
Welcome to Happy Wife Happy Life! We're your hosts, Kendahl Landreth and Jordan Myrick: two very unqualified (but deeply in love) comedians who are here to help you navigate all things relationships. This week, we are joined by the incredible and...
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Tony
Do you want us to do the intro?
Ryan
I'm too scared to say anything.
Kendall
All right. Okay. Ready? Three, two, one. What a dog.
Tony
Oh, shit. Oh, man.
Ryan
Nah, all good.
Tony
Nah. You guys, you guys go.
Kendall
You guys go. Take away your wabby if you're not careful.
Tony
Welcome to Happy Wife, Happy Life, where we're Tony and Ryan. Play the intro music.
Ryan
I'm Jordan. This is Kendall. We're so happy to meet you today. You've come from the eighth.
Kendall
All right, that's this week's intro. Tony, Ryan, you're being a huge pain in the ass already, but we're so glad you're here. I cancel both of you. Seriously?
Ryan
You don't have that kind of power.
Kendall
Want that?
Ryan
I know you don't.
Kendall
I've canceled hundreds of people in the top three. I can't. Mel Gibson.
Tony
Oh, you did that?
Ryan
We were in charge of, not you. And also be like, oh, the easiest one. Do you know what I mean?
Kendall
Started it, though.
Ryan
Did he throw the phone at you?
Tony
That's Russell Crowe.
Ryan
You get them mixed up every time. Every time.
Jordan
Every time.
Tony
People born in Australia, New Zealand only have one way of getting canceled and throwing phones, so that's, like, our default move.
Kendall
Wait, are you guys Australian?
Ryan
Yeah. Yeah.
Kendall
Oh, I thought he was British.
Jordan
You said New Zealand and Australian. You guys feel a kinship.
Tony
Oh. But I think.
Ryan
I think there's an assumption that we're the same.
Tony
Yeah, we get bundled together.
Kendall
You did that.
Jordan
We didn't.
Ryan
No. Well, I would never.
Tony
Well, Russell Crowe's born in New Zealand, and then he moved to that again. Don't you turn on me. Jordan already yelled at me before we started. Can we start this podcast? I'm getting angry.
Jordan
How?
Tony
I've been very good.
Jordan
Sweet as pie.
Tony
Sweet as pie.
Ryan
What kind of pie?
Jordan
Apple.
Ryan
In Australia, pies are, like, predominantly savoury, like beef pie, etc. The other day, Ryan and I ate a lasagna pie, which is pretty. Nope.
Tony
Pretty good. Yeah.
Jordan
What was, like, the big American food? You've been like, wait, first of all, is this your first time in America?
Ryan
No, no. Very well traveled.
Jordan
Okay.
Tony
We come and did a few meet and greets a year or so ago, and we discovered that half and half milk means half cream. And we almost moved here immediately, but.
Ryan
Then we were like, we would gain so much weight if we. Because just, like, drinking straight cream, like, all the time.
Kendall
Okay.
Jordan
You don't drink it like milk. You just put a little bit in your coffee.
Tony
I said that. I just want to do half and half. Like, fuck, yeah. Let's get it on.
Ryan
I'm like, oh, my God, Yum. Yeah.
Kendall
So half and half is something different in.
Ryan
No, we just don't have it. We only have milk.
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
You don't have cream in Australia.
Ryan
Like, it exists. You would never have never put it in a drink.
Jordan
If you have types of milk, though.
Ryan
You have, like, oh, almond cashew rice. You know, we're all the same. Is that high? Low?
Jordan
I don't know.
Ryan
Sorry.
Tony
We just have milk. It's just milk. There's no percentages.
Ryan
The cows are good, though.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
They're like, moo.
Kendall
They love it.
Tony
They love it.
Jordan
California is kind of famous for happy cows.
Ryan
California?
Jordan
Yeah.
Ryan
Did I say that?
Jordan
Yeah, they're really people, the happy cows. People love the cows here.
Kendall
It's a famous. It's like a famous campaign.
Jordan
It might be fake, but they tell you, oh, the cows here are really happy.
Tony
Yeah. And just, like, all the chickens, all happy, you know?
Kendall
Yeah.
Tony
Like, everyone's just happy on farms.
Ryan
They've got all that space. Hectares.
Tony
Yeah.
Jordan
Yeah.
Ryan
Are you from California, both of you?
Jordan
I would say I'm. I'm from.
Kendall
I'd say not. No, neither one of us are from here originally. Okay.
Tony
We've both said exactly opposite things.
Jordan
So you kind of figure out what we mean.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
This is like a hot double date. Yeah.
Jordan
It's not weird flirting, really? I'm like. This is the first time I've understood polyamory flirting. I'm like.
Kendall
I'm like, wait a second.
Jordan
Together, we're all.
Kendall
We're all really, like, vibing.
Jordan
I'm from Northern California.
Ryan
I don't know what that means, but.
Jordan
I live in.
Kendall
Are you kidding me?
Jordan
But what?
Kendall
Kendall was born in North Carolina.
Jordan
Okay.
Kendall
And. Sorry, North Carolina until she was, like, six. Yeah.
Ryan
No, like an adult who's like, yeah, I was blonde when I was a baby.
Kendall
Yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly, exactly. And so she moved here when she was 6. I don't know why I'm having to explain this. You.
Jordan
Because you interrupted me. That was the first.
Kendall
You were not gonna say this. Look at her. She says something and then she laughs into the camera.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
She says, this is like when you watch a true crime documentary and they show old footage of like, did we miss the signs? You've killed 20 people. And we're like, what were the signs? Roll the Patreon clip.
Kendall
You know, it's like we're just looking into the camera.
Tony
I've been in California my whole life. It cuts the detective. She's from North Carolina.
Kendall
Northern California is like, near, like where San Francisco is. So she's from like the rural part outside of San Franc.
Tony
Oh, okay. Toni recently moved about eight minutes from the city and keeps saying she now lives in the country. And it fucks me off.
Jordan
You do. It fucks you off?
Tony
Yeah.
Jordan
I've never heard that.
Tony
Oh, yeah, it's annoying.
Ryan
That, like pissed me off, but it's like, fuck you off at the worst.
Kendall
What is the new place you live like? Is it rural feeling?
Ryan
No.
Kendall
Is it suburban?
Ryan
Barely not even suburban.
Tony
A Tony had to decide to get a lawnmower or scissors to cut the grass because it's that small. It's that small.
Ryan
It's not that small. That's actually really rude. I worked really hard to own that property.
Jordan
What did you pick?
Ryan
Lawnmower. I love stuff.
Kendall
Yeah, I love right here.
Ryan
I love a gadget. I love something that's going to make my life easier but ultimately take up more room.
Jordan
You want to be like a cowgirl? Like a. Like this is a.
Kendall
This is a. This is a leading question.
Jordan
Okay, well, like, you know, you want to own. You want. Say you live out in the country. You want to live like on a farm. Like, would you ever want to own like cattle?
Ryan
No.
Jordan
Okay.
Tony
Not a happy camp.
Kendall
You want to ask, do you.
Jordan
Have you ever ridden a horse?
Kendall
And why do you want to know, Kendall?
Ryan
Because you want to bring up the fact that you're doing horse.
Jordan
That I ride horses. Yeah.
Kendall
This has become a horse podcast every.
Tony
How many lessons have you done?
Jordan
3.
Tony
Well, that's where you and Tony are different because her new hobbies, if she gets to one lesson, she's. That's probably more than average.
Kendall
Pretty good.
Ryan
That's pretty impressive.
Tony
Tony bought a stand up paddleboard on a whim and didn't go for a very long time. I've been twice huge in how long?
Ryan
Twice I've been.
Kendall
Wait, so what city are you two from?
Ryan
Melbourne, Melvin. In Australia.
Kendall
And that's on the water?
Tony
Well, all cities are sort of in the water because as soon as you're not near the water, you're in the desert and that's not what you want. So true. It's not like a beachy town, though. It just happens to have a place where you can stand up paddleboard if you wanted to.
Ryan
If you want to. But now that I'm out in the country, obviously it's a bit harder.
Kendall
Accessibility doesn't make sense.
Ryan
Accessibility purposes.
Tony
Yes.
Ryan
I'm thinking about selling it if anybody's interested in buying a stand up paddleboard. Gently Use.
Jordan
I'm interested.
Ryan
I should have brought it with me.
Tony
Yep, I heard. Because I think you're similar to me, Kendall and that. Tell me. I heard recently about the vacuum cleaners. You just buy a new one when the one doesn't work.
Jordan
Right.
Tony
Where do you guys stand with printers?
Kendall
We've.
Jordan
We've gone off.
Kendall
We're.
Jordan
We're never buying one again.
Kendall
We go to the library.
Jordan
I go to the library to print.
Tony
Wow.
Jordan
I'm a member of my community.
Kendall
We love our library. And we have had so many printers. I got where our recent printer because we had them and they kept breaking. They never worked. And recently buy a new printer. Yeah, of course.
Ryan
And it's cheaper to buy an entire printer than it is just buy ink.
Kendall
Of course. And recently I was like, hey, does anyone just have a printer I can have on my Instagram? Close friend stories. And my friend Ed.
Ryan
I say that one.
Kendall
Yeah. It was only for people with printers that they were giving away.
Ryan
Yeah, that's me. I was going to paddle it over. Yeah, bring them both. I've got John. I'm coming.
Kendall
But we got a free printer and it's still broken. And so now we just go to the library.
Jordan
Yeah, I'm done with them. They've never worked. They've never. Any printer. You can get the highest gadget one. Every time you go to print, it's like a big pop up message being like, we're done.
Tony
But they work the first time. So every time I've got a university assignment, I've usually got a new printer at home. And that's where I stand on that. And I think that's fine.
Ryan
But the other day, though. Yeah, but no.
Tony
Yeah, I'm in college.
Ryan
No, no, no, no.
Tony
I'm a young skinny boy who's studying to better himself.
Ryan
No. So Ryan's doing his masters of like his mba, not the basketball. M. Got it.
Tony
When I said I was doing an MBA for a long time, Tony was like, oh, he's a baller.
Ryan
I'm like, I'm like, I've seen the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. And then. But so Ryan the other day, he's like printing something at our office. And then I went to print something, there's no paper. And I was like, oh, it's no printer. He's like, oh, I used last week the other day. And I was like, oh, did you buy anymore?
Tony
He's like, no, my assignment has been handed in.
Ryan
He's like, no, I didn't need any more paper. And I was like, okay, very Like a city.
Jordan
A person in the city who buys the ingredients for the dinner that night.
Ryan
Yeah.
Jordan
You buy the paper.
Kendall
Oh, yeah, it's giving Paris.
Tony
And also, I didn't use the printer at home because my computer doesn't talk to the one at home and I don't use the one at uni because you need your student card.
Ryan
And who knows where that.
Jordan
None of my electronics connected the way other people's have. Yeah, people are texting on.
Tony
You need to get a child. That guy down there, you need one of them. He's great.
Jordan
He's a tech.
Kendall
We have as much money as you guys do yet. How long have you been podcasting?
Tony
3 and a half years. Yeah, but we earn Australian dollars, which is like nothing here. Yeah, just like.
Ryan
Sorry, we went to L1 the other day. Is that what you say? Yeah, we went there and it cost us like 300 Australian dollars.
Kendall
The food is awful. Did you like. No.
Jordan
Did you not eat it?
Tony
It's delicious.
Ryan
Jordan, can I say something? I think you're saying that to seem interesting.
Jordan
Jordan. I'm sorry. Hating Erewhon is the equivalency of being like a guy's girl. Like, you're like.
Tony
That is.
Ryan
Did you just call her a pink mango?
Kendall
That's what it is.
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
It's absolutely.
Jordan
Because first of all, you've never been.
Tony
Me and Tiny is going to take.
Kendall
Off, leave both of you, go back to Australia. No, I'm just like, people come to California, to la, one of the culinary capitals of the world. You have food here from everywhere. You have people here from everywhere. Some of the best food in the world, some of the freshest produce in the world. Why would you go to Erewhon?
Tony
Because that's what Haley Baba has. Her smoothie. Smoothie. What else would you get?
Jordan
Yes, that's going to see. When. When you go to a place, when you go to Chicago, you want to go to the Home Alone House, it's like. Yeah, you could go other cool places.
Ryan
Maine, Chicago.
Tony
I believe that is correct. We went to Chicago and we had deep dish pizza. We came to LA and we went to Omo.
Kendall
They're not one of them.
Ryan
It was actually because I got my period and my mum was like, I'll get you a probiotic smoothie.
Kendall
Thank God. And that stopped.
Tony
Yeah, actually. And can I just send a shout out to the lovely Uber eats delivery driver who, when she turned up with a case of D Coke and a pregnancy test, said, is everything okay?
Ryan
Okay?
Tony
And then. Look at me.
Ryan
Pregnancy test has no context to what I just said, but it's actually so fine. No, because I said my period and that would be the opposite.
Kendall
I was like, different in Australia.
Ryan
Yeah.
Tony
Because this has happened and it might be this. And I was like, I don't. I think I've learned this wrong. And then me and Charles had to went, which one was it? And yeah, yeah, it was neither. It was probably.
Kendall
So you just put a pregnancy test inside you and called it a day.
Jordan
Yeah.
Kendall
Just instead of. Yeah, just to be safe, you have to be.
Ryan
That's luxury, you guys. Probably the same. You have to be testing and making sure all the time.
Kendall
Well, that's the thing. When you go to the doctor here, they're like, you got to take a pregnancy test. And I'm like, there's no reason. There's no reason. If I'm pregnant, call the newspaper.
Jordan
Well, you know, one time I tried to get on acne medication that they were like, well, if you get on this acne medication and you get pregnant, your kid's going to look really crazy and you alive. And I was like, oh, it's okay. And they're like, no, you have to get on birth control because otherwise if you get pregnant, you know it's going to be really bad. I was like, I really don't. It's okay. I'm gay. It's not a big deal. They made me call every month while I was on the medication and vow to abstinence. I would have to go. My name is KendallAndreth and I'm taking a vow of abstinence.
Tony
Hey, Kendall, how many dicks this month? Zero. Again. Cool, thanks.
Kendall
Yes.
Ryan
Doubt is worth.
Jordan
It was worth a look at my skin.
Tony
You look stunning.
Jordan
Thank you.
Tony
Not pregnant, so.
Kendall
You're absolutely beautiful.
Ryan
You're glowing like a pregnant woman would. That's so beautiful.
Kendall
Okay, so this is a dating and relationship podcast and I think right up top, we should address that. The two of you are not dating, right?
Ryan
No.
Tony
Married to my wonderful wife Bridget and have a two year old daughter, Mabel. And check out Tony's hand.
Kendall
Come on now. Come on. Are you engaged?
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
Called him your boyfriend.
Ryan
Oh, sorry. No, he. Fiance, I guess. Yeah.
Jordan
Isn't it an awkward word to say?
Ryan
I don't like it. It makes me feel like I'm showing off.
Kendall
What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? You can't show off.
Ryan
It makes me feel like I'm being like, I hate L1 and my fiance agrees with me. Do you know what I mean? That's the vibes. It Gives me.
Jordan
My lawyer. Like, my d. Dad's a lawyer. Literally, my fiance.
Ryan
Yeah. You don't have one. I'm so sorry.
Jordan
Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah. It's like. It's embarrassing. Yeah. No, so I don't.
Tony
But Tony and her fiance have been together for, like, 11 years. They've been doing it for 12. And we have been in a relationship the whole time. We've done this podcast, but if you typed in at one stage Tony and Ryan into Google, the, like, predictive text is like, right.
Ryan
Are dating? Yeah.
Tony
Are they together?
Ryan
Yeah. I mean, we get things, like, all the time being like, it's actually so disrespectful to your partners that you act this way. And I was like, have you never had a friend before?
Kendall
Literally, no. So many people online have never had a friend or relationship before. We'll get that all the time, too. Kendall and I'll be joking with each other, and they'll be like, can't believe you talk to your partner that way. I'm like, just admit that you're a loser. You have no friends. You have no joking, no fun. You don't love anyone. It's so wild to me.
Ryan
And I think it's also strange because, like, as a man and a woman, people are like, oh, they're. I'm like, well, we're not. Like, it's actually fine. We're fine.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
And I'm friends with Ryan's wife. In fact, I knew Ryan's wife before I really knew him.
Kendall
I love that.
Ryan
Like, you know what I mean? So it's just. It's so.
Tony
She couldn't do that to Bridget. So.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
And also, we don't do that.
Jordan
We don't do that.
Ryan
We don't do that.
Tony
I love you so much.
Ryan
Love you so much.
Tony
I love you. I love you.
Ryan
We don't do.
Tony
I know we don't do that, but I would.
Ryan
And this is the thing. You can want to fuck your friends.
Kendall
Yes.
Jordan
Right?
Ryan
It's so fine.
Kendall
Yes.
Jordan
Is that different in Australia? More like fucking your friends in Australia. Because I've been on a kick of reading this Australian romance author.
Ryan
Who is it?
Jordan
Ruby Landers. It's gay stuff.
Ryan
Oh. Hot.
Jordan
And it's. They're. They're all fucking their friends. So I thought maybe that's how you guys do it.
Tony
Well, when you said, we're going to discuss. Discuss dating. Dating in Australia is you fuck someone a bunch, and then you go, they're actually kind of cool. I don't know if many people go on dates.
Kendall
Really?
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
Is that true across all sexualities?
Ryan
I believe so, yeah. Wow. Yeah. And I'm the authority on that.
Tony
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jordan
Wow.
Kendall
Honestly, when I first saw you two a million years ago on Tick Tock, seeing your clips because they're all so funny, I always watch them and like them. I was like, they're both. They are dating, but they're also both gay is what it.
Ryan
Thank you so much.
Kendall
You know what I mean?
Ryan
Really appreciate it.
Kendall
In my mind, I was like, they're two homosexuals, but they're dating.
Tony
I know you guys would love to see dick pics. So if you want to check out my dms, the whole gay community thinks I'm gay and just, like, loves to send me stuff. Wow.
Kendall
How do you feel about that? Flattered or.
Tony
Or very flattered? Very flattered.
Ryan
The other day I was at a Russian bath house in New York City. Thank you so much. And I went to go for the massage and I said, like, to the woman, I was like, oh, when is the lady who's doing my massage coming? She goes, you don't like boys. And was like, so offended.
Tony
And then what did she accuse you of?
Ryan
And she just thought I was a lesbian. But then she just, like, looked at me and she was like.
Tony
Cuz heaven would touch her.
Ryan
Yeah, I know. And I was just like, oh, my God.
Kendall
She was. She was shocked that you didn't want a male masseuse.
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
I will say this track. So recently I went to a spa with my best friend, Lily. And first of all, again, sorry, you're my second best friend. No. So we went to this spa, and first of all, we get there and there's a sign that's like, bathing suit's optional. I was like, oh, was I supposed to bring a bathing suit? She was like, no. Literally, no one wears a bathing suit. We go inside, everyone's wearing a bathing suit except for her. And I have no bathing suit.
Ryan
Hang on. I need more context. So is this like, in the, like, plunge pool area or like the sweat room or for the massages?
Kendall
It's all of it. Not the. Not the massages, but, like, everything else. Like the plunge pool and the steam room, they're all in this, like, one big space.
Ryan
And you were not wearing a bathing suit.
Kendall
And her and I are fully nude.
Ryan
That is the hottest thing I've ever heard. If someone told me I had to go somewhere naked, I would literally throw up and die. Yes, well, like, I actually would just stay home, lock my doors, and eat my own house key.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
If we went somewhere and you're like, oh, and you just have to be naked. I'd be like, see ya.
Kendall
Absolutely not. The thing was, you didn't have to be naked, and most people chose not to be.
Tony
Oh, great.
Kendall
We were already there and did not have swimsuits and did not know, so we just had to do the whole thing naked. But I was left.
Tony
Oh, was it terrible?
Kendall
Because she was, like, paying for it for me for my birthday. So I was like, what am I going to. I can't leave. And we're both naked. It feels like. Like, solidarity, whatever. Like.
Tony
But is it. Are you pumped and excited, or are you, like, terrified?
Ryan
Do you feel hot about yourself?
Kendall
I felt neutral. I was just like, that is what it is.
Ryan
So cool. I. I would literally have depression.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
No more than normal.
Kendall
It's fine.
Jordan
Thank you for clarifying.
Kendall
I was like, wait, I feel like I'm the only gay person here. I don't think anyone's, like, looking at me.
Jordan
Well, I'm shocked. You're the only. I'm always trying to get naked.
Kendall
Yeah.
Jordan
Like, since I was a kid.
Ryan
Is this an American thing?
Kendall
No.
Jordan
I feel like. Well, the way you guys are talking about nudity, I'm like, maybe it is because to me, as a kid, there was a problem where I would get out of the bath and I would sprint out the front door naked, run down the street.
Kendall
She still does that.
Jordan
And I feel like as an adult then, I grew up in a community that had a lot of nudists. I don't know, nudists happen in Australia. A lot of nudist colonies where I grew up. And so it just was a little more normal for me. And now I'm like, like, let's get out of these clothes, guys. It's.
Ryan
So is this happen now?
Tony
Is this one of those podcasts where they. They take a break, five years naked, they talk, and they come back after the break and they debrief.
Kendall
Is that podcast.
Ryan
Let's do that now.
Kendall
Wow.
Jordan
Sometimes I just have this, you know, one of those moments where you're like, what are we doing? We're all. We have these malls and all these stores, and just to cover up our.
Kendall
Our.
Jordan
We all beautiful bodies. Let's just take it off. Unless you live in, like, a cold climate.
Kendall
Sure, sure.
Ryan
No, see, I look better naked if I'm cold.
Tony
Of course. It just tightens everything.
Jordan
Oh, is that.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
Rock hard.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
What I was gonna say, though, was when I. Oh, it's gonna be covered that. It's gonna be covered that. I just Want to circle back? Because I was gonna say then when it came to the massage part, you put a robe on and you go wait in a waiting room with like, everyone. And I could not believe how many women were so excited and familiar with. With and to see their male masseuse. I selected to have a female masseuse because I'm like, why would I ever.
Jordan
You should have asked me about that.
Kendall
Sorry. I'm so sorry. Okay. Yeah. Cuz I'm trying to cheat. No, I would just want, like an old woman like that has just the calluses of a hundred years on her hands. Like, rubbing every single knot out of my body. I don't want a young guy. No. Nasty.
Tony
I want to feel life experience being pushed into me.
Ryan
The knowledge coming through.
Kendall
So many women were there, and then they would come out and there would be a man that looked like Fabio and he come out and they'd be like, michael, so good to see you. And he'd like, put his hand on the small of their back and like, guide them into the massage room.
Ryan
You can't put a hand on the small of their back. That is cheating. I think that's worse than anger of.
Tony
A naked back as well.
Kendall
Yeah.
Tony
Oh, wow.
Jordan
That's very intimate.
Ryan
It's sensual.
Jordan
What is like the. Okay, if you. It's. Come on. It's about to be really good.
Kendall
I'm excited.
Jordan
In the US I guess you haven't dated in the US but do you.
Ryan
Feel like Ryan has actually, he went to College in the US where?
Tony
In St Louis. The thriving metropolis.
Kendall
Which one? Wash you?
Tony
Nah. Lindenwood in St. Charles.
Jordan
Oh, were you kind of popular because of your accent?
Tony
Yeah. There was one other Australian on campus.
Ryan
And Ryan said, get the fuck off myself.
Kendall
Women were lining up to suck the dick off your body with that accent in college. Are you kidding me?
Ryan
Yeah.
Tony
So I used to. I've like, never really smoked, but I. Would you go up to someone and say, like. Cause you need an excuse to use the voice. Me. Have you got a lighter? And they're like, oh, my God, are you from London? And you're like, oh, sort of. And then. But then. But then never once did they go, oh, here you go. Because I would have been screwed. But yeah, never happened.
Ryan
Wow.
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
I love that. Yeah. Do you.
Tony
You guys would be like that if you came to Australia.
Ryan
Oh, my God.
Kendall
Do people like it?
Ryan
My pussy's wet now.
Tony
Yeah.
Jordan
What does it sound like? Like to like. But when I hear other people, because I've watched those videos, they're like, this is what Americans sound like to other people.
Ryan
Yeah.
Jordan
And it doesn't.
Ryan
This is not. Americans sound like to other people.
Jordan
Yes. So what about that is attractive?
Ryan
Yeah. Nothing.
Jordan
Right.
Ryan
But it just sounds like. It's not really the accent. It's the possibility, it's the concept. It's the open. Yeah.
Tony
If you guys walked into a bar on let's say, Sydney Road, Brunswick in Melbourne, oh my God, they would just be. You would be lay down on the table and they'd just be lining up to go down on you.
Kendall
Yeah, yeah, we have. Please. I know I.
Jordan
Please.
Ryan
Would you guys want to stay with me in the country?
Jordan
Absolutely. Wait, I really do. Wow, that sounds really.
Tony
We could do it. We could do like a live show, the four of us. Yes. But everyone has to go down on these two. Cuz we promised that.
Jordan
Yeah.
Tony
Then you can be the hot sexy foreigners.
Kendall
Wow, that was cool.
Tony
You will be there.
Jordan
Oh, oh.
Tony
We can have a crack as well. You can?
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
Would you go down on us 1000%.
Tony
Really?
Jordan
Oh my God. Totally.
Kendall
We're not being serious.
Ryan
No, I. I joke about cunning.
Jordan
But what I was going to say is did do you. And then we'll get back to that. Because I do want to get back to that. Did do you feel like dating in America is very different from Australia?
Tony
Well, we see a lot of dating because like all TV shows are American. So I guess we just assume what happens.
Ryan
We say the Hollywood version.
Tony
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jordan
I think it's similar because I think Americans are always trying recreate, like that's what they're dating on.
Kendall
Sure.
Jordan
Like that's how you date.
Kendall
What American dating shows have y' all seen or are watching?
Ryan
Well, I. I just love all reality tv. So if I've like watched the Hills and like that, I'm like, oh my God, that's what it's like. They're all rich, they're all beautiful, and all of their parents are super, like famous. Whatever.
Tony
Yeah. And not to age myself, but I grew up watching like Seinfeld and Friends and stuff and that all those shows are based on like, like stories of I went out and had coffee with this girl and this is what happened and blah, blah, blah.
Ryan
Is that happening? Because I don't think people are going out for coffee with a different person every episode in real life.
Jordan
Yeah, I actually do think that's really common. Like, I feel like dating. It's like, especially with the apps now. Cause you're not, you know, you're meeting up with a stranger. So it's like oh, let's go grab.
Ryan
Coffee, break the ice a little bit. Daytime date.
Kendall
Yes.
Jordan
Daytime date, I feel like is very popular for a first date.
Ryan
Charles, are you going on lots of dates? Charles is single.
Tony
Charles, we were in Hobart, which seems like a million miles from where we are right now.
Ryan
So this is like Tasmania, which is like the little island at the bottom of Australia.
Tony
I'll say the Alaska of Australia.
Kendall
Okay.
Tony
And so we turn up, and Charles is just like. And he's bringing people back to the work. Airbnb, where we are there.
Ryan
What I would like to add, actually, is that I actually made a vlog, right. Of our experience. Someone saw Charles in the background of my vlog, and they texted Charles and said, oh, my God, you work for Tony Love plus can we fuck tonight?
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
And he said yes to the McDonald's drive through. Right. They went to Macca's, had a hash brown, and then fucked in the car, of course. And then he came home.
Kendall
Now, Charles, can I ask you a question?
Tony
He's probably dying.
Kendall
You don't have to answer it.
Tony
We do.
Ryan
I'm your boss, and you do have.
Kendall
To, but I'm not your boss, so I can't ask you. You're a gay man.
Tony
I am not, though.
Kendall
You're straight.
Jordan
That's very gay man behavior.
Kendall
Go ahead, treat your women better.
Tony
I'm saying it's very gay man behavior to have sex with a girl in the back of a McDonald's. McDonald's drive thru.
Jordan
Well, anyway, anytime I'm with a gay.
Kendall
Man, when you said he went, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, be.
Ryan
I said, oh, that's his granddaughter, Granddad. No, anytime I'm with a man popping.
Jordan
Off, it could be Thanksgiving dinner. I'm with my mother. My gay friend is like, I'm just gonna go out and use a glory hole really fast. Like, God, five seconds.
Kendall
It is wild. Like, there have been times when I've been shopping with friends and we're like, in midtown Manhattan. And they're like, you're gonna pop in Zara for a second. I'm gonna pop over here for one second. I'll be right back. And then I'm like, oh, you went to the Hilton to use the bathroom? And then they're like, oh, no, I went and had sex with a guy that I matched with on Grindr just now that lives in an apartment building above here. Like, that's. You're doing that with women?
Ryan
That's hot for me, Charles.
Jordan
Yeah, you rake.
Tony
Oh, you started working with us like A month ago. He used to.
Jordan
That's really funny, Lord, because I would have assumed he'd worked for you 10 times.
Tony
And you know why? Before us, Charles worked on Love Island. So he's gone, oh, this is how society works.
Ryan
This is what's going on. He's got the water bottle and everything.
Kendall
Something is wrong with him. Okay.
Tony
I am.
Jordan
Okay, pull up another.
Ryan
Charles.
Kendall
We'll talk to you later. The next episode, I'm literally gagged over that. I never. I'm like, oh, my. What? Like, are you giving everyone UTIs? What's going on?
Ryan
Don't you dare give someone a UTI.
Tony
Yeah, not on work.
Jordan
And how dare you laugh. This is not funny.
Tony
Yeah. So Tony and I have both been in relationships for a very long time and we like sometimes talk about, like, oh, we've both got no game because.
Ryan
You know, oh my God.
Tony
And if we were on that, if.
Ryan
My fiance died, I'd be fucked up.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
And then we'd never break up.
Tony
But he died and we was like, oh, instead of like going on a first date, can we just like skip to the fourth year when we just have given up and like, you know, it's all good and we can just watch TV and sit because I don't like it. Leaving the house, you know?
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Kendall
Okay, let's get into it. Our fans, who are so excited that you're on the podcast, they're so excited.
Ryan
Do your fans have like a nickname? Like, do you have like a.
Kendall
We call them. Wait, do you guys know what that is?
Ryan
Yeah.
Jordan
Do you know.
Kendall
Is that an Australian term?
Tony
Yeah, but are we like, are we allowed to say that?
Ryan
Ryan the other day, he goes, no, they've re. We've reclaimed that. I said.
Tony
I did say that. I did say that. I said it slipped out and I said, I think we've reclaimed that. And Charles, like, I'll be editing that out. Yeah.
Ryan
I was like, they have. He was like, hey, I love to learn.
Kendall
I love that.
Ryan
Brian's like ally of the Central.
Tony
But so just to confirm, we haven't reclaimed that. We're not saying that. You're saying.
Jordan
And we won't be editing this out.
Ryan
Oh, my God.
Kendall
This is what I'll say if I.
Tony
Straight man on podcast.
Kendall
Listen, if you said it, honestly, I think it would make me laugh. But I think that in yes, in general, I would say probably only lesbians. So I just don't have time.
Tony
Just say yes or no and then.
Kendall
No, no, no.
Ryan
People. I'm so embarrassed. Well, I just have a mortgage. Okay.
Tony
Earlier, were we recording when you said you've canceled hundreds of people? Yeah, well, hundreds and one.
Kendall
Yeah, no, I. I was just making a joke. We don't have a fun name for our fans. My joke was just that most of our fans are lesbians.
Ryan
Love it.
Jordan
Is there an Australian name for lesbians?
Tony
Yeah, no, no, Just the same.
Kendall
Just no fun little.
Ryan
I don't think that there is. I mean, maybe there is like insularly.
Kendall
Hold on.
Ryan
I could say I'm googling it.
Jordan
Yeah, we're just trying to get you question.
Tony
Even if there was, we wouldn't say it.
Kendall
What do you call other minorities?
Jordan
Yeah.
Kendall
Australian terms for lesbians. Let's see.
Jordan
Because I'm reading. So I've been reading these books, this Australian art.
Ryan
Yeah, the slutty ones.
Tony
Yeah.
Jordan
The words they're saying. I'm not trying to be rude, but get over yourselves.
Ryan
Like what?
Jordan
These made up words that I don't even know. They'll just be like, he came over and the. Pippa was on the. I'm like, what Is that. And they're like, oh, it's a dog. Like, I don't know. It's just random.
Tony
Her dog's Pippa.
Ryan
It's the weirdest.
Kendall
The book's about her dog. The book's about her dog.
Tony
Was that Tony's autobiography?
Jordan
That was really weird.
Tony
I was reading some gay adult fiction about Tony and Pippa.
Jordan
And what's the wrong with that? They just say these random words where they're like, well, instead of soda, we say. And it's something that I'm like, you're.
Tony
Just making soft drink.
Jordan
Okay, well, that's not that crazy. You're just making stuff up at this point.
Ryan
Sounds like you're making this up. You don't have any examples.
Tony
You're first from California, now you're from North Carolina.
Kendall
Yeah. You're getting podcast. Kendall has never had one example in her life. So if you're hoping for that, you're not going to get it. I will say that the first thing Google tells me is that in Australia, scissoring is a term, but it is sometimes considered derogatory.
Ryan
Do you not say scissoring in Australia?
Kendall
It's derogatory.
Ryan
Oh, I wouldn't have considered it.
Jordan
Let's ask the real lesbian.
Tony
What do you think? I don't.
Ryan
You have the most inside of it.
Kendall
Okay, let's get into what our fans sent in. They wanted to know about Australia versus the US in terms of dating, love, and relationships. And our first question comes from someone who says, tony and Ryan, are people more mean slash judgmental in Australia or.
Tony
The U.S. i reckon in Australia, I'm more mean.
Ryan
I think so.
Jordan
Really?
Ryan
The tall poppy thing.
Kendall
What? There's my. What the hell is that?
Jordan
What?
Kendall
That was British accent.
Tony
That was not Australian. That was not Australian.
Ryan
That was a tall puppy. Pepper on the donkey.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
What the.
Tony
The North Carolina Californian speaks British.
Ryan
That's the same thing you've been saying.
Tony
Tall poppy syndrome is, like, the tallest poppy in the bunch gets cut off. So if people are, like, too successful, people that start turning on them and.
Ryan
Start judging them, like, in Australia, it's like, yeah, big thing to, like, support people to a certain point. And then you go, whoa, too big for your boots. Like, calm the down. And then we just, like, cut them loose.
Jordan
Have people been mean to you because you're successful?
Tony
No, we're at that. Nice. But we're not successful enough to be cut.
Ryan
Yeah. And I also don't think that we really are that, like, successful in that way.
Tony
No, but that was before I said that. Thing earlier. So maybe now's our time.
Ryan
Shut the up.
Kendall
Who's an example of someone who was beloved but then came. Became too successful and then people freaked?
Ryan
That's a really good question. I think Rebel Wilson is a really good example.
Kendall
Yeah.
Jordan
We threw on her too.
Kendall
Here. We turned on her two years.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
Because she honestly, she was like Australia's sweetheart. Got pushed out all over the world. It was so exciting. And then she, like, moves to la and everyone's like, ha, ha. Too good for us now. And then it's like, like. And then she loses weight and everyone's like, oh, you care about being skinny now and not being Australian. And then, you know when you say.
Jordan
We, do you mean America?
Kendall
America.
Jordan
I like her way when she lost.
Kendall
For my America said, no, thank you.
Jordan
Interesting.
Ryan
And we do that kind of a trend at the moment. Like people losing weight and people be like, oh, so all you care about is how you look? I'm like, well, you didn't like me when I was fat either.
Jordan
That's exactly crazy.
Kendall
And they've always been on that, though. Think of, like, Jonah Hill.
Ryan
Totally.
Kendall
Like, a lot of people.
Ryan
I mean, they did some fuck stuff after that as well also.
Kendall
But people were mad that he lost weight.
Ryan
Totally.
Jordan
Also, every part Rebel Wilson played, they were like, her name is fat Genevieve.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
She was like, you make so much stuff up.
Tony
Yeah. Have you ever said a word of truth in your life thing that comes.
Ryan
Out of your fucking mouth?
Jordan
This is going to haunt me because Jordan is going to use this in an argument tomorrow.
Kendall
You say, other people see it say day. I'll be like, well, you know you're a liar, so it's not. And then Kendall will be like, I'm not a liar. That hurts my feelings. And I'm like, charles, are you saying this? I think you're a bad person, but you do. Kendall tells a lot of white lies for a myriad of reasons she can't remember. She doesn't want a white lie.
Jordan
I know what I'm saying.
Kendall
That's a different lies about stuff. And I think that's fine. And I love her, but I'm like, just to own it. No white lies.
Tony
No.
Jordan
Oh, come on.
Ryan
No, just honestly.
Kendall
That's a lie.
Jordan
White lie right there.
Kendall
Okay, wait. Let me hit you with some celebrities. And I want to know if Australians still like them or not. Not Hugh Jackman.
Ryan
Oh, yeah.
Jordan
He's a sh.
Ryan
Love. And he's now dating Sutton Foster.
Kendall
I know.
Ryan
I would watch that sex tape.
Kendall
I'm sad, though. I loved him and his old wife. I thought that was awesome.
Ryan
His old wife.
Kendall
I really met old wife. Thank you for defending me. Well, wasn't she much older than him? Wasn't that the whole thing? She was like much older than him and she always wore like, feathers. I loved her.
Ryan
She was like very successful before him. So originally it was like she was like this huge success and he was like kind of nothing.
Tony
This little toy boy.
Ryan
Yeah. And then he ended up like coming up and like obviously being a huge export of Australia and then. Yeah, I. I love Sutton Foster though.
Kendall
I do too.
Ryan
Thoroughly Modern Millie is one of my favorite musicals of all time.
Kendall
Yeah, we just.
Ryan
He's pretty racist, but like.
Kendall
No, you gotta. You gotta fast forward through those parts.
Ryan
Yeah, don't watch.
Kendall
Just listen to the soundtrack and then you don't have to watch. But we just saw her in Once Upon a Mattress. Unbelievable.
Jordan
It's amazing. Like some people, you're like. I feel like I'm watching, watching.
Ryan
You just can't take your eyes off her.
Jordan
Right. You can feel you're watching like an icon.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
Have you watched younger, like the show where she's like, works in publishing with Debbie Mezor? Oh my God. Who?
Tony
I love the show with my. Who's supposed to be my wife?
Kendall
What?
Jordan
What?
Ryan
Hillary Duff?
Jordan
Yeah, she was supposed to be your wife?
Tony
Well, I just grew up assuming I would.
Kendall
Oh, sure.
Ryan
At one point that that would happen.
Kendall
That makes sense.
Tony
And then I saw her Architectural Digest video and I was like, this would be my house, so. Yeah, they're the chickens. I was like, that could be mine.
Ryan
Don't you hate it? A sliding doors moment.
Kendall
Yeah. Tr All Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Hemsworth.
Ryan
Oh, yeah. I think that he will always be a bit of a staple. Yeah, he like, I think, I think he lost a little bit of stock for a while there. Cuz the like Bondi thing. Like cuz all the celebrities moved to this, like really?
Tony
Byron?
Ryan
Yes. Oh my God. Sorry.
Tony
He ruined a whole town's economy.
Jordan
Wait, Bondi, Like Bondi Beach?
Ryan
The show like Bondi Rescue. Yeah, yeah. But I said the wrong place.
Jordan
Yeah, I love that show.
Kendall
You said the wrong place. And then she said the wrong show.
Ryan
I'm really feeling a vibe.
Tony
So the Hemsworth moved to this like small little coastal beach town. And then everyone was like, oh, that's the cool place to be. And they all moved there. And the house prices went crazy and all the locals had to move away.
Ryan
They couldn't afford to live there anymore.
Tony
And all the slaves.
Jordan
Is it their fault or everyone else.
Tony
And that's the Hemsworth effect of have more adventure vacation.
Kendall
So just keep that in mind.
Jordan
What are you doing on today's episode? You're trying to get us all. We're gonna have to start. We're gonna have to move in together. We're all gonna run out of money because of this one canceling.
Kendall
Sorry. Nicole K. Kidman.
Ryan
Yeah. Hot.
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
We love her here.
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
Love her.
Ryan
And Keith Urban.
Kendall
Oh, yeah.
Ryan
You know, like huge.
Tony
Although I feel like Nicole Kidman does the same. You're going a cardigan. You can do the move every single show. You're like, oh, and Nicole Kidman in this show will have a cardigan and go, yeah.
Kendall
How many shows have you done?
Ryan
So true. How many shows have you done?
Tony
I've got more range than the cardigan movie.
Jordan
Uhhuh.
Kendall
How dare you come for Nicole Kidman.
Jordan
Nicole Kidman has been in every single show. Like, I get very over anytime I go to the movies. Every movie she's in. And you go to t. She's in these random TV shows that I'm like, do you have something going on? It feels like she's not allowed to go home or something.
Kendall
She loves acting and that's what I love about her. Did you guys watch Baby Girl?
Ryan
What's Baby Girl?
Kendall
Baby Girl, the movie with her and Harris Dickinson.
Tony
No, movies take a few years to get to Australia. We have seen the Perfect Couple though. And we hate the intro of Dance Couple.
Ryan
That was a show she did with yes. Leave Shribach.
Kendall
Yes.
Tony
On Nantucket.
Ryan
That was hot.
Kendall
I thought that show was good. But you guys gotta watch Baby Girl. It's really horny. It's like she's an older woman who's like an executive. Oh, no.
Jordan
Oh, I wish.
Kendall
That's a different like Netflix movie.
Ryan
But that's a movie.
Kendall
She's got Joey King's in it. Who you like?
Ryan
Yes.
Kendall
Munchause I love every Munchausen the unboxing. Watch the ad.
Tony
We've got a 16 hour flight tonight back to Australia. Line up the Qantas Australian airline. Surely there's a Nicole Kman playlist.
Kendall
Please try to watch Baby Girl. It is so horny.
Tony
And I can't watch horny on a plane though.
Kendall
Really? Why?
Ryan
Oh, because off.
Jordan
Yeah. And you can go to jail. I'm pretty sure they.
Kendall
No, you cannot go to jail for watching a movie with a jerked off. If you jerked off. But that's not what you're talking about.
Jordan
That's what we talk about.
Tony
I'm not watch H. Movies.
Ryan
Have you ever jerked off on a plane?
Jordan
Have you ever jerk off?
Ryan
Have you ever jerked off?
Jordan
I have.
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
In the bathroom. What's wrong with you? What?
Jordan
It's a long flight.
Tony
Tony, would you like to ask our new friends Jordan and best friends Jordan again, what you asked on Patreon the other day?
Ryan
Oh. Have you ever started jerking off and then just, like, gotten bored and been like, ugh? But then you feel so bad about yourself because you're like, oh, my God, if I don't even want to jerk myself off, then who will?
Jordan
Sometimes I have stopped to. Because I'm. And this is sad in a different way. It's like, I'm so out of shape.
Kendall
That you.
Ryan
Are so out of breath.
Jordan
That I need to stop. Cause I feel sick. And then I'm like. Or my legs have been clenching too long and my muscles simply don't exist.
Ryan
Sorry. I'm trying to imagine the position that you're in because how are you out of breath?
Kendall
And what do you want for back bend?
Tony
So we have a rule in our office that when something.
Kendall
What is the masturbation rule of your office?
Tony
That does sound bad.
Ryan
There should be a masturbation rule in our office.
Tony
Video's on, like, the first floor, and we've got a rule. You're not allowed to speak to someone for two minutes after they've walked up the stairs because they'll be.
Ryan
Because they've just masturbated.
Jordan
You can be a sex offender for anything. I'm not saying.
Kendall
I'm not saying that.
Jordan
No, but you can, like, if you are seen nude, if you streaked in public. Sex offender.
Kendall
I told you this. Okay?
Jordan
And I'm relaying the information.
Kendall
Thank you.
Jordan
I didn't go to college.
Kendall
You were my college student. I know. I love you, but also.
Jordan
Also, what did she go to college for?
Kendall
What did I go to for this? Streaking. Streaking, Nudity. Going to jail. I need to know because I have an Australian nemesis. Oh, I hate more than anyone. Cate Blanchette.
Ryan
So fair. What's her accent doing?
Tony
Where's she at?
Ryan
Do you know what I mean? She needs to sort that fuck out.
Kendall
You think it's not real love that?
Ryan
I just think it's. She sounds like AI.
Kendall
Yeah. Yeah.
Ryan
Have you seen Ocean's 8?
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
Random.
Kendall
100%.
Tony
Why does James Gordon turn up in that movie?
Ryan
Could have ended, like, four times. You know what I mean? Like, you're watching it. Okay, so what is.
Tony
What have they personally done to you?
Ryan
Yeah, what's Kate done to you? Is it because her name is spelled with a cuz?
Kendall
That doesn't help. I think she's a villain. First of all, her son is named after Roman Polansky. You guys know that.
Tony
That's.
Kendall
Her son is named after Romanski, who she loves.
Ryan
Let's hope that he doesn't take after Roman.
Tony
He doesn't have Google. Like, when he gets a bit older.
Ryan
My namesake.
Tony
Friendly to a lot of people.
Ryan
There's all these pictures of them at Christmas.
Kendall
I think they are allegedly all this off record and allegedly and whatever. And don't see me. Cate Blanchett. But also, apparently, she is, like, a big Woody Allen supporter. She, like, kept doing his movies and whatever. And then she's also, like, very loud about how there's a whole debate, at least here in America, of like. Like, what in the world could you be laughing at?
Jordan
It's so funny.
Kendall
Like, I think.
Jordan
No, I just laughing. I just laughing because it's like, it's probably the same in Australia, but maybe it's not.
Kendall
Well, I don't know. I don't know how big their. Their queer film industry is.
Jordan
I don't know. I don't know.
Tony
It's thriving.
Jordan
Is it?
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
All right. Okay. Well, then everywhere, then in all places, there's this.
Ryan
Well, it might not be all places.
Tony
Yeah.
Jordan
Don't speak.
Kendall
I'm going to go. Well, there's just this thing of, like, should queer actors play? Or should straight actors be able to play queer? Should CIS actors be able to play trans? I think there's a lot of things you could talk about with that. But what I think is very interesting is Cate Blanchett is a very loud and vocal proponent of the fact that CIS actors and straight actors should be allowed to play gay characters and transgender characters, which is almost exclusively what she's done her entire career. But. But you never hear her advocate that straight roles can also go to transgender people. Transgender people don't just have to play transgender people. Transgender people can be actors full of life, just like any other actor. Gay people can play street people, whatever. She never, ever advocates in the other way. She only advocates in the way that is beneficial to her, and I think that's nasty. She also, I think, is like, a big queer baiter. She did a lot of weird stuff on the Carol Press tour. She loves to act like she's gay, but she's not.
Ryan
I love how much you hate it.
Kendall
Really hate her a lot. I hate her.
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
And I think we all know that I'm not gonna be famous enough to Be in a movie with her. So we. God, like, if you are, you know what I mean? I'll talk to you about it.
Jordan
What would you do if you got a call?
Tony
I'm clarifying that, bro, because I was getting wired.
Kendall
Yeah, so you were scared. But don't worry, I'm not gonna do that famous.
Jordan
You get a call, you're supposed to co star alongside Cate Blanchett.
Kendall
Okay, I don't care. I've worked with a lot of people I don't like.
Ryan
All right, what's happening now?
Tony
Yeah, that's all.
Kendall
No, but I mean. And I would be happy to have a conversation. I would love for her to come on the pod. I would love for her to come on the pod. It's like the show is Australian week.
Tony
Here on Happy Wife. High five. Bring her in.
Kendall
Bring her in. Yeah, okay. I hate her. Okay, good. We're on the same page about her. We all hate her. Thank God. Let's get back to things from our fans.
Jordan
But you said on that question, you said you think Australians are meaner, you think Americans are nice.
Ryan
Oh, I don't think I said that.
Jordan
Not all, but general energy.
Tony
We've got a real bi because like we come here and do a meet and greet and everyone's really nice to us. So I don't feel like we've got the true.
Ryan
And they hear the accent and they go, oh, bloody hell. You know, and there's like an easy like, yeah. Conversation. I don't like tipping.
Kendall
Sure.
Ryan
I don't understand it.
Tony
We don't tip in Australia and Charles and Tony don't tip here either. So.
Ryan
No, I just.
Kendall
No, Tony.
Ryan
No, no. I think for the first time we're.
Tony
About to head home after a two week trip.
Ryan
No, we've been here for one week. No, I just don't really like. Cuz it's so far for us like, because everyone gets paid well.
Tony
Yeah, yeah.
Jordan
So we don't have that.
Ryan
Yep. So sad.
Jordan
Well, this is my thing.
Kendall
I always think it's funny when tourists are like, I don't believe in tipping. I'm like, well, it's not about not believing in it. We do it here, so you need to do it.
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
Charles is laughing because it's him. Charles, go yourself. It is like, I'm just like. It just is a thing like you learn about other countries when you go to them and you have to tip and then.
Ryan
So true. I think that is fair.
Kendall
Yeah, yeah.
Ryan
No, I've never really thought about it like that. I think the hard thing for Me, is that like, oh, I just wish that people got. And I know that wishing it doesn't make it imagine how we feel. Yeah, no, totally right. Like, and you just wish that that was true. That's not going to change anything.
Kendall
Okay. This person wants to know what are the perceived differences in things that you look for in a partner in the USA vs Australia? For example, prioritizing things like, someone who makes me laugh or I want someone who's rich are very popular in America. Do you feel like it's similar in Australia or do you think there's, like a totally different value moral system that you're looking for?
Ryan
I reckon that in, like, my circle, as the echo chamber of my own circle, I'd say that, like, politically you would want to be aligned with whoever you were. Like, I would say that you would end up with someone who was, like, pretty similar. Yeah. Don't you reckon?
Tony
I think so. Well, there's. Yeah. Although when you. From the Outsiders, you look at American, it seems very like, are you left or right? Whereas in Australia, it's probably not as predominant. I. I don't know. I feel like I just watch too many TikTok. Yeah. I was gonna say with TikTok, it seems like everyone wants the, like, finance guy time blur. But it's like, oh, how'd you. How'd you go when you got along with. Oh, yeah, they really laid back. They're chill. Oh, they laid back.
Ryan
Down to earth.
Tony
Yeah, down to earth. Calm, funny. Chill. Like, they're the kind of words. And even, like, what their job is and how much they earn would be like the, you know, not the first couple of things you would ask or even care about. Like, even if a friend of mine went on a date, you wouldn't be like, how much they earn? Are they rich?
Ryan
So true.
Tony
You'd just be like, what are they like? Oh, they're pretty chill. Yeah. Like.
Jordan
Yeah.
Ryan
And I think because all. Well, especially all Americans, but I think everybody just assumes that all Australians. Australians are laid back surfers. And we are.
Kendall
Well, you did say the main thing you're looking for, it sounds like, is somebody who's chill.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
And I think that, like, as Australians, we have that, like, the assumption is that we are all just like, so chilled out.
Jordan
Yeah.
Ryan
Like, you know, are you chill? No, no.
Kendall
Neither one of you.
Ryan
I mean, I'm not.
Tony
I wasn't. No. Tony's very chill.
Ryan
No, I'm not. But that's actually fine. Like, I'm so fine with that.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
I know that I'm not sure.
Tony
Yeah, no, you're very.
Kendall
But I'm good.
Ryan
I have other value.
Tony
Yeah, you're very talented.
Jordan
Well, when I've listened to Australians talk, I feel like they are very. Like, it's. Whatever. It's. You know, there's, like, common things. Do you feel like that has a.
Tony
Hard feeling in a group of people? There's always the. It's chill, whatever, and then there's the person that has to get to the airport three hours before the flight.
Ryan
Yeah.
Tony
And so for some reason, though, the chill people and the Tonys work together or get married and stuff, and so everyone's happy. You're not arguing ever.
Jordan
So that's the same as America.
Ryan
Yes, but I think that that's. Yeah. Pretty universal.
Jordan
Yeah. That's like us.
Ryan
Yeah.
Jordan
Freaking out all the time, and I have no idea what's going on, and I feel great.
Ryan
Yeah. See, it's not nice when they say it, is it?
Kendall
So rude.
Ryan
Yeah, I know.
Kendall
You're so rude. And, Kendall, you. You'd be dead without me. I don't want to hear it.
Jordan
And I know. But I would be happy.
Kendall
But you'd be free.
Jordan
I'd be free.
Ryan
Did you have friends?
Kendall
Me?
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
Why?
Ryan
Oh, you just have such nice tea.
Kendall
Thank you. Almost all the ones you're seeing are fake.
Ryan
Oh, my God.
Kendall
They're veneers.
Tony
Did. Did you just say that, Tony? Because we've been bullying Jordan this whole time, and you feel like we need to make.
Ryan
Because every time you laugh, I like, oh, my God. Such a pretty smile. But I'm like, oh, my God. They're like, all perfectly even. Both of you actually have.
Jordan
Thank you. I had braces for a long time, too.
Ryan
Yeah. So I just assume that people in America wouldn't have braces because it's so expensive.
Kendall
I would say almost everyone here has braces is what it feels like. I feel like almost everyone I knew and I moved around a lot, so I lived in a lot of different places, and I feel like most people get some kind of brace, relatively speaking.
Jordan
Yeah.
Kendall
World racing done, I would assume. Okay. Do you guys have pickup lines that are popular in Australia?
Tony
Tony is about to share with you what her partner said the first time they met.
Ryan
He said, have you ever come so hard you shit yourself? And I went, mark, no. And then he goes, you want to.
Jordan
I'm sorry.
Ryan
He's really tall.
Jordan
800 questions.
Ryan
Yeah. Lay them on me. I have no idea about it.
Kendall
On an app or. In person.
Ryan
No, in person. We met at university.
Tony
Yeah. They went to college together.
Jordan
In class. You talking like that in class?
Ryan
In class. I was actually the year above him, so who care. It was. Yeah. Did he do his break?
Kendall
Are you covered in right now?
Ryan
Yeah. Yeah.
Jordan
That's insane.
Ryan
Yeah.
Jordan
Also not a thing I really would think to be like striving for like I wouldn't be like, well, I've orgasmed but not enough to shit that.
Ryan
Not to defecate.
Tony
That's what. Someone who hasn't come so hard, they've shit themselves.
Ryan
Yeah. What are you guys doing?
Kendall
What is wrong with her?
Ryan
Like that.
Jordan
What is wrong with you? I hate you.
Kendall
Sorry.
Tony
That girl in Chicago told us the. You know, the Australian kiss. Oh, have you heard of the Australia? I actually can't look you in the eye when I say it.
Jordan
Come on.
Ryan
On look I did in the arm.
Jordan
Come on. What is it?
Ryan
I feel like we should leave.
Kendall
If you guys kiss. I'm going to kiss her, bro.
Tony
An Australian kiss is like a French kiss, but down under.
Kendall
Oh.
Tony
Or don't look disgust.
Ryan
No, I don't.
Kendall
Oral sex. Candle oral just.
Ryan
But like cuz Australia is like down.
Kendall
Under a mouth and a vagina. She's very pretty.
Tony
Wow. It doesn't seem like you do.
Kendall
So Ryan's gonna say the d slur.
Tony
I've got a 16 hour flight tonight. I'm just gonna think about that the whole time.
Jordan
Yeah, I think I was just picturing like mouths moving and then so I was picturing genitals just.
Ryan
But I think it's like a French kiss with the tongue on the pulse.
Tony
Yeah.
Jordan
Right. No, down under. That's an Australian kiss.
Kendall
So that sounds like it implies that instead of kissing on the mouth, you guys just do oral.
Tony
Yeah, we're an oral heavy country.
Ryan
How did you guys meet?
Tony
How often do you.
Kendall
How often do we do oral? How did we meet? Yeah, we are.
Tony
Tony's decided we are moving on at all.
Ryan
I'm about to talk about the peacock lime wall.
Tony
Yes. We're sisters.
Kendall
We're sisters. Famously. All adopt your sisters. We are both comedians and we both lived in New York for a long time. And then during the pandemic I had a tik tok that went viral.
Ryan
Hot.
Kendall
Thank you. It is embarrassing to say, but it.
Ryan
Is so nasty because it means she.
Jordan
Like, I'm looking for a cash grab.
Tony
You're a star is what you are.
Kendall
Truly is. Did you just look at.
Tony
Did you just look at my genitals?
Kendall
No.
Ryan
Like that. Actually.
Tony
Check the tape.
Ryan
I didn't check the tape.
Tony
Check the tape. I said that. And then you just look straight at my dick. He went, the pandemic was a wild time, but it wasn't that wild. So how. Jordan had a TikTok that went viral.
Jordan
I didn't mean to. I'm a.
Tony
Check the tape. Check the tape.
Kendall
He's actually never seen one.
Jordan
I've never seen one. I was curious.
Tony
Well, Tony saw one in the. Tony saw one in the pool yesterday. And I said, watch me do a handstand.
Ryan
And then I said, are you wearing underwear on your board shorts? And he said, no. And I saw his full ball sack.
Tony
Sorry.
Kendall
Oh, we're happy.
Jordan
I won't look at you at all the rest. Cause clearly my eye. I don't have my glasses on.
Kendall
Look, she's anxious.
Tony
Yeah, I didn't know.
Ryan
I'm so chill.
Tony
So hang on, you're about. You've seen this viral star and thought, I want to start.
Kendall
A friend sent it to her and was like, oh, that's so crazy. Jordan's going viral. And Kendall was like, I don't know who this is. And she was like, oh, Jordan is a comedian on here. And I think I maybe was like your friend's improv teacher or something. And very cool. And so then Kendall started following, following me, and then dming me non stop.
Tony
What was the opening line? Was it. Was there a line?
Kendall
Oh, just emojis. Anytime I would say anything, she would send the hard eyes emoji. So it'd be like a sandwich I made. And she'd be like, hard eyes.
Ryan
That is so lazy.
Kendall
Yeah.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
That's like not zero effort.
Kendall
And it's been like that ever since.
Jordan
Yeah.
Tony
You knew what you're getting into, Jordan.
Kendall
Yeah.
Tony
Here we are.
Jordan
I was trying to be, you know, chill. You guys understand Australia.
Tony
I get it.
Jordan
I was trying to be chill. And. And then I said. I said, go on a date with me.
Ryan
And then you said, go on a date with me. Would you like to go out me?
Jordan
I think I said, I think you.
Kendall
Said, let's do a zoom date. And I said, okay. And then you said, but before we go on date, I do want you to know. Well, you were in New York and I was in la.
Jordan
Yeah.
Kendall
And I was. She was like, I want you to know that I'm a couple years younger than you and I live in New York. And I said, I am not interested. Thank you. Goodbye. And then Kendall was like, no, no, no. You will really like me.
Tony
A.
Kendall
So let's just do one zoom date.
Tony
That's your behavior.
Ryan
Not.
Kendall
And then I was like, like, okay, how old Are you? And then she was only a couple years younger than me. And then she was like, ann, I'm like, my parents live in California. I'm moving back to California soon. I'm with you.
Jordan
Don't find a place to stay. I was like, please.
Kendall
So I was like, okay. So we did our zoom date and we had a great time. Except Kendall did make herself a bowl of pasta and then didn't eat it the whole, like, six hour date. She just held it the whole time.
Jordan
I was really nervous. It was really scared.
Tony
Eating pasta in front of someone you just met, though, is not what you want to be dealing with.
Kendall
I just held the bowl of pasta six hours.
Tony
You must have, like, really got along. Like, you don't just have a six hour zoom date with someone and then go like, yes.
Kendall
I mean, I would say long dates are a very cultural lesbian thing because.
Ryan
Then you move in together.
Kendall
Because then you move in together immediately. And it takes a while at the animal shelter to get a cat, so the dates have to be very long. But, yes, we did. Kendall was right. I did like her very much. And we are. I always say this because I think people are surprised by it. I think Kendall and I present especially comedically to have, like, different energies. But Kendall and I are very, very similar and very compatible.
Tony
You love her.
Ryan
No, that's not what she said.
Kendall
I need her listen to women when I speak. I don't love her. I need her at this point.
Jordan
That's really sweet. How did you guys meet? You dating?
Tony
We worked at the same radio station and Tony said, nice to meet you. I've got a pimple on my vagina and I'm having a bad day.
Jordan
How do people.
Kendall
And how quickly were you fired after that?
Tony
No, I literally was like, okay.
Ryan
I was like, yeah. And then we were both in the back of a Volkswagen Golf, and it popped.
Tony
That's right.
Jordan
Wait, a what? A Volkswagen.
Kendall
And it popped.
Ryan
Volkswagen Golf. Like a little hatchback.
Tony
But then the. The pimple popped and I was sitting.
Ryan
Next to Tony and yeah, because I'd sat down, I was like, you know.
Tony
That thing I told you earlier? It just popped. And I was like, the day we met, and I was like, we will be friends.
Kendall
Wow.
Jordan
That after the coming into your shit story, making me think greetings are very different in Australia.
Tony
Yeah.
Ryan
That's funny.
Jordan
It's not supposed to be. I just noticed that.
Kendall
Oh, sorry for picking a fire.
Jordan
She's naturally funny, but I just. Those are two really crazy ways to say this.
Ryan
Maybe, though, as the common denominator Maybe it's just me.
Jordan
I do feel like I could tell you anything.
Kendall
Okay, people wanna know if these things are. And we'll do these rapid fire. Are these just American or are they also Australian? Dating. Dating things. Having your dating profile with a 90 mile radius.
Ryan
Is that far?
Kendall
Yes.
Ryan
Oh, I don't know, Charles, Would you do close or far? Close? Close.
Tony
You gotta get there quick.
Kendall
Room.
Tony
Right now his Radius is the McDonald's drive through.
Ryan
Yeah, I think I'd do clothes if it were me.
Kendall
Okay.
Ryan
I don't like admin.
Tony
No.
Ryan
Do you know what I mean? Like, I literally, like, fuel is expensive.
Tony
No, I'd go as wide as possible.
Ryan
Yeah, you would.
Tony
Put that tongue back in your mouth, young lady.
Ryan
I can't.
Tony
No, because it's like, it's just numbers game. You got to have as many. Like, what if you're the 1?
Ryan
Numbers game.
Tony
If only 1 in 100 will say yes, then you need to, like, open the doors and, you know.
Jordan
Yeah, absolutely.
Tony
And what if the love of your life, the number, like, lived 89 miles away? You would never know.
Ryan
True.
Kendall
Okay. Promposals.
Ryan
Oh, no, that. Not a thing in Australia.
Kendall
Not a thing.
Tony
And even the prom in itself is more of a party. You don't like, take a date.
Kendall
Oh, okay.
Tony
It's not as strict.
Ryan
No, I don't think that your school was different.
Tony
I went to an art school, so I always go, oh, Australian.
Ryan
Tony, that's. Yeah. Like your experience does not define all of them. I like, it's called a ball.
Jordan
We had that.
Ryan
Yeah, but we. You don't call it a prom. Like, it's called a ball. But you wouldn't do it. Yeah, you would. Just.
Tony
That makes me cringe.
Ryan
Yeah. And when I see the videos on Tik Tok, I'm like, wow, you are a lot more popular than I was. Sure.
Kendall
Yeah, absolutely. Texting for a long time, but before meeting up.
Ryan
Oh, yeah, Australia.
Tony
Y. 100%.
Kendall
You guys do.
Tony
That's global.
Ryan
Definitely.
Kendall
Okay. I love that. Kissing with or without tongue? People want to know, are you guys. What are you doing?
Jordan
Not an Australian kiss. French kiss.
Ryan
What's that?
Tony
What is an Australian kiss?
Ryan
I'm kissing with or without tongue? This is a great question.
Kendall
Like, generally, what's. What's considered, like, more normal?
Ryan
I think that like, when you were. You would meet someone and. And you would like make out at a party or whatever. Definitely with tongue. But I feel like as I've gotten older, there's less making out, which I think is a huge shame. Making out is so fun. Do you remember when you were, like, a teenager and you would just, like, make out for hours?
Jordan
What did I say to you the other day, Jordan? I said, we got to just be, like, sitting down and making out.
Ryan
One tit and make out with you. Or, like, we don't do that because it's escalates.
Kendall
So fat. Kendall's like, why aren't we making out? And I'm like, we start making out, and one second later, she's, like, fully nude and in the shower. I'm like, okay, well, this is wrong.
Ryan
Make out in the shower.
Kendall
It's escalating. We're doing other stuff.
Ryan
It's so fair because I just love getting fingered. So literally, as soon as we start kissing, I'm like, wow, really?
Kendall
That's. Yeah. Really lesbian.
Ryan
Thanks.
Tony
But Tony loves making out. She loves getting fingered. She loves getting ra. But she thinks hand jobs are for children.
Kendall
True. Do it yourself.
Ryan
I'm not going to jerk someone off.
Kendall
Get a job.
Ryan
Thank you.
Kendall
No way, dude.
Ryan
Just because you want a hand job, you loser.
Tony
Always.
Kendall
What's wrong with you? Stick your dick in a vacuum cleaner. Okay.
Ryan
Do you have a flashlight?
Tony
No.
Ryan
Do you think you should get one?
Tony
Why?
Ryan
Oh, I'm just asking.
Tony
Sorry, Jon. Am I trying to do a podcast?
Ryan
John's like, I've got a recommendation for a flashlight.
Tony
There's a lot of studios here in Burbank. I'm sure there's some around in somewhere.
Kendall
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is purity culture a thing?
Ryan
Like, no.
Kendall
Okay. Are there. There are no, like, religious groups that really practice purity culture in Australia?
Ryan
Not the way that, like, the abstinence club is a thing on American TV shows.
Kendall
Interesting.
Ryan
Nah, it's not really a thing. They give you condoms, like, in year 10.
Tony
Yeah.
Kendall
Nice.
Jordan
Sometimes I'm, like, jealous, though, of, like, when I would see those really religious people my school, because I think if I'm thinking about it, like, foreplay, I'm like, there really could not be something hotter than, like, dating someone for, like.
Ryan
Four years, knowing, like, they're aging.
Kendall
Yeah.
Ryan
And you're dry humping.
Tony
When I went to school in Missouri, there are a few, like, that kind of energy. And this, like, this isn't to shame her, but this girl, like, sucked a lot of dicks. Sure.
Jordan
Yeah.
Tony
And the. And good for her.
Jordan
Yeah, it sounds awesome.
Tony
Yeah. But it was like, this would suck a lot of dicks and. But, like, oh, we should have sex. She's like, oh, no, I'm not like, one of those girls. And I'm like, it's Very bizarre for me. You've done one, you've done the other. It's all.
Kendall
Well, that's like, you know, I went to Catholic school for many years. I'm not Catholic, but I did go to Catholic school for many years. And a lot of them are like that. With anal, you can't have vaginal sex because that's against the Lord. So you do anal because that's different.
Jordan
Do you know what? Do you know what?
Tony
So hang on, I just. I'm going to need a.
Kendall
What do you guys think about that?
Ryan
No, no, no, no. I like get it, but because it's.
Kendall
Not penetrating the Lord's holy womb. So you're not.
Tony
I've never heard the Lord's holy wound before.
Kendall
That's what I call it.
Ryan
She said womma not wound.
Kendall
The Lord's holy wound is pro. That sounds like something that would be in the Bible.
Tony
I haven't heard that before, but I dare say I'll be saying that that saying will be my personality for the next episode.
Kendall
And there you go.
Ryan
Yeah.
Kendall
And there you go. Wow. Ultimately I loved this. This was perfect. Nine more episodes. And I wish our podcast was just the four of us. Yes.
Tony
Yep.
Jordan
Do you want to switch it?
Kendall
Yeah. Do you guys want to change swing? Yeah.
Jordan
Yeah.
Kendall
Well, this has just made me be like. And sorry if this is presumptuous, but I'm like, we have got to go to Australia, stay with you, film a podcast and just do everything together. Meet your wife and child, be your fiance, whatever. Jordan.
Jordan
It's so sweet because I would love that. But my fear, I always just immediately picture you guys closing the door to enter the parking lot, being like, good fucking Lord.
Ryan
Can I say something? Right? So Ryan and I, this is, this is actually a thing like in our life, friendship, relationship, best friendship, podcast business, everything. We don't do pranks and we don't do empty offers.
Kendall
Love that.
Ryan
So we offer. So like as an anxious being me, I'm like, oh, we just trying to be polite or whatever. He's like, hey, hey, hey. You can trust that if I say something, Judes, cuz I mean it. I'm never going to you.
Tony
I don't do that.
Ryan
And so we have like decided that forever like moving forward. So we are not going to shut any doors and say that. Because I going to be like, let's move here.
Tony
Yeah, I've already said that. Tony's decided to move here. But that would be awkward if we moved here and then you went to visit us.
Ryan
Cuz then we would be Communicating and I ring doorbell, talk about sliding doors.
Jordan
Well, you guys can live with us if you move.
Tony
Yeah. But Australia does love you guys both online with video and the podcast. So if you came over, I'm sure it would be huge and it be a big deal and we'd love to have you and we'll take you out.
Ryan
Love that.
Tony
We'll take you out for a good time.
Ryan
You could stay at my house.
Kendall
And truly, when you guys come back, you're more than welcome to stay with us. I really mean that once again. And we, I mean, I would say we also don't do pranks.
Ryan
Charles could probably fund other places.
Kendall
I have some gay men that I need you to meet because you're operating within the wrong community. I feel like. I think I could really show you some good things that you would like. But. Yeah.
Tony
Are the good things their penises?
Kendall
No.
Ryan
It's the Lord's Hollywood.
Tony
The Lord's sword.
Kendall
Absolutely.
Ryan
Absolutely.
Kendall
And you get it. All right, well, thank you so much for watching. Thanks for being here. Be go to Patreon, go to YouTube, like comment, subscribe, do the whole thing.
Jordan
Where can everyone find you?
Kendall
Where can we find you?
Tony
Tony and Ryan, on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app. Wherever you guys are will be on that same app. So come on over. But I think they people listening should sign up to your Patreon and get around.
Kendall
Oh, my God. Well, and congrats on your Webby.
Tony
Thank you.
Ryan
Thank you so much.
Jordan
Congratulations. Thank you so much and thank you all for being here and have a great week.
Kendall
Bye.
Ryan
Love you.
Tony
Bye.
Charles
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Happy Wife Happy Life - Episode 66: Dating in Australia vs. The USA with Toni & Ryan
Release Date: June 2, 2025
In Episode 66 of Happy Wife Happy Life, hosts Kendahl Landreth and Jordan Myrick welcome special guests Toni and Ryan, two comedians navigating the complexities of love and relationships from an Australian perspective. The episode delves into the contrasting dating cultures of Australia and the USA, enriched with humorous anecdotes and insightful observations.
Toni and Ryan kick off the discussion by addressing their Australian roots and experiences living in the USA. They highlight subtle cultural differences that influence dating behaviors and social interactions.
Toni [01:04]: "People born in Australia, New Zealand only have one way of getting canceled and throwing phones, so that's, like, our default move."
Ryan [06:09]: "We're from Melbourne, Australia. All cities are sort of in the water because as soon as you're not near the water, you're in the desert and that's not what you want."
Their banter sets the tone for exploring how Australian laid-back attitudes mingle with American dating expectations.
One significant topic is the perception of friendliness and judgmental attitudes in both countries. Toni and Ryan discuss the "Tall Poppy Syndrome" prevalent in Australia, where success can sometimes lead to social backlash.
Ryan [30:40]: "Tall poppy syndrome is, like, the tallest poppy in the bunch gets cut off. So if people are, like, too successful, people that start turning on them."
They contrast this with the American penchant for openness and the challenges of cultural assumptions, such as tipping practices.
Kendall [42:31]: "We don't tip in Australia and Charles and Tony don't tip here either."
This comparison underscores how small cultural nuances can significantly impact dating dynamics and interpersonal relationships.
The conversation transitions into specific dating practices, including first dates, dating app behaviors, and the expectations surrounding relationships in both countries.
Ryan [44:08]: "Politically, you would want to be aligned with whoever you were. Like, I would say that you would end up with someone who was pretty similar."
The hosts emphasize that despite geographical differences, certain fundamental aspects of dating, such as seeking compatibility and shared values, remain universal.
They also touch upon the evolving nature of dating, especially with the rise of digital platforms.
Kendall [54:42]: "A lot of people are texted for a long time, but before meeting up."
Toni and Ryan explore how celebrity culture in both Australia and the USA influences public perceptions of dating and relationships. They discuss prominent Australian celebrities like Rebel Wilson and Cate Blanchett, examining how their personal lives and public personas affect societal norms.
Ryan [31:27]: "Rebel Wilson was like Australia's sweetheart. Got pushed out all over the world... when she loses weight, everyone's like, 'Oh, you care about being skinny now.'"
Furthermore, the hosts critique Cate Blanchett's stance on casting, highlighting the complexities of representation in media.
Jordan [40:31]: "She never advocates that straight roles can also go to transgender people... she only advocates in the way that is beneficial to her, and I think that's nasty."
These discussions reveal the intricate ways in which celebrity actions and statements can shape and sometimes skew public expectations around dating.
Listeners sent in questions comparing Australian and American dating norms, prompting Toni and Ryan to share personal insights and experiences.
Ryan [30:19]: "I think in Australia, people can be meaner because of the tall poppy syndrome."
Toni concurs, suggesting that Australian society has a unique way of handling success that differs from the more individualistic American approach.
A listener inquires about the traits valued in partners across both countries.
Ryan [44:25]: "Politically, you would want to be aligned with whoever you were pretty similar."
Tony [45:09]: "Down to earth, calm, funny, chill."
The responses indicate that while specific cultural traits may vary, the core desire for compatibility and shared values is consistent.
Throughout the episode, the chemistry and camaraderie between Kendahl, Jordan, Toni, and Ryan shine through. They share personal stories about their friendships and relationships, emphasizing the importance of trust and mutual support.
Kendall [53:24]: "I don't care. I've worked with a lot of people I don't like."
Ryan [60:22]: "So like as an anxious being me, I'm like, oh, we just trying to be polite or whatever. He's like, hey, hey, hey. You can trust that if I say something, Jesus, cuz I mean it."
These anecdotes illustrate the podcast's foundational theme of navigating relationships with humor and honesty.
Episode 66 of Happy Wife Happy Life offers a lively and humorous exploration of dating cultures in Australia and the USA. Through engaging dialogue and personal stories, Kendahl, Jordan, Toni, and Ryan shed light on the universal and unique aspects of love and relationships across continents. The episode underscores the idea that while cultural backgrounds influence dating behaviors, the fundamental human desire for connection remains the same.
Notable Quotes:
Toni [01:04]: "People born in Australia, New Zealand only have one way of getting canceled and throwing phones, so that's, like, our default move."
Ryan [30:40]: "Tall poppy syndrome is, like, the tallest poppy in the bunch gets cut off."
Kendall [42:31]: "We don't tip in Australia and Charles and Tony don't tip here either."
Jordan [40:31]: "She never advocates that straight roles can also go to transgender people... she only advocates in the way that is beneficial to her, and I think that's nasty."
Ryan [44:25]: "Politically, you would want to be aligned with whoever you were pretty similar."
This summary captures the essence of Episode 66, providing a comprehensive overview for listeners and those unfamiliar with the podcast.