August 24, 2025 • 47 mins
Despite a crazy skiing injury, the (in)famous big sister Kate has finally made her way onto the show, and Matty J is shaking in his crocs!
Kate is mum to 3 kids and often shares the aunty load with little bro Matty J - both live down the street from one another.
Ash does a fantastic job of digging up the dirt on Matty J and reveals something that not even the Daily Mail could uncover!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Matt it is my lucky day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, I think we should probably cancel this episode. I
don't know they we have problems with the audio. It
was really crackly.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And also, I will say the video footage lovely. Everyone
looked very good, including your sister.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, I spoke to the editor and all video footage
has been deleted, which is weird.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I don't have deleted straight to me.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Someone's broken into the hard drives, deleted at all. I
don't know who it is, but we'll find them, we
will stop them. It's it's real shame.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
If I'm honest, you look panicked. Look I would be
panicked too, because we're about to have a very special
guest on the pod for this episode. I don't know
why I agreed to this, which happens to be Matthew's sister,
one and only sister. And some of the dirt is amazing.
It was dirty, It was dirty.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was filthy. There is a photo that we talk
about in this episode, right, a photo which I think
needs to be buried. Somehow, It's crept its way out
of a box. It's found its way into the hands
of my sister. We talk about it on this episode.
She then left the photo here before I had a
chance to delete, like destroy that photo. We had another
(01:12):
Trady come over in the morning and Marley runs up
to that trade with the photo in hand and he goes, look,
it's my daddy. He was like, I don't know if
I should be looking at this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's very very good. Tell us a bit about your sister, man, Well,
she is forty. I don't know. She looks great. Forty.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hey you relaxed, Okay, you sit down salivating over there.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I am not. I know she looks great. She does.
She looks I don't want to say it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
She's got three kids. George I think he's nine, could
be ten, not quite sure. She's got Millie grade one.
And Charlotte goes to the dek Chas mcgaz shall be married,
happily married.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Happily married to Bill, Bill big bad.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Build a build up there, you have it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's so nervous, so let's just get into it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Welcome back to two doting dads and one doting mum.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm Maddie, Jay, I'm Ash and I'm Kate.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Very good name right, it's weird looking at you being nervous.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I know, I'm so nervous picture you as a nervous
person hall this stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Why do you say yes?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Because you begged me?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I did not. How did you do it?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I also have a little bit of spare time at
the moment, so.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I was like, yeah, sure, have to finish my trail.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
This is a podcast all about parenting. It is the good,
it is.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The bad and the relatable. And if you come for advice,
well not today. Well maybe, Kate, it's very very good.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
We don't give advice.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We're allowed to, but you're allowed to you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Go hard legally. Also, it was not Yeah, it's a
good question because you are related to me chat it's
illegal about that.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Look, get some advice and then we'll edit it all out.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, just say this is not advice. At the start
of it, I thought it covers. I couldn't help.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But notice when you were greeting my sister, you gave
her a big hug.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I did. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was a strong hug, and I was worried, what.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Did you think of the hug?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I love? Whoa, it's been a while. Okay, you're injured,
loved a hug, but it's a little bit tender.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You're injured. Tell me what why why? I wasn't expecting
you to be injured.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yes, I'm not usually injured, but I am, yeah, very
injured at the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So just on the record, I told everyone the story,
by the way, not me, people, I've been holding onto
the story because Kate can tell you and the listeners
at school. I've told you, like when I've got nothing
to talk about and I'm like, how's the weather, And
I'm like, what's this done? This?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
People like just an injury, small talk injuries.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
There is a weather and injuries.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Especially at like over thirty years of old age, you
can start talking about your injuries.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You had a beautiful weekend at the snow, Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So I just wanted to start with saying, like, on
the record, skiing is not my ideal holiday. Didn't want
to go how you wanted to go. Kids have skied
with him, actually solo for the past couple of years,
but Charlotte's been a bit little, our five year old.
So he was like, let's all go on skiing holiday Fiji.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's a whole Oh yeah, oh Heyking, We'll yeah not
skiing okay.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So we got there on the Monday afternoon. We actually
had pretty good, great conditions as well, amazing ski season, like, yes,
record the best.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I trust you and believe you because I don't know
anything about it. Really good.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
So the whole reason we're actually why we chose the
week that we went as well, was because I had
a really good school mum who was having her fortieth birthday.
She her big skiing family, so she wanted to have
her fortieth birthday down at the snow beautiful. Yeah, there
was a few families going down. She booked a nice
restaurant which is up on the mountains, so you've got
(05:25):
to get a chair lift and ski too. It's like
halfway down the mountain, so you've got it. If if
you have to be able to ski or snowboard, if
you want to come, you can't go.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You can't go.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
This whole snow feel throughout the poor people this beautiful
restaurant booked.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I haven't skied in over ten years. I was just
getting my footing back. I was very much like green runs,
just green runs, slow and steady, very.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Slow, instid. I want to stop these every time. What's
a green run like? An easy?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Easy?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Just give me the colors green, green, good, blue, blue.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Black, is that most diamond is that where that black
diamond is, Yeah, black, and the black diamond is like the.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Most brown brown brown in the middle.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, blue.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Green blue. Because by the second day my husband is
quite a good skier. He I was like, so another
green run and he was like, can we do a
black just be born with me. But Tuesday, unfortunately the
winds were too high. The kids could still ski on
(06:34):
their little it's called Friday flats.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well for people who don't know your kids.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Are nine, seven and five.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I love how it's too windy for the adults at
chacrifices the children. That's what the snow people do. I'm
really not liking this hobby.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
There's like one little chairlip that still operated halfway up
for the kids. Yeah, it's great because we were like
school if you go see r But then we couldn't ski.
And then Wednesday there was a dumped whole heap of snow.
It was freezing cold.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Dump means a lot ash.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And then Thursday it was the most amazing day. It
was by far the best day to ski. It was
blue skies. We dropped the kids to ski school. They
were all even the five year old was really picking
it up now, so they were loving it. On our
first run up the mountain, got a chair lift and
then we skied over, and then we were getting a
tee bar up to quite a high point. Now, tee
(07:37):
bar is if you imagine like an upside down.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Tee You hold on to it, don't you?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
No, you sit on it, so you sit onto the
bottom of the tea bin, but you can't, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It seems ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It pulls you up, so you're kind of still standing,
but it drags you up.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And so we were going up, jumped on a tear
and we were trying to figure out like which because
a couple of the chair lifts still weren't open, which
tailors were open, and where we would go and where
we could get a coffee and where we might go
for lunch, and all of a sudden, there's so many options.
There's so many options.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You ski, people have so many options.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Ys. So we look up and because my husband is
heavier than me and he was on the right, we
were like veering off course. So the tea bar can
still pull you, but we were like, really, going on.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How far does it retract twenty what that's got to
be they've got to they've got to fix.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So as Bill was, Bill, your husband was starting to
veer off course? Yes, did he not correct himself?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
No, well, he I was thinking like because he was
kind of controlling where we're going, what we're doing. I
just thought, oh, he's got this, he'll like lean back
over and we'll kind of go back on course. But
he was really like looking around and not paying any
attentions where we're going. To the last second, I was like, Bill, Marie,
(09:02):
there's a pole, and so we were coming straight and like,
you're not going that fast, You're quite slow.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's like the same from Austin Powers with the roller
is just goings.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Like move.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So you can't make me laugh because even laughing hurts me.
So before we knew it, we'd like, the pole was
so close. So I actually came off the tee bar
not to hit the pole, ditch the bar. I ditched
the t bar, he hit the te he hit the
pole and took the t bar with him. Now, it
(09:42):
all happened very quickly, so I don't even understand. And
every doctor I've explained it to you, they're like, how
did it hit you? And I'm like, I don't know,
But basically he hit the pole. The cable kept going
and like hyper extended, and then it's slingshot back a
round and I was in the way of it, and
the end of the tea bar just absolutely whacked me
(10:07):
in the really soft part of your bag.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I always hit you in like the worst spot, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I did you know what was happening? Because you've you've
ditched the t bar? Did you know I'm safe?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And also I thought that i'd come off like in
the middle of the track, so then everyone else on
the tea bar is going to hit me, and it's Domino's.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've seen the videos online of that happening, so.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And I don't even actually remember it. But I ended
up on the other side of the track. But I
am in absolute agony on my stomach like this. And
I also been quite badly winded. So I was on
the ground going and Bill skied over.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He was fine right over me.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
He came over and he didn't realize how badly it
had hit me. See you get hit no, So he
was kind.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Of like, definitely, I didn't see anything. I didn't knock
you out. I didn't knock you out.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No goodness, So I just thought I'd been really badly
corked in that part of my back. So luckily there
were actually two medics on the tee bar a couple
of tea bars behind me, so they came off. They
lunch break the class, and Bill was like, just just
(11:41):
roll like, roll over, bab, You'll be right. And every
time I moved an inch, even just breathing, was this
excruciating pain in my back, and I was like, I
don't think I can roll over.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I can't move, I can't walk this one off.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
They obviously checked all my spine stuff, like I could
feel my legs like it wasn't my fine, it was
that like corked feeling.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And then the medics were like, let's get the toboggan.
Let's get you like, you can't move, You're in a
lot of pain.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Pay for that.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I haven't got a bill yet.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Is that like the snows of an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
So the tobogan they like wrap cocoon you up. There's
a medic on one end like holding it. There's a
medic on the other and it's like a toboggan and
you are like strapped in. Yes, you're claustrophobic. I had
to just like make the self talk in my head. Yeah,
and you are going up a bump. So I was like,
(12:36):
ow ow, you have no control because Bill was like no,
and even I was like, no, I don't need that.
That's a lot of fuss. No, let me just oh
just try to like get up. And I was like, ah,
couldn't get up. No, So they were like no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Don't.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
We're gonna get the tobogganing.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
What a scene on the edge of a mountain.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I know, it was so bad. Yeah, I'm like I'm thinking, like,
I'll be right behind you because I was like, you
can't do anything, keep skinning, like it's the best.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Day attention to us.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He would have been thinking ship.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, it's like that guy in High Rocks he left
his missus. He put us out. He's like, we're over.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So Bill said I will come with you.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So I had to be toboggan down and then got
transported to the medics center at Threadbow. So Doc got
assessed by a doctor and with the level of pain
that he was like, take some panadine for what I'm
kind of worried about. That's where your kidneys. Are you
had a really big blow? I just want to like
(13:41):
check your kidneys. So when you can, I wanted you
to do a wee, which was the most excruciating, like, well,
I reckon Western childbirth the pain because it's obviously kidney
with something. It's it's hit something like just getting off
the medical bed, trying to shuffle to the toilet, bending
(14:04):
over to sit on the toilet. I had to win
a cup and then watching the clock.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Can I hit the slopes.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Blood in my uron like that quickly?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Is that how happens?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It was probably to be like the whole ordeal because
I had to get more medics, Like there was six
medics now with me up at the mountain. So it
was but about an hour after I hit got hit
And so then the doctor and Bill is literally there
being like I'm hungry, but can I I mean can
we She's fine, like let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Men A grade.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
So the doctor was like, yeah, she's she has to
go to where she needs an ambulance. We got to
send her to Koomba Hospital. Holy some internal bleeding.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I get a message in the family, what's that Kate going,
I've got some internal bleeding. I've been hit by the team.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Fine, oh yeah, yeah, good wow. So you went to
the hospital.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
So I went to the hospital, got an ultrasound they
wanted to that would be worse than that, and they're like, look,
it's it's pretty minor. You just got a like really
traumatic blow. So they gave me morphine that you bring
some home, no, and they gave me end don So
(15:25):
I was on endon and morphine.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So it was great salivating right now sounds.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
In the hospital. I was like they wanted to, like
they wanted to wheel me to the ultra salary and
I was like, no, guys, like there, I just sound
all good. The doctor came back because he also was like,
how did it happen? Not a mark on my back,
there's no there's no swelling, there's not anything. It's just
(15:58):
excruciating pain. So then he was the doctor and came up.
He was a bit like what what have you done?
Like is it really that bad? Well, okay, so you're
like just rest for your kidneys. We could do an
X ray if you wanted, And I was like, that's
four o'clock, Like I'm I'm going to get back to
(16:20):
the mountain. I've got a lunch tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're going to finish the run down the hill.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So just like, I'll be fine, thanks very much, just
like checked myself out, got discharged, went back up to
the mountain, and then like later that night, everything had
worn off, so I holy, I couldn't like getting in
and out of the car, getting into bed, trying to
get undressed. I couldn't do anything without excruciating pain. But Bill,
(16:51):
my husband's like because I at that point, I was like,
I don't think I can ski to lunch. He was
actually amazing. There was no pressure to have sex.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
For a while.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
The really like and then he was like, so are
you ready for that?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Story took This is because I'm the one.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Apparently we were like at a like a family funeral,
and that's like trying to crack out. Do not try,
doesn't metal Tom other brother shout out. So the next
morning Bill was like, nah, I'll ski with you, will
(17:44):
go really slow, You're fine. Also putting on ski boots,
like trying to walk with ski boots on when they're unforgiving,
they are like torturous. Got to lunch made us done. Yeah.
Up on the mountain, I did have to go back
to the medical center and asked for a prescription. Yes,
with some pain cuse I paddling fought because it was
(18:05):
it was really bad. Every time I.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Moved, I'd be like, oh, oh, do you have a
couple of wines? Yeah? Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
For girlfriend's forty birthday, I was worried though skiing paneting
for a few ones. I had to ski back down,
so I was a bit worried about that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I heard you were best on ground.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I had to walk through the entire restaurant to go
to the bathroomt one stage and every time I walked,
I was like, oh, my girlfriend was like door everyone yestirds. Thanks.
But I made it to lunch. Then we drove home
to Canberra, three hour drive in the car. That was
pretty horrific. Yeah, also half.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Tanked, so I was like it was a great time.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Open nighted in camber. It came back so Saturday Sunday
I couldn't move the pan couldn't sleep the plane. Monday
morning we thought where to get an next ray? It's
like this is pretty bad. Yeah, got an X ray?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What have you done?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Turns out break my back?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You've broken your back broke? Oh my god, and the
way you hugged her earlier.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'm so sorry, and I cracked a rib.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Really yeah, what you really wanted to go to that lunch? Wow?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
That is wild to any friend who's ditched on a
birthday lunch.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I know, broken bag, I'll get that. There's morphine. He's
going to get me there. Oh my god, to be
a buggader. Wow, well done. I'm so sorry that you
hurt your back and sorry that I didn't even I
was like, come here, broke down. Wow. I was watching
it going, Yeah, it was extreme. So what extent is
(19:50):
the break?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Okay, so you're going to break your back? It is
the one to do. I didn't break anything in my spine,
but off to the side of your spine you have bones,
which are called transverse processes. I've actually snapped my L
one and L two, so both of them. One of
them is like snapped cleanly off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And just floating there right now.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
It's floating.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
What do you do with that? Well, is spawn off
and create another human?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
No, it should like spawn off and like it will
try to reattach itself. But apparently if it doesn't, it
will just affuse to like muscle the human bodies. It's weird. Weird, Yeah,
a lot heaps and muscles attached to it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, so it's I can't I can't bend, I can't twist, and.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
There's nothing you can really do. It's like ribs right, No, totally.
You try not to laugh, sorry, try not to sneeze,
trying to cough, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, don't pick up any kids, don't do any.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Washing from us.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I was like, I've got to go. Oh, for God's sake.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Did I did feel bad? I did feel bad, But
I also was like, you got it so good. She
came for three days days, she cooked and cleaned, and
she like washed all of our ski.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Gear because I've heard that she's she's done.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You so mean to her about that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
God, this is where I get it from. So I'm
going to try and pick it back up.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
She does, you're comfortable.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
She cooked spahey frozen.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
She doesn't relaxed cook, she does she did something else.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I was like, Okay, we'll do anything to get moms.
On a scale of one to ten, where we're at now?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Okay, so we're actually pretty good. Only like when you
touched it, and it's I'm no, like I was constantly uncomfortable.
But I can walk around a bit more. I can
get around, I can get it in another car. Sleeping
still not great.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, it's crazy. Every broken backstory I hear, they are
like find out later, you know what I mean. Like
it's I've met this guy at the waypool who's like,
it's my first surf back after breaking my back. I'm like, oh, okay,
what happened? He goes, I fell down the stairs and
my wife was like, just get in the bed, get
over it. You'll be fine. Two days later found had
broken back.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This is a good lesson for people listening.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Also, if I if I went for the if I
agreed to the X ray in the hospital, like obviously
wouldn't have gone to lunch the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I would have gone, well, I'm glad you're okay.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Speaking of Elie. Yes, actually, did you know this is
when George, your first son was born. I was living
in London, Ash, Do you know I was living in London?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
No, it's news to me lived there for four years.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You did you know at the time what Nana had
done with the photo of you?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What do you Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know this?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So I feel like I'm going to be part of
a sibling stoush.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So I was in London working at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I was in the office. Yes, as you were giving birth.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yes, And I kind of said to people, sorry, this photo.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I said to people. I was like, guys, you know
my sister is giving birth as we speak. This is amazing.
And you know, I was checking my phone and given birth.
They did it, and I was, you know, watching my
phone for the message to say he's arrived. And then
finally in the afternoon there's a message and he's born. Oh, George,
(23:24):
there's a photo of my phone. Was very like, very early,
and she was very excited. Nana took a photo of
Kate holding George.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
No Bill had forwarded that photo because Bill took the photo.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Finish what the photo was the vagina is in full discussion.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yes, So the nurse was so lovely and took some
photos literally as like he had come out.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And I was.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Still attached and like still you yes, oh my god,
And so Bill thought he was. He didn't realize if
you you just had a quick look look at the baby,
it's in the bottom. To my mom being like, it's
a boy, he's born. So then Mom borded it like
the family chat.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I uploaded it.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Like my vagina is in the phone.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I was looking like, oh my god, he's putil Oh
my gosh, my.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Sisters, I'm like, goodness, just pushed out a baby that
it did not.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Look oh my goodness embarrassed. But like also like come on, guys,
like check the phone over. I get everyone's excited. Yeah, yeah,
my goodness. And you would have been like not knowing
if that like that's a normal photo again, is that
your first like did you see.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Did you see it? Did you like?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think someone said.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I wrote I think that you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
How many people set that photo top?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Oh my very good Now you are one of five,
as is Matt, one of five big family. I've only
got one sister. But you seem very close.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah we are.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We're quite good friends. I've met the other siblings not
as close, I would say, so very close.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
How dare you what?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
That's just an observation, just because we both live in
the know.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You're like on the same My brothers are crying right now, sobbing.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Not my problem, honestly, but maybe if I maybe sorry, guys,
but I've noticed you.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
You are.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You do talk a lot. You chat a lot. You're
on the phone to each other, a lot. I've noticed,
it's not a very.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's been watching you for a while. Weird noises in
the backyard.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I knew she had a broken back before we got
the cray I can tell you at the moment. But yeah,
you would just say yeah, you just say you are okay.
Except have you fought with my sister all the time?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, well no, sorry, Well we're very we're re close now.
But like growing up, we it was like it was
on that's very I don't think it was.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't think we have a yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
We've got all the time. And I was the only
I have four brothers, the only girl, so like I
really had to stick up for myself.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't recall that at all.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I also was probably a bit annoying. There was one
time where I was annoying you. I'll be honest, what
we're doing. We were like I was ten and you
and nine or something, and I was just like and
like in your face all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You were a lot bigger than.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Me, as well supposed to because you know who you
were just just a big Yeah, I was older.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I was a scrawny little kid. I was I was
I was a premier.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
But guys we don't fight. You're fighting right now, okay,
I was.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I mean, I'm eighteen months older. But I just kept
going out and I remember you being like, stop it,
please stop it, leave me alone, annoying. And then all
of a sudden, I don't know where, Matt just punched
me right in the nose. That just clocked me once.
(27:18):
My nose was just spitching out blood.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I was like, and so I was like, and I
was like, well, let's just relax. All those means is
like when you accidentally hurt your sibling, You've just gone
and walked her in the face. Oh random, Mom.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I was like, straight in the night, straight in the middle.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I thought, you guys are I'll do it again. I
was like, Jesus, hore you nine, you're okay, then you're fine.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
So my mom comes running down the hallway grabs him.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I imagine that sister just blood pouring out these only daughter,
and I was like, it was like, I was like, mom,
remember I'm a premie baby.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
So you got thrown in your room and moms she
took to me with a wooden spoons. I think she
did as well.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
My sister's older as well. Her defense mechanism was because
I was the annoying one, which go figure. She used
to just sit on me. She was bigger than me,
and my mom was like, yeah, I just taught her
to sit on you because that had shut you right,
and she just wouldn't get off me. And then as
we got older, yeah, we're obviously sibling stuff and you
(28:30):
hurt each other. That's just how it is, right, And
then same thing as we got older, we got much more,
much closer and stuff like that. So thankfully now we
don't punt each other.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
But yeah, now ashes really into being sat on.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's a king of mine. It's a king of mine.
It was a really good sitter. I married her. I
sat through to bregnancy. Yeah, very good. And also what
comes along with siblings is embarrassing and embarrassment. My sister
and I used to have bbarrass each other all the time.
(29:01):
Any embarrassment that you can share with the listeners about
Matt great struck yourself in Big Guy.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I did go through the old shoe box of photos.
Oh yeah, ok yes, brought a good one.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm Matthew am a visual learner.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
There was there is one photo and I thought.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I destroyed it.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Okay, many copies, many copies. I am not having any sisters,
like yearned for a sister most of my childhood. I
desperately wanted a sister, and so it's the only way
to get one is to dress up my pen Yes,
into my sisters.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I'm very excited about.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And because I punched her in the nose, I a
willing participant because I felt bad. Yes, why did you
dress me up?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I don't really know. I feel like you came to me.
It's where I'm bored. What lines could I wear? Let's also,
he was like the he was always the funny one,
so he would have wanted attention.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And I don't remember how Yeah used to you had
a wig?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Put me in the wig? Should we you got the
side of here? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. We would also like to do
like pop dance and.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Like you hang on a second, have you got any
pop dance videos? No? That was before. That was like
before my grandma would have one somewhere like a.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Photo that I'm thinking, let's not. We don't have to
bring it out.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Oh my god, what you've got breast?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Also, he's loving it. You can just.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I was forced into that against my will.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Look at the pose, the hell, oh my goodness, the
sparkly hair, I look good? Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
What am I doing?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
And so for like one evening i'd get a sister.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I was called Matricia.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Is that is it?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I read your probably probably any foundation, any.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Roofely muma's makeup?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, very good? Have you got a sports prober on
under that?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
The only thing I would say is like he wasn't
the only brother I dressed most dressed them, Yeah, I did,
bro dress you wanted to be like the Spice girls.
David did ask most of the time to be dressed up.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Wow, he did. I suspect you look great. You do
look good? Thank you. Yeah, you look like you look
like someone who always tries to get out of pe.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He was good, you know, just like a lit the
beer boxes in the back beeeper, good boobs, good, great
set of camps. Can I keep this?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
God knows what you'll do with it.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Matts dressed up as a woman plenty of time times
in recent times.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
In a while I'm drew for one, I reckon, you
need to recreate this. That's a great, great week.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Thank you so much. We have a few questions. I
asked the good people on Facebook and it's a great response.
People do want to hear from you, Kate. I know
you're only nervous. You're thinking people don't want to hear
from you, But they do when you're the sister of
a big deal like me. Here is if you're a
sister of a big child cross dresser.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
They want to hear. They want to hear. What we
got to ask from Maggie. Has Matt always been your
mum's favorite child?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
He stole it from me?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Did he stole it from me?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I see that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah, there's still some pain there. Yeah. Since now I'm like,
it's like a deedless celebrity.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Is that hurts?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Definitely? The favorite?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, I would say you're more than d thank you,
you'll be Yeah, you were a favorite for all my
whole life.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It's been hard fall, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
You turned into a rat bag as a teenager, though,
didn't you to those two.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Years that I'm not proud of?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
And you were bad and I was like, she's off
the rails.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Were on the other hand, just really planning my wig.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Yeah, but then then you got kick you out of
Ironbark School camp suspended.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Story.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
What happened expensions.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, so you're not the angel trying.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I stole a few things still. I stole noodles from
the touch shop got suspended. This is from Cynthia and
she says, what's your favorite childhood memory with Matt.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh that's nice. Yeah, that's a nice one.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
So we lived on the outskirts of Brisbane in the
western suburbs and we backed we had like a four
acre property and we backed onto a creek and so
like most of our childhood was going down to the
creek and finding tadpoles and yeah, we were just for
(33:55):
hours and hours leave in the morning.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And then was it swimming this creek? It's hot in Brisbane, man,
like the Margie.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yeah. And then every time a flood would come, every
few years of flood would come and once it receded,
everything had the whole creek changed.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh wow, it would transform.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
It sounds like a movie.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
So we would collect tadpoles thin and like set little
homes for them.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Do you remember, though, Sorry to cut you off for
you guys.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Sorry, Well, then they would turn into cana.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
So then we'd kill them.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
False stats of security like would nurture you up to
a stage where it's okay to kill you.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Do you remember, because we used to ride our bikes everywhere.
We would just go exploring.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yes, and we found that house. I know.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That was I told my kids that story as well.
That was the weirdest house you found.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
A house in the suburb.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So we like out out into the mountains, the mountains.
It was like.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So we were the kids that literally we would like
get a backpack some sound and school holidays, we would
just ride our bikes.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
How do I get kids like that? Just like clanging on?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So we found this house.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, it was an abandoned house, like a couple of
k's from our house, and we pulled our bikes up
there floored this house and then we because like there
was furniture in there, and there was like food on
the this sounds on the bench, like half eaten rice
bubbles and stuff. So like, but then no one would
be in.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
There, and with the rass bubble still edible, I don't know,
so I tell them.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
The story I tell my kids is we were exploring
this house and they were scratching.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Coming from the roofs Oh my goodness, and we.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Didn't know what it was, and all of a sudden
there was a bump and we screamed and we ran out,
and we thought there was a ghost up there.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Oh my god. Now they haven't slept.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
But didn't you like we kind of made a bit
of a mess in the house.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Oh yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And then you trash to play a bunch.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Of And then how did people find out that it
was us? You made the mess in there because you
got you went back and you were made to clean
the house. What I don't remember that you don't remember?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
That makes sense, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
You were back and they made you. I was away somewhere,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Favorite child, that's true, all right. Next question from Laurel
beautiful namely it's kind of like floral, but without the
what's your sorry? What's your biggest pet peeve about Maddie?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
He's always late? Oh my god, thank you he's always late?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Oh my god. To relief, I thought it was just
with me.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Whoa whoa validated over there?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I feel I've never been so validate. I have gotten better,
you have gotten better, but late everything?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
What is with everything? Yeah, you're gotta tell him like
half an hour.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Before he as looks great too. He turns out looking great.
Half hour late. It's like, maybe don't look as good
and you'll get there on time.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I apologize.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I'm very it.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
So it's fine now I'm getting used to it. Actually,
I'm I have noticed because my whole life I've been
irritatingly punctual. But since meeting you, I've relaxed on that.
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I pick up Lolo moy most like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays
for school. Have to say you're never late getting them.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's good parenting. Eight o'clock out and that's what's important.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
He's like disheveled, he's no shirt, he's got.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Like just wants to get his abs out. You're right,
he's like.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
He has the kids, and I like, see I.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Take that from Mom. God we say to Mom, you're
always late. I remember being the last kids.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
She's always so frazzled your mind.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
And if you tell us she's late, she's a late person.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
She wow, I love it. Startling an Ellie's story.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
This was the moment that I was like, oh, she
can no longer like do family. She can't host family Christmases. Okay,
So she stocked the fridges, everything was ready to go
Christmas Day we're on Stripbroke Island, so Chris's date. Nothing
is open, so you've got to like stuck up. She's
very organized. All of us was, their partners were there.
The house is full of people she's gone to because
(38:21):
the fridges were so full she turned them down.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh god.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
And she went to make the salad for the lunch
and like the cucumber had frozen and the letters had frozen,
and she like yes, and.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
She broke down. I was like, we can't have a
green salad.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Relax.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I was like, Mum, it's cooled, We'll be right, and
like ruined her. Her ruined her whole The frozen has
ruined her whole day.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Whenever sheever she sees the kim Now, she's.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Like a traumatize. I was lucky enough to go on
a cruise with your mum so much because she's I
love that. When the goalpost moved for Ellie, she's like,
oh suddenly she startled for it, and I'm like this
is amazing, and.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Like, did you get like the pointless story.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Dad, that's why you're not the favorite?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Her and my dad pointless story king, So they were
like it was you too.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
She'll tell me why I like the g note on
a piano first, origeated from or something.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
And I'm like, for the record, I.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Think her stories are great.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Okay, you would say that the favorite child. But it
was funny because my mum was also on the cruise too.
Mom was like, that's great, he's got someone to talk
to me. He's actually he's actually quite pleasant on this trip.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
This is from Hannah. She wants to know what was
your first reaction when I appeared on The Bachelor? You
actually got you got a bad edit on The Bachelor?
I know, but I knew that.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I knew that was going to come.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
The villain, the general, the dictator.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Really.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm assuming she means because obviously I
found out you were going to go on it before
it Like, yeah, and you would did the Bachelorette first.
I don't know what did I think?
Speaker 2 (40:21):
The embarrassed that I've been on reality TV many times?
Speaker 4 (40:25):
No, because you're very good at it any won Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
True?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
So yeah, it is awkward with the camera crew and
you've got to like act in a sense.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Do they make you do they like when they when
you are on a camp, do they like heavily produce
you to.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Because you remember you came to the house that I
was staying at and.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
We I did a date with you. We did a
group day.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
No, that was actually not in episode. It's my favorite
season of The Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
That was fine, but I couldn't be there for the
nally of The Bachelor because I was pregnant and it
was filmed in Thailand. Also, there was zekea virus, so
was advised, I do love a good virus, I don't
go to Thailand.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
So it was awkward because they were like, who else
could do the grilling.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
For the final because if you were the dictator.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
My brothers were like fuck that. Adam oldest is like
not for me. David second youngest, absolutely not. Tom who's
the youngest, was like, oh, I guess I'll do it.
He would have been like twenty one, twenty one, and
he was there. One question he asked Laura. They were like, Tom,
you gotta ask some heart hitting questions here, like really
put on the spot. This could be the girl that
(41:40):
Matt spends the rest of his life with. And Tom
was like, so, do you have any hobbies?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Hard hitting journalism?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
And Laura kind of was like, oh, stumbled a bit
on the question and Tom was like, I don't know
about her.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
I really want to see. That's so good. All right,
what's your go to thing to do with your kids
in the school holidays?
Speaker 4 (42:08):
This is lovely end Well, this is quite convenient these
days because we bought a rural property down the South coast.
Must be nice twelve months ago and Matt and Laura
were looking for another property north and then I was like,
(42:29):
why are you looking north for coming beautiful south North?
So they bought Alida, Oh shut at risk holidays. Yeah,
we go down to our our holiday house, call up
(42:49):
and the girls do perony club together, so.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
That is our They don't know how bloody good they've
got at these kids, Yeah for sure, Like they get
to go away like South Coast beautiful, lovely.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Just to be cold animals on your Yeah, we have
like a proper working farms. We have a hundred beef
cows or beef cows to come down ash.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah is that a formerly yet, We'll think about it.
Yeah Christmas, Christmas maybe that's big leagues. So I'm just.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
So, yeah, that's pretty good. We get to spend a
lot of time together.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
That's awesome, and it's also good like you you know,
you've got like a lot of siblings and you're the
only one with kids. But it's like it's good that
they've got like, you know, cousins and ship like that.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Actually, that is the coolest part. We grew up not
really spending a lot of time with our cousins and
to give our kids the relationship with an extended family
that we didn't get.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Really, it's very like you's got two girls, I've got
two girls similar age.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
That's like just works.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
George, my nine year old, he's always like, I can't
play bobbies anymore.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Enough for George, but it is.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
I don't know if there's other people out there who
don't have family close by. It makes a world of difference.
On the weekend, for example, you have Lola every Friday, which, thank.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
You very much.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
It was like seven thirty am and Charlotte didn't want
to come to Georgia's footy game, so I was like, hey,
you're going to have another five year old here.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah. It does make it like it takes a village
right there. Is it's like my like for me, I
had a lot of cousins and like my mom's side,
they're breeders. Anyway, my kids only have one cousin. It's
really sad.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Wow, Well my brother in law and his partner gay.
Obviously they don't want to adopt. They have two duel
income and they must live in the dream. But my
sisters has winning my niece who's a month younger than Macy.
They like, they've gone this is it will be your family.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Yeah, like nine hundred meters for each other, miles away.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
My sister is on this side too, so it's like anyway,
but yes, I think like having a bunch of cousins was.
It was always really fun. So it's good that you've
got Yeah, you've got that. I'm very sentimental sometimes. Thank
you Kate for jumping on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
You were but you were great, very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
You'll have to come back sometime.
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Perfect cut that Instagram. Also, you yell a lot louder
than that. When you're talking to the kids.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
There's no gentle.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
I'm a yeller as well.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
It works.
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Speaker 1 (47:36):
We pay our respects to their elders past and present
and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestraight Islander
people's today
Matt it is my lucky day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, I think we should probably cancel this episode. I
don't know they we have problems with the audio. It
was really crackly.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And also, I will say the video footage lovely. Everyone
looked very good, including your sister.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, I spoke to the editor and all video footage
has been deleted, which is weird.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I don't have deleted straight to me.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Someone's broken into the hard drives, deleted at all. I
don't know who it is, but we'll find them, we
will stop them. It's it's real shame.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
If I'm honest, you look panicked. Look I would be
panicked too, because we're about to have a very special
guest on the pod for this episode. I don't know
why I agreed to this, which happens to be Matthew's sister,
one and only sister. And some of the dirt is amazing.
It was dirty, It was dirty.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was filthy. There is a photo that we talk
about in this episode, right, a photo which I think
needs to be buried. Somehow, It's crept its way out
of a box. It's found its way into the hands
of my sister. We talk about it on this episode.
She then left the photo here before I had a
chance to delete, like destroy that photo. We had another
(01:12):
Trady come over in the morning and Marley runs up
to that trade with the photo in hand and he goes, look,
it's my daddy. He was like, I don't know if
I should be looking at this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's very very good. Tell us a bit about your sister, man, Well,
she is forty. I don't know. She looks great. Forty.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hey you relaxed, Okay, you sit down salivating over there.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I am not. I know she looks great. She does.
She looks I don't want to say it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
She's got three kids. George I think he's nine, could
be ten, not quite sure. She's got Millie grade one.
And Charlotte goes to the dek Chas mcgaz shall be married,
happily married.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Happily married to Bill, Bill big bad.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Build a build up there, you have it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's so nervous, so let's just get into it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Welcome back to two doting dads and one doting mum.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm Maddie, Jay, I'm Ash and I'm Kate.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Very good name right, it's weird looking at you being nervous.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I know, I'm so nervous picture you as a nervous
person hall this stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Why do you say yes?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Because you begged me?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I did not. How did you do it?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I also have a little bit of spare time at
the moment, so.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I was like, yeah, sure, have to finish my trail.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
This is a podcast all about parenting. It is the good,
it is.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The bad and the relatable. And if you come for advice,
well not today. Well maybe, Kate, it's very very good.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
We don't give advice.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We're allowed to, but you're allowed to you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Go hard legally. Also, it was not Yeah, it's a
good question because you are related to me chat it's
illegal about that.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Look, get some advice and then we'll edit it all out.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, just say this is not advice. At the start
of it, I thought it covers. I couldn't help.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But notice when you were greeting my sister, you gave
her a big hug.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I did. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was a strong hug, and I was worried, what.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Did you think of the hug?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I love? Whoa, it's been a while. Okay, you're injured,
loved a hug, but it's a little bit tender.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You're injured. Tell me what why why? I wasn't expecting
you to be injured.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yes, I'm not usually injured, but I am, yeah, very
injured at the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So just on the record, I told everyone the story,
by the way, not me, people, I've been holding onto
the story because Kate can tell you and the listeners
at school. I've told you, like when I've got nothing
to talk about and I'm like, how's the weather, And
I'm like, what's this done? This?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
People like just an injury, small talk injuries.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
There is a weather and injuries.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Especially at like over thirty years of old age, you
can start talking about your injuries.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You had a beautiful weekend at the snow, Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So I just wanted to start with saying, like, on
the record, skiing is not my ideal holiday. Didn't want
to go how you wanted to go. Kids have skied
with him, actually solo for the past couple of years,
but Charlotte's been a bit little, our five year old.
So he was like, let's all go on skiing holiday Fiji.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's a whole Oh yeah, oh Heyking, We'll yeah not
skiing okay.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So we got there on the Monday afternoon. We actually
had pretty good, great conditions as well, amazing ski season, like, yes,
record the best.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I trust you and believe you because I don't know
anything about it. Really good.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
So the whole reason we're actually why we chose the
week that we went as well, was because I had
a really good school mum who was having her fortieth birthday.
She her big skiing family, so she wanted to have
her fortieth birthday down at the snow beautiful. Yeah, there
was a few families going down. She booked a nice
restaurant which is up on the mountains, so you've got
(05:25):
to get a chair lift and ski too. It's like
halfway down the mountain, so you've got it. If if
you have to be able to ski or snowboard, if
you want to come, you can't go.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You can't go.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
This whole snow feel throughout the poor people this beautiful
restaurant booked.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I haven't skied in over ten years. I was just
getting my footing back. I was very much like green runs,
just green runs, slow and steady, very.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Slow, instid. I want to stop these every time. What's
a green run like? An easy?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Easy?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Just give me the colors green, green, good, blue, blue.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Black, is that most diamond is that where that black
diamond is, Yeah, black, and the black diamond is like the.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Most brown brown brown in the middle.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, blue.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Green blue. Because by the second day my husband is
quite a good skier. He I was like, so another
green run and he was like, can we do a
black just be born with me. But Tuesday, unfortunately the
winds were too high. The kids could still ski on
(06:34):
their little it's called Friday flats.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well for people who don't know your kids.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Are nine, seven and five.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I love how it's too windy for the adults at
chacrifices the children. That's what the snow people do. I'm
really not liking this hobby.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
There's like one little chairlip that still operated halfway up
for the kids. Yeah, it's great because we were like
school if you go see r But then we couldn't ski.
And then Wednesday there was a dumped whole heap of snow.
It was freezing cold.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Dump means a lot ash.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And then Thursday it was the most amazing day. It
was by far the best day to ski. It was
blue skies. We dropped the kids to ski school. They
were all even the five year old was really picking
it up now, so they were loving it. On our
first run up the mountain, got a chair lift and
then we skied over, and then we were getting a
tee bar up to quite a high point. Now, tee
(07:37):
bar is if you imagine like an upside down.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Tee You hold on to it, don't you?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
No, you sit on it, so you sit onto the
bottom of the tea bin, but you can't, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It seems ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It pulls you up, so you're kind of still standing,
but it drags you up.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And so we were going up, jumped on a tear
and we were trying to figure out like which because
a couple of the chair lifts still weren't open, which
tailors were open, and where we would go and where
we could get a coffee and where we might go
for lunch, and all of a sudden, there's so many options.
There's so many options.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You ski, people have so many options.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Ys. So we look up and because my husband is
heavier than me and he was on the right, we
were like veering off course. So the tea bar can
still pull you, but we were like, really, going on.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How far does it retract twenty what that's got to
be they've got to they've got to fix.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So as Bill was, Bill, your husband was starting to
veer off course? Yes, did he not correct himself?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
No, well, he I was thinking like because he was
kind of controlling where we're going, what we're doing. I
just thought, oh, he's got this, he'll like lean back
over and we'll kind of go back on course. But
he was really like looking around and not paying any
attentions where we're going. To the last second, I was like, Bill, Marie,
(09:02):
there's a pole, and so we were coming straight and like,
you're not going that fast, You're quite slow.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's like the same from Austin Powers with the roller
is just goings.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Like move.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So you can't make me laugh because even laughing hurts me.
So before we knew it, we'd like, the pole was
so close. So I actually came off the tee bar
not to hit the pole, ditch the bar. I ditched
the t bar, he hit the te he hit the
pole and took the t bar with him. Now, it
(09:42):
all happened very quickly, so I don't even understand. And
every doctor I've explained it to you, they're like, how
did it hit you? And I'm like, I don't know,
But basically he hit the pole. The cable kept going
and like hyper extended, and then it's slingshot back a
round and I was in the way of it, and
the end of the tea bar just absolutely whacked me
(10:07):
in the really soft part of your bag.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I always hit you in like the worst spot, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I did you know what was happening? Because you've you've
ditched the t bar? Did you know I'm safe?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And also I thought that i'd come off like in
the middle of the track, so then everyone else on
the tea bar is going to hit me, and it's Domino's.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've seen the videos online of that happening, so.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And I don't even actually remember it. But I ended
up on the other side of the track. But I
am in absolute agony on my stomach like this. And
I also been quite badly winded. So I was on
the ground going and Bill skied over.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He was fine right over me.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
He came over and he didn't realize how badly it
had hit me. See you get hit no, So he
was kind.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Of like, definitely, I didn't see anything. I didn't knock
you out. I didn't knock you out.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No goodness, So I just thought I'd been really badly
corked in that part of my back. So luckily there
were actually two medics on the tee bar a couple
of tea bars behind me, so they came off. They
lunch break the class, and Bill was like, just just
(11:41):
roll like, roll over, bab, You'll be right. And every
time I moved an inch, even just breathing, was this
excruciating pain in my back, and I was like, I
don't think I can roll over.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I can't move, I can't walk this one off.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
They obviously checked all my spine stuff, like I could
feel my legs like it wasn't my fine, it was
that like corked feeling.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And then the medics were like, let's get the toboggan.
Let's get you like, you can't move, You're in a
lot of pain.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Pay for that.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I haven't got a bill yet.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Is that like the snows of an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
So the tobogan they like wrap cocoon you up. There's
a medic on one end like holding it. There's a
medic on the other and it's like a toboggan and
you are like strapped in. Yes, you're claustrophobic. I had
to just like make the self talk in my head. Yeah,
and you are going up a bump. So I was like,
(12:36):
ow ow, you have no control because Bill was like no,
and even I was like, no, I don't need that.
That's a lot of fuss. No, let me just oh
just try to like get up. And I was like, ah,
couldn't get up. No, So they were like no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Don't.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
We're gonna get the tobogganing.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
What a scene on the edge of a mountain.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I know, it was so bad. Yeah, I'm like I'm thinking, like,
I'll be right behind you because I was like, you
can't do anything, keep skinning, like it's the best.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Day attention to us.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He would have been thinking ship.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, it's like that guy in High Rocks he left
his missus. He put us out. He's like, we're over.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So Bill said I will come with you.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So I had to be toboggan down and then got
transported to the medics center at Threadbow. So Doc got
assessed by a doctor and with the level of pain
that he was like, take some panadine for what I'm
kind of worried about. That's where your kidneys. Are you
had a really big blow? I just want to like
(13:41):
check your kidneys. So when you can, I wanted you
to do a wee, which was the most excruciating, like, well,
I reckon Western childbirth the pain because it's obviously kidney
with something. It's it's hit something like just getting off
the medical bed, trying to shuffle to the toilet, bending
(14:04):
over to sit on the toilet. I had to win
a cup and then watching the clock.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Can I hit the slopes.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Blood in my uron like that quickly?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Is that how happens?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It was probably to be like the whole ordeal because
I had to get more medics, Like there was six
medics now with me up at the mountain. So it
was but about an hour after I hit got hit
And so then the doctor and Bill is literally there
being like I'm hungry, but can I I mean can
we She's fine, like let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Men A grade.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
So the doctor was like, yeah, she's she has to
go to where she needs an ambulance. We got to
send her to Koomba Hospital. Holy some internal bleeding.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I get a message in the family, what's that Kate going,
I've got some internal bleeding. I've been hit by the team.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Fine, oh yeah, yeah, good wow. So you went to
the hospital.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
So I went to the hospital, got an ultrasound they
wanted to that would be worse than that, and they're like, look,
it's it's pretty minor. You just got a like really
traumatic blow. So they gave me morphine that you bring
some home, no, and they gave me end don So
(15:25):
I was on endon and morphine.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So it was great salivating right now sounds.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
In the hospital. I was like they wanted to, like
they wanted to wheel me to the ultra salary and
I was like, no, guys, like there, I just sound
all good. The doctor came back because he also was like,
how did it happen? Not a mark on my back,
there's no there's no swelling, there's not anything. It's just
(15:58):
excruciating pain. So then he was the doctor and came up.
He was a bit like what what have you done?
Like is it really that bad? Well, okay, so you're
like just rest for your kidneys. We could do an
X ray if you wanted, And I was like, that's
four o'clock, Like I'm I'm going to get back to
(16:20):
the mountain. I've got a lunch tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're going to finish the run down the hill.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So just like, I'll be fine, thanks very much, just
like checked myself out, got discharged, went back up to
the mountain, and then like later that night, everything had
worn off, so I holy, I couldn't like getting in
and out of the car, getting into bed, trying to
get undressed. I couldn't do anything without excruciating pain. But Bill,
(16:51):
my husband's like because I at that point, I was like,
I don't think I can ski to lunch. He was
actually amazing. There was no pressure to have sex.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
For a while.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
The really like and then he was like, so are
you ready for that?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Story took This is because I'm the one.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Apparently we were like at a like a family funeral,
and that's like trying to crack out. Do not try,
doesn't metal Tom other brother shout out. So the next
morning Bill was like, nah, I'll ski with you, will
(17:44):
go really slow, You're fine. Also putting on ski boots,
like trying to walk with ski boots on when they're unforgiving,
they are like torturous. Got to lunch made us done. Yeah.
Up on the mountain, I did have to go back
to the medical center and asked for a prescription. Yes,
with some pain cuse I paddling fought because it was
(18:05):
it was really bad. Every time I.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Moved, I'd be like, oh, oh, do you have a
couple of wines? Yeah? Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
For girlfriend's forty birthday, I was worried though skiing paneting
for a few ones. I had to ski back down,
so I was a bit worried about that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I heard you were best on ground.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I had to walk through the entire restaurant to go
to the bathroomt one stage and every time I walked,
I was like, oh, my girlfriend was like door everyone yestirds. Thanks.
But I made it to lunch. Then we drove home
to Canberra, three hour drive in the car. That was
pretty horrific. Yeah, also half.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Tanked, so I was like it was a great time.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Open nighted in camber. It came back so Saturday Sunday
I couldn't move the pan couldn't sleep the plane. Monday
morning we thought where to get an next ray? It's
like this is pretty bad. Yeah, got an X ray?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What have you done?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Turns out break my back?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You've broken your back broke? Oh my god, and the
way you hugged her earlier.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'm so sorry, and I cracked a rib.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Really yeah, what you really wanted to go to that lunch? Wow?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
That is wild to any friend who's ditched on a
birthday lunch.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I know, broken bag, I'll get that. There's morphine. He's
going to get me there. Oh my god, to be
a buggader. Wow, well done. I'm so sorry that you
hurt your back and sorry that I didn't even I
was like, come here, broke down. Wow. I was watching
it going, Yeah, it was extreme. So what extent is
(19:50):
the break?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Okay, so you're going to break your back? It is
the one to do. I didn't break anything in my spine,
but off to the side of your spine you have bones,
which are called transverse processes. I've actually snapped my L
one and L two, so both of them. One of
them is like snapped cleanly off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And just floating there right now.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
It's floating.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
What do you do with that? Well, is spawn off
and create another human?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
No, it should like spawn off and like it will
try to reattach itself. But apparently if it doesn't, it
will just affuse to like muscle the human bodies. It's weird. Weird, Yeah,
a lot heaps and muscles attached to it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, so it's I can't I can't bend, I can't twist, and.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
There's nothing you can really do. It's like ribs right, No, totally.
You try not to laugh, sorry, try not to sneeze,
trying to cough, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, don't pick up any kids, don't do any.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Washing from us.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I was like, I've got to go. Oh, for God's sake.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Did I did feel bad? I did feel bad, But
I also was like, you got it so good. She
came for three days days, she cooked and cleaned, and
she like washed all of our ski.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Gear because I've heard that she's she's done.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You so mean to her about that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
God, this is where I get it from. So I'm
going to try and pick it back up.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
She does, you're comfortable.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
She cooked spahey frozen.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
She doesn't relaxed cook, she does she did something else.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I was like, Okay, we'll do anything to get moms.
On a scale of one to ten, where we're at now?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Okay, so we're actually pretty good. Only like when you
touched it, and it's I'm no, like I was constantly uncomfortable.
But I can walk around a bit more. I can
get around, I can get it in another car. Sleeping
still not great.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, it's crazy. Every broken backstory I hear, they are
like find out later, you know what I mean. Like
it's I've met this guy at the waypool who's like,
it's my first surf back after breaking my back. I'm like, oh, okay,
what happened? He goes, I fell down the stairs and
my wife was like, just get in the bed, get
over it. You'll be fine. Two days later found had
broken back.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This is a good lesson for people listening.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Also, if I if I went for the if I
agreed to the X ray in the hospital, like obviously
wouldn't have gone to lunch the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I would have gone, well, I'm glad you're okay.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Speaking of Elie. Yes, actually, did you know this is
when George, your first son was born. I was living
in London, Ash, Do you know I was living in London?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
No, it's news to me lived there for four years.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You did you know at the time what Nana had
done with the photo of you?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What do you Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know this?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So I feel like I'm going to be part of
a sibling stoush.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So I was in London working at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I was in the office. Yes, as you were giving birth.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yes, And I kind of said to people, sorry, this photo.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I said to people. I was like, guys, you know
my sister is giving birth as we speak. This is amazing.
And you know, I was checking my phone and given birth.
They did it, and I was, you know, watching my
phone for the message to say he's arrived. And then
finally in the afternoon there's a message and he's born. Oh, George,
(23:24):
there's a photo of my phone. Was very like, very early,
and she was very excited. Nana took a photo of
Kate holding George.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
No Bill had forwarded that photo because Bill took the photo.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Finish what the photo was the vagina is in full discussion.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yes, So the nurse was so lovely and took some
photos literally as like he had come out.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And I was.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Still attached and like still you yes, oh my god,
And so Bill thought he was. He didn't realize if
you you just had a quick look look at the baby,
it's in the bottom. To my mom being like, it's
a boy, he's born. So then Mom borded it like
the family chat.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I uploaded it.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Like my vagina is in the phone.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I was looking like, oh my god, he's putil Oh
my gosh, my.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Sisters, I'm like, goodness, just pushed out a baby that
it did not.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Look oh my goodness embarrassed. But like also like come on, guys,
like check the phone over. I get everyone's excited. Yeah, yeah,
my goodness. And you would have been like not knowing
if that like that's a normal photo again, is that
your first like did you see.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Did you see it? Did you like?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think someone said.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I wrote I think that you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
How many people set that photo top?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Oh my very good Now you are one of five,
as is Matt, one of five big family. I've only
got one sister. But you seem very close.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah we are.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We're quite good friends. I've met the other siblings not
as close, I would say, so very close.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
How dare you what?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
That's just an observation, just because we both live in
the know.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You're like on the same My brothers are crying right now, sobbing.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Not my problem, honestly, but maybe if I maybe sorry, guys,
but I've noticed you.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
You are.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You do talk a lot. You chat a lot. You're
on the phone to each other, a lot. I've noticed,
it's not a very.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's been watching you for a while. Weird noises in
the backyard.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I knew she had a broken back before we got
the cray I can tell you at the moment. But yeah,
you would just say yeah, you just say you are okay.
Except have you fought with my sister all the time?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, well no, sorry, Well we're very we're re close now.
But like growing up, we it was like it was
on that's very I don't think it was.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't think we have a yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
We've got all the time. And I was the only
I have four brothers, the only girl, so like I
really had to stick up for myself.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't recall that at all.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I also was probably a bit annoying. There was one
time where I was annoying you. I'll be honest, what
we're doing. We were like I was ten and you
and nine or something, and I was just like and
like in your face all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You were a lot bigger than.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Me, as well supposed to because you know who you
were just just a big Yeah, I was older.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I was a scrawny little kid. I was I was
I was a premier.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
But guys we don't fight. You're fighting right now, okay,
I was.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I mean, I'm eighteen months older. But I just kept
going out and I remember you being like, stop it,
please stop it, leave me alone, annoying. And then all
of a sudden, I don't know where, Matt just punched
me right in the nose. That just clocked me once.
(27:18):
My nose was just spitching out blood.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I was like, and so I was like, and I
was like, well, let's just relax. All those means is
like when you accidentally hurt your sibling, You've just gone
and walked her in the face. Oh random, Mom.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I was like, straight in the night, straight in the middle.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I thought, you guys are I'll do it again. I
was like, Jesus, hore you nine, you're okay, then you're fine.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
So my mom comes running down the hallway grabs him.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I imagine that sister just blood pouring out these only daughter,
and I was like, it was like, I was like, mom,
remember I'm a premie baby.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
So you got thrown in your room and moms she
took to me with a wooden spoons. I think she
did as well.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
My sister's older as well. Her defense mechanism was because
I was the annoying one, which go figure. She used
to just sit on me. She was bigger than me,
and my mom was like, yeah, I just taught her
to sit on you because that had shut you right,
and she just wouldn't get off me. And then as
we got older, yeah, we're obviously sibling stuff and you
(28:30):
hurt each other. That's just how it is, right, And
then same thing as we got older, we got much more,
much closer and stuff like that. So thankfully now we
don't punt each other.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
But yeah, now ashes really into being sat on.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's a king of mine. It's a king of mine.
It was a really good sitter. I married her. I
sat through to bregnancy. Yeah, very good. And also what
comes along with siblings is embarrassing and embarrassment. My sister
and I used to have bbarrass each other all the time.
(29:01):
Any embarrassment that you can share with the listeners about
Matt great struck yourself in Big Guy.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I did go through the old shoe box of photos.
Oh yeah, ok yes, brought a good one.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm Matthew am a visual learner.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
There was there is one photo and I thought.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I destroyed it.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Okay, many copies, many copies. I am not having any sisters,
like yearned for a sister most of my childhood. I
desperately wanted a sister, and so it's the only way
to get one is to dress up my pen Yes,
into my sisters.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I'm very excited about.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And because I punched her in the nose, I a
willing participant because I felt bad. Yes, why did you
dress me up?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I don't really know. I feel like you came to me.
It's where I'm bored. What lines could I wear? Let's also,
he was like the he was always the funny one,
so he would have wanted attention.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And I don't remember how Yeah used to you had
a wig?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Put me in the wig? Should we you got the
side of here? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. We would also like to do
like pop dance and.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Like you hang on a second, have you got any
pop dance videos? No? That was before. That was like
before my grandma would have one somewhere like a.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Photo that I'm thinking, let's not. We don't have to
bring it out.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Oh my god, what you've got breast?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Also, he's loving it. You can just.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I was forced into that against my will.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Look at the pose, the hell, oh my goodness, the
sparkly hair, I look good? Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
What am I doing?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
And so for like one evening i'd get a sister.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I was called Matricia.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Is that is it?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I read your probably probably any foundation, any.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Roofely muma's makeup?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, very good? Have you got a sports prober on
under that?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
The only thing I would say is like he wasn't
the only brother I dressed most dressed them, Yeah, I did,
bro dress you wanted to be like the Spice girls.
David did ask most of the time to be dressed up.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Wow, he did. I suspect you look great. You do
look good? Thank you. Yeah, you look like you look
like someone who always tries to get out of pe.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He was good, you know, just like a lit the
beer boxes in the back beeeper, good boobs, good, great
set of camps. Can I keep this?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
God knows what you'll do with it.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Matts dressed up as a woman plenty of time times
in recent times.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
In a while I'm drew for one, I reckon, you
need to recreate this. That's a great, great week.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Thank you so much. We have a few questions. I
asked the good people on Facebook and it's a great response.
People do want to hear from you, Kate. I know
you're only nervous. You're thinking people don't want to hear
from you, But they do when you're the sister of
a big deal like me. Here is if you're a
sister of a big child cross dresser.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
They want to hear. They want to hear. What we
got to ask from Maggie. Has Matt always been your
mum's favorite child?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
He stole it from me?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Did he stole it from me?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I see that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah, there's still some pain there. Yeah. Since now I'm like,
it's like a deedless celebrity.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Is that hurts?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Definitely? The favorite?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, I would say you're more than d thank you,
you'll be Yeah, you were a favorite for all my
whole life.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It's been hard fall, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
You turned into a rat bag as a teenager, though,
didn't you to those two.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Years that I'm not proud of?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
And you were bad and I was like, she's off
the rails.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Were on the other hand, just really planning my wig.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Yeah, but then then you got kick you out of
Ironbark School camp suspended.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Story.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
What happened expensions.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, so you're not the angel trying.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I stole a few things still. I stole noodles from
the touch shop got suspended. This is from Cynthia and
she says, what's your favorite childhood memory with Matt.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh that's nice. Yeah, that's a nice one.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
So we lived on the outskirts of Brisbane in the
western suburbs and we backed we had like a four
acre property and we backed onto a creek and so
like most of our childhood was going down to the
creek and finding tadpoles and yeah, we were just for
(33:55):
hours and hours leave in the morning.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And then was it swimming this creek? It's hot in Brisbane, man,
like the Margie.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yeah. And then every time a flood would come, every
few years of flood would come and once it receded,
everything had the whole creek changed.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh wow, it would transform.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
It sounds like a movie.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
So we would collect tadpoles thin and like set little
homes for them.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Do you remember, though, Sorry to cut you off for
you guys.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Sorry, Well, then they would turn into cana.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
So then we'd kill them.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
False stats of security like would nurture you up to
a stage where it's okay to kill you.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Do you remember, because we used to ride our bikes everywhere.
We would just go exploring.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yes, and we found that house. I know.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That was I told my kids that story as well.
That was the weirdest house you found.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
A house in the suburb.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So we like out out into the mountains, the mountains.
It was like.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So we were the kids that literally we would like
get a backpack some sound and school holidays, we would
just ride our bikes.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
How do I get kids like that? Just like clanging on?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So we found this house.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, it was an abandoned house, like a couple of
k's from our house, and we pulled our bikes up
there floored this house and then we because like there
was furniture in there, and there was like food on
the this sounds on the bench, like half eaten rice
bubbles and stuff. So like, but then no one would
be in.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
There, and with the rass bubble still edible, I don't know,
so I tell them.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
The story I tell my kids is we were exploring
this house and they were scratching.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Coming from the roofs Oh my goodness, and we.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Didn't know what it was, and all of a sudden
there was a bump and we screamed and we ran out,
and we thought there was a ghost up there.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Oh my god. Now they haven't slept.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
But didn't you like we kind of made a bit
of a mess in the house.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Oh yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And then you trash to play a bunch.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Of And then how did people find out that it
was us? You made the mess in there because you
got you went back and you were made to clean
the house. What I don't remember that you don't remember?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
That makes sense, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
You were back and they made you. I was away somewhere,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Favorite child, that's true, all right. Next question from Laurel
beautiful namely it's kind of like floral, but without the
what's your sorry? What's your biggest pet peeve about Maddie?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
He's always late? Oh my god, thank you he's always late?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Oh my god. To relief, I thought it was just
with me.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Whoa whoa validated over there?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I feel I've never been so validate. I have gotten better,
you have gotten better, but late everything?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
What is with everything? Yeah, you're gotta tell him like
half an hour.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Before he as looks great too. He turns out looking great.
Half hour late. It's like, maybe don't look as good
and you'll get there on time.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I apologize.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I'm very it.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
So it's fine now I'm getting used to it. Actually,
I'm I have noticed because my whole life I've been
irritatingly punctual. But since meeting you, I've relaxed on that.
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I pick up Lolo moy most like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays
for school. Have to say you're never late getting them.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's good parenting. Eight o'clock out and that's what's important.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
He's like disheveled, he's no shirt, he's got.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Like just wants to get his abs out. You're right,
he's like.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
He has the kids, and I like, see I.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Take that from Mom. God we say to Mom, you're
always late. I remember being the last kids.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
She's always so frazzled your mind.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
And if you tell us she's late, she's a late person.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
She wow, I love it. Startling an Ellie's story.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
This was the moment that I was like, oh, she
can no longer like do family. She can't host family Christmases. Okay,
So she stocked the fridges, everything was ready to go
Christmas Day we're on Stripbroke Island, so Chris's date. Nothing
is open, so you've got to like stuck up. She's
very organized. All of us was, their partners were there.
The house is full of people she's gone to because
(38:21):
the fridges were so full she turned them down.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh god.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
And she went to make the salad for the lunch
and like the cucumber had frozen and the letters had frozen,
and she like yes, and.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
She broke down. I was like, we can't have a
green salad.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Relax.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I was like, Mum, it's cooled, We'll be right, and
like ruined her. Her ruined her whole The frozen has
ruined her whole day.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Whenever sheever she sees the kim Now, she's.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Like a traumatize. I was lucky enough to go on
a cruise with your mum so much because she's I
love that. When the goalpost moved for Ellie, she's like,
oh suddenly she startled for it, and I'm like this
is amazing, and.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Like, did you get like the pointless story.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Dad, that's why you're not the favorite?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Her and my dad pointless story king, So they were
like it was you too.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
She'll tell me why I like the g note on
a piano first, origeated from or something.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
And I'm like, for the record, I.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Think her stories are great.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Okay, you would say that the favorite child. But it
was funny because my mum was also on the cruise too.
Mom was like, that's great, he's got someone to talk
to me. He's actually he's actually quite pleasant on this trip.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
This is from Hannah. She wants to know what was
your first reaction when I appeared on The Bachelor? You
actually got you got a bad edit on The Bachelor?
I know, but I knew that.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I knew that was going to come.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
The villain, the general, the dictator.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Really.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm assuming she means because obviously I
found out you were going to go on it before
it Like, yeah, and you would did the Bachelorette first.
I don't know what did I think?
Speaker 2 (40:21):
The embarrassed that I've been on reality TV many times?
Speaker 4 (40:25):
No, because you're very good at it any won Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
True?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
So yeah, it is awkward with the camera crew and
you've got to like act in a sense.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Do they make you do they like when they when
you are on a camp, do they like heavily produce
you to.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Because you remember you came to the house that I
was staying at and.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
We I did a date with you. We did a
group day.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
No, that was actually not in episode. It's my favorite
season of The Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
That was fine, but I couldn't be there for the
nally of The Bachelor because I was pregnant and it
was filmed in Thailand. Also, there was zekea virus, so
was advised, I do love a good virus, I don't
go to Thailand.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
So it was awkward because they were like, who else
could do the grilling.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
For the final because if you were the dictator.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
My brothers were like fuck that. Adam oldest is like
not for me. David second youngest, absolutely not. Tom who's
the youngest, was like, oh, I guess I'll do it.
He would have been like twenty one, twenty one, and
he was there. One question he asked Laura. They were like, Tom,
you gotta ask some heart hitting questions here, like really
put on the spot. This could be the girl that
(41:40):
Matt spends the rest of his life with. And Tom
was like, so, do you have any hobbies?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Hard hitting journalism?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
And Laura kind of was like, oh, stumbled a bit
on the question and Tom was like, I don't know
about her.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
I really want to see. That's so good. All right,
what's your go to thing to do with your kids
in the school holidays?
Speaker 4 (42:08):
This is lovely end Well, this is quite convenient these
days because we bought a rural property down the South coast.
Must be nice twelve months ago and Matt and Laura
were looking for another property north and then I was like,
(42:29):
why are you looking north for coming beautiful south North?
So they bought Alida, Oh shut at risk holidays. Yeah,
we go down to our our holiday house, call up
(42:49):
and the girls do perony club together, so.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
That is our They don't know how bloody good they've
got at these kids, Yeah for sure, Like they get
to go away like South Coast beautiful, lovely.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Just to be cold animals on your Yeah, we have
like a proper working farms. We have a hundred beef
cows or beef cows to come down ash.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah is that a formerly yet, We'll think about it.
Yeah Christmas, Christmas maybe that's big leagues. So I'm just.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
So, yeah, that's pretty good. We get to spend a
lot of time together.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
That's awesome, and it's also good like you you know,
you've got like a lot of siblings and you're the
only one with kids. But it's like it's good that
they've got like, you know, cousins and ship like that.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Actually, that is the coolest part. We grew up not
really spending a lot of time with our cousins and
to give our kids the relationship with an extended family
that we didn't get.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Really, it's very like you's got two girls, I've got
two girls similar age.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
That's like just works.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
George, my nine year old, he's always like, I can't
play bobbies anymore.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Enough for George, but it is.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
I don't know if there's other people out there who
don't have family close by. It makes a world of difference.
On the weekend, for example, you have Lola every Friday, which, thank.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
You very much.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
It was like seven thirty am and Charlotte didn't want
to come to Georgia's footy game, so I was like, hey,
you're going to have another five year old here.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah. It does make it like it takes a village
right there. Is it's like my like for me, I
had a lot of cousins and like my mom's side,
they're breeders. Anyway, my kids only have one cousin. It's
really sad.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Wow, Well my brother in law and his partner gay.
Obviously they don't want to adopt. They have two duel
income and they must live in the dream. But my
sisters has winning my niece who's a month younger than Macy.
They like, they've gone this is it will be your family.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Yeah, like nine hundred meters for each other, miles away.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
My sister is on this side too, so it's like anyway,
but yes, I think like having a bunch of cousins was.
It was always really fun. So it's good that you've
got Yeah, you've got that. I'm very sentimental sometimes. Thank
you Kate for jumping on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
You were but you were great, very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
You'll have to come back sometime.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yes, if you enjoyed this episode, please okay, can you
just ask them, just say review the podcast. Don't ask
the man like the Please say like you're talking to
your children's review the podcast, review the.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
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Speaker 2 (45:38):
Go on subscribe and ashwell, can they find us and.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
Review the podcast or you will not get a treat tonight.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Perfect cut that Instagram. Also, you yell a lot louder
than that. When you're talking to the kids.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
There's no gentle.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
I'm a yeller as well.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
It works.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Two days on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and now YouTube and
we'll see you guys next week. Matt the Matt. There's
a special fallout we need to do right now.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
Yes, I'm about to do it. I'm calling out to
all of you dots right.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Now who are listening.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
If you've ever dreamed of sitting down and listening to
myself and Ash talk about our lives and the disasters
that we get up to as parents, You're in luck
because you can do that in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
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at the Apple Store in Sydney, CBD on George Street,
which is when on the fourth of September.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
I believe it is Ash and if you'd like to come,
the easiest way to do the only way to do
that really is there's a link in our show notes
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of the show too. Submit your parents to us because
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