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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the fitsy and with her with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
How far do you take a joke? I mean, where
is the line? You know, We've played a few jokes
on each other over the years, fits you know, whether
it's dacking or jumping out from around the corner. I
think at one stage, I got a giant Oreo chocolate
biscuit and slammed your head together.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That was funny. Now the people liked it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
YouTube went off and everyone clapped. This, unfortunately, hasn't gone
too well for a banker who's now suing the business
because look, when she was hired, she already had a
couple of issues. She had a general anxiety issue. She
also had an autoimmune disorder and vertigo. Now, I don't
know how much that plays into the impact of the
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joke that was played on her, but she's now turned around.
She's got legal advice. She's saying you took her too
far and I want your money. They found out that
she as they got to know her she started working there,
they found out that she has one age of fear.
And it was strange because you can kind of see
this through horror films, but it's dolls. She has a
(01:06):
fear of dolls, which casually came up in a conversation
one Friday afternoon when they were having drinks after work.
Cut to Monday morning. One of the guys has gone
home and he said, you know what, guys, I've got
a beauty. I have a Chucky doll at home from
the movie from Child's Play, I've got a Chucky doll.
When she gets into work on Monday, You're gonna love this.
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Get your cameras ready. I'm going to put it in
her chair. So when she arrives, she goes to sit down.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Bang, Chucky.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Remember the Chucky movie when they went paintball shooting and
he swapped out the paintballs for real bullets.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I can't remember that, Chucky.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
There's two things that I blathe more.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
First of all, number one, he's a banker, and number two,
he's got a Chucky doll at home. Yeah, like what
he has too that I would love to hang out with.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
What do you want to do? More interest rates or
Chucky dolls?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So anyway, she's come to work, seen the Tucky doll
on the chair, freaked out, screamed, has run out of
the building and has not returned to work.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Well that's fair enough, is it? I mean, it's how
do you get away with that? If she sues? I mean,
how much can you get away with? It was just
a prank.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's a laugh.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You're gonna laugh at her.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The hard party is when they say to him, are
you aware that she has a fear of dolls?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Maybe maybe you're on a door. I don't have to
answer that. Well, that's the doll talking. Oh are you
are your ventriloquest?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So I remember what.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
There was a girl that worked here to me, we
had a bit of an incident because she had a
fear of fish and we had a.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Like it's not good that we worked next to the fishman. No,
but we had never come in. We had a taxi derby.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Piranha in the office and I walked up to her
tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and I
was holding the piranha. Now she ran from the building
that day. Tom actually screamed multiple times and instantly began sobbing. Yes,
so she helped me understand her phobia, which was really
good because I got an education that day because I
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realized that right, well that's true.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
She wasn't making it up. So but through that test.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There was many meetings and hr issues.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Look, she doesn't work here anymore. That's got nothing to
do with the fish.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Why is it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
She just.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Didn't you hook up with it. I don't know what
you're talking about. So that case is still under roofview.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What case?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The fits in with Her with Kate Richie podcast. A
bit of an interesting chat I had with my wife
over the weekend. I'm revealing a little bit more about everything.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You're right, I mean, we just heard the Nathan Cleary
Mary Fowler rumors. Is there a headline coming out on
the Daily mar Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
First they'll describe what I'm wearing, and then they'll get
a photo of me looking down and say his life's
over and I'll.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Have to deal with that. Wait for the comments and
have a bit of a laugh. Who is he? Never
heard of him? Why are you riding this crap?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Who?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Anybody around the age and I'm talking to the sisterhood
here around the age of forty onwards. There's a thing
called menopause which can take place in Perry. Menopause is
very much a topic of conversation in.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
My wife's world at the moment. She is Howard's Lasa Tommy,
what do you reckon?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Lovely Lisa? Forty two?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ween's her birthday?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, yeah, she's a memory. She's a mar Yeah that's
right mar.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Hey, let me know what you're giving her this year. Yeah. Anyway,
the conversation was up and we were talking about how
tough menopause is, and you know, for somebody going through menopause,
it affects everybody differently, but you know, you can go
on for ten years and it's a level of depression
and I think a lot of people don't understand it.
But in the menopause phase. With that, I said to
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Lisa said, oh, I'm scared that I'm going to be
I'm going to change as a person around the house.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And I said, all right, well I can help you
out there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Why don't we do a deal when you're going through menopause.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'll do a deal.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You can go to a health retreat for one week
out of every month, right, what so you can catch
your breath.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Then I had a moment.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
For one week out of every month.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Very generous.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That is an unbelievable get.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Then I said, well, who's going to do things here
and what about me? And then I said, okay, well
I'll have a girlfriend that can step in for that
week so they can do sort of the girl duties
and be part of my life for that week, and
then you come back. She moves out, and then we
continue on for the.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Next three weeks.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
What like a nanny, But it's nice, it's a girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Girlfriend anyway, This is I mean, I was a little
bit hypothetical, like I'm joking around a little bit. She
leans over with her hand and says, deal, now, I
don't want a girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We're just getting a health retreat every three weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Mate. Yeah, but hang on a minute. Shouldn't she be
worried about me and the other girl? How very quickly
the health retreat became more powerful than her concern about
her husband with another woman. Imagine if that was reversed
and I said.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, a bloke, another bloke can move in for a
week while I'm gone over my dead body, like there's
absolutely no way I'm letting another man play my role
in my house with my wife and family.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
She within three seconds handout deal what.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But it's not It's not like she's woman's coming in
to take over that what's happening in the bedroom?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yes, she is. That's a girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh so that was part of the deal, was Well.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's a girlfriend, it's intimate, so it's an open relationship,
all the duties.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well for a week only though fits if she comes
home early, it's going to throw everything. If you have
a deal in your relationship, and maybe it's a little
bit different to the conventional marriage. Maybe there's a few
rounded edges or a little bit loose here and there.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Love Zara's Zarah's given us a girl from Campbelltown.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Tell us about your unusual relationship rules, Sarah, We've.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Been together probably eleven years now, and we and we
have no plans on living together. We're basically married, but
there is no no plans on living together.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Oh so what are the living arrangements then, Zara? How
often would you spend time at his house?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Probably about three times a week?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, and you have it are the most nights.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
And sometimes if we feel like it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, why haven't you moved in together?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Because, like you talk about the menopause thing, I'm scared
of that as well, Like I'm scared of the boots
and also like we have different lives, like I have children,
and yeah, it's not not any big deal. But just
because I like the way that I live in.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He makes places, Zarah, no rules, absolutely our rules and
no judgment.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
No rules.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Then Zarah, what if Zarah, what about other partners?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I mean, have you had a conversation about that?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
No, Like there's one hundred trust in relationship. It would
be together too long. We're like, we're married, but we're
just not conventional.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
See I'm an American guy. The other day, Zarah, he
lives in New York, happily married. His wife lives in
LA Of course he's heavily married. Probably why it works well,
I think so they just have different the different stages
of their lives.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They love each other and they spend weeks together when.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It both works for them.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But that's how they do things right.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
It's love, but it's just a different way.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It's a different kind of love.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I don't know what you want to be with the
one that you love all the time, though.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Don't you go through the height if you can't be
with the one you love, love the one you're with,
you know?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
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