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May 4, 2025 • 13 mins

With my own wedding now days away, it's time to tell my mother she's about to have another son, as I do my own social media series inspired by the concept of Married At First Sight. Wish me luck. Make sure you're subscribed to the podcast and following the MAFS Funny Instagram to watch this all play out... 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to the Maths twenty podcast. And
I am now just days away from marrying a stranger.
And if he confused by that, please listen to the
previous episode of this podcast for context and then come
back here, because I'm about to tell my mum, which
I'm quite nervous about because when I got married for real,
right back in twenty twenty, my mom flew over from

(00:22):
England to Australia or to be here and be part
of that, and she met my now ex husband and
his family, and I remember after that she said, like Josh,
that was the best day of her life and I'm
not gonna lie when that marriage ended. I then put
off telling her for so long because I felt so
much guilt about that, and not just because I knew

(00:44):
it would kill her as my mum not being able
to fly out and be here for me, because that
was during COVID and the borders were short and all that,
but also because I knew when I did eventually tell her,
I would taint that day that she cherished so much
and all those memories, Like I knew I was going
to take that from her, and like obviously she didn't

(01:05):
care about any of that. You know, she just cared
for me and she still looks back and loved today,
but I don't know. Now I'm about to put her
through all of that again. So before I dial her up,
I'm actually going to tell my housemate Ryan, because that
feels a lot easier. Ryan is a straight trading from
the UK. He's one of my best friends, and I
don't know how he was going to feel about this

(01:26):
because not only am I obviously marrying a stranger, but
that stranger is likely then moving in with Ryan and I, which, yeah,
that's going to be interesting. So I wish me luck
with that.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, Ryan, why am I nervous?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
You're nervous. We'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, it's six o'clock on a Sunday night.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
As you know, we've been living together for a good
while now. Yeah, and i'd say you know me more
than anybody anybody, well probably not anybody, but most people.
What has been my biggest issue of late, man, Well,
that's my biggest issue, indefinitely.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Good.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I have to tell you.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Don't say you're not gay?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
No, I'm gay, but I'm getting married. Well I'm getting married,
No I am.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't know, you're not going on that show.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
No, instead of going on that show because I don't
agree with the producers, I'm creating and creating my own
gay version as we speak. Right now, Pedro is finding
me a husband.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I don't know about what do you mean? This is serious,
not just some random bloke that's willing to do it.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, I'm trusting him.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, you need to have a certain conversation.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, we have, and like the premise is, we're seeing
if a show like Masks can work by going back
to basics of Pedro has the task of finding me
someone I will hopefully be compatible with.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Is there a camera in this house right now? Well
i've seen now.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, not right now, but is it going to be Well?
The next question is are you okay with a stranger
moving in?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, No, he's not moving in here.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
But he might have to because I don't know what
his living situations, because I don't know who he is.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
You don't have to live together.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's the whole promise of the show. You get married,
so I have to move out. No, you can be here.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't want to live with a stranger.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, I don't particularly want to marry one, but I
want a boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'll support you through it. But he's not moving in here?
Why because it's up. Well, then he starts.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Arguing that potentially might happened. It's a new relationship that
I can't.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Argue for me because I'll take one side.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, I assume you take my sat exactly. Well, that
sucks for him, then, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Is there any of those supposed experts on that.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, it's just me and this person instead of like
usually I would meet someone and go on a day
and then obsess over them and text them constantly and
then try to get another day. Yeah, instead of this,
and that's slow burning to a relationship which never works.
And now they're just kind of move in straight away.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
They're just going to move in. You can get married.
A random man is not moving in here.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, that's the basis of the show. I'm sorry, but
make sure you're vacuum because he's coming over.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
He's not moving in here.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
He is no, no, no, no, no, he's not sharing
your show.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
He's fucking definitely not sharing my room. I'm happy for
you to do it, but I don't want a random
man to move in.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's not moving in forever, but a few weeks or
a month or two.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
A month or two, we.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Might break up after a week, so that's fine.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well I hope that, Well it might be here forever.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Then if it works out, I won't be in great
extra room for me and the husband talk you okay, Right,
we've now got Ryan on board and kind of supportive.
It's now time to phone my mother. So we're back
here on the Math twenty podcast. Um. Yes, and then,
as you know, the season has ended on my side

(05:01):
of the world. I know.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, what you're going to do with all this spare time?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well that's a good point, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yes, come to England visit your mother.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I can't all right, okay because in a few days
from yes, I'm getting married.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh no way, what are you going un married? At first?

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Out, I'm not going on the proper show. I'm doing
my own version.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well I should be there.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, I did think about flying you over, but i'd
fly you over for the wedding, but then I'm on
a honeymoon and moving in with this perse, and so
I wouldn't actually see you. So you'd come all the
way here to see me for half an hour.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And that we're actually in Turkey next So you can anyway.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
So oh so you had better plans anyway?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Oh no way, so ray, yes, so always something going on,
so that actually spare time for cut now up.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, I thought you'd be more.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Shocked, Joshua. Nothing shocks me with you. Nothing surprises me
with you.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
But are you excited about having another son?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well? Yeah, I've told you I want grandchildren.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So well, he's not going to have a womb, is he?
It's a man. I'm gay.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well you can sell have Kurt or if not, you
can have a nice poppy.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I thought you were inny grandkids, not a puppy.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well no, I'd be happy with the puppy as well.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
What to say? You're in Nana and then people go, oh,
what have you got? Like a voodle?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well it's the start, it's a move in the right direction.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
And where have they got to send you one onneymoon?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay, sands you to Turkey because I'm there next.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Week, probabs not?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh why not? That would be nice because I.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Need to get to know my husband and build a relationship.
Not going, here's my mum, We're already in Turkey.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well you like old he's nice.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I've told pad Joey has to be kind, yes, like
caring and compassionate, but also it has to be attractive,
because you don't know, marry someone you're not attracted.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
To an ugly right, No, No, it's got to be yeah,
good looking. I could picture somebody like Elliott.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
From this year. Yeah, yeah he's straight.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, and now he's straight. But agay Elliott? Why because
it's quite.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
I find I quite like him now, could stand him
at first, and he's very good looking, and well, what.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Advice do you have for me going into this, because
remember it's my second marriage.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Now, I don't I really don't. I just hop he's nice.
I know you like him and.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
It could be promising, it could turn into the real
dal who knows.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
How do you feel.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm a bit nervous, but excited. It's like the pressure
of the fact that this is happening in real time,
Like it's not just a marrying and moving in with
this person, it's the fact people are going to be
watching it, like as it happens, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
So long does it just stress you out?

Speaker 1 (08:12):
And it probably will?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, well then that's all good.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's that is that dad.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Dad's in the background. Do you want to speak to him?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I just coffin or something that your dad coffin has
got a cold?

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Have you got a cold?

Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's tell him I'm getting married.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Your son's getting married.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Has he got any advice?

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Have you got any advice? Don't do it? Why are
you saying that?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
What's right?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
You had to say? So you're leaving Ryan?

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well, I don't know if the guy's moving in with
us or I'm moving in with him. Writing's a bit
on the fence because one hand he's happy for me,
the other hand he might have someone moving into our
apartment who he doesn't know, who I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's not gonna work, is it? The three of you? Really?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I can't kick rying out?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
No, no, you can't keep rying out. So you need
to go and live with this guy.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Have you seen the prices in Sydney? You can't get
your own place the least, right, But that's.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Not fair on iron to move somebody yet.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, life's about sacrifices one right.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Okay, So it's definitely not a wine saltles. It's definitely
because they know what you're like.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, it's legit, like it's the wedding's planned.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Right, somber. I got to make my new son in law.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
I assume we'll phone you at some point I do
a video call. I don't know how. I don't know
how the season is going to go. Well, basically, we
get married, go stay in a hope, tell go on
the honeymoon, and then move in and then I assume
then is when it's like, what's the next steps? Then
we'll meet each of us whatever, because he might have
parents here, all go and meet and.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Might have parents in England. Who knows.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, that's just a lot of WhatsApp messages about last night.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
You went on a pub crawl, didn't you really nice
couple last night?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
In the shirt wreck in the ship wreck in the
shirt route, that's one of the places.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
So Petercia was married, she got divorced, and she's met
this woman and they've got married and they're a lovely couple.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
She was married to a man first, was it?

Speaker 4 (10:44):
She was married to a man first? And then as
she just met this woman and she said, and I
just fell for her. But the toilets were outside, so
when I went outside to use the toilet, she was
on the phone with the dad and she said, there's
that woman I was telling you about you'd like or
and I'm saying, is that? She said, my dad? She said,
you're justice, he's tight And I said all right, She said,

(11:07):
would you say not really?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
She said no, she said he'd really like you. I said,
I old your dad. She said, well he saven say
it looks like is pro? I said, right, okay, t
my sad alone? And I just felt how random? Was that?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
All?

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I wasn't sure where that story was going. So you
met a woman who's the later in life lesbian and
tried to set you up with a dad.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Couldn't just really interesting to sort to and nice people?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
You don't have any lesbian friends, do you? No?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
No you do now? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, oh yeah definitely. When they say him out and about,
I'll definitely speak to someone again.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
They were lovel What if they're trying to make you
a lesbian mom.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
But nobody can make you be a lesbian.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
You are for you aren't well you said you were
married to man.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Then she thought she and so long as that happened,
and that's fine.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
What if one day you wake up, look at dad
next year and go, you know what, I'm a lesbian.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Well, if that happens, i'll let you know. You can
make up TV program about it.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, for now though it's about me and my marriage,
I'm afraid.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Right, Well, I'll have to think about your howls when
I'm laying on with some bed in Turkey next week.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
You've mentioned Turkey about twelve times in this in this call.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, it's nice the wether, that's awful. So it'd be
nice to get on the plane and had to some sunshine.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Okay, Well, suppose you go off to Turkey. I'll go
and get married. Then we'll chat soon. Yeah, okay, all right, Well,
best wishes, have fun in Turkey.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Don't get any congratuations on your coming wedding. Thanks, you
don't have get in some situations you really well
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