Is It Just Me? - GUEST: Kate Langbroek

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

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Alright so Mitch as you know we are ticking off moments from the Ijum bucket list because we are terminal, we are in end of life care. Are we? Have you not heard the news Kate Langriss? No because you know I'm on a need to know basis. Shit well yeah we've been diagnosed with terminal podcast. Oh no terminal brilliance. We are ending the show

after five years. We're ending on a good note. Mitch and I are still friends barely but we are we are hanging by a thread. Oh yeah the show is over so we're trying to tick off all the bucket list moments that we want to do before we end and having Kate Langbrook back for a fourth time. Oh with me Betty. Yes and that's partly why I was borderline harassing your gorgeous producers' ass. Because I was like, time's ticking, babes. Like we're nearly finished and all of our gorgeous idiots, that's what we call our listeners, the idiots. Yeah, of course.

Charming. They were begging for another Kate episode. So you're here and we are thrilled. Oh, I love it. But how sad and devastating for all of the gorgeous idiots. I know. They really took it quite well to be honest. I was like, no, they were devastated.

Were they like me and they were like, what? No, Kate, we had about seven messages going, yeah, I guessed it. I picked it six months ago. I'm like, how do they? Yeah, I don't know what they meant by that. How do they know? All right, can I just say, because you have such a long, glorious relationship, you two, what's the closest that you've come? You've

obviously, you've hung by thread, you've seen each other through a lot of changes with each other. What's the closest? The closest that we've come to a total schism and car park now. Okay I'm still confusing, like getting the boot of my car. No, no, as in massive chons, punch on. Oh got it. Oh because the other question would be easier I tried to fuck Mitch I think three weeks into knowing him but I thought you were getting at. Well I wasn't even gonna ask about that I mean both of you are so eminently desirable. And we are we are sort of you know a mirror image of each other you know me the masculine rugged bear and you Mitchell the delicate daffodil.

You know, I would crush you in all the right ways. I'd say a hothouse orchid. A hothouse orchid, I like that. Stunning. They're not poisonous to cats, perfect. Are they? No, they're not. I have to Google every fucking plant that comes in my home.

Is it going to kill my daughter? Yeah, but why do you have a cat and assume it's going to die? Because most pot plants are poisonous to cats, except for the ugly ones. They are the cat-friendly ones. Do you know what? I love you. But if that were true, this continent island

that we're lucky enough to call home would be strewn with the carcasses of dead felines because most of them live in houses that also have pot plants and they seem to be doing okay. I think we're going to clock that up to your neuroses. I know but you know what people online are like Kate, like I could just post something and in the background they'll spot eucalyptus on and they'll go that's going to kill your cat. I'm like oh fuck me okay.

Yeah but you need to not care. I couldn't care less what these people. About my cat's life. Yeah, that's right. No, you know what? You're spot on, Mitch. Oh, is it me? Good hair Mitch.

You don't have good hair Mitch, Chewie. Thank you. But that hair's stunning. That fucking hair is wearing you, my friend. Anyway, but Mitch, I put up a picture like months ago and I'd had a massive night with Peter Allen Lewis, right? Your beloved. My beloved, my beloved.

And for some reason in the middle of the night, we got home about three o'clock and probably around 5am. I was hungry. I was hungry. I didn't want to eat what he was offering. So I went downstairs and I started fossicking around and all I could find was I think a packet of chicken in a biscuit and the reason that I think that was I had no recollection. I woke up in the morning and then next to the bed was an empty foil bag from chicken

in a biscuit and I was like, no wonder I'm so dry. I feel so dry. Anyway, so I posted the photo as in like what about last night. You know one of those. I had no recollection and one of the messages I got was oh my god I know somebody whose dog died by suffocating in the alfalfa bath from the chicken in a biscuit. We shouldn't be laughing at that. No we can laugh at that because twofold.

One, Darwin. Yes. You Google that. I don't want to talk about the fittest. She's not talking about the city. She's not. Survival of the fittest. But also the person that feels motivated, that that is their response.

That they want to send you after you've had a big night and you've enjoyed an hibiscus snack in bed. My response to that is actually just wondering how long did the hangover last because I'm only 20 bloody eight and if I have a night where I get in at 5 a.m. and I'm ravishing oh I could be hung over for a week. Ravenous. Yeah, no, ravishing. You're always ravishing. You're always ravishing. You might also be ravenous and ravishing. Here we are, we always learn some words. Mitch and Mitch and the visiting bitch.

They always learn some words. Talking to Kate is like when you bump into your English teacher after you've left high school, but they still teach you. I know. Like you're at Coles into the checkout chick. No, so Kate, we're very lucky to have you back. I wasn't done. How long did the hangover last? Oh okay so this is strange I've never had

a hangover. What? I get very tired and I get dusty I've never had a hangover. Kate that is a hangover. I've never had a hangover. No no I don't get the head and the thing and the bleh bleh bleh. You know my liquid has never been solid but I've never had diarrhea ever in my life. No I tell you why you why, by way of illustration, we came back, we were at a big party in Byron on the weekend, and mad for three, four days, came back Monday night, got home at 11, blah blah blah, got four kids, I got up, made them breakfast, and went to yoga at 6.30. Holy shit! Yeah, wake up whistling.

I feel sick at the thought, wake up whistling. I feel sick at the thought of it. Wake up whistling. Doesn't matter what you do the night before. Wake up whistling. That is good. Yeah, wake up whistling. You know what I've started to wake up and do?

I actually don't know what the name of the practice is. I don't want to get in trouble for cultural appropriation. But you know when you see a Chinese grandma in the park. And I'm sorry. No, no, no. They're in the park and they are like a Dutch windmill like you're all of a sudden in Rotterdam and they are swinging. They also clap the body and they clap the arms. They slap themselves. Yeah, the acupuncture point. Yes, it's very that.

I think it's lymphatic drainage and I've been big into that every morning and I'm telling you it's good. Very good. Where are you slapping yourself? We may know. Do you like to show me? Can I have a turn? Let me point to the areas that I slap myself. No, it's in like where the lymph nodes are. Pits, neck, groin.

Well, they were everywhere. And what does that do? It drains it. It gets rid of it. Yeah, it drains them. It drains the lymphatic system. And you feel different how after? Well, I feel a bit slow in the mornings.

You know, I do night radio. So I get home late, then I kind of sleep in in later so I'm up and I'm kind of everyone's already started their day so I will Chinese grandma myself and I you do the salt of your feet because I remember I was doing that for a while because I saw some Chinese guy on you used to do it and he called it digging for gold oh you slap your feet the soles of your feet slap him like I can't remember 60 times or whatever and he calls it digging for gold and You slap your feet, the soles of your feet, slap them like, I can't remember, 60 times or whatever, and he calls it digging for gold. And he goes, if you slap the soles of your feet, you dig for gold, you get the gold of health. Good health.

Magic of the bottom of the foot. I always see, whenever I'm on Daily Mail, you know those random ads, they kind of look like you've been hacked, but it's also an ad. It's like David Koch admits to investing in this and making money. Samantha Armitage puts an onion on the sole of her foot and now she's 20. Like it's always that and those two people. But everyone says, put a slice of onion on your foot, put a sock on and you wake up

and you'll have nothing wrong with you. Have you ever had one of those fake ads next to your name, Kate? Disappointingly, I haven't. I'll get cracking. I mean, if you were going to imagine a campaign for me? What would it be? What would it be?

Because it's always something ridiculous like Lisa Wilkinson swears by these vitamin gummies or something. It's always what you're known for, you know, like, I don't know what I'm known for. Benders apparently. Oh no, being an English teacher. Learn English now. I did Google you and you know what, this keeps coming up because I'm trying to buy a house at the moment, Kate. So I keep getting the ad for your godforsaken house. I'm like, different

tax bracket guys. I'm not buying Kate Langbrook's house. I don't think it is, Mitch. Shuri, I think you're really playing yourself down. Oh, are you moving house at the moment? No, we've already moved house. We were trying to sell it. We had it. We moved in lockdown. When my husband thought we needed a challenge, we need a challenge. We need a new house. So we bought a house we hadn't seen because we were in lockdown. So we weren't allowed to see. Oh my God.

And so we bought it and then it turned out we didn't need a challenge. We just needed to come out of lockdown. By that point it was too late we had this house. Anyway that's what's happened. So you lived in an ICM? We're living in it now. So which one are you getting rid of? I feel so slow today. Oh darling Mitch I love you. You know what you're like? 50 first dates. What does that mean? Like everything is new to you. Oh, I am quite vague. Every single time. Every day. You're like, oh my goodness, what is this thing? A chair? What is that? Oh my goodness, I'm sucking air in and out. What's that called? Breathing. What's coming out of my lower parts? Mitch, you're urinating. Mitch, bless no. We're being rude now, we're being mean.

Also what's that sticker on your arm? Here Mitch. Look, what is it? Don't bring it up. I'm getting it lasered off soon. It's a tattoo that I regret from when I was like 20. It's a Lady Gaga tattoo. It's the most poofy thing ever and I'm not into it anymore.

Because you were the biggest monster. I thought I was at the time and I was like, I will always feel this strongly about an artist but I just don't feel strongly about fucking anything in my late twenties. No, of course not. And you know what? That will happen increasingly through your life to the point where you'll want to get your actual self lasered off. You know, I've got to say, Kate, like looking at you here now, having you on for what?

The fourth time, you have not aged a bit since we first had you on the show. I'm like us. Yeah, us haggard beasts. I'm 30 next year. Yeah, that's right. What would you say, Mitch? For him? What would you say he is?

Well, it's interesting because he looks younger at the moment than he did like five years ago. Oh my goodness, I agree. Yeah. You know what? You've got boomerang looks. What's boomerang looks? A boomerang looks is what someone said to me

years and years ago, is that those people who, it's like they're thrown out and they come back to themselves and they come back younger. Yeah, I guess. Like Husey. Oh, Husey. Like Husey. Husey, his whole life has looked 82.

And now he looks like the best he's ever looked. He usually looks hot. He was talking about margarine on his Instagram the other day. He had a tub of butter. Oh no, that was disgusting. That was disgusting. The Nut-A-Lex. The Nut-A-Lex.

The Nut-A-Lex. He'd been to Costco and he'd finished like a three kilo tub of bulk Nut-A-Lex Mitchell. It's like a butter. Actually, I quite like Nut-A-Lex of all of them. It's got a nice flavor. I agree with you actually, to be honest. Okay. He was going, I've been to Costco and you know, doing all that all that bit. Holly said I'd never finish this tub. She said I'd never

finish his tub of margarine. It's taken how long has it taken him? 18 months? 18 months it's taken him to finish his tub of margarine. Of course everyone was confused but I watched the whole thing I think I watched it twice. Did you read the comments? I did read the comments, great for engagement. I mean come on. It's kind of like- Because people were like, seed oils, seed oils, you'll be dead by the time this gets uploaded. See what I mean.

See what I bloody mean. You know what I did the other day, I posted a story in my bedroom and then someone commented going, "'So nice to see that your house is also lived in like mine.' I'm like, go fuck yourself. What does that even mean?

Oh yeah, that's right. It means that you were messy. They were accusing you of being messy. That's what they're saying, like, nice to see that my pig pen is also replicated in your house. Yeah. I bet that's someone who knew someone who's dog choked on a chicken in a biscuit packet. Not the actual person because, God forbid, anything like that should befall anyone. That'd be horrific, wouldn't it, Charlie?

Yeah, don't dwell on that. No wonder they've got to wind up five years of, is it just me? I know, we didn't get canceled though. You never did, did you? No. That's like me and Valvo on the buck up. We're just like, the conversations we have, it's so liberating.

Sash, our producer, as you know, highly esteemed. She's always like, oh, I hope you don't get cancelled. I'm like, Hey, how does that happen? I mean, I do listen to your podcast from time to time. And I feel like it would be an appropriate replacement for our idiots who were looking for something new because it's, it's that same inappropriate humor that we have. Like work people don't bother. You're probably going to get upset because there was an episode I heard you talking about

how you're fully in favor of slut shaming. And you were covered. Oh yes, in fact we're gonna have a special slut shaming party. How will that work? Yeah, feel free, we haven't thought it through. Don't ask for details, Mitch. Okay, all right.

All it was just born, it was just sometimes, you know, you gotta hang on to things so tight that you wanna let out. Oh yeah. You know, in this world. I get you. You're just hanging on to, you know you got to hang on to things so tight that you want to let out. Oh yeah. You know in this world. I get you. We just hang on to. You know on the podcast you can just let stuff out. But Mitch I'll tell you where you went wrong.

Good hair. Betty from Blacktown Mitch. Even if people hate you. Even if the Wokesters. You let them hate listen. Oh totally. Don't drive them away. Come hate listen to Katie.

Yeah I agree. We're about to send an influx of our idiots your way and they won't be offended. Don't stress. They must be devastated. They were sad. Naturally. They were naturally very sad. By the way, you never answered what fight you had you two. You know what, we'll be honest, we've had many a fight, but they resolve themselves very quickly.

Yeah, I was going to say, it's not really fights. We've never had a big one. It's kind of just, especially when we're both stressed and whatever, we're both like trying to compete who's more stressed, who's more tired. And then it's like, how about we just be nice? Oh, you're like a couple with a newborn baby. Yes, exactly.

100%. I only had 10 minutes sleep. I only had eight minutes sleep. Yeah, we do get into those fights of like schedule and who's more busy, but we always know that that's the root of it. I don't think there's ever been a different root, you know? Yeah, like there's no particular one that springs to mind, which I suppose is a good thing.

I mean, you know what it's like, hate to walk away from a very successful show just because you can't particularly be fucked anymore. That's all it is. Yeah, well, that's right. And then you know what you get to do? Have the reunions. Oh, yes, exactly.

Mm-mm, mm-mm. And the constant speculation. Oh, the speculation! Oh my god. Oh, Hughsey and I are doing so many jobs. Next year. Next year we're doing so many jobs. Yeah. I don't know how you find the time.

I was actually wondering about that because last time, well, one of the bloody times you were here, I can't remember, you were saying that Hughsey's a workaholic. He could not understand why you would give up the radio show you did together. Because he's like, what are you going to do all day? Yes. He's currently not up the radio show you did together, cause he's like, what are you gonna do all day? He's currently not on the radio. He must just be harassing you going, come on babe, let's get the band back together. Well, you know, he is still very busy.

Yeah, Nutlex won't eat itself, will it? No, that's right, that's a lot of spreading. Anyway, it's true, he's not as busy as he was, but because he's very adaptable, Heusie, he's reptilian. I always say he's like a reptile, you know, that he can survive and thrive in harsh environments. And so now because his life has slowed down markedly

that he's not doing breakfast radio. Now he's all zen. Oh you must be thinking I bloody tried to tell you didn't I? Yeah. I told you. No no but it's only for this period. As soon as he starts his next big job that will all go out the window again but he's like a politician you know whenever they lose an election they're always like I want to spend more time with my family.

Yes. You know not during the 18 preceding years but anyway so you're doing that and enjoying it very much. Oh good. He's just bought a podcast fan. Oh what? He's bought a podcast fan. Well how does that work? Is that the same as the slut shaming bus, Kate, or are they going to be different things? You're very keen to get on the SS bus, aren't ya? I love a little slut shame. You know what I've got ideas for you Kate. Here's what I'm thinking. You have been to New York or any big sightseeing cities and they've got those big almost double decker buses

that have the glass top. And then they drive through New York and then all of a sudden there's a flash mob, right? There's just, and they watch it and they take their photos through the glass. Will you and a bunch of slut shamers can sit in this glass box, drive around the CBD and just yell out slut and shame? Okay, brilliant. But here's the thing. And how you'll accommodate this, I don't know.

We are at once the slut shamers and the sluts. How's that going to work? It's self-aware in the same way that I can go, you're such a poof. Exactly. To Mitchell. Because I can. Because I am. We can say the word. But then Kate, you've got to back it up with actual sluttiness I hate to say. You can't just say you're a slut and then come to work in denim overall. Hang on, what if I take my top off underneath? Slut! Please, slut! Okay, all right, I'll take it off. She's not even kidding. She's unbuckling me overall.

I'm not kidding, I'm unbuckling. Hang on, I've got a nice bra on. Oh, she does, oh my goodness. Have I? What bra have I got on? I say pink. Here we go, look. Pink!

How did you know? Beautiful. Oh no, I can't, there's too much chub. But anyway. No, there's not. You get the idea, oh, there's a bit of chub. I've carried four children. I'm nation building. I'm doing the work of the nation that you two have so far chosen not to do.

We're trying. We're trying, Kate. Yeah, I was saying not too long ago on the podcast that I actually feel quite robbed that I don't get to experience birth and being pregnant. I think, why the fuck should only women get to do that? I'm quite jealous. What are you laughing at? Yeah, why the fuck? Why? You know what? No one knows actually. You know what?

Neither of us could answer that. We're not scientists. We're not. I know, but that's the bee in my bonnet. I wish I could. Do you know what? It's probably only hours away until there's a scientific breakthrough and you can. I agree with you.

And do you know what? There's a lot of women who'd say, go at it, my friend. Be my guest, bitch. Go at it. Yeah, I don't want to give birth, but I think sometimes like the idea of making a child naturally is very appealing to me.

I don't know, I'm just hard. What do you mean making a child naturally? You mean like with one of my kind? Yeah, with the podcaster, author, TV host. I want to get a... You're listening to Is It Just Me? A podcast by a couple of mitches. Now, Kate, I want to know, do you miss radio?

Because I'm at the point where it's 10 years in commercial radio for me next year, nine years on air. And I imagine you had this feeling of like, Jesus, like to do a daily show and I did two daily shows. It's a lot. So did you get that like burning? I imagine it's like an old, old candle melting down, you know, and just the clock kind of just, it kills you. Do you miss it? Do you miss the daily shows? I don't think I ever had that experience that, I mean you're just doing breakfast particularly, you get tired. You know what, I like the communion with someone and the exchange of ideas and the exchange of energy and with the audience

as well, but I'm not a person that misses things. So I don't really miss it, which is not to say that I didn't love it and that I will in the future not love it again. And also, because now Nathan and I are doing the buck up, that you just get that little adrenaline shot. I mean, probably why you guys are not enjoying the podcast with the full injection of you know red blood vessels that you once got is because you're both tired from your other things. Pretty much, you just hit the nail on the head. That is it. That's just what happens and you know tiredness or the lack of newness of an experience, when something becomes a chore,

and it's not that you don't love it, it's just that it's a chore to be done and to be sandwiched amongst other things. You have a different relationship with it. You've hit the nail on the head. I feel like it's not quite at the chore point yet, which is good. We're not there yet.

And you've called it before it gets to that. Yes, exactly. You must be loving the difference between podcasting and radio though, like you're quite fond of light duties, I understand. It's a lot less on your plate, right? But it scratches that same itch. It's just so, so liberating and fun. And it still has, and it also has a, it has more oxygen in it, I reckon. And because there's no interruptions, there's no housework, there's no, you know.

Content directors. Yeah, and not that I've ever, I've really never had a bad experience with them either. Like really I've had a dream run and also because I worked with Huzy, who's so alpha, I think a lot of them were scared of him. You protected each other. I haven't even had a listening session in, you know, 20 years.

Wow, on air check. Yeah, we haven't had one. Wow, but that also goes to show you guys, when you were doing Nova Breakfast and then Drive, when I first started at Kiss, you were on Drive on Kiss. Yeah, that's right. And you know, when I was on the street team and I hosted, you did an event. Yeah, you were gorgeous. Yeah, I was a kid, I was 20, I loved it.

But you guys were so good. Did you do that with your show that you, like, you that you wanted to, you got to a point and you went, oh, we can't make anything else like what we're doing. There's nothing else we've got to give, so we're leaving. No. With Breakfast we did only because we were tired and Heusie wanted to do more stand up, which he couldn't do with breakfast radio. And because my eldest son, Lewis, had had leukemia, and that was when my youngest, the youngest of the four was five months old.

So I felt like I'd been ripped away from Yarny, the little one. So I wanted to have some time at home with him, right? So we were both on the same page with what we wanted to do. But I think you get to a certain point. My mate, you know know Timmy Blackwell yeah brilliant he said to me once it just falls out of you and you get to the point where as he would go this isn't even work said I was going to Italy guys why it's not even this is not even work this is just a pleasure why would

you give it up and we got to the point where it just falls out of you, where it's just so natural and so, that it really doesn't feel like work, except that until AI catches up with us, you do have to be there. I agree, yeah, it's coming for us all, AI. Oh, isn't it? And you know what I'm sick of hearing, that everyone says at the moment,

and you know, people get into these buzz phrases, no doubt this was invented by chat GPT, which also I'm annoyed we have to say GPT every time. Why do we? They're already training us to say things that are annoying. Anyway, people say, you won't be replaced by AI, but you'll be replaced by somebody who knows how to use AI. I'm like, that's the same fucking thing.

Stop, just stop, just stop. You know, but you'll hear people say it now. It's also so unreliable AI. We've done a few experiments on the show, like could it replicate our voice? And it's so far from being able to replace us. It just gets it all wrong. I know, but we think that now we're like, look ha ha, look that man's got six fingers. But that's, you know, what an idiot, the robots are idiots. But if you think how like quickly that has happened. I suppose. Yeah, they're coming for us. The sun has not set on us before there will be a bit of audio of me.

I can't even say what I'll be saying, because then I will literally have said it and can't use the excuse that it's AI making me say it. But it'll be something preposterous. Oh, one of the three of us. Actually, speaking of which sidebar, I've noticed on the back up that you guys beep the f-bomb. What's that about? You're allowed to say fuck here. No, I know. And we say it all the way. say it, we say it and sometimes we don't beep it, but sometimes we like to beep it. Why? What's the difference between a bleeped fuck and a non-bleeped fuck? No, that's me. I just like sometimes to beep it.

Yeah, right. Isn't that funny? I just like it. Is that the theatre? Yeah, I just like the audio play of it. Yeah, I think so. I get that. I think so. And also sometimes, you know, now Australians, all we can do is swear. There used to be a thing that when my husband would go to the footy people would say shh these kids around so you couldn't swear. But now you just

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Oh yes, how was he? Of our time. He was brilliant. You couldn't expose him to Mitchell. Mitchell would be like, what? Oh no, it wouldn't work, Mitchell. But you know what, Stephen Fry needs a bit of Mitchell. Like oil in water, you know, it'd just, they'd sort of, yeah. You know what, delicious salad dressing. I agree, you're so right.

Vinegar, kuel and vinegar. I'll see how they go, no, I'm being a Mitchell. No, he said that his favourite thing to do is to say fuck. And he knows every word in the English language In Latin so for that man to say I love to say fuck In the Latin So if he is happy to say fuck then all bets are off. Yeah, of course and I think Did I don't know well, let's not get into the origin of the word of the word fuck

Yeah, was it Shakespeare or? Oh, I know he invented balloon. He was saying? He invented balloon. Balloon? Yeah, is a Shakespearean word. Google words invented by Shakespeare. Yeah, balloon. Oh, no, I know. I know. In fact, a girlfriend of mine has in her kitchen a list of expressions

that have come from Shakespeare. And when you read it, of course, I haven't committed any of them to memory, but when you read it, you're like, that's incredible. Yeah. Like they're in, in everyday usage. I know. You know, I can't give you one of them. I went down a rabbit hole of Shakespeare being gay on TikTok. And this, I tell you what, there's a good amount of evidence.

Read that man's work. And I mean, that is a poor writing. If I've ever, I's a good amount of evidence. I'm ticked off. Read that man's work. I mean, that is a poor writing. If I've ever read it in my life, he is so gay. Really? Can you think of an example? Yes, think of an example.

No, it's him being gay. No, no, it's his gayness. Just the iambic pentameter and the rhythm and the magic. Iambic pentameter! Thank you. You asked for examples. I mean, you know, that $40,000...

Hey kids, the stripper's here! Haha, fuck off! I studied theatre, that's all I know, I don't know... So did I! Kate! Iambic Pentameter, is that... Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Did it did it like the bait? Is that that yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't couldn't remember what it was It probably was gay and also let's face it. He was in the theater But in those days where where the thrill the audience would get was being seeing a boy dressed up as a girl

His ankles yeah What that those people imagine them on the slut shaming bus. Oh my god. Through New York, they would lose their minds. They would live like that and they're so used to throwing rotten fruit. It's such a medieval. Preve me madam, thou art a harlot and I am a scoundrel. Get aboard this horse powered vehicle so that I may ravage you.

What fun. You know another thing I heard on your podcast, Kate, not only slut shaming, but I was shamed in a way because there's something that you detest that I'm guilty of. What, people who eat grilled fish? Grilled fish. Yes, I'm a grilled fish eater. Grilled fish loser. You know what, when I was at the airport on-

It needs to be battered, she thinks apparently. Monday night, this guy came up to me and he went, she had grilled fish last night, pointing at his wife. I said, she seems like a lovely woman, she's a loser. How could you tell just by looking at me that I'd be a grilled fish eater? And also, what's your beef with grilled fish? You know what, it's just, it's not. It's just, I can't explain to you what's wrong about it.

It's like going into a cell with John Wayne Gacy and trying to explain, trying to explain that though his paintings are nice, there's several deplorable things about him. So she said on the podcast that it needs to be battered or fried, never grilled. No, no, crumbed. Crumbed or battered. Crumbed or battered. Yeah, crumbed is good. I love a steamed fish.

I'm sorry. And I'll stand by it. Steamed fish? That's okay. What? How the fuck is steamed okay but grilled is not? That is so unfair. Don't question the logic of Kate Langbrook.

It's just the thing. I mean, I'm not, because sometimes, you know, people order a huge steamed perch, you know, in an Asian restaurant, and it's amazing. But grilled is just kind of depressing. Grilled fish, grilled flake. And I just can't handle the crumbed shit, because there's never enough synergy

between the crumb and the fish. They need to get along. They need to stick together. They just go trying and you try and cut them. Not a word of a lie, I made crumbed fish for my family today. I went to the market, I had a something you two have never had, I had a fish craving. That was so fucking cheap. Cheap shot. I went to the market and I got some what, some um, what are they, flathead, flathead jails.

Took them home and crumbed them. As it turned out, because I'm living with five students, so impressive, they all came out of the woodwork. All of them. And then my beautiful platter of fish was gone. I had two pitiful little pieces left for me. So it was a crowd pleaser is what you're saying? Oh yeah great crumbed fish I'll make it for you Mitchell. But was there synergy between the

crumb and the fish? Yes of course. Also doing it at home do your listeners care about this? Yeah yeah yeah yeah of course. The idiots like this okay so cornflake crumbs the best crumb, the superior crumb. Never tried that. Panko, sometimes that might be where you lose your synergy. I love a panko crumb, but it's too large a crumb. It's a big crumb. I love that this is the Kate Langbrook legacy.

I always see Melbourne socialites when they're sick, Joel Creasy will go, I'm sick, I'm sick. Chrissy Swann's soup has saved me. She dropped off a metric shit ton at my front door. I go, okay, sure, Kate Lingbrook is just dropping off from Grilled, no, what is it? Crumbed fish. Never grilled. Never grilled. Crumbed fish.

That's your legacy. And very hard to drop off. It is, yeah it is. Yeah. What do you make that's good? We spoke about it last time, or you spoke about it, I think I've heard in the past, you make a lasagna or a bolognese or Valvo does

So Valvo's mom Lynn, you know cuz his dad's Italian yes Giuseppe. Mmm couldn't be more Italian. I was gonna say did you fucking make that up? Surely? No, it sounds like it doesn't. Yeah. Anyway, Lynn makes a stunning ragu. Don't look at your fucking watch Anyway, Lin makes a stunning ragu. Don't look at your fucking watch. I got it, I got it. What is that? No, no.

I'll take it off. N-O. It's off, the watch is off. Out of respect. What's that movie where he puts his grandfather's watch up his ass and it's some war movie? Couldn't tell ya. You're gonna relive that scene!

Cheers. Thank god you're here! Vietnam PTSD, that pad, he puts a watch up his to it. What is it? It's a comedy. We've knocked the sounds out, yeah. We haven't seen it. No, I promise you it is. Anyway, you're looking at your watch, no lady likes that.

I took it off, I'm listening. No, you took it off after you'd given it a good look. I checked the time. Did you realize your story was thinking about Giuseppe and his dumb ragu? You went let me distract. Oh no, it wasn't. The watch. It was actually not Giuseppe's ragu. So see those things. Yeah, not just for hooking your sunglasses on, also for listening. It's Lynn's ragu. Oh shit. Oh shit. Anyway, she makes a stunning ragu. I make a lot of food.

I'm always feeding six people. Now seven, now that my eldest son's got a girlfriend. Oh. Gypsy. Oh, I would kill Gypsy. Beautiful name. You would kill Gypsy. What?

Thank you, partner. John Wayne Gacy. That's not what I said. Look at my art. Come in my caravan. I look at my art. Go on with that chat GPT. Don't turn this on me. Can I just say, everything you've said to Mitchell was

gorgeous hair, look at those nails. You called me a fag. She's also heavily implied that I'm dumb. Don't worry, we're on the same page. I'm a boomerang beauty. Five years ago I thought, who is this Cretan engineer? Now you're hot. I think you're beautiful. You've never been more beautiful.

That's a compliment. And you know what? Her gorgeous co-host, Nate, gives her shit. You know what he described her as? He said you look like someone that would smell like a dog. Yes, like a dog. Not that you do smell like a wet dog. Yeah, terrible. You look like someone that would, which I feel is worse.

So do I. It was the worst. And then he, but here's the beauty of him. He didn't even realize how horrendous that was until I shrieked in horror. He didn't realize. And then he tried to act like that's not an insult. And then he goes, surprisingly, you always smell good. I mean, everything.

He was just like, he was like a man being marched to a shallow bush grave, he just kept digging. Yes, of course. Well I think the issue that is you can change your smell but you can't change if you look like you smell like a wet dog, can you? Yeah, well okay, so he has a go at me for wearing a lot of jewellery, for having a lot of cushions in my house. Can I tell you, sorry to interrupt, one time I was walking along listening to your podcast and I had my little moot pack on

and I was going insane being like, what is that in my bag that keeps jingling? Are they my keys? What is it? And then I stopped walking and the jingling continued and I was like, it's Kate's fucking bangles. It was my Pratcha letter. I was going insane. By the way, Sasha French is here, come around here.

She's just walked in. Sasha. And you know what? I was going insane. By the way, Sasha French is here, come around here. She's just walked in. Hi Sasha. And you know what? Sasha French hates going through security with me at the airport. Oh my God. All the bloody bangles.

And some of them are really hard to get off. So you're like, eh, you know that thing where they're, ah, they're taking my epidermis off with them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't even remember what I just interrupted. What were you saying, Kate? Oh, I don't know. No, you were saying how Valvo insulted me.

Yes, yes. Yeah, it's nothing but insult. We do love Valvo. If you haven't heard The Buck Up, it's on iHeartRadio. Get it wherever you get your podcasts. Valvo, if you don't know who Naife is, brilliant Australian comedian. He's very funny and you two together are fantastic. We love it.

And I did say before that I reckon our idiots will love the buck up because you've got a very similar mantra to us because we end every episode with we just want people to feel at least 2% better. That's all just 2%. That's it. What's yours? It's similar, right? That's our money back guarantee.

Yeah, that's it. Our money back guarantee is that you'll feel better at the end of the podcast than you do at the start. See, we don't know. And no matter how good you were feeling, it's really good. Because also, you know, people are into true crime. Yeah, no.

Why are they into true crime? I know, I don't understand. Why are they into it? It's sick and twisted, but I love it. I love Case File. I love that podcast. Yeah, everyone loves it. But it's like, then the same people are like, there's too much

violence in the world. Well, why do you think? You've made an industry out of it. Yeah, that's true. And they've got to keep turning up those dead bodies under old floorboards or people ain't got nothing to listen to. And we're running out of serial killers. You know, in the early days, I, you know, I sucked my teeth into Dharma, he killed 30

boys and they go, oh, what about Gacy? He killed this many. I watched one the other night when he killed two. I thought, oh, turning this off. No, that's right. People can't keep up. They can't keep up. What's going to happen?

What's next? Look at your watch. Tell me what time it is. I'm taking it off and I don't know what I'm destroying. Is the reason that your gorgeous producer, Sasha, is loitering there? Is that because we're cutting into your buck up recording? We're about to record the buck up. Are we insured?

I'm so sorry. We should let it go, shouldn't we? Hey, Sasha, what was that movie where... Poltergeist. The Watch Up the Arses. Did we go back to that? It's a comedy movie and he puts his grandfather's watch up his arse or he gives it to someone. Is it Pulp Fiction?

No idea. She doesn't know either. Look why it's like I'm mad and I'm just making things up. What's not life? Let me Google. Why aren't know either. Look why it's like I'm mad and I'm just making things up. What's it not like? Let me Google. Why aren't you Googling?

I am. What am I Googling? No, no, but Mitchell's normally Googling. He is, but he's protesting. Well what am I supposed to type into Google? Like all sorts of unspeakable fucking things will come up. Oh no, be careful, your algorithm is really, yours probably won't change Mitch Jury. You know I had Watch Our Pass anyway I just had to have war film.

In Pulp Fiction 1994. You're right. It was Pulp Fiction. There you go. The relief. The relief. I mean have you watched that film? Yes, back in the day.

You don't remember the watch our scene? There's a lot that happens in that movie for that to be the takeaway. There is. But also I think there isn't a lot of actors, I think, do that speech as an audition. As a monologue. I think I did it at 17. No wonder I didn't get accepted into Juilliard. That's a shame.

I thought you would have done Shakespeare, my lord. Othello, yes, the iambic pentameter. Don't start me. Give me a little something from your theatre. Oh my god, Kate, this was so long ago. I don't I honestly the way my brain works and Mitch can attest to this it's like one of those one of those edgy sketches where like you're like oh yeah in a couple of days is a

good bump for me and I'm done it's gone. It's fish and chip wrapping. That's me. Once it's gone it's only good fun. Well Kate Langbrook we love you. Thank you for coming back. This will be your last time on Is It Just Me, the podcast. Oh no, not my last time with the company of YouTube Beautiful Mitches. No, no, it won't be. I love you. Thank you for being. You know what, Kate did support us in the early days, didn't she, Mitchell? Do you know what? I love talent. I love talent. It's very sweet. I just think talent is, talent's not as common as the amount of podcasters would have you think.

You know what I mean? But true talent is an extraordinary uplifting thing and you two have it. Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you. And I loved my moments with you. Thank you, Kate. So have we. Most requested guests to come back too, because we asked the idiots and they said,

Kate Langbrook, do you have a nickname for your listeners? Buckits or something? Yeah Buckknuckles, Buckwits, Buckheads, yeah Buckknuckles. Buckface. Oh Buckface. Buckface is good. Yeah anyway that's what that we've got our people and we're happy to welcome your idiots. I'm sure they'll be right at home. They'll be migrating over to the Buckup, Kate Langbrook and Nathan Valvo. We love you Katie. Thanks for coming back. Love you. Love you. Bye darling. Bye.