The Unique And Wonderful Way's These Couples Met

Hello, and welcome to separate bathrooms. We would like to acknowledge the Gadigor people of the Eur nation, the traditional custodians of this land, and pay our respects to the elders, both past and present. And again, my name's.

Ali Dado and I'm Cam Dado.

Just in case you didn't know it was us, we're.

Doing a best of show we are or podcast. I don't like calling it a show, like I like calling it a conversation or a podcast. Okay. I like listening to some people who go, yeah, back to the show, and it's like, well, I think we're putting on a show here, having good conversation, right, Just to get that out of the way. So our best of today is about some of the stories that we've collected through twenty

Time, yeah, but we always look forward to them because they're always so interesting. Whether they think sometimes they think it's a boring story. I never think it's a boring story. I'm always curious about what they're going to say whether they're funny or heartwarming. But today we're going to relive some of our favorites how they met moments from the past year.

We've got Westca and Charlotte, who met and connected over a trail of lies. Told it a barbecue. Have listen to this. How long have you guys been together? How did you meet?

Man? Shall I tell my versions? So we're at a barbecue in Sydney.

We shared a dear mutual friend and I had lived with this particular person for quiet some time. She'd also live with Wes at a separate time, and she used to play him a lot in the house that we were living at in Hastings. Hastings parayed in Bondai Beach and she would play his music and I was like, who's this like? Because you know, I knew lew and I knew a few of these guys that were playing

Like, oh, this is Wes, And I was like oh, you're Wes.

And we got chatting and he was and so we were sitting around this barbacue and I was having this delicious salad and I was like, oh, who made this? Yeah, I'm really doing it, and then and he goes I did, and I said, oh, amazing.

Kind of impressed as well because it was delicious.

He cooks, he sings, he cooks.

Yeah, there was a few little things going on for me.

I was like, that's nice. And he's like, I said, what's in it? And he's like, yeah, I mean it's got chicken.

Vegetables.

I was like, it stays like dark and he's like, no, no, yeah, no, chi can marinate it.

And I was like, okay.

Anyway, So we play out this time at this barbecue and he's drinking a two liter bottle of coke or something, and I'm like, so, I I just started looking after you from the beginning.

I was like, get that out of your hand. That's ridiculous.

And he said, what do you do And at the time, I was I was just working on a show, and I said, I go to the gym and I'm I'm on this show. And he's like great, I'm so glad that you're going to the gym, because I'm actually a personal trainer and I've just come back from LA and i'd love to I'd love to go to the gym with you, and I love so bad.

It does, it really does.

What was doing? Who you bought that day?

Was?

He was like, where where is Charlotte? She's over there talking to Caveman Wes.

You know, well, like.

We were just like in the friendship zone kind of vibe as you know, it's in your twenties, everyone's coming.

Oh okay, So what year was this?

Two thousand and eight?

Two thousand and eight?

It was February two thousand and eight around this time, actually possibly this week.

Again, and it actually it was last month, wasn't looking?

Can I got to tell some context of that, because that really exposes me. I was standing on the steps. She comes up like this radiant angel with these pearly white teeth, and I was working in a bar at the time. I was playing gigs every night of the week and then working at the bar, and I was just like, you know, and then going to the gym. I'd have no idea why I was going to the gym. I think I was just trying to get fit, and there she was, and I just went, wow, how do

I couldn't believe it.

And then as I was overhearing she like cooking she went to the gym and oh, okay, well this is the salad. Yeah I made that salad, you know, thinking nothing of it, but realized that, you know, I just bought it twenty minutes ago. But I just needed to get this conversation going because I was so like, I wasn't a very good conversation starter. I was quite awkward and still am and quite shy and all the things. So I was just I don't know, I was attempting everything.

He's he's inviting me to the gym that night. Like I get back and he's like, okay, so we've got the gym tomorrow. I'd love to train you. I'll meet you outside.

What time are you going?

It's such a bad He was there.

He was there in his Dark Side of the Moon T shirt, like skin and bone, looking like an absolute rocker, waiting for me at six o'clock with my favorite coffee.

And we never have we been a.

Part since only when I go on the road or whatever, but we never really are a part at all. We're an amazing team ever since that day.

Really.

Now, obviously we don't always speak to couples.

Couples.

We have spoken to best friends and mothers and daughters and fathers and sons because it's relationship. It's not necessarily partner relationship though in this instance, and we spoke to a couple in a working relationship.

Yeah, Nova's very owned. Jas and Lauren joined us to reflect on how they became the powerhouse radio duo that they are today.

So do you remember it was a very sort of awkward, pre arranged meeting. It kind of had this ceed feeling to it, but it was really all about the chemistry, which they have so much of. So take a listen to this.

Jason and I. It was like it was like an arranged marriage. We got put in a hotel room.

In a hotel room, now, oh just talking about you? Yeah, well, no, talk about CD. It was me one O, the boss in this hotel room, sitting there with a little recorder and I'm sitting on the edge of the bed and he's like, oh, I just got the phone called Laurence downstairs, I'll go get her, and I'm like, there is no way I'm sitting in this room by myself when you guys walk back in.

Yeah, like this just looks a little bit and sitting on the ends.

He came down.

He came downstairs to walk in, like he's just sitting there waiting for me.

That was the beginning of Channel on the TV.

Like, yes, seriously, it was like a ceed adult film. But that was sort of the beginning of our working relationship. And I think we both walked away from that in such an awkward situation. And I was like, and my my boyfriend at the time, who's now my fiance. He was like, John, going to sit up the front and wait for you, Like, do you want a code word that you can text me if I need to come and bring the door.

I've been your fiance. I would have said, I am sitting out the front and our word.

Yeah coming up into It was an awkward situation, but we weren't awkward with each other.

No, because we're both so awkward.

We were like what it was uncomfortable for both of us, I think, right, and it kind of canceled Tyler out it.

It's like chemistry so hard to get and you can't force it. And I keep saying to Lauren, like, I've been doing this for like twenty seven years, and it's so rare to have that host co host relationship where it just clicked.

We're still working on it.

We're getting one of our more unorthodox couples that we've had on separate bathrooms. When Chavorne and Rich met online and began dating, they barely heard of polyamory.

We had a lot of conversations about this after we interviewed them as well with our kids and other couples, just to sort of hear what other people's take was because it was such an interesting.

A lot of people have opinions on this.

And it's certainly not for everyone, but these two have made it work and now they actually can't imagine it going back to any other way than the way it is right now.

Take a listen. So how did a girl from Australia and a boy from the Midlands meet?

Well, the internet. We met in the September of twenty twenty two, which over twenty oh christ September of twenty twenty And the reason that is significant is because that was a few months that we had between the two major lockdowns here in the UK over the COVID pandemic period.

So yeah, we.

Met sort of when we were allowed out, and then we had to spend a little bit of time separated in the second lockdown. But I mean, all is possible with the internet and pandemic romance if you.

Will, And were you already living in the UK?

Chivon.

So I moved to the UK from Sydney in March of twenty twenty. I actually arrived in the UK three days before the big lockdown started.

Oh okay, it wasn't.

COVID hadn't really kicked off in Sydney when I left, So it was quite a transition to be going on the other side of the world and then living with a bunch of strangers in a London sharehouse.

But it all worked out really well.

And then six months later I met Richard.

Gotcha. So we opened our podcast talking about this label of polyamorous. We are curious about how you guys make it work. So I had to go to the dictionary, the dictionary meaning of what amorus went. I also went to Google and so I'm curious, guys, were you polyamorous before you met or did this all happen after you met?

No, we were. We were monogamous for the first was it year or so?

I would say when we first met, Like, the idea was probably as alien to us as it may be to you guys now, even maybe even more so, because I feel like in the last sort of two years or so, it's kind of become a bigger part of

Like, this really resonates with me. It really sounds like me. Fast forward a few months after this idea had come into my life, I realized that it was very much me and decided to have the big conversation with Schavn, which was terrifying to say the least.

Yeah, and Chavonne, for you, what was that first discussion, like, when rich approached you with this idea of polyamory.

I actually, when Richard said it kind of came out to me in this way.

I sort of said.

To him, I'm shocked and because I'm trying to work out what this means to me, but I'm not surprised. And the reason for that was because I always felt as though there was a part of Richard that I didn't quite know about. When Richard told me this, We've been together fifteen months, so we were living together. I was a stepmother to his child, so we had a lot of intimate experiences. But I knew that there was something and that was missing that I wasn't quite getting to the bottom.

Of that chest, so to speak.

And Richard also described it to me as his orientation, something that is fixed for him. It's not a lifestyle choice, and that was something that was new to me. I had never heard someone described to me a relationship orientation in a similar way to how someone might describe their sexuality. It's not a choice for rich and so for me it was definitely it was a really challenging thing to learn about, because for me, our polyamorous relationship is a choice.

This was just a delightful conversation, the one we're about to listen to. We were so excited to be talking to Australia's first ever master Chef, Julie Goodwin, and we also got to sit down with her husband, Meck and he spilled the beans on the couple's first encounter.

Yeah.

Yeah, So going all the way back to high school, this couple have truly gone the distance and now they are parents and their grandparents.

Yeah, here is Julie and meet a good one. If you can fill us in how did you two meet?

You're going to talk first.

So Jules and I met. We're going back to nineteen eighty nine.

Yep, and the year we met it is really Yeah.

We met through a Saint Vincent de Paul youth group. So one of my mates, he was a school captain of my high school, Saint Leo's College at Warunga. Yeah, we started this Vinnie's group in high school years eleven and twelve, and then when school finished, he decided that he wanted to keep it rolling. He knew Julie because Julie was the school captain of her school, Hornsby Girls High invited her along to join this group, and yeah, that's how we.

Met school captain Julie.

Yeah, was that those are the days? I think it was hip to be square back then, and I was pretty square.

So now was that voted on by the teachers or the students?

Students? Students voted for all the prefects, and then I think the prefects voted for who they wanted for the captain, Yeah right, head prefect. It was called at Hornsby Girls High School.

Yeah yeah, yeah, I was a sed ive's high girl. We were kind of almost mixing in the same circles, well kind of.

I think your snive circles might have been slightly more rarefied than the Hornsby.

It's not lomally put that way. Private school and public school people normally go oh private school.

Yeah, well, we were known as snives back then, and it was it was. It's come a long way that school, let's put it that way.

Yeah, Hornsby has too. It's selective now, but I certainly wasn't back then.

Yeah, all right, so you met back then you were were you like you were a school captain, so you're around year twelve?

Then?

Were you hanging out for those years? And then you got married like a little like a few years on from that, Yeah, for many years.

You can gosh, you'll slow it on the uptake this one. But yeah, we're just out of high school. So you know, we're eighteen when we met, and we were nineteen by the time he figured that out that I liked him, and and then it was another oh gosh, nearly six years till we got married. Yeah, jeez, I'm a patient. I've got the patience of the saint.

Like a slow cooker hay.

Something another cooking pun. There could be more to follow.

I haven't scripted any of these. They're just flying off the top of my head. They're just I just impressing myself here. I'm self basting.

So much.

Did you did you know from the get go that that Julie was the one? And were you sort of like this is it? This is this is my gal for the rest of my life.

Yeah, definitely, what was it about?

Just didn't tell me?

What was it, Julie that you love or loved it and still love? I'm sure?

Yeah, do you know what? I probably didn't realize that back then, but it was her intelligence and her strength, I guess.

And Julie for you, what was it about Meck that you loved?

Oh?

Where do I start? He had a wicked mullet and to come back again. No, he was just very funny. So yeah, I had a lot of laughs with him and we got on really well. So yeah, we were friends like right off the bat. But also I learned, you know, over time that he was extremely principled. I knew because I'd met him through some Vincent de Paul

Well, we couldn't get enough of these two, Anthony Claia and Tim Campbell maybe the most hilarious couple that we've had on the poage.

It's quite possible.

It was just a barrel of loves throughout the entire episode. And when you could have just just sat back and listened to them all day, just crack.

We didn't need to do that. We did not need to.

But what really showed was how much the couple that you know, they really love each other. However, their first encounter, which is really interesting, didn't really go how you would expect it, with one of them not even remembering it.

First impressions do matter, we found out, you take a.

Lesson speaking of meeting, how did the two of you first meet? What was sort of the first impression.

Of each other?

Okay, two very different answers there. Actually it's a look, it's a very gay story. We met on stage in a musical. So we were both cast in a production of Rent in Perth back in thirty four BC. It was a long time ago, and so yeah, I was kind of very nervous because I've been my first ever professional musical and I was cast having a sing opposite Anthony Coleia, and I was an actor on Home and Away. I wasn't, you know, as much of a singer as he was, So that was a bit of nerves when we first met.

Look, that wasn't actually the first time that we met. Apparently I don't remember this, but you give your version of the story.

Okay, Okay, here we go. So we actually met.

Okay, that's true. We actually met for the first first time. I was doing in two thousand and seven, I did Dancing with the Stars and Anthony was doing It Takes Two, which is the kind of the poor man singing version of Dancing with the Stars. Okay, the cast of it It Takes Too came on to set to do a promotional performance in one of our episodes, you know, on the jumping on the coattails. So it was a rehearsal

Well, you didn't really make an impression and you did it look like Chris ham'sworth.

So I wasn't giving you any time.

So yeah, it wasn't love at first sight. But okay, good on you, mate, you're not shadowed.

No, what about me?

What about that.

Seat with the goatee though? Mate, you could do that. You could you can rock a go tea? Anthony, No, I don't know about that.

So so you meet on Rent and Anthony, did you remember that that crossing in the hallway where you gave him Paddington?

Absolutely do not remember that encounter.

I don't even remember him on Dancing with the Stars, let alone Home and Away.

It was all about the Hemsworth was Chris looked like na.

Like you know on Home and Away he was you know, he was with one little wog and then in real life you went to another little wog.

Just a French ender from Ada to Anthony. That was fun.

Such good stories.

First impression, you can you only get one chair at a first impression, they say, yeah, so make it last.

It's amazing the stories that our couples have told us. You know, some have sort of been they knew from the first second they met each other love at first sight. Some that were like, didn't even like him, but then he grew on me, Like it's just it's all. It's never been the same story ever, It's always been different, and I love that variety.

We're all the same, pretty boring and boring. Not like you, honey, you're not well. Cheers to that. Thanks, have a great day or not.

Thanks for listening.