Is It Just Me? - #135: Giddy Up x

Episode Date: February 19, 2023

We're back for a brand new season & an extra long episode for ya!! In this episode: Churi’s fight with Haydn (06:46) First fights with your partner (12:11) The “secret” to hotel’s beautiful linen (17:07) Mitch’s Quickie - Dean Wells, Selena Gomez documentary & Rihanna’s Superbowl performance (25:22) Lara Jean Marshall from The Saddle Club (41:09) Our “Secret Segment” ADDebrief (1:06:40)   Hit us up: @coupleofmitches Send us a text: 0422 948 202See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is Is It Just Me? Hosted by a couple of Mitches. Hello you! Hello you! Go! Brace yourself for the rude shocks of young adulthood. Is it just me? Is familiar and farce kind of fun?

Just you, you filthy unhinged bitch. Honestly. What's wrong with you? Now here's Mitch Tully and Mitchell Coombs. Oh, hello, you. Welcome back, you. We're back. Season five. Hello! It feels like I've been gone for like six months, not two.

My God, truly. I feel like Matty McCann, except found. Like, we've been gone for so long. I had so many messages saying, when the hell are you coming back? And they were sweet around Christmas. They start to get more and more aggressive, don't they? No, they were gone for so long. I had so many messages saying, when the hell are you coming back? And they were sweet around Christmas. Then they were concerned. They start to get more and more aggressive, don't they? No, they were concerned for a bit. They were worried.

And then the last couple of weeks, they turned real dark. Yeah, they get a bit feral with this. Like, hurry up. I feel bad. I do feel a bit bad disrupting people's routines. Yes. Like, if it's in their Monday morning routine, a new episode, and we're not delivering that, I feel a bit bad.

But it's fine. We're back. Guess what? We're here every Monday morning. We'll be in, and we're not delivering that. I feel a bit bad, but it's fine. We're back. Guess what? We're here every Monday morning. We'll be in your podcast feed. Yeah. For season five, can you believe? The teal era.

I know. We're in our teal era. You're surrounded by, it's more blue. It's like a deep sea blue. Yeah, it's gorgeous. I love it. It fits a Fiji water blue. Great to have you back.

You've had all your work done, the gastric banding. You've had the full facial work. You look phenomenal. I haven't had any work done. Although I am going back to Pilates now. Congrats work. You look phenomenal. I haven't had any work done, although I am going back to Pilates now. Congrats. Yes, thank you. I'm sore as fuck, but I feel like it's toning me up a little bit. I was going to say, go Sean. I've also been to your new house. Hilarious that you have a brand new property. And a couple of years ago, you said your dream was to live in a retirement village. And now you have fulfilled

that dream. You are living in a full-time retirement village. It's not actually a retirement village, but it's got so much retirement village energy, and it suits me just fine. You enter, and there's a boom gate, and it goes... I'm visiting my friend Mitchell Coombs. It's a very gated community. It is. I called Mitch. I'm like, where do I go?

He's like, drive past the tennis court, and then once you get to the 7-Eleven, yeah, in the village, then you make a left and then right at the roller coaster. I go, It's like, drive past the tennis court, and then once you get to the 7-Eleven, yeah, in the village, then you make a left, and then right at the rollercoaster. I go, what the fuck? Where are you living? It is palatial and gorgeous, so congratulations. I love it. I'm settling in just fine.

Back for season five. Prizekeeper Jenna is here. Hi, Prizekeeper. Hi. Hi, Jenna. How are you? Did you have a good break? Yeah, I did.

Nice break. Because you, we haven't seen, I haven't really seen any of you. I saw Mitch in the break. We had a couple of brainstorm sessions, some lunches. And this is the first time I've seen Jenna in like three months. Yeah, me too, actually. We saw each other last week. Don't lie.

You guys work in the same building. How is that possible that you don't see her? You think we talk outside of this show? Yeah, but I saw you. We didn't talk. I know. We saw you. No, we hung out.

We hung out. Well, listen, Jenna and I have been working our tushes off during the break. Don't. That sounds very pointed. Because later on, we've got a very exciting guest. Yeah. Very exciting. It's exciting for us, put it that way.

And I'm not going to reveal who it is just yet. But I reckon a lot of people listening are going to get a solid nostalgia hit out of this. Not me. I'm not sold. I'm not convinced. Oh, no. This guest meant a lot to us during our childhood. I know how much it. Not me. I'm not sold. I'm not convinced. Oh, no. This guest meant a lot to us during our childhood. I know how much it means to you.

I'm still not convinced. And also, like, coming for my gig in a weird way, this guest. Yeah, well. That's what I'm going to say. I'm a bit competitive. I've got my back up. Like a cat. Okay.

One of you asked how my break was. How was your break? Yeah, it was fine. Nothing really happened. Did you go on an actual holiday? Did we go on an actual holiday? No, we had three weeks off, but we did nothing. We sat down.

I'm really craving one. There's such a difference between having time off and an actual holiday. Because I'm feeling a little bit refreshed because I had time off, but I need to actually go somewhere and relax, you know? Oh, totally. We didn't have any of that, which is a shame. We're in a wedding season. All our friends are getting fucking married.

So for the next three weekends, Pride, we have a wedding Friday and then a Wednesday and then a Friday again. It's shocking. Are any of them gay weddings? Not one! During Sydney World Pride. Homophobic. You have to go to straight love occasions.

Disrespectful. Homophobic. Absolutely. One big thing that did happen during the break is that we were evicted from our property. We were given the four-week notice. And as you know, you're keeping up. The house was being sold, but it didn't sell because we're in the middle of, you know,

inflation's fucked. Yeah, I was going to say, you've been like bitching about, oh, I have to leave my house for at least six months. Has it finally actually happened? No, it was November when they said, hey, we're selling it. Really? It feels a lot longer ago. It's been longer than that.

Okay, I don't know. I've got no concept of time. Look, it all blends into one. It's sold now and because we were on week to week, we have four weeks to get out. Now three weeks. Officially. Yeah, in a rental crisis.

And that is actually what my first IJM is of the year, my first IJM of the season, I should say. If you're new here, IJM is an acronym for Is It Just Me, I-I-J-M. Yeah, and an IJM is something we've noticed, something we hate or appreciate. It's how we start the show the same every week. We actually have an is it just you on the show as well. That's your chance to come on and vent and give us something that you've noticed.

Can't wait. I've missed chatting with our gorgeous listeners. I will say, I have missed the show too. Oh, me too. Absolutely. Like, I'm doing that many fucking shows now. Yeah, we get it. It's ridiculous.

No, I'm not gloating. It's too much. This is a cry for help. When are we going to get your new co-hosts on? It's going to be so odd for you having all of your co-hosts in the one room. I want those girls, Britt and Laura from The Picker, to come in here and so it's just like all of your lovers in the same room. I know.

Your two worlds colliding. I think I'd freak out. You know how sometimes I get really overwhelmed and I just stop talking? I do feel like you're probably a bit more feral on Is It Just Me than you are on The Pick Up. So if they see this side of you, they might be a bit confronted. Oh, you think they're going to rescind the contract? Well, if I'm in the room, I'll bring that out of you. You definitely will.

All right, we'll try to get the girls on. Yes, I have launched The Pick Up pre-drive on Kiss right around Australia, if you want to listen. You ousted our Kate Langbrook. I did not. I did not oust Kate Langbrook. Poor Kate. Well, you're currently hosting her old radio site and she's without work. So it sounds like you ousted Kate.

Well, if you want an exclusive, I spoke to Kate. Oh, did you? Yeah. And we're all good. She was like, yes, of course, marvellous Mitch. I'll be re-flogging my book come Mother's Day. Just make sure you get me on. I do feel like Kate is probably happy to not have to work.

She's not the most, like, a workaholic. You wouldn't call her a workaholic, would you? No way. And if you have Kate on Instagram, all she's doing is gallivanting at red carpets in Gucci. I'm like, she's just in Gucci blazers, Gucci shoes. I'm like, she's living her best life. She's such a random woman.

I love her. She just sent me at 11.59 one night a Christmas tree and a love heart emoji. No text. That was it. That's lovely. Was it in the week leading up to or after Christmas? I think so. It was the week before Christmas, yeah.

I get that. That kind of checks out. I didn't know what to reply. Like, thanks? Yeah, thanks, but no thanks. Thanks, Kate. Anyway, should you kick off with your or is it just me? I should, yeah.

Let's go. This is the first Idrum of the year. Oh, shit. Do we book Bradley? Is Bradley back? Of course. There he is. Is it just me? I should, yeah. Let's go. This is the first Idjim of the year. Oh, shit. Do we book Bradley? Is Bradley back? Of course. There he is. Is it just me or?

Is now not the time to be picky during a global fucking rental crisis? Jesus Christ. Is it global or is it mostly just Sydney? Well, no, it's global. Actually, I read that Adelaide's rental crisis is somehow worse than Sydney's. If you had to rank all the cities in Australia. Yeah. Really?

The problem is there's not enough dwellings for people to live in. That's the issue. So then it skyrockets the price. Inflation is terrible. People up the rent. It is so bad. And Hayden and I, on the weekend, Hayden, my partner, we went to 12 open houses. 12!

12 homes! I told you to get onto the rent ferry. They'll go to the inspections for you, do the application and everything. my partner, we went to 12 open houses. 12! 12 homes! I told you to get onto the rent ferry. They'll go to the inspections for you, do the application and everything. I've spoken to the rent ferry. We're in communication. Yeah, she's fucking amazing. If you need help, rent a rent ferry.

But I don't work Fridays and weekends, so I'm like, I'll do it. I'll just do this. Fair enough. But some of them, I feel like they do this on purpose. Some inspections are at like 11.30am on a fucking Wednesday. They know people are at work. Oh my God. You're 100% right. The thing that fucks me off is when you find a perfect listing

and they go, contact agent. I don't want to have to contact the agent. You contact me. I'm giving you my money. What sale works where you have to work? Imagine going to a service station and getting a cherry ripe and there's no price. It's like, talk to the agent.

Talk to Cadbury. I'll bid higher for this cherry ripe. Yes, it's really bad. So we're at that point where it's actually talk to the agent yeah talk to cadbury i'll bid higher for this cherry right yes it's really bad so we're at that point where it's getting it's actually seriously a problem you know how stressed i am oh yeah three weeks to find a property it was four weeks five minutes ago so is it three now i said three didn't i i'm stressed i know it's actually really bad who's being picky hayden oh he's being real picky he's got this current issue about having understair storage in the house. Understair storage. It's the current buzzword in our relationship.

Fucking understair storage. He goes, well, we can't live in a place that doesn't have understair storage. You don't have understair storage in your current place. I've never had stairs. We don't even have a flight of stairs. And he goes, well, we can't have this one in Newtown because there's no understair storage. I'm like, I'm not Harry fucking Potter. I don't need to be under the stairs.

And I go, listen, babe, this house is perfect. It's got a carport. It's got this. It's got that. Why do we need understair storage? He went, well, so I can build a wine cellar. What? A wine cellar.

That's the gayest thing I've ever heard. I know. A purpose-built wine cellar. So we're walking through and we're talking to the agent and I'm asking important questions. Has it got a gas port? Great. And the parking? And that's included.

Yeah, fantastic. And Hayden goes, excuse me, Brezic Whitney, is there understair storage? And the person sort of goes, no, there's no understair storage. There's no stairs. There's no stairs. No, sir, we're in a tent because there's a global crisis. Oh, God.

Constant understair storage. But why do we need it? Like I'm asking for really important things. I want to make sure there's a pantry crisis. Oh, God. Constant understair storage. Oh, my God. But why do we need it? Like, I'm asking for really important things. I want to make sure there's a pantry. Everyone needs a pantry. Yeah, I remember when I first started house hunting, because, you know, it took me months and months and months.

Yeah. I was picky at the start, and then somewhere along the line, I realised, oh, no, beggars can't be choosers. But in Hayden's case, beggars can be choosers. I say, Hayden, we need to make sure we have a carport. He goes, it's not really important. I go, because you don't drive. Yeah, I would say things like, the office area isn't carpeted.

On the off chance that I might want to record the podcast from home once every nine months, I need carpet for the echo reduction. That's how picky I was being. I'm a pain as well. In one of these places, in the studio that I'd build for the podcast and for radio, I was tapping on the glass and I asked if it was double glazed. Who the fuck am I? The last time I asked that was at a Krispy Kreme.

I went to Mitch's house the other day. His brand new house in the retirement room. Yes, the retirement room. Yeah, he was on dialysis. My villa. His villa, yeah. I went to Mitch's plantation. And I walked in and I sat down on the couch, Jenna, and I sat down. It was a lovely couch. And I sat down and then after about 10 minutes I went to go to the bathroom and I walked in and I sat down on the couch, Jenna, and I sat down.

It was a lovely couch. And I sat down and then after about 10 minutes I went to go to the bathroom and I hear, and I went, ow, and I felt like a mosquito bit me on the back of my calf. Now, he's got double-sided tape wrapped around the bottom of his couch. Oh, I'll get you onto this, Jenna. It's cat training tape. Yes. I shouldn't get that.

To stop Isabella running under the couch and like clawing the back of it. I just put it there because it's double-sided tape. If she tries to sneak past the couch, it'll pull on her hair like a wax strip. And so she's not in the habit. But now the bloody cat training tape is just covered in gay men's leg hair. Because all my guests sit down and go, ow! And now I'm scared to go to your house. It desensitized me.

I'm terrified to go anywhere near his suburb. Oh, so it's pussy training tape too. Oh, fuck off. Puss. Listen, so I'm stressed. And so is he seriously hell-bent on this wine storage thing, the understair storage? He's hung up on it.

Try saying it. It's like an acting warm-up vocal thing. Understair storage. Understair storage. Yeah, right. All he wants is understair storage. Understair storage. Understair storage. Understair storage. And I go is understair storage. Understair storage. Understair storage. Understair storage. And I go, fuck with it. You can stay under there.

Yes. That could be your bedroom. But also, can I just say, one of the most cleansing things about moving, because I don't cull before I leave the house. That's too stressful. I pack everything. Yes. And then when I get to the new place, when I'm unpacking, that's when I decide, I'm going to get rid of this. I'm going to get rid of that. It's decluttering. If you've got storage space, you're just going to keep everything. Don't give yourself the option to hoard shit.

That's the best thing about my new retirement unit. That's a good call. Maybe I could live there with you. You should. Would we work as neighbours, do you think? Yeah, totally. Yeah, I feel like you would. Do you have understair storage?

No. Fuck then. It's just not going to happen. Do you know what? Speaking of this, I've just kind of thought of a new, is it just me? Oh, yeah. Kind of off the back of yours. Are you ready for me to go? Oh, then. It's just not going to happen. Do you know what? Speaking of this, I've just kind of thought of a new Is It Just Me? Oh, yeah. Kind of off the back of yours. Are you ready for me to go?

Oh, yeah. Is it on the fly? Oh, I like this. Let's go. Is it just me or... Have you never had a fight with your partner? Well, the answer is no. I just described a very, very current and recent argument.

Oh, as if. Don't come to me and say you've never had an argument with Sean. No, I'm not gloating. I find it weird. Wait, have you never had a fight with Sean? Never. No, no, no. What do you mean?

Have you had a disagreement, a minor bicker? Not really, no. Because we're pretty like we compromise well, we communicate well. So it's never come to that. The closest we've ever come to an argument is when he goes, oh, do you want some toast for breakfast? And I said, yeah, sure. What do you got?

And he said, Vegemite. And I said, is that all? He goes, yeah. And I said, ugh. And then he did the whole, what do you mean? That's un-Australian. You don't like Vegemite. I had to bite my tongue because I was thinking,

I can't be fucking bothered with this conversation. Like, don't feign outrage. I don't like Vegemite, I had to bite my tongue because I was thinking, I can't be fucking bothered with this conversation. Like don't feign outrage. I don't like Vegemite. End of story. Like it's not some fucking – like I can't be bothered with this. That's also like an argument you do on a first date, like to kind of find content in the date to talk about. He was just being cheeky.

And if I'd been wide awake, it wouldn't have been a problem. But I was like first thing in the morning, I was like, I can't be bothered with this. Yeah, drop the act. I just don't want Vegemite. But I said nothing because I don't want that to be our first argument. So what have you come, that is it. That is as close as you've come, the Vegemite incident.

Yeah, because in my mind I was thinking, shut up. I can't be bothered with this. I'm sorry. I have to break it to you. He has definitely wanted, there's been moments where he has pulled back from arguing. Oh, I have no doubt. Everyone thinks I'm probably the snappy one, but it's more likely he's going to snap at me for saying or doing something stupid. You're kidding. No, I love you, but you'd be the one that would start the first argument.

No, I wouldn't start it. Of course not. Because if I've got a legitimate issue, I'll just, you know. Hear it out. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't get to that. True. He's not confrontational like me. If there's ever a potential for an argument, I run away. You just face it. Well, not really. I pick my battles. Is it because you're just so honest with each other and you open up? There hasn't been a reason to fight.

But I've been chatting with a couple of friends about this, and they've all pointed out that the first argument is usually not very serious. It's always some petty shit. Yeah. And so I feel like that's got to be it. I hope it's something really petty that we can look back on and laugh at. Like one of my friends, his first fight with his partner was because he didn't share food and there was like silent treatment going on for days.

And then another friend said that his first fight with his boyfriend was because his favorite song was playing and he kept talking over it. And then that escalated. One of their phones ended up getting smashed. Oh God, let's check in on that. And so I've been like, oh, my God, this first argument is going to be such a big deal. But it could be over absolutely nothing.

Oh, it will be. Guaranteed. One of these days I will snap and say, Sean, buy fucking peanut butter. Yeah. Don't give a shit about your Vegemite affliction. I'm trying to think about what my first argument with Hayden was. Yeah, was it petty or was it serious?

I've just messaged him because I can't remember. So I've just said, remember our first fight? He says, no, I don't think so. We're perfect. Shut up, Hayden. We know that's not true with your understair storage bullshit. Should I quickly just call him? Let me just call him.

Yeah, go on. I want to know. Because I think. Because I don't feel like you'd be the type to be snappy. Now, hi, we're just doing the pod. How are you? Good. I don't remember what our first argument was.

It can be a really petty one. It doesn't have to be a serious one. Not real, just like did we argue about music? I feel like it would have been in the car music maybe or. Maybe like maybe something to do with like you not liking when I play music in the car because you like to keep the radio on. Oh, no, it was the sad music. You played sad music and I got upset.

Oh, I think I remember you talking about this. You like sad music. Yes, I don't like listening to sad music because I feel like my life is a film and if sad music plays, that means that I'm about to die. I'm team Hayden because I love sad music. No. I love sad music. It's not even sad.

It's honestly not anything slow. Like I could put on a happy Frank Ocean song and you'd be like, what the fuck is this? No, I'm with Hayden on that. Really triggers me. Okay, love you. And so wait, wait. Love you. Did you get genuinely shitty, Mitch?

No, I just told him that I don't like sad music because I'm hung up. Oh, right. He doesn't have much time for this podcast, does he? New recent fight. But yeah, I would love to know, anyone listening right now, have you, yes you, what was your petty first argument with your partner? Because these stories are so funny in hindsight. In the moment, you're genuinely furious, but I want to hear what it was at couple of

bitches on Instagram. We might get them on next week or something. Yeah, we'll chat to you next week. Because I'm kind of excited for the first argument with Sean. Yeah. I want it to be about. I want it to be something dumb that I can laugh about one day. You're a good arguer too.

Like if there was a sport. You reckon? Oh, gotcha. Oh, you would win. You'd win. Mitchell, yes, of course. What do you mean? You're fantastic at arguing.

It's not a bad thing. No, it's a good thing. I'm terrible. You should have been a lawyer. Yeah, you should have been. What a shame. That ponytail would look great in a fucking power suit in a court of law. Oh, I object.

You're listening to Is It Just Me That's enough of these two Now let's hear An Is It Just You Now you can DM us at couple of Mitch's How slick does that sound? I will say, the new production, the new sound for 2023 for season 5 is hot Oh god, Jenna, during one of mine and Mitch's planning meetings when he came over to my retirement village.

Yeah. The village. I said to him, I was so scared to bring it up. I said to him, listen, there's one of our backing tracks that we use and I think I want to ditch it. And he goes, I know exactly which one you mean. And during three years of this podcast, we'd never discussed or admitted to each other

that we fucking hated this backing track. So it's gone for good. We both despised. Can you find it? It's called Gossip Girl. Oh, yeah. Let me find it. I know that one as well.

Do you know which one it is? It's so annoying. But I never wanted to tell Mitchell in case he loved it. I hate it. And then he thought I loved it. So then we just sat in silence while we played this dumb song. But obviously, I remember we chose that particular backing track back in the early days. Yeah, ages ago.

It must have just gotten old so quickly and neither of us brought it up. Totally. This is it. This is Gossip Girl's Idjim, Renny. Oh, no. This is the last time you'll ever hear this shit on this podcast. Say goodbye to this wisteria lane. You're like I'm on The Real Housewives.

Yes. Gina was so rude at dinner last night. She's this unladylike. I can't believe the way she spoke to Lydia. We just put into yoga. We're ready to do a quick workout. We were on the 71th floor. Wow.

So at the art gallery, I said to Jenna, you're wearing real fur? Like, you know what I mean? I hate it. It's so gross. It's the worst. It sounds like Desperate Housewives. mean? I hate it. It's so gross. I feel worse. It sounds like Desperate Housewives. Ready? Oh, yes.

Previously on Desperate Housewives. You think? What was that show? Do you remember that show that Betty White was in? Not Golden Girls. When she was old. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Coyote.

No. Was it like something in Cleveland? Something in Cleveland? Hot in Cleveland. Hot in Cleveland, yes, yes, yes. Coyote. No. Was it like something in Cleveland? Something in Cleveland? Hot in Cleveland. Hot in Cleveland, yes. That's very like previously on Hot in Cleveland. Yeah, then they roll it. Hot in Cleveland.

It's filmed in front of a live studio audience. Oh, it's really good. Oh, my God. I will miss it, though. I won't. No, TV shows change their theme song and they get fan hate, so they have to change it back. No, but we haven't changed the theme song.

The main theme song is still the same. Just this rubbish. Mitch and I sat there, Jenna, for hours going through different tracks. But I think we've landed on a gorgeous new backing track. Put it on again. This one. Yeah, here we go. Oh, so much better.

It's a bit more adult, you know, and we're getting older. We're ageing up. Yeah. We've matured. We have matured. I know Jenna wanted a grand piano. Yes. Given your age.

Yes, yes, my baby. But we landed on this, and it's more us. So welcome to the new Season 5 Sound. I love us. It is time for an Is It Just You? Of course. Now, this is your chance to have an idjim of your own. You can DM us on a couple of Mitches on Instagram, and we'll get you in, and we'll give you a little prize. Prizekeeper Jenna will send you out of course. Now, this is your chance to have an idjim of your own. You can DM us on a couple of Mitches on Instagram

and we'll get you in and we'll give you a little prize. Prizekeeper Jenna will send you out something lovely. By the way, I did mention, I think the last episode of last year, we did say, keep the Is It Just You's coming to our Instagram over the holidays. We forgot to factor in that message requests on Instagram expire. Oh, fuck.

So if you sent us an Is It Just You and you didn't hear back from us, send it again, doll. They all expired. Totally. There's so many we're missing. But also, can I make a little announcement? This is the announcement? Yes.

As well as our Instagram, we've also now got an Idjim text line. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to say that every time we talk about it, I'm going to play that. Idjim text line. That's it. So if you want to send your is it just you to us on Instagram at couple of mitches, we won't miss it there. But if you're like, oh, I don't know how to work the Instagrams, shoot us a text 0412 712 092.

Yeah. Get in touch. Don't ring the number. I'm not answering. That'd be dumb. Oh, shit, it's ringing. Fuck, it the number. I'm not answering. That'd be dumb. Oh, shit, it's ringing. Fuck, it's ringing. Answer it.

No. I'll answer it. Yeah, we've got a Nokia. It's our burner phone. I better answer it. Hold on. Hello? Oh, fuck off.

The dolphin. Must be calling from the Gold Coast. All right, shall we do the Is It Just You, the first one of the year? Yeah, of course. Who have we got on the line? We have Joshua, who's in South Australia. He's in Adelaide. Hi, Joshy.

Hey. Hello, Joshua. Did I see you at my comedy shows in Adelaide last year or no? No. Where the fuck were you? I had to work. Shit. Well, I was there for the first time in Adelaide,

and I think I spoke about it in our little best bits during the break, our little bonus episodes. Adelaide's beautiful. It's been converted. We'd all live there. Jenna, would you live there? Because Mitch and I said we'd love Adelaide. Yeah, I feel like I would.

It's very new. It's very sleepy, but in a nice way, Joshua. Do you like living down there? Yeah, it's not bad. Like, I've been here my whole life. Like, I have been to Sydney and Melbourne. It's a bit much, isn't it? Yeah. Too busy.

I love Adelaide. Cruisy. Alright, Josh, listen. Let's see what you've got in your tank. First, is it just you of the year? Bradley, what count you in with the Idjim Orchestra? You ready to go? No worries. Let's go. Hit it, boys! Is it just me or?

Do you also know the secrets behind hotel bed sheets and towels? What? The secret behind hotel bed sheets and towels? I do not know. What do you mean? I didn't know there was a secret. No, neither did I. No.

So in your previous episodes, I believe, like Mitch Cherry, you guys were like, what do you call it? I think it was one of your things better than drugs and dick, wasn't it? It was like hotel. Yeah, I love hotel in it because you can blow your nose in the towel, you can wipe your actual butthole, and then I leave it on the floor and walk all over it. I've got no respect, and I'm not being rude. I just know that they're going to be steam cleaned in some giant vat.

That's true. I've never thought about what's occurred to these crisp white towels before I use them. I'm like a Simpsons character. I like floss between my butt cheeks with the towel. You guys can do whatever you like because they'll just get shoved into a red bag and then into a cage and then basically get taken away. So that's what I mean. Wait, taken away and then what?

Yeah, then what happens? Then it all goes down to a laundry service. But I've got a laundry doll. I've got whites and they are just never as white as they are when they arrive. How do they make them that beautiful? Yeah, what's the secret? I have no idea. Like they must go into this big white machinery

because they go into these companies that we order from. Do you work in a hotel, I'm assuming? I used to. Okay, and there's some sort of third-party thing. You just send the dirty linen off and then it comes back squeaky clean. Yeah, basically. And so you don't know the secret either? No.

Oh, so, okay. Well, this has been a beautiful use of our time. I thought you knew the secret, Josh. Wait, so, okay, shit. So we're going to have to get, we're going to have to. Now I want to know the secret. Thanks a lot. Now we're going to have to continue this week after week until we get an answer.

Can you investigate and come back to us? Yes, I can do that. Gorgeous. Thanks, Josh. We'll send you a prize. Don't be our old colleagues. No, you don't get your fucking prize until we have an answer. No, here you go.

Well, all right. Well, continue your investigations, please. I'm going to crown you the official IJM investigator. It's a new role that we're launching in the new year. You've got the gig and all you need to do is uncover the secret. Go for the current affair on that shit. Yeah. We know Ali Langdon.

We could connect you if it gets that done. If you have people rocking up to your house in black vans and they're going, this guy's getting too close to the towel secret, we'll call Ali Langdon and we'll back you up. Don't worry. No problem. All right, thanks, Josh. If you have any, is it just you of your own,

hit us up, DM us at couple of Mitch's, or else you can call us, or DM us, don't call us, Jesus Christ, text us, I should say. Text us. 0412 712 092. Now. Oh, of course The sound effect, I forgot

It plays naturally I don't even press a button It's actually It listens, it's like Siri Yeah, gotcha Now don't forget We've got our special guest Oh, I'm so excited

Joining us a little bit later But first Have we got time to squeeze In a little quickie, girls? Yeah Let's do it You ready for a quickie? Fuck it, let's do it

Let's do it Let's have a quickie I wanna have a quickie Yeah, it, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's have a quickie. I want to have a quickie. Yeah, just a little quick hit of entertainment stuff. I've got a few things I really want to get your two cents on that happened during the break. Did you see all that shit with Dean Wells? What a fucking troll of a man.

Honestly, what a flop. Dean, he's from Married at First Sight. He was a groom from a couple of years ago. Now he's a terrible- 2018, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, and a terrible influencer now. Disgusting man. Flogs, teeth whitening shit.

Disgusting now. Yes. So what's happened there is Dean was outraged because there was an event happening in his local area where a drag queen was going to be doing a story time for kids at a local library. Which I think is so cool. It sounds like very wholesome, gorgeous fun. And the drag queen is Charisma Bell.

That is, yes. Who I just adore. Local queen. Yeah. Remember the first time I went gay clubbing? They filmed it for SBS. It was like a little gimmicky thing. Let's take the Bogan Gay Clubbing.

Charisma Bell could tell that I was shitting myself. And so she just held me to her buzzy and I felt safe. She's gorgeous. I won't have anyone say a bad word about her. But what's happened is Dean's posted on his Instagram saying, you know that angle where it's like, oh, think of the children. They shouldn't be exposed to sexuality and gender, whatever. No, you know what he said that really fucked me off?

He said, I know gay people. I've met drag queens. I've been to gay bars, I think he said. And whenever there's queer people around or drag queens, it's always sexual, always sexualised. So kids should not be subjected to that. Yeah, but Charisma Bell's not going to go to the library and dry hump fucking rainbow fish.

I'm fully aware. What the fuck does Dean think is the problem? It's just a wholesome little thing. She's going to read a storybook to kids. It's world pride. There's a lot of queer events happening around Sydney. So anyway. But also kids love that type of stuff. Dressing

up and all that. And it's not a world first. People have been doing drag reading events and performances for kids. I wish that they did it when I was younger. I would have loved that. Honestly, it would have saved me so much time. Yeah, so Dean has gone with Instagram

and has been outraged by this and then all of his bloody diehard followers, which, by the way, if you're a diehard Dean Wells fan, you're obviously such a cockhead. Reassess your life. Also, we'll say he was dropped by his management, stage addiction. Yes, well, you kind of ruined the ending of the story. Oh, did I? Sorry. No, I'm so sorry.

All's well that ends well. He's been dropped by his management because even they don't support his stupid views. But the weird thing is that plenty of people do because he's put out on Instagram that he's outraged and all his bloody fans are ringing the local council, their local parliament members. There's apparently going to be, there might be protests planned at the library on the day of the event.

Because the event's still happening and he's sent all his fucking right wing nut jobs to turn up, anti-vaxxer dickheads, to turn up and to protest the event. And I will be there with pitchforks fighting them off to defend my Charisma Bell. Will you be there? No, I won't. Oh, okay. Of all people, not Charisma Bell.

She's gorgeous. You know what makes me laugh? The fact that he thinks a man in a dress with a wig on is going to scar children more than angry male protesters. Yes, exactly. At the front of a children's library. Like, what the fuck, man? During Pride Month. Like, grow the fuck up.

I knew I didn't like this clown. I didn't even watch Married at First Sight because I'm not a moron. No, no. And I didn't watch it. But I remember when I worked here at Kiss, Kyle and Jackie O were getting him on. And this is how I knew from the get-go that Dean's a dog, because he was like an hour late for the phone interview.

And then he came on and he was so arrogant that they just hung up on him. They had no time for it. Do you want to hear that? Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, this was my first impression of Dean. I have to be honest, this Dean guy was supposed to be on like over an hour ago and we've been dicked around big time. Dean.

Do you like Dean? Where have you been? I'm a busy man. No, you're not. You're a piece of shit on one show. You're not that busy. What happened? Where were you?

We do have a life as well. Yeah, but what were you doing that whole time? You know what? Shove your show in your ass. Fucking life. Fucking cockhead. Fuck you. Ow.

Forget your show. Nothing to do with that show ever again. Finished. Dumb ass losers. Couldn't have said it better myself. I was just about to say. True. Took the words straight out of my mouth.

That really sets the tone of the sort of person we're dealing with. Do you know that he has a Patreon account? Not for nudes and shit, just for his problematic views. He must know that his views are twisted, so he's like, I can't put them out publicly. I'll get cancelled. So people have to pay to hear my stupid opinions. He's just vile. What an idiot. I'm that dumb, I have to put my content

behind a paywall. Yeah. Idiot. Maybe we should go to the fucking library and protest back. Yeah, good call. I'll find him off. Probably too scared to come here. Oh, I'd love to see that, Jenna. Oh, I would. What are you going to do, claw him? Yeah. All those scratches. Probably get him going. He's a weird guy.

That's probably one of his kinks. Oh, no. Let's just never speak of his name again. How about that? That's probably the best way to get rid of him. I mean, I might bring it up again if there's a development, if the protest happens, but anyway. We could just call him Dickhead. Yeah, that's right. And then we know who we're talking about. Dickhead Dean. Yeah, that's it. Now, also,

have you seen Selena Gomez's documentary? It came out a couple of months ago, but we are yet to debrief. I've seen bits and bobs, but I'm a massive Selena fan. I fell back in love with her watching Only Murderers in the Building. Oh, that's on my list. Mine too. She's stellar. She's so good.

I'm so proud of her. I've loved Selena since 2008 or something. Yeah. Since Wizards of Waverly Place, when she had her YouTube channel with Demi. Oh, my God. And all of that. Obsessed. Yeah, she does talk like she's just been to the dentist, though.

And that is an issue. What do you mean? She's like, we need to find her a mirror. Oh, my God. We need to find her a mirror. Well, look, this documentary is called My Mind and Me and it focuses on her mental health. And I'm also a big Selena fan,

but I have to tread lightly around what I'm going to say because it is about her mental health and like you know good on you I applaud you for being vulnerable it was very very vulnerable like warts and all yeah she's got lupus yeah but there were also parts of the documentary that I just thought shut up oh stop winching like some parts I feel like they had the opposite effect where it made her look bad. There was this one particular scene where she was doing press for her album at the time, Rare,

and some French journalist was interviewing her. Oh, I saw this. It was one of those, like it wasn't 60 minutes. It wasn't an in-depth interview. It's one of those little three-minute BuzzFeed videos you might see. But Selena would sit there like for hours while different journalists would come and go and she'd be doing hours of junk. Exactly, junket style.

And to be fair, Selena does, to her own admission, hates having to do that press stuff, hates all the interviews and stuff, just finds them so mundane. But in the documentary, this interview she did with the French BuzzFeed or whatever, Selena's reaction afterwards was so disproportionate. And I don't think it was a good look. I was like, oh, Selena, babe, you're being a little bit of a brat here. Right.

So this is Selena after the interview. Yeah. You hear her reaction because it's just a short and sweet video for Facebook or whatever. The interviewer kind of wraps up abruptly. And Selena didn't like that. You're a singer. You're an actor. You worked into production in fashion.

Is there any other art you would like to try? I got to say, I'll do a little bit of all of this for a while. But eventually, when it all slows down for me, I'm probably going to devote most of my life to philanthropy. Okay, that's good for me. Wow, thank you. I'm probably going to devote most of my life to philanthropy. Okay, that's good for me. Wow, thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you very much. Felt like you really understood. Fucking dumbest thing ever. I'm done. I can't do that anymore. That's so stupid. Do you know how cheap it makes me feel like yeah she's asking me questions like good ones and then she didn't even pay attention to what i was saying i don't want to do that ever again i feel like a product it was like making me angry you know what

it is is it made me feel like this i just I've spent years, years of my life trying to not be that. Oh, not a fan of that. Yeah, I absolutely get where she's coming from. Because like, it might have been worth a follow up question. Oh, philanthropy. What sort of philanthropy, you know, maybe was worth a follow up question. But it was just meant to be a little short and sweet interview, like a fluffy thing, which, you know, she's right, they are mundane, but I was like, babe, calm down.

But you also don't know if the interview is being wrapped up by... She probably would have been. That's what I was going to say. I'm team Selina here because I think it's okay. Like, give her a break. She's probably dealing with pain. She's exhausted. She's got a chronic illness.

The weird thing is, though though, like watching that documentary, she is always at her best when she's not working. And I'm like, I just think, I don't know what, if she's going to get a trade or something instead, but I just think she can't keep doing this job because she always became like not good when she was at work, so to speak, you know, anything that was required as part of the performing or the, the interview shit, all the stuff that comes with being a celebrity.

She would just get in the most foul mood, start snapping at her best friends and stuff when they're trying to be supportive. She needs to go to get a tea vet and do childcare. Exactly, something like that. I'm just watching it going, babe, I don't think you're suited to this industry as much as I love the work you put out. Yeah, no, I don't think she likes doing it at all. She'd still struggle with a job interview, clearly.

Oh, God, imagine. Goodness me. What are your interests? I really understood. Fuck that. I felt like I was back at Disney. It's like, that's not how you get a job, babe. I know.

And the whole Disney thing. I'm like, I get it. You were triggered. I can't, you know, police how you react to things, but I was also just like, shut up. Oh, Selena. Still my number one. I love her so much.

Oh, absolutely. I still adore her. And finally, I need to hear your thoughts on Rihanna's Super Bowl performance. What did we think? Oh, I thought it was amazing. Did you? Yeah, of course I did. You're easily impressed.

No, I didn't. And let me tell you, I'm up to date because Hayden is obsessed with the Super Bowl halftime performance. Same. He credits his weight. He lost about 20 kilos when he was 16, 17, 18. He credits it to watching all the Super Bowl performances and dancing to them. Really?

And he'd run to them. He knows them all off by heart. Like his own little DIY Zumba. Yeah. You know how Jane Fonda in the 1800s did the dance videos? He had the Super Bowls. So he made me watch them all the night before. So I was very up to date.

So I watched Rihanna. And, yeah, I think it didn't have the production elements or the oomph that others had, but it was very her, which is what I liked. Oh, well, I hate people saying that. It's very her. I'm like, what do you mean? Underwhelming?

You think she's underwhelming? No. Because people often say, oh, you know, Rihanna's up there with the Beyoncés of the world. And I'm like, Beyoncé would never half-ass a performance like that. No. She was pregnant, for God's sake. I know, but that's of the world. And I'm like, Beyonce would never half-ass a performance like that. No, she was pregnant for God's sake. I know, but that's not a disability. No, but she's in her second trimester for goodness sake.

By the way, I watched it and I had no idea she was pregnant. Really? Well, I think she really needed to like amp it up, like tell people she's pregnant because afterwards. She was doing like feeling her belly and everything. Wrong, no. No. People were like, oh, you can see that she was like stroking her baby bump.

No, she literally brushed past it for 0.5 of a second. It wasn't clear enough. I wanted her to have a Velcro tummy on and then pull it off and then have like a it's a boy or it's a girl. Do you remember Beyonce's pregnancy announcement? She stood there on stage for like a minute 30 just rubbing it going, yay, knocked out. Well, with Rihanna a few days before the performance,

she gave an interview and said that she was going to introduce a special guest. Special guest. My favourite part was all the TikToks after of the guy almost falling off the platform. You know how she was on four little platforms that were hung in the sky that looked like a Super Mario Kart level? Oh, that was during the last song, Diamonds.

Do we have a little taste of that, please? Yeah, this is a halftime show if you missed it. To be fair, I was watching her. I didn't notice some guy nearly fell off. Yeah, so when she started this, she was on a middle platform. She was being risen above the stadium. The dancers on the left and right were doing Corrie, and he almost fell off the platform to his death.

I didn't notice that. Yeah, it's all over TikTok. I posted an Instagram story of me watching the Super Bowl and I said, oh my god, that stage is a bit shaky, bub. She doesn't look scared at all. And someone replied to me, just someone who follows me, and said, oh, my brother was the production manager and designed

those stages. And I said to him, he's a bit dumb, so she could easily die and I'm not bailing him out if he kills Rihanna. You know what I loved? I loved that halfway through the performance, massive, massive boss energy. She goes, yeah, fuck paying $10 million for a Fenty Beauty commercial, which is how much ads and commercials cost during the Super Bowl. She just gets out one of her powders, puts it on her face and hands it back.

And it was the quickest, quickest product placement ever. It's not like it was in your face. It was just a really quick, you know, just a powder on my face. And then what was it, like 883% rise in Google searches or something? For Fenty Beauty, yep. And they equated that to about $6 million in sales for that night only. Fucking hell. Wow.

She's a genius. Meanwhile, you've got Kris Jenner over there like, how do I get Kylie into the suit? How do I get her into performing? What would the Kardashians do? Stand there with a microphone, tell people to get off their fucking asses and work. To punters, they're watching football.

Did you see that the Halftime Show got more viewers by about 3 million than the actual game? Well, that makes total sense to me. Totally. Who was playing at the Super Bowl? The Sharks. Philadelphia and Kansas. It was the Eagles and it was the Waratines.

You could say anything and I'd say sure, I'll take your word for it. You could be like, the Pandas and the Waratines. You could say anything and I'd say, sure, I'll take your word for it. You could be like, oh, the pandas and the lorikeets, yeah. The wabatons and the chickens. The witchetty grubs. Yeah, they would do really well. But anyway, back to Rihanna. No costume changes.

No. She didn't actually look like she wanted to be there that much. I have a theory that she's just made so much money from this Fenty shit that she's like, I don't need to do this. She does. She's a billionaire. She's probably just like, why do I need to work so hard to prove myself as a musician when I've done that and now I've moved on to something else?

Well, she wasn't paid for it. She did it for free. Did it purely for exposure. No money. Same with Beyonce and Katy Perry. I think that's most of them. Yeah. Yeah.

I think you're right. I think they get paid something, but it's not nearly enough to actually put on the performance. So they end up being out of pocket anyway, but they still do it. Well, I watched all of them, like I said, and Katie's was amazing. Katie Perry's was really good. Still, to this day, highest viewed. Really? Are you sure?

Yeah. Hers is the highest viewed halftime performance. What year is that? She must have overtaken Gaga, because last I saw Gaga was the most viewed, like in total, including the TV ratings, the YouTube, everything. Oh, maybe. But of course the Gaga fans like, including all crickets in the arena that have two eyes and flies have nine eyes and they watched it.

So she has four billion views. But I love Katy Perry, as you know. I'll fight to the death, enduring her flop era even. But I didn't think her thing was as good as Gaga's because I don't think you need to bring out guests. Like, Katy Perry brought out Missy Elliott and I was like, fuck off. Get off the stage. Hayden taught me all this in our education session.

It became the thing to bring out guests. Like everyone would bring out guests. I don't think it needs to be because Gaga did not need a guest. Well, no, this is what happened. So it became a thing when Justin Timberlake brought out Janet Jackson and showed her tit. That was the whole thing. So then everyone started bringing out guests. But when Beyonce did it, she's like, I don't need no guests.

Maybe just, you know, Destiny's Child. Yeah. And that was it. And then every artist after was like, well, Beyonce didn't bring anyone, so I'm not going to bring anyone. So then it created the trend of no guests because Beyonce is a trendsetter. Yeah. What about that year where I don't even know who the performer was and who the guests were?

It was like the most random clusterfuck of people. There was Bruno Mars, Beyonce and Coldplay. Yeah. I was like, whose show was it and who invited who onto the show? Okay, hold on. Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, 260 million YouTube views. Yeah. 260.

So Shakira is the number one? Number one, yeah. Oh, so we were both wrong. We were both wrong. Gee, I could have sworn it was Gaga's. I've got to stop using Lady Gaga fan accounts on Twitter as my fucking sources for information. I know. Mitch is like, shit, have you heard of COVID?

Yeah, where'd you hear about it? About four years late, bub. Oh, no. Lady Gaga fans are really concerned about something happening in Wilmot. Is it just me? Listening on Spotify, don't forget to leave a five-star rating. All right, it's time for the big guests that I've been mentioning the whole episode. Jenna and I are quite excited.

So last year, how this came about, we got an all-staff email that just made mine and Jenna's jaws drop. It was one of those emails announcing a new staff member. Yeah. And it basically said, oh, please welcome to Power FM, which is one of the stations that Kiss owns. Yes. A brand-new radio announcer.

Her name is LJ. Yes. As in Lara Jean Marshall, who played Lisa on The Saddle Club. Oh, come on. Oh, come on. Jenna and I were big Saddle Club fangirls when we were children. And so we thought, should we just, like, shoot her a quick email using her internal work email address and say, want to come on the podcast?

And we did. And she said, sure. So here she is today, Lara Jean Marshall. Welcome to Is It Just Me? Hi, Lara. Hi, guys. Does that song bring back good memories or bad memories, this song? Mixed memories, yeah. I remember hearing, you know, people, you know,

say it and sing it down the road to me and I thought, yeah, yeah, I know. And, you know, they it and sing it down the road to me. And I thought, yeah, yeah, I know. And, you know, they'd ask me to do the moves and I have like moves to go with it. Oh, my God. But then it brings back the beautiful memories of just being a kid and being with the girls and around the horses. So it was lovely. Did they tell you before you sort of got cast on the show that you'd be required to sing the bloody opening theme song? No. I went into it like not knowing, you know,

how big it was going to be or anything. And, yeah, the albums came later. We had albums. I loved the albums. Yeah, I know. This is kind of weird that right now we're just talking as two adults, but it's weird to know that as a child I had like posters of you and CDs. There was multiple, multiple albums.

They saw a real cash grab there. Hold on. So I hate, no disrespect, Lara, but I have never seen, it's the Saddle Club. It's the Saddle Club. And I just was not a horse boy, more into Pokemon, and no offence to you, I love what you did with the animals. But you were made to write albums?

Yeah. We didn't write them, but obviously there was other people who wrote them for us, and we ended up with like three gold albums and we sung around every Westfield in Australia. Yes, did you? Yeah, we do like the whole signing and having the microphone. We had those headsets where they were like that and they were like, you know, really cool.

Britney mics. Yeah, Britney vibes. And, yeah, there's quite some weird instances as well when, you know, I'd be going up an escalator and someone would just reach for my hair, like very weird things happening at these centres. But, yeah, it was a lot of fun, a lot of fun. And I suppose even to this day you get a lot of people like us who are still, after all these years, like,

holy fuck, it's Lisa from the Saddle Club. Oh, my God. Lisa, I can't tell you the excitement. Her name's not Lisa. Oh, my God. Lisa, I can't tell you that with the excitement. Her name's not Lisa. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Lara.

That's all right. Someone else called me Lisa this week. We had a guy come in and do an interview, and he actually had this bargain at work with his mates, and they're all putting their loves or their lives on the wall or something, and there was like Marco or Robbie, there was something else, and, there was something else. And then there was Lisa from the Saddle Club.

So he actually came in on an interview and he's like, can I hug you? Can I give you a hug? And I was like, yeah, sure. And he's the same age as me. I love that. I'm telling you, it's just one of those things that sticks with you. If you're obsessed with it as a child, even though I'm not obsessed with the Saddle Club now, it just kind of sticks with you.

I'm like, oh, my God, it's Lisa. You also don't look like you've aged that much, by the way. You look exactly the same. Oh, thank you. It must be my mum's skin. Yeah, totally. Maybe. So, wait, can you – did you know how to ride a horse

when you got cast on the show? Was that how you got cast? No, no, not at all. So, basically, Keenan actually got her role first who played Carol and I got my role and then they said, okay, we're going to train you up with the Lord of the Rings trainers for a month and so we did that. The Lord of the Rings trainers?

Well, I guess because they were big in the horse department at that point in time. Those movies were big. Yeah, and Lord of the Rings was going on at the same time. So I was in love with Landry Bloom. So one of the guys actually grabbed his signature for me. Oh, that's cute. Oh, I love that.

Yeah, loved it. Can I just point something out, Mitchell, that Jenna is actually skewing a little saddle club today herself. Yeah, did you put on this outfit knowing that you were going to be chatting to Lara today because you look very subtle. It's a dry-as-a-bone pink shirt. You've got horseflies surrounding you. What's going on?

And she's got a salt lick on the desk, Lara. I know. Well, you know, she's got that ponytail as well. Lisa always had a ponytail, so she's looking more Lisa than I am. And I also don't think that you two have discussed how big of fans you actually were. So Mitch, you had posters. Jenna went to looking more Lisa than I am. And I also don't think that you two have discussed how big of fans you actually were. So Mitch, you had posters. Jenna went to all the meet and greets.

How intense were you guys into this show when it was at its peak? It was just like my favourite show, my sister's favourite show. We loved it. And it was always starting as we got home from school because I was a country kid so the bus took forever. And if the bus was running late, I'd get so antsy. I'm like, oh, fuck, it's already started. I'm missing the start of the saddle club.

And I'd do that thing where I'd tape it on a blank VHS. I would tape the saddle club. I know because we had videos. Like I put all the tapes too. It's ridiculous. Now it's like how would we even watch that stuff? I know. Were you the same, Jenna?

Were you obsessed? Did you have posters? I loved the saddle club and the saddle club made me want to learn how to ride a horse and did you yes i did i did equestrian and show jumping why does jenna have all these secret backstabbing yeah lara jenna's the type of person i'm like i've got to go get an ingrown toenail removed she's like i'll do it i've got a podiatry um ticket well what yeah it sounds like it jenna you're just a woman after my own heart yes i know well jenna's a nepotism baby so she had a very big house growing up, so she would have had her own stables.

She is. She's a nepotism baby, and so she's very wealthy. So she had an estate. So it makes sense, Mitchell. We should have put the two and two together that she would have had stables. I never had an estate, and I'm not a nepo baby. So you said, Mitch, that you never really watched The Saddle Club, right? Never.

My sisters did, but I never watched it. And I'm gay. I don't know why I didn't watch it. I was trying to indoctrinate myself into straight culture. I'm like, I've got to like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, but I really should have been watching Saddle Club. Okay, well, I did dig up an old scene from back in the day, a scene that Lara would have done.

It was Lisa arguing with her mother about whether or not she was going to boarding school. Her mother's trying to pull her out of Pine Hollow. She won't be part of Saddle Club. You're off to boarding school. Disgusting. All right, here's to Saddle Club. Here's a little trip down memory lane, Lara.

Your father and I are just concerned about your priorities. I know. You're right. I shouldn't be putting writing before homework. I'll study harder, I promise. But I can do that without leaving. Please. I totally belong here. You make new friends, honey. Not like Stevie and Carol. They're my best friends. They're always there for me, no matter what. Well, can she stay? Okay. All right.

Yes. I'm staying. Let's celebrate. How? Ride. Okay, hold on. Off into the sunset on their horses. I haven't seen the show, Lara,

but is that how every confrontation was solved in the saddle club? She's got debilitating migraines and she, no, no, you know what we need to do? Ride. Riding makes us us happier doesn't it yeah sleepy hollows flooded you know what we need to do does that bring back memories larry you were such a cutie oh thank you um yeah no it does bring memories and, yeah, they're very heartwarming memories. I kind of remember what I was doing on the day, but I look back to the faces I was pulling and it was always like this.

I always just had this. Lisa was always just a little bit concerned, wasn't she? Yeah, she was always confused. Oh, no. You know, just always confused or, you know, constipated, either way. Yes, I can relate to that. I've got to say, though, I wouldn't have picked Lisa to turn out with this gorgeous radio voice as an adult. Don't you reckon she's got a great radio voice?

Oh, my God, Lara, 100%. And this is what I got excited because these two love Saddle Club. I'm a radio nerd. Like, I'm obsessed with radio through and through. And then hearing that you've got the Brekkie show on Power FM is so exciting to me. So how did that come about? Did you love radio? Did you fall into it? Did you've got the Brekkie show on Power FM is so exciting to me. So how did that come about? Did you love radio? Did you fall into it?

Did you get offered the gig? Well, guys, I know that you've been in radio for a long time, but I'm very new to radio. So, you know, I gave up acting maybe two years ago. And then my first job out of journalism school was the news so I was in Hamilton in the middle of nowhere you know surrounded by just liquor stores and and pubs everywhere and I was doing the news around there but it was really lovely because I got to connect with the community and then I kind of fell in love with radio. I kept falling in love with interviewing people and connecting with people. Can you give us a little peek at your newsreader voice?

I want to hear that. Oh, it's Lara Jean Marshall and it's news today and on the blah, blah, blah. Oh, gorgeous. That was really good. I love that. I don't know. I'd have to remember one of the little bulletins I've done. But, yeah, after that, yeah, it was Jack because it's LJ and Jack. good i love that i don't know i'd have to remember one of the little bulletins i've done but yeah

after that um yeah it was jack because it's lj and jack uh for breakfast yeah and jack actually met my sister-in-law at a party or something and he was saying i'm looking for a co-host and she said lara will be great for this and sent me through and then we just had a connection on radio we just couldn't stop laughing and we're very yin and yang good very different to me well that's that's mitch and i we are very different from each other and then half the time we forget jen is here so it's actually a perfect little trio for us to have but once you find that magic like it takes years to get that especially in radio because bosses love to just cram two people that don't work together the amount of love island contestants they've tried to put with me oh my god i've got bigger

tits than half these girls i'm like this will never fucking work but it sounds like you're not a total newbie to radio you had the journalism background which makes total sense and so you're in ballarat now right well you're already living there yeah no no um i i moved to ballarat for the job um it was a little bit like i love Hamilton, don't get me wrong, but it was a little closer to the Melbourne city in the metro. And, yeah, it's nice to be closer to family. And it's really lovely around here. Like I'm loving the lake.

I actually am a big sailor, so I sail on Wednesday nights on the lake here. Oh, my God. Yeah, I like to be active. So, you know, it's got the walks, it's got the hikes. Oh, my God. Yeah, I like to be active. So, you know, it's got the walks, it's got the hikes. Yeah, it's really lovely. So it's just kind of worked out that way and the breakfast show is going really well. Like the listeners have been so lovely and just, you know,

giving me helpful hints, offering to help me move, all of this stuff. And I'm just like you're all so wonderful. Okay, no, I will say, Lara, though, like I've been in this for a while, don't trust them all the time because the listeners, they can be absolutely crazy. So don't eat listener food. Have you been sent listener food before, like a meal or a baked good

that's been made for you by the listeners? No, but I've been sent flowers, a book, and a candle. Okay, the books are bomb. The candle is actually it's uh probably made with semen and then the flowers just don't go near them they've probably got a spy camera in them like just just my word of advice i once was sent um cookies and the woman had spat in them what she spat in the cook was like wait until after you'd eaten them to tell you yeah yeah yeah also someone here kiss fm FM sent Kyle Sanderland's limoncello, but it was urine. It wasn't limoncello.

No, I remember Kyle telling a story where someone sent lamingtons to the station. She caught up and said, did you get the lamingtons? And they said, yeah, yeah, we've eaten them. She goes, good, because I pissed in the mix. So good. Wow. Okay.

Well, I'll take your advice. Yeah, but stay away from all of that. Over at Jonesy and Amanda, we get listener food and we eat it. Yeah, you've got wholesome listeners, I'd say. It sounds like Power FM Ballarat listeners would be quite wholesome too, I'd say. Did you move there by yourself? What did you move with family?

No, I moved by myself. I'm definitely single. The new girl in town. I love that. Oh, you're single? Oh, my God. We can play matchmaker, sure. Can you?

I really want to be matched up now. I think I'm ready to date. I'm ready to go out there. Good. You know, I dabble in this and that. So you should find me someone. Ballarat reminds me a lot of Forbes, which is near where I grew up. And I feel like there's, what, maybe five pubs in town?

Have you tried them all? No, I've only tried a couple. I did go on a date the other night for Valentine's Day. How did it go? Where's the hot date spot in Ballarat? I would say, look, I've only been on one date in like six months, but now I'm ready to get out there. But I would say, yeah, Mitchell Harris Wines,

like any of the wine places. You know, they're a little bit, you know, upscale. They always have like a, you know, a three-course meal inclusive thing, you know. Okay, Ballarat is nothing like Forbes as it turns out. Much more highfalutin. Don't settle, Lara, because you're the queen bee of town. You're an actress.

You have the breakfast radio show. Like don't settle, Lara, because you're the queen bee of town. You're an actress. You have the breakfast radio show. Like don't settle. I want you to, you know, have a couple of dates before you settle down. Although I will say this, it is tricky dating when you've got to get up super early, right? Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean I always have naps. You know, it gets to I do four till 12 so I always have like a bit

of a nap after and then my day is gone. You get there at 4 a.m.? Yeah, so 4 a.m through the night yeah so 4 a.m so we get to the studio at 4 30 yeah oh that'll change that trust me i'm on air at seven o'clock and i'm in at 650 and i get a cup of tea and i sit down the ambition goes maybe a bad lesson don't don't fall into into my habits but um that is so exciting so yeah power fm that, what are some segments you do? Yeah, I've got to say I was trying to check out the show and there's no podcast.

You've got to get them onto that. Oh, come on. Yes, yes, we're trying to get onto that. We did have TikTok for a couple of days. Did you? What happened? Did it disappear? It just disappeared.

Oh, no. We had a lot of listeners, though. But, yeah, no, we'll have to definitely get into that. But our segments are kind of around what are we doing tomorrow? We're saying, like, best cure for a hangover. Great. We had, like, what is the oldest thing in Ballarat? And everyone was going wild about that.

And we went to the fire station. We went to the sailing yacht club and we're finding out, you know, on this hunt for the oldest thing in Ballarat. Wow. We talked about the fascination of serial killers today. Oh, wow. And why everyone's so into it. God, your station sounds way more fun than the one that I had growing up.

We used to have funeral announcements. Yeah. Oh, dear. I'd hit snooze on my bloody clock radio alarm and nine minutes later it would go off again, still going with the funeral announcements. They're not done. In the middle of a song.

Actually, four people have died since we made that original announcement. We have to actually retroactively add Betty. That's so funny. Do you do a quiz? Do you do a game? Any games that you guys do? Oh, yeah, we do games. So I have this – well, we do the Would You Rather.

Yeah, of course. And then we do the Are You For Real. We do the reverse game where basically you have to hear the song reversed and then you have to figure out what it is. I'm really good at that one and I don't know why. I've heard other radio shows do that and I think I'm quite excellent at it too. Join Zin Amanda do it. Do that? Maybe we should

all play it one time and battle each other. The two horse girls against the two Mitches. Yes! Oh my god, we have to do a rematch. We'll have to get you back. Oh, we have to. That could be really fun. Let's do it. Battle it out. Let's set a date. We'll get you back on. Hopefully you'll have a partner. Well, not hopefully. You don't need

anyone. I can buy myself flowers, Mitch. Exactly. Exactly you can. well that is so so great to meet you i'm gonna go back and re-watch shadow club is it streaming is it actually it's actually all on stan i found that out today yeah by the way you said that you gave up acting a couple of years ago what made you want to do that i think it was just um there's a lot of pressure on women, you know, in that industry. And, yeah, I think I just didn't find it fun anymore. You know, I love acting but the industry was quite harsh

and quite harsh on women's bodies and body image. And, you know, it wasn't something that I kind of wanted to stay in anymore just because of that reason, not because of not the acting. Yeah, fair enough. Have they got like a local music and drama society that puts on musicals and shit in Ballarat? I'm sure they do.

I mean, they've got a performing arts studio here. They've got Steve-O actually coming to town soon. Oh, from Jackass? Oh, wow. Yeah, they've got him coming. So we're actually trying to get an interview with him. Shit, Ballarat sounds dope. I thought it reminds me of Forbes. There's nothing like Forbes.

It's so cool. Totally. Do they need a night show? Fuck yes. Jesus Christ. That sounds lovely. Sailing on Wednesdays? You'd need a big boat, but I could do it. Yeah, I mean, I'll take you sailing anytime. We actually did capsizing last night.

We did capsizing so my teacher was pushing me off the boat and I actually hit my head with the boom and I've got this big egg on the back of my head now. No. What is the value in that lesson, just pushing you off the boat? What skill do you gain from that? It's so that you can climb back on the boat again. But it's so like my friend was actually taping me getting back

on the boat and it was really like terrible from the behind like i looked like i looked like a dead seal just looped over the side there is nothing worse than getting back on a boat from being in the water it's all because then you have like you're weightless in the water but then the moment you have to like pull yourself back up gravity kicks in yeah and often my man boobs get in the way it's i've i had that experience recently in the harbour. What? Yeah, yeah, local tourists. They're like, that's a beluga whale.

I'm like, no, it's not. It's me. It's Richard Turing from Kiss FM. It was very embarrassing for me. Well, so great to have you on. So exciting. Are you guys a bit chuffed? Look at your rosy cheeks.

Yes. I'm like, God, life is weird. I'm chatting with Lara Jean Marshall. This is so cool. I'm chatting with the Mitches and Jenna. Oh, my God, stop it. It's great for me too because I'm a big fan of you guys. Oh, thank you.

I really loved your episode about someone eating a salad out of someone's butthole. Oh, yeah. That was interesting. Oh, yeah. Oh, dear. See, maybe you shouldn't podcast your show because then stuff like that happens, Lara.

You know, maybe it's better if it just disappears after it airs. Yeah, I don shouldn't podcast your show because then stuff like that happens, Lara. You know? Maybe it's better if it just disappears after it airs. Yeah, I don't even know how to give that more context to make it sound better. That's exactly what it was about. He doesn't need it. That's exactly what we did and we're proud of it, Lara. I'm a little bit reluctant to ask you the question that I ask every guest. Oh, you have to.

I'm like, you're still a child star in my mind. It feels so inappropriate. But we ask the same question to every guest that comes on the show. We get them to contribute to our list of things better than drugs and dick. And the reason the list exists is because we don't want our young listeners getting obsessed with partying and boys. Like there's more to life. There's little things you can appreciate.

Yeah, of course. Little things like the crunch of an apple or like walking on autumn leaves, you know, stuff like that. What are some other examples of that? A good afternoon nap. Yes. A perfect timed afternoon nap. A good tooth floss I think we've had before.

Oh, a Q-tip in the ear, like a nice satisfying Q-tip rub. I like that. Just something that you go, you know what, this is so much better. Angela Bishop said her waterbed. True. She did. She did. Yeah, I think she's got the last waterbed in the country.

Yes. Sophie Monk said Jimmy Brings. So, like, there's anything, really. And what are you thinking? Better than drugs and dick, Lara? Oh, I would say an oozing lava cake. There's nothing better. I love chocolate.

Absolutely. Oozing. Adding it to the list, great. Nothing pisses me off more when my oozy lava cake doesn't ooze it's thick and coagulated like i'm that's you fucking marketed it wrong it must ooze not glug yes yes pisses me off you know who does it really well ironically dominoes do a great lava cake do they yeah it looks good it's really good it's really good um well aren't you glad you asked that's perfect yeah perfect have you found a place in ballarat that does a good oozing lava cake?

I do, and I did have it on my Valentine's date on Tuesday. It's funny because he actually made the date and then I realised it was Valentine's Day. Oh, wow. Did he know that it was Valentine's Day? Yes. Oh, that's sweet. And he was like, oh, it's funny the day.

I'm like, I don't know what he's talking about tuesday and then we were sharing an oozing lava cake so oh that is romantic i love that did he know who you were he knew of the history and the interesting where did you first meet him um no bumble oh okay nice shit bumble how many swipes would you get on Bumble in Ballarat? Three, four? Oh, there's a lot. But there's a lot that look like a bit of serial killers. Got it. Jeffrey Dahmer, you know. So maybe it's more like Forbes than I thought.

Yeah. Oh, guys. Lara Jean Marshall. You can get her if you're in Ballarat. Or can we listen on the app actually, Lara? Can we get it live? Yes, the iHeartRadio app. Oh, you're part of the family.

Yes. Of course. I forget. You're a co-worker. We love you. Thank you for coming on the show. Jack and LJ for Breakfast, Power, FME Ballarat, or stream it on the iHeartRadio app. Yep. Thanks for having me. Our pleasure.

Thank you so much. Thanks, Lara. Thanks, guys. Thanks so much. See ya. Oh, what a sweetheart. Who was she again? You were very polite for someone who's never seen the Saddle Club in your life. The restraint that I had in my right arm

to not do this when I introduced her was powerful. By the way, when you said that you never watched the Saddle Club because you were watching Pokemon, I watched Pokemon too. That was a morning thing. Me too. I don't remember the times.

What were you doing in the afternoon? Water polo. Water polo and fucking women. Oh, my God. As a child? I wouldn't have thought so. And she was an actress, right? Yes.

She played Lisa. Got it. Weirdly, she was the only member of the Saddle Club with an Australian accent, despite being an Australian-based show. Didn't you love this bullshit show? I know it was everything and i it was just infuriating because my sister and i were influenced we wanted a horse more than anything in the world and mom and dad were like no we'll get you the fucking stuffed saddle club toy horse oh no i got the stuffed toys get you a beanie baby no you want wanted was a chestnut mare. I actually had multiple toy versions of Lara's character's horse.

I thought you meant her. Yep, me too. Storm and Patch. Oh, I forgot to tell her that I rode a horse and then killed it because I gave it spinal cancer due to my weight. Yeah, maybe you don't tell her. Can we get it back on? Tara!

Get Tara back on, shit! This has been a gorgeous first episode back. Hasn't it? That was lovely. It's been a pleasure. Fuck, I don't think she liked the joke about when going gets tough, you just say, what did she say? Let's ride.

Yeah. She was laughing. Yeah, she liked it. Was she? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Let's celebrate. How?

Ride! We like on Valentine's Day. Oh. How should we celebrate? Ride! Ride! That's shocking. And Wooden Hollow, that's the suburb.

Pine Hollow was the name of the stable that they did horse riding lessons at. It was like an after-school extracurricular thing, but they just seemed to always be there. And how did it end? Did it burn down? Anything tragic? Well, they actually brought it back for a season three with new cast members after these girls were too old.

You're kidding. It was just, they were imposters. I hated it. Well, good riddance. She was lovely. She was. She'll always be the OT, Lisa. Great first show back.

It was a pleasure. God, we missed you all. We really did. Yeah. She'll always be the OT, Lisa. Great first show back. It was a pleasure. God, we missed you all. We really did. Yeah. I was worried that I'd be like, I don't remember how to podcast, but it's like riding a bike. It's gorgeous to be back. Yeah.

All we had to do was look at each other and think, ride. Ride or die, bitch. Ride or die, fuckers. We'll see you next week. Weekly episodes are back. Leave us a five-star review. That'd be lovely if you're new here as well, or if you've never left us a review.

Five stars. Whack it on the podcast app, and we'll see you guys next week. And don't forget the brand new Idjim text line. The number is 0412 712 092. How many times am I going to have to say that before I remember it? Do one more time. 0412 712 092. Fantastic.

So there's a lot of twos in there. That helps. That does help. We could get it unrecorded if you want, then I can just fire it off. That might be easier. It's going to have to be that because you'll never remember. Okay, Bradley, he's back. Oh, four. One, two, three, nine. Oh.

You already got it wrong. I definitely did. See you next week, guys. We love you. Thanks for listening, you. Bye. Bye. Is it just me?

A podcast by a couple of mitches. Make sure you've hit follow on your podcast app. Welcome to ADD Brief. This is our secret segment on the end. We pretend the show's done. Hopefully most people stop listening at that point because this is where we get a bit feral. We just get carried away.

Nothing's planned here. We're fucking nuts. Yeah. I miss the show. I'll be honest. I'm going to come straight out and say it. Missed it. Ours?

Yes. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah, me too. I'm feeling good. No friends. Bring it back. When you said, oh, I miss the show, I'm like,

are we still talking about Saddle Club? Yeah. Giddy up. Their words never, ever to come out of my mouth. Also, by the way, that All Staff email we got sent announcing that Lara was joining the network. I'm trying to hear. Fucking, it was riddled with horse puns.

Yes, it was. It was not. It was. It was like, giddy up. No. Guess who's jumping in the Power FM saddle. Who wrote that? I don't know.

Join the club. We're excited. Oh, so lame, but I loved it. Hello, world. This is LJ. Let's ride. Oh, yeah. Also, I'd be upset.

Like, I want to leave my past as the past. How annoying would it be if in 30 years all anyone quotes is Ijum? I mean, we just had a run and spoke about predominantly the Saddle Club, so. I know, that's what I mean. I don't want that to happen to us. Hang on tight, Ballarat. This is gonna be a fun ride. That's mortifier. Ride!

Ride! Ballarat sounds gorgeous. I kind of want to visit now. He should be the ambassador for Ballarat tourism. I want to get a photo up. I've never seen Ballarat. Where is it? Well, it's like near Melbourne-ish. Like it's in Victoria. But when you look at, you know, a picture of Ballarat,

it does look a lot like Forbes. It made me think they must be so similar, but no. Ballarat sounds classy. I'm going to quickly just patch in to Power FM Ballarat. Was that a pun? Patch was Lisa's horse. No, it clearly wasn't. Power FM Ballarat.

You know what I like with my pancakes? Golden stirrup. Oh, God. And whipped butter. Whipped butter. Terrible. What else did we get up to during the break? So I launched a new show.

Yeah, we've covered that. What did I do i do rental crisis is pretty bad yeah that's really it for me how sad not much else my mum had a gallbladder out in a freak incident god bless her had gallstones on boxing day how is everyone's christmas i guess we debriefed on all this well speaking speaking of um gallstones this, it shouldn't be funny. Let me preface this by saying that it's a happy ending. Okay. But my cousin, I think I might get this story wrong, but basically he was passing gallstones.

Yeah. And then I don't know if the pain was super excruciating or something, but he ended up having a heart attack and going into cardiac arrest and was in a coma for ages. Oh my. Ages. And it was not looking good. But he ended up having a heart attack and going into cardiac arrest and was in a coma for ages. Ages. And it was not looking good. Fast forward to now and it's been like one of those miracle drastic recoveries. They're like, you'll be in rehab for six months. But he was home for Christmas.

Wow. Okay. And there was a big news article the other day of him being reunited with the doctors and shit. Very nice. Very happy ending. And I think the reason he was healed by some miracle is because my auntie Trish, when she was visiting my grandparents, she knew that she was going to visit my cousin in hospital and thought, I'll get Nan and Pop to record a video message and I'll play it to him while he's in a coma. I was to try to crack through to him while he was in a coma. And they're so bad.

What the messages? What, really? When Trish told me she did this, I was like, have you been sitting on this gold content and not told me until now? Airdropped me immediately. What do you mean? Were they just not really impassioned or was it really too cute? Were they being sweet? I think you'll understand why I've turned out the way I have.

Like, they're not very sentimental, my grandparents. How old are they? What are their names? I don't know. Well, their names are Bill and Nita. They got Bill and Nita to record video messages for my cousin in a coma, and they're just so funny. They shouldn't be funny, but obviously they had a major impact

because he just had this sort of drastic recovery. Okay, from these messages from his grandparents. So this is my grandmother's message. Hold on. Hi, darling. How are you? Hope you're on the run soon. Better get naked quick.

Followed by five seconds of silence in the end. Oh, my God. She asked him how he was. He's in a coma. He's non-verbal. He can't reply to your grand. It's so funny because all my relatives would do the exact same thing. Was she meant to say on the mend, not on the run soon?

He's not in prison. He's in a coma. And then my grandfather's is so much worse slash better, depending on what way you look at it. Okay, okay. This was his beautiful heartfelt message to his grandson in a coma. Get better. Don't muck around.

That's it. Oh, no. Oh, no. And I said, Trish, why is there five seconds of silence on the end of every cameo from my grandparents? And she goes, I just thought they'd have more to say. Yeah. That was his whole message.

Get better. Don't muck it around. As if my cousin's cardiac arrest has somehow imposed on him. And he's like, you've had your fun. Now snap out of it. That's fucking gold. No mucking around. It's too good to be true.

That's the best thing. Were they fully briefed? Yeah, they know exactly what was happening. They also had no hope. They'd written him off. They had not. Like he'd been in a coma for a few days and they were like, I don't know why he's hanging on so long.

And I'm like, guys. Are you serious? Yes. Yes, they're so grim. And, like, this was their message of support because in their minds they're like, he's going to die anyway. Get better. I'm not going to read them.

Like, imagine my cousin just in a coma going, you're right, pop. You're right. I'm out of it. I'm up. Great, I'm good. Thanks for asking. That's ridiculous. So hold on.

He's okay now. He's on the mend. He's fine. Yeah, yeah, totally. How? Yeah, it's very, very, very good progress in a very short amount of time. Good on him. How old is he?

Oh, like I think not even 30, maybe early 30s. I don't know. I should know that actually. Wow. Yeah, no. Is there heart problems in the family? I don't know. Goodness, my God. I should know that, actually. Wow. Yeah, no. Is there heart problems in the family? I don't know. Goodness me.

Maybe we should get your heart checked. Maybe we should get you a little check. Yeah. Why? Cardiologist. Cardiologist, yeah. Oh, all right. Yeah.

Probably not a bad idea, actually. No mucking around. Get to it. You know that I had a bit of a menti bee during our break? Yes. And Sean wrote me a card and got me chocolates and flowers and shit, and the card said, get better, no mucking around. That's funny.

Oh, I love Sean. That's very funny. I was like, oh, that's perfect. That really is. So cute. That's the best. Quoting my grandfather. Oh, it's really funny.

Oh, that's amazing. No mucking around. Hi, darling. How are you? Hope you're on the run soon. Better get, make it quick. Better get the run soon. Better make it quick. Better get what? Better get make it quick.

She didn't think to ask for a second take. Hi, darling. How are you? Hope you're on the run soon. Better make it quick. She's boiling eggs behind her and some pasta. She doesn't want to have to fucking stuff and retake it. She's in the middle of the kitchen in a teal sweatshirt.

She's watching Hot Seat. Oh, that's really funny. Is it Hot Seat? Did I get that name on there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, I need to see if I've got any from my grandparents. Oh, but the cheweries are so fucking sentimental and philosophical. These would be so beautiful, I bet.

They really are. My dad cries at the drop of a hat. Hi, darling. How are you? Oh, I was like, Trish, this was over Christmas that I finally got these videos. I was like, you've been sitting on this since September. How dare you withhold gold from me for so long? God bless her.

Good old drunk Arnie Trish. I love it. Coming through with the goods. Good that he's better. He's happy. Anything happen with you, Jenna? You have to move as well, potentially. Yes, I do.

So we've been having inspections because the owner's selling. Oh, God. The service suite. It's not service. That's going to go for a mint. Does Jeeves come with the house or does he move with you? Is he sort of on a package with you? It doesn't exist.

The package. He does not pay. Wow. She just admitted that she doesn't pay her housekeeper. Wow. You're such a nepo baby. Absolutely. Because she works with WSFM and her dad invented radio.

It's a nepotism. How the fuck do you become a nepo baby in Dubbo? Yeah, I know. How is that possible? Do your parents run the zoo? It's a goodo baby in Dubbo? Yeah, I know. How is that possible? Do your parents run the zoo? It's a good call. I mean, you answer. You live in the place you'll mention.

They ditched Dubbo as soon as they got cash. Now they're in Double Bay. They had to have a little bit of Dubbo, so Dubboil Bay. They had to keep a little bit of it. Yeah, nice. It's as close as they could get. That's what they call Double Bay. Everyone knows it as the Dubbo of Sydney.

Yeah, everyone knows that. Dubbo dust in Double Bay is just cocaine. It's true. Colombian fresh coke. Yes. I was just about to ask if we had any text, but we're not live, are we? No, it hasn't come out yet. That's probably a good call.

Yeah. Not live. They don't come through. Yeah. Well said. All right, well, should we wrap up the first episode? The long one. Are we done already? I think we're call. Yeah. Not mine. They don't come through. Yeah. Well said. All right. Well, should we wrap up the first episode? The long one.

We're done already. I think we're done. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty good. I'm not. Let's stay for a bit. We can stay.

I don't mind. You know what we should do? What? Ride. Ride. You're so right. We should go on a little ride. Giddy up.

That is a just you, Cole, too. I mean, I prepped him. Do you know what's so funny is that you said to me before we started recording, you were like, I've got a great one today. I did. And he goes, do you know the secret to quality hotel linen? And we said no. And he goes, me either.

So it's not just me or you. It's none of us. He just messaged me, though, Josh. He's back. He's still been investigating. He's an IJM investigator as we're getting on the task, and he's messaged me. Yeah.

He says, thank you, of course, for coming on. You're my favourite Mitch, blah, blah, blah, stuff. What? No, he didn't. Contacted an old friend. Oh, I love an old friend. Oh, has he come through with the answer finally? Well, I don't know.

Contacted an old friend. Basically chucked in. The English. Chucked into industrial washing machine, get sorted, of course, beforehand, then into dryer and steam cleaned. I love it when we'd get a new batch in and the linen was freshly warm.

And then he sent his address so he can get his prize instantly. I don't think he's done his job. So the secret is that they wash them? Yeah. Yeah, but what's the secret? There has to be a secret. I'm going to tell you one thing. This is the message from beforehand.

Hi, I've got an Is It Just You? Great, tell me, what is it? He says, is it just me or do you have no idea how hotel sheets and what happens? I want to discuss this as I used to work in hotels, so I'd love to give the insight on what goes on behind closed doors. Well give it then

if you'd love to give the insight then fucking give it. And then last July he asked again like he's been sitting on a secret for so long and then comes on and asks us I want to know the secret. Imagine there being a murder in your house and a policeman coming in being like,

all right, what do you reckon happened? Guys, this murder, do you know what did happen? What do you reckon happened? Do you know what I think happened? He was murdered. And then the next day we've got a lead. What happened? He's dead.

I can count my prize now. Here's my address. Here's my address. Here's my address. If you've got an Is It Just You that you actually, in fact, you don't have to bring us anything, to be honest. You don't have to bring us a secret. Just ask us something you've noticed, something you hate or appreciate. Mitchell, what are you doing?

Which one does that fall under, the hotel linen shit? We never said something you've wondered. Good call. Maybe we need to add it in. Something you've noticed, hate, wondered or appreciate. Too fucking wordy. Thanks, Joshua. No, we're just playing.

Yeah, we're just racing you, darling. As we do. I just don't think there is anything secretive about the process. They just wash them so that they're no longer dirty and therefore they are clean. I'd imagine there's a shit ton of bleach as well. Probably. And fabric softener. I stayed in a hotel over Valentine's Day and there's just something about hotel linen.

I was like, what do they do? What's their secret? That's why I was so intrigued. Also, it was a king bed. There's something about that that's luxurious too. Tell me, how was your first Valentine's Day with Sean and what happened? Oh, it was nice. I booked a hotel room close to his office

so we didn't have to commute or anything. Gorgeous. Very sweet. We do not live near each other in Sydney. It's bloody northern beaches. It's like an hour. More than an hour. Oh, it depends on the time of day. It's actually not that bad. It's usually 40 minutes or something. Hayden and I used to do it, by the way. It worked. It worked out. Oh, yeah. You were in the Shire. Fucking hell. Yeah, and he was in North Sydney, so it was fine.

Crap, yeah. Yeah, no, so I booked a hotel close to where he works, so it was just kind of easy. Lovely. And, again, nearly the first fight. I said, I'll ask for late checkout the next morning. And he goes, great, I'll work from home, as in from the hotel. And then the next morning he gets up and goes,

actually, I might just head to the office. I was like, I've got late checkout. I'm just going to sit here by myself. Yeah. So what did you do? Just sat there for a minute Aww I actually ended up leaving

Kind of early Because I was like Why am I here? Why am I in this hotel Doing nothing? I may as well just go home I've got shit to do And you had the dinner

The night before Yeah yeah It was perfect To be honest I'm just bitching But it was perfect It was lovely Aww

I sent roses to his office Cute That's adorable Which I feel like When I worked in an office I was like One of these days I'll get a surprise thing Rock up Lovely. I sent roses to his office. Cute. That's adorable. Which I feel like when I worked in an office, I was like, one of these days I'll get a surprise thing rock up. Because you get to gloat to your colleagues. Like, oh, who were the flowers for? Oh, they're for me.

Yeah. And apparently everyone was like huddled around his desk like, oh my God, someone got flowers. Yeah. Might have made a lot of his colleagues jealous. There might have been some upset husbands that night. I can imagine. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. But yeah. Yeah, absolutely. But, yeah, no, it's not really as exciting when I work from home. No. No one to lord it over, you know. Did you have passionate sex? Sure, yeah. His family, listen. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Well, it's Valentine's Day. What are they, Mormons? Yeah. No, we crocheted. Yeah, what did you expect, Sean's mum? We were stitching our new quilt. Sorry, I'm just trying to work in your grandad saying what he said, but in regards to you two having passionate sex.

No mucking around. No mucking around. Happy V-Day. Get better. No mucking around. Bit your butt sore. No mucking around. Get better.

Oh, my God. Well, this is a stark contrast because this is our fifth V-Day together, Hayden and I. Yeah. And we spent our day arguing about understair storage. We went to four open houses on Valentine's Day. How hated did this argument get exactly? No, it wasn't that bad.

It's just he vetoed a few apartments because there was no understair storage. Yeah, no. Once it gets to like really, you know, crunch time where it's like, fuck, fuck, fuck, we're going to be homeless, he'll start to be less picky. There's three weeks. It takes two weeks. Yeah, you are crunch time. To pack up. That's three weeks. It takes two weeks to pack up. And then you've got to get a lease date. What you forget is when you get an apartment or you look on domain,

it says available from. Sometimes it's not for another month. Yes. So we need to find something not only in our price range, not only that has everything we want, has under fucking stair storage, and it's available as of our move-in date. Because our move-out dates are Wednesday. So it's like, oh. You didn't yield, though, did you? You didn't say, okay, babe, we'll look for under stair storage. And it's available as of our move-in date. Because our move-out date's a Wednesday. So it's like, oh.

You didn't yield, though, did you? You didn't say, okay, babe, we'll look for understair storage. Hold on. The one that we just potentially might be getting, let's have a look. I airdropped you guys the video. Let's see if it's got understair storage. Because there's a flight of stairs. Let's have a look.

It's because it's one thing to have stairs, but without the storage. Hold on. It does. It does. Yeah, there's a big door under the stairs. Hold on. Oh, it does. It does. Yeah, there's a big door under the stairs. Good. No, that's where the fridge goes. And there's three understore panels.

Oh, my God. Oh, he'll be so happy. And it's got my carport because I'm buying a Tesla and I want to get a charger. Oh, really? Are you really? Yeah. I wanted it to have a carport because I don't want an electric car. They'll not be able to charge the damn thing.

Yeah. So I wanted to charge it inside, so I needed a garage. And this one place I went to, I shit you not, in Leichhardt, disgusting suburb. That name makes me gross. Like, Leichhardt just feels gross. I feel bad for Leichhardt. It had so much potential, but now it's just yuck.

I agree. So much potential. Have you seen, like, the hidden Italy part of Leichhardt? I went to acting school there for a week and then quit. Did you? Yes, in Little Italy. Like, Leichhardt's just this gross suburb in Parramatta Road and then they've just got this hidden bit that looks like Rome. It's so weird.

It's really awful. It's like a mini coliseum next to a sushi restaurant and a grilled burger. Like, you go in and it's like a normal from outside and then you go in and it's like. Is it just me or is Leichhardt fucked? Anyway, we went to an open house in Leichhardt and there was a garage and I'm like, great, this is what I want.

And then the price was good. I'm like, oh, it is Leichhardt though. And she went, just FYI, Mitch and Hayden, the garage is not included in the property. What the fuck are they doing with it? It's a separate rental for $200 a week. Are you serious? In Leichhardt.

So it was a garage in the house. The master bedroom was above it. So if you were asleep at night, the renter or the tenant of the garage would be able to come in and out with the door that connected to the house. That's really fucked. That's weird. I think it was illegal, to be honest. That's ridiculous.

Anyway, so that is how grim it's been. But that has understored storage, so I'm going to make an offer. Yeah, well, fingers and toes, love. Hope you get it. Where is it again? It's in Newtown. Oh, God. As long as you've got the carport, you'll it again? It's in Newtown. Oh, God. As long as you've got the carport, you'll be fine.

Because parking in Newtown, don't get me started. I know. I had to street park in Newtown. It was fucking awful. We've got a carport. It'll be there. We'll be K. We'll be K.

You'll be K. We'll be K. That's what everyone says. We'll be K. So we'll be right. Oh, and then we had a Cinnabon for Valentine's Day. Not a euphemism. Cinnamon roll.

Yum. What did you do for your first Valentine's Day? Oh, mate, I don't remember. I think, oh, actually I do. I woke up, made Hayden pancakes, had him a card and bought him a box with all his favourite things. And then he did a similar thing. I remember that actually. For me. Sorry, you know what? I was, I was bigging myself up for sending flowers to Sean's office. I forgot to give him credit where it's due. So I thought I won. I sent flowers to the office.

I checked into the hotel around two. He didn't finish work until five. Yeah. But unbeknownst to me, he had been in cahoots with the hotel staff during his lunch break and snuck into the hotel before I got there. So when I arrived, there was flowers and chocolates and shit on the bed. That's really sad. And so I walked in and being an entitled prick, I was like, oh, that's nice. Complimentary stuff in the hotel. Yeah. And then like an hour later, I entitled prick, I was like, oh, that's nice. Complimentary stuff in the hotel.

Yeah. And then like an hour later, I looked closely and I was like, wait, there's a card with my name on it. Oh my God. How did Sean break in before I arrived? That's so cute. Yeah. Wow.

He's a keeper. Oh, Sean. That's actually very cute. Here we go. I found it from our first day. This was in 2019. Fucking hell. Wow.

I do remember that. Pancakes. We both got each other cards. I remember that. Pancakes, we both got each other cards. With golden stirrup or? Probably nudes. Stop it. Oh, look at us when we were young. Look how young we were.

Oh, yeah. I forget we liked that fucking Heartstopper show. I've never seen it, but I assume it was tragic. Haven't you? I don't like sad, I've told you. It's not sad. Doesn't he die? No. Doesn't his he die? No.

Doesn't his heart stop? No. The only reason that people our age found it sad because they were fucking jealous that they didn't have a young gay love story in high school. I would have loved that. And it's like a yearning for what we didn't have. What we couldn't have ever had.

Just be happy for them. No, I am. I've never seen it. No, I'm talking broadly. Oh, got it. I thought it was about some sort of cardiac arrest event. I tried to watch it with Sean and he goes, no, it'll be too triggering. I was like, grow up.

Truthfully. He's worried about Vegemite, but he's not worried about Young Gay Love. No, we watched it eventually and I was right, of course. It's a sin, on the other hand. Truly traumatic and I will never recover from that. Nah, never. It's awful. But very interesting watch.

Jenna hasn't watched it, of course, because she's a nepotism baby. And she doesn't need to watch. When you own Stan, why watch it? That's what she says every day. Why watch it when I own Stan? Named after her great-grandfather, Stan Vinson. Yep. You know what street she lived on?

My great-uncle is named Stan. Oh, sorry. You got it wrong. Great-uncle. You know what street she lived on growing My great uncle is named Stan. Oh, sorry. You got it wrong. Great uncle. You know what street she lived on growing up? What? Paramount plus way. True.

No. True. What, in Dubbo? Yeah. You know what the family catchphrase is? What? Hey you. Because they're all they own it all.

That's our catchphrase. Hey you. At the start of every episode. But we're not nebo babies. No, you're right. We've done the hard yards. That's right. Hardase. Hey, you. At the start of every episode. But we're not Nepo babies. No, you're right. We've done the hard yards. That's right. Hard, hard yards.

Yeah. Not an Nepo. Also, you and I had the option to be Nepo babies. What do you mean? I could have really dominated the wine industry. If I had any interest in farming. That's what I mean. You'd be the king of the castle.

Yeah. You could own the park. The king of the homestead. Yes. You could have had sheep wrapped around your little finger. You could have owned the park's dish. Not really. I could have run really into astronomy and shit or whatever it is.

True. True. That's what I mean. See, I don't really drink wine. I've stopped drinking alcohol, by the way, everyone. Altogether. It's been about three months. Well, that wouldn't have been hard because you didn't really drink much at all.

I know. But then I was like, I'm having wine every now and again. If I go for dinner, I'll get a drink or a wine. And then I'm like, I'm going to just cut it out altogether. And you know what? I feel exactly the same. Yeah. I've been cutting back a lot, which has been good, actually.

Yeah? Good, good. You still don't have those vile green juices? Yeah, of course. You know what you do that's lovely? Mitch has a soda stream in his house. And he makes sugar-free drinks for you when you come over. It reminds me of my Nan's. Yeah.

Those sugar-free drinks are so good. Oh, they're so yummy. Yummy. Is it Coddy's sugar-free or do you use the SodaStream OG syrups? No, yeah, it's like the SodaStream syrups that you just put in the bubbly water. It's gorgeous. You can get diet sun-kissed and like lemon and lime from Coles. It's amazing.

But if I want a sun-kissed, I want full sugar. I'm not pissing around. Hey, we knocked it when we had Star on as a guest host a couple months ago. But the new Sprite No Sugar is really good. It tastes like full sugar Sprite. That's where you're wrong. No. It tastes the same, but it doesn't have the same effect when you're hungover.

The sugar is what nurses you back to health. I know. But if it still tastes the same, but it doesn't have the same effect when you're hungover. The sugar is what nurses you back to health. I know. But if it still tastes the same, me, me dummy, you know? Me drink Sprite, me happy boy. Right, okay. But you tell me I'm drinking Sprite and it's Sprite no sugar, I don't know the difference. I do.

I very much do. Interesting. Coke no sugar, I can tell. When the Mac is waitress, I don't know why they always do it waitress. I don't drink Coke for the sugar, though. I drink it for the caffeine. So I don't mind a Coke no sugar. But the Spr. When the Macca's waitress, I don't know why they always do it waitress. I don't drink Coke for the sugar, though. I drink it for the caffeine. So I don't mind a Coke no sugar. But the Sprite is for the fucking sugar.

Is there caffeine in Sprite? No. Oh, if you get that Sprite Plus crap that they're doing. Yeah, yeah. That was your first dog, Jenna, I think. Vile nepotism, baby. Vile. All right, we shall go.

We should go. Don't forget, you can text us now in 2023 for Season 5. Yes. If you like, we've partnered with Crazy John. Do I have to give the... Who? Oh, is it Dodo? We've partnered with Dodo.

Yes. Crazy John. And the number is? 0412 712 092. Yeah. You're right. We hope this podcast made you feel at least Five?

Do we go up again? Let's do five, season five Because it went 3% better after the third year Oh, it's based on the year Is it? Is this our fourth year? On our third year we went to 3% So we're still on 3%

We hope this podcast made you feel at least 3% better today That's all Wait, no, this is our fifth year No, it's not No, but we started in 2019 Yeah So that's all. Wait, no, this is our fifth year. No, it's not. No, but we started in 2019. Yeah. So that's five years ago. No.

No, it's not. 2019, 2019, 2020. Let's just let him work this out. 22, 23. 2019. But that's not a one-year anniversary. That's when we started. The one-year anniversary is 2020, so it's 2019.

Well, I thought when you said every year, it was based on the years we've been active. No, but the day we started in 2019 wasn't our one-year anniversary. Our one-year anniversary was in 2020. Okay, so it's four years. Well, it will be in September, yes. Oh, God. Since when do we go by Gregorian calendar standards?

Well, what percentage do you want me to say? What do you hope? What if we go by season fives? Well, then we've skipped four. Yeah, we have, and that'll really upset some people. Yeah. Why don't we all just think of a number, and we say the number we think? We hope this podcast made you feel 9% better.

No, I was going for 71. I was going for 7. Oh, 71's a big promise. We can't fucking lift people's mood that much. Let's stick to three and we'll go it up in increments. All right. All right. Well, we hope this podcast made you feel at least 3% better today. That's all.

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