something what they say. I don't know, I hate you two should be an alived.
Okay, so I think that started it. I don't know.
I think like Pew pew yes the YouTube like p one am I thinking is.
Pup pupew is a gun? Yeah? Yeah, pewdi part part right, but no pup pew instead of guns or bullets or shooting. You say pupuw because I think if you say something about guns, h huh, you get caught up in the pupew. No, you don't get caught up in the b This is.
Like when iPhone took the gun emoji, or I'm sending you a water gun, a water piece, a bright green water gun.
Peace.
Still, we have to record an episode tonight, water pistol, water pistol.
And you know, I had a friend who for a while had screenshot the old one and kept it and kep using it.
I can't even remember what it looked like. It was a proper little rep Silverarrook.
Sort of in a World War two movie, you know, where there would be a couple of spies or no, maybe even an inner James Bond where there's always someone called Pussy Willow or something, and she's in there with James Bond and he runs his hand down a thigh and there's a Derringer classic and.
Her little classic Pussy soon did slide into our DMS. She did, and I got through okay, but also very quickly, please keep messaging us, because then sometimes when feddles with the setting, she finds we get a bunch come through she finds stuff.
She's good, she's good at finding the jewel in the junk keeper.
Oh, types, please riddle me this. Yes, gift you a pair of easies. W t A. Am I the only bucket that has no idea? What an easy is? I mean when I was in school, if you were easy, well you know the rest. AnyWho for the love of God or anyone else who you'll love for that matter, in today's world, take what you can get.
Look at her, look at her, respect everybody by anyone.
Yes, but I'm thrown at easy.
Easy gives you a pair of easy. Oh. I almost don't want to tell her.
Let's not tell her, Let's just leave it.
Yeah, tell Fiona what you mean? Go on alurrah on our special penultimate episode, which means second last. Yes, so unlive you one day. Pew pew with a pew pew with a bright green water pistol.
Okay, so some friends of ours quickly went to Japan.
Wait, wait, quickly tell he because we won't ever.
Right, Fiona. So Kanye West makes these runners, does he still? I don't think so, because he was canceled because he said something about the pews. And you're allowed to and he got his he went off. Yeah, he went off anyway.
Good.
So Yeezy's runners, Kanye West runners not easy? Is my why too silent?
I skip it? So I'm not too sure and or we asked the live audience. Last we asked the live and it was a real fifty to fifty fifty five on who skipped and who doesn't?
Do you know what I think? So, people who may not have heard pods previous to this, welcome to the back up. You've always been jury out on the intro to our show.
Jury out, the jury out and came back one minute later and said, get rid of it.
They wanted to an a live.
Speaking of very quickly juries. I haven't watched it yet. Apparently there's a show on SBI yes that everyone is loving and the idea is phenomenal, brilliant. They read real life court transcripts to it fake TV jury to see if they come to the same conclusision that the real y.
It's called the Jury.
Okay, there we go.
I think.
I haven't watched it. It's called the Jury. Watched it.
I've watched part of it and it's amazing, it's great. So we're watching I think it's called the Jury, the staircase or something like that. Yeah, yeah, thank you Foriona. I haven't any message, but also I don't like you trying to rewrite history on what was, by the way, and I know it's annoying for people who weren't there. It was two weeks ago now, Yeah, we're reliving it every day. We still aren't. It was the most glorious day with our most glorious Buckwhits. It was really fun and we've got special mentions. Oh the three sisters, Oh yes, we met.
We met a bunch of buckheads afterwards, which is amazing. And you know, I've definitely noticed about meeting buck gays, which really feels my heart with joy. They are all overshares, just like you and I ya, except they will just run up to us us and just tell us because you know what, You've.
Only got a little bit of time together, so you need to make it count.
I loved every second of it too. It was the great It was awesome. But three sisters came to the show and their surname was the Middletons, the Middleton like Kate, and you lost your mind when your loved them.
They were just the most beautiful girls. And then I said to them, oh, yeah, no, I know, we don't know. We don't know anyway, they know what I see, they know what I see.
It. Yeah, about a deceased parent was an odd buck and forth.
They were very young to have a deceased parent. In this world, you never know what's going to go on. But they were delightful. But then afterwards we were in such an orgy of self congratulation, high as kind ourselves. We went to have dinner. Oh yes, Sasha French peeled off to go to another dinner, a rival dinner, Pop Dumb dumb club. She went off to their farewell dinner, and she didn't and we went and had Chinese food. Stunning.
Is there anything better than someone deciding what food you're getting before the chut even began. We all met down the front, down the bottom of a few of us, and Kate just didn't even ask. It was announced we're getting Chinese. Thank you God, because when someone doesn't say it, there's back and forth.
Yeah yeah, it's true, mate, lane Brook. But also were in Chinatown, we were adjacent, we were why wouldn't you make the most And also great Chinese food, not some jobbly guy who's bought a Needle World franchise.
Not even that. Just announced we were getting Chinese. You announced where we were going, grabbed the menu before anyone.
And you know I didn't want to order. I hate ordering rub the menu. I was looking for what I wanted. That's what I do in a reson.
I don't know. I was very grateful, but you know everyone was.
It was most unlike me. One of the favorite things when we lived in Italy was I loved that I you were there with Italians, they would always order for you.
I thought her.
Just I love it, especially the men.
There is something about a group of friends going out for dinner so much. There's so much politics at play. Who's deciding what, who's getting? You're splitting bills? Are you just covering all alcohol? Evenly?
I know it happened, you know what, And I love them. Oh but the allergies or the food eversions, and we had none at the table, we had none.
A big shout out to you. If you have a food allergy, I would suggest just don't go out for dinner and.
Groups, well, it's very I know nice, it's hard for them and some people I know, can I count a vegan as a food allergy, absolutely, because I'm allergic to them and vegan hello. And but I've got a girlfriend who's a vegan, and she's so she's learnt the art of doing it so that actually you wouldn't even know. Uh huh, very very good.
The key to group ordering. And this is why Chinese is such a good go to. And there's a bunch of you. And if you remember me saying it, straight up, bowls of fried rice save dinners. As long as there's a straight away, as long as there's a gigantic bowl of fried rice.
Everyone's happy.
That's so true.
And you said straight away, I like a special and always.
The thirteen year old girl boys again correct?
But also why were you always special fried rice? Why is special fried rance fried rice? Anyway, it was glorious. And then on the way back did I say special fried You said special friud Rance? You said I want a special?
I want no?
He said special. We always say special fried rice. They say it on the menu.
Okay, it was weird that you put it in an accent when the waiter came over. I'm kidding.
A friend of mine used to do that. God his dad, sorry, his dad used to do.
My mom used to do it. It's so much water without thinking about it. Start should always order.
In the in the Chinese. Okay, So my friend's dad always used to do it, and guess what he would He wouldn't do it on everything, but guess what he would do it on it? And I understand, almost impossible to.
Talk Chinese and Indian.
No, no, guess what particular thing off the menu.
Special fried.
No, it's almost impossible not to do it. Oh, crab craw terrible, terrible, but also.
It's hard to say.
But also he'd been going to the same place for years and they just they left him. They were like, man, whatever, we know, we know, we say crab crawl. That's not a problem. It's not My parents have got an accent, but they don't run a restaurant.
And then I got bullied by the whole table to have a beer. That was some schoolies level of bullying going on. I am a one pot screamer rove, not enough for that table.
You couldn't have a beer. A chink down it starts again, a chin down bet again, celebrate even I had a beer and I don't even like beer. Well, but she it went down. Well at half are you drinking sash at your party?
You would have been champagne? Oh yeah, and you were on it, weren't you.
How many?
Oh I don't know.
Bottles? No, we would probably a bottle, a bottle. She had a bottle?
What half a beer? And then your lovely husband Pete finished it for me. Cute.
That's what he does. He's he always and you know what, he's thirsty. He's always finishing everybody's drinks. But on the way back to.
The car, I've left my stuff in Kate's car. It was a mistake.
It was a big cut out of the dabbler.
Yeah, you couldn't come to the live pod so down office works. I wren't seventy five dollars gag printed out.
You wouldn't leave him behind.
I'm not leaving him at that comedy room. No, in the green room, glaving room.
What would they do?
Please the bler? He deserves better. So you put it in the back of our cart, dabbler in the back of your car.
And then on the way back we walked past Cama which is in the city and its merging target and I was like, I was so sad when the target went.
An iconic target there on was iconic, but.
Also a lot of the stuff they make I think is merged.
So it kicked off with you about Ancho.
Yes, now in Target, all right, tell me what happened when when we walked through.
So you lied to me one because this is what you did. You manipulated the situation because you said this is the shortcut. It was. It was a lame way.
That was the same lay way we took to the restaurant.
But there was also we could have just gone around, but we have to walk through. Came up.
It was an arcade. We walked through the arcade first. We never stepped foot in, we never set foot and came out on the way through. It was only on the way back.
So it's ten o'clock on a Saturday night. I'm tired, but a great even It's ten o'clock on a Saturday open pay for that.
And I'm there with Nathan, my mate, and Pete.
Husband Pete and my husband. He's there, yes, And all of a sudden we go from walking to the car so I can get my stuff and go to my car and go home to Kmart shopping with Kate and Pete. Pete needs a T shirt. Kate's son needs underwear, Kate needs a white top. All of a suddenly I'm shopping around the lane.
It was literally walking through and I see a valvo.
You'll know where everything is. You go shopping all the time, No where your love.
So your white tops is black and in fact it's this toph You've got a walking past. And I had to get one of the boys some undy, so I got him a five pack and maybe seven that you stop there.
We shopped together and we were going through all the underwear and chatting if you wanted Lunatunes characters or Angela thing there Chilis on it. And I'm sitting here talking to you about if your son wants Chilis on his underwear.
He's fifteen. So Peter went no, no, no drawings. But I did get him something. It's fruit anyway whatever. I just literally this one sash who purports to be a homosexual man. Right, two things, dancing and shopping. He's always got new clothes every time we do the pod. He shops all the time. As you know, I never get to shop. I'm nation building. I'm looking after six people.
Nation building. Who gave you that little nugget.
I did it all right, and I want to say to any parents out there, that's what you're doing.
Hey, as a HOMOSEXU. Well, I am so pro babies. I tell people all the time, have as many kids as you possibly can, because one of them will hopefully kill the disease that I'm going to get.
Correct And you love to say that from the comfort of your very tidy lounge where everything's immaculate waiting for you. Uber, it's pots and pants raising four people. Okay, So that means I've got very little time for shopping. So I was so excited. You have no idea, Sash how he made me came up just grabbing. Literally we didn't break stride because doing gay walk, I got the undies. Peter, I don't even know how he picked up a T shirt there. Then we went to go to the jam.
Does Peter get that tea? Because we were running and then holding magician.
That's what he always does, right anyway, So I see this body suit, Now you know I need a new body.
You are too close. You are too close.
Well, I don't never get to go shopping and she hardly ever does anyway, So I get this bodysuit. You are mocking me up and down, sideways, left and right, inside out right, Just where do you get in?
I didn't say any of those things.
You can imagine anyway, peo peop anyway. So then we're paying for it. And because I was in a hurry, I didn't even get a chance to check the stretch of it or whatever. I got a size fourteen. That turned out to be a mistake. Okay, okay, I should have sized up all right, because when I wore it for the first time, which was last night, it was intrusive.
All we going up, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're happening. We're happening for a black ride.
It was like some aspect. Do you remember the beacons Field minus I do? Okay, well that's the bottom of the body suit, twenty seven days under underground and.
Kotchi waiting with an ambulance.
That's how it was anyway. But this is the bit yeah wow, yeah, Kochi was.
There and you know what this breakfast TV.
Yeah, and you know what else? Amazing. They seemed happy to see him. I mean, they've been under for a long time, but he was a big deal then, so they were like, oh my god, gotchi's here anyway, so cute like it's kaosh, that's cotch. Okay, it might even be cock, but it certainly isn't cosh Okay is it?
No?
Yeah, they do because we're all going wrong with his We're just going along with his narrative.
Okay, all right, don't you think sure?
Anyway? So there I am last night and I'm with a bunch of the of Mum and me. Are women gorgeous? Gorgeou And you know, Holly, you.
Say like they're again because they're like show their colors.
Yeah, because they're like there's a big they're a big and they're all women.
Yeah.
And you know what we're like when we get together. I mean, you turned office when you realize fifty one percent of the world's population with women that shriveled up like nobody's business.
A masculated.
Anyway, I was talking to Holly wayIn Wright amazing lovely, and the first thing she said to me was, I love your top.
Is that a body suits?
I went, yes, it is.
It was this body suit from Kmart that you had much malign and she said that reminds me of a bodysuit. You know, women we love to tell the stories. But I said to her, I.
Was so real.
I said, it came out it was eighteen dollars.
My issue was not the bodysuit, for the record. My issue was that I was shopping and came out at quarter past ten on a Saturday night. Not for me. That was my issue, And I'm just showing we weren't shopping for me.
In case we cut up a clip and people want to see this body suit.
Look at it.
That's a really nice bodysuit, good good six seatretch.
So it all ended up.
I show you what's going on down there.
Big names, that's mine, you beacons Field, Mine, Brandt and Todd Brandon Todd. Did you even google that?
So amazing?
Didn't even google it?
Do you think there's a time in their lives?
Were you on radio when that happened? Yes, yeah, we were.
And do you remember the whole country had been sort of on edge waiting for them. We didn't know if they were gonna survive.
You had to go on radio every day for twenty something days and find the line between like covering it but then also doing fun breaks. We did what an odd time bill shortened did? We had him all the lot by him because he was sort of like the He really made the most of the moment because like he was the Union.
Yeah, he was dealing with and the twenty seven days was seventeen down.
Remember and then remember who said who did a song for them?
Or seemed a song down?
Since a song No, Dave Gros, Dave Gross sent a song down the mine did something food when everyone the whole the ladder, the whole world.
You know there'll be people listening now, going what are they talking about? Probably lovely Fiona. He's still trying to work out the easy easies. Anyway, two miners in Tasmania got stuck down.
Everyone knows that. The first that doesn't God love it? She doesn't know not.
Everyone has to know everything. So anyway, indicate my pressure on you helped.
So I am a good guy in that story.
I'm not.
You'll notice it was a lovely evening.
My hands are like it was opposed magnetic fields. Look, I'm trying to go and I can't anyway, I'm so thrill.
I'm through for you. What is the law in this country about killing animals that are annoying you in your own heart?
Well, you know in America they've got the castle claws.
I don't know it.
Well. That means if someone break so, you can kill them.
Right.
We don't have that here, so if you so, I'm just saying animal. If you're thinking about it, animals. So I don't know how to apply it to animals.
Yeah, we should ask someone will know sort of animal it is. Well. I am at war with a bird, a family of birds who have decided to set up shop with nests and all sorts of business. They've moved on in even though I'm morndous. I take the house. No, you'related.
Have they done it? Outside?
On to your ead done? They've done. I think there's your house, like it's very old. I've never been to your house, but you can come house. I love our house is as I said, we're renters, but it's very old. Would half half because I think it got renovated, like in the nineties, or it's it's in mooney ponds there you go. Okay, so they kind of know what those houses are, but I.
Still don't know it.
Big and old, cold, very cold, very dark in a lot of the rooms, it's very dark.
I love that.
I love that. I love a dark but one part of the house is not dark, and that's what I like about it.
Yeah, you can and get some sun if you the scary end or the happy end. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
These bluddy birds I reckon. There's two nests right, And I recorded it with my phone because when I say they're loud, it is a specific noise. And I'm not a bird person, so someone can tell us what birds?
You know what they are?
No, but this is what the sound that they make. And when I I'm not exaggerating when I say it is on repeat from like six am.
The early rise and get later.
They go out late like they trying to do.
They're trying to get the work.
That's what they do. Someone told me once about birds, and I don't know if it's true or not, but it's quite lovely. It's probably made up that the birds in the morning are telling each other they're still there, like that's the way they tell I know.
But I don't know if that's real or is that lovely or is that's cute?
Like they get up. I have to tell the other family that the eyes in different trees.
Oh yeah, that they can this year, that they survive the night. It must be yeah, hazard a spean.
Yeah, a bird, Well, it will be soon near my house because I'm getting I'm getting a all right green water gun.
Well, you know what else has happened because now people aren't allowed to let their cats outside. People have got all judged about cats.
Oh my gosh.
People who suggest that you take a living creature that's related distantly, remember.
Don't start, don't. I don't want to annoy our buckheads.
But you already have by talking about killing pemore I have.
Who cares about birds?
Birds?
No one cares about birds. They do. That's why people I haven't finished keeps going. I haven't finished. As much as people love dogs, I do. I have an opinion on dogs, and I don't annoy anyone. But people just.
Love, you know, because because of the world we live in. I think, because people are so divided, politically divided and blah blah, and so niche in their in their interests now and in their own echo Chambers Chambers, Chambers, Chambers, the only thing that people are united about is birds, well, animals genuinely.
So.
People have got this like animals occupy this place in people's lives and hearts and homes and in the economy, that they never had before. So people are going to lose their minds about you being a bird killer.
So here is the noise they make twelve hours a day.
Are there's some babies? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, kill me now, iPhone, bring back the gun emoji. I've never needed it more in my wife. So I'm gidding up in the morning. Yeah, and I'm just trying. You know, I work from now whin, I work from home. I'm trying to write things.
And yeah, they're annoying. Hence and also hence the expression bird brain. There's not a lot going on. John latched onto something and repeating it.
I'm adding to the equation. Our lovely daughter Derby, our dog.
Are your dog? Why isn't she chasing them?
Aloe?
Let me tell you this. We hit the jackpot with this dog. She is unshakable, never barks, snobby, never fusses. She's a snob. Snobby snobby from the biggest snob dog snobby. You won't let her play with no going to drive across the city.
Is she to come play?
To come play?
Is she?
I know that she's a snob, So why can't be bothered driving over your dog? You saw it? Your dog will go up. She's very chill, but dogs go up to where they want to play. She doesn't care. She looks the other way. She is an absolute mole. God have raised her?
Well, yeah, you really have. That's so appropriate for you that you've got a diva dog.
She never loses her mind. Were those real arrogant? You know, proud parents the vets. Random's always like she's so well but dark.
That's a the Obama's hat.
Yeah, we've heard the voice, always the voice.
That is the voice.
She's six years old. She's the calm dog. This is Derby seeing them the other day.
Oh no, she's like for distress, you should let her out.
They're up in the roof. I did just jump all right.
Have you seen the birds? What type? Are they?
Small and blrown, yellow beak. Some of them have red on them. I've been examining them. Some of them have red on a bit of red there as well, black or brown blacky black. And they're not very big. They're like the size of a water bottle in height.
And that's quite beat. Are they not not?
Indian miners the most annoying birds in the world.
We chase out their bullybirds, and they chase out the native birds. So if it's a minor to kill them, you can do whatever you want. So you can do whatever you want them. Let's let's not say kill them. But my genuine is you can repatriate them. Genuiney they came, send them.
Back to India, so where they all come from.
What they called Indian mind.
I feel them, I feel my question. The reason I want to bring it up is I know our buckheads are so lovely. Google has not answered my question. What rights do I have with birds in my house and nests and being aed? So here's this is a thing. What can that?
I think I've learned. You know, my husband's a good person, better than me, much nicer than me. And we had birds at our house and he said to me, you can't get rid of the nest while the little ones are in us.
I don't think i'd do that.
I would have, oh yeah, but I.
Would have be able to do that.
But then when the poopsie, they're pooping down the walls and like it was just and then I always see birds and I'm reminded of my father, who really was just unimpressed with nature totally the dutchment, and he would go oh, birds get and they're full of lice, right, just like I see that. I just didn't like them anyway. And then so then but now I'm like, oh, I see the little birds, and I'm like, oh, beautiful little birds. Wait till you can fly.
So I think you just wait.
You have to wait to if there are birds in the knees babies, assuming.
They're so busy people are visiting, and they'll never take out the new boys.
Okay, so here's the thing.
Leave me alone.
Don't build your nest.
In a tree.
There are trees everywhere. We have a gigantic tree out the back.
If you pop, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it.
You know, this is our own fault for putting water out for the birds when it's hot. No more.
They would have come anyway, no more. But it's a problem that will solve itself. Okay, when you see that all those birds they leave, it's quite fun to watch them learn to fly and they blood around the whole. It really is on the But then when you're like, those birds are all flying together, and then you get a breamstick in the nest and it'll come down in a shower of silt and feathers, and yet yeah, yeah, but I'm full of empathy about I mean a war.
Yeah.
I don't know what the buck up is, but I tried, I know, because remember, we share things on this board and.
We get bucked up at the.
Killing misery what is it? Misery is misery?
Heart beautiful isn't a problem.
So we went to you know this is We've been in the season, the season.
The silly season. Indeed, yes, and.
For some reason this year I've had more on than ever, or maybe it seems like it because we kept down from Wicked popular.
I don't want to be pop.
You, but I was watching I've been watching the interviews two.
Singing lessons when I was twenty. You do it again, no partlor bigger, Yeah, I want to be.
A pop star, so good, no musical theater.
I wanted to be a pop star when you might. Comedy is not for me.
As my mother would say, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. You're not going to be a pop star, but you'd be great in music.
Great in Wicked, Great in Wicked as Glinda Wicked on the head because we saw it. Yeah, yeah, and very long. No one's talking about that part right hours and forty minutes.
The movies are too long.
That's too long. Yeah, I guess it's part one. It's part one, part one, it's two parts. And get this, the musical only goes for two hours and twenty minutes, so it's twenty minutes longer than the entire musical and part one part one. But AnyWho, it is pretty fun. And if you don't enjoy that, if you don't enjoy that movie, I think you've probably got some darkness in your soul. It can't be fixed because it's so much fun the movie and loud and moves quick for this guy over here that needs the yes, yes, yes, move it along.
The movie cannot possibly be as entertaining as watching the interviews. The interviews with people.
I deep dive. I saw the movie. I deep dive. This is what I deep dived on. If you don't know what we're talking about, Ariana.
And yeah I don't don't know, thank you.
Cynthia.
She's English black. Ariana needs no introduction. You know.
I'm learning a lot about Cynthia that I like a lot. If she wins the Oscar for this, she gets.
The ear saying that she's.
Got all she's got all the rest of them. She's got a Grammy, Olivia, you got whatever they got. Every interview they're doing, they start crying.
They start crying and question and so did the interviewers just cry interviewers. It's honestly like she holds on her to her nail, Ariana holds onto a long green fingernaut.
So I quickly deep dived because I wanted to know why they were crying so much, and I this is my theory. Apparently Ariana Grande has wanted this since she was like ten and she's a Broadway girl and met Kristin Chenowith, who was.
The original who's amazing, hang on.
Yeah, but met her when she was ten backstage the original Wicked and said to her her, I want to be Glinda. One day she was like, oh, you will be, and I gave her a gave her a crown or some insane story where it's all kind of like happened. But that why, I think, that's why. I don't know, that's my theory. They're all crying.
They're all just crying. It's so much for them. Anyway, I've loved it. Why are you talking about that season?
Popular? Saying popular? Because I had two singing lessons, and.
Because we've been busy and going to a lot of places.
And the singing teacher, when you got good enough, asked you to go sing at her husband's cafe.
Did you ever get asked?
I think I can't remember, but that was the graduation I would have if she was like, you're ready, all right? And then you went down at this cafe in Bundura.
And I also had sing You're dead, yeah, but I can't sing.
You have to think about singing lessons. Is I do everything on stage? I love doing stand up, I love being on stage. I love performing. There's something about singing that is so humilia.
So exposed. It's humilia. Neither audition the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, they will often get you to sing a song at the audition because anything that you've learned to mask in life and confidence and data and am dram whatever, all stripped away when you have to sing.
Did you audition for no? I never did.
But about of Victorian College of the.
Arts, Why did you stop acting?
I don't know why I started writing. And you know what, there was more, much more work for writers than there was for actors. Like acting such a terrible. I mean, look around this country. Any any child actress or young female actress that you see, generally by the time they get to their forties is a mess because it's a very hard, brutal, brutal life, no matter how talented you are whatever. Anyway, but there was heaps of work for writers. There's not enough writers in this country, as you'll know if you watch some lamentable shows that we've made that are underwritten. Anyway, what are we talking about? So I went with the girlfriend lessons okay, sorry no, And it was the hardest song ever, so was it. It was a song from the musical Chess oh okay, which I've never seen, but it's a great song. This one song that written by you know, the guys from Abba wrote that musical, and it's so do you want me to try? And and the singing teacher made me try and sing through my nose.
I don't know why.
Apparently that's what you get. But it was the highest pitch. It's the most difficult song. I think that one that that bring it up?
What's name?
The guy that wrote all the musicals was banging what Brightman? It takes a Sarah Brightman voice.
Okay to sing it. Yeah, nothing is so good. It lasted.
Perfect. Situations must go wrong, but this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.
What's the song called?
I don't know, I can't remember. I know him, yes, I know him so well, because then you get into.
A two parter.
It's very hard. Really, I let's listen. They prevented me.
That's how it's supposed to sound.
I can't do it. It was too high.
I'm kidding. I shouldn't have neged that. No, no, you should have, because I know you put some walls down and and I shut it down. Yeah, I take that back, and I know too late for you were excellent.
I don't know. I wasn't thought it was into it anyway. So we went to a friend's farm. That was one of the things the day after season ye to stay then, Yeah, we stayed, and we went to a town called Ballarat in Victoria. We stayed at this beautiful rat boutique hotel called Hotel Vera like beautiful run by a couple of brethren. Was stunning, dunning. So we went up to our girlfriend's farm, which is you say farmer, but it's just absolutely beautiful. Georgie Coglan, he's beautiful.
Speaking of people that can sing, oh, she's one of them.
She's a songbird. Yeah, and she just did a show called Songbirds. It's amazing. So we will go up there. And we've driven up there, and we've met some friends up there, and my manager's up there, and your ex boyfriend's up there. So we've all headed off together and to this farm. How everyone's going twenty minutes? They're not, No, they're not.
Actually I think you I figured it out.
The curiosity about you? What?
Yeah, well black up special epers, So were you and I every single ones?
Well I don't have that many. Way do we start listing your exes?
Yeah, we'll do it anyway, the ex special.
So it was just beautiful and this farm she does events there now and it's just divine and it's the stables were opened, but was that one minute the weather was the wind was blowing, then the sun was out and it was just it was all fantastic, and their neighbors and friends from the town were there and us and.
Just sounds like the opening scene of a Christmas movie. It really sounds like.
And that's what it was, right, anyway, it was so fabulous, and there was a big buffet table with a what's it called where they put the plat around, you know, the chuck uteri and it was and there were kids running in and out and taking all the gummy bears off the table.
Later on, I want a gummy bear and there was literally not one, actually not adult gummies. Oh no, this awesome.
So we had we were having such a beautiful time, and there was champagne and ice buckets since she had some local girls like serving drinks. They were so sweet, like people's daughters or whatever.
Gee, that's gone. All it was stuffed.
Yeah, it was great.
Go to a Christmas line.
It was so beautiful. Anyway, So I'm sitting there near the buffet.
Of course, there was no more Todella.
So I've actually found a seat behind the buffet table. So I'm sitting there. My husband, who's met these people before but not as much as me. We were having everyone so beautiful and welcoming. He comes over to me. He sits down on the only other seat behind the yeah, behind the buffet table. You know, I told you he's a thirsty guy. He sits down and he said, I said, isn't this beautiful? And he goes, yeah, he goes, I could make a real lass himself today.
What drinks, dude, I don't know.
I've never heard any of that phrase. I've never known me.
I don't know. Maybe he meant like if I could just get.
Smart, I don't know. But we found out later on, Oh okay, eat like a pig. Later on in the taxi, we were in a Maxi taxi going back to town. He was so wock eyed, but Peter thought it would be funny to do this thing that we do in our family where we do those shows slack so the kids can do it or whatever. So I go come up to you in the face, right, so you do that. He's done it to me before once when he was drunk, but he didn't warn me and he actually hit me. And the friends that we were we were so horror fun anyway, but I was so then he started we started telling them about this in the back of the month.
So then he.
Started trying to do it to me. Trying to fend him off, and he's slapping me one stage. I'm like fending him off because I don't trust him because he's drunk. It's dark. We're in the back of the taxi and my poor manager mele at one stage she was just like, what.
What is going on here?
I also couldn't stop laughing, and he's got my head in his lap and it was getting room ridiculous.
Well, then we did.
We got back to the hotel and guess what what we were locked out of our room. So we had to go to their room and have a McDonald's party on their.
Bed, more food, more food.
It was stunning. But my husband and the next morning when I woke up, I said, well, your prediction proved to be correct.
He called, this is what I always do, and he goes he's in bed. Prediction.
I said, you made a real lass of yourself. So the next day everyone at breakfast was like, where's the ass? And my husband, Peter Allen lewis the ass.
It's the silly season. It's o Kate. I turned forty one last week. Oh my forty one years old? My here, I am, ah, look at you?
But you know what what you know? I don't like the numbers. I don't like the emphasis on numbers. Who does well you apparently do because you nearly every point do you talk about how not really old you are and how good.
You look for you because lives beautiful. We talked about skincare regimes on and off airs, but regimes or regiments. He's not getting it wrong. No, No one says am I wrong?
Yeah, but no one says regiment anymore. So you might as well say ragia.
Actually, when you say that, it does sound off skincare regime, regime, regimes, form of government. Yeah, that's a bit odd.
Yeah, the regiment is a sist out of my bedroom, stay out of my bathroom. Government exactly, get your fealthy lowers off my body. You're oppressive regime.
I face my choice. Yes, turn forty one. Last week it was my birthday. Well done to me. Something that annoys me about my relationship? Cake is I am the creative person, right, I haven't finished?
No, No, I just need to.
We need to.
Something's coming. Something annoys him about his relationship. This is significant when you're sharing stuff like this. Of course, you can say whatever you want because the dad last, he'll never know. But we're all here for thank you, okay, because you seem so happy. I'm not.
Oh, well, I'm happy. No, I'm not happy. I'm hard and happy I'm unhappy that as I am creative and he's definitely not. He's in science, you're yin and ye, he's left brain. I'm right brain. Do I get that right?
Get mixed up? Which one is?
Which I think I'm right? Which I think creative is right?
I think the fact that we can never remember me is that we're one of the other, the type, so science people would know what sort of side of the brain.
What annoys me about him is he's far better at presents than I am, and always has been. And that annoys me. I mean, I reap the benefits of it.
You were quite good at he's really good at presents.
He listens. So I'll say something in like April, and scientists locks it into the frontal lobe, and I want to.
Kill those birds and for Christmas, you get a gun next Christmas.
So and then he'll be like, don't you remember in April that you said that you blah blah blah, And then.
Here it is, I know what did you say in April.
I don't listen to him. No, no, no, no, no, no, no enough yes, yes, And I don't even have to drop hints about presence in how people do that do you do that?
No, because I didn't ever know what I want, right, I honestly have everything in it. Partly I'm wonderful. I want to see what you get me, right, it's part of it. And people go, you're so hard to get presents.
So it's a ten. How fun for us?
Isn't it a test?
It's really I would test is the wrong word used? I would described. Let's say it's an opportunity to prove that you've listened.
No, not even listened, because I love because of pres.
It's an insight into how someone feels about you or how they see you.
It's their interpretation of this gets even better than what you got.
Oh what is it? What could it be said that spiel now knowing what he got me, it's very funny. Okay, let me not be a full length mirror.
Oh my goodness.
Oh that's so so that spot on the build up from you there makes it a hundreds. So we don't have a full leg mirror. We have like three or four different mirrors of different sizes and different parts of the body. Look to see what my leg looks like, I've got to I've got to go to the side of the room. And put my leg up like kick it up like Nikki. Keep me in the molline room. Yeah, and then he's caught me before jumping to say, like your top hal if I go to the very very bapp you've got a laundry and I do a little jump, I just get my shoe in a right?
Did he never look at himself in the full He doesn't.
He doesn't care so much about that as much as you know.
Also, I think because his work is more traditional, Yes, his kind of chinos.
And sorry to sound like a complete wanker when I say this, but most of the times because I'm going on the TV or it's just I'm like, but.
Still allow people to be amazed.
Wow, Wow, stand up, especially stand up. I pace walk you do, I'm fast on stage?
You do, and you move a lot.
I need to see what it looks like. How does it look from the full head to toe?
Can I just say this?
Thank you? Do you have a full mirror? Who hurt you? But I'm just sitting in front.
I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to want or need a full length mirror?
Thank you? You want to tell the complete story? That's good? Yourself, my outfit story that.
You you're looking at yourself like a Picasso painting.
And jumping and getting red in the face before I leave the house.
Didn't having to lie cocker hoop with your leg up in the air.
But I've jumped, so he's away. So a few days before the birthday, I'm at home, wore the birds, trying to do some work and knock at the door. Cody's not home and I open it up and there's a delivery man with this huge door sized cardboard package that signed for all that. Did you know anything? Cody texts as soon as I signed, because yeah, and he's like, don't open it. You get the Yeah, it's been delivered. What's written? What's written in letters? Mirror? Fragile mirror? So how did you resist not opening it? Opener?
But in you I want and you knew what you'd seen it? And can I say about a mirror, folks? What change your life?
Life changing? Yeah?
Life changing?
Full length mirror? Full length mirror, life changing?
You know what? Both goodly and badly?
Of course I can't stop, but it's you know what, it's like you got running back in three or four times, same outfit, all right?
In our Boggley Old House. It's got because the era is like nineteen thirties. So in our bedroom these is really weird, dinky little wooden built. Yeah, you know, they're built into the roof so they're all drafting winter.
So they're at the foot of.
The bed, these three full length mirror.
But sometimes I don't like to say you don't want to see in the mirror on the bed well bed, I we didn't put it in our bedroom.
No, don't put it put it in the bedroom. We put it in.
Don't put it in the bedroom because you know what I've realized. So standing in front of a full length mirror is good, yeah, but there are other things that you might do in a room, yeah, in which there's.
Very few good angles. Probably i'd say no mirror.
I'd say no mirror anyway, I'd say no mirror. But you know, mina so perverse.
Having a quick looks. Oh that min is so perverse that they just.
Enjoy watching Yeah, watching love horror movies, you know, but it's it's just mirrors can be quite confronting.
And you know, I'm a leo.
I love myself, even the degradation, but sometimes I'm like catch a glimpse of myself, and I think that can't be how fun it was. I'm totally backed, and when I arrived, I was a low ebb.
You were fine. I saw you according a ten kolua bottle.
Of course it's a traditional night record. But I'm really my tank is very close to empty.
Everyone's tired. So everyone's tired, right, So next week is our last episode, our Christmas special series finale, which would be fun. We don't know what that's going to We don't know what that means.
But Christmas Carol and sing it to us?
Are you kidding me? I've got so many? Can I choose? What have you got? I have a Christmas Carol playlist on my Spotify and I wait until December first every year and off I pop.
Okay, I love them all right, but what one? What are you going to play? I want something traditional?
Okay? My favorite Christmas Carol of all time is a is a weird one. It's good king when stepped out on the Okay, it's what is that? It's it's all Holy night? Oh you know that one? I don't know it.
Don't sing it?
No, we don't.
Your repaste?
Okay, I think what about the peace have been crosby one that he does.
It's dreaming of a wise Christmas, not one. I don't think outside or baby it's cold outside to come in. We're gonna have cancer? Who cares? What do you know? We don't care, but you're watching him.
Have been canceled?
Baby, come inside or get the full already love.
Though, or maybe we can do. That's hard because that's a two parter. Baby is cold because it's her. Remember my mothers would be worried about me. Yeah, it's a too part. Okay, maybe he's singing both.
We'll see what happened.
But a classic uh huh Silent nights? Okay, what about silent night?
That would be beautiful.
I might cry.
I did sing with the nuns at my communion in grade three. I still remember the song what did you see? Any Catholics listening are going to remember this straight away? I'm saying this with the nuns. Hello my God, it is me. Oh yeah, I know that sound. I love you. And then the nuns said, hello, my God, did I it is?
Were your nuns good ones?
Yes? They didn't hit you know, they were fun nuns, good nights? Yeah, super nice. The Christian brothers were mean, the priests were mean, but.
Also the nuns. Did you realize why the nuns were mean? Now? You realize now why the nuns were also mean? Well, because they were also keeping the secrets.
Oh yes, yeah, and and is not.
That's not going to be good for you. Do you know what I'm going to bring you in for our Christmas special? What the Clinton kill list? I'm just gonna treat you through the whole.
Because here it is. We're taking it out of the Clinton people.
Kill list, just for Christmas. Just take it away with you. Have a little You'll be lying on the beach somewhere and it'll just pop into your head.
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