Is It Just Me? - GUEST: Kate Langbroek's new gig 🎤

Episode Date: November 28, 2022

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Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of mitches. Okie dokie, it is time to hear from one of our all-time favourite guests, Kate Langbrook. This will be the third time she's been on the podcast, you know. We have. I can't believe she's in our three-timers club. Let's get her a headband made or something. If you don't know who she is, she's one of those people you sometimes see popping up

on The Project. She's done a lot of those panel shows over the years. She's currently hosting My Mum, Your Dad on Channel 9, which if you're not up to date, definitely get on board. You can stream it online now. And if you're one of those people that thinks, oh, reality TV is not for me, this one's very wholesome. So it makes sense that Kate is hosting it.

And how else would you describe her? Known on radio. She used to do Husey and Kate. Radio personality. She's a comedian of sorts. Very, very always funny and very insightful. And she's been great to us. We used to work with her. Well, I still work with her. Radio personality. She's a comedian of sorts. Very, very always funny and very insightful. Yeah. And she's been great to us.

We used to work with her. Well, I still work with her. Not anymore. She's left Kiss. But she used to be around the building in the office and we formed a connection. And she actually asked to come on the show this time. Yeah. So what happened was when she was doing the promo rounds for My Mum, Your Dad, you know,

we threw our hat in the ring and said, yeah, we'd love time with Kate if we can. Her manager said, no, no, she's got no more time. She's booked. She's doing no more press. And then she says, oh, but my Mitch's, I have to, I'll make an exception for my Mitch's because we just love her. And as per fucking usual, we had 10 minutes with her, but it went for 40. Once the three of us are together, you just can't shut us up, really.

We're all very similar, really. She has the best traits of you, the best traits of me, and the worst traits of herself. I also love that because she was in the Melbourne studio, we're in Sydney, we connected the two studios, and the whole time, because she's just such a hoot, you can hear her studio producer Tom laughing in the background the whole time.

It's pretty much that role, would you say, one of the jobs if you're operating the desk, is to keep quiet? No, he's just outwardly cackling at it. I loved it. All right, let's roll this. This is us with Kate Langbrook. Enjoy, guys. Kate Langbrook, welcome back to Is It Just Me?

Oh, it's me, Mitch. Katie. Mickabella Mitch. Oh, at long last. Kate, you can drop the facade. What? Be the real dirty you. What dirty me?

The real Langbrook. Yeah, you're allowed to swear here, don't forget. Yeah, I know. Be yourself. What do you want me to say? G'day, cunts. Just calm down. I mean, is there no foreplay in this?

Are we just straight down? I mean, I understand you're desperate for it. Kate, Mitch is getting it frequently now. Since we've last had you on, big life news for our very own Betty Mitchell-Coombs. He's got a life partner. He's got a boyfriend. What? What's happened?

Tell her. Tell Kate. What Betty from Blacktown has had the seal broken? Yeah, for those who don't know, Betty from Blacktown is my nickname so Kate can tell the two Mitches apart. I've got the energy of a middle-aged woman in the West. I understand that. And also that's radio people, I think they always talk

about Betty from Blacktown. They do. And we were like, who is Betty? And then we realised we've actually got a Betty, it's Mitch. It's Mitch. That's me. Can I tell you though, my boyfriend and I, we've got this running joke. My boyfriend, hang on, hang on. I've just got to digest.

Yeah, back up. Just you've got to ease me into this kind of talk. It just came trippingly off your tongue. Boyfriend. And, Kate, he's so handsome. He's in politics. He's intelligent. He's got brains.

He's in politics. You know what? Everyone, every smart man loves a trophy wife. That's all I'm going to say because that is quite a catch. Yeah, it definitely is. And you know one thing I reckon you'll love about him? Do you remember last time we had you on, we were talking about how much we love your vocabulary,

all the big words. Oh, that's right. That's right. But you say you said you love them, but I actually think, I don't think you love them. Well, I'll prove you wrong because my boyfriend and I, we have a shared Google Doc where we both add great words that we hear if we're having a conversation.

One of us drops a big word, we'll go, great, add it to the list. Do you want to hear some of them? Oh, I'd love to. Are they my words or just general words? Just general words, words that we hear out in the wild. In fact, if you want to add some great words, please do. Give us some. Some of the ones we've got already. Discombobulated. Oh, if you want to add some great words, please do. Give us some. Some of the ones we've got already.

Discombobulated. Oh, yeah. I'm not mad on discombobulated. Were you confused? Oh, yeah, it is. We've got vociferous. What's vociferous? Hungry?

I vociferously disagree, like passionately. Oh, passionately. No, no, I can't. That's hard. Yeah, no. Bequeathed. Oh, bequeathed is stunning. Isn't it?

How would you use bequeathed, Kate? Stunning. How would you use bequeathed? Oh, bequeathed is stunning, isn't it? How would you use bequeathed, Kate? Stunning. How would you use bequeathed? Well, that you've left something to something, you've gifted something to someone. So I have bequeathed unto you the throne. Got it, got it. And as, I have to say, radio royalty Mitch Turi has bequeathed unto you

the scepter of the prince rising up the ranks. Yes. Oh, wait, are you saying, Kate, you've bequeathed me? No, not me. You, the sceptre of the prince rising up the ranks. Yes. Oh, wait. Are you saying, Kate, you've bequeathed me? No, not me. Well, I can't give you my crown because I still need it. Keep that crown.

Good point, yeah. But you know what I mean? You won an award at the Radio Awards and that was like you were touched on the, I was going to say touched on the dick. That's not right. Kissed on the, no. Oh, you kissed. I wasn't touched on the – I was going to say touched on the dick. That's not right. Kissed on the – no. Oh, you kissed. I wasn't touched on the dick. That's how you work your way up in this industry.

I wasn't on the Nova table. Dear God. Oh, yeah, you've got to keep your eyes open on that one. Or best, shut your eyes and just hope for the best. All right, give us some more. Indubitably. Some of these are even hard to say. Indubitably just means undoubtedly, doesn't it?

Yes. But, like, how boring to say undoubtedly when you could say indubitably. It's true. It's true. I'm just going to have the list open for the rest of this interview and just jot down any big ones. Just give me one more, one more, one more, one more. Sisyphean.

Get fucked. You don't like that? Have you ever heard it? No, I hate it. You know, there's a terrible, can I tell you a terrible word? Which you won't hear very often, but now you'll probably hear it maybe three times in your life. It's just a terrible word that someone I went out with once used it and I never felt the same way about him ever. He said peripatetic.

What? I said, what is that? You know what it actually means? And he said it means you move around a lot. Oh, I see. And I'm like, I'll tell you what, mate, I'm moving away from you. That's for sure. I'm just like I can't, I'm not on necessarily just with a big word

for the sake of it. It's just some words, as you said, Mitch, Betty, some words are beautiful. Yes. I like to sound loquacious when I talk. Oh, yes. With the big words. It was quite peripatetic of you to move to Italy, wasn't it? Oh.

There he goes. She wants to punch me. Don't. I adore every part of you. Oh, there you are. I can see you on the screen. In high school, I remember I didn't know. I thought compulsory

was the opposite of what it actually meant i thought compulsory was optional i thought it meant you had a choice so my year advisor mrs moyman went oh no mitch math is compulsory i went fantastic i'll do i'll do two courses of drama she went no it's compulsory i went i know mrs moyman it took me a while to catch on, really. Really? When did you realise when you got the bad score in maths? Yeah, well, I did end up dropping maths. I got up to Pythagoras and fucked off.

I dropped off. You know, with maths, when they replace the numbers with letters, I'm like, I'm out. I'm gone. I'm done. When they add in that little X with the fancy little kick. Yes, and Cs and equals and lala and putting things over, they make them work too hard. And it's always like to the power of N or whatever. Like, I don't care. No, I don't care. And I'm never, ever, ever going to have to work out the pie of a radius

or whatever. I'm just not going to have to do that. I could see my future, even at 17, and I knew that that wasn't going to be essential for me. Is that true, Kate? What did you see yourself? Because you are, you're such an enigma, add that to the list. And we adore you. How do you think I'm a mystery? No, it's not as much as a mystery. You were just so unique. And there's no one else quite like you in this country. And you were so great at what you do and you do so many things we'll talk about the new show in a little bit but did you have your life mapped out that's a question I never thought I'd ask you but what did you see yourself doing as baby Kate not even for a moment

I've never had anything mapped out at all and I think I thought what did I think when I was because I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, it would never even have occurred to me or anyone in my family that there would be anything to do with showbiz. And in fact, because we were Jehovah's Witnesses, it was even unusual that we went to uni at the time because that was frowned upon because that was seeking man's knowledge rather than God's knowledge. Oh, my God. Oh, wow.

Which is how I believe Mitch Betty got his boyfriend. Yes. Yeah. It works for some people, Kate. Always seeking man's knowledge. I've got none of my own, so I have to seek it. Yeah, well, that's it. Kate, when did you stray away from that, from the religion?

Well, I knew really, really young that I didn't want to be a Jehovah's Witness. Like I just knew that it wasn't me. It was kind of like how people say they know that they were gay when they were really young. Yeah. I was like that about the religion. I was just like it's not me. It's just wrong.

And so I was always plotting my escape and then so I moved out when I was 18. Wow. And then I stopped going and my dad was an elder and my brother was a ministerial servant. They were big wigs in The Witnesses and so it was a difficult time but I was studying journalism at that point which luckily a teacher at school had just said to me, you're good at English, why don't you study journalism?

I didn't even really know properly what that, like I'm like, okay, I'll apply for that. Just using big words. But I had no plans. Yeah, and we've had Angela Bishop on who has actually discouraged people from making life plans, just like whatever doors open, just walk through them. Is that what happened with this TV thing?

They just said, want to host this show? And you thought, all right, why not? You know, I say no to things all the time. I like all the time. And the joke with me and Husey was always that he couldn't say no to work. You know, he's a workaholic and I would always say no to everything. You couldn't say yes. I couldn't say yes. I couldn't say yes and he couldn't say no. We're a perfect match. I was going to say good pair. And I wonder who is more well rested out of the two of you. Well, I was, but now we've kind of reversed roles

because since I came back from Italy I've written a book, I've done this radio show, I've done this TV show. It's like I've done lots of things that I wouldn't have done before. Anyway, when they first mentioned the show to me, I was actually doing the Writers' Festivals because my book had just come out, my book about Italy. Ciao, Bella. Ciao, Bella.

And I was like, I can't, I literally, I'm not being a prima donna. I literally don't have time to watch this, blah, blah, blah. And then finally when I did watch it, I went, oh, my goodness, I love this idea. And honestly, within five days I was hosting it. So I didn't even really have time to think any further. My head was spinning. Yeah.

Well, that's My Mum, Your Dad, right, Katie? Yes. What's the premise of My Mum, Your Dad? If everyone wants to watch it at 7.30 Monday and Tuesday, Channel 9, 9 now, what's the premise of the show? The premise is that it's single parents looking for love. Yeah. And they've been nominated by their kids who are all over 18

and the kids, unbeknownst to the parents, unbeknownst, Mitch, Betty Mitch, unbeknownst. Write it. Add it in. Unbeknownst. It's a silent K. Yeah, no, added it. He's got it.

He's got it in. Unbeknownst to the parents, the kids are watching from their own house. So they're watching their parents every move, which is at once amazing, titillating, awful, stomach churning, brilliant, or everything, every word, every word on his list. Yeah. Except peripatetic. They're staying put. It's such like a vulnerable way for them to see their parents dating.

Like sometimes it is easy to like forget that your parents are human and so it was quite emotional. I was watching it and some of the kids' reactions to like their parents getting nervous at a first kiss on a first date with this new guy. It's like that's not the sort of side to your parents you normally see. Well, you know, I think, have sort of side to your parents you normally see. Well, you know, I think, have either of you got single parents? No.

No, I don't. My parents are sickeningly in love. I don't either and obviously my kids don't. But there's something in the relationship that is so beautiful and has a maturity to it that I never had with my parents and certainly my kids don't have with me. Like those kids are so unselfish about their parents and wanting this for their parents that I'm quite amazed by it. And when they watch it, I mean, obviously they're watching

through peep fingers and screaming in horror sometimes. Yeah, some of the awkward kisses, yeah. Which is stunning. I love that. Is there bonking, Kate? Is there bonking going on? Look, I don't want to ruin it for you, but, you know, they are human. You know what I mean?

They have needs and desires, Mitch. Yeah, urges, some would say. Oh, they have urges. Animalistic urges. Animalistic. Write that down, Betty. Write that down. Write it down.

Animalistic. It just feels like everyone on that down, Betty. Write that down. Write it down. Animalistic. It just feels like everyone on that show just wants the best for each other. There wasn't any cattiness like on reality TV. Is there anything like that to come, any fighting or whatever? Surprisingly, I mean, you want some full maths glassing and wine thrown in the face. Not really. I mean, when you're attracted to someone,

I think it's natural to be territorial about them. Yeah. Are you territorial? Well, I've been in a relationship for four years. Mitch, are you territorial yet with the new flame? Is that an answer? Look how he obfuscated. Write that down, Betty.

No, I obfuscated. Obfuscated. He didn't really want to answer. No, no, no. I'm not ovulating. Don't you point that finger and insinuate that I'm dropping eggs. How dare you, Langbrook. I said how fascinating.

Oh, we're going to prize open the wizened nut that is Mitch Turi and expose the tender kernel within. Ask again. Are you territorial over your partner? Yeah. You know what? My partner is very attractive and he had what we call the hoe face. So before I met Hayden, Kate, he had bleached blonde hair.

You'd know, right, Mitch? Oh, yeah, right. Bleached blonde hair and that was the signal. That was the metaphor of I am open for business. A little gay slut. A little gay slut. And, Kate, a bit of context. So I, for Kyle and Jackie O, my first job like nine years ago was the cash cock,

and I dressed up as a giant rooster and ran around Sydney and was tackled, and if you caught the cock, you got $1,000. Are you obfuscating again? No, he's tantalising. I love this. I never knew you were the cash cock. I hope people weren't too rough with you when they grabbed you. They were.

Oh, my God. It was really. This is a true story, Kate. I was in the emergency room twice from cock. I bet because when people grabbed the cock, they would have tried to give it a good plucking. Yeah. Because they wanted the cash.

They wanted the cash. Yep. I once had a Hilux turn off Cal Pasture Road and chase me into the backyard of someone's house. True story. Anyway, that's a non-sequitur. Oh, non-sequitur. Non-sequitur.

It's when one thing doesn't logically follow the other. Yes. Write it down. Write it down. That would be a good podcast for us. That would just be constant non-sequiturs, just non-sequiturs. Anyway, but hang on. How does this lead to you being territorial?

Great question. No, it doesn't. I havesequiturs. Anyway, but hang on. How does this lead to you being territorial? Great question. No, it doesn't. I have to do ADHD. No, no, no. So I messaged him and I said, never met him before, but I thought he was cute, the bleached blonde hair. I wanted to thrash him around. So I sent him a photo at midnight and I said, hi,

I hope you don't mind me messaging you out of the blue, but here is an unsolicited cock pic. Oh, and it was you in your cash cock outfit. Dressed as the cash cock. Oh, that's adorbs. And he replied, and I'd never been with a man before. What did he say? And he replied, I'm at Sydney Uni, do you want to fuck?

And that sort of ruined the moment for me. Oh, my goodness, you were so nuanced and cute. And he was just bleach blonde to the point. Yep, straight to the point. And he said, I'm at Sydney Uni, you want to blow me in the bleachers? Oh, goodness. Yeah, those hallowed halls. A muttony gobby, he was suggesting.

Oh, goodness. It's a lot. Oh, so he was a turkey. So he was on to the gobbling and you were a perfect pair. Yes, perfect pair. Anyway. Oh, he's stunning. Hang on, Tom at mine's just shown me a photo.

Yeah, it was his gorgeous hayden. Oh, he's beautiful. He actually looks like you. Thatarn it. Hang on. Tom at mine's just shown me a photo. Yeah. Oh, he's gorgeous. He actually looks like you. That's interesting. He's half Filipino. Seeing on the principle that, you know, when people are attracted to people that look like them. Well, that's a different show. That's my mum, your dad and a cousin.

That's a very different program. Oh, he's really beautiful. So are you territorial? Yes. The long story short is I'm very territorial. And, yes, that's him with the bleached hair. Handsome. It's changed now. I think I worked so hard to get the prize.

Yes, yes. You're jealous. You're jealous. And you guard. Yeah, of course. Okay. But, Kate, we work in radio. You tell a story.

You know how it works. I just had to add that in. I loved it all. What do you expect? That was just the most gorgeous by-road and back-road. Well, that's what he likes, funnily enough. Hello. And a dirt track, I believe.

Yeah. Well. Okay. Now let's go down, down, down, down. Beg your pardon? What smouldering down there. Some uncertainty, a little bit of something, a little bit of jealousy. Oh, my God.

No wonder you're hosting this show. You just fucking like to dissect relationships, don't you? Yes, you know that I love that. In fact, one of the guys, one of the bosses from Channel 9, who was just gorgeous, John Walsh, his name is anyway, he was on the set every day when we were filming and he said to me one day, oh, my goodness, you're a cross between den mother and amateur psychologist. And I went, this man has just summed up my entire life.

Yeah. In how many words is that, Mitch? Black Betty, how many words? When did I become Black Betty? Bamber lamb, Jesus. Bamber lamb. Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches.

Yeah, we're here with Channel 9's Kate Langbrook, host of My Mum, Your Dad. Are you filming for the show today? Because you look very glammed up, by the way. Oh, well, you know why? Because I leave my make-up, because I do the project on a Tuesday night, and when I come in to do pick-up on a Wednesday with Monty,

I always give her a thrill. I don't know if she's getting that much of a thrill out of it, to be honest, but I always leave my makeup on from the night. I sleep in my makeup. It's a secret to my beautiful complexion. Makeup artists will never tell you that. Sleep in it. They're always like, you must remove your makeup.

I'm like, no, if you want to look beautiful all the time, girls, leave your makeup on. That's a good hack. Never remove it. And so do the projects still let you work for that show even though you're cheating on them with Channel 9? Yes, and isn't that amazing? That is rare, yeah.

I'm a freelancer, I guess, but you're right. It's one thing for me to say, I'm a freelancer. But it's another thing for a network to go, oh, we'll let you host this massive show on another network. Yeah. And I very much appreciate that they have. But also, you know what, Channel 10, you could have put a ring on it and they didn't.

So if Channel 9 are coming, I'm like, yeah, okay. Yeah, why not? You take rings where you find them, which is Mitch's dating technique, actually, before he met this new boy. Really? How many rings did he take? How many rings? Excuse me.

No, I never went through the gay slut phase. Was it like a 100-year-old oak tree that he sliced through the trunk? My Lord, there'd be a lot of rings. Oh, that's awful. Whomping willow. Write down whomping. Write down whomping. Whomping. Whomping. With an H. It's that's awful. Whomping willow. Write down whomping. Write down whomping. Whomping.

Whomping. With an H. It's with an H. H. All right, that's done. Hey, you know how you said that you struggle to say yes to work and you've obviously turned a lot of things down. What were some of those?

What are some of the ones you said no? Like everything. Have you been asked to go in the jungle? Oh, yeah, honestly. Yes, I've been asked to go in the jungle. Just think of every reality show. Right show except Love Island, hurtfully. Why is that missing from my oeuvre? Write that down.

It's French. It means body of work. Or does it mean egg? What? Who speaks French? When I Google oeuvre, it says, do you mean Uber? No. O-U-V-R-E.

Oovra. What's okra? What am I thinking? Oh, no, that's a vegetable that they eat in Jamaica. I find it gross. I don't like it. It's slimy, isn't it? It's slimy.

Slimy, slimy. And then in Jamaica, they're like, oh, you haven't had it cooked right. It's like scrambled egg. I'm like, well, why don't you eat fucking scrambled eggs? It's not some slimy pod hanging off a tree. It's a pod. It's a pod. Now, Kate, you're Dutch, right?

Or half Dutch? Well, I say Jamaica because my mum's Jamaican-American. Yeah. And my dad is Dutch. Got it. Or was Dutch. I don't want to bring down the tone. I mean, he still is Dutch wherever he is.

Yes, correct. And he was Dutch. And he always will be Dutch. And he will remain Dutch. He'll remain Dutch. Yes. Well, yes, my dad's side of the family is Dutch. And we have that in common.

We have that in common. I have an Oma and an Opa. Oh, my God, my mum. So I was at a wedding on the weekend, Kate and Mitch. I was at this family wedding and, you know, the vows had just been handed down and it was that awkward two-hour period where the bride and groom were off getting god-awful sunset photos. It's too long.

Too long. That period's too long. It's exhausting. And by the time they come back in, we're not happy to see them. No, I agree. It's like they've ruined it. It's too long. I agree.

Too long. So my mum obviously went to Instagram and she said, Mitch, look at Kate's Instagram story because my mum on her birthday, on her wedding anniversary with my dad, always requests one dish and it is prawns, king prawns with an avocado. And mango? And mango and a bit of whatever sauce she puts on it. Well, that's a Mahri sauce or just a cocktail sauce.

Yes, cocktail sauce. But she only likes the Praised cocktail sauce. She's very peculiar. Oh, my goodness, I make my own, but I make it with Praise mayonnaise, the king of mayonnaises, even though I can't really forgive them for having a few years ago gone from glass bottles to plastic bottles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I harbour a grudge.

I don't want to eat anything out of plastic. I'm not a fucking Kardashian. No. I don't. I want my sauces in glass. I want my sauces in glass. I want my oils in glass. I don't want your BHPs or whatever they're called leaching out of plastic. Microplastics.

Yes. I'm with you. I don't want it. Write that down. Write that microplastic. Write it all down. I'm like Barbara Cartman now narrating a novel. You are.

We just need to get someone to take the minutes of the interview at this point. You know what word sprung to mind when you were describing that meal, Mitchell? Oh, what word? Oh, that sounds like quite a sumptuous repast. Sold that from Kate. Spell sumptuous, my darling Mitch. Betty Mitch. No, I get fucked.

I'm not doing that. Too many S's for my lisp. I love your doing that. Too many S's for my lisp. I love your lisp. Hey, by the way, my 13-year-old son, Yarny, has a lisp. And we adore his lisp. Yeah. And people say to us, are you going to send him to speech therapy? Which, A, I find rude, B, probably practical, but C, not necessary thoughts. As an adult lisper, your thoughts?

Well, I didn't go to speech therapy per se, but when I first moved away and started going to radio school, there was a teacher that very kindly pulled me aside and said, I happen to be a speech pathologist as well as a teacher. So she would like keep me back for an hour or whatever, just help me work on the letter S so it was more pronounced, whatever. Is it a sibilant S? Sibilant S, yes.

And so I found that helpful but obviously that was helpful in my line of work because I was going to be talking into a fucking microphone so I don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner. But if he's not doing that then he doesn't really need it. It's kind of adorable, isn't it? I find it adorable. Like I just like it. And when someone said to me once something,

I was somewhere and someone made a joke about lisping or whatever and, of course, someone, some buzzkill in the audience goes, then you shouldn't make a joke about disability. And my girlfriend said a lisp is not disability, it's just not perfection. Yeah, I like that. And I went, oh, my goodness, I love that so much because everything's so perfect. Everyone's walking around with those big white veneer teeth that, by the way, I'm very attracted to and if I'm going to continue at Channel 9,

I think I need some because I don't have them. But, no, I just don't think I can pull it off. I'm like Mitch on a first date. Oh, no, you don't know him well enough then. Jesus. Not anymore. He's not like that now. He's committed.

He's got carpal tunnel. Add that in tunnel. Tunnel. Carpal. Carpal. Carpal. Can I just say, God, so many non sequiturs, but I went to speech pathology.

My mum sent me to speech pathology because I had a minor lisp and they got it out of me. You did as well. Yeah, and I think I miss it. I think I don't remember it and I miss what I could have sounded like. You miss? I miss, yeah. I really miss it.

Well, Yarny's very lispy. Is Yarny the one that you said that his personality is a liability? Oh, that would be if he doesn't become a lawyer. But I said if you become a lawyer, your personality is an asset. And what was the reason for that again? Does he just ask a million questions? Just he argues. He loves to argue.

Like if you say something to him, he just loves to catch you out on whatever you haven't encompassed with just a statement. He always likes to look for the exclusion. And then sometimes it's so exhausting. Sometimes in our house we just have to go, Yarny, no more questions. Enough. Just the hand. And now we can just hold up the hand.

We go, Yarny, and he goes, no more questions? We're like, yes. And so what was it you said to him? You need to be a lawyer, otherwise your personality is a liability. I said to him, this was when we were in lockdown and I had spent a day. Anyway, I said to him, his godfather's a lawyer, really clever, gorgeous guy who drops us off bagels every Sunday. Oh, my gosh.

Just so beautiful, peepy, gorgeous. Anyway, Yarny's godfather's a lawyer and so Yarny just so adores him, you know, in the way that you just love a, you love an uncle figure. Yes. You know how boys love men. Uncles, yeah. Anyway, and so Yarny wants to be a lawyer as well. So he's just got this rigorous mental thing that he'd actually

be perfectly suited. He's an arguer. He loves the play of it, whatever. Anyway, so we're in lockdown. I was so exhausted by it and cooking for fucking six people and la, la, la. I mean, it was a lot. And I said to him, you better be a lawyer when you grow up

or your personality will be a liability. But if you become a lawyer, your personality will be your biggest asset. Now, he couldn't tell if that was like he was so thrilled by that until Waleed Ali made out like that was a big insult. Yeah, that was what offended Waleed. Yes. There were all these headlines. Of all things to offend him.

And I said to Waleed, you are a lawyer. How can you be offended by that? You are a lawyer. You literally told him that that skill, that personality trait, will actually help him and does help him. I said to him in a meeting one day, I'm going to say the same thing to you I said to my 12-year-old son as he was then. And then Waleed didn't seem to take the compliment from it.

Of course he wouldn't. He didn't. Fucking lawyers. Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, yes. And then he sent me a bill. A bill of allowers while he worked it out. You know what? This is very different to the last time we spoke to you, Kate. Last time we interviewed you, I don't know if you remember, but you were in bed with a bag of salt and vinegar chips on your chest.

You'd just finished watching Morning Wars? You just binged Morning Wars. Oh, my goodness. And you admitted to us that you had COVID, which at that time wasn't worldwide news. No, it was so scandalous. Kate, the management of the radio station called Mitch. They called me and they said, you cut that out. They made me remove that part.

And I was like, it's really not that salacious. Everyone's had COVID at this point. Yeah, it was bizarre, Kate. So was that like October last year? I think so, yeah. Because do you know what? It was so unusual to have COVID at that time that the newspaper was trying to do a story about it and I'd been to a party

on the Thursday where I had given it to, and we were still in semi-lockdown or whatever. You could have some bullshit rules in Victoria. My God. Anyway. Anyway, you could only go with 10 people. So there were like 10 people at this party. But like eight of them got COVID.

And then one of my girlfriends who was at that party went to another party on Saturday night and she gave COVID to 36 people. 36? And that's when the whole thing, because at that point people still knew where they got it and on the Friday I gave it to Peter Hellier. Oh, no. And they were trying to keep that under wraps. We could have made you come unstuck.

Yeah. We could have been the ones, a couple of niches. Like three weeks later no one would have even bothered writing a story because everybody had it then. God, yeah. It exploded. Yeah, so this is the third time we've had you on actually. Have we ever told you that we once did a poll in our Facebook group saying

who's the favourite guest we've had on the podcast? And you by a landslide, Langbrook. It was you. It was you. Gen Z. Gen Z love Kate Langbrook. I say Z. Oh.

I'm not putting that on the fucking list. Why do you say it like that? I like it. I think it's kind of with it. Gen Z. I say Z. It's very American of you, though. Oh, my God.

And because I've got a 17-year-old daughter. Yeah, true. Oh, yeah, true. How's your eldest son? How is his driving going? Because that also happened last time you were on. He walked in and said, can you take meal plating? Oh, did he?

I can't remember any of this. You also said you would give me $20,000. Yeah, no, I heard it too. Show me where that's written down. Didn't want to bring it up. How's he? How's he going? Lewis Lewis is divine.

D, divine. Killing it in the driving seat. He's finished school. He's halfway through his hours. Oh, God. Because he was still doing year 12. Year 12 is horrible. Oh, it's awful, isn't it?

Horrible. It's that time of year I forget. How's he doing with the exams? Well, we don't know how he went. It's still November. But he actually worked really hard, which I didn't think he was capable of. I thought he was more like me, like kind of good on the fly but not really academic.

Yeah, right. But he worked so hard and with his alleged father every night and every day for four months at the dining room table, Peter tutored him so patiently and beautiful that I could have fallen in love with him all over again. Peter Allen Lewis, pal, tutoring. Hey, just come to pal tutoring. Just stunning pal. patiently and beautiful that I could have fallen in love with him all over again. Peter Allen Lewis. Pal tutoring.

Hey, just come to Pal tutoring. Just stunning pal. Did you like that? Peter Allen Lewis. Exactly. It's a good nickname. It is good. Well, we better let Kate go. God, we've held up enough of her time.

I've loved it. I love that Kate started this interview sitting, then she was standing. Now she's sitting again. I'm exhausted now. You have sucked me dry. We have. Yeah, sorry about that. That's what we do.

Again. We love you, Kate. This happens every time Kate is on. We say to the producer, I swear it'll only be 10 minutes and then fucking 40 minutes later. Sorry, before we go, Betty, Mitch, your boyfriend, who Mitch has talked up enormously in a most beautiful manner. And accurately.

I need to see a photo of him as well. Okay, hang on. And what if he's in politics? Get this, Kate. He's a teal. I didn't know there were any boy teals. An independent. Yeah, I know.

I didn't know that there were boy teals. No, teal's a gay term. It means he's circumcised. But you know my boys are teals. I'll send you. Are they? So am I. Maybe it's a Dutch thing.

Yeah. One of my girlfriends actually when she had a daughter but if she had a son, the doctor said to her, I know that this is out of vogue but I strongly advocate circumcision if you have a baby boy. And she said, why is that? And the doctor said, the male doctor said, because when he grows up he might want to get a BJ. Isn't that an amazing thing to say? What a great doctor.

It wasn't that inappropriate to say to a pregnant woman. I think it is, isn't it? It's also not accurate. Oh, my. Of course. Look, here we go. She's got the photo now. Here we come.

Here we come. Choo-choo. I just like you to know. Is that just your first impression? Oh, my goodness. What do you think? Oh, I just think that's so beautiful. I love everything about this photo.

He's on a couch. Sean's sitting on a couch. Oh, my goodness. On my lap, actually. No, he's on your lap. He almost looks animated, doesn't he? Yeah, because he looks perfect and almost American. Yes.

In a frat boy kind of way, but a smart frat boy. Oh, yeah. I mean, I've got to go. I'm exhausted. No, I'm sorry, Katie. I mean, I'll just stay here. No, no, I'm so happy. But if I stay here, I'll say things I shouldn't say.

I've already told you too much. What do you say when your team go, when the beautiful Mel says, you've got the couple of mitches? What's your guttural reaction? What do you say? Well, you know I'm thrilled about you, but mostly I go, I can't be fucked. Just generally. Fair enough.

You know I adore you two. And radio's draining. You'd have to just go home and be catatonic for a bit. Well, I've got to go to Lewis's graduation tonight. Good afternoon. Keep the make-up on for that. Yes. Oh, I will.

The project make-up. I will. And I'll just say, Aline, because that's what other parents from school love. Yes. Is when you're just swanning looking like. You've come fresh from a TV studio. Yes, I love it. Parents of teenagers who generally, as you would discover in the world,

are not generally the people who are the happiest or look their best. Yes. Oh, God, yeah. We just love it when someone turns up looking like this. Well, listen, my mum, your dad, get more Kate Langbrook. Monday, Tuesday, 7.30, Channel 9, 9 now. Get me into you. Play the catch-up.

We love you, Kate. Love you. Welcome to the Three Timers Club on our show. Oh, who else is in that Three Timers Club? Oh, no, we've got to go. Kate, no. Just tell me quickly another name. None.

None. You're the first. I'm the only one. You're the only one. Yep, rightly so. Yay. to go. No. Just tell me quickly another name. None. None. You're the first. I'm the only one. You're the only one. Yeah, rightly so. Yay. Thank you, Kate. Love you.

Love you. We love you. See you. Bye-bye. Bye, bye, bye. Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of mitches. Make sure you've hit follow on your podcast app.