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MAFS Funny Podcast

Katie's Big Career Change And A Cast Member's Failed Business

10 Sep 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 12.454 Joshua Fox

Hello and welcome back to the Maths Funny Podcast with me, Joshua Fox, and today's episode is going to be fun. And trust me when I say that, I am joined again by producer Pedro, who has no idea why he's here.

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12.894 - 13.395 Pedro

As usual.

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13.716 - 22.512 Joshua Fox

As usual. Okay, so as I said, this one's going to be fun. And usually when someone says something's going to be fun, it's not fun, but this is going to be fun.

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24.297 - 26.941 Pedro

Well, because I'm here, it's going to be fun, I think.

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27.943 - 47.335 Joshua Fox

Questionable. Okay. Anyway, so before we get into everything, a few days ago, I saw Katie from this year's season announced that she'd launched like a surprising new business venture, you know, off the back of her time on the show and her fame. And I think it's genius. So I wanted to cover that anyway. But then I thought we could have a look back at some of the more...

47.315 - 70.369 Joshua Fox

business ventures past cast members have all tried to launch posts show you know to utilize their fame and make money or whatever because like upon reflection so many of them are just really cringe yeah we're always destined to fail and occasionally some have been really clever but mostly it's just been like a string of disasters oh well this should be fun because I want to I want to hear what these are

70.501 - 79.256 Joshua Fox

Yeah, and I always say, good on people for trying, but when you read what some of these people tried, you're like, mate, what were you thinking? But for now, okay, Katie, what do you reckon?

80.077 - 82.422 Pedro

Weight loss pill. Because remember she lost all the weight?

82.662 - 91.838 Joshua Fox

No, she already had an ambassadorship with a protein brand, I think, because the weight loss thing has been gradual since the start of the year, really.

Chapter 2: What surprising career change did Katie Johnston announce?

132.753 - 150.913 Pedro

I'm the least of your worries. But can I ask you something? Yes. When people say they write e-books, you know, like, is it actually written by her or is it just this chat GBT AI book? You know how people do that? They write a book through AI and they claim it as their own and put it on Amazon.

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150.893 - 174.133 Joshua Fox

Well, people do that, but I would say with Katie, and remember, I really like Katie. I think she's lovely. And I think this is genius. And I would say that she has written this yes, because what people don't know is that she has a degree in behavioral science and a major in psychology. And like, she's always been interested in this like mindset stuff. And then I suppose the genius part for me is,

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174.113 - 188.646 Joshua Fox

All year, people have watched her on this gradual journey of learning to love herself, lose weight, change her life, essentially. And her audience, I see the comments on her posts, it's like women in similar spaces being like, how did you do it? What's your secret? I want to do what you did.

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189.087 - 191.969 Pedro

Oh, so she's then tapped into that because she wants to help others.

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191.989 - 193.15 Joshua Fox

Well, there's an audience.

Chapter 3: What business ventures have past cast members attempted?

193.211 - 194.812 Joshua Fox

This is something Kate is passionate about.

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194.852 - 196.654 Pedro

Okay, yeah, that makes sense.

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196.894 - 202.839 Joshua Fox

And it's funny because people always go, oh, they're just cashing in. But it's like, well, if the opportunity is there, what's wrong with that?

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204.91 - 213.948 Joshua Fox

Now if we want to talk failed business ventures, I'm going to go right back to season five here because the first person who really gave it a hot go to make something of himself.

214.249 - 215.251 Pedro

Oh, him. Okay, who?

215.671 - 216.012 Joshua Fox

Nasser.

216.613 - 220 Pedro

Oh, God. What did he do? Surfing lessons? No.

219.98 - 224.627 Joshua Fox

Actually, you know, NASA's day job, and no one thinks he's got a day job. It's a personal trainer to pensioners.

Chapter 4: Which cast member's weight loss journey influenced their new business?

278.66 - 284.308 Joshua Fox

He's a troll, but like... He's funny. And then he released a t-shirt range. There was two t-shirts.

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284.328 - 285.209 Pedro

I remember this, yeah.

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285.269 - 294.081 Joshua Fox

One said, it's a NASA thing. That didn't sell very well. So then he did a second run of one that said, in a NASA we trust.

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294.061 - 300.592 Pedro

Oh, I remember that. Remember, what was the bloke from this year? It must be an old contestant thing because that Tony bloke from this year.

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300.612 - 303.798 Joshua Fox

Tony had a T-shirt range called Tony Time.

303.818 - 304.86 Unknown

Oh, bro.

305.26 - 323.684 Joshua Fox

What are you doing? I'm jumping my script there. So while we're on the T-shirt thing. What NASA started, everybody has kind of just ran with. Oh, I've lost me papers. So NASA's the pioneer, the T-shirt, the printed T-shirt pioneer. The printed T-shirt pioneer of cringe quotes. Because then a few years later, remember Al and Brent?

324.184 - 325.586 Pedro

Oh, Al and Brent. Yes.

325.606 - 332.674 Joshua Fox

So then Brent had a line in his final vows to Tamara where he says, goodbye and good riddance.

Chapter 5: What failed business venture did Nasser attempt after the show?

538.124 - 542.455 Joshua Fox

She rebranded herself as the Bitcoin goddess.

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542.675 - 543.217 Pedro

Oh, no, Tracy.

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543.277 - 548.269 Joshua Fox

And she vowed to improve the quality of people's lives through her new cryptocurrency business.

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548.62 - 552.043 Pedro

The fact I don't know anything about this and she's a marketing queen.

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552.323 - 571.32 Joshua Fox

Well, I don't think it, I think it ended as quickly as that one started. Anyway, then she's done like a few things. She got into like the wellness space. And then most recently last year, she launched bath therapy. So imagine the word therapy, but with a BA, like bath therapy, like it's to do with basically having a bath and therapy.

572.121 - 577.986 Pedro

Oh, does she have like a bath place where you go in and have it like a cold bath or a warm bath or a sauna or something? Is that what it is?

578.371 - 589.788 Joshua Fox

No, so you have a bath in your house and she sits next to you. No, I'm joking. No, so according to Daily Mail, bath therapy. How am I saying it right? Bath therapy.

589.808 - 591.831 Pedro

Bath therapy. Just say it like that.

591.851 - 592.853 Joshua Fox

Bath therapy.

Chapter 6: How did Tracy Jewell's business ventures evolve post-show?

1192.828 - 1195.071 Joshua Fox

This isn't me talking to you, Pedro, to get your vibe.

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1195.091 - 1197.155 Pedro

No, I get it, but I can't sit here and pretend to care.

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1197.315 - 1200.32 Joshua Fox

How these things work is I say something, we bounce off each other to discuss it.

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1200.42 - 1203.145 Pedro

I understand, but I honestly can't fake my excitement.

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1203.165 - 1219.919 Joshua Fox

This is why you get one episode a month. Anyway, Lucinda, kind of become a bit of an entrepreneur. Because she was a wedding celebrant before the show. Then she became like full booked out for that. So she had to stop doing that. Then she went to the UK where she did a dating show co-hosted with Vicky Patterson from Geordie Shore.

1220.179 - 1221.541 Pedro

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Which did well.

1222.062 - 1230.756 Joshua Fox

Then she actually launched for a while this thing called the Lucinda Light Tribe, where like you spend $30 a month to become a member. And she does like weekly Zoom classes.

1230.776 - 1231.858 Pedro

Is that a real name?

1232.362 - 1239.356 Joshua Fox

No. Oh, one of the biggest stories I've ever done on maths was the day her wedding night, it was like the headline was just Lucinda lights, real name revealed.

Chapter 7: What controversies surrounded Ella's sex toy promotion?

1598.33 - 1611.604 Joshua Fox

And then she kind of gave it up. I did a podcast a few, maybe two months ago, which people can go and listen to about why she did that. Jessica Power, obviously still in that space, made a lot of money. Olivia Fraser, Alana Lister, and Michelle Caron. Remember her?

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1612.585 - 1615.889 Joshua Fox

She got dubbed the OnlyFans gran because she was a bit older.

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1616.149 - 1617.591 Pedro

Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember her.

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1617.931 - 1619.393 Joshua Fox

I liked her. She was always lovely to me.

1619.373 - 1624.479 Pedro

Wasn't Michelle strange for some reason? Something happened. There was a story, the story around her. What was it?

1625.34 - 1643.864 Joshua Fox

Oh, she was just, things got really heavy with that guy, Steve. She was with, and then it's just, her season was not fun. It was, things got very dark. And then she was working in the police before the show as like a teaching recruits or something. And then she obviously couldn't return to that. And then that's what she did. Only fans.

1644.525 - 1644.925 Pedro

Good on her.

1645.259 - 1656.831 Joshua Fox

Yeah, and she was kind of, I remember she gave me a quote once where I said, like, do you fear judgment or whatever? And she went, no, like, I'm happy people find pleasure in my body. And she said, like, my body is a vessel for other people.

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