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The Cringe is Real
The Real Housewives of Sydney - S03E04 (w/ Shane Nicklos)
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Shane and Sam are shine shine shining it up this week with our Sydney girlies. We are talking fashion pilates, Chihuahua Reiki and Martine’s kids menu. What a time to be alive. Nicole is MIA from the healing workshop and Caroline is over hearing about the drama, she's got her own beef with Dr Kate to sort out. All that and some Kylie, Eurovision and Drag race chat.
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SPEAKER_03Sorry about this. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Hello. Hello. Hi Shane.
SPEAKER_01How you going? I'm good, Dal. How are you? Nice to see you. Just starting as soon as I get it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02We sat down, we pressed record, and then go go go go go started. So apologies for any drilling sounds. Which you may hear.
SPEAKER_01So I did a little
Kylie World Tour
SPEAKER_01Carly tour around Australia, which has been fun. So was she? She was great. Did you go?
SPEAKER_02Did you like it? I loved it. I thought it was a fun time.
SPEAKER_01It's a fun time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I mean, I may have, you know, partaken in some substances which enhance the experience.
SPEAKER_01However, um, you know, she's she's doing great. She's professional. She's gonna put on a good show. I mean, look, I went to opening night in Perth, a few shows in Melbourne, a couple in Sydney and to Mardi Gras as well. And I've got one more to go.
SPEAKER_02Where's that one?
SPEAKER_01Madison Square Girls. Ah, yeah, baby. So I'm off to New York next week. How good in Chicago, which would be fun. Um, it was a great show. It was fun. It was a nice little bubble to be trapped in for a couple of weeks and not think about everything else.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, it's gonna be so much fun at MSG.
SPEAKER_01MSG. Got a few things planned, a couple of shows as well. So yeah, we'll tell you about that later.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um,
Serving Milkshakes
SPEAKER_02are you have you heard also all of the Eurovision songs are out for this year? Obviously, I've heard someone spiked the fucking punch this year.
SPEAKER_01I've got to say, a bit obsessed with Milkshag Man.
SPEAKER_02I'm into it too. Milkshag Man has grown on me. I was skeptical at the start. Um, but yeah, it's okay. The song isn't great, but I like the package. No pun into it.
SPEAKER_01The song is perfect for Eurovision. The song is perfect for Eurovision. Yes. It is uh when we say sweet, sweet, you say yum yum. That's gonna be that is crowd interaction 101, right?
SPEAKER_02I can't see it not qualifying, but I don't want to say that. Because you know, I'm good at cursing our chances. But don't say it, don't say it. There's a lot of like hard techno this year, and a lot of like crazy shit.
SPEAKER_01It's a did you show me um did you hear about Malta? How they have to change.
SPEAKER_02Yes, but she had to change so Malta was serving cant. Now she's just serving serving.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's exact it's great. It's still the same song, and she wins because now everyone's talking about it, and you know every faggot in that stadium is gonna scream cunt at the same time. It's gonna be so good.
SPEAKER_01I just was like, come on, EBU, let it through. Just let it through. No, but it's even better.
SPEAKER_02I like it that it didn't.
SPEAKER_01You reckon?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It makes it even more cunt that she can't serve cant. It's gonna be funny. There's also, yeah, there's a song called Poison Cake. Okay. Where a man that looks like a vampire just screams poison cake.
SPEAKER_01What country is that?
SPEAKER_02Oh, like Croatia or something. There's um the Cypress guy is like on speed.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02There's a lot of like trippy Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01After this little trip overseas, when I can I'll focus on your vision when I can do it. You'll get into it. I normally do it when it's about a month out, so yeah, that's a good way, a good time to start doing it.
SPEAKER_02I feel like I've unless the song catches me before. Yeah, which sometimes I mean look, the the cream rises to the top. Absolutely. And you've got cunt. Cunt. That's all you need.
SPEAKER_01And milkshake man.
SPEAKER_02It's 100% relying on the fact that he is a sexy man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it really is.
SPEAKER_02Like if he was a dog, people would be like, turn that shit off. Do you speak dog? I do in fact speak dog. Me and Freder, have you seen Freder and I go to each other?
SPEAKER_01What's she chewing on over there?
SPEAKER_02She's like something. She's um look, she's no Tatiana. Um she's less barky than Tatiana.
SPEAKER_01She's much less barky than Tatiana. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02We'll get to
RuPaul's Drag Race is Not It
SPEAKER_02you, girl. Um also Ripels Rag Race, season 17, you're up to date.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Oh well, one we one episode behind, but up to date enough. I just we touched on this tiny little bit before we started recording, but for me, it's it's been fine to watch. It's the only one I can keep up with. Yeah. Um, I'm so behind on Survivor.
SPEAKER_02Um, but I just 100 episodes a week, doll.
SPEAKER_01I know, I know. That's why. Um I wanted it to I really was hoping it would pop, but it just it I don't know, it's just flatlining a little bit. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02What did we think of Jules Sparkle's rendition of the iconic Tiffany Pollard speech?
SPEAKER_01I haven't seen that one yet.
SPEAKER_02Oh, last week's. So they do this episode. So everyone's in my DMs being like, oh my god, you must have loved this episode just gone, because it's all about like iconic reality TV moments. To which I say, Who wrote this? Because, like, what? They picked like one good one and then kind of butchered it. It's the basically, I would let Gemma know. Oh, that one. Oh they do that, I would let Gemma know. They but they like ruin it, and then poor, and then I love Jules Sparkles because she's like, I'm a huge fan of the original. So she gives she keeps fucking up their butchered version of it because she's doing the real one. Yeah, and I'm like, I would be the same girl. I'd be like, because I know that whole thing, you best believe, back to front, start to finish. So I would have just recited that, and then Michelle Vassage would have been like, You've got it all wrong. Or sorry, it was Cheyenne Jackson, who they've pulled out of retirement to be there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um, I have I'm a bit behind on that episode. It's one to watch this week. You're not missing out. Yeah, so it's um um the only one that we're up to date with yeah is the one we're gonna talk about today for me. Right. The only thing to watch. It's actually appointment viewing for me. Well, um like I like I'm excited for it every week at night. Yeah, it's good. Like I opened up a binge account to get it. Like, we have Foxtail at home, but I was like, oh no, no, no, I need I need to have this on the move.
SPEAKER_02So um speaking of Ripple's Drag Race and its inevitable demise, that will be one of the many topics discussed at our fabulous live show taking place on April 18th at the Railway Hotel in North Fitzroy. Well I'll see you there, Shane. You will see me there.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna bring a special guest for me as well.
SPEAKER_02Oh, extra special girls. But yeah, we will be discussing the essay topic, is Drag Race Dead? with uh Drag Race historian Gene Litzer. Gene Litzer, amazing. And we may have some other special surprise guests line up that uh will be announced in the coming weeks. So stay tuned.
SPEAKER_01That'll be fun.
SPEAKER_02The cackles will be heard all across Melbourne.
SPEAKER_01Everyone in Melbourne. Everyone in Melbourne.
The Real Housewives of Sydney S03E04 Recap
SPEAKER_02Shane, should we talk about this incredible episode of The Rule Housewives of Sydney? It's called The Devil Wear Thread. Of course, referring to Caroline's outfit at the healing session. And we got fucking Miss Shine Shine Shine herself. We absolutely did. Do you think she delivered?
SPEAKER_01I will say yes because there was one moment in I think maybe she delivers in the next episode. Because there's one moment where Kate says something in the preview for next week and Jackie goes, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Jackie gives good face, doesn't she?
SPEAKER_01I think she tried to deliver, but then I think she tried to deliver, but then Terry just took over with um the obsession that Nicole wasn't there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and I love Caroline being like, can we just get over it already? I'm kind of like, yes, bitch. I'm here. Can we get a new plot point?
SPEAKER_01I also like Caroline when Terry's like, no, we need to blah blah blah. And Carol's like, agree with your opinion.
SPEAKER_02Um but this season so far, it's it's stunning. Um the girls are the girls are showing up for work. It is fire. They've clocked in.
SPEAKER_01It is fire. The amount of people that I know who wouldn't normally watch Housewives who are clocking in as well. I'm just like, what?
SPEAKER_02Well, when the girls clock in, we clock in. Yeah. Hey Tatiana, how you going? Um so silly, so camp. I loved all of these scenes in this episode in particular where we had silly campery, we had fucking fashion Pilates, we had Chihuahua Reiki. Like, yes, bitch. They're coming for Beverly Hills with the stupidity. And we had a thirsty D. We did have so my favourite character returns this episode. Chrissy's Mum D. She's on fire too. She is give her a fucking give her a cast. Give her a front and centre position.
SPEAKER_01Give her a tattoo.
SPEAKER_02I'm so glad she's back. Um Sally fading into the BG again. She was back for one, maybe two eps. You reckon? Last week I was like busting my nut for how good Sally was. And now I'm like, see ya, girl. Bye-bye.
SPEAKER_01I think you're baby busted a bit too early there. I think she's done more to come. I agree. I should have like waited. Weakness.
SPEAKER_02I don't, I mean, prove me wrong, girl. Kind of get back in there. Shouldn't be mistaken for weakness. Yeah. And Nicole, girl, you okay?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Nicole is um she is I want to say checked out a little bit.
SPEAKER_02She's not clocking in.
SPEAKER_01No, it's all about Noal returning.
SPEAKER_02Give Noal Nicole's spot.
SPEAKER_01Agreed. I think Noal would love it. I think so too. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02If Noal's not busy in her sorority. Yeah, getting hazed. Getting hazed in the sorority.
SPEAKER_01Wow. I wonder if Noal has a hot cousin who's getting hazed over in some frat party.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god. Well, so I'm confused. Like, why did she come back? Because girl, like she says in this episode, well, I don't want to have a confrontation with Terry. I'm like, well, that's literally what we're all waiting for. Like, we are literally all waiting for that. So if you don't, if you're not gonna give it to us. Fuck off. She's got a business. She's trying to plug something. Vitamin patches. So friend of the pod, Dan Morrison, has been telling me about these vitamin patches for years now. And they've finally emerged on our screen. I'm yet I have no idea what they are.
SPEAKER_01Vitamin patches. It's is it like it's like a patch so that you don't have to like take the vitamin, it absorbs it.
SPEAKER_02You'd ingest something. Well that isn't a chicken nugget or a margarita pizza from the kids' menu.
SPEAKER_01Or a skinny bitch.
SPEAKER_02Or a skinny bitch. Or a T bomb. These women are such deranged messes, and I love them.
SPEAKER_01It's incredible. Yeah. I'm I was very unsure about Martine. Yeah. Oh no, she's amazing.
SPEAKER_02Welcome to the Martine fan club. I'm the chair and treasurer. When she's obsessed.
SPEAKER_01When the closures came off, and it was like a kid's memory. I was like, what? So good. I was like, this can't be real. I was like gonna do it, Terry. Are you for real? Like, like, no.
SPEAKER_02Yep. I still have a theory she's a robot.
SPEAKER_01Like a Stepford wife. I think you're right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02She's like Megan. Yeah. She looks like fucking Megan. The outfits. I'm like, did you watch Megan? And you were like, wrap it up. That's my wardrobe. That's my vibe. It's my lookbook for 2025, is Megan.
SPEAKER_01Um, yeah, I can't. I I have to agree with you. She's very step-falling. I've been waiting for her to break out into some. I'm waiting for her to fucking malfunction. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Alright, let's go to the start. Alright. Um, the very start of this episode, Martine and Victoria are catching up. She's like, you don't do lamb, do you? She's like, oh god, no. Nuggets?
SPEAKER_01Only that was my that was my note. Cementing the fact that she's still a child. Yeah. Her aesthetic is child.
SPEAKER_02Child robot.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Vampire. Like she's dull. Yeah, it's like doll.
SPEAKER_01Scary doll.
SPEAKER_02And it's scary. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's a quite fascinating. But when we have to get into that table scene where she schools Chrissy with the HR speak. Oh my god, I lived for it.
SPEAKER_02Over at Chrissy's Nicole and Mother D. And D wants the T, darling. She wants the T. Can we discuss this look?
SPEAKER_01In capital letters, D is back. That's what I wrote. Um her hair. Camp. D is Camp. D is camp personified in a person. Yeah. This look was giving.
SPEAKER_02Like a rich lady, the Pearls. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01The hash moon. Was it no cash? It was the double B, it was the double bay look. The double bay look. Yes. And when she did that impression of one of the girls at her club that pretends not to notice, she was like, I was just like, girl.
SPEAKER_02So good. So good. I'm actually obsessed with Dee. Do you reckon Dee and um Chrissy get like mother-daughter discounts at the like Botox joint? Yeah, I reckon. Surely. Yeah, from the together. Yeah. From Maddie. Mattie Thamore. Nicole is there too. Um Nicole did Nicole fucking popped up in like every scene in this episode, except for the one where she was required. Yeah. But there were a lot of scenes she was in. I'm like, what are you doing here, Nicole? Yeah. Just and she's really upped the ante on her posh voice as well. This episode. She's like, Oh, I just I don't understand Martine, how she feels hazed. What even is hazing? And then Dee's Dee's very confused about hazing. Cut to Martin defining hazing to Victoria over at their place. She's like, it's testing me, taking digs, speaking down to me, you know. And Victoria's like, well, you're very eloquent, babe. Those two are honestly.
SPEAKER_01The Bobsy twins are hilarious. They're so funny. Um, and I love it. I'm here for it. Like, this is this is this is like Martine settled in, right? The first two first couple episodes, she was a bit mmm, not sure, but she's settled right.
SPEAKER_02Oh, she's pissed all over the like set. She's like she's like, I'm here. Anyway. Oh my god. Uh back to Nicole. She's saying that she's never gonna be cool with Terry. So this is when I was like, oh shit, like they really there's a real rift there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. She and she's not interested.
SPEAKER_02I'm not interested. I've seen her at the Melbourne Cup, I've seen her at the Derby Day, everything in Melbourne. I've seen her in Melbourne, and she just ignored me. Which to be fair, to Nicole's dinner, yeah. I fucking hate that. Like when someone clearly has seen you at a function that you work with. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because they work called.
SPEAKER_02That you're on a fucking show, like I would be like, come on, mole. But but then they're all like to Nicole, yeah, but did you go and say, Oh, absolutely not. Why would I go and say and I was like, ah, I see, ladies. It's the who's gonna do it first. First. Yeah. No one wants to do it. Frida is obsessed. You've got a tiny dog on you. She's looking at it. Yes, she's very excited about this new setup on the couch. She's loving it. She's like, what are you people doing in my world?
SPEAKER_01No, they come on.
SPEAKER_02Um, cut to Terry and Caroline catching up, and they talk about Nicole. She maintains Nicole made up the plans in Tokyo. She's like, I never had any plans. You know me. If I had a plan, you'd know about the plan of a blood.
SPEAKER_01Like, why would I at nine third? Nine. Why? Like her accent's hand up as well, this one.
SPEAKER_02They're all just dialing it up. But it's also a bit like I'm I look, I'm here for the fact that the girls are fighting, but can we move the fuck on from the Tokyo thing? Because let's be real, like, it feels producer created. It's not a real problem. Which isn't exactly. And therefore, I'm like, can't you guys just like realize that it's dumb and move on? I'm not really into it.
SPEAKER_01Like, move on from it and then create a new one for the season to fight over. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02That's what Melbourne girlies were always five stars at, was just like put it to bed. Oh, but also, yeah, remember when you called me a dog bitch? A female genitalia. Remember, and then they'll just dig that up and they'll just keep going. But these women are grudgy, like grudge holders. Yeah. And over and they're sensitive. It's very Sydney. It is very sick. It's very Sydney, and I'm here for it. Yeah, and the brand the name dropping of brands. Oh. You didn't catch that on Melbourne. No. But the these ladies are, yeah. Because do you think that to be Melbourne?
SPEAKER_01Melbourne's like, oh, yeah. It's so lame in Melbourne to wear brands. But it's also maybe there's a bit of old money.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, maybe. I think a lot of these women are very old money. I think Montana is. I mean, she's fucking skiing in Aspen and shit.
SPEAKER_01True, true, true, true. But it's very city to show off.
SPEAKER_02Oh, totally. It's bling bling bling darling. Yeah. Um yeah, look, she feels very attacked. Um, Nicole says Terry's avoiding her.
SPEAKER_01And Terry says Nicole's away.
SPEAKER_02Terry says Nicole's avoiding her. Down in Melbourne. Sora at the Melbourne Cup. When she said she was at the Melbourne Cup, I was like, of course you were at the fucking Melbourne Cup. But do you know what? Terry wants to rise above. She wants to heal. She wants to do some healing. And who better to do a healing session than Shine Shine Shine herself? Jackie Gillies. This is after they've talked about their big elephants in the room. Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER_01Well, which one? That was good. Yeah. Um Yeah, Shine Shine Shine appearing is I mean, look.
SPEAKER_02It's a it's a thinly veiled excuse to get Shine Shine Shine on to our screens. But I'm fine with it.
SPEAKER_01I'm absolutely fine with it. Because maybe they thought when filming this one we need a bit of Melbourne crossover. Because that's where the base lies.
SPEAKER_02Do you know what else they should do? Is just someone should have some legal troubles. And like, do you know who I should get some legal advice from?
SPEAKER_01Yes, get the quick.
SPEAKER_02I hear she's written a book once. So I think she'd be really good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Switch the bitch.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm thinking of writing a cookbook, which they all are. No one's getting Lydia's advice.
SPEAKER_01No. But has Chrissy Chrissy's written one already, hasn't she? Yeah, I think so. She's released it, hasn't she? I don't know. Do you think Nicole's trying to comfort Chica's job? With vitamin patches. And like homeware stuff and is she doing homewares too? No one's fucking with Chica. Chica is like a like she runs an empire. Yeah. But Nicole's been on TVSN selling.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's what she was telling the wall about.
SPEAKER_02Um so good. Uh cut to dog Reiki. Which is perfect timing because I have the Chihuahua with me here right now.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I have three words. Yeah. Mika is camp.
SPEAKER_02Mika was great. That hair. This whole everything in the frame during this scene was 10 out of 10. Like Martine's fucking sunglasses. There was like some candy in a jar on the tape. In like a hideous fucking what was that? Yeah. Like a goblet. Goblet or something. There was like the view. Best view in Sydney, darling.
SPEAKER_01The Reiki was done right in front of that house.
SPEAKER_02Right in front of that view. Yeah, Tatiana just like yapping the house down. Everything about this thing was stoned. Mika looked like she had just taken a bed.
SPEAKER_01I was like, this bitch is stoned.
SPEAKER_02She was fucked out of her brain. And her hair was like as high as God. Girl. And the way they were just hanging off every word that Mika had to say. Sam, can I ask you a question? Please. Do you speak dogs? I do speak dogs. Woof, woof.
SPEAKER_01Woof woof.
SPEAKER_02Um Tatiana won't stop barking. And do you know what I loved the best was that where we got to was it's not because, you know, dogs are just inherently territorial or I don't know. Tiny dogs in particular love to bark because they're threatened by everything. But no, do you know what it is? It's because Tatiana is searching for a deep purpose in last.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Very deep. She she wants uh to wake up and have something to do each day. Isn't that right, Frida? Yeah. Frida, do you know Tatiana? Have you met Tatiana darling? That's a yes, sweet.
SPEAKER_02Hang on, I'm just getting some vibes from Frida here. Oh. Oh. Oh.
unknownShe's gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01She said to get these faggots off my couch. She says the things I've seen in this house, I need therapy.
SPEAKER_02She did say that. You do speak dog as well.
SPEAKER_03I do speak dog.
SPEAKER_02The fact that Tatiana needs just like more. And when they said, she just when she wakes up in the morning, she's like, What am I living for? I actually started crying. I was laughing so much. I had to pause this scene, and they were just like, Oh wow, that's really deep.
SPEAKER_01But then it comes to Martine going, This is ridiculous. But then she plays along. I love it.
SPEAKER_02It was so good. Like they were seriously worried for our girl Tatiana. She's not doing well.
SPEAKER_01You can see why Martine wore the sunglasses because when they zoom in on her face and she's asking the questions. The borderline about to crack up.
SPEAKER_02I would need, yeah, like another situation. So yeah, we wish um we wish Tatiana well. We hope she finds what she's looking for, whether that be just you know a reason to get out of bed.
SPEAKER_01And she better find that because Victoria, if she doesn't stop marking, Victoria's gonna change. She's like, sorry, Tatiana gonna go if you can't barking.
SPEAKER_02I love little Tatty. She's like uh to Terry in some canty leather pants strutting down the street to meet with uh Jackie Just to see, you know how Jackie can help everybody heal. Yeah. And of course she makes an exorcism direction. She's like, I think we might need an exorcist. An exorcist. An exorcist. You know what I fucking mean, Jackie. And Jackie's like, um, we just gotta bless it right out, girl. Gotta let that goodness and shine, shine, shine just like shine through in that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But she warns Terry that um if any of the girls are slightly hesitant to the shine, if they don't fully embrace the shine, it's not gonna work.
SPEAKER_01And she can already say that there's no resolution.
SPEAKER_02She's pretty much like you guys are fired. She's like, I watched the last season and you guys are fired, is basically what she's like no, like I no amount of shine in this world anymore can help you fighting ladies. Yeah. They're all fired. But she hey she but she'll take the paycheck. Yeah. Oh my god, did you see uh Jackie and Gamble are doing like a viewing party? I was gonna ask you, did you go? Well no, I get this. So I like of course I like registered my interest. Was it last night? It was on Zoom doll.
SPEAKER_01Oh it wasn't even a live one, it was on Zoom.
SPEAKER_02It was on Zoom. Jackie loves a little Zoom cash account moment. Of course she does. She doesn't have to leave the house, she doesn't have to like be with the like great unwashed. Yeah. But she gets to like catching on.
SPEAKER_01Which she's a fucking smart girl. She's a smart girl. She's always about making that coin.
SPEAKER_02She's about making that coin. But no, I didn't go to the l the live Zoom with Gabriel and Jackie. Because I was uh too busy squealing at home at this episode.
SPEAKER_01Uh it would have been funny to see them like we all watch it together and then see their face. I mean, they would have probably already watched it, but just to see their face. Yeah, true.
SPEAKER_02But Jackie was Jackie was in it for like five seconds. She should have done the watch Party next week. Or maybe it is maybe it is. I don't know. Anyway, good good work, girly. Uh cut to fashion Pilates. What the fuck?
SPEAKER_01Penjony, Katie Penjony. So good.
SPEAKER_02And she's like, we're gonna put the little handbags on your handbag as well.
SPEAKER_01Carolyn has no problem having the handbag on her booty. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02Carolyn looked hot.
SPEAKER_01She actually didn't know.
SPEAKER_02With that hot pink Valenciaga handbag.
SPEAKER_01It's very hot for her. She's beautiful. She's stunned. Like she's absolutely stunned.
SPEAKER_02And I love later on, she's like getting something done, and she jokes to the lady, like, what do you use? And she's like, oh, spray paint and duct tape.
SPEAKER_01I was like, you are? That was she's so funny. In between the moments where she is very angry at Kate and a little bit mean girly this year, um, she's very funny. Yeah, and when she's not on the work bank training. When she's not on one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, when she's not on the work bank train and when she's not like activated, which is actually a lot of fun. I think she's the kind of girl, yeah, you need to catch her in a low-stakes, light environment, like Kiki. Yeah. Or on the runway for Akira. But otherwise she's like, yeah, a bit of a can't.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Literally.
SPEAKER_02I mean, the same girl. She puts that neon pink Balenciaga badge on the edge of a cliff in this episode. Like when they walk out after Pilates, she pops it up and I was like, what are you doing? Flailing her arms around next to that bag on the I was like, ah!
SPEAKER_01It's gonna end up in the Bond I see.
SPEAKER_02I really thought it was gonna end up down there.
SPEAKER_01Down the cliff where the gays uh where the gay bead is. Yeah, it hits a gay in the hair. It's so funny when Kate was doing her Pilates in the park. And that was at Mark Park in Sydney. Oh, which is I don't know, it's a known bead. But it's also back in the 70s and 80s used to be a spot where the cops killed all the guys.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, allegedly, but allegedly it's kinda proven.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, where they used to like push it off the fucking those guys. I know. I just it's just very Sydney though, right? Anyway.
SPEAKER_02Um cut to Nicole finally plugging her vitamin patches. Well they were she didn't talk about them. They were in the shop. She was like doing the house boxes, yeah, which is very housewives like, oh, I'm just packing the boxes because the orders are going out the door. So I have to be packing boxes 24-7 at the table, and the walls are just gonna give me a little hand. And how this scene was so fucking stage. She's like, no. Could you please, darling, explain to me what hazing it is?
SPEAKER_01Because this is for the basic bitches who watch it who are not across the internet like you and I are.
SPEAKER_02Oh honey. The amount of hazing content that I've seen. That we've seen definitely doesn't contain any word, but it definitely contains a lot of hardcore human penetration. For those listeners who know what we're talking about, hello.
SPEAKER_01Welcome.
SPEAKER_02It's like the older students that I can make the younger students I can do things And Nicole's like you uncomfortable. She's like, yeah. But then she says, don't worry, it's really frowned upon. And I was like, so first let's let's run it right back here. Sorority culture in Australia.
SPEAKER_01It's not a thing. It's not a thing.
SPEAKER_02Or are we not do we not go to like I don't know, expensive enough schools?
SPEAKER_01I think I think it might be in private schools as in like clubs and so forth, but it's not like on the American level that we that that we're we're talking about here. Yeah, right. It's not a thing in Australia. It's not Walter Manor. Very expensive public school.
SPEAKER_02Well yeah, no while though it seems to be sorority it up. I just picture like an Anna Faris movie. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And like her being like her rocking up and everyone being like hang new girl.
SPEAKER_01Oh no.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, I'm so due for like a scary movie, like a full of the matter. I think so.
SPEAKER_01We need to do like scary movie eight or something.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, let's watch like all of them. Yeah, and then go to the new one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Have we um missed the phone call that Kate and Terry have when Terry murder boats came? What? When did that happen? Making up scene. It was a phone call that Kate called Terry, and Terry's like, hi, and she's like, oh my my boobs, and then she gets the phone and she's like in her boobs. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think it was after this scene. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That happened.
SPEAKER_01It's just a moment that I was like, what is this?
SPEAKER_02What's going on blinking your missor? Yeah. Uh we do then get Sally and Kate playing tennis. Yes. Um and I love this, they're like, we've made the rule to not discuss the ladies. And I'm like, well then fuck off. Why the fuck are we here? What is this? What? I don't want to fucking see this scene then. Yeah. I was like, Skip. This isn't just them talking about ads. How dare you? And I've paid for the binge subscription with ads.
SPEAKER_01Thank you very much. My $4.99 per month. I want to see you talk about the ladies. I paid for the binge subscription with ads.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, I'm I refuse to do the full one. So they're playing tennis. She tells us about that. She's thinking about freezing her eggs. And then that Terry's like the main problem. And then you just picture Terry.
SPEAKER_03Freeze them.
SPEAKER_01Like a random call, like, have you done that? Have you freeze your eggs yet?
SPEAKER_02Stop. Egg update was how frozen are they? On the scale of one to frozen. And then Sally's like, I'm gonna get on there. I'm gonna do that too. I'm gonna tell you to freeze your eggs as well. Okay.
SPEAKER_01She's back to being.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Sally's back to being Jeff. Um is this we think of the dog stuff? I think it might be. Uh when Kate tells us about her. Her gorgeous dog. I actually this is when I pushed down as a dog lover.
SPEAKER_01As a pet when I also did the same thing. I've got a camera. Yeah, but I have gold from the case. Exactly. Yeah, you know.
SPEAKER_02It's super queer coded too, because like you know like Rupert, we choose a fan. And then sometimes we choose animals. True. Um just pets. Um just to clarify. Uh yeah, it's really sad when they leave this world. And because it's like you can't talk about it as much because like you know, your borrowing straight friends are just like, oh, wasn't it human? Yeah, not breeding.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, yeah. Uh that's the part I identified with the most is like not to talk about too much, but I had a pet I've got it wasn't when I was 16. Yeah, that's like your whole fucking year's life.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, more than literally sad. When that happened, I was like, oh, I'm thinking about it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, just to say you can talk about it as much as you want with me.
SPEAKER_02But no, for the serious that happened, it was and it also gives case like kind of serious persona a little bit of context, which I appreciate that they're at least kind of like colour her story in there so it's just like physical.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and then also like her story is just having conflict with everyone. She's actually got a bit more. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It's like sounding too like we've got her backstory because it does make sense why she's like really strong and like not really interested too much in the pediatric.
SPEAKER_01She's like, uh, can't be fucked because you do need that like latched on the show. Real problems like to bug your dog. Real problems.
SPEAKER_02And then the kids menu. Coming up. Uh Terry makes up Chrissy. A lot of little make-ups. Yeah, a lot of quick short sharp meetups. Uh typically love they uh talk about Terry has to do it because she makes Chrissy and Cogheys.
SPEAKER_01She does identify the set of the main character. Chrissy is another B D character. Right? And she's and she's Chrissy. Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and I don't think Nicole unfortunately is gonna get pushed out because as I said, uh used to be fun. And then it's like, seriously. True. She did, but now she's just like interested. And she thought it was gonna Oh actually, maybe they maybe she didn't think Terry was coming back. Because Terry saw it later. Because I mean that's what she she ended up. In any case, she entered the show later. Yeah, it wasn't in the first two episodes. So maybe Nicole really thought that she would have to deal. Yeah. So in that case, like that's a bit of a stiff chart. But also, sorry. Did you really think like the biggest fallout from us? Did you really think that we're gonna follow that? And this is a little bit of a goal.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um Christie says she's been on respect. She's never lost a friend, and she's not about to, so she's very happy to move forward. And I was like, fuck.
SPEAKER_01It's really only Nicole that's now holding on to the move forward. Exactly. Now that Chris's letter goes, it's like all eyes are on the coal. And and even Caroline wants to move forward with Kate. But Kate. Kate is slow to do it. I think Kate wants to have her moment, and then she might move on to the city. She must dig knife in a bit, and then move on.
SPEAKER_02Well, my situation with Kate is actually much worse. It's like, whoa, alright.
SPEAKER_01Is it? I mean it seems a bit more cheered. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02She's like Kate's sake, where it's like, did you turn up at 9 30 when I turn up too much? Yeah. No, I like that they're being competitive with who's got more problems. Alright. Yeah, well, Chrissy's cyber, we're not gonna agree, but we'll just move forward. And nice but girls, we'd love to see it. Alright, this is the martang party. So, Chrissy, and then Nicole, and Caroline. Uh and Caroline's got a lockdown from the Christopher's wow. Oh god.
SPEAKER_01She is like I don't know what you're talking about. Caroline is tired. She says, And with lockdown, but not within short channel.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Chris is so good at it. She's like, I heard you had a friend in Carol's guys. So good. I'm so glad Carl's gets a little bit of a bitch. Chrissy then does a very selective move and she gives Martin a toothbrush.
SPEAKER_00So good. Props. So good. He is a toothbrush to wash your mouth out. So hazing.
SPEAKER_02You know that's the way they make it in the hazing. So use a toothbrush. Should we give it a roll of toilet pipe? She absolutely should be. HR robot. I don't have any empty.
SPEAKER_01My favourite line is Chris and she really thinks before she speaks. No.
SPEAKER_02She really thinks before she speaks a lot of that. But yeah, so Martin's been to never show motion, basically.
SPEAKER_01Um, I believe this moment when she explained herself. I was like, you fucking go to town. Yeah. I was like, I can really like you because you're here to play, yeah, and you're gonna play at your rules. And that's what I like about it. Um with the colour.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, she's also like um owning in as much as she's like, look, I can be a bit of a vision. She's like, yes, I was on my phone the whole time. Some of these life. Yes, yeah. She's like, so like she's got a little bit of self-awareness, but then she's very good at like arguing. She like can argue a way out of the phone paper. She's like um, but um she's not actually proven wrong by the semantics of the word hasting. And Chris's like, oh fuck, this bitch. Really? I'm gonna do a semantics now. Um and then but there might be read the room a bit at this point, and then she does actually apologize for the question. Sorry, you know, that you've taken it anyway.
SPEAKER_01I'm sorry that you felt that you felt that you weren't hazing me. So you felt that way. Not actually sorry.
SPEAKER_02So again, she's very like yeah, she's very good with her words. Whereas before they're very eloquent.
SPEAKER_01Because that first little TV.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, well she got she got ready for that first year. Yeah, she fan. Ban. Yeah. Oh yeah, she's on her side, so yeah, uh, then safe by the bell uh being dinner reserved, and this was a great guy. She's like, ladies, I only eat high-end cuisine posh. This is gonna be some nasty fish. Crossover. There's gonna be some fucking dry ice under those poshes. And no no no. No. She's and a burger. And it looks like one of everything from the kids' menu is.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_02It's her whole brand is like under which was Victoria's brand last season. So now I'm seeing the top of the city. Like they do to choose and shit. They want to say they want to reverse age like the substance style. Yeah. But like, they want to do it. Without taking the substance style. Yeah. And then they want to do it to a point where they're actually free. Yeah. Yeah. How good of the buttons like I've got to stay relatable, right? The way so she delivered that line. So bitch.
SPEAKER_00This is amazing. She's self-ware.
SPEAKER_02She looked down at the barrel of the camera and goes, you know what? She took a drag of I gotta stay relatable for the kids.
SPEAKER_01She's she took a dragon of a fucking bag.
SPEAKER_02She definitely was so gotta stay relatable. I bowed down to this fucking article.
SPEAKER_01Last week when Sally said Martinez into the channel, I was like, Oh, Martinez is going for Queen stuff with that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Look, Nicole tells the girls she's not interested in friendship with Terry.
SPEAKER_01Deeply offended.
SPEAKER_02Deeply offended. She summed Mel Cup one or two many times, and she doesn't want confrontation. And then, yeah, again I ask, why are you here?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, totally. Like, what do you what do you bring in from Leah? Like, just walking over.
SPEAKER_02And then this is where Carolyn is like, well, my situation with Kate is worse. She says she knows to meet with Kate though, but she's gonna do it. Um, and then they both have a thorn in their side. Or mine's tree, actually.
SPEAKER_01The ball tree? No.
SPEAKER_02And then Nicole kicks off with Chrissy. And Carolyn kind of gets in on it a little bit too. Um this back and forth. And then Chrissy is done! She's done it! She's had it, girl. I've had it!
SPEAKER_01She's done, she's had it. I wrote the same thing. But she used to be fun, Nicole. It was fun to see Chrissy go off. Oh, live, live. And I was like, is this is this uh an actual scripted moment or is this uh a bit of both. I think it's a bit of both.
SPEAKER_02She was leaning in, but she did a great job. I agree. I'm sorry for it. I am fun, Nicole. She's actually quite insulted.
SPEAKER_01She's very deeply offended.
SPEAKER_02And then Chrissy leaves with a C tomorrow of the spiritual healing girls, I'll be wearing white.
SPEAKER_01Can't wait.
SPEAKER_03I'll be wearing white.
SPEAKER_01All the virgins wear white. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Jimmy's not wearing white. The devil. The devil wear. At the healing session, they're all in white. Jackie introduces herself out of instruction. She's like, I don't know if any of you fucking can't say me. Jackie fucking healing. Alright. The angels have sent me. Angels have fucking sent me the sort of me. She really Yeah, she's right. She went near me. I love this. Yeah, they've got this sort of draw shot of their prayer.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. I was like, where's the what is it? Yellow jackets. And then when they all eat, when's the flying gonna start? When is the covering gonna start? When they all started walking through the forest in their wine, I was like, when is this picking and hanging wrong? Yeah, yeah. I was like, Miranda?
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's very picking and hanging wrong. Yeah. It's great.
SPEAKER_02Oh. I love Martin. She's like, look, I'm not really into whatever this is, but hey, I'm just thinking about myself, and I might get a free reading from Jackie Gillies. So that's cool. Such a queen. She's a queen, bitch knows. Yeah, she's she knows. I'm just thinking, honey. Selfies and she maybe getting some Jackie Gillies content for the ground.
SPEAKER_01Because that's all she wants. Selfies and Instagram content. Bitch, me too. Oh, good.
SPEAKER_02Uh the call's not coming.
SPEAKER_01No. Very evident. Because she wouldn't be late. Well, that's in Ryan.
SPEAKER_02Well, she would never be late.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought she came late. She could come late. Could you imagine? But it's not. But if they did, they'd turn them back. Well, you came late. And then that would be the new thing that they could fight about.
SPEAKER_02She should have passed up a message that she had a uh what was her a family. An urgence. Or a family event that was booked in. Noel had to take a dark.
SPEAKER_01But we saw the screenshots of her saying, I'll be there tomorrow, and then she didn't turn up. Noel didn't take a dark.
SPEAKER_02Sorry, I tell you just to supervise that one. No, there was like uh yeah, it's it's I like they didn't bring up the reunion, but they're like, oh, she's done it again. But they didn't say like what the other like filming situation was that she didn't rock up to.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, you know, it was also the other day when they were at the fashion thing. Terry turned up the call, wasn't there? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02She didn't read every edition of Oak. She's the way Carolyn.
SPEAKER_01She didn't get off the workback train.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, she didn't miss her fucking stop, mate. Uh Carolyn's like, I'm done with you cuts. Um I've heard enough. Yeah. Can we move on? Fair enough. I'm bored. And I was like, thank you!
SPEAKER_01Can't we say that? But Terry won't let go. Yeah. Well, Terry's feeling righteous. Which I love. I'm uh look. I'm with Caroline, let's move on, but like, oh, Terry can go.
SPEAKER_02We need the resolution, right? We need like the story producers and the audience need like to close out this story quickly. They tried to do it last year and she didn't do it. I don't know if we're gonna get it. It's very avoidant. Which, like, fair enough, but you kind of want to show it. Like, just do it. Why can't she just rock up and give like a you know, a fake apology? Yeah. And then let Terry have a smug Terry's on. Yeah. And then move on. Yeah. And plug and then you get to plug more vitamin patches.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but you can spill boxes within a while. Sorry, Nicaragua. It's too funny.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they're milking it at this point. And it's like, look, if the drama was good, I'd be like, Living mama. But it's about someone not waking up on the time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's something milking up. There's a lot of pain clutching. A lot of span clutching, I should say. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And then Terry goes, We're all facing the music, why can't she? Which is great.
SPEAKER_01Terry, Terry had a couple of tea balls before she was. Oh fuck yeah. It's too early for tea balls here, Terry. What time do you reckon they did that in the afternoon?
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_01It looked like a mid to early afternoon. Because they yeah. Definitely a few tea balls in. They would have had some, you know, morning getting ready for makeup and stuff. But next week we'll start. Babes, I can't wait for next week. It's gonna go off.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm here for the season. The girls are working hard. Yeah. Maybe not a whole, but I guess it's still like episode four. Yeah. We've got what, at least another eight to face the music? We have another eight to go, who knows? What are your hopes and predictions?
SPEAKER_01I really hope we're gonna see Kate really dig the knife into Caroline next week. We didn't hear what she says.
SPEAKER_02Activated Kate. What do you think she says? I think it's something to do with something slatchy from her past. That's the vibe that the edit gave. It was like you're you used to be an escort or you used to be a stripper. Yeah, that's exactly what I thought of. You dumb horn or something. Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. Because they're all so offended. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because she's sure. Oh, right, we're gonna go there. Oh, we're going there, are we? And you see Jackie's face go, ooh.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Jackie's face was a bit of a chance. Even Jackie was like, oh, that's a bit that's a bit low brow. Yeah. The Sydney girls dig the knife right in and they twist it.
SPEAKER_02It's not like the Melbourne girls don't, but there was a playfulness to Melbourne. I don't know, not always, there was definitely some moments that went there, but like it they would bounce back enough for it to keep going.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they had enough of a friendship to go, shit, we're having some beef, but let's move on from it. Whereas there's no friendship here, not with everyone.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's kind of like I think season five of Melbourne had the same energy as all of the seasons of Sydney, where there was stuff happening, but it like felt quite like the producer's fingerprints were all over it. All over it. There was things that weren't captured. There was the the drama centered around things we didn't see. Yeah. Which sucks as a viewer. Yeah. Because you're like, what the fuck happened? What like we didn't see Nicole not turning up for the thing. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? We just saw them suddenly. You kind of saw them out in a yeah, walking around the streets ordering like fried squid on a stick or something. Yeah, were they walking around at Marco?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or was it like Terrians? I don't know.
SPEAKER_02They were doing something, and it was like, oh, Nicole's not here, and she was supposed to be. And I'm like, sorry, like that's not good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. TV. No, it's not. Because there's a lot of spanner clutching. Exactly. There might not actually be any drama.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then it then it becomes the question, what's really going on? Did something else happen? And then the snubbing at the Melbourne Cup, that I'm like, okay, now we're getting somewhere. Because that's a real thing. And we can all kind of relate to that a bit, so I'm kind of like, oh, okay. I reckon they just don't like each other or something.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's just they're just they just don't they're just not each other's people. Which just lean on that. Yeah. Just type A as fuck. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like not for everyone. No. And in a group of women. Yeah. That are quite competitive. Yeah. Cash and everything. It's like.
SPEAKER_01It's funny how even Kate have, you know, singled up though. Interesting. But I think Kate sees Kate's actually quite vulnerable when you think like she's strong, but she's actually kind of a bit vulnerable and a bit um I think she sees Terry as a bit of extra strength for her and a bit of a protector, maybe. Yeah, especially with this group of women.
SPEAKER_02Kate does need friends. Because yeah, like she needs supporters. And I feel like she can be a bit prickly sometimes as like a a like a self-defense mechanism and then like pushes people away. But what she really wants is for those people to be like, oh no, like it's okay. Yeah. You know.
SPEAKER_01I I'm a big fan of Kate, especially. I see her. She's less than a girl. I see you. Um, but I also want you to have more fun.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I just also don't know. I'm never gonna like watching a queer person on TV be like isolated by a group of people. That's never gonna be fun for me. So like I know we're not quite there, but like last season we almost went there, and like now I'm like, uh, can we just not yeah, yeah, let's not do that.
SPEAKER_01That's that's the part I'm not enjoying. It's like you know, she's having good one-on-one relationships with like Sally and Terry, but she should be part of the group, and she shouldn't be isolated because she hasn't done anything to anyone to warrant that isolation apart from just trying to be herself, and herself is not just like everyone else. That's that's the way I see it. Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_02It's like, yeah, it's finally the tea is steeping, and there's more like flavour coming out, and we're getting to know these women, and that's the thing, like you know, it does take time. The seasons progressively get better because there's more history, and they also they get more comfortable on camera. I think Carolyn last season was not so comfortable on camera. Now she is so comfortable on camera.
SPEAKER_01Now she's like, whatever, she's fully very comfortable on they're all comfortable on camera. Victoria's the same. Yeah, Victoria's much more comfortable on camera, and she is not taking this seriously. She's doing bits, which is great. Totally.
SPEAKER_02She's a bits diva, yeah. As is Martin. Oh, they're the bitsy diva twins.
SPEAKER_01They're the bitsy boxy twins. What do you think of the injection of Martine this season? Like, do you think they needed it?
SPEAKER_02Uh, which she's definitely had a few of those. Uh they did, they fucking did need it, and I think she is doing heavy lifting. She's an essential worker on this car.
SPEAKER_01An essential she is an essential worker. PP decked out, she is uh injecting.
SPEAKER_02I think they got had her commissioned in a lab.
SPEAKER_01They grew it from stem cells.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, after season two, they're like, get the binge AI uh bot working on a new Megan model. Yep. It's gonna be called Martin.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_02And we need it to save the show. Yeah. And that's what her mission is, is to save the show, and she's fucking doing it.
SPEAKER_01I couldn't agree with you more. I was very unsure in episode one, but by this episode I'm like, queen. Absolute fucking queen. And really questioning Nicole, like, girl, fucking put your finger out if you want to be part of it, or just don't.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like, go. What stay? Peace all get off the pot. Yeah, literally, piece of get off the pot.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's all happening. Thank you. Thank you so much, thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_01Love talking about these. I'll see you at the live show now. I definitely will see you there.
SPEAKER_02I'll see you all later. And don't forget to follow me on Instagram, TikTok, and Blue Sky while you're at it. Links are in the show now.
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