# I Invited William And Kate To My Wedding

An episode of [Unleashed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1868862473), 17 Aug 2026, 40 min.

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Cath is getting her formal!! Democracy has won. Buy tickets to The Spring Fling. The Unleashed family is growing, with a new voice joining the couch: Georgie Page. And she’s joining with some cracking stories, including the time she sent her actual wedding invite to actual royalty… and then made the fatal mistake of reading the comments. Mary got run over as a kid, sort of, and her reaction still haunts her. Grace heard one podcast episode and nearly torched her marriage over a park ban. And Cath blanked so hard at the mechanic she just started announcing her hormones to strangers. Plus: the pub comeback Cath still high-fives herself for, the neighbour note that ended Georgie's singing career, and the cafe comment about Mary's "granddaughter" that we will never, ever let go. In your ears today: Georgie Page, Mary Coustas, Grace Lam and Cath Mahoney. Check out our Unleashed music playlist for some feel good throwbacks! The End Bits: Follow us on Instagram, DM us thoughts, feelings and questions @unleashed.show Love the show? Hit follow on Apple or Spotify — it helps other Gen X women find us. This show was produced and created by Mia Freedman Created and developed by Monique Bowley Executive Producer Grace Rouvray Senior Producer and Audio Editor is Tina Matolov Social Media Producer is Coco Lavigne Did you know some of our shows are now in video on the Apple Podcast app? Make sure your phone is up to date and check it out here! Right now, every Mamamia subscriber is automatically entered to win a $5,000 Dreamworld holiday for four; flights, accommodation, express passes and more included. Subscribe here to enter. T&Cs apply. Get access to Very Peri, Mamamia's exclusive perimenopause series, for just $59. 25 world-leading experts, over 20 on-demand sessions, available now. We’ve sorted through the noise so you don't have to. Go to veryperi.com.au and join me today. You hot? Same. Become a Mamamia subscriber and get an all-access pass to everything we make, including exclusive podcasts and early listening, subscriber-only articles, monthly giveaways and our home workout app, MOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:08] Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm ONM with mea podcast.
[0:20] Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to Unleashed, the podcast for gen X
[0:23] Speaker 2: women who need a laugh. Now, if you remember standing
[0:27] Speaker 2: by the landline with a six foot cable stretched out
[0:30] Speaker 2: as far as you could so you could get away
[0:32] Speaker 2: from your family for a private conversation, you're in the
[0:35] Speaker 2: right place.
[0:35] Speaker 3: Yep.
[0:36] Speaker 1: So who is on the couch today?
[0:39] Speaker 4: Hi is Gray's Bam Bam lamb and I am a
[0:41] Speaker 4: fashion stylist.
[0:43] Speaker 5: Hi, I'm Mary Custis. I'm an actress writer.
[0:45] Speaker 1: I'm Cas Mahoney, I'm a comedian, and I'm Georgie Page.
[0:49] Speaker 1: I'm a bit You tell us more, Well, let me
[0:54] Speaker 1: tell you about myself. I'm forty four. I've got a
[0:56] Speaker 1: six year old and.
[0:57] Speaker 6: An eight year old, which means I spend most of
[0:59] Speaker 6: my time side of the soccer field, and I've worked
[1:01] Speaker 6: in the Australian media my whole career. I still do
[1:04] Speaker 6: everything that Dolly told me to do back in the nineties.
[1:07] Speaker 6: And my most prized possession growing up was a Dean
[1:10] Speaker 6: Kane autograph which I had framed and he wrote super
[1:14] Speaker 6: Wishes because he played Superman.
[1:15] Speaker 5: Does everyone know that that was Superman?
[1:18] Speaker 1: No, I didn't know who's in.
[1:22] Speaker 5: Which, but which Superman television show Superman.
[1:25] Speaker 1: The Lowest and Class. Well, that's why I got into media,
[1:27] Speaker 1: because I.
[1:27] Speaker 6: Wanted to be an investigative journalist, because Lowis Lane was
[1:30] Speaker 6: an investigative journalist and that was played by Terry Hatchery. Yes,
[1:35] Speaker 6: and I've worked in breakfast radio most of my career
[1:37] Speaker 6: and podcasts.
[1:38] Speaker 1: Hello, welcome, lovely Georgie. Thank you. Okay, well, wherever you're listening,
[1:44] Speaker 1: what do we like to say?
[1:45] Speaker 2: Unclenchy you'r clinchy pelvic floor and let's get ready to unleash.
[1:50] Speaker 4: Let's go.
[1:52] Speaker 1: I'm thinking we kick off with our newest member, Georgie.
[1:55] Speaker 1: What have you got for us today?
[1:57] Speaker 6: Do you know that our friend here, Katherine Mahoney, is
[2:00] Speaker 6: responsible for the most offended I have ever been in
[2:03] Speaker 6: my time?
[2:05] Speaker 5: Yes?
[2:07] Speaker 1: What did I do? Well?
[2:08] Speaker 6: It all started when I invited Wills and Kate to
[2:11] Speaker 6: my wedding twelve years ago.
[2:13] Speaker 1: I'm hang on a sack.
[2:13] Speaker 6: Who who Wills and Kate? Which Kate from the royal family?
[2:17] Speaker 6: I invited them to my wedding, Okay, which I realized
[2:19] Speaker 6: makes me sound a tad unhinged. However, I'm a massive,
[2:23] Speaker 6: massive fan of the royal family. And while I invited
[2:25] Speaker 6: actual people to my wedding and friends and family too,
[2:29] Speaker 6: when it came to coming up with the list of
[2:30] Speaker 6: my wedding I thought, I love them, I've always supported them.
[2:34] Speaker 6: So I sent them a copy of my wedding invitation
[2:36] Speaker 6: with a little note. Now I didn't expect them to come,
[2:40] Speaker 6: but I said to them, you know I love you,
[2:41] Speaker 6: I've always supported you, and I want to extend this
[2:44] Speaker 6: invitation to you. Sent that off and I got a
[2:47] Speaker 6: beautiful note back from the Palace. Now this is what
[2:50] Speaker 6: I really wanted. I wanted a memento for my wedding album.
[2:53] Speaker 6: So I got this beautiful note and it was from
[2:55] Speaker 6: their private secretary and it came in an envelope with
[2:59] Speaker 6: a beautiful insignia on. It was just the most exciting
[3:01] Speaker 6: piece of my life've ever got. And it said the
[3:04] Speaker 6: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, after careful consideration. Doubt, I doubt,
[3:08] Speaker 6: But I like the thought that they sat around and
[3:10] Speaker 6: really nutted. Can we get to a winery in Australia? No,
[3:14] Speaker 6: not available. I have had to politely decline from your imitation.
[3:18] Speaker 6: But it was a beautiful note and I loved it,
[3:20] Speaker 6: and you know it's in my wedding album. It was
[3:22] Speaker 6: really special, very special for them to respond.
[3:25] Speaker 1: About two months. I thought that was fair. They've got
[3:28] Speaker 1: a lot of male coming here busy. Yeah, yep.
[3:30] Speaker 6: So I was working in Breakfast Radio at the time.
[3:32] Speaker 6: I was producing the show and our dear friend kat
[3:35] Speaker 6: Mahoney was publicist of the show. So we worked together
[3:38] Speaker 6: many millennia ago at this at this stage. So we
[3:41] Speaker 6: talked about it on air and we had a laugh
[3:43] Speaker 6: and Kath was unfortunately very good at her job, bumma.
[3:47] Speaker 6: And so she came to me after the show and said,
[3:49] Speaker 6: I actually have got some media opportunities for you to
[3:52] Speaker 6: talk about your letter from Wills and Kate. And I said, okay,
[3:56] Speaker 6: but you know, I don't want to look crazy.
[3:58] Speaker 1: She said, the Daily Mail want.
[3:59] Speaker 6: To speak to you first, so as long as saying
[4:03] Speaker 6: obviously a great start.
[4:04] Speaker 1: So I did this interview three hours later.
[4:07] Speaker 6: I am the main picture on the Daily Mail website,
[4:11] Speaker 6: the local girl rejected by Wills and Kate, which is
[4:15] Speaker 6: very harsh.
[4:15] Speaker 1: I knew what I was coming into and there's a
[4:17] Speaker 1: photo of me. So I'm holding the letter and I'm
[4:20] Speaker 1: just you know, I'm really really excited by it.
[4:22] Speaker 6: And unfortunately I'd never had experience working media but not
[4:28] Speaker 6: having stories about myself. So I made the crucial error.
[4:33] Speaker 6: The worst thing you can possibly to do, Georgie Page.
[4:35] Speaker 6: I read the comments, nemment. They went to town on me.
[4:43] Speaker 6: Every single comment was attacking me. Here are some of
[4:46] Speaker 6: my favorites. What a desperate moron after her fifteen minutes
[4:50] Speaker 6: of fame. No, Kim, I just wanted a nice thing
[4:54] Speaker 6: for my wedding album. I got poor thing. She actually
[4:58] Speaker 6: believes Wills and Kate saw her invite.
[5:00] Speaker 1: What a loser? Oh god, my favorite? Is she all there?
[5:05] Speaker 1: How rude?
[5:06] Speaker 5: And also w.
[5:08] Speaker 1: And the thing that comes on every single news story.
[5:10] Speaker 1: Who is this news?
[5:13] Speaker 6: It's not newsmade. I just wanted it for my wedding album.
[5:16] Speaker 6: So I made this crucial mistake. But I was actually thinking,
[5:20] Speaker 6: all you guys have been written about in the media. Yes,
[5:23] Speaker 6: I wonder what the worst thing you've ever read about
[5:25] Speaker 6: yourself on the internet is.
[5:26] Speaker 2: Oh, George, You've just brought me so much joy.
[5:32] Speaker 4: I try not to read comments because do I give
[5:34] Speaker 4: a fuck about what people think about me? Right? But
[5:36] Speaker 4: at the same time, cav you sent me an article
[5:40] Speaker 4: a few months ago, because remember a few episodes ago
[5:42] Speaker 4: when I spoke about how Anna Winter approached yes possible
[5:46] Speaker 4: role for the editentship of Folk China. So then I
[5:49] Speaker 4: read the article and they twisted it so much. First
[5:52] Speaker 4: of all, they said I was fifty one, I'm fifty
[5:54] Speaker 4: three now hello, And then no, I don't get offended
[6:01] Speaker 4: about age, but I just think that you should at
[6:04] Speaker 4: least fat check with me with stuff, right. And then
[6:07] Speaker 4: a person said she confronted in a Winter for not
[6:11] Speaker 4: doing not accepting the job or something, and I said,
[6:14] Speaker 4: I never confronted anyone. It was a very civilized conversation.
[6:18] Speaker 4: And then they wrote something else was I'm true, and
[6:20] Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, for God's sake, I don't want to
[6:22] Speaker 4: have my Andy Warhof fifty minutes of thing like this.
[6:25] Speaker 1: No, no, Mary, Yeah, I mean I.
[6:28] Speaker 3: Worked with an actor that turned like a cut snake
[6:31] Speaker 3: and went public. And because I created another show with
[6:34] Speaker 3: another person and they weren't in it, so they ran that.
[6:37] Speaker 3: But that was more like Sour Grape's type of thing,
[6:39] Speaker 3: and it was a thousand years ago. Look, I suppose
[6:42] Speaker 3: it gets bad for me when they think I'm fie
[6:45] Speaker 3: Zajos you know, but that's just a mistaken identity thing.
[6:48] Speaker 3: I play Fie, who's a comical character. I am not
[6:50] Speaker 3: a financial advisor, but sometimes they'll get me confused, or occasionally,
[6:55] Speaker 3: back in the olden days, they thought I was Mary
[6:57] Speaker 3: Costakidi's from SBS newsreader.
[7:01] Speaker 1: And many careers I didn't know about it. Yeah.
[7:03] Speaker 3: Look, there's only about three Greek girls that are in
[7:06] Speaker 3: public life and where they interchange us a lot so
[7:08] Speaker 3: on rotation.
[7:09] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[7:09] Speaker 5: No, I've had a pretty good I've got to say
[7:11] Speaker 5: with the media.
[7:12] Speaker 1: So have you never read your show reviews?
[7:13] Speaker 3: Man?
[7:14] Speaker 1: Oh my god.
[7:14] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[7:15] Speaker 3: Look, I was out the other day and I bumped
[7:19] Speaker 3: into a comedian and he was telling me about shows
[7:22] Speaker 3: that I was in that I'd.
[7:23] Speaker 5: Totally forgotten about.
[7:25] Speaker 3: Like he said, oh, you're in a movie with Joe
[7:28] Speaker 3: Dolci and I said never, I have never, as if
[7:31] Speaker 3: I don't know.
[7:31] Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was you forget, that's a big thing
[7:37] Speaker 1: to forget.
[7:38] Speaker 3: I also pressed elite. I'm not the type that looks
[7:41] Speaker 3: back to the past all the time. I'm like, right
[7:43] Speaker 3: now and what's ahead. That's who I am. But yeah,
[7:46] Speaker 3: I was in a cop show that was going to
[7:49] Speaker 3: be like you know, like really cutting edge and like
[7:53] Speaker 3: Hill Street Blues, and it was called skirts and it
[7:58] Speaker 3: was like a derogatory term for female cops. And Channel
[8:03] Speaker 3: seven chose to do this this show, and I was
[8:06] Speaker 3: starring in a propless now at the time, and they said, oh,
[8:08] Speaker 3: we want.
[8:08] Speaker 1: You to be in this drama.
[8:09] Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
[8:11] Speaker 3: And it was going to be nine thirty sort of
[8:13] Speaker 3: edgy stuff and we had real cops that were involved
[8:16] Speaker 3: so we could get really authentic. And then they gave
[8:18] Speaker 3: us the time slot after Disney on a Sunday at
[8:21] Speaker 3: seven thirty, and so then all the soap SuDS started
[8:24] Speaker 3: rising from it and it became almost like a bit
[8:27] Speaker 3: soapish and it was not cutting edge, and you know,
[8:30] Speaker 3: I think they were kind to us, but I think
[8:31] Speaker 3: the media were like, we can do better than this.
[8:33] Speaker 5: So yeah, I've had a couple of like what is
[8:36] Speaker 5: this show?
[8:36] Speaker 3: And I don't know why she would do something like this,
[8:39] Speaker 3: And I was sort of in agreeance. I was like, yeah,
[8:42] Speaker 3: good idea wrong time slot.
[8:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had some crackers over the years.
[8:46] Speaker 2: Obviously, you know, I was married to a legend, a legend,
[8:50] Speaker 2: a rugby league legend. So when I was with him.
[8:53] Speaker 2: There were calkers. I think my favorite worst one. I
[8:57] Speaker 2: was doing the rounds with my memoir, and in the
[9:00] Speaker 2: memoir I talk about, you know, the moments that catch
[9:02] Speaker 2: you when you get divorceit you're not expecting. And I
[9:05] Speaker 2: was on breakfast radio talking about having to go to
[9:08] Speaker 2: Medicare and change my name and kind of being quite
[9:12] Speaker 2: emotional and tearing up, and.
[9:14] Speaker 1: The lady was really lovely. She was like, don't worry,
[9:16] Speaker 1: love you.
[9:16] Speaker 2: The fifteenth divorce that's happened over Christmas because it was January.
[9:20] Speaker 2: So I just felt quite you know, I felt seen
[9:22] Speaker 2: and heard and so anyway, I relayed this story on
[9:24] Speaker 2: breakfast radio. Next thing I know, I'm the main story
[9:28] Speaker 2: and it's former Wag breaks down at Centerling and everyone
[9:35] Speaker 2: picked it up send exactly. I was like, it was
[9:38] Speaker 2: Medicare also former Wag, some random photos.
[9:43] Speaker 1: So yeah, that was one of my one of my
[9:44] Speaker 1: low lights.
[9:45] Speaker 4: I think the conclusion is people do not read the comments.
[9:49] Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's bare.
[9:50] Speaker 1: We can read other people's comments.
[9:53] Speaker 2: So I having about raise some else's comments, they always
[9:56] Speaker 2: sew me up. But Ulicia's I think we've all revealed
[10:00] Speaker 2: that we do read everything about ourselves on to next.
[10:03] Speaker 2: So if you could please go and review the show
[10:06] Speaker 2: and something nice, yeah, Sen Therapy and the podcast to end.
[10:11] Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah.
[10:12] Speaker 3: Speaking about reviews, he's a moral review on a real
[10:16] Speaker 3: life scene. Felt like a horror movie that I was
[10:19] Speaker 3: in when I was growing up, where I do not
[10:21] Speaker 3: come off well, Okay, shit happens.
[10:25] Speaker 5: I've read the T shirt.
[10:26] Speaker 3: Had a peak in my childhood when bullying and racism was,
[10:30] Speaker 3: you know, rife in the white middle class suburbs of Melbourne.
[10:35] Speaker 5: I had a sick father.
[10:36] Speaker 3: Who was dying and I was always on high alert
[10:40] Speaker 3: for possible drama and had a very anxious childhood because
[10:44] Speaker 3: of that, because my dad was my favorite person in
[10:45] Speaker 3: the world. Well, one day I'm walking home from school
[10:48] Speaker 3: and down the road from our house, we had the
[10:50] Speaker 3: tough family. They were toughies, the divorced mother. There are
[10:54] Speaker 3: always panel vans in the yard and there was always
[10:57] Speaker 3: a lot of people there. And one of the young
[10:59] Speaker 3: boys from that family came running towards me and.
[11:03] Speaker 5: I'm like, what's up with this?
[11:04] Speaker 3: He said, Mary, Mary, there's been an accent And I'm
[11:07] Speaker 3: like what and he's like, yeah, yeah, on High Street.
[11:10] Speaker 3: Then he said your mother's been run over, and I
[11:13] Speaker 3: was like, what now, my mother, I'm going to be
[11:16] Speaker 3: orphaned really in the next twenty four hours if things
[11:19] Speaker 3: don't improve.
[11:20] Speaker 5: So I run over.
[11:21] Speaker 3: And there is my mother lying on the nature strip,
[11:24] Speaker 3: nursing a blood nose. She'd been run over by a
[11:27] Speaker 3: tense speed racer. Oh no bike, Oh, I died. I'm like,
[11:34] Speaker 3: this is the worst thing that could have ever happened
[11:37] Speaker 3: to me.
[11:38] Speaker 1: All the kids are gathered around.
[11:39] Speaker 3: There's a buckled wheel, The front wheel is buckled in
[11:43] Speaker 3: the shape of my mother's body. My mother is lying
[11:46] Speaker 3: down with this blood nose, and I said to her.
[11:48] Speaker 1: In Greek, get up. Oh, I've got to go. And
[11:54] Speaker 1: then we walked home.
[11:55] Speaker 3: She was about three, you know, steps behind me, and
[11:58] Speaker 3: all I kept saying is I cannot believe you've done
[12:01] Speaker 3: this to me.
[12:02] Speaker 5: And I couldn't believe my reaction.
[12:04] Speaker 3: And for decades I felt such at guilt and self
[12:08] Speaker 3: loathing that that was my petty reaction to my mother,
[12:12] Speaker 3: as if my mother had on her wish list I'm
[12:16] Speaker 3: going to get run over and embarrass my child, as
[12:18] Speaker 3: if she did that on purpose. But I just couldn't
[12:21] Speaker 3: handle any more heat in my direction and then many
[12:24] Speaker 3: many years later, my mother's got a memory. She will
[12:26] Speaker 3: tell you exactly how much she paid for something, what
[12:28] Speaker 3: happened in what year, everything. When I said to her,
[12:31] Speaker 3: when I finally became a mom, I cannot believe I
[12:34] Speaker 3: had that reaction to you, and she said.
[12:36] Speaker 5: I don't even remember that happening.
[12:37] Speaker 1: I didn't remember.
[12:38] Speaker 5: She lied to.
[12:39] Speaker 1: Cover for me.
[12:40] Speaker 3: So my question to you girls is when have you
[12:44] Speaker 3: ever had an illogical reaction to something that's happened to you?
[12:47] Speaker 4: I mean, where do I start every day? And my
[12:49] Speaker 4: poor husband Jason said, here we go again. I think
[12:53] Speaker 4: for me is a few years back. We're living in Perth.
[12:57] Speaker 4: We just moved from Hong Kong to Perth. And I'm
[13:00] Speaker 4: obsessed with listening to podcasts right at that point, and
[13:04] Speaker 4: I was linked to this podcast as an hypochondriac, listen
[13:07] Speaker 4: to a lot of health podcasts so that I can learn.
[13:09] Speaker 4: I'd become a fake doctor to myself. So then I
[13:13] Speaker 4: listened to this episode from one of the podcasts I
[13:15] Speaker 4: listened to, and this person was talking about this kid
[13:19] Speaker 4: in the UK that lived right next to the main
[13:21] Speaker 4: road and how this kid kept going out and play
[13:24] Speaker 4: exercising all of that and then got lung disease. That
[13:29] Speaker 4: moment I was going through Perry as well. I panic,
[13:32] Speaker 4: I press my panic mode immediately. I ban all of
[13:36] Speaker 4: us from going to the park, and I was like
[13:39] Speaker 4: saying to Jason, do not exercise right next to the road.
[13:43] Speaker 4: That turned into a huge fight for like a week,
[13:45] Speaker 4: and then I almost avorced him because he woudn't listen
[13:48] Speaker 4: to me. I'm like, you're going to get lung disease
[13:49] Speaker 4: because of this, and he just looked at me like
[13:51] Speaker 4: he's so used to me being like this. So it
[13:54] Speaker 4: was really weird reaction just from a podcast to ban
[13:58] Speaker 4: everyone from exercising near the road because we were living
[14:01] Speaker 4: right next to a beautiful park. And that lasted for
[14:04] Speaker 4: like a week and then I got over myself. So yeah,
[14:07] Speaker 4: that's how I.
[14:08] Speaker 1: Roll about you, Kath.
[14:10] Speaker 2: I just think since I hit Perry, I just use
[14:14] Speaker 2: that at all times, you know.
[14:16] Speaker 1: Like the other day, I was trying to pay for.
[14:17] Speaker 2: My car service and it was obviously going to be
[14:19] Speaker 2: over one hundred dollars and I couldn't remember my pin
[14:21] Speaker 2: coad and I.
[14:23] Speaker 1: Just said to him. He was like, I just went
[14:26] Speaker 1: I'm in perimenopause. I don't remember anything, and.
[14:28] Speaker 2: This poor like mechanic who would have been about twenty one,
[14:31] Speaker 2: was like probably didn't even know what Perry was. But
[14:34] Speaker 2: every chance, like you know, if anything goes wrong now
[14:37] Speaker 2: I just blurt out that I'm in perimenopause and or
[14:40] Speaker 2: I cry.
[14:41] Speaker 1: Georgie.
[14:42] Speaker 6: I think your reaction, Mary is really normal in trauma
[14:45] Speaker 6: because we often sort of main characterize things when something
[14:50] Speaker 6: bad has happened, like how is this going to affect me?
[14:53] Speaker 6: One thing that I really dislike about myself and I'm
[14:56] Speaker 6: really working on is when my husband annoys me and
[15:00] Speaker 6: I don't want to get in a fight with him,
[15:01] Speaker 6: I literally swivel around and tell off my.
[15:04] Speaker 1: Kids like why do I do that?
[15:06] Speaker 6: And out of my mouth without me being able to
[15:08] Speaker 6: control it, and I say, no balls in the house,
[15:11] Speaker 6: what are you doing?
[15:12] Speaker 1: I'm really trying to stop because I haven't done anything wrong.
[15:14] Speaker 1: I'm literally turning my annoyance to someone else.
[15:17] Speaker 2: Actually I do that all the time with Lewis two.
[15:18] Speaker 2: I think I need to get a cat or a dog,
[15:20] Speaker 2: because you always needs someone at the end of the
[15:22] Speaker 2: chain to be annoyed with it, don't you.
[15:23] Speaker 1: Maybe I'll start with a goldfish.
[15:37] Speaker 2: Ladies, I've come to a realization I am desperately seeking
[15:43] Speaker 2: a hobby. Oh yes, look I have reached that point.
[15:48] Speaker 2: I don't know why I didn't see it coming, but
[15:50] Speaker 2: I am about to become an empty nester who is
[15:53] Speaker 2: about to finish school, and everything in my life is
[15:55] Speaker 2: about to change. So the last fifteen years of weekends
[15:59] Speaker 2: of sport and school stuff are.
[16:01] Speaker 1: About to evaporate. And I realize I don't have a hobby.
[16:06] Speaker 2: I don't have any intro apart from eating and sleeping
[16:10] Speaker 2: and doing this podcast. So I need to get myself
[16:12] Speaker 2: some hobbies. I've rallied a few of my friends because
[16:15] Speaker 2: it seems that guys have a lot of hobbies.
[16:19] Speaker 1: Now.
[16:19] Speaker 2: I don't know if that is to take them away
[16:21] Speaker 2: from parenting, but yeah, exactly golf and serving.
[16:25] Speaker 1: But the mums, I know, none of us have got
[16:26] Speaker 1: any hobbies.
[16:27] Speaker 2: So I am starting tomorrow, yes with so wait for it. Tomorrow,
[16:33] Speaker 2: I am doing sound bath healing on.
[16:36] Speaker 1: A waterbed in Newtown.
[16:38] Speaker 2: On Saturday, I am going bushwalking, I am going to
[16:42] Speaker 2: try golf with another friend, and I've signed up to
[16:46] Speaker 2: go to a silent disco.
[16:48] Speaker 4: Good for you?
[16:48] Speaker 1: What do you think? Do you think one of them
[16:50] Speaker 1: will stick. You're doing a lot very quickly, though.
[16:52] Speaker 2: That's how I roll. I think you could just throw
[16:54] Speaker 2: a load of mud at the wall. Something will stick,
[16:57] Speaker 2: I suppose for me.
[16:58] Speaker 3: At the sound healing, I have no issue with the
[17:00] Speaker 3: fact that it's on a water bed. Just made it
[17:02] Speaker 3: really eighties and sleazy.
[17:03] Speaker 1: You get your own waterbed. There's ten waterbeds.
[17:06] Speaker 4: I know.
[17:07] Speaker 5: You know that just seems so passing.
[17:09] Speaker 1: Why does it feel unhygienic?
[17:11] Speaker 4: Indeed, yeah, Grace, when you say that, actual germophobe. I
[17:14] Speaker 4: actually tried a waterbed when I went to Mexico by myself,
[17:19] Speaker 4: and you cannot sleep on it. You cannot have good
[17:22] Speaker 4: nights sleep on a bloody water bed because it moves
[17:24] Speaker 4: around and noise is actually quite annoying.
[17:27] Speaker 2: But I let you know, it's only fifty minutes and
[17:29] Speaker 2: it's high frequency.
[17:31] Speaker 1: Grace. If you got any hobbies, what do you get into.
[17:33] Speaker 4: I love karaoke. I sent karaoke at home by myself.
[17:36] Speaker 4: I can go to a karaoke bar by myself for
[17:39] Speaker 4: three hours. That's why you should do in Hong Kong
[17:42] Speaker 4: to go with people because they hold the mic.
[17:44] Speaker 1: Just go on your own. What are we singing to watch?
[17:48] Speaker 4: Canto pop, you know, like Fey want all these eighties demonstrate. Yeah,
[17:53] Speaker 4: let me think of something. Hold on, take your time,
[17:56] Speaker 4: no pressure, so thy soo mic laser. So it's a
[18:02] Speaker 4: las yeah news. Why we're sing Why Joe Hunt?
[18:09] Speaker 1: How's that? I will never forget that. It was hard
[18:16] Speaker 1: to join in for the chorus.
[18:20] Speaker 4: So you need to come over to Melbourne and we
[18:23] Speaker 4: do karaoke.
[18:24] Speaker 1: Karaoke.
[18:25] Speaker 4: I've got my own private mic people and it's not wired.
[18:29] Speaker 4: It's like porta bowl and I will share with you.
[18:32] Speaker 4: Do you know?
[18:33] Speaker 6: I once got a complaint from a neighbor because I
[18:35] Speaker 6: had just purchased series one of the Golden Girls on DVD,
[18:39] Speaker 6: which is one of my favorite shows ever, and I
[18:41] Speaker 6: sung the theme song as loud as I can on repeat.
[18:44] Speaker 1: Was the first time I had an apartment to myself,
[18:47] Speaker 1: and I.
[18:47] Speaker 6: Got a note put under my door saying all your
[18:49] Speaker 6: neighbors would appreciate you. Stop singing and particularly the same
[18:54] Speaker 6: song over and over. I like that.
[18:55] Speaker 1: It was all your.
[19:00] Speaker 4: Yeah time singing is fine. They can't complain about daytime singing.
[19:03] Speaker 1: It was about four pm. Come on, it was repetitive matter.
[19:07] Speaker 1: It's a classic Mary, what are your hobbies.
[19:09] Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean what I've noticed is that people are
[19:13] Speaker 5: really craving hobbies.
[19:14] Speaker 1: So I don't think you're alone.
[19:16] Speaker 3: As you know, my brother's got a great cafe in
[19:18] Speaker 3: Melbourne called Rowena Corner Store and just randomly they've started
[19:22] Speaker 3: doing every second Thursday night when it's not open to
[19:24] Speaker 3: the public as a business, but they use it as
[19:26] Speaker 3: a venue doing craft nights. And I know it sounds
[19:30] Speaker 3: really daggy, but people come. They knit, they collage, they sketch,
[19:35] Speaker 3: they sing. One of the waitresses there, Lexi, is unbelievable.
[19:40] Speaker 3: She's an incredible singer, awesome talent. She brings her guitar
[19:44] Speaker 3: and she plays acoustic guitar and sings. And that's not
[19:47] Speaker 3: like there's only regulars that are coming there. I reckon
[19:50] Speaker 3: at least half, if not more, people that have never
[19:53] Speaker 3: been to that shop that see a reel on it
[19:56] Speaker 3: from the former one two weeks earlier, and that turn up.
[19:59] Speaker 1: There was a guy there that.
[20:00] Speaker 3: Was sitting with a group of girls knitting himself a beanie.
[20:04] Speaker 3: It was one of the most gorgeous nights. And I
[20:06] Speaker 3: think it is about connection. It is about staying curious,
[20:10] Speaker 3: It is about finding things that bring you joy and
[20:13] Speaker 3: so I totally get it. I was there. I made
[20:15] Speaker 3: sure we flew down the night before so that my daughter,
[20:18] Speaker 3: who's a keen knitter, could knit. And you know, there
[20:21] Speaker 3: was beautiful Lexi singing Yellow Coldplay songs and things like that.
[20:26] Speaker 3: It was a truly unforgettable night. They bring a bottle
[20:28] Speaker 3: of wine, they bring some nuts or some cheese or
[20:31] Speaker 3: some crackers, and we're on.
[20:33] Speaker 1: I love that.
[20:34] Speaker 6: There's a lot of that happening now, just that community
[20:37] Speaker 6: and wanting to do things together. We're not knitting together,
[20:40] Speaker 6: but we're just doing our thing. I mean, cath this
[20:42] Speaker 6: isn't for you. But if you heard about the five
[20:44] Speaker 6: am clubs. That a lot of cafes, so it's for
[20:46] Speaker 6: early rises and it's for people to go and work.
[20:49] Speaker 6: They might be writing a book, they might be doing anything,
[20:52] Speaker 6: but they just join at a big table and all
[20:54] Speaker 6: sort of work together.
[20:55] Speaker 1: It's sort of like a we work. It's like a
[20:57] Speaker 1: community work space.
[20:59] Speaker 4: Of for that.
[21:00] Speaker 2: Look in the summer, I would be there for five am.
[21:02] Speaker 2: Five am in the dark winter is hard to get
[21:04] Speaker 2: out of bad.
[21:05] Speaker 3: But you see those cyclists there that are always the
[21:08] Speaker 3: first group of people at any cafe if they go
[21:10] Speaker 3: to one. They just keep turning up with their likera
[21:13] Speaker 3: and their bag of balls there so we can see them,
[21:16] Speaker 3: and they're loving it. Their little high heels click click,
[21:20] Speaker 3: and they all sit there, and I envy that that
[21:22] Speaker 3: they start their day with an experience that obviously they
[21:25] Speaker 3: love having, and they reward themselves with the coffee afterwards.
[21:28] Speaker 4: I mean, I speak it older. I think it's really
[21:30] Speaker 4: important to create your own community. So therefore, CAV you
[21:34] Speaker 4: need to take up like tap dancing, karaoke, everything else.
[21:37] Speaker 2: I'm happy to try it all because I've realized that
[21:40] Speaker 2: you're on your own a lot more now. And I
[21:42] Speaker 2: wasn't expecting, even though I knew he was aging, I
[21:46] Speaker 2: wasn't expecting to suddenly have all this time in my
[21:48] Speaker 2: hands and you just go, well, there's only so many
[21:50] Speaker 2: shows I want to watch. I can only walk the
[21:52] Speaker 2: park so many times, and you do. I think, I
[21:55] Speaker 2: think this will be a good way to make a
[21:56] Speaker 2: new friends.
[21:57] Speaker 1: Would you like to come to yoga with me?
[21:59] Speaker 6: So I do yoga every day or pretty reasonable times
[22:03] Speaker 6: of the day when I'm working part time, I go
[22:05] Speaker 6: to bit Crom Yoga and people go to Bicum Yoga
[22:07] Speaker 6: every day. It's ninety minutes every day, and I met
[22:10] Speaker 6: a lot of people through bitcom because you get to
[22:12] Speaker 6: know them.
[22:12] Speaker 1: Very quickly because you're both almost naked. Yeah, you would
[22:15] Speaker 1: like it, Actually, I would like it. Yeah, you've sold me.
[22:17] Speaker 5: Is that the one with that's a sweaty?
[22:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, the sweat But I.
[22:20] Speaker 2: Do feel if I'm already sweaty all the time at
[22:22] Speaker 2: the moment, it's not so they want to be more sweaty.
[22:25] Speaker 1: I'm not very bandy. Do you still want to take
[22:27] Speaker 1: me to yoga? Sure, we'll just go. We'll hide in
[22:30] Speaker 1: the back. We'll start with older people's yoga. I feel
[22:32] Speaker 1: like a hobby is a fantastic way to meet someone
[22:35] Speaker 1: as well.
[22:36] Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder why we stop allowing ourselves to have
[22:39] Speaker 3: hobbies the older we get. And you're right, men always
[22:42] Speaker 3: make time for them, and I know that they've probably
[22:44] Speaker 3: got more time, especially in the later years, because they're
[22:48] Speaker 3: not on top of you know, generally, I'm speaking obviously
[22:51] Speaker 3: the child stuff and the home stuff to the same degree.
[22:55] Speaker 3: So but I look at my husband and I see
[22:59] Speaker 3: how much football gives him joy, how much emotional engagement
[23:03] Speaker 3: he gets out of football or even soccer, And I
[23:06] Speaker 3: end that because I don't have that. I was never
[23:09] Speaker 3: the girl that had posters up in my bedroom or
[23:12] Speaker 3: that was completely monogamous to one thing or anything. But
[23:15] Speaker 3: I am monogamous to community and I am monogamous to socializing.
[23:20] Speaker 3: So I think obviously hobbies are the way in, and
[23:23] Speaker 3: I feel like the older we get, we reduce those
[23:25] Speaker 3: from our joyful list.
[23:27] Speaker 5: Of things that we do.
[23:29] Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean I used to horse ride. I'm
[23:31] Speaker 3: not going to horse ride now because one I don't
[23:34] Speaker 3: have a horse. I used to have a horse child
[23:38] Speaker 3: or she called Sonny as in share Sonny was very cute.
[23:45] Speaker 3: But yeah, I just think it's really important to stay
[23:47] Speaker 3: engaged with something that doesn't, you know, rely on making
[23:52] Speaker 3: an income or being the perfect at anything, and just playing,
[23:56] Speaker 3: really playing.
[23:56] Speaker 4: I used to tap dance, by the way, for three
[23:59] Speaker 4: or four years, just on Dudgeonette cav Do you know
[24:01] Speaker 4: Pineapple Studio very famous.
[24:03] Speaker 1: That's where I used to go.
[24:05] Speaker 4: I was the worst student ever course and then watching
[24:08] Speaker 4: other people so good. It pisses me off so much,
[24:11] Speaker 4: but I swear to you it's so hard to do
[24:13] Speaker 4: tap downcer. I still have my tap shoes. I should
[24:15] Speaker 4: bring it in, you should.
[24:16] Speaker 1: I am going to do as well.
[24:18] Speaker 2: To add to my list a beginner's jazz and beginners
[24:21] Speaker 2: hip hop dance class. Yes, yeah for that, because I've
[24:24] Speaker 2: realized the things I loved when I was younger was
[24:26] Speaker 2: dancing and music.
[24:27] Speaker 1: So I'm trying to bring this unco body back to
[24:31] Speaker 1: the dance floor. But there's quite a lot of places in.
[24:34] Speaker 2: The city that do it like and beginners, so beginners. Yeah,
[24:38] Speaker 2: now I'm at the back of the beginners.
[24:40] Speaker 5: Yeah, I was back in aerobics and then they started turning.
[24:48] Speaker 1: Vine.
[24:49] Speaker 3: But there is a huge movement for women in their
[24:52] Speaker 3: forties and fifties going to raves and dancing and just
[24:56] Speaker 3: even that because music is such a great you know,
[25:00] Speaker 3: trigger of happiness I think, you know, and and just
[25:03] Speaker 3: being all together and just moving our bodies all together.
[25:06] Speaker 3: But aerobics without the without the onesie, you know.
[25:10] Speaker 6: Well, I'm still really in the thick of it with
[25:12] Speaker 6: kids because I've got an eight year old and six
[25:13] Speaker 6: year old. So honestly, my hobbies are their hobbies, but
[25:17] Speaker 6: I try and make them as enjoyable for myself as possible,
[25:20] Speaker 6: and I make friends with the mums.
[25:22] Speaker 1: On the side of martial arts, on the side of soccer,
[25:24] Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
[25:24] Speaker 6: So I try and make it a social thing for
[25:26] Speaker 6: me because I'm spending so much time doing things for them.
[25:29] Speaker 2: Which is really important. And that's what I've noticed is
[25:32] Speaker 2: that is also stopping for me. And so you miss
[25:35] Speaker 2: that community of mums or dads that you would have
[25:38] Speaker 2: the chat with, you know. Now it's like I'm going
[25:40] Speaker 2: to have to invite them to a tap dancing glass one.
[25:43] Speaker 2: I wish the sporting thing would stop for me. My
[25:46] Speaker 2: daughter is playing netball. It is torture.
[25:49] Speaker 1: It is torture.
[25:50] Speaker 3: The first time she started, okay, it was a few
[25:52] Speaker 3: years ago, she looked like she was looking for a
[25:54] Speaker 3: table in a cafe.
[25:57] Speaker 5: I'm like, what is going on that this sport exercise?
[26:01] Speaker 5: Why aren't we running?
[26:02] Speaker 1: Why don't we know the rules?
[26:03] Speaker 3: Because I've played a lot of netball growing up, but
[26:06] Speaker 3: I do have great banter with the parents on the sideline.
[26:09] Speaker 1: You know what, you will miss it when it stops.
[26:11] Speaker 2: I don't want to be that person who's said that
[26:13] Speaker 2: to me over the years when I've winged about Saturday
[26:15] Speaker 2: and Sunday school.
[26:16] Speaker 1: But I feel like I'm going to miss it.
[26:18] Speaker 2: I'm keen to hear from the Unlasias what they're into,
[26:21] Speaker 2: what they've tried, what they want us to try.
[26:23] Speaker 1: So DMS, if you've got anything for us to give
[26:27] Speaker 1: a go.
[26:39] Speaker 4: So, ladies, something happened to me recently, again and again
[26:43] Speaker 4: and again. So I am fifty three and I keep
[26:46] Speaker 4: getting people saying to me, you look so good for
[26:50] Speaker 4: your age. And before I was like, that is not
[26:54] Speaker 4: a compliment.
[26:55] Speaker 1: Is it a compliment to me?
[26:56] Speaker 4: Now I don't think it's a compliment because you're saying
[26:59] Speaker 4: I'm not supposed to look like this at a certain age, right,
[27:03] Speaker 4: So now my clapback is what does some age fifty
[27:07] Speaker 4: three year old woman should look like? And they get
[27:10] Speaker 4: a bit thrown away, and I might stop saying that.
[27:13] Speaker 4: And I really want woman at our age to clap
[27:17] Speaker 4: back and say to people, if they say you look
[27:20] Speaker 4: good for your age, just say why can't you just
[27:23] Speaker 4: say you look good? Period? Right? Have you ever had
[27:27] Speaker 4: that happen to you? And what's your clap back?
[27:29] Speaker 3: You know the Greeks say when you say something and
[27:31] Speaker 3: then you try to save it at the end, which
[27:33] Speaker 3: is the opposite, which is they slap your face and
[27:36] Speaker 3: then straighten your hat.
[27:38] Speaker 5: This is great, say, so I think it's they're saying
[27:42] Speaker 5: a positive.
[27:43] Speaker 3: And sort of ending it with a negative. I think
[27:45] Speaker 3: some people don't know what to say. I think some
[27:48] Speaker 3: people try to say something positive and then comes out
[27:50] Speaker 3: with scraw it up.
[27:51] Speaker 5: It is a cliche though.
[27:53] Speaker 3: It's one of those things people say, I have very
[27:55] Speaker 3: good skin, and I was like, okay, well, and I
[27:58] Speaker 3: appreciate you. I do like that. So I just try
[28:03] Speaker 3: to focus on the positives, and I do allow for
[28:06] Speaker 3: a certain level of human awkwardness. It's just I did
[28:11] Speaker 3: get told something in a cafe which I will never
[28:14] Speaker 3: forget as much as people tell me I've got good skin,
[28:17] Speaker 3: and let's not go on about it.
[28:18] Speaker 1: It is great, beautiful.
[28:22] Speaker 3: I was at a cafe and I was writing a
[28:24] Speaker 3: stage show at the time, and I would go there regularly,
[28:27] Speaker 3: and then I would see the same people.
[28:28] Speaker 5: You go at the same time, you see the same
[28:30] Speaker 5: people come through, and this one guy leant in and
[28:34] Speaker 5: said to me, you're not with your granddaughter today, Oh
[28:38] Speaker 5: my god, and I died.
[28:42] Speaker 1: I died.
[28:43] Speaker 3: I said nothing back, It's not his fault. I did
[28:46] Speaker 3: become a mother at forty nine. And then I saw
[28:48] Speaker 3: Bruno maybe an hour later, and I said to her,
[28:50] Speaker 3: you're not going to believe what to happen?
[28:52] Speaker 1: This is all.
[28:52] Speaker 3: And she said, you've got to put it in the
[28:53] Speaker 3: stage show, and I did so, he did give me material.
[28:57] Speaker 5: I just think you've just got to roll with the punches.
[29:00] Speaker 1: Well, do we think you look good for your ages?
[29:02] Speaker 3: Ever?
[29:02] Speaker 1: Being said to a man, I'm sure, I'm sure.
[29:05] Speaker 3: Well, my husband's never had a dry and he's never
[29:07] Speaker 3: had a cigarette, and he does look great. He'll be
[29:10] Speaker 3: sixty seven this year and he does look great. Right,
[29:14] Speaker 3: if you compare the market, if people take care of
[29:18] Speaker 3: themselves and really make it a bit more effort, and
[29:21] Speaker 3: I think it can pay off.
[29:22] Speaker 4: But I just think women get a lot of backhand
[29:25] Speaker 4: compliment and MANU when they go white, oh, silver fox,
[29:29] Speaker 4: and we're like past our prime. Yeah, I think we
[29:32] Speaker 4: need to put a stop to that.
[29:33] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[29:33] Speaker 6: Ide, what's really tricky, it's when either you are trying
[29:37] Speaker 6: to be healthy and trying to lose weight. In the
[29:40] Speaker 6: olden days, it would be you look fabulous, But these
[29:43] Speaker 6: days did she do it on purpose? Does she want this?
[29:47] Speaker 6: Should I be talking about people's bodies? It's a really
[29:50] Speaker 6: gray area at the moment.
[29:51] Speaker 1: I find Look, I'm happy to take all compliments.
[29:56] Speaker 2: Every chance I was thinking about one of my favorite
[30:00] Speaker 2: comebacks I ever sort of had, was many many years ago,
[30:03] Speaker 2: so it's nothing to do with age. I was in
[30:06] Speaker 2: the is in Manchester and my ex husband, Andrew, he
[30:09] Speaker 2: was injured so we were able to go on holiday
[30:11] Speaker 2: because he couldn't play the season. So we're in a
[30:14] Speaker 2: We're in my city, you know where I went to Uni,
[30:16] Speaker 2: where I'm super happy, and I'm with some of my
[30:19] Speaker 2: best mates and we're in this pub and no.
[30:21] Speaker 1: One knows who the fuck he is over there. It's glorious.
[30:24] Speaker 2: Anyway, as I walk down the stairs to go the toilet,
[30:27] Speaker 2: this guy who's been eyeballing us says to me, and
[30:31] Speaker 2: Andrew's surname is John's.
[30:33] Speaker 1: He says, how the fuck are you with John z O?
[30:38] Speaker 4: God, please tell me you say something back?
[30:39] Speaker 1: I said, because I give good? Oh good, Yes, I
[30:44] Speaker 1: kept walking down the stairs.
[30:45] Speaker 2: Now, I would like to just say, if trip Advisor
[30:48] Speaker 2: or Google had a review on my fillatio skills, it
[30:52] Speaker 2: would probably be like a.
[30:53] Speaker 1: One out of five. I'm not very good at it.
[30:55] Speaker 1: But this guy didn't know. I just like five myself.
[30:59] Speaker 1: I was like, what do you mean? How have I
[31:01] Speaker 1: got him? I was hot back then.
[31:03] Speaker 4: What a wanker to say that.
[31:05] Speaker 5: It stuns me the things like I'm out at people's mouth.
[31:08] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[31:08] Speaker 6: Well, one time that I wish I had a better
[31:10] Speaker 6: clap back because it still sort of lives with me,
[31:12] Speaker 6: which really annoys me. Is when I came back from
[31:14] Speaker 6: my second attorney leave and I was working in radio.
[31:16] Speaker 6: I was managing a radio station and my boss was
[31:20] Speaker 6: a lovely gay man, but he thought that we were
[31:23] Speaker 6: in the same boat because.
[31:24] Speaker 1: I had a new baby and he had a new dog.
[31:26] Speaker 1: Oh oh my god, that FYI. It's not the same
[31:32] Speaker 1: having a baby and a dog.
[31:33] Speaker 6: So I came back and it was my first day
[31:35] Speaker 6: and he was reintroducing me to the office and he said,
[31:38] Speaker 6: and it was a slip of the dunk, but he said,
[31:41] Speaker 6: Georgie's back from holiday.
[31:45] Speaker 5: Holiday.
[31:46] Speaker 6: The whole room went silent, and Mary, I did what
[31:48] Speaker 6: you said. I gave it that second of pause.
[31:50] Speaker 1: Yes, just to leave you like that. And what I
[31:54] Speaker 1: wasn't happy with what I said. I wish I had better,
[31:56] Speaker 1: and I thought of better later, I said.
[31:58] Speaker 6: Yep, complete with midnight two am, four am wake up calls.
[32:03] Speaker 1: Happy holiday.
[32:05] Speaker 2: It is time for bluff from the past, where we
[32:08] Speaker 2: take you back to relive your youth. I've been thinking,
[32:12] Speaker 2: what is a common everyday problem from the nineties or
[32:15] Speaker 2: early two thousands that younger generations literally cannot comprehend.
[32:20] Speaker 3: Well, we talked about the landline. My mother is still
[32:23] Speaker 3: a huge user of the landline. She does not have
[32:25] Speaker 3: a mobile, she refuses to have a mobile.
[32:27] Speaker 5: But landline. We had a very sexy phone there was
[32:32] Speaker 5: attached to the wall.
[32:33] Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's you know, cutting edge stuff.
[32:38] Speaker 5: My dad's business was that phone number. So it was
[32:43] Speaker 5: really really bad.
[32:45] Speaker 3: When you get home from school, the first thing you
[32:47] Speaker 3: want to do is get on the phone and talk
[32:48] Speaker 3: about what happened at school.
[32:50] Speaker 5: As my mother would say, gossip.
[32:57] Speaker 1: So when we come home from school.
[32:58] Speaker 3: And I'd get on the phone and I'd talk, and
[33:01] Speaker 3: then my dad, if he was home early from work,
[33:03] Speaker 3: would bang on the wall and say, you want to eat,
[33:07] Speaker 3: do you want to wear.
[33:08] Speaker 1: Nice clothes, you want to go on bloody holidays? Get
[33:11] Speaker 1: off the bloody phone.
[33:13] Speaker 5: And so I would have to hang up.
[33:14] Speaker 3: So having access to an independent way of talking like
[33:17] Speaker 3: a mobile phone, and not being at the beck and
[33:20] Speaker 3: call of your parents telling you to get off the
[33:22] Speaker 3: phone was a big deal. So you know, kids don't
[33:25] Speaker 3: relate to that because they've never had a phone that
[33:28] Speaker 3: they've had to rely on that was being used by
[33:30] Speaker 3: the entire family and to run your father's business through.
[33:33] Speaker 1: Actually the phone.
[33:34] Speaker 2: I remember for me too, if you liked a boy,
[33:39] Speaker 2: or if you got their number and you sort of
[33:41] Speaker 2: you got the courage up to call them, and then
[33:45] Speaker 2: somebody would answer. There wouldn't be the parent, It would
[33:48] Speaker 2: be maybe their six or seven year old sister or brother,
[33:51] Speaker 2: and you had to pray to God that that child
[33:54] Speaker 2: would pass on the fact that you'd called, Oh, merchants,
[33:58] Speaker 2: took down your four digit number correctly to pass on
[34:01] Speaker 2: to the boy you had a crush on, double eight
[34:03] Speaker 2: nine sex Rob.
[34:04] Speaker 1: If you don't remember, remember how awkward that.
[34:07] Speaker 6: Was though, having to say him, mister Connell, it's Georgie,
[34:10] Speaker 6: it's Jess sir. And then sometimes they would say, how
[34:12] Speaker 6: are you, Georgia?
[34:13] Speaker 1: Do you want to chat? Little shirt? You just wanted
[34:16] Speaker 1: to talk to your friend, and then you'd wait, you
[34:17] Speaker 1: hear them pad off.
[34:18] Speaker 6: My big thing about not having a phone growing up
[34:21] Speaker 6: is every time on the weekend when we were teenagers
[34:23] Speaker 6: and we would you get the train to the city
[34:25] Speaker 6: for a day but the organization, and you didn't have
[34:27] Speaker 6: a phone, so we.
[34:28] Speaker 1: Would check the paper train timetable.
[34:31] Speaker 6: We all had copies of that in the everything draw
[34:33] Speaker 6: in the kitchen, and we would all then do the
[34:36] Speaker 6: phone thing the night before. But I would call Jess
[34:38] Speaker 6: and she would call Vira and she'd call your cinder
[34:39] Speaker 6: and say the nine oh eight train at Camberwell station,
[34:42] Speaker 6: the last carriage. You had to say the carriage, yeah,
[34:45] Speaker 6: And if you missed it, you missed the day.
[34:48] Speaker 1: There was no way of finding your friends run check.
[34:51] Speaker 4: I mean, I think people are a lot more organized
[34:53] Speaker 4: back in our days, right, And people tend to be
[34:55] Speaker 4: a bit more late these days because they have a phone.
[34:58] Speaker 4: I'm ten minutes late, blah blah blah. For me, it
[35:01] Speaker 4: was VHS VHS fear recorder. It blew my son's mind
[35:07] Speaker 4: just recently when I told him you can't watch things
[35:10] Speaker 4: on demand back in my day when I was your age,
[35:12] Speaker 4: he was like, what do you mean, no Netflix? You
[35:14] Speaker 4: can't just watch one. I'm like no, so my mom
[35:17] Speaker 4: in Hong Kong when we were really young. My dad
[35:20] Speaker 4: is an accountant. He's going to count to see firms,
[35:21] Speaker 4: so he's always out on business dinners. Lunch or ev
[35:24] Speaker 4: and stuff.
[35:25] Speaker 1: Right.
[35:25] Speaker 4: My mom went with him one time and told us
[35:28] Speaker 4: there are four of us. She said, record this show
[35:31] Speaker 4: finale tonight because back in the day, you need to
[35:34] Speaker 4: run home, yeah, to watch the finale. Right. For whatever reason,
[35:38] Speaker 4: the four of us did not record. She did not
[35:42] Speaker 4: talk to us for like four days. She was so mad,
[35:45] Speaker 4: so mad because you can't go back.
[35:47] Speaker 5: No, no, you can't watch it again. No, that was it.
[35:50] Speaker 4: No.
[35:50] Speaker 3: What I find funny is, you know when you'd record
[35:52] Speaker 3: a movie and you'd watch it back and the news
[35:57] Speaker 3: would come on because there was you know, you would
[36:00] Speaker 3: there would always be a news bulletin in the middle,
[36:02] Speaker 3: just a little you know, three minute catch up on whatever,
[36:05] Speaker 3: and you'd watch it.
[36:06] Speaker 5: You forgotten that it's a VHS that you're watching.
[36:12] Speaker 1: Every time you.
[36:13] Speaker 5: Would do that, you would go did not happened before?
[36:17] Speaker 6: That happened twice, And it was stressful to record on
[36:20] Speaker 6: a VHS because you have to play record, and then
[36:23] Speaker 6: you would pause it during the ad break, and then
[36:25] Speaker 6: you'd run to the toilet and someone would say.
[36:27] Speaker 1: Ad breaks finished.
[36:28] Speaker 6: I wanted to be like a full moon running in
[36:31] Speaker 6: and then you'd accidentally press record. It's not play record.
[36:34] Speaker 1: It was a big thing. Miss scenes or.
[36:37] Speaker 2: Were still halfway through Mary Poppins, you know my dad's
[36:40] Speaker 2: take Match of the day.
[36:42] Speaker 1: It's like right in the middle of your best movie
[36:44] Speaker 1: ever and it's the football, scores of music and just
[36:48] Speaker 1: trying to escape the naziason sudden all.
[36:51] Speaker 2: To United One. Okay, well that is all we have
[36:56] Speaker 2: time for today. Before you go back into the world,
[36:59] Speaker 2: can we ask you one thing. Please please share this episode.
[37:03] Speaker 2: Maybe you have a friend who looks good for their age,
[37:07] Speaker 2: or a friend who needs a new hobby, share this
[37:10] Speaker 2: episode with them.
[37:11] Speaker 1: Now, we don't have.
[37:12] Speaker 2: Billboard money, you know that we are running on an
[37:14] Speaker 2: oily rag, but we do have you and the ancient
[37:18] Speaker 2: gen x technology of telling your friends about something good.
[37:21] Speaker 2: So please share this podcast. But before we go, yes,
[37:25] Speaker 2: very very very exciting news.
[37:28] Speaker 1: This is good. This is really good.
[37:30] Speaker 4: What is it? Hi, guys, Sally here Now you remember
[37:34] Speaker 4: last week I took our plans for spring Fling to
[37:36] Speaker 4: the boardroom at Mamma Mia.
[37:38] Speaker 1: The pitch went really well.
[37:40] Speaker 4: Oh my god, ladies.
[37:41] Speaker 1: This week I have received.
[37:43] Speaker 4: Official confirmation that the campaign has worked. Yes, Kath is
[37:48] Speaker 4: getting a formal management's folded. Yes, we have a date.
[37:53] Speaker 4: We have a venue, so it's time begin sourcing your
[37:56] Speaker 4: eighties or nineties formal where immediately, Kath, you are.
[38:00] Speaker 5: Finally going to the formal.
[38:03] Speaker 1: This was your doing. We did it.
[38:07] Speaker 5: Yeah, it's happening.
[38:09] Speaker 1: You guys made it happen.
[38:10] Speaker 4: Let's go.
[38:11] Speaker 2: So if you would like to come along, go to
[38:13] Speaker 2: the show notes or go to Instagram and start thinking
[38:16] Speaker 2: about your absolute favorite eighties and nineties finery because we're doing.
[38:21] Speaker 1: This so much fun, very exciting. So Grace, are you
[38:26] Speaker 1: looking after outfits for this?
[38:28] Speaker 4: Listen? I'm doing everything. I don't care. We're going to
[38:31] Speaker 4: make this happen. It's going to be fun and we'll
[38:33] Speaker 4: meet all the unleashia's. But get your tickets A sap,
[38:37] Speaker 4: That's all I'm going to say.
[38:38] Speaker 1: Okay, I love this.
[38:39] Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe Bruner will even shell for it, will Yeah?
[38:44] Speaker 1: Okay, what else Georgie or on music? I could do?
[38:46] Speaker 6: Me?
[38:46] Speaker 1: I think I do quite well on music. You do
[38:48] Speaker 1: really well, a mayor. You might need to show me
[38:51] Speaker 1: some dance moves in case.
[38:53] Speaker 5: Dancing with the stars.
[38:54] Speaker 1: I know how to move.
[38:56] Speaker 5: He was born on a dance floor.
[38:58] Speaker 1: Sure you can move one. So, ladies, thanks to you
[39:02] Speaker 1: and the listeners, this is actually happening.
[39:05] Speaker 4: Let's go.
[39:05] Speaker 3: Come on, leasiers have spoken, this is a democratic win.
[39:10] Speaker 4: Wo and the management they listen.
[39:13] Speaker 2: Yes, okay, So the tickets are on sale now, Saturday,
[39:16] Speaker 2: the tenth of October at the Oxford Art.
[39:19] Speaker 1: Factory in Sydney. Woo woo amazing. I'm a big thank
[39:23] Speaker 1: you to the unleashas for making this happen. I might cry.
[39:27] Speaker 1: I cannot believe I'm finally at fifty one, gonna have
[39:31] Speaker 1: a formal.
[39:33] Speaker 4: So good.
[39:34] Speaker 1: Right, well, as we like to say, Juesday.
[39:38] Speaker 2: Until then, stay unfiltered, stay unreasonable, and stay unleashed. Bye.
[39:49] Speaker 2: Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
[39:53] Speaker 2: that this podcast is recorded on

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