Is It Just Me? - GUEST: Kate Langbroek 👑

Episode Date: May 2, 2021

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Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of mitches. This is so exciting. Aussie TV legend, Aussie radio legend. Guys, please welcome our Kiss FM colleague and host of the 3pm Pick Up, Kate Legbrook! Hey! Kate, hello, how are you?

Do you know what? I'm so sated. You're so what now? Sated. Sated. I'm full, I'm satisfied. Oh. Do you know what? The reason I've actually dragged you in here, Kate,

is to talk about your vocabulary. So the fact that you've already taught me a new word within the first few seconds of joining us is actually incredible. This is very exciting because every day driving into work, because I do nights here at Kiss, Kate does the 3pm pick-up, which is the pick-up, the school pick pick up time, 3 to 4pm. I hear your show every day and it's the one show that I truly listen to

every single day because it's short, it's punchy, it's just an hour. It's so much fun. I love it. And you're back this year, which is great. Yes, I am back. I do enjoy it too. Look, Mitchell, you don't enjoy it. No, I seriously don't. No, you can't just chip in and hitch your wagon to Mitch's horse.

Excuse me. I'm not hitching myself to that thing in any way, shape or form. Am I the horse in this metaphor? You know, they call the show Mitch Mitch Hitch. Or we could go Mitch Mitch Bitch. That's us. It's great to have you here, Kate. So we start the show off the same way every week.

The show is Is It Just Me? with two idjams, as we call them, which is a new word we've coined, I-I-J-M. It's a lacrimine. I-I-J-M. And mine actually does relate to something that I heard on the 3 p.m. pickup. That's why I brought you in here, actually. I was like, I've got to bring this up with Kate. I did already mention it.

I've blown my load, but hey, let's get into it. All right, first idjim, let's go. Is it just me or...? Does Kate Langbrook have the most wonderful vocabulary in the world? It's stunning. I learn a new word every day listening to Kate. I'm like, got to pull over my car and write that down. Don't even know what it means.

Is this a compliment for you, Kate, or no? Well, do you know what? I don't think that people who invented commercial radio invented it to be like the Shakespeare of our time. Do you know what I mean? Vanilla, most popular flavour. Nobody likes the fucking wordy lady in the corner sitting on a thesaurus.

No one likes that. I don't think any of our bosses would be sitting there going, oh, she uses words people don't know. Oh, that'll get the 10 plus flowing in. Have they ever said anything about it? No. Do you think they probably will after this? They'll sit you down and they'll go, Kate, take a seat.

Betty in Penrith, which is the analogy I always get. Betty in Penrith doesn't understand the word analogy. But I think Betty does because I do think that Australians speak quite colourfully and beautifully. I agree. Like, do you know what? We love a, you know, a bit of rhyming slang or a bit of a clever expression or a, you know. Yeah, we do.

But what didn't you understand, Mitchell? Well, I've got the audio here. So this is what I heard the other day. Betty. I'm going to, you know. We do. But what didn't you understand, Mitchell? Well, I've got the audio here. So this is what I heard the other day. Betty. I'm going to call you Betty. That's me. What didn't you understand, Betty? I'll roll the audio, Betty.

You do it for yourself because you go, my legs look so beautiful and smooth and they're offset by the stunning vista behind them. Let me share this with the world who otherwise heaps derision upon me and my body. Wow, that's deep. Yeah, that's so deep. Too much? I was like, I don't know what that means,

but I'm just sitting around waiting for the opportunity to accuse someone of heaping derision upon me and my body. Well, Betty, nobody would heap derision upon you. What does it mean? Because you are the archetype. It means they mock me. Really? That just means mock, heap derision.

It means they mock me, but, well, derision means, like, in a more negative way. Right, okay. I literally, I'm not even kidding, I wrote it down. I was like, heaps derision, heaps derision. Funnily enough, it hasn't come up once, but I'm waiting for the day. I'm waiting for the day. You face some derision, heaps derision. Funnily enough, it hasn't come up once, but I'm waiting for the day. I'm waiting for the day. You'd face some derision, division. Mitch

heaps derision on you all the time and vice versa. That's Latin. Have you heard that? It's mostly the other way around, yeah. Have you heard vice versa? Yes, I have. I don't know what you, I don't know Betty. I don't know how your Latin studies went. No, not good. Did you also

have a good vocabulary when you were living in Italy for two years? Like how was your vocab there? Yeah. You would have loved me there because I spoke so simply like a toddler, like give food me. Barata salami tummy. Exactly.

That's all I needed, siesta. Yes. I was like a two-year-old. Oh, that would have killed you not knowing all the words you know here. Do you know what? That is so true. Even though I think you're slightly heaping derision on me. No, I'm not.

Betty's a bitch. Anyway, because I'm so used to opening my mental drawers. Yes. And the elves, when they wake up, they open the drawers. There's heaps of words in there. Yes. So many words. And when my mental elves opened the drawers in Italy,

there was nothing. Moths would fly out. Yeah, like niente. Oh, that's beautiful. That sounds right. You know what? That's so funny. I watched the Joan Rivers documentary a long time ago,

and the one thing that stuck with me was that she said her jokes in her brain works in the same way as like a Rolodex. Like she will be in a situation, she will just open the Rolodex and her brain will go flick through, pull out a joke, and then she can just, you know, slam it out there by road. And I think that's such a skill to have. Well, that happens to me with words, but isn't that everyone? That's how talking works.

Yes. I was going to say, isn't that just a really fancy way of saying she has a memory? Right? You two lay off with the deriven. Derision. I can't even fucking say it. Lay off with the division. Derision.

Derision. We'll be the derision division. Oh, I do like that. Of the Mitch Mitch Bitch show. Now, poor Jen is going to have the fright of her life when she returns to the show rebranded as the Mitch Mitch and Bitch. What did I do? That's terrible. That's like Will and Woody when I came back asked if I'd come back

to take their job. But I'm like, I had your job. If I wanted your job, I wouldn't have left your job. Yeah, you had that job and you couldn't stand it. All right, we've done derision. Yeah. What's next on our learning, at our learning academy? Or was that it?

That was just the one that I needed clarity on because I heard it the other day. But I have taken quite a few from you. I remember you used the word repast to refer to just like a meal. And I was like, what the fuck's a repast? What a sumptuous repast. Yeah, there you go. And I was like, mum, when's our repast ready? She's like, where the fuck did you hear that?

Mama. Look, Betty, because this is the thing about words. There's a different one for everything. Yeah. And a repast, and I'm sure I would have said a sumptuous repast because they're two words that always go together. Yes. Do you know what I mean?

Like Mitch and Mitch. They're inseparable. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's more stunning than just a meal. Yeah, dinner. Where's me plate, Mum? No. Why can't we be, why can't we elevate ourselves?

That means lift up, Betty. Why can't we enjoy being the best versions of ourselves? Why do we always have to be so basic? I agree. That's why I bloody write down all the big words here. I love it. I tend to agree. I've got a Kate related idjim too, now that we think of it. And it's something that I feel like I do too. Are you ready to hear mine, Kate? Oh, I can't wait. I'm adoring this. Is it just me or? Is it totally fine to laugh at the jokes that you make?

Oh, yes. Yeah. Next. Yeah. Okay, that's the end of the show, ladies and gents. We get out of here. I completely agree, Kate. It's something that I've noticed that you do.

It's something that I do. Mitch pulls me up on it. Sorry, Betty pulls me up on it all the time. I don't pull you up on it, but I just remember at an early age, Dad saying, oh, it's rude to laugh at your own jokes. And you know what? You know what he was doing? Clipping your wings.

Yes. Like Icarus. Google it. Icarus. You would have flown so close to the sun Save for your father I did have to say to my husband once When we started dating

There's enough people in this world That don't want the best for you It's a very I have to say prevailing Australian attitude as well I don't know I've only lived in one other country overseas But people are always like Back in your box You got tickets on yourself failing Australian attitude as well. I don't know. I've only lived in one other country overseas. But people are always like, back in your box.

Oh, you got tickets on yourself. Oh, you love yourself. As though that's an insult. Yeah. Anyway. True. But I just think that's a wing clipper. It is a bit, isn't it? I think why wouldn't you laugh at your own jokes unless, of course,

you're not funny? No, it's not. I'm fully aware of my being hilarious. But the thing is that I think that it's fine to laugh at your own jokes if your laugh in of itself is hilarious. Like you and Mitch have very iconic laughs. Like I just laugh because you're laughing sometimes. Well, because I've got a cackle.

You do. And I'm fully in support of it. So whether you're laughing at your own jokes, anyone else's, I don't care. I have an example. So this is when your co-host Monty called through to the show, the 3pm pick-up, to announce that she had had her own

little baby. And this was your reaction, Kate. I've seen photos. He looks like his brothers. He does. He does. And that's amazing because they don't have the same father. I know. I haven't broken it to Sam yet. I can't broken it to Sam yet.

She's such a stupid. Can you even believe that I have a daughter who's about to turn 19? Oh. Yes. Yeah, I remember I was pregnant on Channel V. She was breastfeeding in the make-up chair. Wow, who was breastfeeding her? Ah, that's very funny.

Anyway, so. I love how she's the first to laugh at her own joke. It's the best. Totally. Your dad wouldn't like it, Betty. No, he wouldn I love how she's the first to laugh at her own joke. It's the best. Totally. Your dad wouldn't like it, Betty. No. But I like it. No, it must be a city thing.

Sometimes you have to. Yes. Because you might be talking to people who are dead inside. Yeah, true. Yeah? I completely agree. So you just really, you've got to be in control of your own emotional state. Yeah. And that includes enjoyment.

Sometimes it also lends a hand to the other people to say, hey, it's okay to laugh too. Here's an invitation to laugh. It's all right. If a joke was a little bit inappropriate or on the nose, then if you laugh, then they go, I'm... Or not particularly funny. Yes.

They miss the obvious place to laugh. That's very true. Oh, God. Can you fake laugh, Kate, or is it always genuine? Because Mitch has actually nailed a fake laugh and so I never know whether to believe him. Is he pitying me and just fake laughing or is he actually laughing? Pitying you? Yes.

Pitying you? I say that without having heard the joke. No one wants to be mean to Betty. No, no, no, no. I haven't differentiated the two. So my genuine laugh is identical to my fake laugh and that's where I've gone wrong. So no one can ever tell the difference. Really?

So I sometimes, in fact, in that last one I did do a fake laugh but it's a funny fake laugh. Oh, that was clearly. Where I go, oh. Yeah, that's different. That's high comedy in itself. You're allowed to do that. Oh, thank you.

I noticed you're not laughing. That's fake laugh. That's fake. Oh, fake. Oh, thank you. I noticed you're not laughing at it, though. That's fake. That's fake. Oh, fake. Oh, I love it because it's got that wheeze. It does have the wheeze. Our listeners compare it to a little duckling. Sometimes it has a little, it's intermittent.

It's a squeak. Sounds a bit ducky. Oh, my goodness. Do you smoke? No, I've had one Malboro Red in my life. I had an instant nosebleed. Never again. Yeah, but you're a chronic vaper.

I mean, something's going on there. No, I was born three months premature. The neurothormax in the lung, and thanks for bringing it up, but it's lung issues. Well, I know Mitchell's frequently premature, but he doesn't weep. Oh, very dear you. Kate, that is so apt. We do a segment on this show called Viagra.

Oh, you are not. Kate might have some advice. She doesn't have to deal with erectile dysfunction on account of her antidepressants. You don't know that I don't. Thank you. Your own, maybe someone else's. I don't know. Correct.

That's true. And who's got the bigger problem? It would be me in that situation. That's true, actually. Yes, it would. Because at least you know what's going on with the flaccid Latin Google it, Betty. Because at least you know what's going on with the flaccid Latin Google it, Betty. Mitch likes to mock me because at age 24 they prescribed me Viagra to counteract the antidepressants being a boner killer.

Antidepressants are shocking for that. But haven't they improved them? Nah. Not the ones I'm taking. Clearly not. Not at the strength of the life. How hurtful for the people you're with. Let's just have a moment to acknowledge them.

I know, because it's not like I can fake it as a woman can. Just be like, oh, yeah, I'm really into it. No, you know if a guy's into it. No, that's right. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing. Yes. Google it, Betty. The problem is... What's a song?

He's got a pen writing all these down. How's your Google list going? It's got an iPad going too. The problem is that he couldn't work out the timings. So he'd pop a pill two minutes before, you know, sort of copulation. Oh, no, two minutes is not enough, is it? Takes a couple out. Well, they'd go home and then he'd get a bloody, you know, stiffy halfway through Friends. So it's not good. But he's worked it out now. This is all

embellished. Don't believe him. Do you go home to watch Friends? No. No. You do. Are you sure, Betty? I think Friends is a very Betty show. I do too. It is, isn't it? You know what I do? I go home and listen to the 3pm Pick Up podcast. Oh, he's good. Tie in. Well, you know what? We are very

Betty. We're totally there for Betty. I adore Betty. The unsung heroes of the world are the Bettys. I concur. I completely agree. No one's checking out to see what she's wearing on Insta, but let me tell you, if you want a passion fruit sponge, you're going straight to Betty.

No Insta models ever provided comfort at a funeral, but Betty's sandwiches, stunning. You know what? I think there's a hole in the market there for influencers who are actually influencing the right shit. Have you ever been sold anything via influencing, Kate? Are you buying the BB oil that Carrie Bickmore's spruiking? What's BB oil?

It's clearly not working. I see Carrie Bickmore's spruiking or – What's BB oil? Is that the cream? Clearly not. It's clearly not working. I see Carrie Bickmore. Oh, the BB cream. Yeah, I bought BB cream. That's quite good. There you go.

All right. Yeah, but I didn't know Carrie was onto it. She's all over it. But she's not putting me off it. No. You and I had the same. We were doing the same Insta stories for Every Plate, which is brilliant and family friendly.

Oh, my God. Do you know what's happened with my Every Plate that I've just realised? Yeah. I've lost weight. Really? Yes, because I'm not shopping as much. Right. And so I'm not there for the Milky Bar, the king of the bar.

King of the white chocolate. You can jam your Cadbury, whatever it's called. Nah, nah. Betty, don't come at me with it. Anyway, yeah, I lost weight from every plate. Mitch was very chuffed to be able to brag. Oh, I've got the same brand deal as Kate Langbrook. We're both flogging the same thing on Instagram. And I'm like, yeah, but you're probably doing it for a fraction of the fee. I was. He was just happy for the food.

I was. Now, what the hell happened? We need to talk about this. It's the TV show that you did on Channel 10 a couple of weeks back. It was all about reflecting on the year that was with COVID-19, life in lockdown, all the Zoom interviews, and you narrated the thing, right? Such a great year, yes.

I'm the voiceover person. I miss it. It's up on 10 play to watch back. I've been meaning to do that. But did you throw in any of your own stories about lockdown in Italy, which was far worse than it was here? There was no time. Unlike you guys, there was no time for Katie.

I just had to keep the story rattling along because there was a lot to fit in. Yes. It was a hell of a year. I don't know if you noticed. I don't know what you're talking about. I was thriving. It was a great year for us. Well, can I just say I really enjoyed lockdown.

Oh, that's good. Are you an introvert? No, but you know what I am? I was tired. I got four kids. I was living on the other side of the world. That's a lot of work. Even though I was technically

not working. It was just nice to have the breather. There was a brief period, right, when you were actually working out of Italy. Didn't you have your own little home studio? Oh, I did for the first six months. That's why I was so tired. Did that little home studio just end up gathering dust?

Like what happened? No, it wasn't at home. It was like two kilometres from my house but still in the old city. Or as we call it, Chentro. Google it, Betty. Chentro, not C-H, it's with a C, but it's pronounced Chentro because it's in another language. Right, add it to the list.

Add it to the list. Anyway, it was about two kilometres from my place and it was in a filmmaker's office because they used to move big files and Sasha, our producer, found it because they had the best internet in Bologna. Oh, right, of course. Trusty producer. Now you're back in Australia and you're like, I can't even watch fucking Friends. Oh my goodness. You are

spot on. Isn't it just garbage? What has gone on? Wait, what is this? The internet? Yeah, just in general. There's third world countries that have got better WiFi than Australia. Oh, right. I would definitely agree. I feel like it's gotten worse. It has gotten worse since I was away. There you go. Well, use. I would definitely agree. Like, it's just gotten worse. It has gotten worse since I was away. There you

go. Well, use your 4G to listen to the 3pm Pickup podcast, Kate. We'll have to get you back on. Use your 5G anytime, Mitch and me. We loved you. That was fun. God, you're a good fit for this show, I feel. Do you go on shows sometime and talk about business plans? Do you have to

go on and talk about climate crisis? Is this your vibe? Sort of just shit talk? Do I strike you as someone who's invited on any show to talk about business plans? Very intelligent. I'd listen to you talk about business plans. No, but that's because you know nothing. Very true. Do you know what I mean? So relative

to that, relative to that of course I seem smart. Beautiful note to end on. We've just been absolutely ribbed by Caitlin Brook for the last 30 minutes. What a privilege. I've enjoyed it. Me too. Oh, Betty, I adore you.

Oh, likewise, darling. It's been a pleasure. Thanks for coming on. We love you. Oh, ciao, ciao. Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches.