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Chapter 1: What are the rules for Married At First Sight contestants regarding new partners?
Hello and welcome back to the Maths Funny Podcast with me, Joshua Fox, aka the guy behind the Maths Funny Instagram page. Tonight we just watched the first dinner party of season 12, which was the shitshow we were all hoping it was, and a star was indeed born. And her name is Jamie. The self-described pocket rocket led the outrage at how Tim's been treating Katie and mate. She did not hold back.
Take a listen to this.
And I'm seeing my friend, who is genuine, who's a good person, who's now starting to go, maybe it was my fault. Now she's starting to take it all in, like it's her. I think this is bullshit. And I'm like, what the hell is going on here? Just a freaking gaslighting move, bro. Like, that's just, what is this? Then you're questioning yourself. What is this? I am questioning myself.
Chapter 2: Who is the surprising groom not hiding his new girlfriend?
But that's me. What is this? Who is she? Where's his responsibility? I know what it's like to be in that position. I know what it's like for someone to make you feel less than. Dim your shine. Make you question yourself. Blame yourself. That is not okay.
What you guys didn't see on TV though was I was indeed there as they filmed their dinner party back in Sydney on August 6th.
I remember it was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, and as each of the couples arrived in the back of a taxi, you know, all consumed with both nerves and anxiety about what they were walking into, there I was, you know, in the car park, offering some words of encouragement. Take a listen to this that I recorded on the day. Hi, I'm Josh, and you see this building here?
This is the place relationships come to die.
Chapter 3: What happened during the first dinner party of season 12?
Okay, so this year I've decided to welcome them with signs. It's all downhill from here, and then just quit now. It's all downhill from here. Oh, this one's on her own, Alex. Literally, it's already downhill for that one. She didn't have husband with her. Here we go, here's the next couple. Good day, mate. Welcome to your first dinner party. Keep going. Keep going, keep going.
I'm a stress production worker. Now, before I get into today's big spoiler and some drama, I'm going to give you a little breakdown to how those dinner parties actually work, because it's nothing like it appears on TV. And I think you guys may find this interesting. Firstly, each couple is sent a taxi to bring them to the studio.
And that studio is basically just a warehouse in an industrial park that they've built a set inside. And if you know Sydney, the warehouse is in Lilyfield and you know the Bay Run, you can actually see it when you're walking around the Bay Run, which is kind of cool. So yeah, each couple arrives in a taxi. They're all given like a different time.
So these are staggered out over maybe two hours so people don't see each other before they go upstairs onto the set. Our producer is waiting at the car park gate to wave the driver in. And that's where I'm also stood, much to that producer's annoyance. But as I'm on public land, they can't do or say anything other than maybe try to block me.
And when they do, I go, excuse me, public land, could you stop getting in my way, please? It's quite funny because they go to all these measures. I remember... One day, they employed a producer to stand on public land as well to hold an umbrella in front of me constantly. And if I made two steps to the left, that producer would take two steps to the left a meter in front holding this umbrella.
And it was the most ridiculous thing. So then I just climbed up a tree. And then this poor guy, he was in his early 20s. His first job was an assistant in TV. He's then holding this umbrella as high as he could. And I'm like, mate, I'm up a tree. You're not blocking anything. But he didn't want to lower the umbrella in case he got in trouble.
But yeah, it's always fun and games doing these things. But yeah, so each taxi is waved into the industrial sites car park. I can't go there because that's now private land. And the couples are then swapped over into one of the, I think it's a Suzuki, whatever car it is that sponsors the show. So they arrive in just a regular fucking silver taxi.
They're then put into the car that sponsors the show so they can film a little arrival getting out of that car. And on TV at the start of each dinner party episode, you'll see that there's a few shots of just maybe two or three of the couples, you know, getting out the car, closing the door, looking around like, oh, we're here.
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Chapter 4: How does the filming of dinner parties differ from what viewers see on TV?
They might have a kiss. And then the next shot is them walking on set. Again, this is not what happens in real life. Once they're filmed stepping out the car and having a kiss and then, you know, walking through the doors into the building, a producer then shouts, again, and then they get back in the car and they do it again and often again.
The worst I've ever seen is one couple had to do this seven times so they could, you know, get the shot, keep changing the cameras. And like, even I was like, fucking hell, can we, you know, I've got places to be, just hurry up. Sorry, I keep getting distracted. So yes,
They're filmed getting out the car, and then they step into the warehouse, and you see on TV the next shot is them arriving in the dinner party. In real life, they're then taken back out of the warehouse, walked around the side, and each couple is put into a holding pen, which is basically like a little gazebo somewhere on the industrial site to wait until it's their time to arrive on set.
Now, producers do this for two reasons. Often they'll put like the more boring couples in first, you know, just to set up the scene, start the episode with some happy chat, you know, like, oh, how are you going? How are you going? Yeah, we're going good. You want a glass of champagne? You know, that type of shit.
Then once those pleasantries have kind of fizzled out, the producers will get on the walkie talkies and be like, all right, send in fucking Dave or, you know, someone random. In goes the next one. And then once that chat of, hey, how you going, mate, fizzles out and, you know, nothing comes from that, producers radio in the next one and the next one and the next one.
And basically, if you're part of drama that week, you're going in last. And this is to give like the rest of the cast enough time to gossip about you before you're sent in, you know, so they can set up that storyline. Producers will maybe prod people to be like, you know,
Kate has arrived solo why don't you go ask her how she's feeling does she feel like she's been dumped you know like really make that storyline the central point of the episode so then by the time Tim arrives then you know everyone's so hyped up and angry because it's all they've been talking about and it's funny with those pens as well because like
Sometimes the cast are sat in there for literally hours and on TV they might create all this suspense like teasing, is this groom gonna arrive? Has he quit? What's gonna happen? Is he gonna come? Everyone's speculating and bitching about him and you think he's not gonna arrive and then at the last minute, the door opens. He's arrived.
But in reality, he arrived three hours ago, filmed himself walking in the building, walked back around the building, and has been sat on his own in a little gazebo. And like, this isn't me speculating. It's fact. I've been outside of so many of these shoots. And like, when I take my pictures and videos, you know, they all have timestamps attached to them.
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Chapter 5: What is the process of how couples arrive at the dinner party?
Once again, thank you for listening. And my friend said I should tell people to, like, do the rating thing on Spotify and Apple just because apparently it really... Helps me out. I'm not sure how or why because I don't really know how podcasts work yet. But yeah, if you could click like, I'm not going to tell you to click five stars. You click how many stars you think this podcast deserves.
But if it is five, thank you very much. And if it's one, fuck off. Nah, just joking. You can still listen and hate it. I've been watching maths for years now and hate half the people on there. Still fun though, isn't it? See ya.