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Em Davies’ G-Banger Causes A Stir & Courtside Influencers · 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: Amy Torber and coming up on today's show, Sophie Keisha
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  Speaker 1: throws serious shade at her ex-fiancé Maddy Garrick, the ungrateful
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  Speaker 1: influences at this year's Australian Open and our Friday Debrief.
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  Speaker 1: The first M. Davies Hens weekend in Bali has been
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  Speaker 1: making headlines. The bride-to-be's guest list is under the spotlight,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the outfit she wore to a beach club. Kate,
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  Speaker 1: can you tell us more? Well, the mainstream media have
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  Speaker 1: been pretty cruel about Em's hens look. So for those
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  Speaker 1: who haven't seen it, she wore this white bandeau-style bra
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  Speaker 1: top and had a mini skirt made up of tulle.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of looked like a tutu. And what set
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  Speaker 1: people off the most was the visible G-string that sat
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  Speaker 1: just above the skirt. which was embroidered with the name Mrs. G.
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  Speaker 1: And all I could think about was the Chris Lilley character, Mr. G,
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  Speaker 1: when I saw it. It reminded me more of Kath
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  Speaker 1: and Kim. Remember, Kim used to rock a very visible
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  Speaker 1: G string. I can see why this G string was
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a focus in the mainstream media, because
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  Speaker 1: every single Instagram story I saw on Saturday featured it.
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  Speaker 1: It was either a close-up of Em twerking and the
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  Speaker 1: G string in it, or just dancing around. She was
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  Speaker 1: having the best time. She probably didn't care what was
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  Speaker 1: being written about her. Well, the Daily Mail ran with
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  Speaker 1: a story asking its readers to weigh in as to
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  Speaker 1: whether they thought the outfit was appropriate for her hen's party.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they clearly were expecting some pretty vile commentary
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  Speaker 1: on this. There were over 200 comments on the story.
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  Speaker 1: And I was actually taken aback about how vile they were.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know the Daily Mail is known for
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  Speaker 1: that type of commentary, but it was next level. I
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  Speaker 1: really felt for Em. Now, her outfit even made international
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  Speaker 1: news with The Sun running with the headline, tacky mum
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  Speaker 1: leaves little to the imagination in hen do bra and
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  Speaker 1: skirt duo that even show off her G-string. I really
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  Speaker 1: felt like these media publications weren't asking people to weigh
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  Speaker 1: in on the outfit. They were more asking people to
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  Speaker 1: weigh in about how they felt about a mum wearing
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  Speaker 1: an outfit like this. There was a lot of shame involved.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt for Em because this was literally her
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  Speaker 1: first trip away from her daughter and It's such an
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  Speaker 1: exciting time in her life. She's been juggling motherhood and
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  Speaker 1: also planning her wedding. Why can't she let her hair
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  Speaker 1: down and wear a cool outfit? Does being a mom
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  Speaker 1: mean that you're not allowed to show off any skin?
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  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to wear something cool. Look, it's not
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  Speaker 1: really my vibe. I personally wouldn't be rocking a G-string
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  Speaker 1: to my hen's party, but we're all very different people.
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  Speaker 1: Em used to own her own fashion brand. She's very
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  Speaker 1: up on the trend. But also this was a hen's
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  Speaker 1: party in Bali where everyone was wearing bathers. It was
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  Speaker 1: more of a bather bottoms than- a lingerie G-string. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the shaming. That's what I find vile
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  Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, that really grinded my gears. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, as you said, Amy, she used to own
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  Speaker 1: her own fashion label. She's very up with the trends.
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  Speaker 1: And back in July last year, models were wearing exposed
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  Speaker 1: G-strings on the runway at Paris Fashion Week. It's a
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  Speaker 1: trend that's trying to make a comeback for quite a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years now. Also, I feel like because she
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  Speaker 1: is such a massive influencer, she's trying to make a
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  Speaker 1: statement at her hen's party. She doesn't want to copy
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  Speaker 1: what everyone else has done. I've never seen this visible
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  Speaker 1: G-string used as a hen's party outfit it's a bit
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  Speaker 1: like when we saw Tammy trying to have a pink
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  Speaker 1: dress and have that moment they're all trying to have
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  Speaker 1: a moment and create a trend I wonder if we'll
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  Speaker 1: be seeing more visible hen's party g-strings I somehow don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to go off as much as Tammy's
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  Speaker 1: pink dress I'm actually more impressed that Em managed to
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  Speaker 1: wear this outfit while she had her period because she
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  Speaker 1: opened up in her stories that when she landed in
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  Speaker 1: Bali she got her first period post-baby and But the timing,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't this always happen? Your period always rears
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  Speaker 1: its head at the most inopportune moment. Yeah, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: the way anytime you have to wear white, that's when
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  Speaker 1: your period arrives. Now, everyone has been really invested in
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  Speaker 1: Em's hen's party guest list. And that is because Em's
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  Speaker 1: bridesmaid and fellow influencer, Lily Brown, has a longstanding feud
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  Speaker 1: with Em's other besties, Lucy Jackson and Nikki Westcott. And
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  Speaker 1: seeing as Lily is a bridesmaid, you would assume that
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  Speaker 1: she would have had a lot to do with the
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  Speaker 1: planning of the event. So I was wondering whether Lucy
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  Speaker 1: and Nikki's invite might have got lost in the mail. Well,
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  Speaker 1: some people thought that Lily's invite got lost in the
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  Speaker 1: mail because in some of the early Instagram stories that
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  Speaker 1: were coming out from Bali, Lily wasn't in any of them.
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  Speaker 1: And people were like, where is she? But she suddenly
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  Speaker 1: popped up the next day. And Lucy and Nikki were there.
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  Speaker 1: So Lily did the right thing inviting them. I would
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  Speaker 1: have loved to be a fly on the wall, particularly...
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  Speaker 1: It looked like a very boozy weekend. And that's usually
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  Speaker 1: when fights break out. They had those IV drips after
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  Speaker 1: the first night to help with the hangovers. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: these are ahead of round two. I mean, I would
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  Speaker 1: pay a lot of money to know what actually happened
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes because surely once alcohol's involved, feelings are
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  Speaker 1: going to get out there. A notable absentee was Tammy Hembrough.
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  Speaker 1: So Em and Tammy, they've been friends for a really
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  Speaker 1: long time now. And Em attended Tammy's wedding back in November.
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  Speaker 1: And after Em shared a reel of the event, a
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  Speaker 1: follower asked why Tammy wasn't there, to which Em responded
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  Speaker 1: she had to look after her bubbers. I mean, Tammy
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  Speaker 1: has done a lot of traveling at the end of
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  Speaker 1: last year and also this year. She probably just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: add another overseas trip to her list. And she is
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  Speaker 1: a newlywed, probably wanting to spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: with Matt. It's really hard for me to get my
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  Speaker 1: head around how quickly this wedding is approaching because it
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  Speaker 1: only feels like yesterday when Em got engaged. But that
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  Speaker 1: was two years ago back in March 2023. So Em's
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  Speaker 1: engagement made big news too because she got engaged under
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  Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and everyone just thought
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  Speaker 1: it was the most aesthetic proposal. Now Em also only
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  Speaker 1: just gave birth to her first child Isla back in August.
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  Speaker 1: So her and Joel have packed a lot in the
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  Speaker 1: last two years. I'm so excited for the wedding. It's
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  Speaker 1: on the 22nd of February. Do we think from the
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  Speaker 1: choice of hen's party outfit that we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: something quite outrageous in a number of her wedding looks?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I think she'll have a similar second or third dress
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  Speaker 1: to Tammy Hembrough's. You know that one she wore later
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  Speaker 1: in the night when she was cutting the cake? The
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  Speaker 1: short one. Yeah, it kind of looked like lingerie. I
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  Speaker 1: think something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Serena Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Serena Williams. Yeah, I don't think she plays, does she?
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  Speaker 1: I know, they say Sabrina Williams. Sabrina? Wait, is that true?
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  Speaker 1: Serena Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Serena.
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  Speaker 1: You said Sabrina. A number of influencers have been slammed
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  Speaker 1: for their lack of tennis knowledge and labelled ungrateful after
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  Speaker 1: being gifted free airfares and prime seats to the Australian
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  Speaker 1: Open by big-name brands. One influencer was caught on camera
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  Speaker 1: saying she predicted Sabrina Williams could win this year's Open,
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  Speaker 1: whilst Tammy Hembrough told her Snapchat followers this. Heading to
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  Speaker 1: the Australian Open. Watch some tennis. I definitely won't be watching. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be. You don't like tennis? I'm not, like, into
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  Speaker 1: tennis that much.
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  Speaker 3: I'm only into it when I'm there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, I'll watch to, like, fit in. To look
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  Speaker 1: like I belong. This is a very privileged comment. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get into it whilst I'm there. I'll get into
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  Speaker 1: it whilst I have the best seats in the house. Well,
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  Speaker 1: to add insult to injury, Matt and Tammy's seats looked
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  Speaker 1: like they were literally sitting on center court. And as
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  Speaker 1: a tennis fan, I couldn't help but feel so jealous.
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  Speaker 1: It does leave a bit of a bad taste in
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  Speaker 1: your mouth. The Sabrina Williams comment really throws me because
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  Speaker 1: obviously that influencer was referring to Serena Williams. But She's
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  Speaker 1: been retired for a couple of years now, so who
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  Speaker 1: was she actually referring to? I think she might have
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  Speaker 1: been trying to say Sablenka, which is one of the
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  Speaker 1: women who is set to take out this year's title,
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  Speaker 1: who won last year's Australian Open. We're just back to
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  Speaker 1: Tammy's commentary. She has been slammed by tennis fans. One
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  Speaker 1: called her out online saying, I'm so sick of brands
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  Speaker 1: sending influencers who don't watch tennis. Another wrote, I get
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  Speaker 1: that influencers are there to promote and do a job,
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  Speaker 1: but it's such a waste of space slash tickets. to
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  Speaker 1: send people who don't watch or pretend to like tennis.
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  Speaker 1: I've really noticed in the past couple of years that
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  Speaker 1: the Australian Open has had this transformation. It's become a
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  Speaker 1: cool girl event. Everyone wants to be seen at it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it has a lot to do with
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  Speaker 1: the fact that horse racing is very on the nose.
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  Speaker 1: That used to be an event where you could get
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  Speaker 1: dressed up, you could show off your outfits. And now
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  Speaker 1: that's what the Australian Open and also F1 has become. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and back when horse racing was really popular... The high
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  Speaker 1: profile people going weren't there to see the horse racing.
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  Speaker 1: They were there to socialize and party in the marquees.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing with the Australian Open. They have
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  Speaker 1: created such an amazing event that there's a huge fan
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  Speaker 1: village there now. You can eat, you can drink there.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things to do that you don't actually
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  Speaker 1: even have to watch the tennis. You can just be
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  Speaker 1: a part of the atmosphere. And I get the vibe
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of influencers are spending more time taking
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  Speaker 1: photos of them with the court in the background than
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  Speaker 1: they're actually spending watching the game. Whoever is doing the
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  Speaker 1: marketing and the brand partnerships at the Australian Open needs
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  Speaker 1: to be commended because over the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: we have seen it go from strength to strength. There
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of high profile brands that you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: normally associate with the tennis getting on board. And also
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  Speaker 1: a lot of corporate tickets being sold. So brands like
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  Speaker 1: White Fox Boutique, they're jumping on board and buying boxes
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  Speaker 1: at the tennis and hosting influencers, a bit like we've
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  Speaker 1: seen at concerts. I've also noticed that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these clothing brands like White Fox and Frevenue are they
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  Speaker 1: have incorporated tennis court into their summer launches as well.
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  Speaker 1: So they understand the power that the Australian Open has
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  Speaker 1: and that people want to look the part when they're
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  Speaker 1: going there. There's been a lot of eyes on the
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  Speaker 1: Ralph Lauren influencer activation. So Ralph Lauren are the Australian
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  Speaker 1: Open's official clothing partner this year. They have been for
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  Speaker 1: the last four years and they have put on a
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  Speaker 1: massive influencer trips. So they've been flying out a lot
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  Speaker 1: of influencers and putting them up in hotels and giving
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  Speaker 1: them a real luxurious experience. Of course, they're also getting
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  Speaker 1: prime seats to the tenor. So some of the big
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  Speaker 1: name influencers in attendance at the Ralph Lauren event have
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  Speaker 1: been Sammy Robinson, Millie Ford, Sammy Guggenheimer, Rebecca Harding and
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  Speaker 1: Sophia Begg. Morgan Waterhouse also got an invite. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: quite sure how he managed to get a ticket because
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  Speaker 1: he really isn't in the same playing field as a
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  Speaker 1: number of those influencers. It's quite interesting because in one
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  Speaker 1: YouTube video, an influencer spoke about how Ralph Lauren had
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  Speaker 1: brought in an expert to bring their guests up to
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  Speaker 1: speed on the rules of tennis. Let's have a listen
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  Speaker 1: to what was said.
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  Speaker 4: Once we got there, we headed into the Polo Ralph
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  Speaker 4: Lauren suite. They had cocktails and canapes for us and
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  Speaker 4: we just chilled and talked and got picks and And
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  Speaker 4: then Ava was here teaching us a bit about the
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  Speaker 4: tennis because we didn't really know what was going on.
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  Speaker 4: And then we headed down into the court. This was
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  Speaker 4: my first time at the Australian Open. And honestly, I'm
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  Speaker 4: a tennis girl now.
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  Speaker 1: There's also been a number of influencers called out for
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  Speaker 1: talking during games. And for anyone who is familiar with tennis,
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  Speaker 1: it is a game of etiquette. You have to be
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  Speaker 1: quiet during the points. And the players will be quite
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  Speaker 1: vocal if people aren't being quiet. I'm ever watching a
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  Speaker 1: number of games where there'd be some fans who were
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  Speaker 1: cheering during points and the tennis players would get really
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  Speaker 1: agitated and speak to the umpire because it's just against
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  Speaker 1: the rules. You can't have people barracking or speaking during points. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: sports presenter and producer Michelle Escobar weighed into the debate
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok saying this.
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about the influencers who are getting paid by brands,
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  Speaker 5: who are working with brands, who are getting very privileged
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  Speaker 5: positions and freebies and are also working at the Australian
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  Speaker 5: Open while not even knowing the basic rules of tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Now, up until a.
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  Speaker 5: Few years ago, you had to work very, very hard
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  Speaker 5: to be able to break into the media landscape. But
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  Speaker 5: now it just seems like if you have a lot
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  Speaker 5: of followers, you can jump the queue. The problem with
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  Speaker 5: that is that you're just hiring people based on numbers
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  Speaker 5: and not knowledge. So they don't actually know what they're
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  Speaker 5: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle went on to say that there were a number
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  Speaker 1: of sports content creators doing really good work at the
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  Speaker 1: Australian Open who have a genuine passion and interest for
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  Speaker 1: the game and she hoped that they got more opportunities. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I can totally see where Michelle is coming from because
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  Speaker 1: it is utterly frustrating as a tennis lover to see
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  Speaker 1: people there who don't necessarily appreciate it and who appear
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  Speaker 1: to be taking the piss and making a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a mockery of such a beautiful game. But we've got
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  Speaker 1: to look at it from a marketing perspective because and
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  Speaker 1: which brands are inviting which influencers, it doesn't really make
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  Speaker 1: sense for White Fox Boutique to invite a sports content creator.
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  Speaker 1: They want to invite a high-profile influencer who's going to
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  Speaker 1: look good in the clothes, who's going to take lots
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  Speaker 1: of photos and be able to provide that content they
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  Speaker 1: want afterwards. It's also helping open up the sport to
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  Speaker 1: a new category of people who haven't watched tennis before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about getting the Australian Open brand and the
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  Speaker 1: game of tennis out to as many eyeballs as possible.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's happening when you invite all of these influencers.
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  Speaker 1: I think it also just comes down to the individual
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  Speaker 1: responsibility of the influencer to not act like a jerk
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  Speaker 1: and have respect for the event that they've been invited to.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully for some influencers, this might have kicked off their
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  Speaker 1: love of the sport now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it just shows what a great job
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  Speaker 1: the Australian Open's marketing team have done to actually... put
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  Speaker 1: the event on such a pedestal that people are jealous
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  Speaker 1: that influencers are getting free tickets because it's not a
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  Speaker 1: new thing. Influencers are gifted free tickets to concerts, so
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  Speaker 1: many other sporting events, but it's really put people's noses
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  Speaker 1: out of joint because they want to be there so much. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to remember that this has actually grown from
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  Speaker 1: just being a sporting event. As we've discussed, there's a
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  Speaker 1: real festival vibe around this. There's pop-up bars. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of brands. They're trying to sell products. So That
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  Speaker 1: is also why people are reaching out to lifestyle influencers
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  Speaker 1: and not just sporting figures. The funny thing about all
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  Speaker 1: of this is poor Mads. She didn't sign up for this.
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  Speaker 2: She got really skinny, really fit, sexy mama when we
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  Speaker 2: started dating. Now you've got this.
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  Speaker 3: So beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, tickle, tickle, tickle. Pajama entrepreneur Sophie Keisha
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  Speaker 1: has thrown serious shade at her ex-fiancé Maddy Garrick during
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  Speaker 1: a lengthy Q & A with her new girlfriend Maddy Prespakas. Sophie,
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  Speaker 1: who is just weeks away from giving birth, couldn't resist
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  Speaker 1: referring to her ex as a cheater and said she's
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  Speaker 1: finally found someone who gets on with her family. So
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  Speaker 1: the whole idea of this Q & A was for
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  Speaker 1: followers to get to know her new girlfriend. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why I think it was extra awkward that these shots
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  Speaker 1: were being fired. In saying that though, I was really
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  Speaker 1: invested in this Q & A because I've been really
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  Speaker 1: curious to see the dynamic between Sophie and a new girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: There is a 10-year age gap. So I wanted to see...
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  Speaker 1: what they're actually like behind closed doors. And we were
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  Speaker 1: granted a half an hour glimpse into their lives. So
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  Speaker 1: Sophie explained that her kids were in bed early for once.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a great opportunity for her followers to
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  Speaker 1: get to know Maddie, who she referred to as the
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  Speaker 1: greatest human in the world. Big title. Now she went
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  Speaker 1: public about her relationship with the AFLW player back in
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  Speaker 1: November in an exclusive interview with Stellar Magazine, where she
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  Speaker 1: spoke about her pregnancy and love life. It was a
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  Speaker 1: really casual Q & A because both of the women
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  Speaker 1: were dressed in their PJs, Keisha branded, of course. And
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  Speaker 1: Sophie was enjoying cheesecake from Uber Eats. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: one of her pregnancy cravings. I was going to say,
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  Speaker 1: tell me you're pregnant without telling me you're pregnant. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds delightful. She did add a disclaimer in the question
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  Speaker 1: box saying that there was a no dickhead policy and
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  Speaker 1: people would be blocked immediately if they crossed the line
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  Speaker 1: with their questions. Now, this Q & A did spark
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  Speaker 1: a lot of commentary about Sophie and Maddie's dynamic. And
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  Speaker 1: I had to agree with a few comments in our
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  Speaker 1: Facebook community. At times, it did feel like Sophie was
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  Speaker 1: almost parenting Maddie and coaching her to give her the
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: right answer. So one of our listeners joked that they
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: were worried Maddie would get a question wrong and get
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: told off. It did feel like that. I mean, as
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I said, there is a 10-year age gap between the couple.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Maddie's only 24. And I have to say, as a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: side note, she seemed really sweet and like a nice person.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: She seemed to answer every question almost like she was
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: being interviewed on the footy field. She was very diplomatic
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: and sort of matter of fact about it. You could
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: tell that she was really desperate and under pressure to
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: say the right thing as well because Sophie kept glaring
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: at her and sort of being like, hmm, yeah. So
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: not only was she trying to impress Sophie's followers but
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: also Sophie.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Now there was a question about the age gap and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: whether it felt loud at times. This is what Maddie said. No.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: No. Like, at the start, honestly, I was a bit like, wow,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't plan to have two kids at my age. But,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: you know, I feel like so. And we like the
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: same things. We have the same interests. We bond over
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of the same things. So, yeah, I feel like.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: You are a much more mature person of your age
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: than I know, than I've ever met.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm a young soul. I meet
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you halfway.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely meet halfway.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: As someone who has a history of dating younger guys,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I could recognize that Sophie was trying to say that
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: thing that we all say where you're like, oh, no,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: this person I'm dating is very mature for their age.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Their old soul. Yeah, whether it's true or not. And
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's what you tell yourself until you break
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: up with them and then you tell everyone, oh, they
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: were so immature. Yeah, she was really trying to get
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: that message across. She said that Maddie was mature beyond
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: her years and she had her life together. She owns
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: her own home, her own car. and has her finances
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: well in order. Again, it almost felt like she was
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: talking about her own child. Like, they take the bin
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: out at night time. They... They mow the lawn, they
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: walk the dog, like that sort of vibe. Well, the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: commentary around finances is interesting because I think Sophie is
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: trying to extinguish any negative commentary that might come up
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: about Maddie trying to be a gold digger. Yeah, I
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: think so too. The only time that Sophie admitted to
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: noticing the age gap is when they're having a sing-along
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: in the car together and Maddie doesn't know some of
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the songs. Yeah, that really makes you feel old. We
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: have a couple of friends who are, I don't know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: six or seven years younger than us and they didn't
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: know who Hanson was and I was like, Now, throughout
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: this Q & A, as we touched on, Sophie threw
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of shade at her ex-fiance, Maddie Garrick. And
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I hope that this segment doesn't get too confusing because
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Sophie's ex does have, of course, the same name as
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: her new girlfriend. And then the ex before was also
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: an AFLW player. So there's a lot of crossover with
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: these partners. We say it all the time, but she's
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: obviously got a type. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Now, Sophie dramatically
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: called off her engagement to Maddie Garrick in 2022. Oh,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: was it 2022? And that was shortly after flying to
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Italy where Maddie was playing basketball. And at the time,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Sophie made it very clear that she had been cheated on. Allegedly. Allegedly. Now,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the first potshot that was hurled was Sophie admitting that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: she's the one who holds a lot of insecurities about
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the age gap in her relationship with Maddie Press Packers.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: And that is due to the way she was treated
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: by Maddie Garrick. Here's what she said.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: On that, I will say I'm the one with the
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: insecurities about the age gap.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I feel like... I don't know. What to say?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: No, I just.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: You know my insecurities. I don't see the difference between
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: the age, but I see Soph's insecurities and, yeah, I
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: always just say that you've got nothing to worry about. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: we're definitely.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Heard that before.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: We're aligned as people and that's all that matters. We
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: bond over good things and, yeah, we've got our life
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: set out together, so.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: That's good. We've got big plans, baby. I wonder how
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Maddie Press Packers felt about these comments being thrown in
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: when this is a Q & A where we're supposed
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to be getting to know her because it kind of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: makes Sophie sound like she's hung up on Maddie Garrick
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and is still very hurt by her actions. Yeah. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: when someone talks badly about their ex, it's usually a
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: bit of a red flag because you're like, oh, if
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: we were to break up, is this how you're going
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to talk about me?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Now, Sophie also went on further to say that her
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: kids have been hurt in the past by her exes.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and she didn't enter into a relationship with Maddie 2.0
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: until her son Bobby gave her permission. She also said
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that she's finally found someone that gets along with her family.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if she meant her immediate family as
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: in Jared and the kids or if she meant her
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: extended family because it's very clear that Maddie Press Packers
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: has made a huge effort with Sophie's kids. She sounds
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: like she genuinely loves them and has a really great
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: bond with them, which is very sweet. Oh, it's lovely
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to see and it seems very genuine. In terms of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Sophie's extended family, there have been a lot of question
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: marks about how her relationship is with them, particularly her
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: sister who she was on Survivor with. There's been rumours
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that there's a feud between them. I wonder if that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: had anything to do with Maddie Garrick. It did seem
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: like there was a bit of a tension with one
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: family member that they were referring to in this Q & A.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: This Q & A also revealed that Sophie and Maddie
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Press Packers first hooked up just three weeks after she
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: called off her engagement to Maddie Garrick. So the couple
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: first met in 2022 at Electric Nightclub on Chapel Street
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: at 3am and by 3.30am they were sharing their first kiss.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I'll throw it back to 2022. I had returned from
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: an unfortunate overseas trip. Um, and I, it was like
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: three weeks later, I think me and Caitlin shout out
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to Caitlin. We had this most random spontaneous day where
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: we like just went for lunch during the day. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: then somehow we were at a nightclub at three o'clock
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: in the morning and saw this little smile looking back
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: at me at the bar. And within five minutes I said,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I'm going to kiss you. And I did. So, uh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I made the first move many moons ago. I kissed
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you the second time up.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, right. Who made the first move?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, the first move.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: That really made it sound like a rebound, but they
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: didn't actually start up a relationship for quite some time
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: following the kiss. They were friends for about a year
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: before anything happened. Sophie also dated Sophie van der Heuvel
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in between. See, well, it's with the names. Like, just
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: don't date anyone with your name or the name of
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: your ex. Now, further shade was thrown at Maddie Garrick
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: when Sophie answered if she'd found the one. Here's what
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: she said.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Is she the one?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: You both truly look happy.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I fucking hope so because I'm a little bit sick
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and tired of this.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I think so, everyone. I think she's the one. No, no,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I know she's the one. I think we've definitely found
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: our person in each other.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Everyone screen record that, please. Thanks. No cheetah, cheetah, pumpkin
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: eater here. No cheetah, cheetah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: No, you're not. God, that is so awkward. I actually
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: really feel for Maddie Press Packers because you get a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: sense to what it must be like behind the scenes
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: between them, that she must always be having to reassure
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Sophie that she's not doing anything wrong or she's not
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: acting like her ex. I think she must be working
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: in overtime to prove that she's nothing like Maddie Garrick.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, you would have to be very
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: trusting if your girlfriend played AFLW because they're often on
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the road, traveling, they're surrounded by women their own age
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: who have the same interests as them. And maybe that's
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: where some of Sophie's insecurities are coming in, particularly if
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: she was cheated on when Maddie was away on a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: basketball trip. Yeah. Well, Maddie Presspacker, she plays for Essendon,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: doesn't she? And Sophie Vanderhoeven also played for Essendon. So
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: when your exes are teammates. It's very awkward. Questions then
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: turned to Sophie's pregnancy and whether the couple were having
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: this baby together or if Maddie was part of the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: decision-making process. And Maddie was quite honest and said that
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: because they started out their relationship as just friends, She
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: always knew that Sophie planned to have another baby. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: she said that when she finally fell in love with Sophie,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Sophie really tried to push her away because the baby
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: was her number one priority, understandably. But Maddie said it
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: didn't affect things on her end and that because she
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: loves Sophie's kids, Bobby and Floss, she knows that she's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: going to love this third baby just as much. It
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: seemed like a very mature perspective. It is mature and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take away at all from what
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: she's saying. But a newborn is very different to a 6-
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and 10-year-old or however old her kids are. And I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: think with Maddie only being 24, she might be going
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: into this a little bit blind. I think Sophie could
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: read the naivety in her tone and she could probably
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: see what people were thinking. So she kept saying, how
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: do you actually feel about the newborn stage though, Maddie?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Maddie said this. And what about the newborn stage, sweetheart?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I suppose you just don't know what to expect, so.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: No, she's going to be great.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Starting from the start. Learn how to change a nappy.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: That's why she doesn't live here. So she can go
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: home whenever she wants.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've got to go home and clean up.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That's another interesting element because Maddie and Sophie don't currently
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: live together and they're not planning on moving in together
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: when this baby is born. I think that's a very
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: clever idea because this is such a fresh relationship. And
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it's a lot to expect of a new partner, especially
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: someone who's so young if this wasn't their decision. I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: think that's going to cause a lot of arguments though
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: because even though they're saying that they're not bringing up
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: this baby together, you'd be pretty resentful if you haven't
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: slept at all and you're dealing with a crying baby
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and then your partner's like, all right, well, I'm just
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: going to pop home and get a good night's sleep.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Like I can see that this is going to be
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: quite difficult for them to navigate. But then again, it
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: will be important for Maddie to get a good night's
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: sleep if she's an athlete and she needs to be
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: in tip-top shape for her game. Again, you can see
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: how this works on paper but not in the real world. Yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: but the AFLW season will probably be over by the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: time this baby's due.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: True. True.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: What is also interesting is they're planning on taking a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: family vacation to London when the baby is born, which
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: surprised me. What is people travelling with a newborn? I mean,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I know everyone's experiences are different, but my son was
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a very good sleeper. I've been very lucky with the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: way he slept and has been going. But I still
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: couldn't think of anything worse than taking him on a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: long-haul flight. Yeah, well, let's listen to what Sophie and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Maddie said about this trip.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Just having fun.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Just having fun with us and.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Two kids and a newborn.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. She doesn't know what she's in for, guys. She
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: has no idea.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know if I'm more scared for the
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: plane ride or.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: But no, looking forward to it. I'll be very interested
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to follow on and see how this goes. Hopefully it
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: runs a bit smoother than we think it's going to run.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Well, there was a question asking whether Maddie will be
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: called mum as well. And Sophie confirmed that Maddie will
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: just be called Mads by the baby. She did joke
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: that she'd be called Papa. instead of mum. You can
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: see that Sophie is very keen to settle down. And
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: there was a question that she shared that said, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: cannot wait for Maddie to propose. Here's what Maddie's reaction was. Oh,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: one day. What are you laughing at?
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: One day.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Any ring suggestions? No, can't wait either.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, not yet. Not yet. Sophie Keisha is really opening
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: herself up to commentary, isn't she? And the thing that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: just came across in this whole Q & A was
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: just how young Maddie is. Can't fault the girl. Sounds
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: like an absolute sweetheart, but maybe a bit naive. Now, Sophie,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: who is only a couple of weeks from giving birth,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: has opened up more about the relaunch of her young
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: mummy blog. So she did reveal in a stellar interview
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that she was getting back onto it. This is a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: decade later, which makes me feel really old because when
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I was working at the Thunderbirds, the netball team, I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: remember that we reached out to her and gave her
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: free tickets to come along to a game because she
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: loves netball. She was obviously living in South Australia at
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the time too. So a lot's changed for her. When
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: she said it was launching again, I didn't think that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: it would launch in a blog format because who reads
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: blogs now? This is going to be featured on her
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Keisha Pajama website. So that's where you can find the blog.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But I originally thought because she launched a new YouTube
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: channel when she announced her pregnancy, that the young mummy
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: might take the new format of daily vlogs. Well, not
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: daily vlogs, weekly vlogs. Yeah, or TikTok vlogging. I'm surprised
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that a media company like Mamma Mia hasn't picked it
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: up as a regular feature on their website. Maybe Sophie
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: thinks financially she's better off putting it on her own
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: website where she can get advertisers and get traction on
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: there and then also in turn get people to buy
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: her pajamas. See, I reckon she'd be better off actually
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: repackaging it as a podcast. I would definitely be keen
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to listen to it. I think that she's going to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be pretty open and honest on there and it will
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: be Interesting for her to compare things now to how
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: they were a decade ago. She already said that there's
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: so many new apps and products on the market. And
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: she did joke that she should call it the middle-aged mummy,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: which isn't true. She's only 34. Hey, hey, hey, we're
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: actually a year or two older than her. So none
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: of that. Maybe it could be called the geriatric mum
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: because aren't you a geriatric mum after 35? That's even
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: more offensive. I have not had anyone refer to me
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: medically as a geriatric mom. Yeah, I think they've got
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: rid of that term. Yeah, I wasn't referred to that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: But I was 34. No, I was 35 when I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: gave birth. Yeah, I was waiting for it. But I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: think that now a lot of women are having children
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: later that they're like, this doesn't really seem to apply. Well,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: with pregnancy rage being a real thing, I don't think
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: anyone would have the balls to call a pregnant woman geriatric.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Let's get into our Friday debrief. And for the OG
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: listeners who can actually tell our voices apart, you will
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: have noticed that Amy's has dropped out. She had to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: head off to a meeting, if you can read that code,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: read between the lines. So I'm going to jump in
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: with a high of the week for me. So it
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: was my second wedding anniversary on Tuesday. Which is wild.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: How was that two years ago? It actually freaks me out.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. It was such a good day.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And I'm at a point where I'm like, oh, I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: feel like I really want to watch the video back
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: in full because the year after you kind of get
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: it six months after the wedding anyway. And you're like, oh,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've already seen this, but it's sort
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of like fresh again. So. We were going to watch
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: it on our wedding anniversary, but Rhys fell asleep watching Suits.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Very romantic evening. But it was a lovely day. I mean,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: now that we have Jack, we actually didn't think ahead
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of time to book in a babysitter. So we just
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: had takeaway on the couch watching Suits, but it was
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. See, I got a lot of flack for
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: celebrating the anniversary of my first date with my husband,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: which was eight years since our first date. You pay
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the shit out of me on the podcast for it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Our night didn't end romantically at all because We went
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to a little Thai place around the corner from us.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It's a nice place. We go there all the time. Sorry,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't laugh, but poor Brandon ended up getting severe
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: food poisoning. So he woke up at like five o'clock
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in the morning and he's like, I think I'm going
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to be sick. And I said, I was like in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: my pregnancy rage. Oh, shut up. You don't really mean it. Anyway,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: fucking five seconds later. Anyway, back to my anniversary. As
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I said, it was pretty low key, but I had
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a really nice day because Rhys managed to surprise me twice.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: So The night before, he came home from work with
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  Speaker 1: this big, beautiful bunch of flowers. And he said, I'm
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: so sorry, your present hasn't arrived in time. And for
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the second wedding anniversary, the theme is cotton. So I
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: was really racking my brains. Like, I don't know what
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to get because there's some stuff on Etsy. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: you kind of want to get something personalized. A lot
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of the personalized stuff was a bit naff.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, oh gosh, this is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could have just got me flowers. They're beautiful. The
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  Speaker 1: next day at around 12 o'clock, I hear this knock
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  Speaker 1: on the door and I was like, oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got the two dogs at the door. I've
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: got Jack and I opened the door and there's this
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: man standing there. It almost looked like that show First
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  Speaker 1: Date with a big bunch of 12 red roses and
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  Speaker 1: a little bag. And inside the bag was a teddy bear.
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  Speaker 1: And it said Kate Torbert. And I'm like, what? Because
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: normally Reese would say Kate Turner. And I was like,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: who is this from? I was like, am I being trolled?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And then I was like- Well, it looked like a
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day present. And didn't you think, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: a bit early? Well, I noticed it was from the
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  Speaker 1: same florist that Reese had got the other flowers from.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my God, he must've put
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: in an order for Valentine's day. And it's arrived like today.
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  Speaker 1: Like there must've been some miscommunication. I was like, well,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: this is so embarrassing. It's a good way to get
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: them cheaper. Don't send them on Valentine's day. Yeah. So
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I rang him and I'm like, what's going on? He's like, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they are, they are for me. I just wanted to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: send you a second bunch to surprise you. And I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: was like, why the different name? I think he just
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: forgot to put Turner. And then a couple of hours later,
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  Speaker 1: there was another knock on the door. And I opened
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  Speaker 1: the door and there was a third bunch of flowers
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  Speaker 1: from him. And I'm like, what is going on? This
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: is not clever because you're having to pay for two
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: lots of delivery. And they were from a different company. Anyway.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Why did he send three bunch of flowers? I'm still confused.
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  Speaker 1: So he said the first was to celebrate our first
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  Speaker 1: year of marriage. The second was to celebrate the second year.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: And the third was for the year ahead. What? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he also– Two made more sense to me for
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: two years of marriage. Well, I'm not complaining. Did he
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: fuck up? Like, was this a mistake? No, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: You can ask him tonight. All right, I will. I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: loved it, though. I love getting flowers. What have you
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: got for us, Soph? I really feel like the karma
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: gods are on to me because we did a segment
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: last year about M. Davies trying to sell a white
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: couch that had stains all over it. It's funny you
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: say that because when I was doing some research into M. Davies'
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: hen's party for this episode today, I came across an
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: article Perth Now wrote about our coverage of said couch. Yeah,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and we were having a bit of a laugh because
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: this couch was beyond filthy. It looked absolutely terrible. I mean,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: at least she was honest in the Facebook advert about it. Anyway,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Brandon and I, we want to get a bigger couch.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Now that we're having a family, we need a corner couch.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: We currently have a three-seater couch and we are absolutely
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: squished on it. As the subs would know, you are
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: trying to make your house into a hotel. Not really.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I just want to make it a nice place to be.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe the use of the word hotel was wrong. But anyway,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: we have changed the configuration of our room. We ended
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: up blocking off a wall, like putting gyprock up. We
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: had these two ugly arches. So we now have our
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: TV where the arches used to be and the room
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: feels a lot bigger. So we needed a bigger couch.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And basically, and every time I tried to take a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: picture of this old couch, it looked absolutely filthy. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's because we moved where it was
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: sitting and there was different light on it. Or it
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: just looked filthy the more we looked at it. But
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I couldn't take a new photo of it. So I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: found a photo that I took of when we bought it. Oh,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit detective. And I also found photos
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: of what it looked like from where we bought it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: So we got it from James Lane. Anyway, we had
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: quite a few people inquire about it and someone wanted
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to come and look at it and we thought, fuck,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: like we can't leave it how it is. So we
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: have spent hours and hours and hours cleaning this couch.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We had one of those portable upholstery cleaners. I've got
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: one of those. It took so long and because I
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: was so nervous because I didn't want to take the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: covers off and wash them because I'd read so many
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: website saying that it shrinks them. Or it could ball
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: up like Molly Mae's blazers. But anyway, we decided that
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: this upholstery cleaner was doing nothing. It looked so streaky
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and dirty. So at 12 o'clock the other night, we
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: were laughing so much. We're like, fuck, we've got to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: do something. It's going to dry overnight. So we grabbed
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: all of the pillowcases off. We filled up the bath
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: with water. We chucked in laundry detergent and we were
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: literally scrubbing them. We said our next door neighbor probably
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: thinks we're a murderer cleaning this couch off And you
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: said that I was like texting you and you suddenly
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: went MIA and I'm like, where are you? Why are
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you ignoring me? And you're like, we're cleaning the couch.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: And I was like, how long does it take? Well,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the next day, Brandon still was not happy with some
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: of these cushions that an hour and a half before
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the people were set to come and look at it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He's like, let's put these two back in the bath.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: So we put him in the bath again. So Brandon
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: was suggesting getting a leaf blower out to try and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: dry these cushions. You know, we have a dryer at
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: our house. We have a dryer at ours, but I
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: was worried it was going to shrink the cushions. Anyway,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: we had to put it in the dryer. We pulled
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: it all together. It looks fucking brand new. I hope
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the people that bought it aren't listening to this. The
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: girl rocked up and she was like, oh my God,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I love it. And we were like, Perfect. So she's
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: coming on Friday to come and get this. This goes
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: out Friday. Hopefully the exchange will have taken place by then. Well,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: you know, you have a lot of people listening that
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: might want the couch. It's been professionally cleaned. It has been. Well,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: that's what I thought. I'd probably be more happy to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: buy a secondhand couch if I knew that it had
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: been cleaned. Yeah, it's been bleached into an inch of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: its life. Anyway, moral of the story is, Be very
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: careful with your couch. Maybe don't let your dog on it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say with your marketplace purchases.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Be wary. Well, we're going to leave things there. Thank
• 36:07
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• 36:09
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• 36:14
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• 36:17
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• 36:20
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• 36:22
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• 36:25
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• 36:28
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• 36:31
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• 36:34
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• 36:36
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