#1 - Intro Ep

This is a podcast where three siblings have unfiltered conversations about various topics. They introduce themselves and talk about their interests and favorite podcasts. One sibling enjoys podcasts but struggles to listen while working. The other sibling enjoys sports-related podcasts. They also discuss their favorite books and their top artists on Spotify. They end by talking about their favorite sports personalities. This is a Simon Sibling Podcast. I'm Jazz. I'm Darcy. And I'm Gemma. This will consist of unfiltered conversations usually kept private between siblings made public for all to listen. Our weekly family diary where nothing is off-limits. A little bit about ourselves. I'm Darcy. I'm 23. I've just graduated from Deakin University and I am an accountant working in Somerville. I love my sport and love socializing. They're sort of my two favorite things to do. Gem? I am Gemma. I am 20 years old, almost 21. I am in my fourth year of university studying osteopathy and I am involved in sport. I'm Jazz. I've just finished my seventh year of uni. I'm 25 and I'm about to begin my career as a radiographer. Pretty interesting. So kick things off Jazz. I'm going to get straight into some questions that I'm going to ask both Darcy and Gemma so we can get to know them a little bit better. So first question I'm asking to both of you but I'll start with Darcy. Sure. What are your favorite podcasts and are you a podcast listener? I'm not really which is kind of weird because we're making one. So I only listen to about three or four podcasts in my life but I get bored with them pretty quickly. Okay. I don't like things that are too structured. So I've listened to a few of the Joe Rogans. I think he's really interesting. I like how he talks to random guests about random things. It's not set, it's not structured. Yeah. When I was playing cricket, The Great Cricketer. Right. It was all a bit the same but a pretty funny bloke. I have listened to List Cloggers. At least this season's just gone. I think they're pretty funny, Dan and Dylan. And I think that's about it. Sometimes at work I just put on a random podcast about like astronomy or something like that, something sciency. So can you listen to a podcast and do work at the same time? Struggle. Yeah, I can't do that. I can with music, not with a podcast. I just end up listening to them and then I can't write or actually do. Yeah, it goes one of two ways. Either I can do my work fine but then I'm not taking in what I'm listening to or I'm taking in what I'm listening to and I can't do my work right. So it's a much more of a music guy when I'm working and I work better when I've got music in my ears. But I don't know, it's hard to listen to something interesting without like compromising the quality of your work, I think. Yeah. So yeah, I'm a massive podcaster but when I am I like to listen to them in a bit of depth and try and really understand what the hosts and guests are saying. And you Gemma, what are your favourite podcasts and do you listen to podcasts? I listen to Call Her Daddy and Dylan Friends. Do you? Yeah, so Dylan Friends because I play sport. I like to hear from high-level athletes. Yeah, I love Dylan Friends. Yeah, I liked the Isaac Quainel podcast. That was really good. Even his just little minis. Yeah, I love the minis. Because when you have a short drive only to the shops and back, you want to be able to just listen to a full one. Yeah, and not feel like you're halfway through and then you have to listen a whole other day. Yeah, and then Call Her Daddy because it's just very straight to the point and realistic, we'll say. But yeah, that's American so different times and stuff. Yeah, okay. So Gemma, second question, what is the best book you've read? Well, I don't read. So, is there a book that you have read that you've enjoyed? Sally Pearson. Other than that, I can't say I've read many. Yeah, okay. Did you read any books in Year 12? Yeah, but I can't remember what they were. Okay, so they weren't great, fair enough. Darcy, what are the best books you've read or are you a reader? What is your favourite book you've ever read? I want to get into reading more. I'm not much of a reader but I do enjoy it when you pick up a good book, you can kind of lose time in it, I feel so. And often, I don't know, Netflix movies are running out, I'm getting more bored with them so it might be better to spend two hours reading a book than two hours watching... You are a big movie guy. Yes, more visual than... Well, books are visual, you have to read. I guess. Sort of the first book that I read was Percy Jackson. I read the series, I really like them. The OG. The OG, they're making a new series on Disney, I hear. Yes, the 20th of December it's out, I'm ready to go. Same here. I haven't read too many books. I've read some books on politics and stuff like that. I read a book on Donald Trump when he became president, that was quite interesting. I've read a book on Michael Jordan. I think some of the books I had to read for uni regarding politics were really interesting. It doesn't sound interesting to everyone but it's eye-opening to see that there's that many different ideals and beliefs out there. It really opens your mind up to how unique a lot of people are and their different mindsets. And we were talking about it last night, I do think that you've got to be open listening to other people's opinions. You're not always going to agree. Often it turns into an argument or a debate. But that's what those books taught me, is that my opinion isn't necessarily more valid than someone else's. Even if it's more normal, it doesn't mean it's more valid. So it's pretty interesting learnings from those sorts of books. Now we're in the month of Spotify Wrapped, which has been making the rounds. So who was your top Spotify Wrapped artist, Darcy? How did you find out? I did take a screenshot of it actually. You got me puzzled. Mine was JB. I love Justin Bieber. I'm not like a... To be honest, I've become more obsessed with him the older I've gotten. I'm not obsessed with posters on the wall. I genuinely love his music. Every single song, I love. Yes, forgive us, we're in the early stages of recording this and Gemma needs to play her songs live. So how many minutes did you have to listen to it? I find that really interesting. I know last year you had a record breaker. I'm a huge podcast listener. So whilst we're getting this all up, I love Dylan Friend, Shameless. All parts of Shameless, including the book club and everything like that. I love Life Uncut. I remember last year, I thought I was doing pretty good with about, I think I had like 60,000 minutes of playtime, but you had 95,000 minutes or something and it pretty much equated to like six or eight hours a day for you. And it was like crazy. I thought I was on top of the world with 60,000, but you've just taken it to another level. I've just got mine up here. Mine's kind of fraudulent because when it comes to Spotify, I don't have playlists. I just have my life songs and I used to, when I was about 16, I was in a massive hilltop hood space and I downloaded every single one of their songs. Now, when I go to bed or something and I keep music playing or something like that, because I've got such a high density of hilltop songs, it will always play through them and I can't skip them. So if I'm at work, I'll pretty much skip every hilltop hood song, but when I'm asleep, I can't. So hilltop hoods was my number one artist. How many minutes did you have? 58,000 minutes. You wouldn't know what mine was. What? 91,981. That's absurd. I love podcasts, so that's where all of the time comes up. That's absurd. Yeah, I don't know. And you go to sleep listening to it. Well, sometimes, not all the time. I know, because it's all during the day. That's absurd. How many minutes did you have? 18,777. Jesus, so. So sorry, and hilltop hoods is your top artist. Yeah, but I think that that's not a true representation. So who on that list do you think is your favorite artist? Well, my top five is Hilltop at one, Eminem at two, Bruno Mars at three, Pink at four, and Radiohead at five. I like Radiohead the most on that list. I've been really getting into their stuff recently, but I sort of picked them up late in this year. So I think that if it had been, like, I think next year's Raps, Radiohead is probably going to be near the top of my list, I would say. What about you, Gemma? Who was your top artist? Ed Sheeran. And you feel like that's pretty right for you? Yes. All right. Yep, but I have Lana Del Rey at number three, and I can't recall one of her songs. All right, okay. So yeah, well, JB was my top artist, and I had Chris Brown, Fred again, Drake, and David Guetta. Wow, that's some pretty commercial music. Yeah, usually if it's in the charts, I like it. I'm pretty basic like that. Okay, yeah. Well, I mean, what was your top song? Don't know. Moving on. Resolution for me. So in the Simon family, I feel like we're like a huge sporting family. I'm not good at sport. Darcey and Gemma were good at sport, and Gemma still is good at sport. I'm no longer good at sport. We all love watching sports. So who is your favorite sports person? Nicky Dacos. Really? Nicky Dacos. I mean, I do love him. Mine would be Lewis Hamilton. I just adore the guy. Everything he says, I love his presence, his actual like sporting prowess. I just, yeah. He's very humble, isn't he? Yeah. And he's one of the best to ever do what he does. And very good looking. And I like Usain Bolt too. You say? He's a cool guy. You have to work a lot for nine seconds. Yeah, definitely. You do, but mine, I mean, there's so many great sportsmen out there. I know it's almost hard at it. So it's almost easy to say what's your favorite sportsman in a sport. But I think, I know the sport I watch the most definitely is AFL. So I think that I've probably got to pick someone from there. And at the moment, it's got to be Jordy Dugowie. Yeah. I love him. I do like Jordy. In the Grand Final, we were lucky enough to go, Darcey and I and our mom. And yeah, when he kicked that last goal to put us in front, I was, it was tears. So, yeah. It was one of the worst days of our lives. We had probably the worst seat you could have in the MCG, but it didn't matter to us. We were the, so we were legends members, first year of being a member and a good year to do it. And we were at the very back row, level four behind the goals. But honestly, I couldn't care. It was big sheets of glass behind us. It must have been. Yeah, it was like a glass house. It was a 30 degree day. It was one of the hottest days of the, like, you know, of the year since winter. And it was, it had to have been 30 to 40 degrees. Yeah. I think we had heat stroke at the end. Yeah. Jasmine, Jasmine did. Jasmine was in a different state after the game. I think I bought two bottles of water to drink and yeah, Jazz had them all, so. All right. The Grand Final was awesome. That's one of my best memories. Unfortunately, Jem couldn't go. Jem, do you have a question? Yeah, I'm going to do some rapid fire. Okay. So what is your go-to lazy dinner, Jasmine? Oh, okay. So my fiance, Nick and I, we love, I'm not going to remember the brand, but there's these packet curries you get from the supermarket. Packets. Yeah. It sounds bad. It's like something kitchen or they sell them at Colesville West. I know packet curries sound gross, but it's like, you have a sachet of like the spices, then you have a sachet of the base sauce and then a sachet of the main sauce. And they are so good. You just like cook some chicken in it. It sounds crap. Like I know the paste you get out of jars and stuff, you're like, what is this? These actually taste like an Indian curry. But processed. Look, I'm not going to say it's good for you, but sometimes you don't want like a quick salad but you don't want to go and have fish and chips. This is like a good equivalent. But how long does it take to cook? Like, is it something that you're cooking or is it something that they've already pretty much done? They've made it. You have to cook the chicken. The longest, the thing I'm waiting the most for is the rice. So the sauce is always done before the rice is ready. Interesting. My favorite quick, quick cook. I love a pasta bake or sorry, a tuna bake. Tuna bake, I think easy. You can slap some things in there. It's not hard to make. It doesn't have to be cut up right. You know, it's just slap it in there, get it in there, get it in the oven. 25 minutes later, you're eating a good meal, good hearty meal. So very nice. Alrighty. Next Jasmine, if you could afford any car, which one would you drive and why? This is easy. I feel like everything I wanted as a kid hasn't changed as I've gotten older. Like I knew what I wanted it for and it's still the same. So a Porsche Polo drive. And like to drive the kids around. Not that I have kids, but you know, to drive the kids to school. And then I want the Panama as my personal car. I love the electric blue. I've always loved the, like the graphite gray, but my car is that at the moment. So yeah, I'm going to go electric blue. Their green's also really nice. Like the bright green. Yeah. Dream car for me. That's kind of similar to Jazz's, I guess. It's not a Porsche, but it's similar. I love the Lamborghini Europe. The four wheel drive Lamborghini. I had this conversation with Finn when I went to Europe last year and I was like, if you could have any car, what would you have? And it kind of, the question kind of got changed into, would you prefer a Lamborghini supercar or a Lamborghini four wheel drive? Those four wheel drives are like a supercar. They're as fast as them. So yeah, I think the Lamborghini Euros is definitely mine in like a, I reckon like a, like the Lamborghini yellow. It's a nice break. I like right. Yeah. I like the brake colors. Yeah. I would want a Lamborghini where the doors open up. Um, if not a Tesla. Tesla. Yeah. They're always good. They look good. All righty. Um, I have another question. Do you watch shows one episode at a time or binge watch? Um, I am definitely a binge watcher. Um, I definitely hate it when a Netflix or something releases one episode a week. I can't handle it. If it's a show I want to watch, I really want to watch it. I can watch TV shows within a week. I think Game of Thrones and that took me two weeks or something. That's crazy. I was, it depends on the show. If it's something heavy, like to me, Game of Thrones is quite intense. I was a one episode at a time person. Yeah. But, uh, for most shows I would binge and watch them. I can watch sort of three episodes at a time depending on the length. But, um, yeah. Yeah. Like the summer I tune is pretty shows like that. That's my kind of, I love a rom-com. I binge that. Okay. Yeah. And salty or sweet? Like, yeah, savory or sweet? I'm a huge sweet tooth. It's really bad. Something I'm trying to address at the moment, not going too great, but, uh, yeah, definitely sweet. It's funny. Everyone wants to change what they've got because I'm definitely a savory person and I don't want to change it necessarily because I think it's better than sweet for you. But I think I just eat too much savory. So like, you know, if I go down to bake this delight or something, someone like a finger bun or something like that, nah, give me a cheese and bacon roll or give me a cheesy night. Give me something that, um, yeah, I don't know. I'm a much more of a, uh, much more of a savory guy. I do like my sweets, but yeah, savory, savory there. Um, another question on Gemma's list that she's written is, uh, if you were to write a book, what would it be about? Which is kind of an interesting one because we're effectively writing a verbal book here. Yeah. Um, yeah. It's so hard. I feel like, well, fiction or nonfiction. Do you think you're a creative person? See, I don't think I'm a creative person, but I like reading fiction. Yeah. Yeah. And you read a lot. So I read a lot. Yeah. But I think because I, if I were to write a book, it wouldn't be self-help, but I think it would be more just about learnings I've taken from life. Um, but I feel like I haven't learned enough yet to write it. Yeah. So, um, yeah, it wouldn't be now, but I feel like I do have some, um, not that I think I think differently to some people, but I feel like potentially I, I'm more old fashioned than my current generation in a way. I feel the same. I think the way that we're being brought up by mom and dad, um, has definitely made us look at life different. So at least when my friends look at life, I think we're a bit more traditional. And I think there are lots of people out there. Obviously there's so many people in the world that think our way. And I feel like, uh, not that this, not that our way of thinking is being left behind, but I feel like no one's really talked about things that are, it's hard to, yeah, it's hard to put into words, but yeah, I think we have an older way of thinking. Absolutely. I reckon that, you know, just hearing some of the ways that some of the responses, some of my friends' parents have had to certain situations that they've been in compared to the response that my parents have had to the same situation or similar situations is different. And that's kind of eye-opening, I think, because it's not a hard and fast rule, but I do think that you sort of are your parents or you're, you're very similar. Like, I think we can address things that annoy us in our parents and even like our friends and things like that. So, you know, things that like you want to do differently, but I think a lot of it is predetermined in a way. Absolutely. I think that everyone has, um, yeah, everyone, you know, you're brought up by two people your whole life, so yeah, hopefully two people, I guess, but yeah, it could be one, it could be, yeah, every situation is different, but for the most of it, probably two people are bringing you up for your life. So you do, like, you know, you speak the same sort of way. I know that I use some of the jokes that Dad gives you all the time. I know, it's so bad, it's subconscious, like you're not even in control. So, um, yeah, you definitely, you definitely take on after your parents, I believe, um, and some people really don't. It's interesting, like some people don't have that relationship and they try and do everything differently and they sort of, you know, renege on what they're being taught, but again, who am I to say that that's the right way or not? Um, what about you, Jen? What do you think on it? Do you think you're, do you think you're more like Mum or Dad? Um, I hate to say it, but Richard. Yeah, for everyone out there, Richard is our Dad, so, and Kelly is our Mum. I'm definitely more like Mum. Yeah, I'd say that. Sassy Dad. Yeah, yeah. We've all got elements of both. I don't reckon I have much of Mum. Yes, you do. Yeah, yeah, you do. Yep. I think what you like and your spending habits and things like that, I think you're similar, but I, I think out of all of us, I think you're definitely the strongest more towards Dad. I think Dad is more towards Dad, but he's got a lot of Mum and I think... You're definitely more towards Dad. I'm more towards Mum, but I think I do have bits of Dad in me as well. I think you're really strongly like Dad. I think your comedy's... Great. Comedy's a hybrid of Dad's. Yeah. Dad's is... Dad's the funny one. Is unique in his comedy and I think you take after that a little bit, but you, it's definitely different brands. You're not as severe or as maybe 1950s as Dad when it comes to comedy and what's sort of allowed to be said. Yeah, that's true. Kind of thing. So... Do you, if you had to write a book, do you know what you'd write it on or actually no idea? I don't have any idea. I don't think I've lived a... A... Big enough life. Big enough life to sort of write a book. Yeah. And that's what I like about this is like, this book's going to be what, 40 minutes long? Yeah. This episode. So there's not much that we can sort of, there's not too much detail. We can dive into kind of, I don't really want to be telling people how to live their lives or what to do or, you know, and a book doesn't have to say that. Yeah. But... But otherwise, what's the point? What's sort of the point? You're trying to convey ideas and, you know, I think, I don't know, I like to be, I like to sort of go against the grain a little bit. I don't like when everyone agrees on something because I've always said, and I learned this from politics in university, so for anyone who doesn't know, I did a double degree in international politics and commerce. And politics in uni taught me that you can never be 100% on one topic and people could say, you know, certain crimes or something like that and yeah, I guess I'm 100% against certain crimes. But for the most things, they're contentious. You can be 90%, you can be 95% in the grains or disagreements or something, but I really don't think you're going to keep both ears open and hear a lot of things. So if I had to write a book, I would probably write it on something like that, how to be more open. Yeah. Because I feel like I can do it pretty well. I can listen to other people speak. Yeah. I always put in my opinion if I'm a part of the conversation. But I think that there's too many people out there in this generation who just listen, they completely disagree with something and they don't say anything. And if you don't say anything, then no one learns because you might have a really valid point that you need to learn and grow. And to do that, I think communication is key. I think there's too many people who don't do that and it's sort of just sheep, I guess. I really resonate with that. I think there are a lot of people that are scared to say something. And I think it's one of our greatest blessings of our upbringing. Yeah. Both of our parents are very opinionated. They're both very respectful people. Yeah. But I think dad always... Mum was a part of this as well, but dad was very, very much always taught us to have an opinion. Yeah. And we have never shied away from having a verbal disagreement in our household. No, no. And I think it teaches you some really important conflict resolution skills. And basically it teaches you that it's okay to think about something differently to someone else. Definitely. As long as you're always respectful about it. I've had conversations with friends and stuff like that where we've completely disagreed on something and then they just shut down because there's a disagreement. And they see it as an argument, I see it as a debate. And there's a big distinction between an argument and a debate. And it's really interesting when I could talk... I'd like to talk about something for three hours if that's what it takes because you learn and you develop. I've done this with plenty of friends and they go, let's stop talking about it, I don't want to talk about it anymore. And we've spoken about it for five minutes. It kind of just leaves you in like, you're not learning and I'm not learning because I want to hear your side of the story as well. Gemma's very opinionated as well on probably what I would say more of an aggressive approach. I think you have to be as a youngest child to be heard. I feel like it's kind of, I think a lot of that stuff comes down to sibling order, but... You do? You believe in that? I do, yeah. I don't know. I don't know, I just think Gemma's an aggressive person. Darcy is a master manipulator. I hate being called that because I'm not. Darcy's very good at words, I think. So, if Darcy wants a new TV, he will con mum. We're looking to getting a new TV. No, but you don't live here anymore. We've got an 80 inch TV. 85. 85 inch TV that was convinced within three hours, yet our old TV was perfectly fine. And then we've now got a tractor and lots more. I do also think that Gemma's like, she's not aggressive, but I think it's because you've played high level sport for so long. That's how you perform, like, you need to be ready to go. I feel like if I am debating with someone, I'm using my words and I don't necessarily raise my voice, especially if it's a friend, not if it's you two, because you two use unreasonable forces, but... It will cripple you. Yeah, sometimes it turns violent, but it's with a friend or someone who, you know, I don't want to yell at or something. I feel like I can use my words and try and persuade. Whereas I feel like Gemma will always be a voice raiser. She raises her voice and she doesn't like it when... And then she goes defensive, very defensive. It happened last night. We tried to record a podcast last night, but technology just didn't work. And Gemma went on the defensive. Gemma was like, well, I'm not going to do this podcast. You guys can do it. Rah, rah, rah. I don't want to be a part of it. It was almost done before it started. Yeah, it's very... It's a different form of debating from Gemma. But that's what I believe. So that's what my book would be about. Yeah, all right. Very long, winded answers. Yeah. Yeah, it was supposed to be rapid fire. Yeah, I know, wow. Podcasts aren't meant to be rapid fire. They're meant to dive down a little bit. Yeah. Okay, a bit more of a baseline question. Candles. Oh, I like candles. Everyone loves a candle. What's your favourite sort of scent? Are you more citrusy or like fruity or are you more sweet? What's your go-to scent? Do you have one in mind? Absolutely. Two constraints in mind, the classic coconut and lime. Coconut and lime. Yeah, if you go to like a K-Mart. A gamer. Like you can go anywhere and say they've got 100 different scents, just go straight to this coconut and lime. It always smells good, can't go wrong. But then, so... You're doctor-ish. Next is my favourite one. Okay, so Gemma played basketball for Vic Country and every year they would have a tournament against all the other states in Albury. And I used to go with my mum and we'd go watch Gemma play and they had this amazing candle shop there. Do you know the name of it? Oh, I bought some candles from there. I've forgotten it. But anyway, there's an amazing candle shop in Albury and she has this scent called French Pear and Chef's Kiss. It's amazing. Smells so good. Yeah. So coconut and lime, if you just like... You can't be bothered smelling them all and you just want one that's good. And then French Pear. Yeah. What about you, Gem? Darcy got me a candle from that shop in Albury and it was like an ocean, kind of more masculine. Was it Milkshake? Milkshake Candle Company? Yeah, that sounds right. I think it's Milkshake Candle Company and you can order online from there. Shout out. There you go, Milkshake. And like an ocean kind of natural smell. Yeah. I like that. But I'm kind of on the Kmart diffusers with the toffee. Diffuser? I bought a diffuser. Yeah, because I almost burnt down my house. Oh, my God. I remember that. That's a surprise. It would, so it goes up. Oh, my gosh. That's just... Okay, we have to bring up this funny memory. Talk about the oven situation. Where Darcy and I sizzled our eyebrows up. Oh, my God, my eyebrows came off my head. So it was school holidays. How... I can't remember. It was a long time ago. Oh, what do they mean? Five. No. Three years older. It was in this house. Oh, five years ago? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, longer than that. Five. I think we were all in high school. Yeah, would have been. That's my cheese toasty era. Yeah, so they wanted a cheese toasty for lunch and then what happened? We've got this very old grill, mind you. It was a very old oven. Yeah. And mum was very hesitant. Yeah, gas. Mum was very hesitant in us using it. You know what? It was dodgy. So the clickers, do you know how an oven has like... You turn it on and you can hear the one click and then it goes? Well, our oven never... The click function never worked. So for the last 15 years until we've just bought a new oven, we've always had to pretty much put a match or, you know... Like a lighter. A lighter. Something of that sort of sort. Some like naked flame to the gas so that it starts. Well, this wasn't a good story. You've had the gas on for too long. We had the gas on for too long for the griller and we could smell it and we're like, ah, it'll be all right. Now to get into the griller, obviously it's a small hole and you've got to go deep into it. So I'm there, my face is at the griller door which is open. Jemma's right beside me. Now Jemma's POV on this was better than mine because all I was seeing was straight red and orange hues. But I light up a flame. My body in the kitchen is encapsulated in flames. It's like a monster thing. When they put the shower screen around that monster, the thing is cabinated and all the air just drops on. Quite literally. I just think to myself when this is happening, I just, I honestly frightened for my life. I was thinking about the story more. I was thinking more about the burnt cheese. Anyway, I like this flame wraps around my body because the kitchen is filled up with gas. I'm like, I came out of it alive. I was pretty hot, really warm. I like, I think I like put my hands on my head. Like, what the hell just happened? I take my hands off and I've just got hair in my hands. I've got like alopecia or whatever it's called. Alopecia. And I like feel my eyebrows and they just rub away the skin. So I was eyebrowless and half of my hair on my head was off. All the hair on my arms had gone off. Yeah, I guess if you're thinking of getting a laser wax, don't worry, just come over to mine and I can set it up for you. So that was funny. Gemma was behind me. I don't think she got as encased in flames. But it was probably the scariest two seconds of my life, I think. I genuinely, all I could see was orange. I've had worse fly stories. Do you have any other questions? Yeah, I do. So favourite high school moment? I'm terrible with these. My memory is so bad. And I think this podcast will be really good because I feel like it's going to bring back memories. And I'll be able to actually capture these memories from now on. I do know like year nine was my favourite year. And I'm really lucky, sort of all my best friends from high school, we're all still best friends. Um, but maybe I'm gonna... I'm gonna say Deb, actually. I loved Deb. We had so much fun. And that included like all the dancing lessons with everyone, the actual night, the after party. But yeah, I'm gonna say Deb. Yeah. And just for anyone out there, the first school you went to was Summerville Rise? Yes, Summerville Rise Primary. Then we moved to Frankston South. So then we went to Darimya. And Darcy started prep there. And did his whole primary school there. And Gemma then did her whole primary school there. And then I went to Flinders College. For your whole... For my whole high school experience. And yeah, I was... I don't know, in primary school, I didn't feel like an outcast. But I don't think I ever really fit in. It was fine. But I never really found my crew there. I had some good friends. But high school, Flinders was just amazing for me. Yeah, you got a great friendship group. Yeah. And it's like my friendship group kind of changed from year seven to year eight. But ever since, I loved my time there. That's different to when my friendship group changed in year 10 to year 11. Yeah. So it's a bit harder because you should have your friends by then. I went to Flinders for the whole... Flinders College as well, for the whole high school experience. I loved it. I've got a really good group of friends as well. What was your favourite school moment, high school? Yeah, I don't know. I loved everything extracurricular that we did. The America trip was awesome. And Vietnam was really cool. I think it's not necessarily... It's just lunchtimes. We caused so much chaos at lunchtime. We were always in trouble. People were always getting suspended and getting detentions and whatever. And you look back on it now, and it doesn't matter. Well, at least all of my friendship groups... You're telling everyone they should go and get detention? You should do some naughty stuff in your life, I think. I do think that. You don't want to live your life and be by the book the whole time. I've been suspended twice. I feel like I've been by the book since I was born. Yeah, yeah. But you still have good... I've been suspended twice, and I'm in a good position now. I don't think it's the end of the world when it happens. It depends, obviously, what you're doing. Now, when I was suspended one time, I was doing something pretty bad. Reasonably bad, I guess. The other time, not so... It's a story for another podcast, I reckon. The other time, I don't know why I got suspended, but detentions and that, you know, you've got to have fun in school because you're young and you're meant to make mistakes and you're meant to, you know, sort of have fun. And as long as you're not doing anything that hurts someone else, I think you're OK. But yeah, my favourite high school memories are just causing chaos. But I loved, you know, when a teacher was telling you off at lunchtime or, you know, you got kicked off the oval for being too stupid or something like that. I loved all of that, so... So, Gemma, what was your... Where did you go for high school? And then do you have a favourite school memory? I went to Roeville in year seven, Roeville Sports Academy. For what? Basketball? Basketball. And then I moved to Flinders for year seven to nine. And then I got a sports scholarship at Peninsular Grammar, which was... I love Peninsular a lot, but COVID hit us between years 10, 12. So, my school life for high school as such was very different because I loved Roeville for the social aspect, but it was really hard from going from the Mornington Peninsula every day to see friends that lived in the city every day. So, and then Flinders I really liked, but it was at that weird time, like year eight to nine, where people are very sticky with and sensitive with adding people into friendship groups, especially if you're sporty, people get jealous pretty quickly. I've actually got some friends from Flinders though, which is really good. Peninsular was more of a very academic and like driven school. So, fun at Peninsular isn't like... It wasn't, you don't get naughty or like it's not a very party school. It's very like get to work type thing, get results. But I really enjoy that type of atmosphere. My favourite memory though, was probably year 10 camp at Lake Centrance. We went canoeing, that was good. Okay, yeah. I got a question for you, Jazz. It doesn't really apply to Gemma yet. It will, but not yet. Picking your mate of honour, which is Gemma to my left, which is Jasmine's sister. How hard... It's kind of a weird question. I wanted to sort of ask if it wasn't Gemma, not who would it be? We don't want to put that out there. But how hard do you think it would be to make that decision? Because out of your friendship group, I'm not sure, I'm just assuming here, you probably have two or three that you're absolutely closest with. That's the same with me and my friendship group. There's nine of us and there's two or three of my friends that are definitely more like a... Best friends. Yeah, that are my best friends in group. How would you approach that decision to make one of your friends the mate of honour? Because I'd imagine you'd have sort of two or three different selections you could choose that you all like sort of equally. So how would you go about that? Do you have, without saying the person, do you have someone in mind that instantly pops up or would you sort of do a pros and cons list? No, I would never do pros and cons. I don't think you have... If people are your friends, I don't think of them as having cons. If you're my friend, I would do anything for you. For me, Gemma was always going to be my mate of honour. So I never really had to think about it. I don't know, me as a person, I feel like I'm really lucky. I know who I am and I know what I want. I always have. I'm very decisive and so I do know who would be my mate of honour if it wasn't Gemma. Yes, for me, that's not a hard decision just because I just know myself so well. Is it because they're a planner or is it because they're your best friend? No, it just makes sense. It's a feeling. Yes, to be honest, I don't really have best friends. I've got five bridesmaids, which is a lot. And if money wasn't an issue, honestly, I would have had seven. Like two people missed out. You wouldn't have had too many people in the stand. Yes, I know. Two people missed out that I'm super close with. So to be honest, for me, a mate of honour isn't a hard thing. If it wasn't Gemma, that wouldn't be hard. I found it hard determining who was going to be a bridesmaid. Okay. Because I have a lot of close friends. And to be honest, it actually could have been nine because two of my best friends are guys. So they missed out. I even considered having guys in the bridal party. But I was like... I'm too traditional for that. Yeah, I did want a traditional wedding. I did think about it. Traditional, you didn't want to do a first dance. Well, I don't know. This is all a work in progress. But... The wedding's still getting planned. Yes. By the way. It's just under a year away now. So maybe we'll do an episode once I'm married on weddings or even before, I don't know. But yeah, that wouldn't be a hard decision for me. No. Yeah. Okay. All right. That's interesting. Gem, do you think... Do you feel like it's necessary that when you get married, you repay the favour to Jasmine? Well, Jas would be my maid of honour. But I don't think you have to do anything you don't want. But I actually don't want any bridesmaids. Like I want one or two max. Yeah. I just think... I feel like that's becoming more popular. A lot of people I've spoken to are saying that now. That seems like super weird to me. Really? Yeah. I know. I think it would make it lonely for you on the day. But people can do whatever they want. I would have people get ready with me on the day, like my mum and stuff. But I don't want anyone to see my dress or see what I look like before I walk down that aisle. I'm very weird like that. But in saying that, if I was to marry Kai, he literally... We had this conversation. I think there would literally be 10 bucks. Is that what they're called? Bucks? Screws? Do you think I have 10 of them? I know. Well, that's just not happening. He's not having 10. Right, okay. So you're the enforcer. I am. So anyway, it's... I think we'll draw it to a close there. So that's a bit of an introduction of who we are. Hopefully you got a bit of an understanding of our dynamic and got to know our voices. And the next episode, we're going to talk about some recent countries we've traveled to and what we loved, what we would recommend, what we wouldn't. So that'll be in regards to Singapore and Thailand specifically. And maybe Port Douglas, which is in Australia. We'll see. Now, we've probably been to, what? Maybe 25 to 30 countries between us. So we've got a decent enough sort of grasp on it. So we'll talk about that next episode. Yeah, a bit of a travel ep. And yeah, we'll get cracking. So thank you for listening. I hope you found this interesting and got to know us a little bit better. And yeah. Over and out. Ciao.