Hello, and welcome to Outspoken.

It's your bite sized dose of the hottest influencer and pop culture news this festive season.

I'm Kate Torber and coming up on today's show, Sarah's Day's Beach House Woes, Matsakowski drops details about last Christmas with the Hembros and our Friday debrief.

The first Bunnings have launched their own version of La Boo Boos.

So they're called the Bunnings Mystery Box Mini Bears and they are all over my FORU page.

They've gone completely viral.

I really wanted one of these, but I saw on TikTok that they've already sold out.

Well I can see why because there were only twelve dollars fifty and there were people lining up at like five am waiting to get their hands on.

Sorry, I said, I wonder one, But how sad is your life that you're outside Bunnings waiting for a Bunnings Laboo boo?

Basically, well, I suppose it's also a bit of a TikTok moment if you get your hats on them.

And I want to say hats off to the Bunnings marketing team because they have done so well for themselves.

They got it so right because people have been opening the box and they have like the plastic packets and they've been doing the full ASMR rip and I'm like, oh my god, what is it.

Yeah, they've been killing it recently the marketing team, because remember they had that big event with Adam Hythe or better known as Kelly Holliday where people say better known as Abi Chafin be True better known as Abu Chapf's boyfriend, but it was peaking Duck did this massive event with Bunny's and it was only a few years ago that Bunning's marketing team were copying it from Sam Magnan, who's a friend of the show.

He's also an entrepreneur who is in business with Anna Paul as well as running his own PR company.

He's a fabulous guy.

I love him.

Well, maybe his team are doing the PR because I also work with James Charles and he was down there trying a Bunning sausage.

Maybe.

I mean, they definitely have a new marketing team because the stuff they are doing now is top notch.

You can see that someone has come in and definitely understands TikTok.

It was funny the other day, my cousin referred to Bunnings as the Green Church, and I've heard that before, have you look.

Dale has never referred to it as that.

But I feel like Bunnings is the male version of price Line, Like you p just go in and you just find all this shit that you didn't really think you needed, but you do need in that moment.

Yeah, before we wrap this up, I want to talk about the rare secret bear that people are trying to get their hands on.

So they have five designs, so they've got a team member, one bear wearing a rain poncho, one with a high veers.

There's also one with a straw hat.

However, I haven't actually seen the rare bear, but people are saying that they hope it's holding a Bunning sausage.

Surely that would be so iconic.

If anyone has seen the rare Bear on TikTok, send it to us, because I feel like we must know what this is.

We purchased this house three years ago, okay, and it's like this rundown house that basically needs full demolition, and we are building our dream Mediterranean villa on it for our family holiday house, and we'll also rent it out, so if you want to stay there.

You absolutely can.

Sarah's Day has launched an Instagram account for her luxury coastal beach house that is still yet to be built.

The og fitness influencer purchased the home nearly three years ago and it's been waiting sixteen months of for council approval to start the knockdown rebuild.

Okay, can you take us back to the start.

Well, I'm still finding it hard to believe that it's almost been three years.

So it was back in March twenty twenty three that Sarah teased her followers that she would be sharing a life changing update that would take up a lot of her time for the next few years.

So this created a lot of buzz and excitement that Sarah's followers were left less than impressed when she announced that she'd bought a holiday house that she would rent out for photo shoots and as a luxury air B and B.

Now at the time, she was labeled tone deaf because Australia was in the midst of a cost of living crisis.

It also didn't help that she referred to the beachfront property as garbage in her vlog, so when she was discussing the bidding strategy with her family, her husband told their young son, we're going to knock the house down because it's garbage.

And then Sarah chimed in saying, the person even selling it knows it's garbage.

It's just the land's really good.

Well, remember when they bought their first house in Cronulla and they were acting like that was a shit tip and it was just because it wasn't the esthetics that they were used to or liked.

Well, they gutted the whole thing and redid it.

Yeah, I mean you'd be pretty devastated.

A few were the original owners because it was quite new.

Yeah, they'd only done it a few years ago.

Apparently.

Well, it seems like they're rethinking some of their design options within the house at the moment, because Sarah's been documenting her doing these new little touches around the house.

So she created this pink bathroom and she already doesn't like the basin.

They're going to redo that whole house in a couple of years.

Well, on her Instagram story the other day, Sarah was up in their sort of loft lounge room has this massive couch in it and She explained that if they were to sell their house, then the owner would have to actually buy the couch with it, because they brought the couch up and then sort of built in this framework so they can't get it out.

And then she said she's going to get rid of all their Moroccan pillows because she doesn't like them anymore.

And I was like, wow, that was a real era for her, the morocc And pillows.

They probably still haunt herb it's a good thing to get rid of them, Just get out all the bad what is it?

Juju?

Yeah, Well, back to the backlash that surrounded Sarah when she purchased this beachside property.

One follower wrote hardly called that life changing, laughing my ass off, What a privilege in the actual crisis that most people are living in at the moment, and another said, so many things wrong with this, firstly, not life changing news.

Really is it just clickbait for us to watch her YouTube video so she gets more views and more money.

Do you think people are hoping at the time that she was going to announce the pregnancy.

It seemed like that because it was before the birth of her third baby.

She had two kids, and you could tell that she was you know, it was on the horizon for her now.

It wasn't until July of twenty twenty four that Sarah provided an update on her holiday house.

So she shared photos of mock ups of the homes exterior on Instagram and wrote over a year of architectural design and were almost there now.

At the time, Sarah promised she would take her followers along for the ride when the demolition and build started in twenty twenty five.

Now we are, of course in the final weeks of twenty twenty five and Sarah is still waiting for the council to approve the plans.

Despite lodging the plans to counsel in November twenty twenty three, they are yet to be approved.

So it's now been sixteen months that they've been waiting for this approved.

I won't if it's anything to do with how extreme the plans are, like maybe they don't fit the vibe off the street.

This is a massive mansion, like it's bigger than their Cronulla home And it actually leads on to Sarah's most recent updates.

So over the weekend, she announced that she was launching an Instagram home account for the property, and she told her followers she would be documenting the building journey there and urged her followers who like design and architecture to follow.

It's pretty interesting because despite Sarah having one point two million followers, only five point six thousand people have followed her home account.

That really surprises me.

I mean, it is a clever move of Sarah to create this account because she wants to lease the home out to others, so if it suddenly has like fifty thousand followers, she's going to get a lot of business.

I also think it probably is a way to fish around for sponsors as well.

I mean, we saw how well Laura Burn and Maddy Jay's home renovation process went on their beach house.

But maybe people aren't following because she has literally said, well, designs haven't even been approved, like you know, when you're like, what's the point of following right now?

Yeah, exactly.

I mean I was pretty surprised by the content she shared because she uploaded images of the three D renders, which she said the architects had been working on for over a year and a half, and amongst the designs was this overview of a floorplan for the three story home.

And I'm like, it is a bit of a strange move considering that she is planning to use it as a personal holiday house.

Like, I wouldn't feel particularly safe having this information out there.

You've only got to think of Molly May, who was robbed a few years ago.

I mean, most influencers try and keep the floor plan and location of the home private.

I wonder how this is going to go, particularly also because she's going to be renting it out as a photo shoot studio and an airbnb, Like, it's not going to be very private at all.

I mean, I suppose she's not really that careful with her post normally when she's in her hometown of Krnulla walking around.

I mean, I'm assuming she posts live, but maybe not.

Well, it will be interesting to see when the house is built if Sarah actually publicize the fact that she's down there.

She does share a lot online.

I feel like she might not be able to control herself by actually sharing content there.

But it is kind of concerning that so many people will know where her holiday house is because while she has a lot of fans, there are also a lot of people that don't like Sarah.

We saw that hate page that came out of the works and they were trying to destroy her wedding.

So I'm hoping we don't see any of that.

Yeah, well, I really hope not.

Now it's pretty interesting because it's the first time that Sarah has revealed the name that she has given to the home.

So the house is called Soroco, and I had to do a Google because I'm like, surely there is some deep meaning behind it.

So what Google came back to me with is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and southern Europe, especially during the summer season.

This is what chat gpt told you.

Actually, Google, this was on Wikipedia, because I'm getting sick of you using chat gpt for everything it's not.

It is not.

Well, this is an accurate definition according to multiple sites on Google.

All I know is that when you give your house a name, must be an expensive home.

I think she is playing on the kind of salty wind thing, because in the Instagram bio it read ocean front Mediterranean luxury designed for effortless, salty, unforgivable escapes by Sarah's Day.

All I think when I hear the term salty is that hate page Salty's Day?

So on surprised she's even mentioning the saltiness.

I don't think the hate page would have been on her mind when she was writing this Instagram bio.

I have noticed though, that she seems to be splashing the cash a bit on her social media channel.

So as I touched on earlier, she's been doing all these house refreshers with very expensive furniture.

She was asking her followers about, like, oh, which coffee table should I get this two thousand dollar one or this four thousand dollar one.

And she's also been documenting the process of building her own dojo in her backyard.

So they pulled down the old poolhouse which used to be their podcasting studio, and then I had the sauna in it.

Hey, we've been coughing in a bit on our Instagram.

People are saying that why do we hate Sarah's Day?

Blah blah blah.

I hate her at all.

I actually have been following her for years and years.

I I'm not a fan of the medical misinformation that she's putting out on the part or the toxic psycholture.

You seem to be triggered by her buying all of these things.

I'm not triggered by it.

I'm saying it just seems like she's been splashing a cash.

I mean when the cash is made from pushing toxic die culture like her sold five to sixty challenge, and do you think that's where the money's coming out?

I do.

I mean it came out that she's sold now three thousand copies of it, so you know, three thousand times what was it sixty dollars that she was charging.

That's a lot of cash for some renos.

Yeah, it's pretty ironic because Sarah was sharing on Instagram that she herself didn't even complete the challenge.

Yeah, I mean it was quite comical considering we all discussed how a sixty day challenge with no rest days is quite unachievable.

I mean, she claimed that she got sick and then also shared the reno's going on at the house, so there was nowhere to exercise.

Well, it's a good marketing employee, isn't it.

To get people to do it again with her.

Yeah, she's already saying I'm going to start it on January first.

Who's with me?

So you know, as you mentioned, she's got one point too million followers.

Surely she could get another three thousand sign on.

That might be a new ivory backscratcher, or a new couch or whatever.

Anyway, I love you, Thank you, thank you.

Jingle Bell Rock, It's very festive.

Matt Zakowski has revealed how his ex wife, Tammy Hembro, and her kids shaped some of his Christmas traditions.

Matt dropped the details in a festive themed episode of his podcast Where's Your Head At?

Okay, can you tell us more?

I haven't been the biggest fan of Matt's podcast, but I've got to say I actually really enjoyed this episode, and Matt is continuing to win me over with his love for Christmas.

So in the episode, he spoke in depth about the traditions he does with his mum and sisters, and I couldn't help but find it really sweet.

So every Christmas Eve they dress up in their matching Christmas pajamas and do dinner together with carols by candlelight in the background.

And it made me think of our Christmas in tradition, because we always go over to our parents' house on Christmas Eve and have dinner and watch carols by candlelight.

I think that's an elite combination.

Are they watching the Carols seriously though, because when we watch it there's a few comments like like there's jokes going on.

Well, he and Adam were discussing how every year they think I'd actually really love to be there because it's filmed in Melbourne.

However, they're like, actually, I think relaxing on the couch and watching it is so much better, particularly if you need to do like Christmas wrapping.

Yeah.

You always see those babies there as well, and I think, oh my god, that would be utter hell bringing a baby to carrols by candlelight, especially when it came time to leaving.

Oh because even looking at the local Adelaide Carols, you can't get a park anywhere.

You've got to walk miles.

Yeah.

Well, the local Carols were on last weekend and we actually went to the Moonlight Cinemas, which was so good.

They had lf on.

We were kindly gifted the tickets and I was like, this is elite because you could kind of hear the Carols faintly in the background.

It felt so Christmas.

We go back because they've got parent Trap in January.

I want to join you because I really liked it.

How you were kind of forced to watch the movie.

I know that sounds silly, but whenever I put a Christmas movie on, I always feel like I need to be doing something else where.

It's like wrapping Christmas presents or just scrolling for people's Christmas presents on my phone.

Where I actually really watched the movie properly and loved it.

Well, you laughed at me because Dale and I have been to the Moonlight Cinema before and I said, Oh, we're going to be in gold Grass and You're like, what are you talking about.

That's not the name, and it is so instead of gold Class, it's gold Grass.

And I only realized this time when we arrived that you can actually order food to your seat, like we brought all of our cheese platters in.

We got dinner beforehand.

But I was like, I want to do that next time.

Yeah, and maybe just girls only, because it's stressful if you've got a babysitter at home.

I'm going to bring a thicker blanket because I was a little bit cold, and you know we have to share it anyway.

We digress, but back to Matt's Christmas traditions.

He dropped a few juicy details about how he celebrated with Tammy.

So as I touched on, his Christmas tradition is actually to spend Christmas Eve with his mum and his sisters, and then he said that Christmas Day has always been for the partner's side of the family, which I thought was interesting considering this year he doesn't have a partner.

But people say that that people sons, they don't spend Christmas with the family anymore.

Once they get a partner, it's the girlfriend's family they get favored.

I think that's wrong.

I think you've got to share your Christmas celebration just because you have a sudden Well yes, and to be fair, but Matt has a couple of sisters, so it's actually not a boy thing.

It's like they go and see their spend Christmas Eve with Tammy.

No.

So last year he actually flew home to Melbourne and weird it was actually a last minute decision, so he decided he would go back and spend Christmas Eve with his family.

He said it got to the point where they had dinner, they'd watched a Christmas movie, they put cookies out for Santa, and then he caught a flight home, so he was there in the morning for Tammy and the kids.

Maybe Matt Sakowski and us would actually be really good friends if he'd forgive us what we've previously said about him the role in coverage of his divorce.

I'm not sure who forgive that.

I rate that because that's so cute that they're putting out the cookies for Santa.

I mean, I'd be pretty pissed if I was Tammy and I'm with the kids wrangling them on Christmas, even my husband's not there.

Yeah, but they're not his kids.

No, I get that, but it was they were husband and wife were kids.

I suppose it sounds like when he was on the Gold Coast with Tammy and the kids, he really got around the Christmas traditions because he said he learned about elf on the shelf.

So I didn't realize this, but apparently once you've set the scene up and the kids come out and see the elf, no one's allowed to touch it or move the elf.

So he said he really regretted it because he set up this snowball fight on the middle of the kitchen counter with like flour and all this stuff.

However, no one could touch it or move the elf, so they had to like cook dinner around the same scenes where the elf on the shelf is like in the toilet, yeah, with flowing and so well you have to leave that shit there, doude.

Well, I suppose they may have more than one toilet.

I don't want to do that.

When Harry's older, I do.

It doesn't appeal to me.

The bad thing is if you do it, we all have to do it.

I know.

Well it annoys me because I started the December first boxes and you and Sophie didn't get organized or do one.

So now you're like, oh, we're going to do a Christmas eat one.

I'm like, no, I can't do two boxes at Christmas time.

I'm just shocked that Matt would talk about Tammy and the kids.

You think he'd be trying to avoid it.

We didn't name Tammy, but he name dropped Wolf.

So he was talking about his whole tradition around Christmas movies, and he said, once Halloween's done, he starts watching like Christmas adjacent movies like die Hard, and then on November fourteen he changes over to a mix of Hallmark Christmas movies and his co host annamcavoy was like, well, where do you even watch these Christmas horror movies?

I've never seen them before, And he said Wolf introduced him to this special streaming platform last year where he could watch them on.

Yeah, because he's obsessed with movies, isn't he?

Yeah, particularly horror movies.

But I was like wow.

He goes, oh, my friend Wolf, and I was like, oh, my friend Wolf, my ex step son Wolf.

Yeah.

He also managed to sneak in a potshot at Tammy during this episode.

He made a reference that he always used to be in flight or fight and isn't any more.

So I'm assuming that was because he's no longer with Tammy.

Yes, I feel like that's definitely aimed at her.

Let's get into our Friday debrief.

And I have somewhat of a Christmasy recommendation.

So every Christmas season, I scrolled TikTok on Instagram for so many hours trying to find cute Christmas recipes, and I always end up making the same thing I make every year.

However, I'm committed to make something different for the White Party this year because it's coming up on Saturday.

I remember you were saying to me that you heard on Mom and Mia that apparently whichever dish you bring to Christmas or a dinner party shows a lot about your personality.

And they said that if you bring a dessert, you want all the praise, and that is the UK.

I know, we actually bring a dessert.

We discussed it on the subs.

Mean, so yeah, I was like, yeah, that definitely is me.

And I think I'll be bringing a dessert and a savory because I'm just an all round grade.

Because you want it amazed twice, you want to double the praise.

Yeah.

So there is an Instagram account that I came across called Jesse Jane Day Day daye not like Sarah's Day, and she is an American content creator who makes the most amazing looking Christmas tree.

She does like these really cute, like chocolate Christmas trees and just really incredible looking things that look quite easy.

I mean, you know those things that look really easy and then they end up being a fucking night.

Yeah.

Like, there was something that I'm like, I don't know how easy that is, but I'm to have a bit of a challenge.

I was thinking about Christmas Day the other day and I was like, oh, you know, what maybe I should make a pablov from scratch.

No, And then I was like, hell no, but don't you have to leave it in the oven overnight in order for it to crack and all that kind of stuff that Christmas prep That is a lot of the stuff you actually would have to make on Christmas Eve.

So it's not well, I've actually got another recommendation off the back of that.

Jamie Oliver has his Christmas special on ten you can watch it on ten play, and all of the recipes are things that you can put in the freezer ready to go Christmas Day, so you literally just have to bring him out defrost.

And I was like, oo yuh, because I notoriously don't like leftovers, and I've got a thing for freezer food, but has this sort of like strange taste.

Maybe it's just bread.

I find if you have breads disgusting out of the freezer.

But he made this really cool thing for Veggio's.

It was like a potato gritan thing.

Oh yeah, but then he put homemade pastry around it like a pie, and I just thought it had you and Dale written all over it.

It actually looked really fiddlyst and potato, that's right about it.

Yeah, So there were all these things that he was just putting in the freezer.

But I'm like, I couldn't fit anything more in the freezer with all of Jack's food in there.

Well, I'm trying to get organized for the white party because we've got that this Saturday, and also we're doing Christmas Dinner at Dale in my house.

So I've got two different balloon garlands.

I've been all on hell.

I know, actually I need to borrow something from you for that.

But should we put money on it whether it's actually going to come into fruition because we've had so many events where they loudroopy that was that was my baby shower.

No, No, it wasn't.

No, it wasn't baby shower.

It was my engagement party.

Because Dale was away for the week and we were painting the house.

Like I was painting the bathroom all by myself, so I didn't get time to do the fun little bit.

So doing the you go, I mean, I hate doing it.

I'm so organized.

You see over on the desk, I've got little snowflakes that are hanging from fishing wire that are going to hang down on the Garland.

I've got the balloons ready to go.

I'm going to do those on Friday night.

But I'm trying to think, can I do balloons for Christmas Day on the twenty third or is that going to be too early?

Good?

Yeah, like can I predo them?

Oh?

Yeah, I think that's fine.

I mean we're only in the mid twenties for Christmas in Adelaide.

It's funny because I don't know what I'm wearing to the White Party because last year I had a special outfit because I was pregnant.

I just didn't want to work.

I can't like I thought some shit from Kmar like some Yeah, it's a really daggy outfit.

And I don't know if I can be bothered to wear my pre baby dress.

And I was messaging a friend and we were joking that maybe we should just wear our wedding dresses.

That would actually be kind of cool.

Get another wear it's been professionally cleaned and you know, put in a box.

I don't know if I'm game enough to take it out.

I don't know if i'd still fit in mind to be honest, Yeah, that's another thing.

I don't know.

But mine wasn't like a traditional wedding dress.

It was more like a bridesmaid's dress.

So do you think I could pull that off?

I mean I wouldn't.

Yeah, no, probably won't.

I'll probably end up wearing something really comfy.

I'm actually tossing up whether to go pants this year, and because I wore a white outfit to a friend's hens and I was like, oh, I could go that because then I don't get bitten by mossies.

Well, I have to share a video on my Instagram of the final balloon installation, the table Escape.

It sounds like it's going to be very nice table escape.

Actually, I have got my table escape organized.

I bought candle holders and those fake candles, but they look so real like the battery operated one.

See I'm doing a Ralph Louren theme, which I say that, but I've only really got a few different things.

I got like some tardened napkins, and I got red candles.

Red long candles is dead with gold holders.

I was going to get a garland, but then they ended up being quite expensive for I've got to oh, okay, okay, well I've got some sort of garland sort of candle holders anyway that I thought I'll use them again because it does annoy me when every year it's like, oh, what is the Christmas theme this year?

People don't reuse their decorations.

Okay, do you know what my Christmas Day theme is?

Well, it's literally home alone, as in, you know the house, how it's all tartan and everything that is the rough Christmas or whatever.

It's like old school Christmas.

Okay, but I'd like to refer to its home alone.

So I've got I Actually you're gonna hate this, but I'm doing paper plates this year instead of what I hate them because you're a bit of a snob about that sort of stuff.

So, but they're the cutest plates.

I saw them and I was like, oh, they fit the theme perfectly.

Read.

I think it's like such a novel idea of yours.

But it's all over TikTok.

Because this is an audio platform.

Amy is now showing me a picture of the plates.

I love them.

They remind me of my grandma.

Yeah, and the bomb bonds.

I've got, like old school bond bonds.

I actually just went and bought some of the crappy Ancho ones because I was desperate.

I didn't know they had where did you get yours from?

Oh?

They're just rout it.

Oh I saw them afterwards and I was like, damn it.

Anyway, that is where we're going to leave things today.

Thank you for joining us for another episode of Outspoken.

If you do want to hear more content from us, we drop a subscriber only episode every Thursday, and we'll be doing that throughout the holiday period because I know there's nothing worse over the Christmas season when every podcast go on a break.

We're going to be having fresh content all throughout the festive period.

Keep saying this, we haven't recorded the fresh pre record of it now.

So Kate's made this such a big deal about, you know, other podcasts not having fresh content, and the other day I was like, shit, we've got five episodes we haven't pre recorded, and we meant to do the more before Christmas.

Well, hopefully you'll be getting some fresh content.

You will be okay, so keep tuning in.

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