Welcome back. Welcome back everyone. How exciting. This is gonna be probably the highlight of EVERYONE Listenings week. Right, definitely is mine. Why is it yours? Because this is the time we get to chat to each other. And even though I don't know, I don't know, I'm going with that. I just I. Give me, give me some love. Yeah, I mean, even though we're talking to other people where it's also a chance for us to talk to each other. Technically, we're not talking to other people, we're just
talking. For other people to listen to. I had a brain fart because I was like, wait a second. There's no one even here. It's crazy. So this is our second attempt. I made a mistake. I didn't push record on the audio and aim is that what should we record it again? I was like, Nah, I think I'll be able to save it. But the new office, the sound is very tinny without these microphones.
So yeah, I. Mean the audience deserves the best quality so we. Won't my voice is shocking and hard enough to listen to, so you throw a bit. Of thinks that about their own voice, you. Throw a bit of tin tone on that and here we are. Tin tone. I actually got to start with something. I need to bring this up because I don't I don't know if you saw it. OK, this is social media, everyone.
This is social media. But I did a post yesterday and the post was you carry financial pressure but say nothing. It's silently burying you. And then I just went on to my experience with that. Yeah, this guy comments had a lot of great responses. But this one guy, bro, isn't your wife like a pop star? I'm sure you're were doing fine. And I said, why do you assume that? And then someone else, some lady's back. She's like, bro, you think pop or rock stars don't have
problems? And then he goes with limited context. It just stuck struck me as sorry, stuck. He's spelled wrong. I should have got him on that. Damn it. It just stuck me as inauthentic. I think this is a big issue for a lot of guys and I hope you're attempting to profit off it via like he's definitely it's misspelled. I'm going to interpret it the way that I think he meant it, where he said, I hope you're not attempting to profit off it via
feigned shared experience. And here's here's here's what I said. It's not over. He said, OK, mate, with limited context, generally the next thing to do would be to seek more context. And if you did more of that you'd also find out there's plenty of information around my financial stuff. And then I said wishing you all the best. He said same mate. Wasn't trying to offend, just seemed like a glaringly obvious question based on how you chose to message. But I certainly could have been
more tactful in my wedding. My apologies. Social media. Social media is people. Speak so much before they think. I've experienced that a lot. Especially the IVF. Yeah, it's so infuriating. People have a lot of assumptions and ignorance is rife. I think people are just looking through their they're either like, I have no idea why he needed to comment that. Yeah, like I can understand potentially with IVF for you, like I want to give my like my experience without looking
through your eyes. But that there's like, well, it's that was just a shot. I feel like he's in, he's got something going on in his life. Of course. Absolutely, but it wasn't like a troll. No, they weren't. They were like. They weren't like a faceless. Troll. No, we, we had, I looked at him, he's got his family on there and he seems like a decent bloke. Is it? That's why I messaged back, people. Just assume because I do music for a living, I'm like a. Loaded. Loaded.
Famous. I don't know because I'm in the public eye must mean that I am. Successful and. Yeah, we, we have had success, but it's like like as a musician you're always unemployed. Do you know what I mean? I don't think people understand that. It's like you're always waiting for the next job and the next gig and that can be really hard, like in the in between parts anyway. What do you think of our appearance on couple goals? On what paper was that?
A career male we were in, we had like a three page spread. I've always wanted to be the centre page spread after watching my first meeting. My first. The. Centrefold Penthouse. I was like, I could be there one day. Oh God, no, I'm joking. Yeah, so it was really funny. We weren't really expecting it to be in the career mail. We did an interview and a. Photo shoot like photo shoot over a year ago. Yeah, it was like a little
piece. I thought it was like for an online piece about and they have a a segment called couple goals. They robbed our podcast. Where they got that name from, who knows. But anyway, he said Yep, we'd love to be on it. And this was over a year ago. We gave an interview and yeah, it's come out over a year later and. Completely forgot about it until I was tagged in it. I was like, what the hell is this? Which must mean I'm a
millionaire. Which also as a byproduct must mean I too am. I am too. And that also means you're not a lot of profit off any of your experiences, according to that guy. Here's the interesting thing. I feel like every business started off the back of a problem in someone's life where they're like, this is a pain in the ass. I'm going to solve that problem, and now that I know how to solve it, I can help other people solve it. Yeah. Simple. Fuck. Just wild.
Absolutely wild. What else is happening? Well. We haven't got your artwork yet. Still, we actually haven't even got a notification. Team is very slow maybe. You've been gypped. Have you been ripped up? Maybe. I checked the status on that, although Teamu, it does take a little while and you know what, I wouldn't be surprised if it arrived and it was like a print. Like the no I did. I did check sizing, look order confirmed 10 days ago.
Well, it does take a while to. Get it hasn't even been shipped. Uh oh, let. Me, let me. Or maybe that was the initial let's view order. But you're right, it does suck. But now it's asking me for security verification. My goodness, this is crazy. Don't give away any information. Lucky. No, I'm just trying to build the shape, but the shape is not going to be built. Oh, there we go. Did it. Oh my God. But I was going to go somewhere with that, and I cannot remember
now. So with the painting, but now it's just absolutely, absolutely. Well, when everyone sees it, they'll play Wow. Where'd you get? That one, where'd you get that image from? And it wasn't Timo, It was legit. We spent lots of money on it. Well, all of our couple goalers know the truth. But I was about to say I'm flying out to Europe. Yeah. On Sunday I booked booked the car, last night got a Fiat Punto. I think it's cool when you told me that, Lucky yelled out.
To me, like Penny, come. And look at the car I just booked. I was like, Oh my God, I bet he got like a convertible. I thought because I in my head, I, because you're going to Italy, just had this vision of you like in a convertible going around the Amalfi Coast. That's the complete opposite image that I had. And then when I saw it, I was like, that is the complete opposite of that. But that is the image I had.
I got a Fiat Panda, not a Punto. I don't even know if there is a Punto if that's just a word I said. But it's it's tiny. I envisioned like in my. Smart Car. Backpack. Yeah, my backpack on the roof. It's Italian. Yeah, that'd be fun. It's it from A to B? I'm jealous. So you're going to our friend's wedding? Yes, I'm flying over. It's our time. Yeah. Flying over, spending three days in France visiting Etienne. And we'll probably ride motorbikes, eat croissants or
just the food's gonna be good. Probably have a little bit of champagne. And then we're working on his house. Are you? Yeah. Yeah. Can you? These renovating the. House that we have, don't have. We're also looking at buying another house, which is brutal, but I haven't finished my Europe story, so go back to that. Do that, then I'll fly to Florence. From Florence I'll pick up my little Fiat and I'll drive down to the Chianti region, which has
got some of the best red wine. We love Chianti, don't we? Can. You bring me back a bottle. Yeah, I'm going to get some for sure. And a. Champagne. I'm probably. Going to drink a lot of Chianti. I love it. So I'll be doing that and then drive back to Florence and fly back to Australia. So it's a very short trip, but it'll be fun. But now that it's close, I'm pretty pumped. Yeah, it's. Gonna be amazing. I opted to stay here. Do you regret that decision?
Well, yes and no. Like I wanna come, but also I just didn't know where we were gonna be at with our IVF journey. Yeah. So probably, yeah, I don't know. Could have that was you probably could have made it happen because in hindsight is 2020, but you just don't know what's going on. And also I thought I was going to be on tour in the US. Yeah. And so that got cancelled and which meant that when I went and looked at flights, last minute flights and all that's very expensive.
So, you know, I just came back from Europe. We just came back from Europe and I'm happy to sort of chill. I'm going back. I shouldn't just stand. Over to chill at the moment, I think I just need to. Zend in. Zen out and get ready for the next. Round, yeah, I like it, but housing? Housing, fuck me, I'm sure we're not the only ones who are in this position.
So we're actually living with my mum, have been since we got back from the US and it's looking like, just with the IVF and stuff, it's looking like we're going to be in Brisbane at least for the foreseeable future. We haven't given up on the US, but obviously we need healthcare and so we're going to look for, we're looking for a rental. And it's crazy, like everyone says it, but until you're actually looking for one yourself, it's like, you know, if you want something decent,
it's like 800 bucks a week. And when we say decent, what we're looking for is 3 bedroom. No2 bedroom. What I, when, when we're looking for decent and what I, what we're looking for, it's two-bedroom. Like ideal would be 3, heck ideal is 6 bedrooms but yeah at least. I still remember when I first moved out of home so this was 2009, not that long ago.
Maybe it is, but I was paying. So there's we had a three bedroom house, 4 bedroom house in Toowoomba and between the three of us, we're paying $70 each rent a week. And like that was a lot even then. Because generally when you finish school or you're doing an apprenticeship or even if you're studying, you're not earning that much money. Say I think I was earning 800 bucks a week at that point. So that's like 110th of your income, the equivalent now like 800.
Like let's say for example, even if you're not, if you're sharing a house and you're doing like 500 bucks, I could still. It's a lot of money for someone who's not like, especially for young. People, the wages haven't gone up like that and it's crazy. So maybe we need some couples to live with. Now fucked up shared house, Yeah, I mean, there's always things that you can do.
But even when I was looking at further out, because obviously we're in pretty in the city, I was looking further out and it's still the same price for 2/2 bedrooms or two bedrooms no matter where you are like it may be. It's a little bit. Cheaper if you go further out, but. Then you're further out. Yeah, you're further out and it's not that much cheap. You may as well live in Toowoomba then. So you can live. Wherever.
Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, we had a meeting with our mortgage broker and basically we could buy something. Something small. Very small, and probably smaller than what we'd like, but at least we're not paying. We're just like. Dead money to rent and we're paying off our. Own it just doesn't get you what it once would have. I think that's what. Because I'm the hard. Part builder by trade here. I am a guru.
But it's just like, yeah, it's just it's skyrocketed and continued all the all the fucking things that everyone says, the reasons why people are pissed off. It's true. We've just realized that it's essentially. So now it's just you think, OK, well, if I'm going to commit to something for 25 years to 30 years to pay it off, ideally you'd want to be committing to something that you like. It's sort of like I feel like.
It's not for 2530 years. It might just be a. Yeah, but I feel like if it's like a marriage, right, you're not just going to get in any relationship and be like, oh, this would be the one for the next bit just because it's convenient. It's all I can get right now. You want to hold yourself strong. Well, you did looking and then you'd tell me. I've had a look and it's grim. It's grim out there.
So we might have to make some sacrifices and get a little apartment and then, Yep, when we are making a bit more money, we can either rent out that apartment or sell it. Yep. And the other thing on top of the property thing, Documentary update. I feel like my brain's so tired right now. It's been a busy big week. The documentary for those who are wanting to know about the 58, which I hope some of you guys want to watch it because it's going to be epic.
Got a meeting tomorrow night with Ben, who is our videographer. And now we're bringing on another producer to get it done at a faster time in a faster time frame because we want to get it pitched and we want to have it up in six weeks at the latest. And this new guy reckons he can turn it around in four weeks. So Ben's going to share with him, I guess, the storyline and do all the professional chat, and then hopefully he'll get
started next week. And then in a month we'll have a month to 5-6 weeks, we'll have a documentary ready to ramble. Yep, I can't wait. Exciting to launch that. What are you going to do with it? Are you going to take it to Netflix? That's the plan. So the good thing about one of our our sponsors, he's highly invested in it.
He's just like I, I took my sponsors for lunch last week and he's like, I was sitting there and I just can't believe the people you have in your corner, like very powerful, kind people who have invested in you. And if we looked at this properly, rather than just getting it out and made it into like made a business plan around it, because the goal is to get it in front of as many people as possible. They have a lot of connections with people who can make that
happen. So we're meeting when I get back from Europe to, well, he's already working on something and I'll work on something and just be like, this is what we're going to present to the sponsors already, just because obviously their logos are all over it. But like, who in their network can they help us? And we'll start with the biggest thing, which is he was even saying like if I, you know, gave you 100 grand, for example, he's not doing that.
But like he's just thinking like think out there for marketing. Like if we then send you over to Times Square and just put you on every billboard at once, like what is some of the outrageous like guerrilla marketing you could do? And so that's what we got to think of. So if you guys have ideas, let me know. Let. Him know. Probably do something for the Gold Coast Marathon because I'm doing the half, yeah. When is that? 6th I get back on the 3rd and it's no, it's on the 5th.
I'm gonna be the half's on the 5th. You're. Gonna be. Jet lagged screwed. It's part of the fun of it. Jeez. And then you're, I'm just thinking like you're gonna drive back. Do you need a driver? From the Gold Coast. Yeah. Are you gonna drive with somebody? Probably stay down there that night because the marathon's on the next day and I'll help Maddie. Yeah. Oh, you'll stay with a friend. Yeah, I will do that. What else? Give us a Reddit story.
Reddit story. OK Reddit, good one for you. Do you know what's crazy? And everyone's going to think this is the most logical thing I've ever said. When we post an episode, our views go through the roof. Yeah, that's my statement. No shit. Yeah, you post content, you give stuff for people to listen to and they they listen, hit it. What do we got? All right, I'm gonna. I've got a couple. Of stories here somebody you, you keep talking.
Now I have to edit that bit. Far out more work for me, but we're going for as soon as we're done here. We're going for pasta down at beck. What time's Beckafina's open? It's. Probably open now. Cool. I love nothing more than an early dinner. I'm so excited as well. It's the pasta. Pasta in Brisbane. Oh hands down, Beckafino. Yeah, it's just casual. It's delicious and reliable. Hard to get into sometimes. OK I found my story all right.
Headline is my boyfriend who's a male 24 years old has a breakdown whenever I male 23, ask him to get a job or go to school. Long story short, I started nursing school in the fall. I've been extremely overwhelmed and frustrated because I have so much going on. My relationship is currently adding to my overwhelm. He's very emotionally needy and doesn't respect my need for space. He's also 24, doesn't have a job and refuses to go to college so he's bored and wants me to fill
his empty time. I've told him hey go and get a job or go to school, do something to enhance your life and prepare for a future. But whatever I do, whenever I do that, he has a breakdown, saying how everything and everyone is out to get him and how he can't go to school because he doesn't have the time, not the money, the time. All he has now is an abundance of time. Back when I was less busy, this didn't bother me. Oh sorry, my phone's had a conniption.
Back when I was less busy, this didn't bother me. But now that I'm actually working for a future, it's getting on my nerves. I can't even have a conversation about it without sobbing and him without him sobbing and telling me he isn't good enough etcetera etcetera. I just want him to do something, I don't care what it is. Hell, he could even volunteer and I'd be OK with it, but he
needs to do something. I reproach this with compassion, being more firm, asking why he doesn't want to get job, going to college and trying to understand. It always ends up with me comforting him and reassuring him while he cries, even when I'm tired and I don't have it in me. What the hell do I do? What do you think? I think there's a song. It's in my head. He goes no, I don't want no scrub. Scrub is a gap king. Get no love from me. Didn't seem too long.
We'll get banned from the scene. Cut him off. Cut him off. I don't know, I just. We're not here to fix people who don't want to fix themself. Yeah, he seems, I don't know, him being too harsh, but he seems lazy, needy. He's dragging you down, he's mooching off you, and you're 23. He's older than you like you need to be building a life together if you want to go in that direction. I think as you said the first time, you need to be able to support people through their
tough times. But if they're not actively doing anything to improve themself, like eventually you have to set some boundary there to protect yourself. Meaning I'm, you know, he's recommended all of these things, but you're still not doing anything. Yeah. And that then brings you down. So it's like, eventually this is the boundary and it's been crossed. So now, yeah. Because how are you paying rent? Are you affording to eat food? I don't get it. Yeah.
What do you guys think on that? Let us know. I mean, if you're with a partner, I think it's OK to, as you said, lean on each other. It's OK to support your partner for a certain period of time or forever if that's an arrangement you have. But they're not married. Doesn't seem like he's very happy with. And it's also like, if you know, I think if that's the arrangement, there's also still other things happening, like you're not just sitting on your ass complaining and.
Crying. Pulling on the you know, the sleeve of a shirt being like please look at me. Exactly. So you've got to make yourself valuable. I believe that's my belief. I understand all circumstances are different, but I think if you're in a hole, build a build a crew of people, acknowledge that I need help, get the right people to help you, and then also just do the things that you need to do to get better.
I think breaking up with him would probably be a wake up call that he needs because he's going to have to move out and get a job. That's scary. Fuck. All right? Anything else? I think that's all from us, that's all the updates and the things that we've been dealing in our relationship and there'll be more to come as the weeks go on and the problems arise and as we look for a house and fed anchor. Yeah. Thank you for listening and don't forget to subscribe like
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