Introducing Stevo The Seagull - Episode 10

This week on That Physical Culture Podcast, the girls are back with a full life and physie update… and things are, as always, slightly unhinged.

We kick things off with an injury update on Justine’s sprained kneecap — yes, apparently that’s a thing — and where she’s at with recovery (physically, emotionally, spiritually… all of it).

From there, we dive into some family developments, with Justine’s sister officially joining physie this year. A wholesome moment… slightly overshadowed by the fact that their mum has raised concerns about the language being thrown around and is now lobbying for a swear jar to be introduced.

Honestly? Fair.

We also meet the newest and arguably most important member of the podcast:

Stevo the Judgey Seagull. He’s observant. He’s critical. He’s seen things. And he will be weighing in accordingly.

To round things out, the girls chat all things BJP National Finals, what’s coming up, what to watch for, and what listeners can expect in the next couple of episodes as we head into a very big part of the physie calendar.

Injury updates, family chaos, unsolicited feedback from seagulls and a touch of Nationals hype.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Hello, welcome back to that physical culture podcast. I am your host, Justine Rigley, joined by my co-hosts. Renee Walker! And good news is I no longer sound like a man. I am You do sound like wildly better. I am. Yeah. I am. I'm I'm thrilled. I've done that. I've had the MRI on my knees.

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You've had all of the procedures.

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I've had everything under the sun.

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And it's in that time of all those tests, it healed itself. I know.

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I think I was just like, hey, she's had enough.

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Yeah. She's poking around. We better get our act together.

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She's a bit, yeah.

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She's But tell us about the actual, like what you found out had happened.

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So boring.

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Boring ways to injure so.

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Oh, boring ways to injure. Um, well, so yeah, so through all of my ultrasounds and my numerous physio visits, um, it took the MRI for it to tell me that I

Sprained her knee cap

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have sprained my fat pad in my knee. I sprained my patella, didn't even know that was a sprain your kneecap.

unknown 1:19

Sprained my kneecap.

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How the fuck do you do that? Seriously, I who knows. Turns out it's probably not kneeling on a reformer bed, but this gal um managed to do it.

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How about when you told Megan Rose at class?

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Oh my god, so funny. So, like Megan has been through my injury journeys every time. She's like, far out. What have you done? And she's like, Yeah, because she had heard of it. She's like, Yeah, you can do that um usually with plain sport. I went, oh no, no, no, no.

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This wasn't this was not playing sports.

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Tits here's how it's not playing sports.

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I think I'd injure at playing sports.

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Not normal. Oh yeah. Um, and so she was just cracking up laughing. But my like it was like a massive balloon.

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Oh, you're you were wearing like wide-leg floppy pants that day you came to my house and the wide-leg floppy pants was tight around your knee. I was like, that is like um like you're wearing tight. I know.

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So thank thankfully, um, it's it's pretty much gone down. It was just really inflamed. Like there were all the inflammation was showing up on the MRI. So thankfully, guys, it's no this year so far, it's no tears, no nothing, no meniscus, whatever.

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And like we both took Tuesday night off, um and then um we came back on Thursday, and I dead set, I thought we'd been punked. Oh, I know. Well, what the hell is some of that work that like they all learnt on Tuesday

We've been punked

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night without us there? And then they showed us on Thursday, and I was like, What is that?

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You're talking about the four where they do like in the um the warm-up hey, where it's like four at the front, and then you go four back, and then you go two and two, and then all these um running around in a circle like oh my I shouldn't laugh, but this is exactly when we're doing it. I looked over to Mariah, I went, Oh, this is giving Joey's liturgical dance.

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I um I mean I'll reserve my criticism um and I'll leave it in class, but um, I had lots of views and opinions on some of the end of the routines. Yeah.

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I'm I've just like it's so funny from like a mental capacity. I was and I remember I did this last year. I was like, yes, okay, I'm getting it, I'm getting this yep, yep, yep. And then I injure myself, and then I've been out for over two weeks. Yep. Um, and I've come back and I'm like, what?

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Yeah. This is easily the least prepared I've ever been. It's the least I've practiced, and it's also, I think, the hardest work I've ever done in fizzy. It is

This year's work is REALLY hard

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hard in my like long four years.

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In my career, in my physi care.

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In my long fizzy career of four years, this is the hardest year.

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Oh, okay. So it's good that you mentioned this because I said this the other day. I went, is it just me? But I'm talking to the opens and they just look at me and go, Yeah, yeah, well, here's your problem. But I think I think it's more technical.

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Um, yeah. Do you reckon?

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It's really fast.

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Fucking fast. Jesus Christ, it's fast.

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I re do you know what? I actually really like the contemporary. I'm feeling it in my soul.

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Yeah, I really like it, but I'm like, some of the stuff that they introduced um at the end of the routine, like we've finished off the routine now, we've seen the whole thing, and I'm like, don't like the ending either. I don't like the ending, but it was just the music kind of cut out in the middle of the song, and it they just repeated the same thing like for a third round, and I was a bit like, oh like you reckon someone phoned it in. Yeah, someone had had enough. Just make them do it for a third time. They won't notice. They won't notice when that arm goes out to the side for the third time. I was like, oh, really?

Bad ending to a good yarn

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That's a snack. Like, I've I banked a lot on that routine and it had such promise and it's just fallen short at the finish line.

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Well, giving my like the state of what my life has been like the last eight or twelve months. I've really feel this, like, you know how they're like, feel the music, like really, and you know what? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna be. I am feeling this so much because it's like I am worth it. I'm like, yes, I am worth it! Tell everyone.

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Everyone and tell the universe. Tell

Tell everyone I'm Worth It

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my husband, tell my workplace, tell him, tell my mother. You can tell the bloody moon. Tell my kids. Oh, just I'm so Oh, Aries. There's like seven houses in Aries at the moment and fucking feeling every one of them. I can't. I I am feeling better than the last time we caught up because I did say earlier it was like um you caught the bus and I caught the train, but we both arrived in shit town.

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Oh, I'm shit town.

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Ground zero for a little while there.

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You know what I am? I'm in a mine. I am, I am legitimately Zoolander. I've got the black lung pop. I'm down there. I am him, and I'm just seeing like like I'm piercing

Little Timmy is down the well

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through and I'm getting like folders out. And you're like, I'm shedding shards of lights. I'm here. Come and get me. So when you see me, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna like come out with just soot all over my face. Hopefully, like in a pizza club, you'll see me. I'll be like, I've made it out.

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When I made it when you're starting to look like normal again, I'll be like, hashtag soot.

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Seriously. Code word. Yeah, and I'll just be like, Yes. Seriously, how I feel at the moment. How I feel at the moment. Oh, we should do we should do a zoolander reel.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Oh like that. Anyway, I love side quest. Yeah, especially it'd look great when you do do a corner when you're marching. Oh though we know how bad that for later. You know how bad I am at doing any sort of head move on social media reels. Don't let it go up your nose.

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I managed to swallow it. Okay.

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Never fast enough.

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Never fast enough.

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It's stupid.

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I never could never whip my head around fast enough to smash yours.

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It's just this double take. So stupid.

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Yeah, I can't take another seat.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

That was so dumb.

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But yes, it is harder. It must admit it's hard. And I was telling my sister this, and I was like, I was like, yeah, you should join. Like all these new people.

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You should join. God love beginners in this year's silver. Yeah. Chuck them in

Chuck the beginners in the deep end

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the deep and see how they go. But I think we should do a shout out to the newbies to say. You still there? Are you there? Are you there? If you're there, good on you. Because it is not easy. We are struggling to. I don't know half of the work. Either do I.

unknown 8:34

Yeah.

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I'm waiting for the I'm just waiting for the video. But I've decided I'm gonna just start buying at um performance. Yes. I'm just gonna buy Well attack you in the pink. Yep. The pink rondae is happening. Tiffany, I'm coming for you this afternoon. I'm gonna get that BSB number and that account number and we're making it happen. It's gonna look good. Power pink. The year of PowerPink. Love it. Yeah, no, it's gonna work out well. Speaking of beginners, uh we need an update on um Carla. Oh the ultimate my white whale recruit. This is um this is Justine's older

Carla was this year's rookie trade

SPEAKER_02 9:09

sister, Carla. Yeah. She's what? Two years older than you. She's two years older than me. She was in the year above me at school. Yeah. And um what did she say to you when you went back to fizzy?

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so for context, me and my sister both did fizzy when we were kids. I did it probably for like a year or two later at Voi Wi. Shout out. Um we did it as kids and then she quit, and I think I did it for like two years later. Anyway, she didn't really like it as a kid. I I do remember that. Um so when I first told her that I um put the kids in, she was like, What are you thinking? Like, what are you thinking?

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She said, She said, um why? Why? Why?

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Why would you do that?

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Yeah, why would you do that?

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Why would you do that? And I like was just like couldn't stop laughing. And she said, Oh my god, did Mum put you up to this? Yeah, she's like, Oh, didn't mum getting you? Because mum was always like, Where did you put the girls in Fizzy? I'm like, Why don't you go back to Fizzy? Um, so that was so funny. So did Steph put you up to this, yeah. So she did that and she was like laughing about that for a while. And then, you know, two months later I went, Oh, I've joined. And she's like, Oh my god, what is wrong? Have you drunk the Kool-Aid blink twice if you're there under your dress? If you need me to save you, if you need me to save you, what are you thinking? Oh my god, why? And then, um, so we've been doing that for like the last two years, and then just to add like a cherry on top, I was like, and guess what? Me and Renee have started a fizzy podcast, and she's like, oh my fucking god, what the hell is wrong with you too? Net minute, earlier in the year, so it's like come like January, maybe February, and she's like, She rings me. I've been having some intrusive thoughts.

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I think I'm I think I'm fizzy fizzy curious. Like someone having some really secret, sick, sadistic thoughts, like I'm a bad person, and they're just thinking about joining fizzy, fizzy curious. She's like, I think I'm just I'm a sicko. There's something wrong with me.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

She's like, I think I'm fizzy curious. And I jumped on it and I was like, Yeah, do it.

SPEAKER_02 11:23

Do it, do it. And then so she was giving us um, she put us on a group chat and she was giving us updates, like voice messages about her thoughts about doing this. And um, she said, I'm it starts tomorrow night, it was the same night as us. Yeah. And she goes, I'm either gonna like pull up near the place and drive straight past and not even go into the car park, or I'm gonna park the car and I'm gonna go in. Yeah. And she we came out of class and checked our phones, and there was a voice message from her, and we're like, Oh my god, oh my god, I wonder what she did. And she was like, I pulled up and I went in.

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She's in.

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Yeah, at Canberra. Canberra. And we said we weren't gonna

Canberra Physie is home to our white whale

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celebrate until she paid her Red Joe. She paid it. Because that's official. Yeah. You can't, you know, you can ev there's lots of people who just start doing Fizzy and they don't make it to Red Joe.

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Yeah, she paid it. She's in.

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She's in. She's in and she's at Canberra Fizzy.

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She's at Canberra Fizzy, and I told her I'm coming to watch the Interclub, so I'll be a coming to Liverpool on a road trip with me.

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Yeah, I'll come out to Liverpool. Yeah. That'll be fun.

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We're gonna come and watch because she's like, Oh, I probably won't compete. I went, oh no, you won't be like, going out, there's no point.

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What are you doing? Love it.

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So I said I'm gonna come and watch her at zone.

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She she messaged us the other day and said she's done her first run through with no mistakes of one of the routines. And I was like, um, okay, second savant next to your sister. I never got the routine down the pat this early on.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

But isn't it funny, right? Like, so she was like out one of my white whales of going, you know what? We're gonna go get you. Yeah. Um, she's loving it. Yep. She's like, I like I really am enjoying it.

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And she loves the girls at um Canberra Fizzy.

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She shouts out, she thinks, yep, the people at Canberra Fizzy, absolutely lovely.

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Um so we've officially outed her at Canber Fizzy because she hasn't told anyone. She said, Oh, I do sometimes wonder if people are looking at me a little because she she's literally like a carbon copy. Yeah, just a tall version. Actually, you're the copy of her. Yeah. She's just a taller version of it. I'm just a shortcut. So I feel like if you had been watching us on social media and you're at camera fizzy, you might be looking at face look familiar. Might be looking at Carla, going, hmm, you look familiar. I can't place you.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

And now she can't go anywhere because we've outed her and we've said that she's also going to compete at zones.

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Yeah, oh she has to now. Everyone's gonna be waiting for you, Carla.

SPEAKER_01 13:42

Yeah, so that's awesome. So she's one of my white whales.

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My second white whale is going to be Gemma in our club that doesn't know who Jennet Jackson is. Yeah, I'm gonna flog her.

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Yep, so she's gonna be our next one. But it's telling you, people, don't knock it till you try again.

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It's very addictive. It's so addictive. It's a bit of a cult.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Yeah, so she's already messaging us about performance wear and stuff because she's got funny ultimate double jointed elbows. And so I realise so does Elsie, my um eldest daughter. So I said, Oh, just long sleeve demi, that puppy.

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The other family member that we need to talk about is your mum's step.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Oh, what I told you the other day.

Mumma Steph is not happy about all the swear words

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Yeah, yeah. So Steph is probably up there with one of our biggest fans of our podcast. Very supportive. Love her dearly. She does have one gripe.

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I'm gonna adopt Steph.

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Yeah, Steph is a mum. She'll love it. Hey mum. She'll love you. She's um she does have a big gripe of mine though. Like about me. She told me I have to have a swear jar on step because I swear too much.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

But I swear so much more than you do, I think.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Nah. I mean, people could tell us who swears more. I can guarantee it's me. Really? Oh, 100%. Are you still like an adjective?

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Yeah.

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You at least when you swear, you put it in the correct place.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

I don't notice it so much, but that's probably because I swear too. Yeah. And when it's your daughter, like my mum wouldn't like to hear me swearing, but my mum hasn't listened to the podcast yet.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

So she's been saved. I can tell you Steph probably equally hates it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She just hasn't. She's not a fan of um so she said, think of our audience, and I said, Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

Yeah, sorry, Nen.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Sorry. Fuck. Sorry. Like the chicken love, actually. We say fuck.

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We'd be so um rich, but then it's our own money that we're putting in the swear jar. We could go away for a girls' weekend away with all the money that we save from swearing.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

We'll put it to um the what's it? Christmas streaks. We'll put it to yeah, for our Christmas party. It's a party of two.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Yeah. And everyone's invited. Everyone, everyone

Everyone's invited to our work Christmas party

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can come. We've got to find a venue first. Yeah. We could have a drink in the city with whoever wants to turn up. Would people turn up?

SPEAKER_01 15:52

I don't know.

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Maybe we should ask them. We should probably ask them. We should probably ask them first. Do you want to come?

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Oh, can you imagine?

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We'll be such loners. We'd just like rock up and no one would come.

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We'll lose it.

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And if we were like, oh, we're gonna do like some live reels or like live stories from the pub just to like let you know how it's going, and it's just like crickets.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

What if I got him a shirt? What if I bribed them somehow?

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Give them a merch that we don't have. Turn up. Turn up. Get a free shirt.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Yeah. Yeah, right. Were we talking about slogans the other day? Yeah. Of like, I'm really good at fizzy.

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Yes. Yeah. And I said I'd I would be wearing it ironically. I'd wear it. I'm also good at wearing it.

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I'm really good at fizzy. We'll start gifting it to people. Like promo packs.

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Like we'll give it to cups.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

We'll give it to cups. We'll give it to we'll send one to Sally. Yeah. Send one to Jen. Yep. Yeah. Just go, yeah, I'm really good at fizzy. The legends of the sport. And we will also wear them alongside those. Yeah, yeah, ironically.

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And they'll be wearing it seriously. I'm really good at fizzy.

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We're gonna have a teacher.

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I'm really good at talking about it.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is it?

SPEAKER_02 17:56

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SPEAKER_00 17:58

What's in the bag?

unknown 18:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

What's in the bag?

SPEAKER_02 18:02

It is. Oh, sorry. I have to explain it first. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so you know when we were getting compared to Roy and HG, which I love, which I'm starting a campaign as of now. We need to go for a beer with Roy and HG.

We need to have a beer with Roy & HG

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I that would like top my lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

I love Roy and H. We used to listen to them as kids, um, watching the State of Origin.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

That like, so you turn the TV down.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

Yeah, yeah. So mum and dad were put on the origin on the TV and put de turn down the TV and then turn on the radio. Because they used to be like, I don't know, some AM radio station. And we used to listen to the commentary. Oh, that is watching the state of origin. That's all I know. Yeah, that's all I know. And we watched the dream and stuff all during the Olympics, obsessed. Do they still do footy? I think they do everything. They're like an all um sport. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a podcast. They're like just doing it live as they used to, yeah. Yeah, they're just more like commentary.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Yeah, right. So when they were doing the dream, um they had the fat ass wombat was like their mat.

Move over Fatso The Wombat

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Oh, fatso, yeah, yeah, fatso. So everyone on the um socials was like, you guys need a mascot. So we've got I got really excited.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

We've got a mascot. Stop it! Is that the seagull?

SPEAKER_02 19:27

This is the seagull that got into the opera! And his his name's Steve O. And for the what? I've named him after Stephen Bradbury.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Oh, yeah.

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From the 2002 Winter Olympics when um the short track speed skater accidentally um won gold when everyone else fell over. Isn't that the most Aussie thing you've ever heard? It was part of the Zeitgeist for a long time. Actually, you know, like it's 2026 and people still know who Stephen Bradbury is. I don't know if I want to be like Imagine if he just won the old-fashioned way. No one would remember him. No way! Absolutely never remember him again.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

I love, I love this, but so why, Stephen?

Stephen Bradbury is part of Australian culture

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Tell me, tell me why you've named him. I know it's after Stephen Bradbury, but why?

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Yeah, so Stephen, you know, had famously won the gold medal after everyone else fell over, and I was like, this like this guy got past every auto door, every security guard at the opera house and got into grands at the fizzy grands, he got in, and it's just a uh reminder that like you can still win. Everyone will need to fall over for it to happen, but you might get a blue ribbon.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

There you go. I might I might look at him, he's even got resting bitch face.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

Oh, he's got the biggest resting bitch face. He's so he's so judgy, he's so judgy, which is perfect for fizzy.

Stevo The Judgey Seagull

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Oh, and you're gonna set the judgy little seagull is just the perfect. I love this soon and like can you imagine him being like at an interclub or a zombie just going like that face is just like shit hair. Those curls are already falling out. Oh shit. Tan shit. How did she win? Can see those tan lines from here, your orange.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

She's so funny. I love this so much. I'm bringing him. You're coming in.

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Steve, yeah, we can take him everywhere. Yes, I love that.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

That's a photo with Steve-O. That is the best I needed this in my life.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

A selfie with Stevo. Come get a selfie with Stevo. Not us. Just Steve. Just Steve O. I love that. That is the best Steve-O you can get. I know. Um he's got his spot, his rightful spot in between those two of us. You meet the evil eye. You can look over there. Yeah. So um the other thing that we were going to talk about today was um you've had contact from the girlies over at London Fizzy, the disbanded London Fizzy.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

So, yeah, um, actually, individually. They reached out to me. So Laura and Amanda, they reached out and they're like, Oh, I heard you talking about London Fizzy. Because I then psyched myself out thinking maybe I dreamt dreamt that. Hearing that. Because I was like, nah, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure there's a there was a London fizzy. Yeah. So

London Physie did actually happen

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it turns out they started in like 2017 when they were over there. And it was just like a yeah, it was just like a bunch of. It's a while ago. Yeah, ages ago. Um, and they just put up like on Facebook and was like, oh, hey, any, you know, Aussies, you still fizzy, you want to kind of get together.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

In the like Aussies in London group show.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

I know, and I could not find for the life of me, I couldn't find the message where they told me where it was, and I'm pretty sure it was a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

Yeah, some sort of like Aussies in London.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

West like West London way. Um and so funny, because I I was like, Oh what did you how did you do it? Like, did you meet up? Was it serious? Like, no, it wasn't really serious, but what they had to do, they actually had to register as a club to get an associate. So one of them could be an associate to actually technically get the syllabus and the music, but they were a mix between like second-year seniors, open senior, and like ladies. That's tricky, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 23:15

Well, they would just pick and choose what they wanted to learn, yeah. Right. Look at the look at the syllabus and go, oh, that look get someone to do it and go, eh, it looks all right, let's do that one.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

That that can you imagine what that would have been like just going not into floor drill, just nah fucking we just went learning.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Imagine you and me would be like, um, I'm sorry, seniors, you're doing ladies.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

I'm not doing seniors.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Yeah. So they did all that. And then I was like, so what happened? Did anyone compete? She's like, no, not really. But there was a girl, I think it was like during COVID, she went home and she actually registered as an interclub as London Fizzy. But then she ended up going to the opera house. Oh my god. And I think she I pretty much as London Fizzy as London Fizzy. Oh, funny was that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

If you're gonna do it, do it properly. I mean, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

I think it's all disbanded now because COVID people came home and so I think stay there for a while. Yeah, I think Amanda's at Barara. Sorry, Laura, I can't remember. Maybe Balgala could be making art art. But um beaches. Oh, I just loved that so much.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

Funny. It was just like, yeah. It would have been nice, like that pre sort of COVID times where you were just like, I'm feeling a bit homesick, probably. I got homesick when I was in London. Yeah. And you're just like, it's a good way to meet other girls. 100%. And if you like doing it, it's in common already. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

And it's good fitness.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Like when you've got a heathrow injection, and it gets you out.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

Like London can get a little bit overwhelming sometimes where you're like, oh my god, it's just so hard to get out to go anywhere. If you've got an excuse to like, nut once a week, sort of like now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once twice a week, I'm like, I'm getting out. I'm gonna f I don't really feel like it, but I'll feel better after I go. 100%. Yeah, it's something that just keeps you going and you've got your gals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here or London. It's the same vibe, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 25:08

I'll just love that they set one.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Yeah, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Yeah, so she they're like, oh. Yeah, now they're now they're back home. Yeah, right. But I just I I felt good that I didn't make that up.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Yeah, yeah, I was like, I'm not going nuts.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

I'm not the most factual person.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

It's possible that we could just be making a heap of stuff on it.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

100%.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Try and keep it factual.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Yeah, as much as we possibly can.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

And speaking of um getting together, we've had a little idea recently, haven't

Pre drinks for the EP Grands

SPEAKER_02 25:38

we?

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Oh is this about town hall? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

So um we were thinking the other day that we could actually meet up because we've been invited to go to town hall.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Okay. Have we been invited, or we kind of semi-invited ourselves and say we're gonna go?

SPEAKER_02 25:54

Nikki invited us.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Yeah, Nikki invited us.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

Yeah, we not an official EP invite, but Nikki was definitely like, yeah, if you want to come.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Come. Would we yeah, we're saying that we should do a meetup.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Yeah, and I reckon we should have lots of other codes to come along and just watch the final of EP's year.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

We could do that with Apta too.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Yeah, we could do some little chain. Would people come and drink with us again? Are we gonna be sitting in the pub on your road?

SPEAKER_01 26:22

We still have to check. That would be pretty cool though, right? Like just kind of they're because I do you know what though? I don't know if the other codes are the same. So when um I went to champion lady and no champion girl last year, because she can only buy like the tickets just go insane and it's really hard to buy. So a lot of people buy individual tickets. Like I know that people go as clubs and stuff, but how fun like all going together. I mean, they might already do it, but maybe we can crash their pub, or if people want to come and have a little drinkoos. Yeah, we'll just we'll you can educate us before we go in.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Yeah, we'll get our own tickets and um you just meet us in the pub beforehand and then we'll all jog on together.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Hey, people people who go, okay, so we need to know this for the ICC and also Town Hall. Hit us up, apta EP people. Where is the drink where are we going for pre's? Yes, right? Because

Where are we going for your pres APDA and EP?

SPEAKER_01 27:20

we know BJP, Prees, because it's at the Opera House, is at Opera Bar. And I can tell you There's nowhere else to go. Every the fizzy land put over the whole bar Opera Bar. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

Where we go. The whole precinct.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

EP, APTA, where are we going? ICC somewhere in Darling Harbour, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

I would presume.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

It's like and then Town Hall, yeah, a pub, maybe in those side streets.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

Yeah, can you tell us? We're gonna do this.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

And I reckon we actually They they're clearly surely there's places where they go already. Tell us where is it?

SPEAKER_01 27:53

Because we're coming. Yeah. Or if not, we're starting the group show.

SPEAKER_02 27:56

I mean, there's lots of people dining out at the BJP one before the event out in Opera Bar. Like Cups is there with her like DeMontal. Oh, her bedazzled big beer cooler cooler, and she's all set and got her three outfits for the night. She's doing costume changes and all sorts of things.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

She was doled to the nine. I can tell you, it's like the night it's the night of nights, dude. She watched ice school musical. It's the night of nights. It really is. And people are like, I can't wait to go this year.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

I can't wait to go this year.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

We get ready to bloody We've got to get tickets. We've got to get A. Gotta get tickets. That shit is hard.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

Because that's not a given.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

It's like Coachella tickets. It's so hard to get.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

I think we should be given VIP tickets. Yeah, can we do something nice for us and invite us? Yeah, we'll make you some cool tickets. We'll make you some merch if someone gives us some tickets. That might have some sort of VIP nature about them. Yeah, it has to be VIP.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Just rope something off.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Drinks including. Just bring a piece of rope.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

Just get out of the carpet.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

That's all we ask.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

We just want a bit of rope.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

Bit of carpet. Bit of rope.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Two, you know, two chairs. Fold up chairs. It doesn't really matter. And an eski. And an esky. And but I will, okay, I am going to say though, when we go, so I learnt this. I know I think I've spoken about this before. And I think I was going to talk about this when we're closer to Champion. Um, I don't know if I've told this story before on the pod. When I went to Champion Girl, we were in the car, so we're all driving. There's like a truckload of us driving into the city, and everyone gets out and they're like, okay, wallets,

You got your pen?

SPEAKER_01 29:42

jackets, da da, pens.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Oh. And I'm like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 29:48

I didn't know I had to go to Officeworks. They're like, I didn't know I had to do a stationary roll. I need to do my stationary with me. Everyone's like, got your pen, got your pen, got your pen. And I was like, Do they have a clipboard? What? No, it gets better. I was like, why do I need a pen? And everyone's like, okay. So I'm I'm telling you. So you're not gonna look like the absolute dweeb like I did when I went to Champion Girl.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

No, you can't just go and watch with your eyeballs. No.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

Turns out that ain't a thing. So I'm there and everyone, so now, okay, so that's from the car. Picture getting to then opera bar. Everyone's getting, you know, the vibe's getting high. Everyone's getting loosey-goosey. Everyone's really excited. And everyone's like, okay, we're coming. We're getting called in. Pens. Pens at the radio. I'm like, oh, okay, this pens thing, I'm not understanding. Then there's the bar line.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

You say long easy ladies are a different cut.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Do you know what was the word? Like the cut of the jib is real different. Mate, the program line was out of control. The pro there's programs selling out left, right, and centre. I'm like, do I need a program? Oh my god. It's not a theatrical performance. Oh, oh no, no. Oh, doll.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Who's the lead of the show this year?

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Excuse me. Wait, wait. You're I'm I'm doing this as a favour to you. Oh, yeah. So you don't look like a numpty like I did. Alright. Right? So I get in.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Giving me the 411.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

So I get in, right? Walking up the opera house stairs, and I'm, you know, solo seat on my own. As you do. Just getting whatever you can take. So he goes, that's gonna be your ticket. I was like, sweet, I don't really care. So they whack me, like I'm sitting town, everyone, every single fizzy lady. Pen. Program. Program. Ready to go. What the fuck? And I'm like the only loser like this. I've nothing. I had didn't know what to do with my hands. No pen, no program. What the hell? Watched it. I can't believe you're just telling about me about this now. How do I not know this mental story? No, noted it all down. So everyone notes down like who won, who came second, who came third, who da da da da da.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Um I'm pretty sure someone's taking

Someone's taking the minutes and will circulate

SPEAKER_02 31:58

minutes on this meeting and it'll be circulated later. Why do you have to fucking write down who came first, second, and third?

SPEAKER_01 32:05

So everyone knows. Everyone knows. And I'm the numpty just sitting there.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

Someone will probably write it down from BJP and they'll find out. No, well Oh, don't you worry. They'll let everyone know who fucking came first. You'll never hear the end of it. They'll be dining out on that for another fucking year. Well, yeah. That's it. They're gonna be in the video, huh? We know who got who did well.

SPEAKER_03 32:29

Who was it?

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Yeah, so I don't. So there you go. You need a pen. Guys, fizzy. I'm probably speaking to everybody who already knows.

SPEAKER_02 32:39

Taking a pen? You won't. I'm going out of protests.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

I'm taking a pen

Renee will not be attending with said pen

SPEAKER_01 32:43

so I don't look like a loser again. I'm gonna be the no pen girl. There you go. I don't even know how we go into that topic, but um Oh, he's not happy about the I know. You talk Steve O, I'm telling you, he's like pen.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

Steve O No, no, no. Steve-O would definitely be taking a pen, but he'd be taking he'd be giving notes. Oh. He'd be like, that was shocking. Shit. Didn't deserve that. This is what you got wrong. Do better. Like, I feel like when if when and if we start meeting fizzy people, if you happen to be like hashtag really good at fizzy, we're so sorry if I don't know, because I don't know anyone.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Maybe they could do that. Hey, when you get your numbers, can you just write your name underneath underneath and go bracket, I'm a big deal. Close bracket.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

FYI.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

FYI.

SPEAKER_02 33:32

It's kind of a big deal around here.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

Kind of a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

People know me.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

So apology.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Hashtag fizzy famous. Oh my god, I can't believe I did tell you that story. It was so funny. Oh, that's bizarre. I can't wait to go though. It's actually really good. I just want to get dolled.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Oh, yeah, and it's the it is the night of night.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

We do have to sit together though.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

Oh yeah, well. We're not getting individual seats. It was very funny. So because and this is before we had even started the podcast, right? So um everyone was very interested of what I would think about it. The pens was the start. Because I was like, what the fuck? What is going on here? What's with the pens? Um, and so when we came out of it, I think it was I think there's an interval, and people like, what are you thinking? Where are you at? I I must admit though, it was very efficient.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

They just bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Yeah, ain't no time for anything here.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah, but then there was a rock staff at the end, which I don't understand what that was about.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Yeah, I remember when you told me about that.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

I was the only one that got up and I was going.

Why is there a Rock Eisteddford at the end?

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Well, Hannah got crowned. I'm like, I'm saying it's like a pageant.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

Like she got her cups and I was like, There's a lot of um American style pageantry.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

It was really, I must admit, it was really cool. I just I don't understand the multiple colours.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

The tan, the outfits, yeah, the hair. It's all very pageanty.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

It was very cool, right? So she got like it was amazing. I was like, oh, that's incredible. She did her solo. That's so cool. Amazing. So I started packing up my things and standing up. Nobody else stood up. I was like, what's happening here? What's happening? Slinked back down in my chair. Then I was like, why? Why am I at Rocky Stepford here? Because I didn't I didn't know they do like this big finale and they do like it's like a pantheime. It's like full Rockest effort.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

What the f I think I remember saying to you around that stage, isn't that just so fizzy that you toil and work so hard all year you make you crush it at zone and you go off to national finals and you make good at finals and then they make you do something else.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

It's a whole it's like an 11-minute thing. With outfits as well, right?

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not wearing their fizzy gear.

SPEAKER_01 35:56

They're wearing it underneath. They're we wearing their fizzy gear underneath. Yeah, yeah. I was so confused. How do they know their sizes? Well, because they they go like I don't oh, you probably don't remember. Montana went and they have to go do rehearsals. Even if you don't make it. No, you make it. These are all the people who make it.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

Everyone who goes nationals has to go and learn this routine.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

They go and learn this not na well, yeah, like as in um Opera House. They learn this, it's only for the seniors, not the junior seniors, like the senior seniors. Um and they did this whole thing. But I was so it was like Monday night, and I it was like 11 pm and I had no idea what was going on. And I walked out very confused.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

I'm really glad I'm not good at fizzy because who's got time for that? I got a job to get to.

unknown 36:45

The pros.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Well, this is the hack people. Everyone else was smart and they stay overnight. Oh shleppies.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Well, that's we've got to change that this year.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

So I'm learning I've learnt a lot. So we're staying the night. It's a good night, though. It's pretty fun. It's on a Monday. It's on Monday, which Yeah, that's all right. Big show of the year. Big shows. Do through all things. Can't wait for our VIP seats. Yep. The rope. The rope. Carpet. Rope. Drinks. Drinks.

The rope, the carpet, the drinks.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Note it down. Crucial. Crucial. Crown optional. I want a crown. It's not optional. With lights.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

I'll take it, Sash. It's growing. The rider's getting bigger by the second. And only like yellow MMs. You can pick out your red. I don't want them.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Yeah, imagine if it if someone did organise all this for us. Seriously, though.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Seriously, someone do it. Make us feel like important and make us feel like every bit of this has been worth it.

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Yeah, all this work that we've done made.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Because we can't promise we'll be back next year if we don't start getting some things.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

How much do you love us? Um, speaking of showing love, um, next time we get together, I think we're going to be talking to some fizzy boys.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

How excit really? Yeah. Okay, good stop.

SPEAKER_02 38:02

Yeah, I've

Yeah the boiz

SPEAKER_02 38:03

shocked you to call it. Oh yes. So I'm not gonna say who we're talking to. Surprise me. I love this. Yep. Just because I haven't locked it down yet. Yeah, great. Okay. But we've got interest. Yes. Um, from two fizzy boys of any age applicable. Um, from Apdo and EP.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

Oh, one of each.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

One of each.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

I love this. I'm so intrigued by this.

SPEAKER_02 38:26

Yeah, yeah. I'm so um interested and curious to know what their experience like how did they get into it?

SPEAKER_01 38:33

Yeah, that's why I want to know.

SPEAKER_02 38:34

Like, how did you find fizzy? Yeah. Um, given that, you know, for a while it's been, you know, a lot of girls. Yeah. Um, and for the most part it is all girls. Yeah. Um, yeah, I just like want to know what the support's been like. Maybe there's been any lack of support. I really hope that's not the case. I can't imagine it'd be the case. Yeah, Fizzy Girls are just top people. So yeah, I don't think there's any nastiness going on.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Oh, I love this. Okay, I'm looking forward to this.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

Yeah, yeah. So um we'll do that next time. Um and we've got Mother's Day coming up soon, so I was hoping that we might do a um like a mother's special where we talk about busy mums, like the different types of fizzy mums.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

I'm a shit one. And I'm not one at all. I I'm a I'm a very disorganised one.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Yeah, I don't p I never picked that for you.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

No, I just I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_02 39:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

Just in the like life. Yeah, no. But also with yeah, I've just got very good fizzy mums around me.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

And your teachers are your kids' teachers are great.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Oh, shout out to the fizzy teachers, especially the little girls.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

The little the little ones, fizzy teachers, or Ash and Kaylee. They are just fant like how they do it is. I mean, yeah, kids be kids. But how they rally and how they teach them and like poor my kids, poor fizzy teachers, they're on like speed doll. I'm like, hey, what colour, what size? Help me. Colours of colours, hair. Where are we meant to be next week? What am I supposed to do? So they're great. Shout out, shout out to Miss Kaylee, Miss Hair.

SPEAKER_02 40:14

Yeah, I've actually never even had to consider anything other than just doing my own hair and makeup toddling out the door.

SPEAKER_01 40:21

You know what we're gonna do when we're at Tari, all I'm gonna do is I'm like, Renee, what's over?

SPEAKER_02 40:26

Come on over to my cabin. Yeah, and see what I've got to prepare for the day.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

Crap.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

The snack. The snacks. I see terrible. The hair and makeup. Yeah, that's this will be a fun one. We should we should talk about it. Yeah, yeah. When we go away to foster, yeah. We can do a little recording. The other um stuff that we want to do in the next couple of weeks just to keep you guys across, because I think we're actually gonna need your help on this one, is um we're going into competition season, you know, in probably a month, we're gonna be pretty close. So those episodes are coming up, and we really want to do uh fizzy competition etiquette um because I think that the rules are very important, and we've got a few at our club that are just for our club, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that other clubs have got their own rules as well, and I also think that it'd be very interesting to hear from the fans um to hear what those are and if they've got them for themselves, or like or there's things that they just expect from other fizzy girls when you're all out the back. Yep. Um, even if you don't know each other, what's something that ticks you off? What's something that you think should actually kind of formally be made a bit of an etiquette rule for out the back? So I love this. Need a bit of crowd participation for this one. So feel free to send us um, you know, a voice note or an audio file if you want us to like play your suggestion. Um, or yeah, just send us a text on um socials and uh text.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Send us a text.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

DM us on the socials um if you've got any suggestions because we're gonna read them out and we're gonna, you know, chew the fat over the etiquette. Love it. Um and the other thing that I want to do in comp season is I'm gonna do some motivational soundtracks that you can listen to in the lead up to your competition.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

See, don't say we don't do anything for this.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

For you, and keep that in mind when you organise those tickets for us at the end of the year. Yeah, you're welcome. So I'm gonna do like for those girls who need a hard chat and just serve it to me cold. Yep. Let's go, get me fired up. Yep. Gonna do the hard version, the hard chat, and then I'm gonna do nice, soft, motivational, we love you. You're gonna cry. Yep, yeah, big hugs. Love it. Go out there and do your best. So there'll be two versions of those tracks to listen to in comp season. Um, yeah, so we've got some really good content planned coming up. Um we're back on it. Yeah, we're back on track and we can see the light.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

We can see the light. Well, thanks as always, guys. If you can just keep reviewing, sharing, tag your mates, tag your mates, share them on socials, just keep help us keep growing the podcast because we s we we really want to keep doing this long term, but we need your help to get the word out there.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

Yeah, yep. We gotta grow it. And um I hope that it'll work out good for you know, even some of the businesses that we mentioned last week. I think they really appreciated the mention and have got some good follows, so I know that you're listening to us.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

Yeah, so help help us grow now. Yay! All right, everyone, have a great week. Have a great week. Bye.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

This episode was recorded on Dark and Jung Country. We pay respect to the traditional owners of the lands that we call home. We honour the Dark and Jung elders, past and present.

SPEAKER_01 44:08

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