Swinging Downunder does Sydney LBGT Mardi Gras! – P22

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Speaker1: This is C. And this is D. And this is Swinging Down Under. So we're all dressed up sitting here. We haven't spoken to you guys in quite a while. It's been a long time. C's been travelling.
Speaker2: Boo. For work.
Speaker1: Yeah, all over the planet. But we're now here and we're dressed to the nines. And what are we doing, C? We are heading to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Absolutely, we are. We're catching up with some of our friends there. And we're hoping to enjoy a bit of podcasting this evening on the way through the night. Taking it to the streets. Taking it to the streets. It should be fairly exciting. It may be a little bit haphazard and there may be some noise in the background. And can we have an idea what that means? Yeah, ready? Yeah, could be something like that. And that'll just be the Addams from the Addams of Love on Twitter. Our good friends we're catching up with later. And Velour and Baby Doll will also be catching up with them as well. Yeah, but they'll actually be sitting on a float. They will be on a float. Like the kings of the Mardi Gras. They will be. Kings and queens. Kings and queens. Or queens. Or queens. Just queens of the Mardi Gras. Just queens. Exactly. Possibly. So we're looking forward to giving you all a bit of a rundown on what happens at Mardi Gras tonight, and hopefully it'll be an interesting cast. Yeah, so stick with us. It's going to be a little bit haphazard, so a bit of fun. A little crazy. A little crazy, so, you know. It should be right up our alley. It should be right up your alley, if you're listening to us so far this far in. Yeah, our alleys may intertwine somewhat dirty dirty corner alleys all right we'll sign off for the moment but you'll be hearing from us later okay bye guys so babe here we are at the mardi gras we're back we're back jack unfortunately we didn't quite make it to our friends no they're across the road we're waving to them right now wave everybody Hi, guys.
Speaker2: Wave. Hi.
Speaker1: They're not even looking at you. They're not even looking at you.
Speaker2: Hi.
Speaker1: Hi, we're waving to them.
Speaker2: Hi.
Speaker1: But, you know.
Speaker2: Oh.
Speaker1: Mr. and Mrs. Adams. They're across the other side. They just blew us a kiss. Oh, did they? Yeah. Was that as the condom balloon strode past? It was as the condom balloon. Oh, that's classy. Flailed past in the breeze. It was delightful. Oh, Mr. Adams really getting his boogie on over there. Is he? It's kind of awkward. Cutting a rug. So we've seen a few promotional activities run past. We have. We have some free condoms from Skin. Which is good. Well, it's never bad. You never have too many condoms. Oh, look, there's another condom balloon. The condom balloonsom balloons are really making an outing, I think. Yeah, they're actually making their way up the parade ground. Yeah, so we haven't had anything go past us yet, but there's a lot of cheering going on. Here we go, there's some members of the police force coming past in motorbikes with the gay pride flag. That would be pushbikes. Pushbikes. Yeah, we're very environmentally conscious here. Yep. Lots of flags, lots of Facebook flags being given out. It's quarter to seven, so the parade starts at, what, eight? Eight, that's right. So we've got a little bit of time here. Official start time, a little bit of time to go. But we will keep checking in throughout the night. It's going to be an awesome night. What have we seen so far? I've seen, I just saw actually, a guy dressed in all leather. He had a little leather dog. A little doggy with the gay pride flag outfit. The dog with the gay pride flag outfit was awesome. He loved it. Don't judge. Don't judge him. I'm not judging you. He's cool. He's been who he wants to be. Absolutely. And a guy in all leather, little hot pants, little leather cap. They were quite cool as well. Matching cufflinks. Yeah. There is a lot of rainbows. He was on trend. There's a lot of rainbow going on in this area. It's all going really quite well. Looks looks like some people have some beer i don't know where they got that from yeah there are there's a policeman working around currently with an open bottle of wine he's obviously uh in for a big night he's in for a big one what do we have coming up here we've got some sequin nuns sequin nuns again just you know just fashionable nuns. Don't be haters. Don't be haters. And you can actually hire little chairs and little milk crates to get some height going if you're... If need be. You know, if God hasn't graced you with some height. Although she has her six-inch heels on.
Speaker2: I do.
Speaker1: Also another method of gaining some height. So we'll check in soon.
Speaker2: Bye. Bye.
Speaker1: We've taken a little break, a little siesta. A little refuge. A little refuge to get ourselves a beverage break, a little siesta. A little refuge. A little refuge to get ourselves a beverage. And a little bit of nibbles. And some nibbles, yeah. Most important, to keep up one's strength. Yeah, we've been carb loading for the party that is to come. We have been. We've seen a Facebook float, which was, well, it should be thumbs up, but it was kind of... Oh, no, I've got to say, Mr. Zuckerberg, you might want to throw a mitt ball of cash this way A little bit of a dislike button Is there a, oh, if there were a dislike button? No, there's new face emoticons now. You can say, like, angry face I don't like this. Oh, really? Yeah, it happened last week. I should keep up with the, uh, haps It was the times. Hashtag awkward Yeah, pretty pretty much. So we've seen many, many floats about HIV, condom usage, coming safely. Yeah, and it's been interesting. Okay. How do you feel about the floats? Look, I've got to say, I think we could probably do with a little bit more in terms of the floatage. The floats are not to the standard i'd expect okay i'm sounding judgy yep and it's probably because i am judgy okay i'm judging a little a little bit of float less happening yeah i mean the dances are great the the vibe is good actually we saw the uh dykes on trikes earlier yeah that was good that was cool cool they were awesome actually we we periscope that well i mean you know you can't really go wrong with like a hot lesbian on a ducati i mean
Speaker2: We'll be right back. Yeah, that was good. That was cool. That was cool. They were awesome. Actually, we periscoped that. Well, I mean, you can't really go wrong with a hot lesbian on a Ducati.
Speaker3: I mean, you know, I'm moist.
Speaker2: Moist? Really? You use the word moist? You hate the word moist.
Speaker3: I hate the word moist, but I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker2: That's for good measure. Let's just go with wet, shall we?
Speaker3: Okay.
Speaker1: Nick, I'm excited by the prospect. C is sliding off the chair. Sploosh. What's your favourite float so far? Ooh, favourite float? Would probably... Yeah, I'm not real sure. Not sure? There's currently one going past right now. Blue lights, disco balls, you've got my vote. Not enough disco balls. No? No, there's only 12. Where is their sparkle? Come on. I know, right? Not enough shimmy. Actually, plenty of sparkle, not enough shimmy. Actually, you know what? We saw the 78ers. They were all right. Yeah, that was pretty cool. So the 78ers led the parade. Led the parade. So for those of you who don't know, the 78ers were the first to parade in Sydney, I believe. Yep, yep, true. I'm hoping I'm not about to get beaten to death by somebody in twitter world i understand they've also uh they've also actually just been apologized to as well oh that's oh they have been prosecuted yes go team go team uh gay lesbian mardi gras yep yep and we include bi and transgender these days which fits in well significantly with the uh swinging verse well actually how do you think that uh the community community would take swingers? Do you think they would be open, partial to it, or do you think they would not accept us? Well, I mean, you're bi, so you fit into bi. Yeah. And if the guy of the group is bi, then I don't know. But if you're just a full-sw you're out of luck so you're thinking if you you're thinking you want to add s to the end of it no lb gts actually no no no it sounds faster sounds like it's got a racing stripe on it lb gts you know people a little bit more liberal here maybe there'll be more of accepting of our lifestyle yeah i think so i think so okay yeah i think we're done. That screaming is coming from inside the restaurant just as an FYI for everyone. So we'll probably, we'll tune in soon and we'll let you guys know what the update is. So what are we at? It's currently nine o'clock so we're halfway through, halfway through the parade. Okay. Bye. Bye. The homo tones coming past us. I like it. Nice play on words, boys. Nice play on words, absolutely. We've got a brass band happening. Come on, play us a little tune. Get us some homotoneage. Make that horn blow.
Speaker3: Oh, my God.
Speaker1: Get my trombone. I'm on my A game tonight.
Speaker2: You are.
Speaker1: You are very much so. So you're back with us, obviously. We are going live for the Mardi Gras. And the homotones are just cruising past. We're giving them a wave. We're throwing them out there. It's a... It is a hugely amazing evening. We've now got the shine bright, like a diamond... Marilyn... She looks like Marilyn Monroe. She does, actually. Oh, shake it. Oh, I like her boots. I do, yeah. We're all wearing the same boots. I like them all, boots. Yeah, there's some... That's a girl's response, like, oh, my God, where did you get your boots from? They're amazing. Wow. I actually, and I like her ass as well. Oh, yeah pretty good yeah so it is the star is what we've got going we don't we're not really sure what that means don't know why but it's good it's all good we've we we may have lost track of where exactly like a diamond yeah i already got that because she's because she's it's 10 12 p.'s situated in a diamond. Yeah. And she's got shine bright following her with letters. Sequence, so many sequins. So much sequins. I mean, it's a... Look like we've got a Chinese dragon upcoming. It looks like a Chinese crocodile. It does, actually. Which is kind of like a Chinese dragon. Like a dragon, but less dragon, more crocodile. More crocodile, because it's got the teeth like a crocodile. Celebrating diversity. Here comes... Oh, shit! Gamey of drones. It's the... It's TL. And the baby doll. Absolutely. With Michael from Red Heaven Events. I totally promised these guys that we would periscope this. It's happening. Are we going to go offline right now? Because we're going to be back in a little bit. We're going to periscope this. We're going to periscope this. We'll be back in a second because I'm currently recording with my phone. What a night. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Mardi Gras is a whole lot of fun where you can truly embrace not just your sexuality, but your weirdness yep hashtag diversity yes it was a spectacular evening didn't quite end up making it making it to where we were expecting to we kind of did so you know when we left the Mardi Gras we went to a bit of a bit of a soiree a bit a quick party, and then we ended up leaving there and heading to another bar and kind of catching up with our friends, the Atoms. And then we got turfed out of there because last drinks were called. And went to another bar. Went to another bar, which... Because, you know, when you get turfed out of one place, really, all you can do at that point is just keep on trucking on. Absolutely. And then we got thrown out of that bar.
Speaker2: Yep.
Speaker1: And then we decided to go home. Well, no, but with a little stop, a little pit stop. Oh, yeah, pit stop. At a little place that we go to that has 24-hour burgers and fantastic. Oh, God, love Maisie's. Fantastic Australian burgers. Love it to death. Overeat every single time we go there. We do. Huge burgers. Walk out feeling quite ill overeat every single time we go there. We do, huge burgers walk out if they're quite ill and then head home loving life so thanks very much for listening in we hope you guys had as much fun as we have had. Absolutely and hopefully we'll catch you very shortly on our next cast. Great, see you soon this is C and this is D and this is Swinging Down Under