June 18, 2025 • 24 mins
This week, Monty fills us in on Big Brother's return to our TV screens, and we ponder whether it'll take off - and have a giggle over an unforgettable moment from the show's past. Mel shares her love for singer Lola Young's body confidence... but why it also makes her feel like a hypocrite.
There's also a bit of phone booth nostalgia, Mel's random fact, a goosebump-inducing vocal from a beloved Beach Boy, and Monty asks... is it ok to sniff a stranger's baby? Enjoy!
Fancy supporting us on Patreon? Find out more here.
Follow us and get in touch on Instagram here.
Follow us on Facebook here.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi friends, it's Mallet's Manti today. It's your podcast time.
We're in your ears. Oh here we are, Oh yeah
we are. I hope you're well. Thank you for listening.
And yeah, I just want to kick off with this morning.
I went and did pilates maw yes. And something that's
(00:28):
embarrassing for no reason for starters is you wouldn't know
because you never do a class. But you can think
about even when somebody walks into a room and presents
or something like that. So when you're in a situation
where there's multiple people in a room and then one
person's coming in and taking control. So we're laying on
the polarates' beds our instructor walks in and it happens
(00:49):
every week. She's like, how is everyone, and no one answers.
No one answers because no one wants to be the
one person good embarrassing for no reason every week and
I'm like, stop asking us anyway. The other thing is
one of the ladies who does it regularly has had
a baby recently, and she's obviously got a babysitter she
(01:09):
brings to polates with her, So the babysitter sits outside
the class with the baby, and then when everyone comes
out of the class, it always gush over the baby,
you know, like yes, new, It's.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, oh, how cute.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And I heard one lady leaning to the mom and say,
do you mind if I smell her?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh? You know what? I know that sounds weird, but
I know what she means. Oh, the smell of a
baby's head.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's crack.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We all know that it's crack. But it's also like
you don't know her and you've asked to lean in
and sniff the head. I find that so weird. I'd
prefer to go, can I have a little hold and
then just sneakily sniff the head, as opposed to ask
a stranger if you can sniff the baby's head?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I think there are some people, you know what.
The reason I don't I don't think of that as
so weird is that's probably something I would do, really like,
it would be something I would I'd be thinking it
and my mouth would just say yeah, like that impulsive
comes out and then.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
What do you Reckon's weirder asking to smell it or
just leaning in and smelling.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
See what I would do is like lean in and
smell and go, oh, that's smell the baby, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, it is. Yeah, I still feel like sniffing as
strange as babies. Head's odd. I don't know I was.
I just was felt uncomfortable and I walked off. I'm like, oh,
you guys can sniff without me around.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's probably similar to the idea of touching a pregnant
woman's stomach.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, yes, it's very personal. I didn't mind. I quite
liked people touching my tummy, but having a stranger touch it.
I guess unless you're having a bit of a conversation
and there's a connection there, then it would be all
right for the person to touch your belly. But yeah,
it's a very It's quite an invasion of your personal space.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
To be talking to the person, assuming it's not a
complete stranger, which how often you're having a convo just
with a complete I.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Feel like when you're pregnant, you have conversations with complete
strangers more often than in regular life.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You're like it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Even though all of us grew in the stomach, pregnant
women are like unicorns for some reason. They're this magical specie.
Whenever I see a pregnant woman. I'm like, there's a
fucking human in there. It's never not phenomenal to me.
So I would be more likely to strike up a
conversation with a pregnant woman than not a pregnant woman.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Maybe, Yeah it is. Yeah, it is amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh, it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Speaking of amazing, I've got a fact for you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh yes, so sorry, I stole the start where normally
we kick off with one of your fantastic facts.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, that's okay. Also, I'll just have you know I'm
so sorry to the listener that I can't remember their name,
but I got a beautiful message from someone who told
me that they thought my Michael Jackson fact from last
week was very, very interesting, the one that you thought
was shit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you didn't hear it, I'm not going to repeat it,
go back and listen till last week.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, okay, do you know that only two percent of
the world's population have green eyes? I say this because
you have green eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, I've got ones that change. So what are they
called hazel?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well? Isn't that funny though, because I've got like I
would say, I've got blue green hazel eyes. Yes, but
I would say, you have quite green eyes. Yeah right,
I just it all depends on what I wear.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
My eyes change. They're definitely more green than blue, but
they do go blue.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well. This is interesting because green eyes can often shift
in color depending on what clothes or makeup the person
is wearing. Green eyes are also rarer if you're a man,
because it's more women that have green eyes than mess
and they can be extremely sensitive and often people get
clean in their eyes in bright light. Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I'm just said that. I am, Yes, I think it is.
I am so unbelievably sensitive to lie. Is it photo insane?
Since Cynthia that's the thing plants go through. Oh, anyway,
there's a name. Now, I've got to google it. It's
hold on.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'd want to say photosensitive, but I don't know if
that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, it's not photophobia. It's called photophobia. Oh yeah, And
I hands down, hands down have that, which is a
side effect of having migraines. But it's like, what's the
chicken and what's the egg? But I can't because you
know how you're meant to get up in the morning
and gaze at the sun for ten minutes, like it's
meant to set your circadian rhythm. Like it's a known
(05:34):
thing now that as soon as you get up, go
out and get at least ten minutes of sunlight. I'm like,
I can't do it. I've got to wear my sunglasses
out the whole time, and it defeats a purpose of
getting the sun into your retna.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, I think that looking at the sun, it's like
very early morning. And also it's not looking directly at
the sun. I think it's just getting a little getting
out light in your voice.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, so, I VIVI remember when I was a kid.
I think I've told this before, but I would have
been three or four, and I remember it. We owned
a motel in Wangarada in Victoria and my dad was
outside gardening and I overheard somebody say, don't look at
the sun today, it'll blind you. And so obviously it
was just a bright sun whatever. I mean, it's always bright,
(06:19):
but I overheard somebody. I fucking panicked like nothing else.
I remember sprinting out to my dad as fast as
I couldn't, saying, Dad, you cannot look at the sun today.
Do not look at the sun. I just remember thinking
everyone in my family's going to go blind. Talk about
anxiety from a young age.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's also not a good thing to look directly at
the sun your eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's never good. But I remember going, oh, my god,
if I look at it, we're going to go blind.
I also remember being slightly tempted to look up at it,
but I didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, and it's also funny the things that you hear
as a kid that you don't like, just sayings or
whatever that you don't get. Like when I was a kid,
because I come from an Italian family and like my
siblings are both olive skinned and dark haired, right, yes,
people used to say because I'm fair and blonde that, oh,
she must she must be the milkman's. Yes. I never
(07:15):
fucking understood that. Some people would say to me, oh,
look you're oh you're so fair compared to your brother
and sister, and I'd say, I'm the milkman's not knowing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What ad Oh my god, that's so funny. You just
take everything so literally as a kid. It's so cool too, though,
like you just don't know anything. You're just so innocent,
and yeah, whatever your parents say you just take for
you know, gospel. But my friend Kez the other day too,
was saying how her little boy. They went past a
(07:44):
outdoor phone booth. You know, they're so rare. I also
heard somebody's trying to get them heritage listed, which I
actually think is a good idea. Like imaginary twenty years
a phone box, it will be like, what the hell
is this? Like it almost already is for a lot
of kiss But anyway, they were walking past and you
can get three free calls on it or something, and
(08:06):
he's like, oh, can I call dad? And so he
put in his dad's number and he it went straight
to the dad's voicemail. And he could not, for the
life of him, compute how this phone knew to get
through to his dad's message. Like he just it cause
it's like his little brain was just guy, He's like,
how does it know? Like how does it connect? Like
(08:28):
I just don't get how this phone here can get
through to dad.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's still one of the things that boggles my mind.
A phone call. Oh, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I just got such a massive hit of nostalgia. You
know what I just thought about. You know, it used
to be forty cents to use a phone. Yeah, right,
I call forty cents, But And I remember when I
was a kid, and by kid I mean probably sixteen,
and I would go into the city, catch the train
into the city with my friends or whatever. I had
to call my mom as soon as I got there.
Of course, it were no mobile phones back then. Yes,
(09:00):
I remember putting the money in and when the call connected,
the sound of the money.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yes. Oh that's so retro and so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I love.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh it's so good or cool?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Can it?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Do you accept this call from Monty.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Like saying, Hi, Mum, it's Monty Weird.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I told you when I fit because my name's Katie
for those of you who and you like when I
went to Aubrey Radio. That's why I had to change
my name to Monty because there were so many Kates
on air. And I said to Mom, I'm going to
go from Monty because it was a nickname. One friend
called me and she's like, that's a drag green name.
Call yourself Jessica or something pretty.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Jessica saying Jessica.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
MONTI works anyway. So I read last week the Big
Brothers coming Back. I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Look, i'd be ready for it too, but I feel
like it just an't be the same. Oh, there's no
way it's gonna be disappointing epic. It was like, I
still Blair McDonald lives around the corner from me. God,
I loved him on that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I think it was the first episode and Ben won,
But it was the episode where also Rachel Corbett from
the Project went in as an intruder.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
She got I didn't know she was on Big Brother, Yeah,
she was on Big Brother. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I just loved it so much. And then there was
the Chrissy Swan and Reggie one and Sissy was on there.
Like it's launched a lot of quiz. I remember when
I was trying to get into radio. Used to give
me the shits so much when I would hear Big
Brother people would have got breakfast radio gigs or gigs
like that. I'd be like, I mean, here working my
(10:42):
fucking ass off, and you've gone and sat in a
house and got a profile from it, and you've got
my gig. Like it just would ship me, not that
it was my gig, but it would shit me so much.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Do you know what the difference is between then and now?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Because now it seems like that is commonplace. You go
on maths and then you launch some sort of influencer
career or whatever. The difference between then and now is
that I think in Big Brother, let's take chrisy Swan
for example, people watching would have seen in her she
had something, yes, the way that she's folder, or even
(11:19):
that her ability to start conversations and stuff. They saw
a talent in her. It's not like now you've got
everyone's about you or whatever your a platform. Yes, And
in those first especially the first earlier seasons of Big Brother,
I think people genuinely were going in to be like,
(11:40):
oh my god, this is going to be incredible. They
weren't thinking this is going to launch my career. This
is going to be a fun experiment, totally.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I reckon for the first two or three and then
people switch on. It's the same as maths and stuff.
Now it's like everyone's going on for ulterior motives. But
back then, celebrity was huge, but now it's so diluted
because because everybody everyone like you will never have stars
like Elvis or Michael Jackson now, because everyone has access
(12:10):
to an audience, whether it is doing what we do, podcasting,
putting it on social media, like, there's just no one
now who is like they used to be celebrity wise.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's becoming more of an even
playing field.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah totally. Yeah, they just won't. There's just not one
stand like you know the Beatles, Like there will never
be another group because it's so Yeah, there's so many.
But I just don't really even know how to turn
on free to air TV. It's like Channel ten and
they moved it years ago, I think, to Channel seven
or something and built the house in Sydney where now
(12:47):
it's going back to dream World.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
You know who I think will be their big audience
will be like our kids' generation who didn't know the
first one. I won't be able to watch it with
the same interest as the first ones because I'll be
thinking of these people going on with an ulterior motive.
It's ruined already.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It is a bit. Yeah, I probably won't watch it,
But I also remember that my sister worked at dream World,
and that's when the dream World house was there. Yeah,
and she did a tour when they're like went through
it when the contestants are in the house, like they
used to open it up, but behind the scenes where
the camera men were and you could go and you
could watch them like monkeys in a zoo.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Imagine how much unethical shit would have happened there those
camera men watching people shower and stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Of course, because they would have had access to it,
even though they because they did for a few seasons
show it didn't they but not the full But didn't
We see someone's peen and everyone was like Jamie. His
name was Jamie and he used to wear that headband,
headband with the blonde hair. Yeah, he was like a
bit of a himbo. What's a himbo?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Like a bimbo, but a male one.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, oh god, totally yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.
We all knew that he had a massive schlong.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I do remember that. Also. I remember the girls, a
lot of the girls showering in bikinis, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Stuff, and then having to soap up and shove their
hands down their bikini fronts to wash themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, it just made me think of you know,
there was I don't know whose big brother was first,
but there was a big brother in the UK, And
there's that viral clip that comes out all the time
that one of the contestants it was like a celebrity
big brother, I guess, and one of them was Angie Bowie,
who was David Bowie's first Wow. While she was in there,
(14:37):
she got news that David Bowie, I remember that, fuck
and I remember this. There was a contestant called David
as well. She goes up to one of.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The Eliza Minelli's ex husband. Word, no, that.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Who can't, who can't do that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Sit down?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Sit down? Didn't stop it? They're all going to know. Please,
Tay came please, Oh my gosh, what I plan? What's
happened now? Told me that David is dead?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yes, David, David. She said, he just died and I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
David, What did I do? You told her that David
was dead with cancer. Yes he is. He's in there asleep,
David my ex husband.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That was funny and she was so shocked and devastated.
But then it was David Bowie. Do you remember that
kiss of Liza Minelli and David? Have you said that?
That was epic? God? It was so uncom makes me
so uncomfortable thinking of.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And Drake too.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Oh yeah, that was remember that gusting? Because I also
think she'd been up there for hours singing. Her breath
would have been nasty. She would have been all dry
in them out. I can't, I can't even it's so gross.
But also speaking of celebrities, the other week, to Brian
from the Beach Boys died.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, God, the Beach Boys were good. I mean, you
loved the Beach Boys, didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He was one of my first concerts, the Beach Boys.
Remember I held up there sign saying I love you
John because John Stamos was drumming. Somebody were really going
for the Beach Boy John Stammers. But mind you, my
dad loved the Beach Boys, so we grew up on
the Beach Boys music.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, and they're one of the They're one of the greats.
And he was known to have a lot of mental
health problems, was he? Yeah, he had is it called
something like skitzo, effective disorder and ripola, Like he had
lots of lots of issues. But yeah, so that's a
very sad loss. But this clip is re surfacing. It's
(17:01):
the vocal line from like So, the isolated vocals from
their song God Only Knows, which is one of the
most beautiful songs ever. I did my nephew's twenty first
birthday and right at the end I actually used this
okay for it, and it's just footage of him as
like a two year old running on the beach. But
(17:21):
I just thought i'd play it because it's so so beautiful. Okay,
but line is, there are stars above you. You never
need you, DoD, I'll make you, sir sho. God knows
what I'd be with the God knows why i'd be
(17:46):
with the Why me with.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Have the harmony?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's so beautiful And what a song like I think
to say to someone not only knows.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
What I've been without, I've got full goose bumps. This
sounds so distinctive too, Like as soon as you hear that,
you know, like, how clever to create a sound that's
so uniquely you.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I know, and they had like so many of their
songs were sort of just cheesy surfin Usa and whatever.
But then a song like that is so like saying
profound sounds wanky, but it is beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, I love it when a song makes you think
specifically of someone as well, where you're like, oh, that's
so that person comes to mind. But that video would
have been beautiful two of him running around just to
know I bet there was not a dry eye in
the house.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
There wasn't Oh were you looking around like fuck.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You know what it's like when you show someone something
funny and you're just looking to see if they find
it funny too. You're watching their face while they're watching it.
It was like that, I just sha the room.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Tears, get the tics. That's what we always used to
say in radio. It's very true, too, funny.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, keeping on the musical theme, but very different. So,
you know, I think it was last week this happened.
You know Lowly Young that sings this song because I'm
feel messy and I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Messy, very big on Instagram, everyone doing things to that.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, it was one of those one of those viral songs.
But anyway, she's released this new song. I think it's
called one Thing I Want To Everybody wants to and
it's basically her saying that she doesn't want a relationship,
she just wants a route and well done.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
To yous off more power to you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah. In the film clip, she is look. I don't
know if i'd even say she's a larger woman. She
has a normal average body, so she's not super toned
or anything. Her body wiggles and moves and she's got
a little bit of a tummy, so she looks like
a normal woman. Yeah, and in the film clear.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
She feels like most women's bodies are normal. Though, do
you know what I mean? That's so like, I know
exactly what you're trying to say. But people in a
larger body or also a smaller body, that's normal to them.
So is it like just a body that is you
don't typically see on a screen.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Like people in the spotlight,
you're generally seeing a hard body, a cookie cutter, very
thin body. I'm not talking about real life. I'm saying
she looks like real life, yeah, whereas we're used to
seeing Katie Perry and Sabrina Carpenter and you know, like
every woman you can think of is pretty much slim,
(21:00):
apart from a few. Anyway, in the film clip, nothing
about her looks polished at all. And she's dancing and
she's moving and she's wiggling and whatever, and then the
comments are rolling in, you're disgusting, wig whatever, which you know,
people are assholes. But I did find something interesting in it.
(21:21):
When I saw it, I took it to my husband
and I said, look at this and look at the comments, right,
And he's like I think she looks good, And I said, yeah,
because I think that people are also craving to see
some real, like real stuff. Yes, And I thought to myself,
it's interesting that I was applauding her for the confidence
(21:44):
to get up there and owner sexuality and her body,
and that's great. But then I thought, if that had
been one of those other women, I would have thought, oh,
fucking look at you. What sort of example are you
to young women? Or whatever? I thought, what's what's the difference?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
That's my But it's how we've been conditioned now, Like
it's not actually our fault that we think like that,
but it's like the other week we were talking about,
you know, people who have had plastic surgery, and when
they're older women on screens, if they have or haven't,
you have an opinion on it where it's like, if
they haven't had work, you're like, whoa, they look old,
(22:24):
And if they have, you're like, oh my god, they've
had so much work. So it's like you, I just
know what you mean, because if I saw a thin
body doing that, I'd be like, oh, that's so sexualized,
and so look at her.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Just perfect.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
But then if it was a you know, everyday kind
of body. It would almost be confronting because it isn't
what you're used to seeing.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, I know, but it's like, oh, good on you.
Even with Lizo, I would see Lizo and I'm like, oh,
good on you.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I know, on you because in our mind their body
is lesser than Obviously, I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Know if it's lesser than. I think. The good on
you part is I look at it and I think
when you're doing that for the world to see, and
you know, the sort of shit people are going to
say because our eyes are conditioned to a certain look
that God the courage that takes. And I know courage
is a big word, but I've forgot confidence to be
able to accept it totally.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And I also think because we go, our body's not
that dissimilar, and would we be able to do that
and probably not, you know, like it's but good I
know for doing that because we need to and other
obviously because of our opinions and kids need to see that.
And so to fucking men like you for real shaming her,
(23:41):
I bet you those men are just disgusting, fucking gross pigs.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Anyway, It's funny I'm seeing increasingly on social media and stuff.
People with profiles. Eumie Stein's has done it quite a
bit too. The comments they right, and then they're naming
and shaming them. So it's like someone will be saying,
oh my god, look at your makeup. You look fucking disgusting,
and then they'll say, this is the person that sent it,
(24:07):
and it's like some slob.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I know, it's always some rotten man doing it. I
like when they do that, I get it read them
and I'm like, yeah, good on you same disgusting. Hey,
we're going to get out of here. Thank you so
much for listening. We have a Patreon which starts about
five dollars a month, Patreon, dot com, forward slash Seontel online.
We do an extra little pot over there every two
(24:31):
weeks if you want to jump over and grab that.
Otherwise hit us up. Shan Tel Podcasts is our Instagram,
but we'll chat to you guys soon too.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Love you,
Hi friends, it's Mallet's Manti today. It's your podcast time.
We're in your ears. Oh here we are, Oh yeah
we are. I hope you're well. Thank you for listening.
And yeah, I just want to kick off with this morning.
I went and did pilates maw yes. And something that's
(00:28):
embarrassing for no reason for starters is you wouldn't know
because you never do a class. But you can think
about even when somebody walks into a room and presents
or something like that. So when you're in a situation
where there's multiple people in a room and then one
person's coming in and taking control. So we're laying on
the polarates' beds our instructor walks in and it happens
(00:49):
every week. She's like, how is everyone, and no one answers.
No one answers because no one wants to be the
one person good embarrassing for no reason every week and
I'm like, stop asking us anyway. The other thing is
one of the ladies who does it regularly has had
a baby recently, and she's obviously got a babysitter she
(01:09):
brings to polates with her, So the babysitter sits outside
the class with the baby, and then when everyone comes
out of the class, it always gush over the baby,
you know, like yes, new, It's.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, oh, how cute.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And I heard one lady leaning to the mom and say,
do you mind if I smell her?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh? You know what? I know that sounds weird, but
I know what she means. Oh, the smell of a
baby's head.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's crack.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We all know that it's crack. But it's also like
you don't know her and you've asked to lean in
and sniff the head. I find that so weird. I'd
prefer to go, can I have a little hold and
then just sneakily sniff the head, as opposed to ask
a stranger if you can sniff the baby's head?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I think there are some people, you know what.
The reason I don't I don't think of that as
so weird is that's probably something I would do, really like,
it would be something I would I'd be thinking it
and my mouth would just say yeah, like that impulsive
comes out and then.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
What do you Reckon's weirder asking to smell it or
just leaning in and smelling.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
See what I would do is like lean in and
smell and go, oh, that's smell the baby, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yes, it is. Yeah, I still feel like sniffing as
strange as babies. Head's odd. I don't know I was.
I just was felt uncomfortable and I walked off. I'm like, oh,
you guys can sniff without me around.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's probably similar to the idea of touching a pregnant
woman's stomach.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, yes, it's very personal. I didn't mind. I quite
liked people touching my tummy, but having a stranger touch it.
I guess unless you're having a bit of a conversation
and there's a connection there, then it would be all
right for the person to touch your belly. But yeah,
it's a very It's quite an invasion of your personal space.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
To be talking to the person, assuming it's not a
complete stranger, which how often you're having a convo just
with a complete I.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Feel like when you're pregnant, you have conversations with complete
strangers more often than in regular life.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You're like it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Even though all of us grew in the stomach, pregnant
women are like unicorns for some reason. They're this magical specie.
Whenever I see a pregnant woman. I'm like, there's a
fucking human in there. It's never not phenomenal to me.
So I would be more likely to strike up a
conversation with a pregnant woman than not a pregnant woman.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Maybe, Yeah it is. Yeah, it is amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh, it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Speaking of amazing, I've got a fact for you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh yes, so sorry, I stole the start where normally
we kick off with one of your fantastic facts.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, that's okay. Also, I'll just have you know I'm
so sorry to the listener that I can't remember their name,
but I got a beautiful message from someone who told
me that they thought my Michael Jackson fact from last
week was very, very interesting, the one that you thought
was shit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you didn't hear it, I'm not going to repeat it,
go back and listen till last week.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, okay, do you know that only two percent of
the world's population have green eyes? I say this because
you have green eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, I've got ones that change. So what are they
called hazel?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well? Isn't that funny though, because I've got like I
would say, I've got blue green hazel eyes. Yes, but
I would say, you have quite green eyes. Yeah right,
I just it all depends on what I wear.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
My eyes change. They're definitely more green than blue, but
they do go blue.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well. This is interesting because green eyes can often shift
in color depending on what clothes or makeup the person
is wearing. Green eyes are also rarer if you're a man,
because it's more women that have green eyes than mess
and they can be extremely sensitive and often people get
clean in their eyes in bright light. Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I'm just said that. I am, Yes, I think it is.
I am so unbelievably sensitive to lie. Is it photo insane?
Since Cynthia that's the thing plants go through. Oh, anyway,
there's a name. Now, I've got to google it. It's
hold on.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'd want to say photosensitive, but I don't know if
that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, it's not photophobia. It's called photophobia. Oh yeah, And
I hands down, hands down have that, which is a
side effect of having migraines. But it's like, what's the
chicken and what's the egg? But I can't because you
know how you're meant to get up in the morning
and gaze at the sun for ten minutes, like it's
meant to set your circadian rhythm. Like it's a known
(05:34):
thing now that as soon as you get up, go
out and get at least ten minutes of sunlight. I'm like,
I can't do it. I've got to wear my sunglasses
out the whole time, and it defeats a purpose of
getting the sun into your retna.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, I think that looking at the sun, it's like
very early morning. And also it's not looking directly at
the sun. I think it's just getting a little getting
out light in your voice.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, so, I VIVI remember when I was a kid.
I think I've told this before, but I would have
been three or four, and I remember it. We owned
a motel in Wangarada in Victoria and my dad was
outside gardening and I overheard somebody say, don't look at
the sun today, it'll blind you. And so obviously it
was just a bright sun whatever. I mean, it's always bright,
(06:19):
but I overheard somebody. I fucking panicked like nothing else.
I remember sprinting out to my dad as fast as
I couldn't, saying, Dad, you cannot look at the sun today.
Do not look at the sun. I just remember thinking
everyone in my family's going to go blind. Talk about
anxiety from a young age.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's also not a good thing to look directly at
the sun your eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's never good. But I remember going, oh, my god,
if I look at it, we're going to go blind.
I also remember being slightly tempted to look up at it,
but I didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, and it's also funny the things that you hear
as a kid that you don't like, just sayings or
whatever that you don't get. Like when I was a kid,
because I come from an Italian family and like my
siblings are both olive skinned and dark haired, right, yes,
people used to say because I'm fair and blonde that, oh,
she must she must be the milkman's. Yes. I never
(07:15):
fucking understood that. Some people would say to me, oh,
look you're oh you're so fair compared to your brother
and sister, and I'd say, I'm the milkman's not knowing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What ad Oh my god, that's so funny. You just
take everything so literally as a kid. It's so cool too, though,
like you just don't know anything. You're just so innocent,
and yeah, whatever your parents say you just take for
you know, gospel. But my friend Kez the other day too,
was saying how her little boy. They went past a
(07:44):
outdoor phone booth. You know, they're so rare. I also
heard somebody's trying to get them heritage listed, which I
actually think is a good idea. Like imaginary twenty years
a phone box, it will be like, what the hell
is this? Like it almost already is for a lot
of kiss But anyway, they were walking past and you
can get three free calls on it or something, and
(08:06):
he's like, oh, can I call dad? And so he
put in his dad's number and he it went straight
to the dad's voicemail. And he could not, for the
life of him, compute how this phone knew to get
through to his dad's message. Like he just it cause
it's like his little brain was just guy, He's like,
how does it know? Like how does it connect? Like
(08:28):
I just don't get how this phone here can get
through to dad.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's still one of the things that boggles my mind.
A phone call. Oh, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I just got such a massive hit of nostalgia. You
know what I just thought about. You know, it used
to be forty cents to use a phone. Yeah, right,
I call forty cents, But And I remember when I
was a kid, and by kid I mean probably sixteen,
and I would go into the city, catch the train
into the city with my friends or whatever. I had
to call my mom as soon as I got there.
Of course, it were no mobile phones back then. Yes,
(09:00):
I remember putting the money in and when the call connected,
the sound of the money.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yes. Oh that's so retro and so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I love.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh it's so good or cool?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Can it?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Do you accept this call from Monty.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Like saying, Hi, Mum, it's Monty Weird.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I told you when I fit because my name's Katie
for those of you who and you like when I
went to Aubrey Radio. That's why I had to change
my name to Monty because there were so many Kates
on air. And I said to Mom, I'm going to
go from Monty because it was a nickname. One friend
called me and she's like, that's a drag green name.
Call yourself Jessica or something pretty.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Jessica saying Jessica.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
MONTI works anyway. So I read last week the Big
Brothers coming Back. I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Look, i'd be ready for it too, but I feel
like it just an't be the same. Oh, there's no
way it's gonna be disappointing epic. It was like, I
still Blair McDonald lives around the corner from me. God,
I loved him on that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I think it was the first episode and Ben won,
But it was the episode where also Rachel Corbett from
the Project went in as an intruder.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
She got I didn't know she was on Big Brother, Yeah,
she was on Big Brother. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I just loved it so much. And then there was
the Chrissy Swan and Reggie one and Sissy was on there.
Like it's launched a lot of quiz. I remember when
I was trying to get into radio. Used to give
me the shits so much when I would hear Big
Brother people would have got breakfast radio gigs or gigs
like that. I'd be like, I mean, here working my
(10:42):
fucking ass off, and you've gone and sat in a
house and got a profile from it, and you've got
my gig. Like it just would ship me, not that
it was my gig, but it would shit me so much.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Do you know what the difference is between then and now?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Because now it seems like that is commonplace. You go
on maths and then you launch some sort of influencer
career or whatever. The difference between then and now is
that I think in Big Brother, let's take chrisy Swan
for example, people watching would have seen in her she
had something, yes, the way that she's folder, or even
(11:19):
that her ability to start conversations and stuff. They saw
a talent in her. It's not like now you've got
everyone's about you or whatever your a platform. Yes, And
in those first especially the first earlier seasons of Big Brother,
I think people genuinely were going in to be like,
(11:40):
oh my god, this is going to be incredible. They
weren't thinking this is going to launch my career. This
is going to be a fun experiment, totally.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I reckon for the first two or three and then
people switch on. It's the same as maths and stuff.
Now it's like everyone's going on for ulterior motives. But
back then, celebrity was huge, but now it's so diluted
because because everybody everyone like you will never have stars
like Elvis or Michael Jackson now, because everyone has access
(12:10):
to an audience, whether it is doing what we do, podcasting,
putting it on social media, like, there's just no one
now who is like they used to be celebrity wise.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's becoming more of an even
playing field.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah totally. Yeah, they just won't. There's just not one
stand like you know the Beatles, Like there will never
be another group because it's so Yeah, there's so many.
But I just don't really even know how to turn
on free to air TV. It's like Channel ten and
they moved it years ago, I think, to Channel seven
or something and built the house in Sydney where now
(12:47):
it's going back to dream World.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
You know who I think will be their big audience
will be like our kids' generation who didn't know the
first one. I won't be able to watch it with
the same interest as the first ones because I'll be
thinking of these people going on with an ulterior motive.
It's ruined already.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It is a bit. Yeah, I probably won't watch it,
But I also remember that my sister worked at dream World,
and that's when the dream World house was there. Yeah,
and she did a tour when they're like went through
it when the contestants are in the house, like they
used to open it up, but behind the scenes where
the camera men were and you could go and you
could watch them like monkeys in a zoo.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Imagine how much unethical shit would have happened there those
camera men watching people shower and stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Of course, because they would have had access to it,
even though they because they did for a few seasons
show it didn't they but not the full But didn't
We see someone's peen and everyone was like Jamie. His
name was Jamie and he used to wear that headband,
headband with the blonde hair. Yeah, he was like a
bit of a himbo. What's a himbo?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Like a bimbo, but a male one.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, oh god, totally yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.
We all knew that he had a massive schlong.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I do remember that. Also. I remember the girls, a
lot of the girls showering in bikinis, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Stuff, and then having to soap up and shove their
hands down their bikini fronts to wash themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, it just made me think of you know,
there was I don't know whose big brother was first,
but there was a big brother in the UK, And
there's that viral clip that comes out all the time
that one of the contestants it was like a celebrity
big brother, I guess, and one of them was Angie Bowie,
who was David Bowie's first Wow. While she was in there,
(14:37):
she got news that David Bowie, I remember that, fuck
and I remember this. There was a contestant called David
as well. She goes up to one of.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The Eliza Minelli's ex husband. Word, no, that.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Who can't, who can't do that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Sit down?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Sit down? Didn't stop it? They're all going to know. Please,
Tay came please, Oh my gosh, what I plan? What's
happened now? Told me that David is dead?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yes, David, David. She said, he just died and I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
David, What did I do? You told her that David
was dead with cancer. Yes he is. He's in there asleep,
David my ex husband.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That was funny and she was so shocked and devastated.
But then it was David Bowie. Do you remember that
kiss of Liza Minelli and David? Have you said that?
That was epic? God? It was so uncom makes me
so uncomfortable thinking of.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And Drake too.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Oh yeah, that was remember that gusting? Because I also
think she'd been up there for hours singing. Her breath
would have been nasty. She would have been all dry
in them out. I can't, I can't even it's so gross.
But also speaking of celebrities, the other week, to Brian
from the Beach Boys died.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, God, the Beach Boys were good. I mean, you
loved the Beach Boys, didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He was one of my first concerts, the Beach Boys.
Remember I held up there sign saying I love you
John because John Stamos was drumming. Somebody were really going
for the Beach Boy John Stammers. But mind you, my
dad loved the Beach Boys, so we grew up on
the Beach Boys music.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, and they're one of the They're one of the greats.
And he was known to have a lot of mental
health problems, was he? Yeah, he had is it called
something like skitzo, effective disorder and ripola, Like he had
lots of lots of issues. But yeah, so that's a
very sad loss. But this clip is re surfacing. It's
(17:01):
the vocal line from like So, the isolated vocals from
their song God Only Knows, which is one of the
most beautiful songs ever. I did my nephew's twenty first
birthday and right at the end I actually used this
okay for it, and it's just footage of him as
like a two year old running on the beach. But
(17:21):
I just thought i'd play it because it's so so beautiful. Okay,
but line is, there are stars above you. You never
need you, DoD, I'll make you, sir sho. God knows
what I'd be with the God knows why i'd be
(17:46):
with the Why me with.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Have the harmony?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's so beautiful And what a song like I think
to say to someone not only knows.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
What I've been without, I've got full goose bumps. This
sounds so distinctive too, Like as soon as you hear that,
you know, like, how clever to create a sound that's
so uniquely you.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I know, and they had like so many of their
songs were sort of just cheesy surfin Usa and whatever.
But then a song like that is so like saying
profound sounds wanky, but it is beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, I love it when a song makes you think
specifically of someone as well, where you're like, oh, that's
so that person comes to mind. But that video would
have been beautiful two of him running around just to
know I bet there was not a dry eye in
the house.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
There wasn't Oh were you looking around like fuck.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You know what it's like when you show someone something
funny and you're just looking to see if they find
it funny too. You're watching their face while they're watching it.
It was like that, I just sha the room.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Tears, get the tics. That's what we always used to
say in radio. It's very true, too, funny.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, keeping on the musical theme, but very different. So,
you know, I think it was last week this happened.
You know Lowly Young that sings this song because I'm
feel messy and I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Messy, very big on Instagram, everyone doing things to that.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, it was one of those one of those viral songs.
But anyway, she's released this new song. I think it's
called one Thing I Want To Everybody wants to and
it's basically her saying that she doesn't want a relationship,
she just wants a route and well done.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
To yous off more power to you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah. In the film clip, she is look. I don't
know if i'd even say she's a larger woman. She
has a normal average body, so she's not super toned
or anything. Her body wiggles and moves and she's got
a little bit of a tummy, so she looks like
a normal woman. Yeah, and in the film clear.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
She feels like most women's bodies are normal. Though, do
you know what I mean? That's so like, I know
exactly what you're trying to say. But people in a
larger body or also a smaller body, that's normal to them.
So is it like just a body that is you
don't typically see on a screen.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Like people in the spotlight,
you're generally seeing a hard body, a cookie cutter, very
thin body. I'm not talking about real life. I'm saying
she looks like real life, yeah, whereas we're used to
seeing Katie Perry and Sabrina Carpenter and you know, like
every woman you can think of is pretty much slim,
(21:00):
apart from a few. Anyway, in the film clip, nothing
about her looks polished at all. And she's dancing and
she's moving and she's wiggling and whatever, and then the
comments are rolling in, you're disgusting, wig whatever, which you know,
people are assholes. But I did find something interesting in it.
(21:21):
When I saw it, I took it to my husband
and I said, look at this and look at the comments, right,
And he's like I think she looks good, And I said, yeah,
because I think that people are also craving to see
some real, like real stuff. Yes, And I thought to myself,
it's interesting that I was applauding her for the confidence
(21:44):
to get up there and owner sexuality and her body,
and that's great. But then I thought, if that had
been one of those other women, I would have thought, oh,
fucking look at you. What sort of example are you
to young women? Or whatever? I thought, what's what's the difference?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
That's my But it's how we've been conditioned now, Like
it's not actually our fault that we think like that,
but it's like the other week we were talking about,
you know, people who have had plastic surgery, and when
they're older women on screens, if they have or haven't,
you have an opinion on it where it's like, if
they haven't had work, you're like, whoa, they look old,
(22:24):
And if they have, you're like, oh my god, they've
had so much work. So it's like you, I just
know what you mean, because if I saw a thin
body doing that, I'd be like, oh, that's so sexualized,
and so look at her.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Just perfect.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
But then if it was a you know, everyday kind
of body. It would almost be confronting because it isn't
what you're used to seeing.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, I know, but it's like, oh, good on you.
Even with Lizo, I would see Lizo and I'm like, oh,
good on you.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I know, on you because in our mind their body
is lesser than Obviously, I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Know if it's lesser than. I think. The good on
you part is I look at it and I think
when you're doing that for the world to see, and
you know, the sort of shit people are going to
say because our eyes are conditioned to a certain look
that God the courage that takes. And I know courage
is a big word, but I've forgot confidence to be
able to accept it totally.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And I also think because we go, our body's not
that dissimilar, and would we be able to do that
and probably not, you know, like it's but good I
know for doing that because we need to and other
obviously because of our opinions and kids need to see that.
And so to fucking men like you for real shaming her,
(23:41):
I bet you those men are just disgusting, fucking gross pigs.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Anyway, It's funny I'm seeing increasingly on social media and stuff.
People with profiles. Eumie Stein's has done it quite a
bit too. The comments they right, and then they're naming
and shaming them. So it's like someone will be saying,
oh my god, look at your makeup. You look fucking disgusting,
and then they'll say, this is the person that sent it,
(24:07):
and it's like some slob.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I know, it's always some rotten man doing it. I
like when they do that, I get it read them
and I'm like, yeah, good on you same disgusting. Hey,
we're going to get out of here. Thank you so
much for listening. We have a Patreon which starts about
five dollars a month, Patreon, dot com, forward slash Seontel online.
We do an extra little pot over there every two
(24:31):
weeks if you want to jump over and grab that.
Otherwise hit us up. Shan Tel Podcasts is our Instagram,
but we'll chat to you guys soon too.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Love you,
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.