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The Mystery of the Mykonos Suitcase · Outspoken the Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
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  Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sophie Torber and coming up on today's show, Laura Byrne
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  Speaker 1: and Maddie J's big announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Fans set to pay over $ 9, 000 for Tammy Hembrough's Greek retreat.
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  Speaker 1: As she binds surgery update and our highs and lows
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  Speaker 1: of the week. But first, we need to unpack the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of the Mykonos suitcase.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you've got me intrigued. What has gone on?
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  Speaker 1: So UK influencer Anastasia Kingsnorth shouted around 10 of her
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  Speaker 1: best friends a week in a stunning villa in Mykonos
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  Speaker 1: and she vlogged the whole experience and they spent a
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  Speaker 1: number of nights drinking on the town.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you fast.
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  Speaker 1: Forward to the second to last day of their trip,
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  Speaker 1: Anna opened her suitcase to discover that someone had been
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  Speaker 1: sick in it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what she said.
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  Speaker 3: Got a mystery on our hands. Guys, my suitcase has
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  Speaker 3: been done up this whole entire trip, right? We have
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  Speaker 3: just opened it. There's sick in my suitcase and the
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  Speaker 3: full insert with my knickers has been ripped out and
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  Speaker 3: is gone. We have literally not opened this suitcase the
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  Speaker 3: whole entire trip and we can't find the insert anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: And they're sick in it. I've never been more confused.
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  Speaker 1: When I heard this, I was so confused because I
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  Speaker 1: was like, why hasn't she opened her suitcase, which contains
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  Speaker 1: all of her clothes and underwear for the whole trip?
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  Speaker 1: But she did provide some context when she got back home.
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  Speaker 1: So she explained that when she packed her suitcase initially,
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  Speaker 1: there was a little insert and it was where she
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  Speaker 1: put all of her bikinis and underwear.
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  Speaker 2: And when she arrived at the villa, she.
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  Speaker 1: Unpacked her suitcase but left a couple of pairs of
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  Speaker 1: her underwear in there because she had overpacked. I love
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  Speaker 1: that this is so surprising to you, someone actually unpacking
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  Speaker 1: their suitcase when they arrive.
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  Speaker 2: Not something you'd do. No, who can be bothered?
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  Speaker 1: Now, she did end up putting her suitcase to the
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  Speaker 1: corner of the room and she didn't touch it for
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  Speaker 1: the entire trip until the second last day when she
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  Speaker 1: opened it up whilst drunk and clocked that someone had
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  Speaker 1: vomited in there and that her underpants were gone.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: So she opens it and there's just vomit and no undies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It looked like someone had got a pair of
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  Speaker 1: scissors and cut out this insert to get the underpants out.
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  Speaker 2: She was running late for a day trip.
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  Speaker 1: So she left her bag like that for 24 hours
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  Speaker 1: and thought, I'll deal with it when I got back home.
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  Speaker 2: The smell. It would have reeked.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the thing is she showed video of this
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  Speaker 1: suitcase and there were a ton of clothes in there.
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  Speaker 1: She had her curling wand in there. All of it
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  Speaker 1: would have that smell attached to it.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Now that night when she finally got back from the
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  Speaker 1: day trip, she asked her friends if they had anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what she said.
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  Speaker 4: And I asked everybody in the house multiple times if
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  Speaker 4: it was them and everybody has told me it's not.
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  Speaker 4: So I genuinely have no idea what has happened to
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  Speaker 4: my suitcase. Somebody came up with a theory that we
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  Speaker 4: got broken into because on one of the nights we
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  Speaker 4: came back and when the doors was wide open, so
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  Speaker 4: everybody was like panicking, checking their stuff straight away. Like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my God, is anything gone? Nothing had gone, which
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  Speaker 4: was the really weird thing. So everyone kind of came
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  Speaker 4: up with a theory of like, did they come in
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  Speaker 4: and they went to like open my suitcase to take
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  Speaker 4: a load of things? And then because they were drunk,
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  Speaker 4: they were sick, panicked, cut it out, dispose of the piece,
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  Speaker 4: put the suitcase back and left.
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  Speaker 1: This was the best bit of the vlog because why
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  Speaker 1: would someone break into your villa, not bother taking the
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  Speaker 1: expensive vlogging equipment that was there or the laptops or
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  Speaker 1: your jewelry, but stumble across a case... cut out some
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  Speaker 1: undies and then vomit in it. Like it makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no detective, but it's pretty obvious that this was
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  Speaker 1: one of her friends who has vomited in the suitcase
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  Speaker 1: and not had the nerve to tell her. Yeah, especially
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  Speaker 1: considering she's just shouted them an all expenses paid trip.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're hardly going to say, oh yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: me who ruined all of your stuff by vomiting all
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  Speaker 1: over it. I think they've got thrown over the underpants
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  Speaker 1: being stolen and they're reading too much into that. Like
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  Speaker 1: they think some kind of creep has gone in, stolen
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  Speaker 1: these underpants, But I think one of the friends has
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  Speaker 1: just gotten drunk, cut them out and thrown them off
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  Speaker 1: the balcony. Well, they were talking about what a huge
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  Speaker 1: piss up this weekend was and that people were absolutely obliterated.
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  Speaker 1: So perhaps one of her friends can't actually remember doing it.
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  Speaker 1: But it is so clear it's one of the friends.
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  Speaker 1: But the friends seem to be trying to point fingers
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  Speaker 1: at other people. So they said that maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: the pool guy there or the superintendent of the villa
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  Speaker 1: or the cleaners. So they made the staff at the
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  Speaker 1: villa check through security cameras. And they said that they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see anyone entering the villa. So that also squashes
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  Speaker 1: the chances that it was a robber who went there.
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  Speaker 1: So well, Anastasia even asked her audience on YouTube, like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you guys think? Write in the comments below.
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  Speaker 1: And I laughed so much reading some of these comments.
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  Speaker 1: So someone wrote, I would be fuming if I paid
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  Speaker 1: extra to book my mates a holiday for one of
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  Speaker 1: them to be sick in my suitcase and cut it up.
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  Speaker 2: What a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else wrote, But surely no money or belongings were taken,
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  Speaker 1: just vomit and a cut up suitcase.
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  Speaker 2: Someone's lying, Anna.
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  Speaker 1: Another person wrote, she really has some shit friends, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest. Maybe this is all a rage baiting technique
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  Speaker 1: to get people to comment and engage with the video
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  Speaker 1: because it is so obvious that this is one of
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  Speaker 1: her friends.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be really, really good.
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  Speaker 1: Tammy Hembrough has celebrated her one year anniversary with her fiance,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Zukowski. And hasn't so much happened in a year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because just.
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  Speaker 1: Four months into their relationship, they got engaged in the Maldives.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was that scandal after the Grand Prix where
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  Speaker 1: Matt got caught out DMing a random girl. We then
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  Speaker 1: had the wedding invite leak. And now we are just
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  Speaker 1: three months out from their nuptials. I am so excited.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank them for providing the goods. There's
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  Speaker 1: been so much to talk about this year with Tammy
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  Speaker 1: and Matt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there really has been.
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  Speaker 1: And to mark the occasion, Tammy shared a series of
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  Speaker 1: photos of the couple hugging and And she wrote year
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  Speaker 1: one of and did the affinity emoji. She also included
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  Speaker 1: a photo of the presents Matt got her. And so
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  Speaker 1: if you'll be pleased to hear that he has now
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  Speaker 1: upgraded from the service station flowers. Yeah, I saw he
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  Speaker 1: bought her a really stunning bunch from a florist. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if he's listened to this podcast. There is no
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  Speaker 1: shame with the service station flower. I just think it's
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  Speaker 1: the thought that counts. I mean, Dale got me Audi
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  Speaker 1: flowers the other day and he said, sorry, these are Audi.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought of you. Yeah, it's better than nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely a step in the right direction. I really
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  Speaker 1: like that Matt went to the effort of giving Tammy
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  Speaker 1: a keepsake gift. So he collected all of the corks
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  Speaker 1: from the champagne bottles that they had consumed together. And
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  Speaker 1: on each of the corks, he wrote down exactly where
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  Speaker 1: they were or what they were doing when they had
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  Speaker 1: had the champagne. Yeah, and on the lid of the
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  Speaker 1: huge jar that these corks were in, Matt wrote, Dear Tammy,
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  Speaker 1: happy one year to you, always and forever, and wrote
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  Speaker 1: the date. But what was a bit weird is that
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  Speaker 1: the date is actually in a couple of weeks' time,
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  Speaker 1: so they are celebrating this one-year anniversary early.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure why.
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  Speaker 1: Tammy shared a photo of her holding some of the corks,
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  Speaker 1: and I spied that a few of them were from
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  Speaker 1: the Maldives.
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  Speaker 2: And also their trip to Port Lincoln. So I love
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  Speaker 2: that South Australia got a bit of a shout out there.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if any of these corks were from the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Prix, because they seemed.
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  Speaker 2: To have quite a large night that night.
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  Speaker 1: Matt seemed to, and he said he was popping a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bottles of champagne, but I get the feeling
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to remember that night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were probably left out.
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  Speaker 1: I always wonder with these keepsake gifts, for someone like Tammy,
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  Speaker 1: would she really want a jar of corks up in
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  Speaker 1: her aesthetically pleasing house? I think that she would love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's always very cute when your partner does something sentimental.
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  Speaker 1: I remember growing up, we had a few jars of
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  Speaker 1: corks as decorations.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this is a 90s thing that is coming back
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  Speaker 2: in fashion.
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  Speaker 1: In the photo that Tammy shared where she was holding
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  Speaker 1: the corks, it was quite unfortunate because her leg was
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  Speaker 1: positioned in this way where it was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: an optical illusion. So you could only see her body
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  Speaker 1: and it looked like she had this pregnant belly when
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  Speaker 1: it was just her knee. And it did lead to
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  Speaker 1: a couple of people writing in saying, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: are you actually pregnant?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: I feel so bad for them having to cop those
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  Speaker 1: comments because Matt has been really open talking about the
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  Speaker 1: fact he's actually infertile. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the couple have said.
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  Speaker 1: That they want to investigate all of their options once
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  Speaker 1: they're married. So it's not something they probably particularly want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about right before their wedding. Now, there was
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  Speaker 1: also something else that people noticed in this photo dump.
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  Speaker 1: And it was that Matt's nose appeared to be blurred
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  Speaker 1: in one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the photos. It almost looked like he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a nose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, in the photo, he is kissing Tammy's forehead.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what's happened here is that she was
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  Speaker 1: blurring maybe a blemish on her face and she's accidentally
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  Speaker 1: gone into his nose. And being a typical girl, usually
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  Speaker 1: you only look if you look okay in the photo
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh yeah, that looks great. But not
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  Speaker 1: realizing your partner's nose has disappeared. It looks like they
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  Speaker 1: celebrated with a really fancy dinner. So Tammy posted photos
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  Speaker 1: of herself in a plunging black gown. And she is
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  Speaker 1: just a few weeks out from her breast revision surgery.
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  Speaker 1: And her boobs were getting a lot of attention in
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  Speaker 1: the comment section. One follower wrote, you should be in
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  Speaker 1: your post-op bra girl. Whilst another said, the girls are girling.
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  Speaker 1: Matt added, hottest woman alive and she is mine. going
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  Speaker 1: to put it out there.
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  Speaker 2: I quite like Tammy and Matt now.
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  Speaker 1: They've had a few bumps in the road, but the
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  Speaker 1: more I see of them on TikTok, the more obvious
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  Speaker 1: it is that they have a real chemistry together. I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen Tammy look so happy. And they do look
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  Speaker 1: really good together. It's kind of like Barbie and Ken
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  Speaker 1: are getting married. And also, I always really liked Matt
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  Speaker 1: on his podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's quite funny.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a few incidents like the Grand Prix that
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  Speaker 1: have put a few question marks over his behavior.
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  Speaker 2: But I can forgive it because I am just desperate
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  Speaker 2: to see this woman get married. We've had a few
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  Speaker 2: false starts. I want to see what her wedding is
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  Speaker 2: going to be like. I want to see the dresses
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  Speaker 2: that she'd choose.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's going to be very busy in the lead
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  Speaker 1: up to the big day because a month out from
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  Speaker 1: the wedding, she's holding a retreat in Greece. And this
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  Speaker 1: is in conjunction with the release of her book, So
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  Speaker 1: to refresh your memories, Tammy released a book a few
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  Speaker 1: months ago, which was a biography which also included a
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  Speaker 1: mix of motivational content. And the retreat is called Show Up,
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  Speaker 1: and it's being held in Greece between the 21st and
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  Speaker 1: 27th of October. Yeah. And it's being touted as this
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  Speaker 1: intimate and exclusive event where pretty much you're going to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with Tammy Hembrough as if she's a friend.
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  Speaker 1: And there's only 19 spots available. So on the website,
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  Speaker 1: it says you were invited to live a week accompanied
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  Speaker 1: by Tammy Hembrough in Greece for a transformative experience. Here's
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  Speaker 1: how Tammy described the event.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be really, really good. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to get to know personally, like each and every one
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  Speaker 2: of the people that are going to be on this trip.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this six day retreat is not cheap. So the
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  Speaker 1: accommodation is included in the price, but the flights are not.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to pay to get yourself there on
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  Speaker 2: top of this.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the ticket for this retreat, it includes workshops
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  Speaker 1: with Tammy, daily brunches and dinners, transport, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: extra experiences and goodie bags, which I'm sure are sponsored.
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  Speaker 1: Now there are two different packages. So you can either
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  Speaker 1: select your own private room or you can have a
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  Speaker 1: shared room where you'll be put in with a random.
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  Speaker 2: So how much is a ticket? Well, so if you
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  Speaker 2: are open to sharing with a.
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  Speaker 1: Random, it is $ 8, 238. And if you want your own
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  Speaker 1: private suite, it's $ 9, 885.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get to share with Tammy for eight grand?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think she'll be staying within the vicinity
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  Speaker 1: of this villa.
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  Speaker 2: I was super curious.
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  Speaker 1: So I did a reverse image search of the villas
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  Speaker 1: that Tammy shared on her website. And they're a collection
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  Speaker 1: of three villas. So one of the villas holds 10
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  Speaker 1: people and the other two hold six people. So the
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  Speaker 1: villa that holds 10 people costs you $ 130 a night
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  Speaker 1: per person, which I thought was quite reasonable. So that
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  Speaker 1: works out to $ 916 for.
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  Speaker 2: You to stay there a week.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the other villa that holds six people is $ 172
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  Speaker 1: a night per person. working out to around $ 1, 204 a week. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: so you're basically paying $ 8, 000.
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  Speaker 2: On top of that for the Tammy experience and food?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much. And doing the math further, so the accommodation
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  Speaker 1: in total is costing Tammy and her team $ 23, 681. Yet
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  Speaker 1: the 19 tickets for their total retreat work out to
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  Speaker 1: be $ 171, 355. So if we take away the money for accommodation.
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  Speaker 1: That's leaving her and her team around $ 147, 674. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: some of that money does go into activities and the logistics,
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  Speaker 1: but still, that is a fair chunk of money for
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  Speaker 1: a seven-day retreat where you're basically living it up in
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  Speaker 1: Greece and hanging out with a bunch of people doing
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  Speaker 1: breath work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that do you think Tammy's being paid? Well,
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  Speaker 1: she is running the retreat through a travel and media company,
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  Speaker 1: which is called AW Adventurer. And she's done retreats before
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  Speaker 1: in Bali. So I'm not exactly sure how this agreement works.
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  Speaker 1: If the tour company just takes a percentage or if
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  Speaker 1: Tammy takes a percentage. I was intrigued to see how
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  Speaker 1: much of this trip Tammy was actually involved in. So
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  Speaker 1: I had a look at the itinerary and on day one,
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  Speaker 1: it says that Tammy will do a meet and greet
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  Speaker 1: with the guests. Then on day two, she has a
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  Speaker 1: question and answer session. And on day three, she will
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  Speaker 1: hold a workshop on affirmations. Then most of the days
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  Speaker 1: follow a similar formula where the morning starts with a
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  Speaker 1: workout followed by meditation, journaling, and brunch. Then there is
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  Speaker 1: a daytime activity like hiking, swimming, massages, or yoga. There's
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  Speaker 1: also a sailing boat trip, but it's not clear if
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  Speaker 1: Tammy is actually going to be on the trip. There
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  Speaker 1: was a photo of her on a boat on in
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  Speaker 1: the Greek islands with her kids on the website. But
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling Tammy won't be there. I think
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  Speaker 1: she's only going to show up for these three spots. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: the wording is also interesting on the website because it
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  Speaker 1: keeps saying, with guidance by Tammy Hembrough or accompanied by Tammy.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that they're subtly trying to drop, look,
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  Speaker 1: she's going to pop in and out, but she's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be here the whole time if that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're expecting. Is there anyone you'd actually pay $ 8, 000 to
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  Speaker 1: go on a retreat with? Because the only person I
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  Speaker 1: can think of is Taylor Swift. Yeah, well, I paid
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  Speaker 1: $ 1, 200 for a ticket. So I think that I'd pay
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  Speaker 1: $ 8, 000 to.
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  Speaker 2: Have a couple of workshops with her.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if Matt and the kids are going to
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  Speaker 1: fly over and they'll treat this as a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a holiday because surely you're not going to fly all
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  Speaker 1: of that way to Greece just to be there for
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  Speaker 1: six days and fly home. As this is a month
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  Speaker 1: out from their wedding, I wonder if we're actually going
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  Speaker 1: to see a Euro wedding because when their invite was leaked,
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  Speaker 1: Tammy came out and said, we've had to change our plans.
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  Speaker 1: kind of referring maybe they weren't going to hold it
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  Speaker 1: in Byron Bay anymore. So, I mean, potentially they could
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  Speaker 1: do some private nuptials over there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I think this wedding is still going to be in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we saw Tammy taste testing the food at
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  Speaker 1: the caterers in the Gold Coast the other day. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to suddenly move everything over
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  Speaker 1: to Europe.
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  Speaker 2: We're fresh in, rolling off the Logies.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Laura Byrne and Maddy J have revealed they purchased a
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  Speaker 1: holiday home on the south coast of New South Wales.
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  Speaker 1: When making the joint announcement, they described it as a
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: dilapidated old house saying it is a little glass house
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: on the seaside filled with stories and a history that
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: has been left locked up and empty for the past
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: two years. I always find it interesting when influencers make announcements.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: About property because if you're in the public eye.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: You almost have to do the opposite of what real
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: estate agents do. So whilst agents will always talk up
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: a house and say what prime real estate it is,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: influencers will often have to downplay it and try to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: not make people jealous. And they still also want to
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: appear to be one of the people. And it's this
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: weird juggling act that you see them having to do. Well,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the description didn't really match the photos because the view
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: from this house is insane. There was a photo of
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Maddie J sitting on the couch. And behind him is
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: a huge window. And this house is right on the beachfront.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, it looks beautiful. Now, there is a bit of
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: salt damage on the exterior of the house.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: And Laura showed that their carpets have mold on them.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: And there's a very old looking kitchen. But I don't know.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't necessarily describe it as dilapidated.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: We haven't been there. So we don't know the full
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: extent of it. But it's all location, location, isn't it?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, exactly.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Now, I do want to say thank you to So
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Dramatic because they have done the heavy lifting on this one.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: They reported that the holiday home, set the couple back $ 2.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: 19 million.
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  Speaker 1: Now the property spans 746 square meters and has three bedrooms,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: two bathrooms, a study and a fresco area.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Now the couple also made headlines.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Last year when they purchased their $ 5. 2 million home in
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: North Bondi. I think some people were shocked to hear
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: that Maddie J and Laura actually have so much money,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: but I personally wasn't surprised because Laura Byrne works incredibly hard.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: She's got a job on radio. She does her highly
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: successful podcast.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: She's got her own business. Matty J's just released a book.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: He has his own podcast. He's got his finger in
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of pies doing influencer work. It's not shocking
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: that they have this type of money to drop on property. Yeah,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: but I think people were shocked because their brand is
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: built on relatability. They don't often brag about their possessions
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: or they don't show much of their house off. It
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: will only just be in the background of whatever they're filming.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: So I think that that's what led to some people
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: being surprised, but I think overall people were quite happy
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: for them because they do come across as such a lovely,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: wholesome Aussie couple. I think people were happy to see
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: them succeed. And I also think because they were careful
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: about the way that they broke the news because some
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: other influencers like Karina Irby will be like, oh yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I just bought this.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Didn't put much thought behind it. Yeah, whatever. No big deal.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: But they were very calculated in what they wrote. So
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: they outlined that it's a very sentimental place for them.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Well, not calculated, more thoughtful in.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: The way that they actually told their audience about it. Yeah,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: because they said this is a sentimental place for us.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: We got married here. We're so excited for our children
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to experience it. Well, they actually seem to be appreciative
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, and they were probably worried how followers
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: would respond because we've seen Sarah's day cop a lot
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: of criticism over her second home that she's purchased. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: there is this trend where, as you mentioned at the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: start of this segment, Soph, where women have to sort
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of play down their achievements. And it's funny because if
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: this was Mitch Third, for example, and he had bought
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this house, he would have been raving about it saying
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: what a great guy he was and that this is
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: how much it costs. I still think people would think
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: he was a toss bag for doing that though. Like
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think that that would have been well received.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: But there's definitely a different way that men and women
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: share online about their achievements. Well, there were a couple
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of questions in the comment section around whether Matty J
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and Laura will be keeping both properties. So a follower wrote,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: does this mean you'll be selling your North Bondi house?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Because we don't need any more landlords or people pricing
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: locals out of their own area. Now, Laura responded saying
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: this house is completely uninhabitable currently, and it has been
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: sitting empty for two and a half years.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Eventually, yes, we will live here.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Which I found very interesting because I wonder what it
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: means for their careers. Because The location of this new
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: house is.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: About three hours out of the CBD.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: We are constantly seeing Maddie J popping up on different
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: TV shows. Laura has her radio station where she has
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to go into an office to record. Sorry. Laura has
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: her own radio show where she has to go into
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a studio to record.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Is this because Brit Hockley.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Is eventually planning on moving overseas and they've got to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: do things remotely?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Am I reading too much into this?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty big call. We'll have to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: wait and see what happens there. But I think it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: more so saying, oh, eventually we will live there. Maybe
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: they'll live part-time there and part-time in North Bondi.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: God, I'd move there for the view.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Now, in this announcement, they also revealed that they are
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: going to be launching a renovations page. I was very
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: excited to see this because I'm always looking for inspiration.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So they wrote, we don't know what we are doing
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: or what this house will become, but if you want
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to follow along the chaos while we restore this old beauty...
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Honor its joyous little quirks and resist the millennial urge
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to paint everything white. You can follow us here. I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: think paint everything white. That's very millennial of me. But
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: as soon as Dale and I moved into our house, gosh,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the paintbrushes were out and we were painting everything. Well,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: they shared their Pinterest board last night and I was
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: quite surprised to see the bright colors that they're already
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: going for. So Maddie J wanted to paint the bathroom
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: this really bright blue color with.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: A pink tile and Oh, I don't know how I
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: feel about that. Well, at least it's going to be interesting.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Now, in the space of just a couple of days,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: this account now has over 63,000 followers. So I'm really
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: interested to see how many sponsors jump on because it's
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a great opportunity to promote your product. Like, are we
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: going to see them with a Bunnings sponsorship or Mitre 10? Oh, yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: because Laura and Matt are well known for making really
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: funny content as well. And I can just see Matt
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: getting around the Renault content. It's kind of like the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: social media version of the blog, isn't it?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Fitness influencer Ashi Bynes has received devastating news following her
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: planned brain surgery. Now, back in March, she was diagnosed
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: with a brain aneurysm after experiencing sudden loss of vision.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And it has been a really frustrating wait for Ashi
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: because she was locked in for surgery in July before
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it then got pushed back to August. So it's been
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a real waiting game for her. And she has been
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: documenting the process on her Instagram and TikTok. And straight
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: after she came out of surgery, she revealed that the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: surgeons were able to remove the aneurysm, but they discovered
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that there was a second aneurysm that they weren't able
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to remove in the process. So she will have to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: have another surgery before the end of the year.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: That is just awful.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And as she said, I can't count how many times
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I've cried because I'm absolutely devastated, but I just have
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to be strong and know that I can do hard
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: things and get through this. I'm so grateful that they
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: found both of these aneurysms and that I can get
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: surgery because they obviously can be fatal. And the recovery
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: process has been much more difficult than she anticipated. She
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: said that after her surgery, she was awake for nearly
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: 28 hours straight, which would be horrendous. She's also now
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: on blood thinners for the next 12 months and explained
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: that it's incredibly dangerous if she misses a day because
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it could lead to a stroke. But she said because
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: she's in such a good routine of taking her supplements,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: hopefully this won't be an issue for her. Let's get
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: into our highs and lows of the week. I'm going
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: to kick it off with my high. And I'm giving
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my husband brownie points. So he surprised me yesterday with
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a pair of new running shoes because.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: We have been saying that we've been seeing everyone getting
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: into run club, but we want to do our own
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: little run club together with our dogs.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: So my current sand shoes were full of holes.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Like they were just disgusting. From Archie or? No, just
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I had them for so long. They got so dirty.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I've been wearing them when we've been doing renovations. Look,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to call you out, but I am
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: looking at the new shoes. They are very cool, but
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you are rocking a very ugly ankle sock. And what's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: hilarious is recently, because we've been filming the podcast a lot,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: there have been times where I've taken like a still
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: photo of you or like videoed you wide showing your
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: shoes and And you will have one no-show sock and
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: one ankle sock.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: And it is very shameful. It is very shameful. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: don't know where all my socks go.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: This is what happens to me. I bought a couple
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of the cool crew socks and they've.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Just fucking disappeared in my house.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I think this is part of having a dog. Like
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know where he stores these socks.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's because female socks are so small. Like
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: they're hard to actually keep a track of. Sometimes like
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: they don't all get in the washing machine. Anyway, I'm
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: not very good at that now.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: My low of the week is that I have never
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: felt so old in my life until I entered Glasses.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Like I don't regularly shop there, but I really wanted
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: one of their linen shirts. I have been looking for
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a blue and white striped linen shirt. Well, I was
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: with you and you've never looked so uncomfortable because you
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: got ushered into this change room and they actually, I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: didn't even know they did this.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: They write your name on the door.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And the girl who was serving you looked like one
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of Millie Ford from TikTok's characters. Yeah, I had no
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: idea when she's like, what's your name?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, why? I wanted to give her a
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: fake name. So they can be like, and Sophie, babe,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: how's it going in there?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not want to come out because, you know,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: usually I want to show you guys because I was
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: trying on a few pairs of jeans, which were a
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: disaster as well. I ended up buying the shirt and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they do have a couple of cute things in there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I just wish they didn't have jewelry or shirts with
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: 1989 written on there because that is my year of birth.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And growing up, you'd always see those shirts and it
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: would almost be ironic because it's like, yeah, that was
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a long time ago. I kind of like it though.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: It just reminds me of Taylor Swift's album, 1989. Look,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: my low of the week was being sick. Like I'm
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: actually a lot better now. My high is I've been
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: influenced by Molly May. So I think it was two
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: weeks ago now she shared a photo of a colouring
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: book and some texters.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And when I was in.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Officeworks today purchasing a new SD card for our machine
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that keeps fucking up, I found some beautiful texters and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a colouring book involving cats and dogs. And I'm getting
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: so excited to actually colour in the pages tonight. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: think I need a bit of a relaxation thing.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Well, how much were the texters? Because I want to
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: go get some.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think, look, I ummed and ummed about getting them.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: There's about 60 coloured texters. I think they.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Were $ 35 and the colouring book was $ 5.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Look, I keep seeing TikTok videos where it's like really
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: satisfying to watch people colour in with those texters.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we should be allowed to have two
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: lows of the week because I know you told me
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: not to touch on this, but I have to get
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: it out there. This is the second time that we
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: are also recording this episode.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's been insane.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: You rang me and this time I was in the shower,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: not on the toilet, in the shower, and you rang
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: me to say, actually– Thursday's episode is gone as well.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And it was a different problem this time. It wasn't
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the microphone. It was the SD card. Who knows that
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: you spend so much money on a new device and
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: have so many fucking problems. Each episode.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So we have had to re-record each episode twice.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: So we put out three episodes. We've done six recordings
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: this week and it's only Wednesday. Yeah. I'm exhausted from it. Well,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I hope you guys enjoyed it. But that's all we
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: have time for. I think it was better the second
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: time actually. I don't know. I think we did a
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: better job.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I actually thought that the previous one was– anyway. I digress,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: but that is all we have time for. Hopefully you
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: do hear from us on Thursday and this has worked. Yes,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: we have definitely gone and purchased some new SD cards.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: We've got new cords.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got everything. So if it doesn't work,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what we're going to do. But thank
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you for listening.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: If you did enjoy it, could you please leave us
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: a five-star review? I feel like we.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Deserve some five-star reviews after recording this a couple of times.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Even just for persistence, for persistence.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This episode was recorded on the traditional land of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to elders past and present. And don't forget to follow
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Outspoken on Instagram and also on TikTok at Outspoken underscore
• 27:05
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• 27:08
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