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Matt Haycox
How long were you planning on coming to Dubai for? I mean, you're here to stay.
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Elena Sep
No, I'm. Yeah, I was. I wasn't like you. I planned to come and, you know.
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Matt Haycox
Find a husband.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, fine, fine.
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Matt Haycox
Moving to a 7000 square foot penthouse, an ultra?
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Yeah. It worked out well.
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Elena Sep
You know, now is the guys.
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Matt Haycox
Matt Haycox here. And welcome to another episode of the Matt Haycox Show. And I always say welcome to a very special episode of the show. But today really is a special episode, Firstly, because Elena is here. Secondly is it might be the first show we've ever had with a life fight in the studio.
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It's definitely, definitely going to be the first show or anywhere.
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Matt Haycox
Where anybody's cried on screen.
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Yeah.
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Elena Sep
That's expects it as well.
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Matt Haycox
And it's also being filmed on our anniversary. So to give you a bit of context and a bit of background to this. Two or three weeks ago, Alina said to me, Can we film a podcast together as a show? Would you want a film about? And she said, Yeah, just talk about us and you know, our story and some of the questions that people ask us.
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Matt Haycox
I said, Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Never kind of booked in when we were going to do it. But today's our anniversary, 27th of March. We call our anniversary because it's two years to the day that we met and as before we get into soon, basically I matter and talk to and capture from that date of the passport, the works.
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Matt Haycox
So that's that's why that's why we go with the 27th of March. So we're going out for dinner tonight. And I thought, Oh, it'll be nice to do this podcast on our anniversary. It'll be a bit of a surprise. And I said, Through this morning, we're going to tell you what the surprises. No, no, it's fine, I said of getting the data.
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Matt Haycox
We're going to tell you what the surprises. No, no, no. It's all good. And we're about 10 minutes from leaving the house. I thought I better tell you what the surprise is. Just kind of a little bit of prep time. We're going to film a podcast. Reams of tears.
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Reams of tears?
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Matt Haycox
No. Apparently is not her fault. Maybe not even my fault, but the baby's faults. But she's calmed down now. We're here. She's smiling and I don't know what we're going to talk about. So this is going to be either very interesting or an absolute failure. But all I can say thank God for editors and possibly Deliveroo if we don't make it to the restaurants.
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Matt Haycox
Anyway, welcome, welcome. My future favorite guest.
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Elena Sep
I don't even know what to say is honestly, my pregnancy has been amazing. Everything has been good. I can't can complain about anything but this. You know, my last trimester, it's everything is hurting and the baby's kicking my ribs and I can't sleep and shit. It just wasn't running my day. And you decided to.
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Matt Haycox
Surprise.
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Any surprise.
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Elena Sep
Me of something? What could even be planned? Oh, yeah.
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Matt Haycox
Well, it's more spontaneous, it's more fun. But I thought you'd be ready. I thought. I thought you already had had a baby like yours.
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Elena Sep
Just an idea and just, you know, like, you know what people normally ask from us is that. How did we meet? Which is obviously on my toes. Two years ago today, I walked in and I. You just didn't stop following me. So I eyes of me and. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Matt Haycox
So like, I ask the same questions as well but and yet I mean two years ago today I can do a bit of name dropping for insta kudos. I just recently met the cricketer Chris Gayle, and he was saying to me, Oh, we should go out at the weekend. He goes, I've been invited to a house party at, at a guy called, I'm at his house.
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Matt Haycox
He said he's a well-known guy in Dubai. It'll be it'll be a good night for connections for you. So. Oh cool. I'll go and do the networking. And then I walked in and there's all these all these guys, you know, eating, eating traditional Arabic food and talking. I was. I didn't know anyone. And then you were then you walked in a bit later on just for that.
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Matt Haycox
And then all of a sudden, even though it would have been a fantastic networking opportunity, I thought, there's only one kind of networking I'm doing tonight going up.
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Elena Sep
And it was I went there just feeling a little bit lazy, whatever was a big hangover, and I wasn't sure if I was going to go anyway, but then you just end up making my night and we just had a very good laugh and yeah, you didn't start messaging me ever since.
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Well, that's.
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Matt Haycox
That's what happens when you take someone to the Maldives on the first.
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It's a feels.
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Matt Haycox
To by dream.
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Elena Sep
You know, I missed those days when they used to invite me for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And now I have to fly for 5 minutes as well.
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Matt Haycox
So your questions before they started. So how did I get pregnant? I mean, it's a bit of a worry. You got to ask that question.
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And.
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Matt Haycox
Hopefully.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, yeah.
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Matt Haycox
Hopefully if people are asking you that there are other at least under the age of seven, nine.
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Elena Sep
What I mean by that is that many of my friends example or like people, you know, as they did, we planned for a baby and obviously there was some time that was before summer. Yeah. When you really, really tried. She put a baby in me very hard and I was on my heels and then one day I just wake up and I'm like, Where the fuck is my pills?
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Elena Sep
And I go like, Hey, hey, have you seen my penis?
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Yeah.
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Elena Sep
And I'm like, Did you like, what did you do? And then you admitted that you threw them in the bin. And I was like, You can't do that. I was like, Oh, well, I have my pills. And he went like, Well, I have my beans.
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So.
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Elena Sep
Well, that was the first. The straw. Anyway. Well, we ended up agreeing that maybe after a summer we would in a talk, a body and then in the end of the summer I just my finished my pills and I was like, okay, maybe we'll try some back Boom. Right away.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Matt Haycox
You cried on the day you told me as well. Then you.
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Are to me.
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Elena Sep
Never been more hormonal. It's only on the beginning, on the end. So, you know.
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I.
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Elena Sep
Lose you. Oh, I haven't been so bad in the minute. Meet me a little time.
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Matt Haycox
I haven't really felt you. You have been very, very low maintenance, does you?
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Elena Sep
Yeah. You and have six weeks and. Yeah, I'm, I'm allowed to, you know, feel these emotions and feelings. It's totally normal.
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Matt Haycox
Then you promised me after six weeks that you won't be speaking to me any more. Because you'll be busy with the baby.
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Because that's all you hope.
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Elena Sep
I will try to bother you less. Yeah.
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Matt Haycox
We'll show you the schedule. What's on your list?
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Elena Sep
Oh, what's your pregnancy plan?
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Matt Haycox
Or two before which your pregnant pregnancy plans. Plus backtrack to when we did meet them. I mean, I mean, you arrived from Bali. Yeah, Yeah, I had arrived from England, and I guess you know, but we both come here by. By accident. I mean, I certainly wasn't looking to looking to find anyone. So it was I'm looking to get someone pregnant.
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Or.
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Matt Haycox
Or move in with anybody, I guess. Yeah. What, what would you do by plan in.
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Elena Sep
I remember our first date and the week you were taking pictures of my ass and putting wedding ring Sony. So I think it gives out a little bit different idea. So make up your mind. So my plan was. Well, I was. I was in Bali for three years anyway, and I just kind of needed needed a change. And I already knew people from Dubai.
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Elena Sep
But like I told you the other day that I was thinking between South Africa and between Dubai and God, I chose Dubai. And yeah, just, you know, I was always up from country on up to another year looking for I'm looking for the place to settle whatever.
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Matt Haycox
I can't keep a straight face. And so how long how long were you planning on coming to Dubai for? I mean, we are here to stay now.
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Elena Sep
I Yeah, I was. I wasn't like you. I plan to come and, you know.
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Matt Haycox
Find a husband.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, fine. I find it.
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Matt Haycox
Hard moving to a 7000 square foot penthouse and.
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Yeah, it worked out well. Now.
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Elena Sep
You know. Now is the.
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Baby. Yeah.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, yeah. My plan.
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Worked. Yeah, right.
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Elena Sep
I didn't really know what to expect. I just, you know, wanted to go somewhere with the bigger opportunities I was. I was actually thinking of, you know, starting to work.
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But we didn't really listening. Gosh. Said.
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Matt Haycox
Well, I'll ask you some questions, which obviously I know the answers to, but you can put a bit of context to things for for the people want to know you. I mean, when did you leave Finland? You were 18.
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Elena Sep
I was 18. That's ten years ago.
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It's the same old, same man. Yeah.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, 18. And I went to New York for a How for. Yeah, well, that was my first adventure. That was the first time I learned English as well. It's like I've couldn't begin. I still can't. Can't speak by, you know, I, I'm definitely better than out than when I went to New York.
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Matt Haycox
Well, I've told you all the words of cards of humanity.
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So God.
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Matt Haycox
Comes against humanity, and that.
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Gets and.
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Matt Haycox
She's a you know, she she she can say she can say to burglar.
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Elena Sep
Wizards.
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Matt Haycox
Wizard, slave slut, monkey.
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Elena Sep
Yeah. Me and Hala.
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Escape.
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Elena Sep
You know, you teach your girls well.
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Matt Haycox
But you went you went to you went to New York.
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Elena Sep
Yeah. Then I went back home slightly and just couldn't handle the cold anymore. So I went to Australia eight years ago. Then from there I went to Bali, then I did Barcelona for a bit and then I came to Dubai. And none of those places no abolished. Amazing work going after Sammy with the baby and Bali, something I really, really loved.
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Elena Sep
But I reckon maybe better to stay in a big city like this and just have that as a holiday.
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Matt Haycox
Just what was this going to be the last move. Last move? I don't mean with me was no. AS And when you came to Dubai, you thought this was where you were going to make it.
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Elena Sep
If, if I. If I liked it. Yeah. I hope do us, you know, I guess I didn't want it to have an amazing city with, you know, a lot of happenings and opportunities and things like that because it's a bit more like a holiday destination. You never really grow that much when you are in there.
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Matt Haycox
So yeah, I came. When did I come? I came for a holiday on the 12th of December. I fell on the I arrived at 11 p.m. on the 12th of December. I'd never been to Dubai and I booked a boat the next day because I was I came for a friend's birthday, which was just going to be on days.
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Matt Haycox
It was in the middle of Cobridge and not much was going on back in England. So I thought, Yeah, I'll escape for eight or nine days, go and see Dubai and I came here, actually, I came here with Calum. I told you I came. Please, No surprises ever with childbirth, with Calum. And then who had. It's for me now.
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Matt Haycox
It was his. I think he'd been at work for three days. So I said, Oh, you can. You can come to the party as well. What I thought it was to the best job in the world and we had a, we had an apartment in Dubai Marina, the duplex with a with a snooker table in the middle of the room.
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Matt Haycox
And the boys just sat there filming and editing all day. So I asked a friend of mine was Johnny told you I rang Johnny Dutch? I said, I'm going to Dubai. What the Dubai people do you know what goes on in Dubai said, Oh, people, guys in yachts a lot better. They do, because you can read me a fucking yacht.
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It's right.
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Matt Haycox
This is going and I'll I'll rent a yacht tomorrow. So he sends me his list of yachts to rent and Babylon. Obviously it was, you know, to staggering off with the wall. You show me Babylon. I can't not take it now. I said to John, Well, I've got the yacht, but I don't know a single person in Dubai, so you need to fill it for makes us a lot worse.
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Matt Haycox
The capacity was like 25 people or something. So I said, Well, get me, you know, ten or 12 good business contacts and then still the rest of girls. So he he starts sending me starts sending me like LinkedIn surveys for the guys and Instagram pictures for the girls.
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I mean, to be fair, well.
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Matt Haycox
As I'm saying the story out loud now, it makes me think it's just like a normal day in Dubai.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Matt Haycox
And it's a lot. Yeah, he'll do. He'll do he'll do shield that from definitely day.
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And.
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Matt Haycox
So, so so we we took the boat everyone the next day and went out on the boat for the day. We took five or 6 hours and just know the usual. You remember they served they served coconut water. It was like a real coconut with coconut water. And that was like the little thing that when you went Zimbabwe on the side of the coconut with us and I got I got talking to one of the guys on the boat.
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Matt Haycox
We met him recently in Shanghai. Me, he was an explorer and I was talking to him about just what his plan was and why he was here. And he said that, you know, Swedish guy, he was a he was a tax resident in Dubai, but he spent most of his time well spent most of his time traveling. But he was kind of between Monaco and Dubai.
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Matt Haycox
And I'd always I'd always been traveling, not always traveling, but that we spent a lot of time outside of England just for pleasure, but, you know, kind of tied it in with work. I'd always wanted to leave England from a tax perspective, and I kind of wanted to go to Monaco. I was a big fan of Monaco, but I just didn't really fancy the winters there.
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Matt Haycox
So I thought maybe, well, you know, when I know what to do in the winter, I can do, you know, I will move to Monaco for the summer. And this guy said, you know, explain to me how easy it was to become a resident in Dubai, how easy it was to get settled with the tax. I fuck, I'm I'm going to be here tomorrow.
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Matt Haycox
I mean, literally the next the next day. I remember I'm not going back to England for my residency and I want to go back. But I did it. It was my it was my birthday, Christmas Day, and I was already taking quite a few people away to Barbados, my birthday. But I always say that if it wasn't for the fact that I already booked and paid for about two years prior out of Council Barbados represented by and just not never gone back.
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Matt Haycox
And so I went back to England three or four days in England to my birthday in Barbados, packs a suitcase, came back to Dubai and and never looked back. And everybody in England said, Are you crazy? Crazy? You know, you're moving to Dubai. You know what? If you don't like it, so I'll move back, you know? So it was it was three suitcases to come here.
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Matt Haycox
It'll be full suitcases to come back. It's really, really not going to be going to be an exciting, you know, exciting problem for me. And and yeah, I mean, I couldn't that I could have made a better move obviously, meeting you. I mean, I would say the the energy, the opportunity, the, you know, the cleanliness, the safety, whatever, whatever you want to say.
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Matt Haycox
I mean, I just can't imagine a time when I won't live in Dubai. I mean, so much time and stuff aside. But I think, you know, I'm I'm here for the long haul. But that said, as easy as it is to move, it's as easy to move somewhere else. So.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, exactly.
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Matt Haycox
I guess we'll be chasing each other around the world.
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Elena Sep
And yeah, well, we moved to Vegas, so now.
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We.
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Matt Haycox
You know, as soon as we saw that visa situation, I.
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Elena Sep
Yeah, you probably still don't have furniture by then. So I watched it for and you know, but I've always find the exciting, you know I think it's easier when you're younger like new beginnings for me. Yeah. Like young, like youth, new beginnings and not just in to find, you know, a place and never really settled too much. And now it's nice to actually just settle somewhere.
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Matt Haycox
Maybe. Maybe now's the time to discuss where the baby is going to live. Now. But we when we better get to some of these some of these decisions out in the open.
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Elena Sep
Six weeks till the baby comes out. And are you having the baby in here? I think is a great good hospitals and we were thinking of Finland. It would have been nice to deliver it with my mom as she said to us. Well, but it means that we would have had to be in financial like two months in a cold in a forest.
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Matt Haycox
So cold. I know.
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Elena Sep
It's freezing. Oh, my God. I was talking with my dad today and he showed outside. It was snowing again. And like, even the snow melted. It started raining again. Oh, it's crazy. I'm so glad that I haven't had to be there for years. Yeah, Yeah. So I. We're planning some. We're going to have a baby, and when we're ready, we're going to travel back to England, to the berries tennis and pluck, pluck berries.
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Matt Haycox
Tennis. The 22nd, 23rd of June.
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Elena Sep
Yeah. Anger in jail, moderate house from their friends and family. Please come visit. He's working.
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So much. The lonely.
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Matt Haycox
Maybe that's why. That's why I let you have the baby. So you can never be lonely again. In ten weeks time you'll just be going. I want some time on my own.
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Yeah.
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Elena Sep
I don't think so. I'm. I'm. I'm from.
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A.
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Elena Sep
Family of eight, You know, I'm used to be around people, and so.
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Matt Haycox
I feel. I feel the podcast with all. Actually, about two years ago, she did it under sufferance.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Matt Haycox
Is this. Which reminded reminded me of it now actually. Yeah she I come and we're going to we're going to talk about we're going to make a series called Young Money. I was going to be young Young money just talking about, I guess, side hustles and entrepreneurial stuff. But for youngsters, Oh, we did the first episode talking about chuckling.
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Matt Haycox
It was quite cute. It's quite cute, actually. It's like trolling with the with the with the little kids. And then and then this discussion such an to fill the gap then really?
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Yeah.
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Elena Sep
I know when she comes on Friday, just tell her that you have a surprise for her like also Yeah.
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Matt Haycox
It's going to throw us some questions when you out on nannies. Absolutely. We're having a nanny for me I mean I mean. I mean.
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Elena Sep
Yeah. Matt has been looking for some young Russian girl sometimes recently. So he said that that's what he has to pick.
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Matt Haycox
But they don't have any experience with children.
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Just to be willing to let me try.
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Elena Sep
And I've had a rumor that you actually he's actually looking for himself, not ready for the baby. So. Well, I'm I'm really open.
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Matt Haycox
I think for me know not no knowledge is always super important not because I don't want to be with the child, although the one with the child. I mean, you're like most things in life, I think you pay, you know, kind of pay for 90% of the time for the 10% of the time that you want it. And I wish you stop this this kind of argument with all this mum, because we never really had we never had nannies, we never had a nanny.
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Matt Haycox
We had various babysitters, all as a housekeepers who could double up, as a double up as a bit of a nanny. But the reality was 50% of the time you wanted them. They weren't available. And I always used to say, you know, we have it. We get a nanny. If you don't want her, then, you know, she can she can take the day off or take six days off.
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Matt Haycox
But, you know, I'd rather pay for a full time to have her so that on the one night I want to go for dinner with you, we can go for dinner as opposed to having to be having to be beholden to whether or not, you know, that babysitter was available or it turned out like, you know. So that's that's one for me.
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Matt Haycox
Not not because I want to avoid being with.
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Elena Sep
Them.
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Matt Haycox
And available for the time I do want it. Yeah.
00:20:19:03 - 00:20:35:02
Elena Sep
And probably present on film would as well. Do you have any extra help? I normally I would probably have family around, but now everybody is Finland's thing. Is that more more for your decision I'll I'll pick the poor guy.
00:20:39:12 - 00:20:44:09
And baby names does that happen.
00:20:44:09 - 00:20:50:09
Matt Haycox
Babies names. There's only one baby that if she wants baby number two, then baby number one is going to be a rocket.
00:20:51:03 - 00:21:05:04
Elena Sep
But the issue is that I can't even say it. It doesn't come naturally on my mouth. You know, in Finland we say Rocky road, and you can't even say it. Just, you know, saying that. Okay, say no.
00:21:05:19 - 00:21:06:06
Matt Haycox
Natalie.
00:21:06:13 - 00:21:15:06
Elena Sep
See, that's that's something I would like the baby to be called example, But you. Yeah, but it sounds weird when you say it. Same. Yeah. Rocky and.
00:21:16:04 - 00:21:16:17
Matt Haycox
Rocky.
00:21:16:24 - 00:21:18:24
Elena Sep
But it just doesn't come naturally.
00:21:19:17 - 00:21:19:24
Matt Haycox
When.
00:21:22:29 - 00:21:24:15
Elena Sep
You promised me a Ferrari was.
00:21:24:15 - 00:21:24:27
The name.
00:21:28:03 - 00:21:29:12
Elena Sep
Okay, we're still designing.
00:21:29:15 - 00:21:29:23
Yeah.
00:21:31:04 - 00:21:50:08
Matt Haycox
You know, it's funny because I used to take the piss out of album Venus for having, if not naming the baby. Because when when Lexi was born, she actually had her ID card. The calls, the unnamed baby. Oh, yeah. And I remember last minute hardly. But they say, Oh, name, baby. But maybe that's because they were arguing for a few weeks.
00:21:50:08 - 00:21:50:18
About.
00:21:52:10 - 00:21:53:08
Matt Haycox
Baby girls as well.
00:21:53:08 - 00:21:54:10
So it just it was.
00:21:54:10 - 00:21:56:03
Matt Haycox
Just safe to go. The other name, baby.
00:21:56:20 - 00:21:58:18
Yeah, right.
00:21:59:04 - 00:22:02:24
Elena Sep
No name, baby language.
00:22:02:24 - 00:22:03:10
Matt Haycox
Bilingual.
00:22:04:20 - 00:22:28:00
Elena Sep
Yes. No, I think I've been thinking the same thing. I kind of like. Of course, we're going to speak English on the baby, but I mean, yeah, yeah. And never I. I become into the ideas of how does it actually come to a solution that I will speak. Finished. The baby gets it. Yeah.
00:22:28:00 - 00:22:30:03
No, I know you.
00:22:31:07 - 00:22:32:12
Matt Haycox
Mean a ruckus down.
00:22:34:04 - 00:22:35:07
Elena Sep
And that's I love.
00:22:36:14 - 00:22:37:16
Somebody I.
00:22:38:15 - 00:22:40:13
Elena Sep
Mean that I guess to insinuate I love.
00:22:40:13 - 00:22:40:20
You.
00:22:40:26 - 00:22:42:07
Matt Haycox
I mean a ruckus on cinema.
00:22:42:16 - 00:22:43:21
Elena Sep
I love you too, baby.
00:22:46:02 - 00:22:49:07
Matt Haycox
Just was the full extent of my finished.
00:22:52:15 - 00:23:10:15
Elena Sep
Yeah. I'm going to be speaking. Finished The baby Zoo nights always have better to have, you know, more than one. Anyway, even though there's five and a half million people in Finland, she probably will always only be needing it with my family. And when she goes to free university.
00:23:12:11 - 00:23:14:25
And then later on. Yeah.
00:23:15:13 - 00:23:22:19
Matt Haycox
Maybe she only learns English. You know those times when you think it's coming from talking to my family right now, pretend I don't speak Finnish.
00:23:23:12 - 00:23:27:28
What? And I'll.
00:23:27:28 - 00:23:28:12
Matt Haycox
Translate.
00:23:28:24 - 00:23:33:13
Elena Sep
Okay? Okay. Yeah. No. Yeah. In a sense, it was wrong.
00:23:33:22 - 00:23:38:25
Matt Haycox
It wasn't. It's probably too early, but they've been up too slowly.
00:23:38:25 - 00:23:39:11
Elena Sep
Yes. Yeah.
00:23:39:11 - 00:23:41:15
Matt Haycox
I've said as soon as she finds another guy, she can have as many.
00:23:41:15 - 00:23:43:20
Babies as she wants to.
00:23:44:08 - 00:23:45:28
Elena Sep
Is, is I want to make me cry.
00:23:46:22 - 00:23:46:29
Yeah.
00:23:47:15 - 00:23:53:12
Elena Sep
Absolutely. I'm one of my children and I definitely having a sibling is the greatest thing in my life. I want to have siblings.
00:23:53:12 - 00:23:56:08
Matt Haycox
But what was the first thing your parents did after having child number eight?
00:23:58:15 - 00:23:59:18
They got divorced. Yeah.
00:24:00:06 - 00:24:23:06
Elena Sep
Yeah, yeah. Because there's enough enough litters, you know, for my last thing. Yeah, Like all of this, eight litters in my last name and all of our first name and the first litters of our names make our last name. It's like, zero for s and never e being f a p also e again and sickening and I so e.
00:24:24:07 - 00:24:24:11
I.
00:24:24:12 - 00:24:24:19
Matt Haycox
Don't know.
00:24:25:14 - 00:24:26:08
How that's going to work.
00:24:26:12 - 00:24:27:15
Elena Sep
At least they're ready.
00:24:28:17 - 00:24:28:19
To.
00:24:30:25 - 00:24:31:11
Matt Haycox
See me.
00:24:31:23 - 00:24:32:04
Yeah.
00:24:34:19 - 00:24:36:14
Matt Haycox
So it works. And then she about y.
00:24:37:05 - 00:24:38:11
Araki Oh yeah.
00:24:39:26 - 00:24:40:07
Matt Haycox
Okay.
00:24:40:22 - 00:24:41:00
Yeah.
00:24:41:08 - 00:24:41:15
Elena Sep
Yeah.
00:24:42:07 - 00:24:46:02
Matt Haycox
Well on that name note that died before we have any more arguments.
00:24:47:14 - 00:24:47:27
And.
00:24:48:07 - 00:24:53:19
Matt Haycox
I'm going to go give you the next part of our surprise, which is first. So hopefully that will be better received.
00:24:54:12 - 00:24:55:27
Yeah, I so.
00:24:56:14 - 00:24:58:13
Matt Haycox
Oh, baby. Well, I can't wait to see this back in the edit.
00:24:59:09 - 00:25:03:00
Elena Sep
Yeah, like 515 seconds comes out of.
00:25:03:07 - 00:25:09:15
Matt Haycox
But then it's going to want a pay rise if you make this work. I love you. We'll do round two. I love.
00:25:09:16 - 00:25:10:18
Elena Sep
You. Happy anniversary.
00:25:10:19 - 00:25:11:03
Next year.
00:25:11:22 - 00:25:12:09
Matt Haycox
See you later.
Baby Names?? Surprise Podcast with Elena!
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A surprise podcast with the one and only Elena!! In this podcast, we look at why we both came to Dubai, how we met, what our original plans were, what are plans are for the future, and plenty of baby talk including names and languages!
A very different podcast to normal but a super special guest nevertheless.
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