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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is an iheard Radio New Zealand podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How are You My Love?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good? Actually really good?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
First week on maternity leave, back to regular sleep.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I'm looking less tired, I think.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
For those in the comment section on TikTok saying I
look like I'm high all the.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Time, that's rude. It is rude.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
But it's hard when you can't get botox when you're pregnant.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So so this is as good as it's gaming for
the next ten to fifteen weeks, and then.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
After that soon as the supreastfeeding injectables.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're not getting nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, yeah I am. I've got frown lines on my nose,
down cheeks.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's what the people want.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Apparently hours your weekend you're in Cronulla, my stomping ground.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It was good. It was our last game of the season.
We've got a win, I know, and what a win?
What a win?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Wasn't just your.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Regular or the tipping companies said we're going to get flogged.
I think they had him, had him pain like something ridiculous,
like five dollars or something. Yeah, are you serious? Yeah?
So yours? Do you disrespect us like that?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah? How do they how do they come up with
those numbers because.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We're playing or playing inconsistent, right, So that's that's what
they do. Sorry, so they got to cover their ass.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Can I just say something, and I'm allowed to say
this because my family of right or Die Shark supporters.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Be careful what you say. Now? What are you going
to say?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Actually, don't say that because they they were lucky to
be in may.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Don't get involved, don't just you sit in your seat.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I know. Also, can I just say to double down
on the Shark supporters of my family?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You know, for one of my.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Brother's birthdays using years ago, I think it was like twelve,
my mum sent him out of the house for the
day and when he came back home, she surprised him
and had painted his whole bedroom the Shark's color and
with the big Shark's logo on the wall. And do
you remember when you used to sleep over, used to
sleep in Luke Through still there now?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's still there? Now? How does that feel for you
to look at another team's logo?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Doesn't bother me? After the game, I stayed at your
parents house.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You slept in that room again.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You should have bought a big fight of Sean Johnson's.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh that's too funny, but it was.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It was good. Everyone came out, Yeah, besides my mom
and Albert, they were sick. Your brother, yes, so Roussie
came out, my oldest brother, my nephew, Kendrick's third also
came out, my brother's best best mate.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Quite a lot of support his son Kai.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
As well, so it was awesome to have them. Then
then Uncle Dennis was there. He was wearing his Sharks
Shark family are all Shark supporters?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Can I just give you the lowdown?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I facetimed mom before the game, before your game?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And Dennis answered, and I said, Dennis, what the fuck
are you doing wearing a Shark jersey? You know you're
in Warrior's tickets tonight and he has, well, no one
told me that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I said, work it out. Did you pay for those tickets?
How do you think those tickets came to you? Who
do you know playing tonight? And he goes, oh, well,
I'm gonna take it off there. I said, no, no,
but I'm just saying I see your loyalty. And I said,
do you have a nephew playing in the Sharks team
that I don't know?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Because your blood's with the Warriors, bitch, so take that
jersey off. And then he got the I think he got.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Really upset and he was like, well, I don't have
a new Warriors jersey said, it's called by one. I'm
pretty sure rebel sports have the even best and less
to the discounted funds. And my mom had to take
the focus. She was like, Taylor, stop, that's really rude.
I was like, well, tell me there's in the Sharks fan.
But then when you scored that try, it was so
funny because it was all Warriors fan's gone up obviously
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to che and my uncle with the Shark jersey's going
off his rocket and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Everyone's looking at him. God, but you do you know
who's somebody?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Bless him?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, well your weekend was a lot more eventful than mine. Well,
actually was quite eventful, but for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So we have an event on this Sunday, me and you,
and it's like.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
A, oh, is it black tires spring formal whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What spring formal means I don't know, but you better
work it out because youve got to get a suit.
I think it's like colorful, formal. Yeah, and obviously being
twenty five weeks pregnant, you don't fit shit, you don't.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You don't, So I.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Make like you're you're huge, like you're not even your
stomach it's nothing else.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Or stomach, what else is there?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
It's there to be all well, because sometimes when people
get pregnant, they get big everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You're not. It's not twenty five weeks that's you're more
than halfway.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I had a dress that I ordered two weeks
ago and I was like, this will be it. It's perfect.
So I tried it on two weeks ago and I
was like, yeah, I like this. This is fine for
once I've got my shit together. And then again was
on FaceTime with Mum and she goes, oh, show me
the dress you're wearing, and I was like, of course,
suit And I put the dress. This is the brown
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one to paint a picture. It's a nice brown meshki number.
It's off the shoulder, long sleeve, the material is very
flattering to obviously nurture a growing stomach. I put it
on and I've gained that much in stomach size that
the material has now become see through. So I put
the dress on, and of course my dad's always there
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in the background.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
What's he's saying, Well, you could.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
See my nipples through the dress because the material obviously
boobs grow as well.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Because I'm produced, I'm sure I've got milk in there.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now, I want to taste the milk.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, we'll do that. We'll do an episode on that.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I'm making a bloody oat milk. Person, I've never tried.
I can't aim, and nothing's there yet, I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I think it's colostrum at the moment.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Actually, if you've been pregnant or your mom you have
like you're going through it, missage me when you started.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
First noticing your breast milk.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Anyways, anyways, so I put the dress on and it's
stretched that far that you can clearly see my belly button,
the skin on my stomach, and my nipples.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And my dad's in the background. Jesus cuts is that
launcher rat? Like Dad need to be wearing these.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
To a black side even this Sunday hours, for Jesus,
Marcella is going to get a few waters. My mom's
like it looks fine, and I said, mom, dad can
see my fucking nipples.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
How is this vibe.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But she was trying to, you know, taught me off
a ledge, So that went out out the window.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm done now with that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I ordered a replacement and that was like, black is
safe black, the color.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Black, riss I see now, I told you it's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, I look like I'm going to a funeral.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I look like the micheline man has just been invited
to his best friend's funeral.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And they go, we're black. That's the truth. No, it is,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You could roll me down the stairs and I'd bounce off.
I just bounce.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So I'm back to the drawing board.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I've got nothing, so I'm not going I know, Ris
v Peede, but it's just.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We're going to go. We're want to go today and
go look for something to wear.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
No, and then you go, I went to the higher
shops on the weekend and they just have sze six
and eights on the rack.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh that's nice. If I was ten years fucking old.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Surely someone has a maternity arrangement. No one does.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So I think I'm actually going to start a business
formal where for the pregnant woman because there's a gap
in the market. I've been dead serious because our one
of my good friend's s guy Kirk Caple's partner, she's
six weeks ahead of you, ahead of me and her pregnancy,
so we went together on the weekend. She found shit
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all as well, and to be honest, we were in
David Jones dressing room and it was like a circus
sack for the both of us. Well, just every time
we tried on a dress, we just laughed to just it's.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Worse for you girls does because even when you're not pregnant,
we don't find shit. We go out looking for clothes.
I'm there walking around, I don't find I'm sitting there,
You're crying. There's nothing. I can't fit a comfort. Now
you're pregnant, that's ten times worse.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I know everything. I can't fit this comfit that. You know, well,
you can't fit anything anyway. Before we went, you couldn't
even find clothes. Now you use your pregnancy for everything.
Blame this, Blame that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
This is one of those moments where it's like I
wish I shut up back then, You know, yeah, because
I actually looked okay.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And now I look really bad.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You don't look bad, I do, but it's fine because
it's for a purpose. I'm going to baby girls. But yeah,
so that's my life. So stay tuned for Sunday. See
what I rock up in.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I reckon. I'll just do a garbage bag.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's my only option at the moments.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Get some scissors, cut.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The bottom off, put it up. Bob's your bloody uncle.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Put a black bag and a white bag and just
fresh them together.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Beautiful, gorge gorgeous. It's bloody. Where'd you get that from?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It's kotor better yeah, because it'll be water.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So yeah, live bluff love.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah. Well you said you went dress shopping on the weekend, yep,
And speaking about dresses anniversaries coming.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Up next month, it is, where are you taking me?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I don't know, maybe somewhere nice.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You can we go away on a baby moon.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I know you can't fly anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
No, but we can drive lots of great road trips
in New Zealand North Yeah yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah. Anyway, what's how are you feeling about it?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Our anniversary?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Well we've been together. What is this? How nine year
anniversary but only married for two ten?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
No, it's not it's nine years next year ten? Yeah,
and then only married for two.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, and whose fault was that?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Whose fault was that?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yours? You didn't pass the you are your apprenticeship. It's
a four year apprenticeship.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yearsed to say I was ten year apprenticeship. So I
went through your rules. I still won't even be married
with you?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No, yeah, we did four years and so it wasn't it.
When did I ask you twenty twenty twenty twenty? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh so we've been married four years? Oh no, because
we added to you engagement thanks to COVID. Yes, and
my brother's waiting. Really yeah, so we the whole proposal story,
beautiful day you had planned. But again I thought what
was happening was my graduation because I just graduated from
(11:02):
my degree, yeah, which I'm not using. So anyone's questioning
whether to go to UNI or not, don't because you
want to use it. And now you've got a huge hextep.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Do you think most people are like that?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They don't use their degree, like.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They go and study for so long. Yeah, and they
don't even use that degree. Do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I don't know? I don't know. I hated UNI. UNI
was the worst days of my life.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I feel like a lot of people love UNI, and
like become doctors and lawyers, you obviously need to be credited.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I feel like if you go into UNI, like you're
going to be a doctor, right, Yeah, are you going
to do something like that? Yeah? I know, a teacher
if you want to be a teacher. You know, bachelor
like you were born to do that job. You're born
to do that job.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I never understood Bachelor of Arts because that's what I've
got and not once do we get to paint or anything,
see what I mean. So I don't know that art
came in more specific then, well, mine was a Bachelor
of Arts in communication. It's one I've been able to
talk since I was two.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And media communications.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, I'm going to tell my.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Just give someone a book and teach them how to read.
That's communication.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, I agree. Anyway, we're getting off to me. So, so, yeah,
when it was.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Time for you to propose to me, I didn't know
obviously anything was happening. But we had been together for
what six years at the time would have been, and
I was ready. I was so ready to take that
next step in the relationship.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I was bored. So I was like this is either
happening or I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So I wouldn't have had anyone better anyway if you left.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Vice versa.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
True.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And then so it was my big graduation dinner that week,
so I was stressing once again for address.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Wasn't pregnant and so I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Know what the issue was.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Again, we lived in Sydney, so a lot of places
off the next day delivery.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's far. You know Sydney. When you go look for someone,
you have to go drive.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It is.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
If you want to hit Paramatta, that's a day trip.
Liverpool Westfield's day trip, Marianda Westfields around the corner from me.
But they have nothing at the time. It's very great. Yeah,
So I had nothing, and I was stressing all week
for address. I think I've ordered two from pepper May.
They came the next day. Great options, So.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That was saved.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And then it was at that point of our relationship
where every time me and Mum would go for a walk,
I just complained to her, say, all my friends are
getting engaged, warts Marcello waiting for I'm so sick of waiting.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He's just got no ambition to marry.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Me, Like just going on and on to the point
where I'd like bring myself to tears because I'm like,
he's happy with this and I'm not.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Yeah, either way, you weren't going to leave even if
I didn't ask you, where are you going to go?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Well where Sydney's a big place, was full of assholes.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No, you know what I was going to do. Two
options for me.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Quit the relationship and go to Dallas and audition for
the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Or wow, thanks for believing in me,
You'll never be an NFL player, and quit and become
an Emirates flight attendant and travel the world and meet
a rich chef.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So that were my two options. So I was being
just fine. I love had stories.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
So yeah, and I remember on this walk we were
my and mom went on I was venting to complaining, wining,
and she was like.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Just just leave him then, just leave him. If you're
not happy, just leave him.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I was like, I can't just leave him, Mom,
I love him, and she just but if you want
to be engaged and he's not doing that, just go.
Obviously I didn't know at the time she knew you
were going to pop the question on my graduation that week,
right and this was the week of the graduation.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The girls carry on, you know what to me?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Off Leon, your best friend had just become serious with
his now wife, Jess. Beautiful people, beautiful girl. Love them
both dearly. Shout out to Jess and Leon. And I
was you were on the phone to him that week
and he was on speaker and he said to you,
I think this is the one I'm going to pop
the question to. And I said to him, I said
to you, I swear to God, muscle, if they get
(15:21):
engaged before us, you are so done.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You are so done.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
They've been together for six months, we've been together six years.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
What's it? You know? You know the thing with me? Yeah,
what's the big thing about marriage?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Told me you're the religious one. You told me.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You told me because you because you wanted to kill
me just to get married. Nothing changes, Nothing changes.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You get married. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And now we moved in together. We were you're already
starting my Mom's with me and was swell slumber party club.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Doesn't matter, you still would end up moving in. Nothing changes.
Just the last name.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I want to wake up next to you. I want
to go to sleep next year happened. I wanted to
cook for you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
For two weeks after that, I was sick of it,
you know, like little things like that.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I wanted to spend time with you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
People that asked you are has married life? Nothing changes people.
It's the same my dad, it's the same. It's the same, right,
nothing changes. It's the same person you love them still,
it's the same.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So people, how are we married?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Then?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Because of you? You?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
You kept busting my balls. You kept busting my balls.
Reach up on the question when, Oh Jesus, that's why.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Says the guy who had ninety five percent of the
guestly said, our wedding, it was the musselone Montoya again.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Our wedding again. That's because people like me more than you,
and people want to be there for me.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
You're an assholder people, all right, Like you said, you
walk around with a face facts like a slapped ass
with me.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Your family and friends are very taking of me.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah they are. Yeah, But you don't have a foundation
like I do a friends and that because you.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Just have hanger on as.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's the difference. And I've said this many times before.
I've got right all dies, You've got people.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I've got rid of dies. But then I've got a
few hanger owners. I agree, okay anyhow, but the hanger
owners are gone.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
AnyWho, and I hanging on anymore blocked them all. Okay,
so we So it was getting to that week and
then my mom for some reason because when she said
to me, if you if you don't, if you're not
happy just leaving, I was like, that's really weird for
her to say, because.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
She's your biggest fan. She would never want me to
leave you. She loves you. And I said to her, Oh,
what do you know something? And she was like no.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And I was like, like, is something going down this week?
And she was like no, you're you're getting graduated. And
I was like okay, and she goes, but let me
just say yeah, and this is her theory of how
to get out.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Of that hole. She gos.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But let me just say, you'll be very pleased with
Marcello's graduation present. And I said, oh my god, what
did he get me? She's like, I can't tell you.
And I was like, tell me now, you're my best friend.
Told me now, and she.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Has how many best friends you have?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
My mom?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Shut up? Shut up, well coins you none because you
just said no one likes me? And she said, well,
let me just say it bucks and has two ears.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And I said, oh, he's.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Getting me a French bulldog, and shehose, oh, just please
act surprised when you get the dog. And I was like,
holy shit, so out when they proposed, I did not
give a shit about the proposal. The French bulldog has
been my dream for my whole entire life.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Don't listen, Louis, Louis, Louis, you hear that mom never
wanted you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I chose you. I did. She wanted a French bulldog.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Don't Oh, I love your baby. And then so the
whole week I was excited, I'm going to get a
dog this Sunday. I'm going to get a dog this Sunday.
And then so so you before my graduation. You know,
you booked a hotel to celebrate my graduation, which I thought,
and then you took me up to the room and
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you had blindfolded me right, and I was like, this
is either going to be some fifty fifty grades of.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Who's fifty grades fifty clad or what aness?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I thought, this is gonna be fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Grades, Who's going to grade you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Fifty shades of grave moment? Or this is I'm getting
my big dog surprise. So we walked into the Four
Seasons Hotels blindfolded open.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
There was music playing.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You took the blindfold off me and you were on
your knee with the ring, and it said will you
marry me? On the windows in beautiful balloons? And I said,
oh my god, yes, bah b blah, teared up all
that jazz. Our best friends Taylor and ran off. We're
in the room less, get a shit out of me.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
They'll feeling.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
And then we're taking photos and then the moment's passing
and I said, oh, where's the dog?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, you go, what fucking dog?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
I said, Mom said you were getting me a frenchie
And you were like, frenchie, I just did so much
money on the ring. What do you think I made
of cash? And I was like, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So I rag Mama said, Mom, you bet I was
getting a frenchie?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Did?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I just thought you were getting so suspicious that I
had to turn you off the stand. I said, I
did not ever think I was getting proposed.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I'm not five years away. So yeah, beautiful moment.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, when I when you did drop the knee and
then you know all the all the theatrics calm down,
and I said, well, where's where's the dog?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
What were you?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
What the fuck is she talking about?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah? I was like, what do you mean dog?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I'm just this ring took two months to make, spend
all this work mass off, and you want a.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Dog, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Though?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It would have been so cute if like there was
a frenchie there and attached to its collar.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Was like the ring box.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You got your dog. Now you got your dog. Look
at him and it's not even a frenchie.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
No, it's a sausage.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Louis Mom never wanted you.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I did want him, but thankfully we didn't get a
friendship because I don't think they can fly anymore on planes,
so we wouldn't have even been able to get him
to New Zealand. Yeah, that's why we went for a
long snouted option. How was it so like my understanding,
you asked my parents for their permission?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
How was that it was? It wasn't It wasn't awkward,
it wasn't intimidating. It was I was nervous. Yeah, it
was a big week for us because I was off contract.
I didn't have anywhere to go and then I met
with the Warriors on the Friday zoom call. I think
your your Your graduation was the following week. Yeah, and
(22:08):
we met on the Friday on zoom and then they said, yeah,
we're going to sign you. So I was excited about that. Yeah,
so I didn't tell them yet. I told them then
as well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You told my parents will you were moving to New
Zealand when you asked them to propose to me.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, that would have loved that.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
How did that go to you?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Was?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was funny because this actually happened as well. So
when I was off contract at the Bulldogs, I had
nothing on the table for anyone, and then the Sharks
came in right and then the Sharks at the time,
John Morris was a coach. He's a legend, really good
follow Anyway, he got in contact with my agent Sam
and he said, oh yeah, I want to meet mass.
(22:47):
I said, oh sweet. We met, I did a full medical.
I said, I want to get to the Sharks. Sweep
one you deal, you do? And I was so grateful
And that was your parents' dream. So I came back
to your parents after I met with John, and then
I said, look, when well, it looks like I want
to sign on the Sharks.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then obviously new management came in for the Sharks
and so all the people that were dealing with my
negotiations of my contract had left and then that was
off the table. So yeah, your mum was upset about that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
She heart broke yes.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
But then obviously new horizons with the Warriors, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Which was obviously meant to bea and.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Then that so they were thought, oh, yeah, it's come
in and in the space of a week, literally in
the space that what. That's how it works in rugby league.
And the Warriors came in on that. So that was
earlier in the week and the Friday, the Warriors came
in and said okay, yep, done a two you deal.
And then I was over the moon picked the ring
up and then I told your parents and she goes,
(23:48):
I asked, I asked. I said, I just want to
ask you, you know, I want to ask you guys a question.
And for them it was weird. She was like, I said,
I was going for lunch. She's like, no, we'll just
have a coffee at home. I'll make it.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I love a coffee at home.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
They've got the best cafes around the corner from them,
but no love the cope at home.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah. And then I went home and I said okay,
and then I said I need to ask you guys
a question. And then your dad that's what your dad
was like, He's like, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And then I said, oh, look, I want to ask
you guys for your hand. I want to ask Dave
if if she'll marry me. And then straight away Dad
awesome masked, like you know, he's a legend, he's so
easy going. And then your mum water works. I'm sick
of her waterworks every time, and away crying. She goes
because I told him before and that that I was
(24:34):
want to sign with the Worrior, taking my daughter away
from me? Now this okay? Soon shut off.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Dad would have been like, this is awesome. I get
to go ski cleans down every year.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's how it went down. And then she said to me,
have you got the ring? Let's get the ring. Yeah,
so I don't want anyone's help. I've already got the ring.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You had already gotten it, already got it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
She would have hated that getting made. She would have
hated that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Getting made. And then she was surprised. She was like, oh, well,
what do you mean you're getting it made? I said,
I know what she wants. I went to Affinity Diamonds,
shout out to Sam and Olympia. They looked after us,
very good friends of ours. And I said, and I
got the ring and she goes, what do you mean
you didn't knocks any side, Like, oh, I know the sizes,
(25:20):
I know everything. Yeah, she goes, what do you mean?
And then the day before, the day before, I proposed
I was supposed to pick up the ring on the Thursday, right, yeah,
And then I went to I went to Infinity and
then I asked for a they call it seamless halo. Yeah,
the seamless halo. And they didn't and they didn't make it.
(25:40):
They forgot to make that right. So Sam, Sam's going
off at his engineer mate, what are you done? So
that was on the Thursday, and I'm thinking, brave, Sam,
I need this ring tomorrow. I'm going to drop the
knee and the ring's not done. So Sam's blowing them up.
He said, the iron made their work overnight. I went
to Sam's house on Friday to pick it up. God bless,
(26:00):
and then I showed you mom the ring, She goes,
oh my god, beautiful, beautiful. That's how it all went down.
I didn't take it on with me. I don't want
anyone's opinions. Don't tell me how to pick your ring
or make your ring. I don't tell you how to
wipe your ass.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So I went and got it both very similar, similar events,
wiping your ass and picking a ring.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, but same thing.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Everyone else has to have an opinion. No, get married, kids,
it's going to be hard.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I can see, like now that I'm pregnant with two girls,
I would be very upset if their fiances didn't take
me spring shopping.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's fun, it's so fun.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Like me and my mom went with Luke, my brother,
to look for his beautiful wife, Chloe her Ring, and
can I just say, me and mama, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So much fun. And Lucas like trying to block us there.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Luke's hopeless, But.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, I watched so correctly. Yeah, you're right. Luke needs guidance.
He's not hopeless. He needs guidance.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You you don't.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You don't like guidance.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't like the extra noise behind me.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, well that's what it. Luke loves a team around.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Tell me what's the pick? Don't tell me, just shut up.
I'm getting what I want to get and if she
doesn't like it, she can take it back herself.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wow, No, I don't. Actually, it's now a good time
to point that out. Kidding.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It's my favorite possession other than Louis.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So, yeah, that's how it went.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I take my hat off to.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
The people that have to ask the parents for their like,
their permission before they propose.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, we imagine, right, imagine I went the ring was
getting made. I don't even ask him yet and then
say no, they won't look at me. Look, I'm confident
I walked in there. I knew straight away. You think
she's gonna say I know about it?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, they were waiting for me to get out.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
These they were waiting for the day.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I don't think they wanted well, Dad didn't care, but
I don't think Mum wanted us as New Zealand. But mate,
we were clashing hands, clashing heads. When you live with
your parents, it's like you they're just your servants.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's rude. I don't care. Well, mine were very different.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My dad still is when I.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Go visits very different operations, your household to my household.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
How so well you say that they're like your servants,
It's just different.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Be careful what you say, because your brother Albert has
two maids at his.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Service, your mom and your aunt is different. He's missing
a leg, you're not.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
He has cruches.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
He's Albert, my brother. I love your He's got one leg, yarshold.
So they walk around here throwing daggers. Okay, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I remember when I was very different. I lived with
you guys, Me and Albert.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Maybe we hadn't made because he was on the couch,
and every time he wanted something to tell your sons, bloody.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Nice, Actually I could do. Then you're right to you.
Your mom would just make me one too, and I said,
fuck mate, I'll cook.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
And like me and Albi have the exact same taste
in shows, in movies. And I think this was at
the stage where you went to the World Cup for
Fiji years and years ago. And I would just hang
out with Albie downstairs in because Albi had like his
private private room, and we just sit on the couch
and binge watch horror movies and the whole time we'd
(29:29):
just be like bitching about the main character, this dumb bitch.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
He's gonna die and run.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just go, ma, Mark, we have a coffee. She'd come
like that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah, I miss I miss that, Like I really miss
just being able to like watch a movie with our
the have your mom wait on us.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And then I'd be like, you're good, letty.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Do you want me to get you anything?
Speaker 6 (29:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No, you sit there, Tappy.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Now I think times would be different. Actually, no, I'm pregnant.
I'd milk that motherfucker like.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Shout out to.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Montoya fans misuse really are.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
But so I'm in the brink of maternity leave. Well
actually it's very early days. I don't know, Adam want
just bring me.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
On the edge. So that was the wrong term.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
So I'm day three of maternity finish. Yeah, oh god,
don't take me there.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
But you say words you don't know the meaning, know
the meaning before you tell me, and I will think
that's the word, and then I'll use it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
It's the words because I literally I'm not the smile one.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I'm notorious for using the wrong words. So I really
hope you go and spread my language.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
People. Got Jesus must is a bit must.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So I'm in the midst.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Midst that's the word I meant to say, in the middle,
just say I'm at the start.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I'm at the start on maternity leave, go on mits,
bring the.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Star, God getting flustered. God, that degree is really coming in.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Andy, maternity and I have just wrapped up eleven seasons
of your favorite show in the world, vander Pump Rules.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I can't stand it. Before you go on every show
you're watches, I feel like I walked down those stairs.
Someone's crying. Cowboys, she's crying. Someone cheated on, someone with
their partners crying. Walk back upstairs, She's crying. She's crying.
Everyone cries.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Real houselive.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Her husband, it's through. Everyone cries. That's why I don't
like your shows.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But that's why they're good, because it's raw emotion. Just
how this podcast is so real. Those are real shows.
It's reality TV. So just wrapped up eleven seasons, right,
And I had previously watched the show here and there,
But obviously when you work full time, it's hard to
watch eleven seasons worth, so you won't be aware. But
(32:27):
last year, the biggest scandal in TV history went down
on Vanda pump Rules. What happened Ariana and Tom Sanderval.
They were together for ten years, just like us, bought
a house together, not engaged, but they were de facto.
It's like there were partners, right, had dogs and cats together.
He cheated on her with her best friend Reel.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, with the nil polish who was polish?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Everyone's everyone is?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Everyone is?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
That? Is that fashion?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I think so I should do it.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You do it, I'll do it. I've got heap snaw
bash me.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, what's that on your name? Come over here, come
over here, come on, let me talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
She would hate this show as well. She would hate
this Get it from Yeah, she hates it. She likes
Young Sheldon, doesn't she she loves Young Sheldon cold Case
love it?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
She does.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
And then so I knew about the cheating scandal because
it was everywhere at the time.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Her best friend kill that's what they do, I share
each other.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Disgusting and at the time everyone was talking about it
was all over social media. But I just couldn't sit
down and watch it because then I wasn't up to
that season yet, so I'd have to go back rewatch
all the three seasons leading up to that, and I.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Just didn't have any seasons.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Well they cheat eleven and the cheating scannl happened in
season ten. I think I was only have to season seven,
so I was like, I can't fit four seasons to
catch up this cheating scannel. So I ended up just
bloody watching it all on TikTok. But now I finally
sat down this week to see the unraveling. Oh my god,
Oh my god. But it was annoying because the spiciness
(34:28):
had been taken away because I had kind of seen
it on social media. I listened to podcasts about it too.
So yeah, it was a bit annoying. But that's that's
one of those things where that's why.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
That's that's another That's another positive for me for not
having social media because I get to watch everything live
as it happens, and if I haven't watched it, I
don't see anything. Yeah, and if someone told me shut up.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
This literally just happened to my dad over the weekend, right,
So dad is a die hard Formula one fan.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
He got me hooked on it.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, yeah, and like I love it, don't get me wrong,
I love Bloody Lewis Hammer. Yeah, so yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
They do driving those cars at that speed around corners,
and as an athlete, you gotta appreciate that. Yeah, bro,
the g's the G force that goes through their neck.
Turning a corner. Why their neck, that's where everything is like, they're.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Like that they steal the car with their neck, with
their heads the.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Way when you turn the car head go.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I don't know, I've never been I thought there was
like an attachment that's.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
This anymore?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Are you taking the piece so that the way you
worded that G forces do their neck, I was like,
obviously in the car.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
When they're turning. Imagine turning the corner. It's two hundred
clicks to two hundred klometers an hour.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
When I drive on the motorway, I don't feel anything
on my neck.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
We're only doing eighty kilometers. You might be.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I'm gonna be at Sylvia Park by twelve, bitch, I'm
fucking flooring it. I've got to dress dressed to fine
before Sunday.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, so Drive to Survive, you know that show on Netflix?
Drive to Survive?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I never really I used to make fun of my
dad's obsession for Formula one because I was like, this
is so lame. It's supporing forty labs that nothing happens.
And then I watched that show. I was like, holy crap,
holy crab.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, I have a theory.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Actually, if you were into One Direction as a girl
in high school or younger, you now find Formula one
drivers attractive, similar vibes.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Okay, okay, they're one boys there, they're classy.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
When was one direction not classy? Do you even know
one who One direction is? Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Love? Little babies there now there, Now they're fathers. I
don't care. Now, okay, back then you compare him back
then and now they can't even compare.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Okay, okay, well then goes to my theory.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
So yeah, appreciate one now. So on the weekend, it
was a huge race in Monaco.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
You not even following. I watched the race like vander
pumps all of them, Monica tell the story.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Then I get sorry, it's.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Not like Monica and Singapore own country, Monocole very similarly
in different countries.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Where is Monaco?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
It's own country? Okay, it's its own country.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay, so where was you?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Okay, so big race Ferrari what's his name? Charles laclerk
Hey won sausage dog that goes on the track with him.
It's amazing, and he took it out and I was
you for Ferrari in their own home race.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Ferrari's Italian. You know what, if you want to just
end thing, see, we can wrap up because I'm done.
My degree wasn't in geography, bitch.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Okay, we did work in airlines. Checking someone in you
want to know where they're going.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
No. I remember when I was at the checking kuta
and someone goes doing international trances and this guy had
an accent and he goes, oh yeah, he said no,
but the way he said it.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Was like, oh, I'm going to Berlina. And I was like, Berlina,
that must be international. It's like, oh, can I see
your passport? And he's like, I don't have my pass
WORT was, well, you're not getting on the fly. Who
doesn't come to the passport And he's like, but why
would I need my passwort. I was like, because you're
going to Germany.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
And he was like, no, I'm going to Byron Bay
and I was like, oh, Ballina.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Bina.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah was literally I put two and two together from
Paris to Berlin.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
But it's very different.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Okay, I was like, twenty coming some slack, so yeah,
huge race for Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
My dad is a Ferrari fan, being Italian as an
appreciation for Italian cars, loves an alpha, loves loves the Ferrari.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Can't afford all three.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
So first person to text him when the results came
out the next day, my brother and me let me
start huge race Dad, what a great finish?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Goes, I haven't watched it yet. Don't tell me please?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Cool? You then text him what did you say?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I said, Andy, you watch the race? And then he replied, no,
I want to watch it now. So I didn't reply,
oh okay, so you left it? Left it kill.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
And then my daily FaceTime with Mum and dad, I said, first,
see where's dad?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yep, there is the call? I go, how good was
the race?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Huge?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Oh my god, you must be stoked. I don't want
to hear it. I haven't watched it yet.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
And I said to Mom, what do you mean he
hasn't watched it yet. It's Tuesday. The race was on Sunday,
and she goes, you know what he's like? I was like,
but how can he dodge that? So apparently every time
it came up on the news, he'd walk away. On Google,
he'd dodge the tab so I wouldn't see anything. Obviously,
he doesn't have social media.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
That's what I find out.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yeah, and so when I'm on FaceTime with my mom,
I'm going, oh my god, I can't believe they won.
Like you should have seen all the hohoha with all
the Italian fans on the grid after the race.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I told you that, yeah, And I related it to
my mom.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I watched it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I watched clips on TikTok. I never said I was.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I didn't even know it was in fucking Monza. And
he's in the background and he's screaming, don't tell me, Sue.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I don't want to hear it. I need to watch,
I said, Dad, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
How long are you going to stretch this one racing out?
The next one will be here and you still haven't
finished it. Because my daddy likes to sit there. He
likes to watch the journalists.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
On the grid beforehand, then the race, the post shows everything.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
It's like it would be like eight hours of television, right,
and he sits there and just watches them pauses. It
goes down to his computer downloads a few more songs,
comes back, watches another twenty minutes, goes downstairs, listens to
mum on a FaceTime with a friend, comes back upstairs,
rewatches it like it's a whole process and it literally
can drag on for weeks.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, but that's how that's how he wants to process it.
That in processes the way it wants to.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I guess you can do that when you're retired or
on maternity. Join him, bless him, fotsa Ferrari.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Is that correct? Was that what they were saying on
the grid.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, it's funny when they sing the anthem to the
Italian anthems, Italian anthem everyone, they're just so passionate the
Italian Yeah, jumping up and down with the flags. Yeah.
The whole grid was full of Italians like, yeah Ferrari supporters. Yeah,
so it's cool to see that.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, And that's where that's where I get it from
my passionate side.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Why I move when I talk all my hands and.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
You always say stop stop touching your hair when you talk,
So moving your hands that's just.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
My blood. So yeah, I have a bit more appreciation
of my culture.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Please, I love the culture.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
You're plastic anyway, Okay, okay, you're plastic Fiji, because you
know why, I've never seen you once cook one of
your cuisines.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I'm having a shocker today for.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Someone that is getting now ten hours of sleep.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
There is no excuse. I need to start reading books anyway.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
So you know how when you're away, I always complain
I can never get a good sleep because you're not
there next to me.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I hate singing by myself.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Hate it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
So what do I dote mister Louisa Montosa doggy into
the bed with me? Louis Luis, that's Louyasa Montosa, and
so he comes in the with me, and I know
that that is your pet hate You hate dogs in
the bed. That was one thing when I said to you,
please please muscle like we please get a dog, You go, yep,
(43:09):
as long as he's great trained and doesn't come in
our bedroom. So we took weeks and weeks to create training,
lots of sleepless nights because he was crying and I
felt really bad. But he's great training now except for
the days where you're not here, he's straight in the
bed with me, which is I just feel more company,
right and he I don't find any issues of sleeping
(43:31):
with him, Like he gets really hot and he moves
a lot and makes weird noises and stuff. But other
than that, it's the best company ever. Right, So he
slept in the bed over the weekend and we both
fell asleep perfectly. And it was around like the three
am mark where he started making noises and I looked
(43:55):
at my phone and I said, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
No, not three am, because that is the go hour.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
So I believe in the spiritual world, and I've been
told by a lot of people that three am is
the spiritual hour where spirits come and visit you and stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
So I was like, oh, here we go. He's seen
a ghost when they come. Yeah, from three am.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
Well, I think three thirty is quite a busy, busy
time period for spiritual activity.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
There must be like a bus that comes and picks
them all up. Yeah, I reckon I will when I'm
past I'd probably do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Anywo, So he was he was starting to make noises.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
I'm like, oh my god, no, please, please, please don't
draw something to my attention because I'll be scared.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
I'm'll be able to fall back to sleep. And then
those sounds turned from moaning into.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Yeah, and I was like, oh my god, no, no,
all I it's slowly moments. Ah on our bed, three
years on the beds on the bed, pussy on your leg. Yuck,
(45:15):
Oh my god, actually, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
Oh yah, paper you get me the paper, lass get away?
Oh gonna, that's oh yuck.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Louis Brown smell it is it? Smell luky luky, I
mean Louie. Oh yeah, he's spew. You're done.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You're done, mate, You're done.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It was a good session today.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
I think so too so for me, it's modern Manda