Giving Robin's Boyfriend A Nickname

Giving Robin's Boyfriend A Nickname

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the start of the year, Robin, you came in
with the spring in your step. Yeah, and it turns
out it's because you've got a boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah. Over the Christmas break, I did lots of online dating,
and people who have been following this path, it's rough, man.
I did twelve months of it on and off the apps,
mostly hinge for anyone that asks, I think. I in
the end ended up with like ten people that I
would have coffee with or went on a couple of
dates withep. And then I had a moment and deleted everything.
And this particular guy was kind of collateral damage of

(00:30):
me just being fed up, and he slid into my
DMS and we started to continue conversation. And that was
in early January. And here we are.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Here, we are happier than ever, and honestly happier than ever. Yeah.
I've never seen anything like it. Ah. Yeah, I mean
even when you're exhausted because he lives on the Sunshine
Coast and you're doing a lot of commuting.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah. I came down this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I can vouch for the fact that Angel our newsroom
says that petrol is two dollars thirty two.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I saw it. I'm glad you got the moose to
do in the end, but little yes, I've also never
seen you yawn so many times. You're tired, but you're
in love and you want to spend time together on
That's exactly right. But we've been calling him old mate
because we're not giving up his identity just yet. So
the things we know is that he's from he was
born in Belgium. He speaks French fluently as well as Flemishmish,

(01:16):
Flemish and English. Yeah quite well.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, he speaks lots of languages. Understands you know, Italian.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
And yeah, you were saying that there's a there's a
nickname for him around here. Do you want to tell
me that first? So you want me to give you mind, No, I.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Want you to give me your ideas and then I'll
tell you what his nickname is and why.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Because we've got we can't just keep calling him old mate. Okay.
So I was looking up famous Belgians that were and
while very high on the list is Kim Cleister's, which
doesn't help.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Us think the one that would date the tennis player
who dated lately?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yes, oh wow, so quiet there was a guy there
was a composer whose name was Jango, like from the
movie Jango Reinhardt, which I kind of like because then
we could play that Jango song. Okay when we talk
about him, there's also a Jan Van I think he's
an artist, and an Anthony van Dyke. But but the
big one, the number one Belgian is Jean Claude van Dam.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh is he from Belgium? I should know that.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
He's the number one guy. The muscles the muscles from Brussels, well,
which I understand, which would work. So how about we
go with the muscles from Brussels? Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Would you want to give you I can give you
what his actual nickname is. It's kind of impressive. So
he was in the military and I'm allowed to tell
you this, he received the European or the Belgian equivalent
of the Victoria Cross. Oh wow, for some things that
he did within his military service.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
It's generally extreme bravery. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
So Ben Robert Smith has the Victoria Cross, which is
the Australian version. And so he was knighted as a baron.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
He's a baron. He's a baron. Okay, okay, so that's
the biblical the.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Baron around here He belongs to a number of organizations.
I won't go into all of them, but he is
a part of the Veterans Motorcycle Group and they call
him Baron.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
They call him barn.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
He's very respected within that kind of community because of
his military service.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So I don't know. You could go the muss for
the muscles from Brussels or the Baron. He hasn't got
red hair as well as you know. Okay, jeez, he
could have been the red Baron, which I would have
just loved. But okay, text text me if let's work
it out. I send a text to the show four
h nine nine seven three nine seven three, And keep

(03:36):
in mind that text of the day gets two hundred
bucks to spend at Soak Batho. So any nickname we
don't mind, so the Baron or the muscles from Brussels. Okay,
we'll working on it.