What goes up must come down

Published Apr 7, 2025, 7:00 PM
  • Bring back pretty privilege
  • Never set soot in a hot air balloon
  • I've never seen you run
  • Things that annoy me
  • Text from mum

@thebuckuppodcast

@katelangbroek

@nathvalvo 

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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.

Oh I bye bye pick it daddy, b bye bet bo.

Hello, we'll be putting that clip online. The people need to see you know why.

I'm in such high spirits.

Sasha French and I say, Hello, Sasha French, change my mind.

We went and had a cold plunge.

This is let's tell the bikeheads. Hello, Kate Lanebrook, Nate Valleys am record.

Yes, unusual, So I know that it was really hard to drink my color.

Vomited twice already. Do you know how early today's record is? And it's made me think of two things. I will never do what you will never have me stepping foot in a hot air balloon? What on earth are people doing?

I don't know.

I'm looking out to the city scape and there's hot air balloons.

Go home, they look beautiful.

Stay in bed, why there's planes that have engines and propellers and all sorts of things that work, proven to work.

But they're taking you somewhere seably you want to go, hopefully paid work.

Most of the time, I can tell you Heaven or every second or the other one the other my.

People might be there, I mean, why would your people go?

The gays? Sometimes I think.

You meant the half Italian.

Sometimes I do think if Hell exists, and I do go there for being a moe, but that means every single gay person has ever existed is also there.

Not the worst, It's great, It's not the worst time.

All right. So you know I was raised to Jehovah.

Would you be there very quickly? And please excuse my ignorance with this question. Yes, is the heaven and Hell thing and all that the Jehoah.

So they don't really believe in hell as in a place of eternal you know toru. Oh sorry, yeah, well, but and they believe in a paradise Earth. So they only believe that therese one hundred and forty four thousand people who are going to heaven.

It's a communicated for VIP.

It's a beautiful got to get a stairs exactly the DJAS very controversial rope.

Yes, yes, anyway.

How many guys you got at Eastern Do you have any girls in your group? Remember that? I know.

But now girls don't even get favors.

Really, girls aren't getting priority entry daughter into clubs.

Beautiful and has got like three beautiful girlfriends that she goes out with.

They have to line up.

Yeah, and I'm showed so shocked by thees they have to buy drinks?

Sorry, Like what, yeah, chaos, what's happened? There should be someone approaching them on the street like when I was in my twenties and gives them drink cards and come in.

They've made all that illegal, but you know what, that's all just going to backfire on them.

Who made that illegal. Well I've never been interested in politics, but I'm getting in government. Bring back drink cards for hotties on the street. Yes, why not? That's my slogan.

Yeah, what happened to pretty privilege? Get privileged as they should.

Anyway, when I was raised to Jehovah's witness, I remember at the sitting in a meeting and I was really young, like eleven or whatever, and there was someone up and giving a talk. So on the Sundays, someone a some idiot would give at an hour lot like get his get his suit, his target suit and pull it on and you know.

Get up and lecture people, right.

And I remember they were talking about who would inherit the Paradise Earth. And I remember looking around the Kingdom Hall and the other Jehovah's witnesses, and I said to Mom, if these are the people that are going to get eternal life, I don't think I wanted it, and that my.

Folks at the beginning of the end, yes, but I.

Was like, not even being a smarter ass, I get it. I was literally like, these are not my pepe.

I get it.

I mean I'd like to and I do think I'm more probably I think i'd fit in better in Hell.

I open this podcast pop Hard in Hell, buck Up Live from Hell.

But also not even like not even croper Hell, like maybe the halfway waiting room for Hell.

Okay, we're not really the worst, like these people.

There's worse.

There's worse than us.

There's what thank you, that's the nicest thing you've ever said. That's worse than us.

But just some sort of Hell adjacent place for people.

Hell Light Hell, light, that's what you want? Hell light anyway, Hell yeah, hell yeah, Hello to our hot air balloon operators.

If the bad bad, bad.

You know what, I will put money on it that someone listening to this podcast got proposed to on a hot air balloon and I've ruined it for them. Well, maybe I haven't, Maybe they're sensitive.

I do believe that with a hot air balloon there's always someone who's really into it, loving it, and a group of people or the one significant other who isn't. I don't believe that you're explaining the man and the woman.

People just say the man into it.

I think certain men would be in it that is like going up just the flames of it and the gas of it. How much gas does this use? And they'd offer to help the guy with the rope when it crushes into the trees lands on some hospital roof.

Whereas you know, you're right traditionally, I mean, this is a traditional conversation. The woman's more like it's going to be in the picnic, maask like, you know she think it's got a ring in his pocket?

Of course.

I mean, if you're a woman and your partner you're not married to woman, well, big if if you're a woman, Oh that gets you, does it? If you're a girl or a woman, whatever word I'm allowed to use these days, if you're says to you were going on a hot air balloon, as if you're not going to think anything other than he's going to propose.

No, that's true.

And I would go as far as to say, if you're a woman and you get taken on ahead a hot air balloon by your boyfriend and he doesn't propose.

Absolutely few grounds for breaking up.

You're setting your alarm for three forty five?

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Rugging up to hover over meeting an oval? H you meet at an oval?

Do you know that?

You meet it a football oval? And and you know how we've kicked off on wicker the other day? This is the wicker, the wicker basket. This is the worst wicker.

Yeah.

And also you know what I don't like about it? I don't like that they can't tell you where you're going to come down.

They never can. They just say hold on tight and scream and away we go.

Where are you when you come down?

You?

When you come down? How do you get back?

I don't No one knows. Tight? And if you if you see the footage and even a good landing.

Yea, which very hard, Yeah it is. It's got impact.

That's a thud. You're like our seventy percent Coco chat and that hot air balloon wands with a thud.

And also, you know the other thing that I find very unappealing, So how BIG's the basket the wick?

It's not very big. It's not a big and they put you in there with all sorts.

It's like eighteen of you.

So it's like everyone in the world knows a lift right is very uncomfortable. That's only like three stories. But you're actually in with total strangers. You have to make small talk.

I know someone that went on one and said that you can't talk because the sound of the flame is so loud that you're up in the clouds with.

What I said, Well.

You, oh, maybe the potential sponsor.

Do you know what.

There's a conversation I once heard that I've never forgotten in my life. No, but it reminds me of the conversation that you'd have to have with the strangers that you were thrust into the hot air balloon with. And it was a husband and wife. And when I was in a hotel. I'd had a meeting in a hotel. I was an escort and.

I was coming down. How we met that is, I was coming down and.

An older man and his wife got in, like probably deep into their seventies, total silence as they stand. They're very neatly dressed, you know, the neat elderly beautiful. And then she said that green apple was nice, and he went, hmm.

But that stayed with me.

The deal, Isn't that? The deal?

I know it is.

You've got to find the person that you're going to be talking about green apples with in thirty years when everything hurts, everything hurts, That is.

A trip together.

Yeah, so I would have thought.

It's just stayed with me. Do you know to this day, I cannot compliment fruit to my husband.

No matter how good it is, you can't do it.

Reminded like the other night, are sliced up and Nick Juren and because you know he's gone, you know there's something going on with him with the sugar.

Yeah, he's still off it.

Can we just say this what is going on? I want to give a shout out to the Buckheads whose partner and I'm kicked off before but we're doing it again. When your partner goes through a health phase, there is nothing worse. You're guilt ridden, you're on the couch, you're eating like a pig. And they're not eating this. They're off running doing this. They've bought new shorts. If you walk into the loungey and your partner shows you new runners, they've got strap in for three months of hell.

I just don't like the worst.

He came out there the day and he came out of the shower and I was walking out of the bedroom and I said to him, oh, you look really fit, and he went, oh do I thanks?

And I went, when was the last time? When was the last time? Get that cat on the phone? Still after last week when he didn't.

Caught and didn't Well, we've cracked the case that Pete doesn't listen to me.

Stopped listening at some point he stopped listening.

Well, and he's too fit. You would think he has time to listen to all these runs he's going on and all this.

He's not running.

He's a cyclist, so and he can't listen on his bike.

No cyclists have headphones.

You're not supposed to.

They do, But it's the most dangerous thing you can do.

You got to hear people yelling at you.

Yeah, we need to know.

It's the same reason that he hates. He wouldn't let me have darkest legal tint in myr on my car.

Win not your spray tond Oh.

No, he's not anti dash, although my daughter would be okay anyway, he won't let me have it because bike riders can't see your intent when you're behind them, right. So he doesn't have headphones in, so that's cut out a lot of his listening time.

It's that thing about the green apples thrown me because you've gotten into my psyche here, because I also think I have that I'm just realizing, but about running out of things to talk about. And I feel that's why I never stop with him, especially if we're in public, getting a drink before something, if we go have a meal, I do not stop talking because I don't want another couple or someone else to go over at us. Am I sitting there not talking, But the couple's not talking are probably happier than anyone.

I don't think so. You don't think no, I don't think so.

I think there's something to be said for there is a comfortable silence.

But if you're out in a beautiful right in our relationship, but.

I feel the same pressure, like if Peter and I are out to dinner together.

Yeah, you're a podcaster. You're a broadcaster. I'm gon shirt to Dunton. You can shut I've got to keep up the jibber jabber, and sometimes.

I have to listen to things that interested in the kids.

Oh you know what he's gone into at the moment I can speak about him with total impunity now.

Because he doesn't listen. Welcome to you.

Yeah, it's actually great, but this could become therapy anyway.

He's now gone on a deep dive.

Not World War Two.

No, he's always in that.

That's always yeah.

Yeah, and sometimes that's there are bits of that that are not bad that he can share with you.

So like, oh really, for those of you listening, Kate Lanbrook just said sentence, there is bits of World War two that weren't bad. So I would love to know some examples. But that's not the time, so let's carry on.

Interesting.

Sure, But now he's gone on a deep dive on the Beatles.

Oh nothing after World War two. Straight men of a certain age love the Beatles.

He's always loved the Beatles, and he always played the guitar, and he's always sung a song, and I remember thinking, I don't.

Think this is a very good song.

How's his voice lovely?

He's got a reedy, sweet, sort of slightly off.

And when we say deep lovely documentaries listening to music.

Guy, it's your guy.

Oh, it's your guy, know that one who made the Hobbit.

Yes documentary, the eight hour documentary.

Exactly that he keeps trying to suggest that we watch together. But now it's led because he's so many arterial deviations.

Now he's gone down.

He's got The only thing I'm interested in about the Beatles is and I don't want to be disrespectful. I actually think they're amazing. I went to see Paul McCartney in concert against My Wheels still going, six years ago and he was amazing.

And he was amazing.

I've felt like I should apologize to him, but I would have had to explain what I was apologizing for anyway.

So, but he is like so immersed in them.

He started playing the guitar again, He's singing Beatles songs.

It's just not it's not me.

Well, it doesn't have to be you. You are allowed to have.

We've got to have things we share, and he's so immersed in it. The only aspect of the Beatles that I'm interested in.

Yoka.

Why hasn't there been some amazing drama movie or series TV series about Yoko?

I don't know.

We did manage to have one conversation where he was relaying some song that John had written or whatever, and I said he was reading the lyrics and the lyrics were so scrambled.

I said to him that stinks of Yoko. And guess what he then read on and it was Yoko.

She's still alive.

Yeah, she's still.

I think she's maybe she's a bit frat but anyway, how amazing. I'm totally interested in Yoko Owner. I'd go see a film about Yoko Owner love and her relationship the Beatles, just not then.

We need the Yoko og story.

I really want to How.

Disney keep making them about all the villains, we need one about Yoko.

Well, I don't think they could cast her as if it was she a villain.

Oh, this is a question for your husband. Yeah, bring here up next time me go out for dinner. But it just made me laugh, because whenever someone tells you that their partner's going through a phase, they never say it positively. Have you noticed no one ever goes, oh, yeah, he's it's so, it's great. He's getting really fit, he's looking after himself. It's and he's getting fit. But this one excession, he's eating well.

When they start cooking.

Like my girlfriend Alice, her husband Jars started a baking phase and we're so thrilled with it.

Baggets bagels doesn't sound healthy, stunning.

No, not healthy, not healthy. But that's a good phase when your husband's cooking.

Oh absolutely, But otherwise no, No. Cody said a sentence to me the other day, and God I laughed because I think he's right. We've been married for two years and we have been together. Is that all only to be together to ten? So that's it's all muddled into one gonna maybe eleven years. Whatever. He goes, I've never seen you run, so I've never seen me run? What's your point?

What?

They did him think?

I don't know, I've never seen you run. And he was really in thought. I could see him trying to figure out if he's actually ever seen me run, and I don't think he has.

Okay, I'm going to run a statistic by you. I read the other day ninety percent of adults over thirty will never run again.

How's that? But I run nine out of percent.

It's always out of That's an incredible number, very high. Scenes too. What do you mean go for a run? I didn't go down to the track.

No.

I think it's like we'll never run.

I'll run for something because I'm often running a bit late or of it. But you're not the normal runner.

Person, but will never run again? And in I think, up, you're.

Not the normal person. Just call me.

No, no, because Cody's me runs but I do. Yes. So I've got a theory about runners.

Okay, oh we love a theory.

Okay.

My theory is runners are either running away from something or running towards something.

These two types of runners, what do you think? So they're either running.

Towards fitness, they're goal oriented there whatever, running from the past or haunted?

Maybe did you escape demons?

I like this, what do you think Cody specifically?

It is towards something.

It's Queenslanders are quite fit. He grew up on the water. Family are all fit. They will surf, they all swim. That's like this, that's swimming there. We've got to state champ They always say state championships up those families. What does that want to write that down for Stanley is that state championships?

Well, no one even knows what that means.

He's got a fact check that everyone's always state champion in something someone told me all the day, who was it? There was state Shakespeare champion. I'm like, is that what?

I think?

You've played that up?

That's not a theme thing, you mean, what is it?

The most bullied person in the world.

And then you go to the Nationals, do you yeah? Maybe or to represent Australia. We're doing Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Maybe maybe we're.

You're going, well these lands nebby clean.

Maybe they should, you know, do an Australian Idol season where people just do Shakespeare person but so very fit family. And then he comes to Melbourne in his twenties, dark gray, many months of the year winter.

Not least work lake.

He just has to do something with that coastal energy. Just through that and give me the what you throw in nothing or the lockdowns.

You wouldn't like it.

So I feel like he's getting rid of of some coastal energy.

Oh so he's running away.

I would have.

Thought he's running towards fitness.

Yes, but I'm saying I think the energy is just it gets exerted up there quite naturally.

What exercise do you do?

I know I've asked you before, well to be fair. The dog we go hard, but we go hard, We go hard, you go hard? Do you know how hard it is to get that ball in my mouth? She throws?

How do you you don't go hard with Darby? He's been carried around by the butler?

What I don't know?

Look, you look right.

No, My raging anxiety disorder does a lot, burns a lot of calories, keeps me thin.

Okay, you know how overthinking is? Overthinking keeps me thin.

You know how I was telling you about Alice and jars and being a baker. I've got to tell you the most terrible thing that's happened to Alice. Yet we'll give us all a buck up? How does it work on this show?

Guarantee? If I said, hello, okay, Lane Brook, yet do.

We say late sush It's greatest producer.

Sorry, we were too fired up about the hot air boy baking.

Okay, So you know, in the course of a friendship, it's very important to allow your friends to evolve and to take on you.

And to grow. Yes, grow with them.

Yes, that's right.

And some I know that some friends are very resistant to their friends changing. So when my girlfriend Alice, who I love, she's Sunday's godmother, that's how I went to Vietnam with well, like we love each other. She really tested our friendship. Did you get fit last year or earlier this year? When she told me, and she didn't headline this, she told me this after the fact that she had takes can up.

Pickleball.

I okay, am convinced it's not real and it's a scam. I don't understand it. Is there a racket, there a ball, Is there a court?

It's some small court.

It sounds like a Ben Stealer comedy from the nineties.

It just isn't.

When I first heard about it, is there, I think there might be bad?

What hang on? Yeah, he said it was.

I don't know.

It's a great name. I don't know.

I think it's great A pickle no one, it's.

Kind of funny.

When Sasha and I first heard about it, we went, let's play pickleball, but then it became a thing.

We never played it, of course.

Hang on, did I hear is it someone? It's like half a time court.

Half or something. I don't know what they do.

I think they've got a paddle or a racket. There is a called pickleball.

Nothing that needs is good.

Thank you all right? Now let stay with me here.

Oh I'm with you.

So she just kind of said something something at my pickleball.

Dodgeball's the movie, by the way, day is.

That about pickleball?

No dodge different.

I don't know what that is either. I don't care.

I'm like a bank in Switzerland two percent interest, not even anyway. But Alice threw it into conversation the way you do when there's something you're ashamed of but you want to test how it's going to go down.

I think this because she.

Said, oh, something something in my pickleball on Saturday morning.

I said what, yep?

You know how you act like, yeah, we've discussed it, like saying to your mum when you want to go out when you're in grade eleven, I already told you I'm going.

Out on you. Just don't listen. Gas light so she told me more I went pickleball.

She went, I just wanted to do something that would get me fit, and she's not into fitness, so oh, I like that, you know she And she also she's stunning, and she's one of those people who's all is naturally just stayed in shape and stunning. She's got a perfect like j Low shape, so she's very femine and tiny waste anyway, great, So she mentions that to me.

I asked some questions.

I'm like, this is weird it It turns out she's going out with one of her She's going to it with one of her girlfriends who she grew up with, who spends a lot of time at Bunnings. That makes sense, right, I'm not going to pickleball with you. But she hasn't really mentioned it. We haven't really discussed it again. And then I get a message from not her but Jaz the other day and it's a photo of Alice in hospital.

Now I shouldn't collap, and I shouldn't because it was terrible.

What's happened on a pickleball injury?

A pickleball injury.

So let me just say this, Okay, an expression you never want used in relation to any part.

Of your body.

Oh, the word shattered her little finger on her left hand and her ring finger shattered. She had to have surgery yesterday. She had to have surgery from pickle Yeah, pickleball. She sent me photos of her hand. Her hand was blackened and blued. So what happened was she said she was going for the ball.

The pickleball.

Pickled ball?

Is that two balls?

One of the ball and one just don't know anything about it? And do you know what? You don't want to I don't want to go. She said she was going for the ball, and she had gained quite a lot of momentum and she was lunging for the ball, and she said she waited for herself to stop right and she didn't stop, and next minute her hand went down to the ground and her hands stopped her. And I said to her, now this let this be a teachable moment. When we were talking about it, and I called her at the hospital and you know, we were just talking. We actually were laughing, even though she was in pain.

She was probably cooked up on the I think she was.

And I said to her, and this sums up what a mistake pickleball is. I said, well, that's the end of your six month pickleball adventure flirtation. She said, oh no, six weeks snow journey blade for six weeks.

Six weeks and she ended up shattered.

I just googled pickleball. I don't want to be friends with that guy's.

Squatting got in his It is a paddle. It's a paddle anyway, just let it.

You on a boat. No, why you're holding a paddle?

Why you're holding a paddle but chipping pongs? Al right on a weekend away.

This is a buck up? Whygan pickleball?

Because of what it did?

Yeah, shut at her fingers.

And also it really gave us a buck up. She'd only been doing it for six weeks, since she'd be done in Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good moment. That's a lesson. That's you know what that is our.

Four bears eating the poison berries so we don't have to.

And you know, we're all about living long on this bot, aren't we?

Oh you haven't.

No, but if we've got but what if we find out the pickleball is the secret to a long line. Well, we know it isn't It's not the Mediterranean diet. Or living in a blue zone.

Secret.

None of those people in none of the okinawans pickleball playing pickleball. None of them are Can you imagine an Italian saying I'm playing pickleball.

Pickle would be about literally pickling the food and the gig, the eating and the oil and the more food. Thank you your people, pickleball. We're gonna get bullied. We're going to go online with the pickleball community.

You mean she's making me another ragoo?

Oh no, but we can just request she'll be stoked.

I mean I don't want to be.

She takes requests because I've.

Complimented her ragou a lot.

She takes requests, she listen, she doesn't teaching.

I just don't want to be taking food out of the mouths of your family.

But I don't think you treat her with the respect she deserves.

I actually, do you take her food for granted? If I don't, I'm not in the position to be able to.

We'll have a ragoo party.

Oh I love her?

Is that such a thing. We'll invent her do whatever we want, right. You know what happened the other day and I was a bit email about this. I don't want to call my family out on this. Went out to my car and the neighbor was packing boxes of empty jars, long big jars. Her Italian husband is making costa. And then I remembered Source Day was a big event in our childhood, known his backyard. They're in Brunswick. Everyone had different jobs. I'd get told off of doing it wrong. I wouldn't take it seriously and just we would go home with literal creates. Of course, the source that would last months. Yes, then it stopped, and all of us cousins, all of our family, none of us have continued with it after the passing of our grandparents. We didn't continue.

That sucks, Okay, I can't be bothered organizer, all.

Right, So I want someone else to do it.

You know, do you know what you've just today? You know you've just summed up the entire world. That's so true, the entire world. We all want stuff to happen. They should do something about they should you know what they should do?

Whose they?

They? Is?

Week? Can you see merising past sauce day? The jars, the tables, the machines, the grinder, so much. Let me do five tons of tomatoes. I've got to get shipped.

In all right, who give be bothered?

You've got to do all the special cleaning for the jar.

What you're actually happy to that thing that makes the jar close?

You know what you're actually you know what you've established, you're actually so happy about Pasata day, having.

Died with your I'm actually not.

You are Sauce on tap, sauce on tap for come from magic. Then a couple of years ago a friend of mine did Sausage Day my husband with her family and they went hard. There was all sorts of sausages of even a bloody vegetarian option. That's new for the community. I mean I wasn't doing that.

What's in the vegetarian nothing good? What noterally? What could they put in there? Sure?

I wasn't paying attention to that table and water.

Any who?

Maybe if there is a bucket in Melbourne that does source day, please invite me. I'll come. I'd come to come along.

I dream of it.

Do a live ob a live buck up from past to time.

Oh that we'd love Sash would love it.

It's so good, do it well.

The buck up was that you don't have to get involved in in.

No but you say it, but your actions indicate that you don't.

You know how much we laugh a bad, bad, bad, bad bad, a bad bad.

Celebrity starting, Oh, yes, you're gonna love this. The other day about the cafe around the corner, I needed to get out of the house. You go to the cat often really not off.

I mean, have you had another mont Blanc?

No?

But I do get the takeaway coffee there in the morning. But go to a cafe as in go and sit there right me too, never Haly Ever, but because of the writing thing that I'm doing at the moment, it's kind of good to maybe have a different background for a com People.

Who listen to this pod would not be aware of this, that you're quite talented, quite talented.

So I had to just change the background. So let's go get to the car. So I took solo, solo, did the wanky thing. Oh here we go. What a wanker. I'm so insecure about doing my work in public that even when if I'm on a flight and I should be doing something, I don't because I don't want someone look and seeing that I've got a script opened by absolute wanker.

But my girlfriends got one of those security guards on her phone.

Yes, I used to have that, but I broke it.

They're really annoying.

Tops different.

Yeah, they said, no, people have got a thing.

You can get it on your laptop as well that it guards your screen.

Dealing with like graphs. Sure, I don't care. KPI must say.

I'm always if I'm next to someone on the plane, I'm always looking what they're looking. You know what, I'm really scared that one day the man next to me will be looking at pornography.

That's not going to happen. Wi Fi enabled.

And then you know what I did. I watched a show that I'd never heard of before.

It was a short flight, so I had to watch go to a box seat and watch it.

And then there was a full on sex.

A full on sex scene and you're sitting there watching it.

And then I thought, what am I worried about the guy next to me?

Look what, I he's a problem.

Watch someone straddles someone and ride them into town. We're trying to eat a chicken and fetter pie.

Just not right.

But are you paranoid about that that you'll see it someone doing that.

On the plane.

Yeah, it's just because also men.

Have lost I would say predominantly mean. Because of the pornification of the world, people I've lost their boundaries. Like I was thinking the other day that even when we talk about stuff in front of kids, people will go, oh, that's real estate porn or that's food porn. Will use those expressions in front of children. That's how desensitize we are.

Here we go. I'm with your yes to what is just life's pleasures. Lunch is not porn. It's lunch, it's just born.

Yeah, it's just what you said. It's an expression in front of chills.

Stop saying it.

Stop saying stop saying it. Stop saying it, and also stop watching it.

You're much better off when you don't watch it.

No, you really are.

So I told you when hughs he stopped doing it.

What do you do? Got very handsy, he didn't Sitting in the cafe, all right, and this man walks in and I'm like, oh, he's famous. And you know, when that thing starts in your head, you're like, oh, what's the show, what's the show? What's the show? And then he ended up actually sitting down. He was reading the newspaper. See he got a takeaway, but sat down. It was just a newspaper on the on the tables.

I can't remember the last time I saw a newspaper in a cafe.

Yeah, oh yeah, just like yeah, sat down drinking his takeaway coffee, and I just became fixated on figuring out who is this guy? And it in my head in it was so many minutes.

Give me a give me a demographic.

Had a bit of facial hair, very very good hair, you know, all of that, handsome, handsome yeah, yep, yep.

Tall.

Turns out it was my hairdresser. It to me so long TV show, going through all the shows one like, he's your hairdresser, you idiot?

Minute didn't he recognize you?

It was quite a distance, it was from the other corner I'm sitting. No, no, no, all fine, maybe he did, but we're not we're not close enough to talk. And also he's probably got two hundred people to remember, everyone knows who he is, right.

Obviously not.

Very funny. And then I noticed I don't know his name because when I book on the thing, there's like I just there's five of them, and no matter who I click, it's him. Oh it's a long the related that a male.

So you know what you've got mate.

Buddy, got buddy Champs or mate. Yeah, there is a male relationship with the barber is an odd one because there's only two hairstyles you can get as a guy, just you know, number one or two around the size and a bit.

Off the top.

What else you're going to get? Mate?

Yeah?

Like what on earth could you possibly ask for?

Yeah?

So there's a barber shop on every corner. Now have you noticed that there's so many barbershops are a front?

Well, it's time I was in Bali and there'd been a long gap between when I was in Bali, so it's been like ten years or.

Twelve years or whatever.

Literally every second shop is a barbershop, and I'm like, that's the front.

This is what I feel, my little theory. Guys get their hair cut so much more now it's we're getting it. I'm getting my hair out of every two weeks and it's a thirty buck fifteen minutes the same shab. I couldn't think of anything more nerve wracking.

What is this? I No, when you're going to know when you go to barber here are they doing? Like they're doing those old Western movies and they're lathering you up and they're getting out the stick.

If you go to those very old schools and have those like seventy year old Italians still doing that, they do it. I've often seen it. I don't think anything could make me hot, air ballooning, or someone else shaving me with a razor in the middle of a barber I've got.

A fantasy about myself doing.

It to your husband or getting it done to you. What oh, oh, okay, go to a barber shop one day and this getting a razor. Nobody do it. You don't need it, saying you need it. You have a beautiful stah, hang on, beautiful hell is beautiful hair space.

You can't. Also, you know what the giveaway was your tail was.

If you're a poker, know that the way that you absolutely convulsed with laughed, that was the tail, my friend. No, I've got a fantasy the same way. I've got a fantasy from an old Western film that I'll fill up a tub in the middle of a room with a screen behind it, and Niker is hanging over it, and I'll give some dirty old cowboy a good scrubb and.

I get it. I just remember his name. Thank you for that, Thank you for the it's doing a good job with you in and out. You know, I love it very small, two or three seats max, even when anyone else he really want is a man? What do you want? No booking?

Oh no, no booking every What do you mean as a man?

Everyone risky for a woman because your hair takes an hour and a half.

Go to my car a practice a male?

No booking barber?

Do I w Have you seen a new car yet?

No?

I haven't seen him yet. I haven't seen no back jock pictures, Cairo practice.

Come on, we're all wait.

You know what I haven't told you? Oh we haven't cooked up for a while.

Yeah, here we go. Okay, let's day right now.

I read a thing.

About lower back pain. I'm now taking ten thousand milligrams of vitamin D a day.

Yeah.

I think it's like and K so that gets absorbed right, Oh, look at you K two K two?

So you are what do vitamin K?

Vitamin K? I just had some vitamin D. I'm doing ten thousand, which I think is.

It seems ten?

Yeah it is. I think it's taking a toll on my.

Coming out in your Wii. It's a different weird.

Hole it's sunshine. It's sunshine, it's so shine, saying you thought it was going to be great, But can I just guess what? What my back stop?

Give it to me?

Some say, because you know I will do anything for your lower back.

No, but also to invoke some magic rather than go see a professional.

But isn't vitamin D on tap for free from the sky? It is get out there and get under the sun and have.

Time to get out there. I'm really busy, but it doesn't take long to take tablets.

It really doesn't. Some gaze without sunglasses. Take your top off and get some Vitamin D while you're at it.

You know your petty annoyances? Yes, the ironically the annoying segment that sometimes plays on the buck up.

But we love it.

Because things that annoy me we get it out. I hate how hang on?

Do you need the intro? It's things that annoy me that I'm doing this. You are. I knew this would grow on you in they knew you'd come around.

Well, it's a it's a perennial with Americans. Please do when Americans in films or on TV have to take medication, they don't. Why do they always do a dry swollow. What is wrong with this?

Let's talk about they swallow pills. You have to be over the sink, you have to have water, you have to battle it, you have to put your head right back. It's like a whole thing.

But this guy in white Lotus for gardens and they do it all the time. The dad was actually in the bathroom standing over the sink and he did a dry swallow.

I'm going to tell you something and maybe gonna know why I married the guy.

Cody's a dry swallow.

He's swallowing skills. No, no, no, listen. I won't even get a video of him doing it. For the buck up install he can throw four in and swallow dry.

What about tablets?

There's people out there that do this dry swallowing.

Why does he try swallow? But every American is a dry swallower?

But only in TV shows? Well how do we know? Well that's a good point.

That's what you can only go off the representation of.

If it wants to be realistic, someone needs to have the glass of water and then do that painful swallow.

Because they do it all the time, it makes me think that really is a thing that they do, Like say, aluminum that, because otherwise.

Someone would go yes, ub a Regan.

I like to say regano O whya.

So the favorite of the things you play that segment intro again when your podcast hosts there's a Reagan.

What about when your podcast has done nothing but slam.

One of your ideas.

And then willing, nearly out of nowhere, starts to play along.

I love it. And this is why I love you. It's because you're open to the world and its possibilities, as you always say, right yes, Dana Buckhead, Dana message.

Oh I love a message. We haven't had any messages from Actually we.

Have, but we just are so delayed in checking them. So please don't stop check them. No, we're not letting you know in Europe because you put.

Them and they What about the one that I brought you last week from the American I don't even know how I got that.

You read something?

Did you read it?

But whenever you grab your phone and read something out and it works, I'm always really impressed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So am I the Buckhead Christmas special in December, I gave a hot tip to survive Christmas was to just copy elderly men or your dad or your uncle and just leave the room. Yeah, and wan stand in the back and gaze out and stand and gay.

Yes, ye men of a.

Certain age, just look out.

Yeah, the storm.

What do you want?

Skull island prawns?

But go on, buck Dana messages this. There is an actual Italian term for this exact thing. Morel, We're gonna say m morel Morel is an Italian folk term that refers specifically to elderly men, usually retired, who spend their time watching construction sites, often with their hands clasped behind their back. The term originates from the Bologna dialect and has gained popularity across Italy. You can buy a doll an umeral door.

You can buy the dolls and they're made out of reason. They're gorgeous, and it's men peeping through.

Yeah, it's that.

It's that man and they peep through. You know how on construction sites they leave a hole? I do, and you put that I can't remember what it's called.

The umarello. You can put him on your desk and watch you while you were I want why they're beautiful.

So there we go. There is a term for.

I've forgotten about that in Bologna.

I love it.

Do you want a little buck up?

Yeah, that's why I'm here this early in the morning. May too, I haven't even had breakfast. You know, there's certain things that we love, like hullabaloo, love it up. It's away life changing.

Do you think we could get her on Oh my god, please ch some jazz.

We couldn't tell her that we do if she got the offer to come on our pod and then checked our Instagram.

But also then we'd have to ask about what happened to him. Okay, I forget that. That's a bad idea. But you know, there are certain things that stay with you in life.

Herpes.

I think they can get rid of that. Now there's the bark.

I think they can see you next week.

I'm off to the doctor.

One of them that I love is just a phenomenon that comes around every I'm going to say half a dozen years, and its foreign accent syndrome.

Uh huh.

So people will have a medical episode when they come to.

Before you play this. Yeah, let me just say yeah. I truly think when this happens, it is one of the funniest things in the world. Me too, in the world.

I don't think it. Maybe it is for the person, but I don't know if it's like a real thing. But they do seem to be real and genuine.

Apparently it's real.

So there's a few cases in the world, and I know, I don't want to sound like a specialist in the field, but I know all of them.

I do your Roman Empire. Yeah, people that have strokes and voices, You're right.

And their accents change.

And this one, I don't know why this popped up the other day, but I'm like, oh, hello, old free.

Oh I reckon, I know it is the Sarah Colbol from Plymouth in England is a dead set pom who now sounds like she's from Shanghai.

It wasn't until I was in Umberlance on the way to the hospital to actually say are you aware of the way us speaking? And I said, oh, I sound like a solo and she said, no, you sound like you can work at Chinese one.

You believe it?

Yes, I do, well, I do. Because she was so not a grifter.

And just a regular person.

I think so, and.

Everyone around her was like, but I want to know where sash greatest producer in the world. A lot of free time, can you find out where she is now and what she sounds like?

Now, did she have another stroke? Unfortunately? I have a sol snapped her back.

I just amazing because there's a whole lot of them and they never do a follow up.

Never happen. Where are they now? Where are they with the accent?

Yes, with foreign accent syndrome? And also then people get angry at them because you know how people are now sensitive cultural appropriation, which is really only something that westerner is believe in.

For instance, it doesn't trouble Beyonce with her long blonde week, do you know what I mean? For sure?

And I totally get why black women have had this pressure to have you know, western style hair, but it don't have to.

Be blonde, okay, right, So.

They get a lot of heat about going can you imagine her going through life? Also, she couldn't go to a Chinese restaurant?

Why not?

It wasn't until I was in Umberlance on the way to the hospital. Actually say are you aware? Do were you are speaking? She can always sound like you can? She said, no, you sound like you can work at a Chinese one.

She cannot go into a Chinese she absolutely cannot. So she's going to find her. We're going to find her and we're going to make her where she is. See what she's doing.

Oh, I love her.

And hey, if there's any buckads listening that had a stroke and woke up the next day and I was speaking in a different accent, we love you. It's weird, it's rare, but it's very they exist.

Why do you have to acknowledge every.

Because it's the right thing to do, because he's having a kind heart.

But that's not this podcast. I think you've forgotten.

Well, I think you are forgetting how many people out there that might have this condition and there could be more listeners.

Oh yes, finally we are being hurt.

That's a boy.

But that's that.

This is the whole point of this second was that you can do the accent and they'd say, but I'm doing her.

What you were emitting is I just had a mini stroke.

From This is a positive one from Lynn, but it's just so confusing because what mums of a certain age need to realize is that no one else except them knows where everyone is in their pregnancy journey. Who's due, who's having this, who's having that. I have a very big family. Okay, so many people. Will you give me numerical value in terms of what how many? Mum comes from a family of ten. So there's ten siblings there, every single one of them except Uncle Trev hello Uncle Trev former priest. The other nine or married and have kids?

How many kids on average do they each have?

Or then there's Dad's side, he's got he's one of four. They have all married a kids. I think I get it a bit wrong. First cousins, I think in the thirties, low forties.

Okay, that's wow, that's why your wedding was political.

I remember right, why my show so well? The conen yes, very haead coming on Wednesday, big family. Yeah, and now cousins kids are old. I was at a wedding last week and my cousin's kids are twenty year eighteen fifteen?

What yeah?

Oh I remember them being born and they're in Uni. That's crazy.

And you know what will happen next You'll be at their wedding, crazy and you'll be kooky Uncle Nate cookie, Well, how would they describe Let's go kookie uncle Nate and his husband's away. Everyone should have a gay uncle so much. It's devastuding to me that I don't have one.

It's pretty great.

Mine had multiplecrosis and was at Jehovah's witness.

But I did adore him beautiful. But he wasn't gay. Although when Dad did you in that because when Dad died that for some reason, there were all these weird photos that were brought up.

We were in lockdown, right, and my brother came down from Queensland for the funeral and we were only allowed to have ten people, and so there were these weird photos that got batted up. And in one of them, because Dad's always been like Mam all Off and said, when I met your father, I thought it was a homosexual, right, because Dad's always been European and not particularly Marcho or whatever. Anyway, there was a photo that, in the midst of all the you know, grief and the plans or whatever, there was a photo of him with a guy, a black and white photo where they were both wearing trench coats and one of them was tied with like a glittery scarf and they had their arms around each other. And I went, oh, my goodness, oh my goodness, my father, my father was a homosexual man.

And I didn't mention it to anyone, because I'm like, I don't want to try this spanner in the.

Works whatever, why would you for the podcast?

And then after that at the funeral, that was one.

Of the photos that was framed and put at the front with the flowers, and I'm like, this is not right. And I just said to mom who chose that photo? And she said which photo? And I said that photo of dad with that guy. She goes, that's his brother that's on core. So it was a photo of him with his brother.

This is a white loaders up.

It was so strange, that whole journey that he took me on.

It's a long journey.

Anyway, everyone should have a gay uncle.

So Lynn does this often. She sends a photo the other day of a six six hour old baby. The photos right up close. It's just this wet, new red baby, eyes closed, nurse hand on the head. Sends it to the app and just leaves it and then I write back, who whose is that? And she writes back like in caps alis, okay, sorry, sorry, I didn't know who that was. Does it quite often so my text from mum is a random baby. And there's been many random babies, which is furious at me. About knowing bad about You're an idiot, bad bad, bad, bad bad bad and then sometimes you said bad about it's your cousins.

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