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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your bite sized dose
of the hottest influencer and pop culture news this festive season.
I'm Kate Torber and coming up on today's show, Sarah's
Day's Beach House Woes, Matsakowski drops details about last Christmas
with the Hembros and our Friday debrief. The first Bunnings
have launched their own version of La Boo Boos. So
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they're called the Bunnings Mystery Box Mini Bears and they
are all over my FORU page. They've gone completely viral.
I really wanted one of these, but I saw on
TikTok that they've already sold out. Well I can see
why because there were only twelve dollars fifty and there
were people lining up at like five am waiting to
get their hands on. Sorry, I said, I wonder one,
But how sad is your life that you're outside Bunnings
waiting for a Bunnings Laboo boo? Basically, well, I suppose
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it's also a bit of a TikTok moment if you
get your hats on them. And I want to say
hats off to the Bunnings marketing team because they have
done so well for themselves. They got it so right
because people have been opening the box and they have
like the plastic packets and they've been doing the full
ASMR rip and I'm like, oh my god, what is it. Yeah,
they've been killing it recently the marketing team, because remember
(01:08):
they had that big event with Adam Hythe or better
known as Kelly Holliday where people say better known as
Abi Chafin be True better known as Abu Chapf's boyfriend,
but it was peaking Duck did this massive event with
Bunny's and it was only a few years ago that
Bunning's marketing team were copying it from Sam Magnan, who's
a friend of the show. He's also an entrepreneur who
is in business with Anna Paul as well as running
(01:29):
his own PR company. He's a fabulous guy. I love him. Well,
maybe his team are doing the PR because I also
work with James Charles and he was down there trying
a Bunning sausage. Maybe. I mean, they definitely have a
new marketing team because the stuff they are doing now
is top notch. You can see that someone has come
in and definitely understands TikTok. It was funny the other day,
my cousin referred to Bunnings as the Green Church, and
(01:50):
I've heard that before, have you look. Dale has never
referred to it as that. But I feel like Bunnings
is the male version of price Line, Like you p
just go in and you just find all this shit
that you didn't really think you needed, but you do
need in that moment. Yeah, before we wrap this up,
I want to talk about the rare secret bear that
people are trying to get their hands on. So they
have five designs, so they've got a team member, one
(02:12):
bear wearing a rain poncho, one with a high veers.
There's also one with a straw hat. However, I haven't
actually seen the rare bear, but people are saying that
they hope it's holding a Bunning sausage. Surely that would
be so iconic. If anyone has seen the rare Bear
on TikTok, send it to us, because I feel like
we must know what this is.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We purchased this house three years ago, okay, and it's
like this rundown house that basically needs full demolition, and
we are building our dream Mediterranean villa on it for
our family holiday house, and we'll also rent it out,
so if you want to stay there.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You absolutely can. Sarah's Day has launched an Instagram account
for her luxury coastal beach house that is still yet
to be built. The og fitness influencer purchased the home
nearly three years ago and it's been waiting sixteen months
of for council approval to start the knockdown rebuild. Okay,
can you take us back to the start. Well, I'm
still finding it hard to believe that it's almost been
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three years. So it was back in March twenty twenty
three that Sarah teased her followers that she would be
sharing a life changing update that would take up a
lot of her time for the next few years. So
this created a lot of buzz and excitement that Sarah's
followers were left less than impressed when she announced that
she'd bought a holiday house that she would rent out
for photo shoots and as a luxury air B and B.
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Now at the time, she was labeled tone deaf because
Australia was in the midst of a cost of living crisis.
It also didn't help that she referred to the beachfront
property as garbage in her vlog, so when she was
discussing the bidding strategy with her family, her husband told
their young son, we're going to knock the house down
because it's garbage. And then Sarah chimed in saying, the
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person even selling it knows it's garbage. It's just the
land's really good. Well, remember when they bought their first
house in Cronulla and they were acting like that was
a shit tip and it was just because it wasn't
the esthetics that they were used to or liked. Well,
they gutted the whole thing and redid it. Yeah, I
mean you'd be pretty devastated. A few were the original
owners because it was quite new. Yeah, they'd only done
it a few years ago. Apparently. Well, it seems like
they're rethinking some of their design options within the house
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at the moment, because Sarah's been documenting her doing these
new little touches around the house. So she created this
pink bathroom and she already doesn't like the basin. They're
going to redo that whole house in a couple of years. Well,
on her Instagram story the other day, Sarah was up
in their sort of loft lounge room has this massive
couch in it and She explained that if they were
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to sell their house, then the owner would have to
actually buy the couch with it, because they brought the
couch up and then sort of built in this framework
so they can't get it out. And then she said
she's going to get rid of all their Moroccan pillows
because she doesn't like them anymore. And I was like, wow,
that was a real era for her, the morocc And pillows.
They probably still haunt herb it's a good thing to
get rid of them, Just get out all the bad
(04:53):
what is it? Juju? Yeah, Well, back to the backlash
that surrounded Sarah when she purchased this beachside property. One
follower wrote hardly called that life changing, laughing my ass off,
What a privilege in the actual crisis that most people
are living in at the moment, and another said, so
many things wrong with this, firstly, not life changing news.
Really is it just clickbait for us to watch her
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YouTube video so she gets more views and more money.
Do you think people are hoping at the time that
she was going to announce the pregnancy. It seemed like
that because it was before the birth of her third baby.
She had two kids, and you could tell that she
was you know, it was on the horizon for her now.
It wasn't until July of twenty twenty four that Sarah
provided an update on her holiday house. So she shared
(05:34):
photos of mock ups of the homes exterior on Instagram
and wrote over a year of architectural design and were
almost there now. At the time, Sarah promised she would
take her followers along for the ride when the demolition
and build started in twenty twenty five. Now we are,
of course in the final weeks of twenty twenty five
and Sarah is still waiting for the council to approve
the plans. Despite lodging the plans to counsel in November
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twenty twenty three, they are yet to be approved. So
it's now been sixteen months that they've been waiting for
this approved. I won't if it's anything to do with
how extreme the plans are, like maybe they don't fit
the vibe off the street. This is a massive mansion,
like it's bigger than their Cronulla home And it actually
leads on to Sarah's most recent updates. So over the weekend,
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she announced that she was launching an Instagram home account
for the property, and she told her followers she would
be documenting the building journey there and urged her followers
who like design and architecture to follow. It's pretty interesting
because despite Sarah having one point two million followers, only
five point six thousand people have followed her home account.
That really surprises me. I mean, it is a clever
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move of Sarah to create this account because she wants
to lease the home out to others, so if it
suddenly has like fifty thousand followers, she's going to get
a lot of business. I also think it probably is
a way to fish around for sponsors as well. I mean,
we saw how well Laura Burn and Maddy Jay's home
renovation process went on their beach house. But maybe people
aren't following because she has literally said, well, designs haven't
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even been approved, like you know, when you're like, what's
the point of following right now? Yeah, exactly. I mean
I was pretty surprised by the content she shared because
she uploaded images of the three D renders, which she
said the architects had been working on for over a
year and a half, and amongst the designs was this
overview of a floorplan for the three story home. And
I'm like, it is a bit of a strange move
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considering that she is planning to use it as a
personal holiday house. Like, I wouldn't feel particularly safe having
this information out there. You've only got to think of
Molly May, who was robbed a few years ago. I mean,
most influencers try and keep the floor plan and location
of the home private. I wonder how this is going
to go, particularly also because she's going to be renting
it out as a photo shoot studio and an airbnb, Like,
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it's not going to be very private at all. I mean,
I suppose she's not really that careful with her post
normally when she's in her hometown of Krnulla walking around.
I mean, I'm assuming she posts live, but maybe not. Well,
it will be interesting to see when the house is
built if Sarah actually publicize the fact that she's down there.
She does share a lot online. I feel like she
might not be able to control herself by actually sharing
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content there. But it is kind of concerning that so
many people will know where her holiday house is because
while she has a lot of fans, there are also
a lot of people that don't like Sarah. We saw
that hate page that came out of the works and
they were trying to destroy her wedding. So I'm hoping
we don't see any of that. Yeah, well, I really
hope not. Now it's pretty interesting because it's the first
time that Sarah has revealed the name that she has
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given to the home. So the house is called Soroco,
and I had to do a Google because I'm like,
surely there is some deep meaning behind it. So what
Google came back to me with is a Mediterranean wind
that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds
in North Africa and southern Europe, especially during the summer season.
This is what chat gpt told you. Actually, Google, this
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was on Wikipedia, because I'm getting sick of you using
chat gpt for everything it's not. It is not. Well,
this is an accurate definition according to multiple sites on Google.
All I know is that when you give your house
a name, must be an expensive home. I think she
is playing on the kind of salty wind thing, because
in the Instagram bio it read ocean front Mediterranean luxury
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designed for effortless, salty, unforgivable escapes by Sarah's Day. All
I think when I hear the term salty is that
hate page Salty's Day? So on surprised she's even mentioning
the saltiness. I don't think the hate page would have
been on her mind when she was writing this Instagram bio.
I have noticed though, that she seems to be splashing
the cash a bit on her social media channel. So
as I touched on earlier, she's been doing all these
(09:30):
house refreshers with very expensive furniture. She was asking her
followers about, like, oh, which coffee table should I get
this two thousand dollar one or this four thousand dollar one.
And she's also been documenting the process of building her
own dojo in her backyard. So they pulled down the
old poolhouse which used to be their podcasting studio, and
then I had the sauna in it. Hey, we've been
coughing in a bit on our Instagram. People are saying
(09:52):
that why do we hate Sarah's Day? Blah blah blah.
I hate her at all. I actually have been following
her for years and years. I I'm not a fan
of the medical misinformation that she's putting out on the
part or the toxic psycholture. You seem to be triggered
by her buying all of these things. I'm not triggered
by it. I'm saying it just seems like she's been
splashing a cash. I mean when the cash is made
(10:15):
from pushing toxic die culture like her sold five to
sixty challenge, and do you think that's where the money's
coming out? I do. I mean it came out that
she's sold now three thousand copies of it, so you know,
three thousand times what was it sixty dollars that she
was charging. That's a lot of cash for some renos. Yeah,
it's pretty ironic because Sarah was sharing on Instagram that
she herself didn't even complete the challenge. Yeah, I mean
(10:38):
it was quite comical considering we all discussed how a
sixty day challenge with no rest days is quite unachievable.
I mean, she claimed that she got sick and then
also shared the reno's going on at the house, so
there was nowhere to exercise. Well, it's a good marketing employee,
isn't it. To get people to do it again with her. Yeah,
she's already saying I'm going to start it on January first.
Who's with me? So you know, as you mentioned, she's
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got one point too million followers. Surely she could get
another three thousand sign on. That might be a new
ivory backscratcher, or a new couch or whatever. Anyway, I
love you, Thank you, thank you. Jingle Bell Rock, It's
very festive. Matt Zakowski has revealed how his ex wife,
Tammy Hembro, and her kids shaped some of his Christmas traditions.
(11:19):
Matt dropped the details in a festive themed episode of
his podcast Where's Your Head At? Okay, can you tell
us more? I haven't been the biggest fan of Matt's podcast,
but I've got to say I actually really enjoyed this episode,
and Matt is continuing to win me over with his
love for Christmas. So in the episode, he spoke in
depth about the traditions he does with his mum and sisters,
and I couldn't help but find it really sweet. So
(11:42):
every Christmas Eve they dress up in their matching Christmas
pajamas and do dinner together with carols by candlelight in
the background. And it made me think of our Christmas
in tradition, because we always go over to our parents'
house on Christmas Eve and have dinner and watch carols
by candlelight. I think that's an elite combination. Are they
watching the Carols seriously though, because when we watch it
there's a few comments like like there's jokes going on. Well,
(12:04):
he and Adam were discussing how every year they think
I'd actually really love to be there because it's filmed
in Melbourne. However, they're like, actually, I think relaxing on
the couch and watching it is so much better, particularly
if you need to do like Christmas wrapping.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You always see those babies there as well, and I think,
oh my god, that would be utter hell bringing a
baby to carrols by candlelight, especially when it came time
to leaving. Oh because even looking at the local Adelaide Carols,
you can't get a park anywhere. You've got to walk miles. Yeah. Well,
the local Carols were on last weekend and we actually
went to the Moonlight Cinemas, which was so good. They
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had lf on. We were kindly gifted the tickets and
I was like, this is elite because you could kind
of hear the Carols faintly in the background. It felt
so Christmas. We go back because they've got parent Trap
in January. I want to join you because I really
liked it. How you were kind of forced to watch
the movie. I know that sounds silly, but whenever I
put a Christmas movie on, I always feel like I
need to be doing something else where. It's like wrapping
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Christmas presents or just scrolling for people's Christmas presents on
my phone. Where I actually really watched the movie properly
and loved it. Well, you laughed at me because Dale
and I have been to the Moonlight Cinema before and
I said, Oh, we're going to be in gold Grass
and You're like, what are you talking about. That's not
the name, and it is so instead of gold Class,
it's gold Grass. And I only realized this time when
we arrived that you can actually order food to your seat,
(13:22):
like we brought all of our cheese platters in. We
got dinner beforehand. But I was like, I want to
do that next time. Yeah, and maybe just girls only,
because it's stressful if you've got a babysitter at home.
I'm going to bring a thicker blanket because I was
a little bit cold, and you know we have to
share it anyway. We digress, but back to Matt's Christmas traditions.
He dropped a few juicy details about how he celebrated
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with Tammy. So as I touched on, his Christmas tradition
is actually to spend Christmas Eve with his mum and
his sisters, and then he said that Christmas Day has
always been for the partner's side of the family, which
I thought was interesting considering this year he doesn't have
a partner. But people say that that people sons, they
don't spend Christmas with the family anymore. Once they get
a partner, it's the girlfriend's family they get favored. I
(14:05):
think that's wrong. I think you've got to share your
Christmas celebration just because you have a sudden Well yes,
and to be fair, but Matt has a couple of sisters,
so it's actually not a boy thing. It's like they
go and see their spend Christmas Eve with Tammy. No.
So last year he actually flew home to Melbourne and
weird it was actually a last minute decision, so he
decided he would go back and spend Christmas Eve with
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his family. He said it got to the point where
they had dinner, they'd watched a Christmas movie, they put
cookies out for Santa, and then he caught a flight home,
so he was there in the morning for Tammy and
the kids. Maybe Matt Sakowski and us would actually be
really good friends if he'd forgive us what we've previously
said about him the role in coverage of his divorce.
I'm not sure who forgive that. I rate that because
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that's so cute that they're putting out the cookies for Santa.
I mean, I'd be pretty pissed if I was Tammy
and I'm with the kids wrangling them on Christmas, even
my husband's not there. Yeah, but they're not his kids. No,
I get that, but it was they were husband and
wife were kids. I suppose it sounds like when he
was on the Gold Coast with Tammy and the kids,
he really got around the Christmas traditions because he said
he learned about elf on the shelf. So I didn't
(15:08):
realize this, but apparently once you've set the scene up
and the kids come out and see the elf, no
one's allowed to touch it or move the elf. So
he said he really regretted it because he set up
this snowball fight on the middle of the kitchen counter
with like flour and all this stuff. However, no one
could touch it or move the elf, so they had
to like cook dinner around the same scenes where the
elf on the shelf is like in the toilet, yeah,
(15:30):
with flowing and so well you have to leave that
shit there, doude. Well, I suppose they may have more
than one toilet. I don't want to do that. When
Harry's older, I do. It doesn't appeal to me. The
bad thing is if you do it, we all have
to do it. I know. Well it annoys me because
I started the December first boxes and you and Sophie
didn't get organized or do one. So now you're like, oh,
we're going to do a Christmas eat one. I'm like, no,
I can't do two boxes at Christmas time. I'm just
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shocked that Matt would talk about Tammy and the kids.
You think he'd be trying to avoid it. We didn't
name Tammy, but he name dropped Wolf. So he was
talking about his whole tradition around Christmas movies, and he said,
once Halloween's done, he starts watching like Christmas adjacent movies
like die Hard, and then on November fourteen he changes
over to a mix of Hallmark Christmas movies and his
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co host annamcavoy was like, well, where do you even
watch these Christmas horror movies? I've never seen them before,
And he said Wolf introduced him to this special streaming
platform last year where he could watch them on. Yeah,
because he's obsessed with movies, isn't he? Yeah, particularly horror movies.
But I was like wow. He goes, oh, my friend Wolf,
and I was like, oh, my friend Wolf, my ex
step son Wolf. Yeah. He also managed to sneak in
(16:35):
a potshot at Tammy during this episode. He made a
reference that he always used to be in flight or
fight and isn't any more. So I'm assuming that was
because he's no longer with Tammy. Yes, I feel like
that's definitely aimed at her. Let's get into our Friday debrief.
And I have somewhat of a Christmasy recommendation. So every
Christmas season, I scrolled TikTok on Instagram for so many
(16:58):
hours trying to find cute Christmas recipes, and I always
end up making the same thing I make every year. However,
I'm committed to make something different for the White Party
this year because it's coming up on Saturday. I remember
you were saying to me that you heard on Mom
and Mia that apparently whichever dish you bring to Christmas
or a dinner party shows a lot about your personality.
And they said that if you bring a dessert, you
want all the praise, and that is the UK. I know,
(17:19):
we actually bring a dessert. We discussed it on the subs. Mean,
so yeah, I was like, yeah, that definitely is me.
And I think I'll be bringing a dessert and a
savory because I'm just an all round grade. Because you
want it amazed twice, you want to double the praise. Yeah.
So there is an Instagram account that I came across
called Jesse Jane Day Day daye not like Sarah's Day,
(17:40):
and she is an American content creator who makes the
most amazing looking Christmas tree. She does like these really cute,
like chocolate Christmas trees and just really incredible looking things
that look quite easy. I mean, you know those things
that look really easy and then they end up being
a fucking night.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Like, there was something that I'm like, I don't know
how easy that is, but I'm to have a bit
of a challenge. I was thinking about Christmas Day the
other day and I was like, oh, you know, what
maybe I should make a pablov from scratch. No, And
then I was like, hell no, but don't you have
to leave it in the oven overnight in order for
it to crack and all that kind of stuff that
Christmas prep That is a lot of the stuff you
actually would have to make on Christmas Eve. So it's
(18:18):
not well, I've actually got another recommendation off the back
of that. Jamie Oliver has his Christmas special on ten
you can watch it on ten play, and all of
the recipes are things that you can put in the
freezer ready to go Christmas Day, so you literally just
have to bring him out defrost. And I was like,
oo yuh, because I notoriously don't like leftovers, and I've
got a thing for freezer food, but has this sort
(18:40):
of like strange taste. Maybe it's just bread. I find
if you have breads disgusting out of the freezer. But
he made this really cool thing for Veggio's. It was
like a potato gritan thing. Oh yeah, but then he
put homemade pastry around it like a pie, and I
just thought it had you and Dale written all over it.
It actually looked really fiddlyst and potato, that's right about it. Yeah,
(19:02):
So there were all these things that he was just
putting in the freezer. But I'm like, I couldn't fit
anything more in the freezer with all of Jack's food
in there. Well, I'm trying to get organized for the
white party because we've got that this Saturday, and also
we're doing Christmas Dinner at Dale in my house. So
I've got two different balloon garlands. I've been all on hell.
I know, actually I need to borrow something from you
for that. But should we put money on it whether
(19:24):
it's actually going to come into fruition because we've had
so many events where they loudroopy that was that was
my baby shower. No, No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't
baby shower. It was my engagement party. Because Dale was
away for the week and we were painting the house.
Like I was painting the bathroom all by myself, so
I didn't get time to do the fun little bit.
(19:44):
So doing the you go, I mean, I hate doing it.
I'm so organized. You see over on the desk, I've
got little snowflakes that are hanging from fishing wire that
are going to hang down on the Garland. I've got
the balloons ready to go. I'm going to do those
on Friday night. But I'm trying to think, can I
do balloons for Christmas Day on the twenty third or
is that going to be too early? Good? Yeah, like
can I predo them? Oh? Yeah, I think that's fine.
(20:05):
I mean we're only in the mid twenties for Christmas
in Adelaide. It's funny because I don't know what I'm
wearing to the White Party because last year I had
a special outfit because I was pregnant. I just didn't
want to work. I can't like I thought some shit
from Kmar like some Yeah, it's a really daggy outfit.
And I don't know if I can be bothered to
wear my pre baby dress. And I was messaging a
(20:26):
friend and we were joking that maybe we should just
wear our wedding dresses. That would actually be kind of cool.
Get another wear it's been professionally cleaned and you know,
put in a box. I don't know if I'm game
enough to take it out. I don't know if i'd
still fit in mind to be honest, Yeah, that's another thing.
I don't know. But mine wasn't like a traditional wedding dress.
It was more like a bridesmaid's dress. So do you
(20:47):
think I could pull that off? I mean I wouldn't. Yeah, no,
probably won't. I'll probably end up wearing something really comfy.
I'm actually tossing up whether to go pants this year,
and because I wore a white outfit to a friend's
hens and I was like, oh, I could go that
because then I don't get bitten by mossies. Well, I
have to share a video on my Instagram of the
final balloon installation, the table Escape. It sounds like it's
(21:08):
going to be very nice table escape. Actually, I have
got my table escape organized. I bought candle holders and
those fake candles, but they look so real like the
battery operated one. See I'm doing a Ralph Louren theme,
which I say that, but I've only really got a
few different things. I got like some tardened napkins, and
(21:29):
I got red candles. Red long candles is dead with
gold holders. I was going to get a garland, but
then they ended up being quite expensive for I've got
to oh, okay, okay, well I've got some sort of
garland sort of candle holders anyway that I thought I'll
use them again because it does annoy me when every
year it's like, oh, what is the Christmas theme this year?
People don't reuse their decorations. Okay, do you know what
(21:51):
my Christmas Day theme is? Well, it's literally home alone,
as in, you know the house, how it's all tartan
and everything that is the rough Christmas or whatever. It's
like old school Christmas. Okay, but I'd like to refer
to its home alone. So I've got I Actually you're
gonna hate this, but I'm doing paper plates this year
(22:12):
instead of what I hate them because you're a bit
of a snob about that sort of stuff. So, but
they're the cutest plates. I saw them and I was like, oh,
they fit the theme perfectly. Read. I think it's like
such a novel idea of yours. But it's all over TikTok.
Because this is an audio platform. Amy is now showing
me a picture of the plates. I love them. They
remind me of my grandma. Yeah, and the bomb bonds.
I've got, like old school bond bonds. I actually just
(22:33):
went and bought some of the crappy Ancho ones because
I was desperate. I didn't know they had where did
you get yours from?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They're just rout it. Oh I saw them afterwards and
I was like, damn it. Anyway, that is where we're
going to leave things today. Thank you for joining us
for another episode of Outspoken. If you do want to
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Christmas season when every podcast go on a break. We're
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going to be having fresh content all throughout the festive period.
Keep saying this, we haven't recorded the fresh pre record
of it now. So Kate's made this such a big
deal about, you know, other podcasts not having fresh content,
and the other day I was like, shit, we've got
five episodes we haven't pre recorded, and we meant to
do the more before Christmas. Well, hopefully you'll be getting
some fresh content. You will be okay, so keep tuning in. Well,
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