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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wake Up with Robin and Kip. Now we've got producer
cast in the studio with this Rob Morning Friends Morning Cast.
So today's your last day before you go off on
your wedding prep.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, so exciting and for us who have been married
five times between us, it's should I've even talking to
you high Yes, we've had experience and everything, a wealth
of experience. Something has happened in the last couple of days,
which is just lovely but also is probably giving you
sleepless night.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I am getting chest paint, honestly. So I said to
my partner Nathan a few I should say fiance, because
I only got a few more days fiance. I said
to him a few weeks ago, Oh, like, don't you
think I'm gonna change my name? You know, like if
you want that to happen, like write me a love
letter or like do something.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
And he was like seriously, and I was like, yeah,
it's a big deal. It is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Anyway, I kind of forgot about it. And the other
day I walked into the house. There's a bunch of
flowers and a cart, and it was a letter about
if I wanted to change my name, and the gist
of it is.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
But Hanga, let's also be very clear. You to a
both Greek. Yes, we are last names.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yes, I'm Catsulis, yeah, and he's a Jannicopolis.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Okay, so no hyphenating that boy.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Are we sure though?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Are you has your do you have any brothers?

Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, all right, so it's not so your dad's not
sort of worried about, you know, someone carrying on the
family name.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I don't think so, because yeah, they've got they've got
kind of got that line covered.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
What does your dad think about all of us?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's so funny because he said to me your mother
never had a choice. It was just like a said thing,
you know, not from him, like they didn't even discuss it.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yes, And I was like, you probably loved it. He
was probably like secretly yes.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
But he when this whole letter thing happened, I sent
him a photo of it and I was like, what
do you think? And he kind of, I think, freaked
out a bit, sent me back like a whole paragraph.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, well tell us what I mean. You don't want
to read it. I'm slightly bummed, but I do understand why.
So what was the gist of it?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
The gist of it was it would mean everything to
me if you changed your name.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Okay, whoa.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I was reading this like, oh god, it's everything. And
then he said the main reason is is I want
us to have the same last name as our kids.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yep, that's it.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I mean, that's a pretty tough one to argue.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Why did you dangle these non kids that we.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Haven't Kip, you're choosing not to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
You're not marrying Naomi, and she's not going to have
the last name of your child that is due in
six weeks.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Not yet.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
We'll sort it out later.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I love that yet, but you know what, like Naomi
did talk to me about that and said, though, yeah,
that's one of the you know, because she's not stress
about gettingrried, but she's like, I would like for us
to all have the same last name. Yeah, okay, that
does actually make a lot of sense.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
And I agree with her, and I said tonight.

Speaker 7 (02:48):
So when he said that, I.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Was like, oh, so, like, there's no chance of you
catzulas and he.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Was like laugh and I was like laugh, that's great.
So he was like absolutely no.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I didn't consider it not gonna happen because in I
don't know if this is like a Greek life thing.
But you know, his name is Afanassi, Yanni Janicopolis. Nathan's
actually an Ussi for fore to call him that, and
his grandfather was, if you can say it, his grandfather
was the exact same name, right, So that's the whole thing.

(03:21):
They carry it down, which I love and sometimes I
wish I was a boy, but like I'm like, you
know what, it's a big thing, and I didn't think
it would affect me identity.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, thirteen one oh six y five about last names,
because in the last twenty years this has changed.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
A lot, yes, a lot, a lot a lot.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Obviously everyone knows. I have not changed my name, not
ever ever, No, okay, And now that I am the
single parent of my three sons and we have different names,
I don't like it. But what I wish it happened
is my boys had had Bailey in their name. Only
my eldest does, so he's I shouldn't say his full name,
but he's got it as part of his name, and

(04:00):
the other two don't, okay, And I regret that because man,
I've done the hard yards, can I tell y'all? And
their dad decided to check out so that's not fair.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
You do deserve to have a name in with the boys.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
So I'm probably the Antichrist to Kip, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Would you take Naomi's Kip?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
What is this?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
I laugh?

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Answer, and I'm trying not to be offriended.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I hadn't thought of it. Sorry, I just I just
pictured it. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
No, why well the little name? What do you mean
if you both hyphenated it?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
No, that doesn't work. I don't think it.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
But do you know what is frustrating to me? It's
the assumption the bloke's name is more important.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
There's just no, it's just thousands of years of tradition,
an assumption as tradition.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Ain't that great to be break it and do something new?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Do you know what?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Ms guys?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
I will say. My dad is a big traditionalist, and
he ended up sending me this huge paragraph. They really
can't even read it all because it's that long. But
he actually said something that I would want Nathan to
say to my daughter if we ever had one. He
just said, your marriage in Ethan is about you two
uniting and becoming each other's life partner. Do you need
a surname to do that. No, it's your decision. In

(05:18):
Mum and my case, we never even discussed the topic.
It was assumed. But it's different cultural norms. Now either
way you'll still be Mum and my daughter.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Hmm okay, And I'm like and he goes help hope
that helps even if you change.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yes, well, the phones are going absolutely nuts. Thirteen one
oh six five. Let's talk about name changes and then
after we come back after the news, you can tell
us what you're going to decide.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Once you've had these people.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes, this decision time, do it today? Rip it off
like a banda.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'm so sweaty.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Felicity of meadow Brook, what do you think about this?

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Hey? Guys?

Speaker 7 (05:50):
How are you going?

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Felicity? What do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Look?

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Kip, I love you, but it is a pain in
the earth to change your name with all the paperwork,
the banks, the birth certificate and the Marria certificate and
Robin you've got surname Bailey? Is that right?

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (06:07):
Is it the A I L E y?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (06:11):
My married name was b Ai double L I E
And to have to spell it all the time. I'll
tell you what as soon as I got the divorce,
I changed the name to something completely different. That was easy,
but now I have to do birth marriage, divorce and
change the name certificates to your original.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Stick to the original.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay yeah forty.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Four now yeah no? No living in the nineteen forty
I love the nineteen forties is beautiful. I rode a
horse here.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Thanks for thirty six fives, our number of for everyone
to get involved with the show.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Amanda of Ellen Grove, what do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Ah?

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Kid?

Speaker 8 (06:52):
Kip?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
What have I done?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Amanda?

Speaker 1 (06:54):
What?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well?

Speaker 8 (06:57):
I just I just want to say that we're ever
saying in our family and it's it's tradition is peer
pressure from dead people.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
I love that. That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Actually, tradition, tradition is peer pressure from dead people.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Huh Okay, that's so good.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
You know, like, do what works for you if your
name is like a long I went from from a
big long name that I had to spell out every
time I made a doctor's appointment to a nice little
name which is like very it's very you know, like common,
like smith or whatever.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, fair love Okay, that's Kim of Willow Bank. Okay,
married for how long?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Twenty three years?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
And your husband did what.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
Hey, you took my last name?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Boom?

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, well what was your last name cooler than his?

Speaker 6 (07:59):
No? No, I wanted his, but he said if I
was to take his last name, he wouldn't marry me.
He never grew up with his father, so I didn't want.
I wanted nothing to do with him.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
So he didn't want that in his generation and he
didn't want the children with it. So yeah, he married
in to my surname.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
And does that proved to be successful.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
For you guys, Yes, absolutely brilliant. So he's always said
of the hopefully it doesn't happen, but if there was
ever a divorce, he said, I'll never ever change my name.
I'm saying is what it is now, and that's itys.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
And ifever you want to get involved with the show.
As promised, cass Our producer is back in the studio
because it's time for her, well in a moment, to
make a decision on whether or not she's going to
take Hot Nathan's surname when you get married on the
weekend Great News cast. He's been listening and we have
and we have him on hold and we're going to
just give maybe he can have one last pitch to you, all.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right, final pitch, Come on hot, Nathan And hey babe, Oh,
I mean you're in, you're on.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
What have you been thinking about this chat? Oh?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
I don't know. I think it's all of us have
been reciprocates and told very well by Cass. And you know,
like as I said, you know what Cass would have
said as well earlier was back in the day. You know,
it was all very assumed, all this stuff. You know,
there wasn't really a say.

Speaker 9 (09:27):
From the female and I haven't heard you nervousous?

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Because this is really important to you.

Speaker 9 (09:36):
This could be if I ever want to run for office, Kip.
You know, I'm not going to keep up political.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
It is very.

Speaker 9 (09:41):
Important for me and obviously growing up my whole life
really has been you know, you see all these traditions
that have passed down through time and not to be
very old school, it also doesn't mean a lot to me,
but also to my family as well.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
So let me let me this. If she chooses not
to take your name, what.

Speaker 9 (10:04):
Will happen Absolutely nothing. I'll still love her and I
don't want her to do anything that doesn't make her unhappy.
Makes her unhappy then, so.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's more important for you in this moment that your
future wife does the thing that she wants to do
rather than do the thing that you want her to do.
That is really important, cass And that almost makes me cry.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's so sweet.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh my god, I need like tissues.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
You are sweating. Cassie is sweating. Mate.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
A wise person once said to me, Nathan, that tradition
is just peer pressure from dead people, So just keep
that in mind.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Okay, Nathan, you're with this still?

Speaker 9 (10:46):
Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay, So you're ready for this because Cassie is going
to give her decision.

Speaker 9 (10:50):
Yeah, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, are you sweating.

Speaker 9 (10:54):
A little bit?

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
A couple of Okay, Well, listen, I I'm so looking
forward to getting married on the weekend after much thought
and a lovely letter. I would love to take your
last name and your family's last name.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
But I may still keep mine in like as a
middle name.

Speaker 9 (11:15):
But it's pretty well Casulis has a very good ring
to it.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
And that was the letter that wasn't the letter.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
Yeah, thank you very much. That means a lot to me.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
That's okay very much.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
That's so sweet. And I get to figure our kids' names.
There's like, if she's going to take your last name,
she gets first.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
The kids name discussion, Yes, yes, wake up with Robin
and kid
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