September 23, 2024 • 46 mins
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Britt's jet lagged after her trip to Romania. It was somewhat eventful and she's now an experienced quake girly. Laura's daughter Marlie is about to graduate from preschool and we're curious to know what your graduation song was. Was it Green Day or... eye of the tiger?
Now that Laura has had a week off and Marlie Mae is about to go to school, she's back considering having another child. Britt is strongly considering blackmail! If you already have kids and you’ve thought about having another, did you mention it to your kids? Did you want their thoughts on whether they’d like an extra sibling?
A dating app has brought in a new feature to try and reduce dating fatigue and avoid analysis paralysis. Hinge will now stop you from matching with someone new if you have 8 or more messages waiting for a response from you.
The idea is to make it a more conscious effort and only have a few conversations going at a time. If you're in the dating world, is this good news for you?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands
were never seated. We pay our respects to their elders
past and present.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. This episode was
recorded on Cameragle Land. Girlfriend, you have really dry knees.
Thanks Laura.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thanks. I had the heat and blanket on last night.
Sucked me dry.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I found out. Yes, I yuck.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut.
I'm Brittany, I'm fucking drauma. Okay mate, it was behind
the scenes. It's not going to make the cut.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes it will. No, it's not. Yes it will.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, it's not good thing.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I edit that podcast with Keisha, so we will make sure.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That it is my knees dry. They're just a normal knee.
Laura just said, oh, your knees are.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So it's because she's been spending a lot of time
on them.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I wish. I wish. I'm too old for that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Welcome back to but mean welcome back from Romana.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I'll come back to Romania.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Brittany's jet lagged, and I also feel jet lagged.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Do you feel jetlagged because you've got kids, but you
perpetually jet lagged. I am so jet lagged the probably
the most jet lagged I have ever been in all
of my time traveling. I was pinging, wide awake the
entire night. I fell asleep an hour before I had
to get up. I couldn't turn my brain off. I
was like trying everything under the sun that I've ever
(01:36):
remembered to try and fall asleep. So you know, when
like I don't know if you've ever heard jet lag cures,
it's like, if you're ever struggling to fall asleep, they
say that you shouldn't try enforce yourself, like, don't just
lay in bed and be like, come on, you can
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, it's the worst thing because if you do that,
you then get paralysis because you just lay in bed
looking at the ceiling analysis or you're like trying to
will yourself to sleep, and then your brain's just like
overthinking and over everything.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I got up, I was like, Okay, I'll get up
and watch some TV for a bit. So watch some TV,
and I was like but then I was like, oh,
but then I remember watching the screen is the worst thing.
So I turned that screen off, went back to bed.
Then I got up an hour later and I was like,
I'll have something to eat, like that, will some milk,
you know, milk will like come? And yeah, what had
wheatbis with brown sugar and milk? Went back to bed.
Didn't work. Then I started like thinking about every single
(02:22):
thing you could possibly think about, like the anxiety.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Have I done my tax yet?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is that I paid my tax? Last night I woke up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Did I pay my phone bill?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Then the funniest thing was I was like, I know
I'll meditate, but I don't meditate on my own. I
get like one of those you know, like you're going
to Spotify and you're like forty five minute meditation or something.
Have you ever done it?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I am the exact person who says that they can't
meditate but probably needs meditation. I can't do it. I
have no interest in trying. I know all the people
who do meditate will say, and this is the thing.
If you say I'm not someone who can meditate, everyone
who does do it says you're the person that should meditate.
It'll be really good for you. Once you start doing it,
you get into good practice, it'll change your life. And
(03:04):
I'm quite happy to be highly strung.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I'm happy for you not to be highly strung. No So,
but I just put on sleep music or meditation on Spotify,
like a guided meditation, and then I just roll over,
try and go to sleep and it'll play for twenty
five minutes and turn off. So I'm like really getting
into it and it's like hands up and feel the
energy reacts, breathe. But then I don't am in the morning. Yeah,
but then I don't have the Spotify version of no ads.
(03:29):
So then an ad.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Comes in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I was like, motherfucker, man, it keeps playing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I'm like, man, it's I sped forward five minutes, Like
get out of my slumber. Put it forward like five seconds,
go back to sleep. And then I hear him say
it would really help if you could leave five stars
in review so that I could continue to grow, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Like, I need to upgrade my Spotify.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm like getting deep into my slumber and then this
guy's telling me to like swipe up.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, you can't be mad about that because it's literally
what we do. After every episode, We've just told you
how to improve your sex life. Like, hey guys, we're
not a meditation like the link stars. The heading is
sleep meditation. In the middle of the sleep meditation. That's okay,
it's all right. People have got a hustle because you
don't sleep. Speaking of hustle, this is a perfect segue.
(04:14):
There is something that I am going to ask you
to do, something that we ask you to do every year,
rolls around, drags itself out of the gutter, and that
is it's the Australian Podcast Awards.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And we Equation love it. Yeah we I mean fireworks not.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We would love it if you would go on, We're
gonna put the link in the show notes. Stop what
you're doing, drop, stop and vote. Go to the website
and go and vote for Life and Cut in the
Australian Listener's Choice Podcast Awards, yep.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I mean there's loads of different awards, but this is
the listener's choice. So this is the one, I don't
want to say the one that matters. They all matter,
but it's the only award in the Podcast Awards that
is voted by you guys, the listeners, and.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's the only one that's not a stitch up. It's political,
as all awards ceremonies always are, because there's always a
subjective nature to it, but not when it comes to
the listener's choice, because that's you guys, choosing the podcast
that you want to listen to. Well, it's the only.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Way to know that it's not political. So we have
no proof it's political. Yeah, every other award and anyone,
because if we won an award, we wouldn't say it
was political. We'd be like, but this is the one
that we Yeah, it's like the one we really want
you to take two seconds. You just click the link
and it will say what podcast do you want to
vote for? Just in case you forgot, it's Lifeline, Cut
(05:26):
Press Enter. I've just done it myself this morning, and
it's for us. It's like the Be'snies, it's the Logies,
it's the Oscar, it's like the for our industry. It's
the be all and end all. No.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But the thing is, if you go on and you vote,
you have to do your vote, you put in your
email and then you have to verify the vote by
your email. It does only take a minute all up.
It's very quick, it's very snappy. I kind of feel
like the Podcast Awards now feels a little bit of
kin to Mariah Kerry at Christmas time. Like every year we.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Kind of drive relating me to Mariah carry What.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm mean is is that you know, like Christmas is coming,
and then everyone drags out the Mariah Carey song This
is us. It's this time of year we drag out
the Hey guys, please vote for us in this podcast
towards we ask.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's the only thing we ask all year. So that's it.
We've asked. I was gonna say we're not gonna ask again.
We will. We'll probably ask next week. It's only open
for two more weeks, so we did leave it a
little bit late, which means we're probably gonna ham it
down your throat for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Britt, I want to know since you're back, and we
kind of just skimmed over it by talking about weird
meditation and also sleep deprivation. How is Romania? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, forgot I even went because I'm so jeddak Romania Romania.
It was so good to see Ben like it was.
He was at the airport for me. I didn't arrive
until two am in the morning, so he drove to
the airport waited for me. Because I have it in
my head that I always had it in my head
(06:55):
that ROMAINI is the most dangerous place in the world
that hasn't come from anywhere except like a preconceived idea
of had my whole life, just things I've read growing up,
and I don't know what it was about. So he
was waiting at the airport for me, which was uneventful
first night.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I mean, to be fair, Kisha reminded me of this
in the car. The reason why Romani has been making
on the news recently is because it's where Andrew Tate
got arrested.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And it was under house arrests.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A whole lot of human trafficking was happening, So, like,
I mean, I understand why one might get the impression
that there are some dangerous things that could happen there
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But the thing is that happens all over you, That
happens everywhere. Right, It's just said. It hit the news
because of Andrew Tate. He was under house arrest there,
but everything that I looked up and so many people
had written to me saying that they were like female
solo travelers or not even just solo, but females that
had traveled there and they loved it and that they
like raved about it. And I am essentially half my
(07:47):
time there. I am a solo female traveler because I
spend half my time there by myself. Ben goes away
for a night in two days at a time to play.
He's gone all day training and playing, so I like
to go and do stuff on my own. It was
the first first time in all my travels in the
last fifteen years, which is like nearly sixty countries I've
done it. I've been lucky to do a lot, and
(08:08):
all of them either by myself or with Sherry so
as females. It's the first time that I felt like
real unease alone. But that's not based on anything. No
one made me feel like that, Like I just normally
I feel I'm just gonna go for a wander, get lost,
go to a park, whatever. But I just felt this
something deep in me that was just like I don't
feel entirely comfortable doing that. So I still got out
(08:29):
and about, but I went straight to like hardcore tourist areas.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Do you also think that maybe it comes with age
a little bit as well, because I think about traveling
when I was in my early twenties and I've been
to India and it's the most incredible country to go to, Like,
I have only wonderful things to say about it. But
when I was in my twenties, I look back at
how I traveled at that age, and I was so careless,
and I think, how the fuck did nothing bad ever
happened to me? Whereas when I went recently this time
(08:54):
this year with my sister, it's the first time that
I've been in my thirties, and it's the first time
that I've been since kids specifically, and I was so cautious,
and it was the first time that I ever felt
a little bit more like, oh, just aware of my safety. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I think of the things that I used to do
traveling and I would never do them now. I think
it's an age thing for sure, But it's also like Romania.
I don't have a bad thing to say about it either.
I want to say that that's just this feeling that
I got. But so you're in districts district one, two, three, four, five, six,
and there are districts that you just wouldn't go to.
So people are like, oh, you're in District one, definitely
don't go past dissue four. You don't know what happens
(09:28):
past district four, So like I think I had it
in my head too. As I was walking, I was like,
what district am I in? It's an invisible border, Like
how do I know if I'm crossing it? But everyone
I encountered was nice. It had really beautiful areas. We
went to see Dracula's Castle. Sorry bucket list saw Dracula's
Castle growing up. That was like a huge part of
(09:48):
our life, right, I mean, no, Dracula's Castle.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I can't say that I grew up with like a
real sort of impression of Dracula's Castle as being like
a fundamental part of my childhood.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well maybe I didn't either. Maybe when Ben moved to Romania,
I just googled it and got in my head that's
what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Pick.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Do you tick Dracula's Castle?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, I mean, yes, you've been there. Dracula's not real,
but like he if he was real, he would have
been there too.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, I thought Transylvania was part of a fabricated story
of Dracula. It's not. It's an entire place and it's stunning.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Wow, Dracula's got taste and full of bears.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Anyway, So it was it was really like an uneventful
week or not. It wasn't there was an earthquake. I
was in an earthquake. Oh my god, it was an
an event fl at all. There was a full blown
my first ever earthquake.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You been in an earthquake?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Pretty you sound like you're on speed, because I was
like a Stracula's castle and castles this, and then the earthquake,
and then there was a bear. And then because I'm
in my head, I'm like, no one actually cares about
my trip to Romania.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So I'm trying to think of the highlights. So I'm
not an earthquake girl. And when I say earthquake girl,
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Is some people grow up slay earthquake sleigh.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hushtag.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I'm not an earthquake girl.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Quaker no Quakers are real things, Laura.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
What's a Quaker?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
A Quaker is like the religious.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh Am, I going to get canceled by the Quakers
or cacious comingy okay, says Quaker.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Member of the Society of Friends or Friends Church a
Christian group that stresses the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
that rejects outward rights and an ordained ministry, and it
has a long tradition of actively working for peace and
opposing war.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
They sound as bad as we thought.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They're a peaceful community also anti war.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They sound lovely. But what is the likelihood that we
have a lot of Quakers listening.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Zero? If you're a Quaker, you are not pro.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Life, unger or maybe you are proved me wrong anyway,
quake away. No what I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Saying when I say I'm not a earthquake girl. And
I said this on Instagram at the top, I'm glad.
Do you think it's so funny? Are you an earthquake girl?
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I've been in one earthquake. Yes, I've been an earthquake
in Indonesia, but it was very mild. Everything just rattled
around for a bit and I was like, oh sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got off. Oh my god, it's something a three
for magnitude. Where's the rest?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Where's the turn it up? Laura?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Does this splits on the ground?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Does this earthquake?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm gonna try my let over this metal chair. I'm
not an earthquake girl. And what I mean by that
is some people grow up in places, countries, cities that
have them all the time, so when they hear the
earthquake their first response isn't to do the splits on
the ground and try and get off like you, Laura.
But a lot of people don't get bothered by it
(12:40):
because they grow up with it. For me, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Wild, like startling.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It was, in fact, it was quite startling. I was
by myself. Ben was away, and Ben lives in a
huge apartment building, so I was six floors up or something,
and I felt this vibration through the floor. I was
laying down the lounge almost asleep, and the vibration woke
me up and I sat bolt upright and I was like,
(13:05):
what was that? And then it stopped for a few seconds,
which is the pre tremor apparently, and then full blown.
I thought I was gonna die. The entire building was swaying,
moving like I was moving stationary in the building. I
could feel it and see it, and everything on it
started rattling, like hectically rattling. Everything on the kitchen fell off.
(13:27):
I was like, oh my god. And I didn't realize
it was an earthquake straight away, I genuinely, and because
you're not a Quaker's a Quaker, no, But I thought
we might have been being attacked. And I'm being serious.
And I say that because Romania has the biggest NATO
base in the world, and it's also like bordering Ukraine Russia,
(13:48):
so and they're very pro Ukraine. So obviously there is
a wall going over on in Ukraine Russia that's been
going on for a very long time. There's been fighter
jets and drones that have been recorded coming over roman
Land and then like the border and then going back.
So my immediate thought wasn't to go to earthquake. My
immediate thought was like, oh my god, is that we're
(14:08):
being attacked? So I called Ben straight away and I'm like,
something's happening and I don't know what to do. He's like,
it's an earthquake. There's an earthquake. So I was like
what do I do? And apparently you just stand under
a door, don't you remember? I just stood under a
door And I was like, is this what I'm supposed
to be doing? And I was like how long do
I stay here for? I was googling how long there
are after tremors? Am I supposed to go downstairs and
(14:29):
get onto the street. Well, the whole building fall of
fire escapes.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Don't you remember being at school and learning all of
these random facts about like, Okay, so when I was
at school, I remember like, what are you doing a fire?
Obviously that's not that random and really important. What do
you do in an earthquake? Get in a bathtub, stand
under a doorframe? And I lived my life thinking that
that was an imminent threat that I was going to
be in earthquakes and I would need to know the tools,
(14:53):
Like there were so many we learn about tsunamis, what
do you do when a tsunami is coming? What are
the morning signs of a tsunami?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah? What are they?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Very happy to say that I have never witnessed yet
a tsunami. The water retracts, and it's the retraction of
the water, and often people are so like mesmerized because
it's quite an unusual thing to see that. People go
down to the beach to be like, wow, the that's
a really Laura hide and then the tsunami hits. And
that's what we learned in school. We learned so many
(15:19):
things I've never had to implement. But if I was
there with you, I would have told you get under
that door frame, girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Mate, I know what to do in an earthquake now.
And I also know what to do if I see
a bear, like I have learnt so much from going
to Ramania.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Saint There's they really didn't teach me how Like they
didn't teach me what a vow was. They learned that
in high school. They didn't teach me how to read properly.
But fuck, I'd be good an earthquake or some sort
of they didn't teach you how to read. Well, we
were that weird year. Some people were my age thirty
eight might remember this. There was like a curriculum change
that happened when I stopped teaching, you know, when we
(15:53):
were in primary school. So when we were in primary school,
there was a weird curriculum change that happened where they
changed the year that you learned like what is a syllable?
What is a noun? What is a verb? Like those
actual like the constructs of what they are? They changed
the year that you learned it in. But it meant
that that somebody fucked up and there was a gap
we just didn't learn about. We got to use seven.
(16:15):
And I remember our teachers being like, oh, you motherfuckers
don't know what a verbis.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Or you you don't know what a herbist Laura gets
use seven and she's like.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Eat eat eat, or your I still can't. Sometimes I
still do this with my left and rights for starters.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Might have been in that gap as well, because we're
the same age.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Whatever. I digress. Hey, speaking of I have a very
cute life update that I want to tell you guys about.
And I just don't know how I got here already,
because I feel like Marley just came out of my womb.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Dude, so too, I feel like she just came out
of my womb.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
She just came out of our womb, Brittany. And now
she's five and next year she starts school. So at
the moment, we're kind of like gearing up to do
orientation with the school that she's going to and kind
of like doing all the little things to get her
prepared for the fact that she's leaving daycare where she's
been at for ages now to go to this new school.
And also the new school that she's going to is
a bit of a distance away from where she currently
(17:07):
does preschool, so she's not going to school with anyone
that she knows. It's it's like gonna be a really
big transition for her. And yesterday she was standing in
the kitchen and she was singing this song, and I
was like, sweetie, what are you singing? Like, where did
you learn that song? And she goes, Mommy, it's my
graduation song. She's singing her graduation song that she's learning
(17:28):
for when she graduates preschool.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Is a green day like every person in the world's
graduation song graduate shark.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I know. I just whistled as well when I
said graduation. What is green day song?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hope you have that of your life. It's every person
I know for the last twenty years graduation song.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Why can't I say graduation?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Graduation song?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You know it's yours?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wasn't sure? I don't know. You couldn't spell? So you
can sing?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
How was I of the Tiger?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I have the.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Do you want to know what?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I have the target?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's the King of the night. That was it. We
had to be tiger and over that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That'll be great for socials later. Please do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I have the target.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's the king of them. This is Molly's graduation song. Everyone.
It's s Club seven. It's a real banger, reach.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Every high.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So she's got a backup singer while I was in.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
There, sang yes, Wow, follows it, rainbow shining.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Let's do it again? Will all come true? Let's follow
the rainbow shining over you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I can't even think of what song that is no
offense to them.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's s Club seven. It is a banger, but you're
not expected to know that reach. No, I know it's
Club seven, but I just pree mountain. Yeah. We've done
a lot of singing in this episode, and I feel
we need to concerned that people are going to be
offended by this. Sorry, guys, I'll stop singing. She's been
practicing all her dance moves and she was singing in
the kitchen. And I didn't expect to feel as emotional
(19:17):
as I felt, and I honestly just like burst out crying.
I was so I was so overcome by the fact
that we're at this stage. And Matt turned and looked
at me and he was like, Laura, she's not graduating
high school. She's not graduating to be a doctor, She's
just finishing preschool.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
This explains that, Laura. It's just made sense to me
because Laura walks in this morning, I don't know I'm
supposed to share this. She goes, I'm thinking of having
another baby.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I am.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Now it makes sense because you feel like your baby's
flying the coop and going off to big school, and
now you're having those thoughts. How's me telling you what
you're thinking? You're having those thoughts of like, am I
never going to have a newborn again? Am I out
of that stage? I'm going to go again? And I
can tell you it's a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You are emotional, and you never make decisions when you're emotional.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I am going to have another baby. Try to anyway.
I said to Marley in the car yesterday Molly and Lola,
I said, guys, how do you feel? How would you
feel if mommy and daddy had another baby? And Molly,
in all serious dead pen was like her and a
sister were both like, yes, we would love a baby.
(20:19):
We love babies. And then Molly goes, sorry, mom, you're
too old.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You're too old? Wow?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Fuck you really think? And she goes, go reach for
the stars, Momy, you might want one. You just got us.
That was literally the dome. She said.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I also don't think you asked you four and five
year olds if they want a baby. I don't think
you're asksome, do you?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
No? No, No, I care about what they think. Look,
no one said I'm doing a good job with this
parenting thing. I'm just doing my best. If they said no,
I'd probably do it anyway. But at least they've had
a bit of input.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So you're actually gonna have a baby?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well, I'm gonna try not right second, maybe next year.
Your face. Sorry, Brittany, Sorry? Will you be okay if
I have a third child? Fuck? No, you barely make
it to work.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You don't message me back for five days at a time. No,
it would be a disaster, fucking disaster. Like love, you
support your hashtag friends for life, whatever, but your real
friend's gonna tell you the truth, and you give me
wild anxiety. I know what Laura's favorite thing to do is,
(21:31):
Kisha will back me up. I will message Laura and
this I actually have this. This is a very specific example.
I messaged Laura.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Here we go. What have I done wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm just trying to create. Everything I do is not
good enough.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
This is a specific example, and you'll know what as
as I say it. I messaged Laura nineteen times in
a row on I message nineteen, not one response and
asking very specific questions. Please hand need to follow up. Hey, Han,
can you just look back at this nineteen? I counted them.
Then Laura messaged me right unrelated. She didn't answer one thing.
Then she messaged me one question and forty five minutes
(22:08):
she went hello question Mark, and I was like, is.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
This bitch kidding me?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think I even screenshot and said it Takeisha, and
I was like, brous can you deal? And I even
wrote back Laura's like I need you to answer, and
I bribed her and I said, I'll answer you when
you answer my nineteen messages above.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
That did happen? I think nineteen is an exaggeration.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No, I counted them. Nah, nineteen, So this is why
you having a third trial thrown into the mix gives
me anxiety. I'm moving to Romania before you have a child.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You hate Romania.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
If you want me, if you have a child, I'm
out of here. We're long distance. I don't mean to
blackmail you.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm aware that is how awkward is it going to
be if I get pregnant and I'm like, hey, guys,
I've got some really good news. I'm pretend like you're happy.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
For me, I'm crying, but like it's actually I'm distraw.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Oh my god. Also, guys, I feel like we need
to put the preface in here because someone's going to
be like Britney's really mean to Laura friends. We're friends,
she's we're friends of our business partners. It's they're having
kids and trying to run businesses is a real pain
in the ask.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I guess i'd be happy for.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You same way that every time you say you're moving overseas,
I'm like, fucking hell, that's going to be real tough.
But like you know, we may do. We love each other.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh my gosh. Okay, last thing before we move on,
No wonder. I have so much anxiety about this wedding.
Trying to plan his wedding long distance is so hard.
But the hardest thing is trying to do our first dance.
So I don't know if you saw, if you're following
me on social media, I did post it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I did see, And I have one question. I don't
understand why you've lost all ability to hold your head
up like you're you're like a brag doll.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeap, it's next level. So Ben and I are trying
to learn our first dance, which I'm not exaggerating. I
don't think we're going to have one. It's impossible. He
is such a bad dancer.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Well, you didn't look very good for yourself. The only
glasshouses shouldn't be throwing stones.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But now I was really good. But you can only
You're only as good as your surroundings, and my surrounding
was terrible. So not only getting not dance, but part
of my migraine botox. If you're new here, I get
migraines and I'm on a migraine botox protocol.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's the only reason why Britney gets botox everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, I also had to get fake boobs and I'm joking.
So part of this migraine protocol is you get all
these botox in your head, your skull, the base of
your skull, and your neck. Now, the last time I
went to see my neurologist, which was only two weeks
before I went to see Ben, She's like, oh, I
think we need to add it to these new places.
So I got it because I was still getting some migraines.
(24:45):
So I ended up getting these botox in the front
of my neck. Here, if you're watching, you'll see but
if you're not watching, I'm holding the front of my neck.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
The platisma bands.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, it's called sterno cleido mastoid. It's sure full or
whatever you want to So I got it in front
of my neck, and I got extras in the back
of my neck. And what it means is, and I'm
not exaggerating, I can't hold my neck up. It's like
one of those things that go in the front of
the car, the bobble heads, you know, the wobble their
head around. If I'm laying down in bed, I have
(25:14):
to hold the back of my head with my hand
and sit up. I have to push my My neck
has no strength anymore because every muscle is literally paralyzed
by botox.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
But I don't get migraines, so it's like, what do
I weigh up? Can't hold my head up and don't
get migraines. So anyway, Ben would be dipping me in
our dance and I couldn't physically get back up. I
could not, And even if he pulled me up, my
head was dangling and my body would flap up. I
was like a rag doll. It was so funny, but
I was like, between the two of us, it's going
(25:46):
to be disaster.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Imagine having I just the visual image of someone having
so much botox that they can't lift their head up.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, it's not like it's in my forehead and my
forward way sound like my forehead's so heavy of botox
that I'm dragging my head along the ground.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Anything to be wrinkled through.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But yeah, so now I've got a way up. What's
more important.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I think you just do what you know what most
people do, and that is that you just put on
a nice song and then you just kind of hold
each other and you sway from side to side.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Or are you choreographed to whole dance?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You can't say, just go and sway. We were both
on Dancing with the Stars, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Had you done dancing then? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No, no, you hadn't. No, I was angling to get
on Dancing with the Stars. Something that's come out over
the weekend are some advances in the world of online dating.
If you all advances, I think it is a technological improvement.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
One might say a dating app advance.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, specifically on hinge. If you are in the world
of online dating at the moment, and this has been
something that I think every single person who is online
dating has experienced. It's when you send a message and
you get no reply, the feeling of dissatisfaction, the feeling exhaustion,
the lack of encouragement that comes when you are matching
with people online but you're getting absolutely no response from them.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And I feel like that's the core of online dating.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well is it the core of online dating?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I'm not saying it should be, but like I mean,
I was on the dating apps for like ten twelve years,
and yet the number of times that you write to
someone and they just don't write back even though you've matched.
Having said that, I did the same thing. People would
write to me and I'd be like mah and just
leave them on on Red.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
So you guys might remember, we just did an episode
recently with Therapy Jeff. It was called why is Dating
so Hard right Now? And we really got into the
nitty gritty of dating. If you are single, please go
and listen to that episode. We've also done multiple episodes
with Logan Uri. She is the director and relationship scientist
behind Hinge, so she's worked with Hinge for a very
(27:48):
very long time. And this advancement that's been brought in
with Hinge is specifically to deter people and stop them
from leaving people on red and not answering messages and
just kind of like collecting match without actually engaging with
those matches. So you guys might know that. In twenty seventeen,
they brought in a feature which was your Turn, to
remind you to write back to the people that you've
(28:10):
matched with.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, so you would have been out of the dating
game when they brought that in, Laura, but I unfortunately wasn't.
So it was annoying because you'd be on your matches
and you have you could have a hundred no you're
not swiping, you've matched right, so you're in your like
catalog of matches, and you could have one hundred matches
that you've just ignored, that have written to you that
you haven't written back. So this little it's like a
(28:33):
message alert. This alert used to come down and say
your turn, like your turn to right back, as in like, hey,
there's still ways. It was a nice way to be
like they're still waiting for you. But you could just
ignore it, so you could leave a match there for
three years if you want. Yeah, you like for any
amount of time.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Well, they've brought in a new change, So this is
it's called your turn limits, And what that's going to
do is it's going to prevent users from matching with
new people if you have eight all more unanswered messages
in your queue. So if you are somebody who uses
online dating as a way of basically like people shopping
or window shopping, but you don't have any intention of
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actually messaging those people, if you have eight or more
messages that are left unread, you will be blocked from
being able to continue to swipe until you either right
back to one or more of those people in the queue,
or you go through and delete those matches that you
have left unread. So when you hear about this, I
mean there's definitely pros and cons and we'll get into it.
But it also sounds like it's going to slow down
(29:32):
that kind of like swipe swipe swipe rhythm that a
lot of people get into, and it's going to create
a lot more adamin for people to actually go in
and do something with the matches that they've received.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I actually think it's great. That is as someone who
like I said, I had like one hundred people sitting
there at a time.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
A multiple matcher.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well, yes, it's because you want the options right and
sometimes you're bored. Sometimes you want to talk to people.
Sometimes you like, I'll keep them there as a backup.
But at the end of the day, like you're on
there wasting people time as much as you're wasting your
own time. And Logan said something that I think is brilliant.
It makes so much sense. So psychology research shows that
when we're presented with too many options, we often experience
(30:12):
analysis paralysis and decide to make no decision at all.
Your turn limits nudges you to make the decision and
help gets you closer to finding your person. But it's
so true. Think of how overwhelming it is when you
have so many options presented to you. The easiest thing
is to throw your hands off and be like it's
a too hard basket. But if you limit your options
(30:32):
or your your basket of people to five or six people,
chances are you're going to make stronger connections and you're
going to want to say, Hey, I actually do have
the time to get to know you, and I do
have the time to meet you. But when there's one
hundred people saying Hey, how are you, how is your weekend?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What are you up to? Watch?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You favorite color? Like You're like, fuck, couldn't be bothered.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And also, I mean, we've spoken about it so much,
this idea of dating fatigue. If you're having the same
small talk with fifty people at one time, the fatigue
is going to hit you a lot faster. But what
I think is so interesting about this is, and we've
spoken about Hinge quite a while ago, this idea and
their brand slogan is designed to be deleted. And at
the time when we were talking about this, I think
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we kind of took the stance a little bit of well,
that sounds like bullshit, because at the end of the day,
it is a company that makes its money on having
you continuously swipe. So this new limit that they're imposing
does seem contradictory to it being just like this machine
of wanting people to keep being in the endless dating world.
(31:32):
It actually feels like it's an app with a little
bit more of a conscience behind it. But I don't
think is it going to make a big difference to
the way that people engage with online dating. No, I
think people are still going to window shop. They're still
going to swipe for validation, They're still going to accrue
loads of matches. I don't think that this is going
to stop them from doing that.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, Hinge has done some trials and they actually have
some stats. Almost half forty eight percent of users with
your Turn Limits said the feature helps increase people's ability
to focus on quality over quantity. Meanwhile, forty five percent
said the feature helps focus on current matches, and the
same amount said that feature helps them be more thoughtful
with current matches. So I think it is going in
(32:11):
the right direction. But this is why I think it's brilliant.
I remember, and I remember this one specific example.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I remember going.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
On one day and being like I'm so bored, Like
I'm just gonna go and scroll my matches and see
two's out there. Go back.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I'll get back into the pool that I wrote to.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I went back two years. There was a match from
a conversation from two years that I hadn't written back to,
and this poor guy I hadn't really reckon he was
probably fine. So I wrote back to him. I said, Hey,
sorry for the slow response, been busy last decade. Got married.
(32:50):
I was like, sorry for the slow response, would you
want to catch up still?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
It was two years later.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Was he like yes, or I've never had a quick
He was like yeah sure, and I was like, tonight
is Cara anyway? Realize why I stopped talking to him.
It was the worst date of my life. He was
so boring and I was like, this is why we
stopped talking. This is why you should unmatch people.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You should unmatch them. But once again, Adamin, that's the problem. Look,
I think this is a hot person problem. That's all
this is. It's a hot person problem. It is, this
is Kimia. Only hot people accrue that many matches. No
they don't. They do know they spoken by a hot person.
John O's over there in the corner. No, you're also
(33:32):
a hot person, just f y. But John's over there
in the corner, nodding away, like yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's not because online dating as much as it is
the base of superficial that we judge people based on
the way they look in their photos. People who have
good profiles, who also have aesthetically pleasing photos of themselves
are going to accrue more matches. Like I understand that
is unfair, but it is the way that the world works.
So people who are more attractive. I mean, look at
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the most swiped on people on dating apps. You can
actually go on and search and be like, who are
the top ten most swiped on profiles in Australia. They'll
come up. They're all fucking hot, all of them.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Of course, because it's a looks based but that doesn't
mean that people that are not a ten aren't accruing
a lot of matches as well. To category is accruing matches,
like every person still accrues them. But of course the
supermodel is getting the super hot people and the ten
out of tens, everyone's swiping right on them. But at
the end of the day, have you seen how people
(34:28):
online date now? They don't even look at their screen,
they're out talking to friends. They just wipe right. They
just match people because then they're like, I'll go through
it later, which is half the problem, which comes back
full circle to why I think him just like, okay,
well you're wasting people's time. So let's say eight at
a time, and now it's like a tag team you
have to tag someone in to allowing you match or
like keep responding. I think it's great. It's cutting the bullshit.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I definitely agree. I definitely think it is a great feature.
But I do think that a lot of people who
use online dating are guilty of matching with people and
not replying to them. And I know it's frustrating when
you've matched with someone who you actually felt excited about matching,
But I would also put money on the fact that
you've done it to someone as well. Right, I think
we've all done it where we've matched with people and
(35:11):
then haven't really been that invested or you know, who knows.
It doesn't even come down to being invested. It's got
to do with like where you're at in your own
life and what you've got going on. Some people genuinely
just need the ego boost. But I kind of look
at online like online dating as very superficial to start with,
because I think it only you only owe someone something
(35:31):
once you've actually met up with them in real life
and you've actually invested time into them. I don't think
you owe someone a reply just because you match with them,
do you, Like, I don't think that every single person
you've matched with you owe a reply to.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
We have had this discussion before a few times. Actually
we disagree with it. If you've just matched someone.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
You had two hundred message matches.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
No, but what I'm saying, No, that's what I'm saying.
If you just match with someone, then no, you don't
owe them anything. But if you have invested time and
they having time, and you've been speaking, if you have
been speaking for two weeks and you have built this connection,
you've got this rapport, you've got this banter, you've been
making plans, then if you don't want to see them
or speak to them anymore, I do think you owe
them something because you've invested a lot of yourself emotionally
(36:17):
and mentally and physically your time, even if you haven't
met them.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I totally agree with that, though, I just don't agree
with if you match with someone that you owe them
a reply. I think you know this idea of having
an eight match limit to stop people from just matching
with people, Willy nilly. I wonder if are we as
you know, as people who are on their swiping, not
me specifically, but you know I will know I can
relate to this. I spent many years online dating before
(36:43):
I met Matt, Like I fucking dated everyone in Sydney,
to the point where I would be out. I would
be walking the Bondai promenade and I'd be like, I
know that guy. No, I don't. I've just seen him
on Tinder four times, you know, like that would happen
on the WREG.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So I have matched with people who haven't replied to me,
and I have matched people who I haven't replied to,
But I kind of don't feel like I owed them anything.
I don't feel like they owed me anything. I wasn't
so emotionally invested in a match that I expected them
to reply. Obviously, it was exciting when someone who I
kind of was like, oh he's hot, and like that
could be you know something. Yeah, I guess like I
(37:18):
didn't feel the level of disappointment from not being replied to.
And I wonder if most people, and I would love
to ask it as a pole, like how do you
feel when you match with people and you don't get
the replies? Is there a level of disappointment? Does this
affect you in a way that you are happy that
this is being implemented?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I think there is for sure, because I mean, like
it can be really soul crushing online dating one hundred percent,
and if you've matched with someone that you thought was
a vibe. Then you've written to them, you still match,
they haven't unmatched you, but they can't be bothered to
write back. It plays with your mind, it plays with
your confidence and your self esteem. And if that's happened
to you fifty times, then you're like, well, what's wrong
with me? Like, why are you matching me not talking
(37:56):
to me? You start to get in your head, right,
have you matched me and then seen something you don't like?
Have you gone onto my Instagram? I just think Hinge
is trying to position itself with this as a more
serious dating site, and that is what this your turn
limits is doing, because it's saying like, if you actually
want to make a connection, then you've got to pick
carefully because you've got eight people that you can talk to.
(38:17):
I think it's really really good.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
The only other stat I want to throw in here,
because I found this really really fascinating, is that in
twenty twenty three, there was a research study that was
done on online dating and when matches where one person
responded to the other person's first message within a day
was seventy two percent more likely to result in a date.
So if you get a response from someone within twenty
four hours of sending a message, then that is like
(38:41):
such a significant impact in you actually getting it out
of the text and into real life dating, which I
feel like people realize that anyway, But I think if
you haven't received a response in forty eight hours, like
the likelihood of getting a committed and excited response from
that person is pretty fucking slim.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
It's because we're smarter datas now from the we have
the benefit of education in relationships and dating, like all
the podcasts and the books you read, the specialists we
hear from. We are so much more educated now about
what we want and what it means. So back in
the day, you would sit on a match for if
someone didn't write back to you for two weeks, you'd
make these excuses right, like they're probably busy, which they
(39:19):
could be. But now it doesn't fly. We're like, we
know what we want, We're confident in ourselves. I want
someone that knows what they want. I want someone who's
going to write back to me. So I feel like,
with how much information we're given from podcasts like this,
specialists like logan Uri, we know now what's going to
fly and what's not going to fly. And I think
we cut the shit a lot quicker than we used to.
Maybe that also comes with age and experience, Like maybe
(39:41):
it's just that comes back to that dating fatigue where
you've done it for ten years and now you're like,
I don't want to wait for two weeks anymore because
I don't have time to wait for two weeks anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, but that's specifically you, brit In terms of like dating,
there's loads of people who are at different phases of
they're dating. I just think that there's this level of excitement,
Like if you haven't received a message back from someone
for multiple days slash weeks or two fucking years, you're like,
you're not actually that excited about me. I'm just like
the bottom of the barrel in terms of messages, Like
you've obviously worked your way through all the people that
(40:10):
you've matched with, and then I'm kind of like the
last person you've sent that to. I think I've just.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Had a bit of an epiphany because most of the
dating apps other than Bumble are all owned by the
same people. Yeah, Match Group, maybe they're trying to rebrand
so that they're more distinguished. To me, it seems as
that they're trying to make Hinge this more like conscious dating,
like you're actually trying to find a relationship, because they've
only brought the limits in on this one, like the
Bumble of the match group. Yeah, but I mean Bumble
(40:35):
is the only one who's owned separately. So if you
compare it to like Tinder or Plenty of Fish or
some of the other ones that they own, because you
know how people are like, oh, you know, all that
apps are the same and blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Maybe because they do have.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Control over the large majority of them, they're just trying
to distinguish that if you're after a relationship, you should
go on Hinge, if you're after a hookup, you should
go on Tinder. I mean, I don't really know what
the difference between all of them are, but maybe it's
actually just their way of trying to distinguish a bit
more of a brand around Hinge.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah. I agree, But I also think it'd be very
interesting to hear from people who were like on the
ground and in the trenches of online dating and see
if this actually makes any significant change or whether it's
just a little bit more of a pr stunt to
get people excited about the possibilities of finding a relationship
on Hinge.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's time for suck and Sweet our highlight now lowlaud
of the week. I'm going to kick it off. On
my way home from Romania, I was about to start
like this thirty hour journey home, multiple flights and five
hour layovers and whatever. And the wheel of my luggage
broke off as I was leaving Ben's house, just flung off,
so I had three wheels left. So I had a
(41:44):
thirty hour journey with three wheels. So I was trying
to like every time it kicks something, it falls over,
and I was like, this is fucking the worst timing,
so dumb, but it was very annoying.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Also, it wasn't leaving your fiance to come back. It
was not even in a foreign country. It was the
broken wheel.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, so I bought the sorry, very expensive luggage. I
bought it six months ago. Like that's really bad. What
happened to the luggage you had before the lag my luggage? Yeah,
but you had like really nice luggage from luggage guy.
Luggage Guy was only a small carry on a shame shame. Yeah,
it was tight. Didn't give me the big one.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
That's when you know that you're not really You're not
like the girl. You just a girl. It gave you
carry on.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
No, I was the girl at the time. I don't
even think you had big luggage. Then what my sweet
is very obviously Ben. I got to see Ben for
five days in six months. I cried my eye that
when I left. So that should be my suck. You're right,
not the broken wheel. Yeah, so my sweet was spending
(42:45):
five or six wonderful sex field, beautiful love field days
with my fiance.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's why your knees are so dry.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
My knees are just dry because it was winter.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
If my knees out of this, my knees aren't dry.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I have like moisturizing shayer butter.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
I don't know why you're so offended by dry knees.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
I don't know why you're so offended by dryneese. You're
the one that comes up looking at them.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Guys, you should see my toenails at the moment. It's
out of control, like it looks like I don't have it,
but it looks like I've got like a fungal infection
all my toenails.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
You probably do have a fun I think they're fine.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
I think they're just dry. All right, watch your so
probably my toes okay, great.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
So be.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I suck for the week. Is it all sorted itself out?
You guys know that we're doing this big renovation down
south in Ala Dullah and we had a tyler booked.
We are moving at like a rapid speed pace on
this place, and we had a tyler booked to do
the downstairs bathroom. And we received all the tiles for
the downstairs bathroom, opened up the boxes and we were
accidentally sent the wrong tiles for the flooring, which was
(43:49):
a real fucking kick in the dick because it meant
that we had to we had to pay the tyler,
we had to reschedule. So it's like the never ending
thing about renovations is that you have a budget and
then things just blow the budget because shit goes wrong,
especially when you're trying to move quickly. So we ended
up which can actually be a sweet as well. So
(44:09):
the guy that we have who's doing the build, one
of his workers randomly was up in Sydney on the
Friday and he was like, oh, I can pick up
some tiles at least enough for you to be able
to do the floors of the bathroom. So he went
and he picked them up for us, just in his
You like, nice, aussy guy picking up our tired.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I mean he's getting paid. He works it, No, he
did that, Yeah, but he works.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
He's getting for three hours and picked up tigles and
he's really nice and he got paid. He's just a
nice guy, all right. So look, that was my suck
is just I feel like at the moment it's really
rewarding and it's been really challenging. But there's a lot
of small things that have gone wrong. There's been termites,
there has been white as, there's like six dead fucking
animals in the roof, the tiles didn't arrive. It's been
(44:51):
pretty chaotic and very stressful, but also fine. And then
my sweet for the week is, as you guys know,
last week was our radio week off like it was
survey week, which means that we got to have a
week off podcasting being away. But that also meant that
I was able to spend heaps time with the girls
and also loads of time on Tony May. And I
just really came out of last week feeling like I
(45:13):
have my shit together.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
I'm a kid. You had one good week honestly, I am.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
I am ovulating, and I will have baby number three
right now. I can do this. I do this.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
That's because you weren't doing radio podcasting.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
It's true. Let's see how I am in a week's time.
I'll if you're not U laying on Tuesday's episode. But
we had a really awesome time with the kids on
Friday night. We went out and had like a family dinner.
Life is good. We're in a good spot and I
was very, very happy. And that's it. That's my suck
and my sweet for the week.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
I love that you are having a really lovely time
with all the people you love. As I said goodbye
to my.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Love, I'm so sorry. Also, I feel like I've been
saying the same suck and sweet over the last couple
of weeks, where like every time I get solid family time,
like that is my sweet. It's a good sweet, but
it's yeah, it's a byproduct of just kind of doing
the juggle at the moment between work and being a mom,
and so every time when I do get to have it,
it really is like the best part of my life.
And that's it from us, guys, Just a little reminder
(46:03):
to go and vote for us in the Mariah Carey
of the Podcast Awards, which are happening very soon. It
is the linkser in the show notes, go listener's Choice
Life on Cut. We are here for you, your virtual besties
in your ears. Every week pop go vote Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
If you've ever liked even just one episode, just do
so solid. Like one episode.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
You didn't have to love it, just like it.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
It was just okay. But if you got a chuckle
you'll learnt something.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
That is it from us guys, You know the drill.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
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Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands
were never seated. We pay our respects to their elders
past and present.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. This episode was
recorded on Cameragle Land. Girlfriend, you have really dry knees.
Thanks Laura.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thanks. I had the heat and blanket on last night.
Sucked me dry.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I found out. Yes, I yuck.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut.
I'm Brittany, I'm fucking drauma. Okay mate, it was behind
the scenes. It's not going to make the cut.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes it will. No, it's not. Yes it will.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, it's not good thing.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I edit that podcast with Keisha, so we will make sure.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That it is my knees dry. They're just a normal knee.
Laura just said, oh, your knees are.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So it's because she's been spending a lot of time
on them.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I wish. I wish. I'm too old for that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Welcome back to but mean welcome back from Romana.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I'll come back to Romania.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Brittany's jet lagged, and I also feel jet lagged.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Do you feel jetlagged because you've got kids, but you
perpetually jet lagged. I am so jet lagged the probably
the most jet lagged I have ever been in all
of my time traveling. I was pinging, wide awake the
entire night. I fell asleep an hour before I had
to get up. I couldn't turn my brain off. I
was like trying everything under the sun that I've ever
(01:36):
remembered to try and fall asleep. So you know, when
like I don't know if you've ever heard jet lag cures,
it's like, if you're ever struggling to fall asleep, they
say that you shouldn't try enforce yourself, like, don't just
lay in bed and be like, come on, you can
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, it's the worst thing because if you do that,
you then get paralysis because you just lay in bed
looking at the ceiling analysis or you're like trying to
will yourself to sleep, and then your brain's just like
overthinking and over everything.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I got up, I was like, Okay, I'll get up
and watch some TV for a bit. So watch some TV,
and I was like but then I was like, oh,
but then I remember watching the screen is the worst thing.
So I turned that screen off, went back to bed.
Then I got up an hour later and I was like,
I'll have something to eat, like that, will some milk,
you know, milk will like come? And yeah, what had
wheatbis with brown sugar and milk? Went back to bed.
Didn't work. Then I started like thinking about every single
(02:22):
thing you could possibly think about, like the anxiety.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Have I done my tax yet?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is that I paid my tax? Last night I woke up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Did I pay my phone bill?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Then the funniest thing was I was like, I know
I'll meditate, but I don't meditate on my own. I
get like one of those you know, like you're going
to Spotify and you're like forty five minute meditation or something.
Have you ever done it?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I am the exact person who says that they can't
meditate but probably needs meditation. I can't do it. I
have no interest in trying. I know all the people
who do meditate will say, and this is the thing.
If you say I'm not someone who can meditate, everyone
who does do it says you're the person that should meditate.
It'll be really good for you. Once you start doing it,
you get into good practice, it'll change your life. And
(03:04):
I'm quite happy to be highly strung.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I'm happy for you not to be highly strung. No So,
but I just put on sleep music or meditation on Spotify,
like a guided meditation, and then I just roll over,
try and go to sleep and it'll play for twenty
five minutes and turn off. So I'm like really getting
into it and it's like hands up and feel the
energy reacts, breathe. But then I don't am in the morning. Yeah,
but then I don't have the Spotify version of no ads.
(03:29):
So then an ad.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Comes in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I was like, motherfucker, man, it keeps playing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I'm like, man, it's I sped forward five minutes, Like
get out of my slumber. Put it forward like five seconds,
go back to sleep. And then I hear him say
it would really help if you could leave five stars
in review so that I could continue to grow, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Like, I need to upgrade my Spotify.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm like getting deep into my slumber and then this
guy's telling me to like swipe up.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, you can't be mad about that because it's literally
what we do. After every episode, We've just told you
how to improve your sex life. Like, hey guys, we're
not a meditation like the link stars. The heading is
sleep meditation. In the middle of the sleep meditation. That's okay,
it's all right. People have got a hustle because you
don't sleep. Speaking of hustle, this is a perfect segue.
(04:14):
There is something that I am going to ask you
to do, something that we ask you to do every year,
rolls around, drags itself out of the gutter, and that
is it's the Australian Podcast Awards.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And we Equation love it. Yeah we I mean fireworks not.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We would love it if you would go on, We're
gonna put the link in the show notes. Stop what
you're doing, drop, stop and vote. Go to the website
and go and vote for Life and Cut in the
Australian Listener's Choice Podcast Awards, yep.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I mean there's loads of different awards, but this is
the listener's choice. So this is the one, I don't
want to say the one that matters. They all matter,
but it's the only award in the Podcast Awards that
is voted by you guys, the listeners, and.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's the only one that's not a stitch up. It's political,
as all awards ceremonies always are, because there's always a
subjective nature to it, but not when it comes to
the listener's choice, because that's you guys, choosing the podcast
that you want to listen to. Well, it's the only.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Way to know that it's not political. So we have
no proof it's political. Yeah, every other award and anyone,
because if we won an award, we wouldn't say it
was political. We'd be like, but this is the one
that we Yeah, it's like the one we really want
you to take two seconds. You just click the link
and it will say what podcast do you want to
vote for? Just in case you forgot, it's Lifeline, Cut
(05:26):
Press Enter. I've just done it myself this morning, and
it's for us. It's like the Be'snies, it's the Logies,
it's the Oscar, it's like the for our industry. It's
the be all and end all. No.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But the thing is, if you go on and you vote,
you have to do your vote, you put in your
email and then you have to verify the vote by
your email. It does only take a minute all up.
It's very quick, it's very snappy. I kind of feel
like the Podcast Awards now feels a little bit of
kin to Mariah Kerry at Christmas time. Like every year we.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Kind of drive relating me to Mariah carry What.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm mean is is that you know, like Christmas is coming,
and then everyone drags out the Mariah Carey song This
is us. It's this time of year we drag out
the Hey guys, please vote for us in this podcast
towards we ask.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's the only thing we ask all year. So that's it.
We've asked. I was gonna say we're not gonna ask again.
We will. We'll probably ask next week. It's only open
for two more weeks, so we did leave it a
little bit late, which means we're probably gonna ham it
down your throat for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Britt, I want to know since you're back, and we
kind of just skimmed over it by talking about weird
meditation and also sleep deprivation. How is Romania? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, forgot I even went because I'm so jeddak Romania Romania.
It was so good to see Ben like it was.
He was at the airport for me. I didn't arrive
until two am in the morning, so he drove to
the airport waited for me. Because I have it in
my head that I always had it in my head
(06:55):
that ROMAINI is the most dangerous place in the world
that hasn't come from anywhere except like a preconceived idea
of had my whole life, just things I've read growing up,
and I don't know what it was about. So he
was waiting at the airport for me, which was uneventful
first night.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I mean, to be fair, Kisha reminded me of this
in the car. The reason why Romani has been making
on the news recently is because it's where Andrew Tate
got arrested.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And it was under house arrests.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A whole lot of human trafficking was happening, So, like,
I mean, I understand why one might get the impression
that there are some dangerous things that could happen there
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But the thing is that happens all over you, That
happens everywhere. Right, It's just said. It hit the news
because of Andrew Tate. He was under house arrest there,
but everything that I looked up and so many people
had written to me saying that they were like female
solo travelers or not even just solo, but females that
had traveled there and they loved it and that they
like raved about it. And I am essentially half my
(07:47):
time there. I am a solo female traveler because I
spend half my time there by myself. Ben goes away
for a night in two days at a time to play.
He's gone all day training and playing, so I like
to go and do stuff on my own. It was
the first first time in all my travels in the
last fifteen years, which is like nearly sixty countries I've
done it. I've been lucky to do a lot, and
(08:08):
all of them either by myself or with Sherry so
as females. It's the first time that I felt like
real unease alone. But that's not based on anything. No
one made me feel like that, Like I just normally
I feel I'm just gonna go for a wander, get lost,
go to a park, whatever. But I just felt this
something deep in me that was just like I don't
feel entirely comfortable doing that. So I still got out
(08:29):
and about, but I went straight to like hardcore tourist areas.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Do you also think that maybe it comes with age
a little bit as well, because I think about traveling
when I was in my early twenties and I've been
to India and it's the most incredible country to go to, Like,
I have only wonderful things to say about it. But
when I was in my twenties, I look back at
how I traveled at that age, and I was so careless,
and I think, how the fuck did nothing bad ever
happened to me? Whereas when I went recently this time
(08:54):
this year with my sister, it's the first time that
I've been in my thirties, and it's the first time
that I've been since kids specifically, and I was so cautious,
and it was the first time that I ever felt
a little bit more like, oh, just aware of my safety. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I think of the things that I used to do
traveling and I would never do them now. I think
it's an age thing for sure, But it's also like Romania.
I don't have a bad thing to say about it either.
I want to say that that's just this feeling that
I got. But so you're in districts district one, two, three, four, five, six,
and there are districts that you just wouldn't go to.
So people are like, oh, you're in District one, definitely
don't go past dissue four. You don't know what happens
(09:28):
past district four, So like I think I had it
in my head too. As I was walking, I was like,
what district am I in? It's an invisible border, Like
how do I know if I'm crossing it? But everyone
I encountered was nice. It had really beautiful areas. We
went to see Dracula's Castle. Sorry bucket list saw Dracula's
Castle growing up. That was like a huge part of
(09:48):
our life, right, I mean, no, Dracula's Castle.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I can't say that I grew up with like a
real sort of impression of Dracula's Castle as being like
a fundamental part of my childhood.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well maybe I didn't either. Maybe when Ben moved to Romania,
I just googled it and got in my head that's
what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Pick.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Do you tick Dracula's Castle?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, I mean, yes, you've been there. Dracula's not real,
but like he if he was real, he would have
been there too.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, I thought Transylvania was part of a fabricated story
of Dracula. It's not. It's an entire place and it's stunning.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Wow, Dracula's got taste and full of bears.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Anyway, So it was it was really like an uneventful
week or not. It wasn't there was an earthquake. I
was in an earthquake. Oh my god, it was an
an event fl at all. There was a full blown
my first ever earthquake.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You been in an earthquake?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Pretty you sound like you're on speed, because I was
like a Stracula's castle and castles this, and then the earthquake,
and then there was a bear. And then because I'm
in my head, I'm like, no one actually cares about
my trip to Romania.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So I'm trying to think of the highlights. So I'm
not an earthquake girl. And when I say earthquake girl,
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Is some people grow up slay earthquake sleigh.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hushtag.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I'm not an earthquake girl.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Quaker no Quakers are real things, Laura.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
What's a Quaker?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
A Quaker is like the religious.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh Am, I going to get canceled by the Quakers
or cacious comingy okay, says Quaker.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Member of the Society of Friends or Friends Church a
Christian group that stresses the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
that rejects outward rights and an ordained ministry, and it
has a long tradition of actively working for peace and
opposing war.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
They sound as bad as we thought.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They're a peaceful community also anti war.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They sound lovely. But what is the likelihood that we
have a lot of Quakers listening.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Zero? If you're a Quaker, you are not pro.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Life, unger or maybe you are proved me wrong anyway,
quake away. No what I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Saying when I say I'm not a earthquake girl. And
I said this on Instagram at the top, I'm glad.
Do you think it's so funny? Are you an earthquake girl?
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I've been in one earthquake. Yes, I've been an earthquake
in Indonesia, but it was very mild. Everything just rattled
around for a bit and I was like, oh sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got off. Oh my god, it's something a three
for magnitude. Where's the rest?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Where's the turn it up? Laura?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Does this splits on the ground?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Does this earthquake?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm gonna try my let over this metal chair. I'm
not an earthquake girl. And what I mean by that
is some people grow up in places, countries, cities that
have them all the time, so when they hear the
earthquake their first response isn't to do the splits on
the ground and try and get off like you, Laura.
But a lot of people don't get bothered by it
(12:40):
because they grow up with it. For me, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Wild, like startling.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It was, in fact, it was quite startling. I was
by myself. Ben was away, and Ben lives in a
huge apartment building, so I was six floors up or something,
and I felt this vibration through the floor. I was
laying down the lounge almost asleep, and the vibration woke
me up and I sat bolt upright and I was like,
(13:05):
what was that? And then it stopped for a few seconds,
which is the pre tremor apparently, and then full blown.
I thought I was gonna die. The entire building was swaying,
moving like I was moving stationary in the building. I
could feel it and see it, and everything on it
started rattling, like hectically rattling. Everything on the kitchen fell off.
(13:27):
I was like, oh my god. And I didn't realize
it was an earthquake straight away, I genuinely, and because
you're not a Quaker's a Quaker, no, But I thought
we might have been being attacked. And I'm being serious.
And I say that because Romania has the biggest NATO
base in the world, and it's also like bordering Ukraine Russia,
(13:48):
so and they're very pro Ukraine. So obviously there is
a wall going over on in Ukraine Russia that's been
going on for a very long time. There's been fighter
jets and drones that have been recorded coming over roman
Land and then like the border and then going back.
So my immediate thought wasn't to go to earthquake. My
immediate thought was like, oh my god, is that we're
(14:08):
being attacked? So I called Ben straight away and I'm like,
something's happening and I don't know what to do. He's like,
it's an earthquake. There's an earthquake. So I was like
what do I do? And apparently you just stand under
a door, don't you remember? I just stood under a
door And I was like, is this what I'm supposed
to be doing? And I was like how long do
I stay here for? I was googling how long there
are after tremors? Am I supposed to go downstairs and
(14:29):
get onto the street. Well, the whole building fall of
fire escapes.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Don't you remember being at school and learning all of
these random facts about like, Okay, so when I was
at school, I remember like, what are you doing a fire?
Obviously that's not that random and really important. What do
you do in an earthquake? Get in a bathtub, stand
under a doorframe? And I lived my life thinking that
that was an imminent threat that I was going to
be in earthquakes and I would need to know the tools,
(14:53):
Like there were so many we learn about tsunamis, what
do you do when a tsunami is coming? What are
the morning signs of a tsunami?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah? What are they?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Very happy to say that I have never witnessed yet
a tsunami. The water retracts, and it's the retraction of
the water, and often people are so like mesmerized because
it's quite an unusual thing to see that. People go
down to the beach to be like, wow, the that's
a really Laura hide and then the tsunami hits. And
that's what we learned in school. We learned so many
(15:19):
things I've never had to implement. But if I was
there with you, I would have told you get under
that door frame, girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Mate, I know what to do in an earthquake now.
And I also know what to do if I see
a bear, like I have learnt so much from going
to Ramania.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Saint There's they really didn't teach me how Like they
didn't teach me what a vow was. They learned that
in high school. They didn't teach me how to read properly.
But fuck, I'd be good an earthquake or some sort
of they didn't teach you how to read. Well, we
were that weird year. Some people were my age thirty
eight might remember this. There was like a curriculum change
that happened when I stopped teaching, you know, when we
(15:53):
were in primary school. So when we were in primary school,
there was a weird curriculum change that happened where they
changed the year that you learned like what is a syllable?
What is a noun? What is a verb? Like those
actual like the constructs of what they are? They changed
the year that you learned it in. But it meant
that that somebody fucked up and there was a gap
we just didn't learn about. We got to use seven.
(16:15):
And I remember our teachers being like, oh, you motherfuckers
don't know what a verbis.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Or you you don't know what a herbist Laura gets
use seven and she's like.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Eat eat eat, or your I still can't. Sometimes I
still do this with my left and rights for starters.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Might have been in that gap as well, because we're
the same age.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Whatever. I digress. Hey, speaking of I have a very
cute life update that I want to tell you guys about.
And I just don't know how I got here already,
because I feel like Marley just came out of my womb.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Dude, so too, I feel like she just came out
of my womb.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
She just came out of our womb, Brittany. And now
she's five and next year she starts school. So at
the moment, we're kind of like gearing up to do
orientation with the school that she's going to and kind
of like doing all the little things to get her
prepared for the fact that she's leaving daycare where she's
been at for ages now to go to this new school.
And also the new school that she's going to is
a bit of a distance away from where she currently
(17:07):
does preschool, so she's not going to school with anyone
that she knows. It's it's like gonna be a really
big transition for her. And yesterday she was standing in
the kitchen and she was singing this song, and I
was like, sweetie, what are you singing? Like, where did
you learn that song? And she goes, Mommy, it's my
graduation song. She's singing her graduation song that she's learning
(17:28):
for when she graduates preschool.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Is a green day like every person in the world's
graduation song graduate shark.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I know. I just whistled as well when I
said graduation. What is green day song?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hope you have that of your life. It's every person
I know for the last twenty years graduation song.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Why can't I say graduation?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Graduation song?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You know it's yours?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wasn't sure? I don't know. You couldn't spell? So you
can sing?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
How was I of the Tiger?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I have the.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Do you want to know what?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I have the target?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's the King of the night. That was it. We
had to be tiger and over that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That'll be great for socials later. Please do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I have the target.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's the king of them. This is Molly's graduation song. Everyone.
It's s Club seven. It's a real banger, reach.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Every high.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So she's got a backup singer while I was in.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
There, sang yes, Wow, follows it, rainbow shining.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Let's do it again? Will all come true? Let's follow
the rainbow shining over you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I can't even think of what song that is no
offense to them.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's s Club seven. It is a banger, but you're
not expected to know that reach. No, I know it's
Club seven, but I just pree mountain. Yeah. We've done
a lot of singing in this episode, and I feel
we need to concerned that people are going to be
offended by this. Sorry, guys, I'll stop singing. She's been
practicing all her dance moves and she was singing in
the kitchen. And I didn't expect to feel as emotional
(19:17):
as I felt, and I honestly just like burst out crying.
I was so I was so overcome by the fact
that we're at this stage. And Matt turned and looked
at me and he was like, Laura, she's not graduating
high school. She's not graduating to be a doctor, She's
just finishing preschool.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
This explains that, Laura. It's just made sense to me
because Laura walks in this morning, I don't know I'm
supposed to share this. She goes, I'm thinking of having
another baby.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I am.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Now it makes sense because you feel like your baby's
flying the coop and going off to big school, and
now you're having those thoughts. How's me telling you what
you're thinking? You're having those thoughts of like, am I
never going to have a newborn again? Am I out
of that stage? I'm going to go again? And I
can tell you it's a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You are emotional, and you never make decisions when you're emotional.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I am going to have another baby. Try to anyway.
I said to Marley in the car yesterday Molly and Lola,
I said, guys, how do you feel? How would you
feel if mommy and daddy had another baby? And Molly,
in all serious dead pen was like her and a
sister were both like, yes, we would love a baby.
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We love babies. And then Molly goes, sorry, mom, you're
too old.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You're too old? Wow?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Fuck you really think? And she goes, go reach for
the stars, Momy, you might want one. You just got us.
That was literally the dome. She said.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I also don't think you asked you four and five
year olds if they want a baby. I don't think
you're asksome, do you?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
No? No, No, I care about what they think. Look,
no one said I'm doing a good job with this
parenting thing. I'm just doing my best. If they said no,
I'd probably do it anyway. But at least they've had
a bit of input.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So you're actually gonna have a baby?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well, I'm gonna try not right second, maybe next year.
Your face. Sorry, Brittany, Sorry? Will you be okay if
I have a third child? Fuck? No, you barely make
it to work.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You don't message me back for five days at a time. No,
it would be a disaster, fucking disaster. Like love, you
support your hashtag friends for life, whatever, but your real
friend's gonna tell you the truth, and you give me
wild anxiety. I know what Laura's favorite thing to do is,
(21:31):
Kisha will back me up. I will message Laura and
this I actually have this. This is a very specific example.
I messaged Laura.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Here we go. What have I done wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm just trying to create. Everything I do is not
good enough.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
This is a specific example, and you'll know what as
as I say it. I messaged Laura nineteen times in
a row on I message nineteen, not one response and
asking very specific questions. Please hand need to follow up. Hey, Han,
can you just look back at this nineteen? I counted them.
Then Laura messaged me right unrelated. She didn't answer one thing.
Then she messaged me one question and forty five minutes
(22:08):
she went hello question Mark, and I was like, is.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
This bitch kidding me?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think I even screenshot and said it Takeisha, and
I was like, brous can you deal? And I even
wrote back Laura's like I need you to answer, and
I bribed her and I said, I'll answer you when
you answer my nineteen messages above.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
That did happen? I think nineteen is an exaggeration.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No, I counted them. Nah, nineteen, So this is why
you having a third trial thrown into the mix gives
me anxiety. I'm moving to Romania before you have a child.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You hate Romania.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
If you want me, if you have a child, I'm
out of here. We're long distance. I don't mean to
blackmail you.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm aware that is how awkward is it going to
be if I get pregnant and I'm like, hey, guys,
I've got some really good news. I'm pretend like you're happy.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
For me, I'm crying, but like it's actually I'm distraw.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Oh my god. Also, guys, I feel like we need
to put the preface in here because someone's going to
be like Britney's really mean to Laura friends. We're friends,
she's we're friends of our business partners. It's they're having
kids and trying to run businesses is a real pain
in the ask.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I guess i'd be happy for.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You same way that every time you say you're moving overseas,
I'm like, fucking hell, that's going to be real tough.
But like you know, we may do. We love each other.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh my gosh. Okay, last thing before we move on,
No wonder. I have so much anxiety about this wedding.
Trying to plan his wedding long distance is so hard.
But the hardest thing is trying to do our first dance.
So I don't know if you saw, if you're following
me on social media, I did post it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I did see, And I have one question. I don't
understand why you've lost all ability to hold your head
up like you're you're like a brag doll.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeap, it's next level. So Ben and I are trying
to learn our first dance, which I'm not exaggerating. I
don't think we're going to have one. It's impossible. He
is such a bad dancer.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Well, you didn't look very good for yourself. The only
glasshouses shouldn't be throwing stones.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But now I was really good. But you can only
You're only as good as your surroundings, and my surrounding
was terrible. So not only getting not dance, but part
of my migraine botox. If you're new here, I get
migraines and I'm on a migraine botox protocol.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's the only reason why Britney gets botox everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, I also had to get fake boobs and I'm joking.
So part of this migraine protocol is you get all
these botox in your head, your skull, the base of
your skull, and your neck. Now, the last time I
went to see my neurologist, which was only two weeks
before I went to see Ben, She's like, oh, I
think we need to add it to these new places.
So I got it because I was still getting some migraines.
(24:45):
So I ended up getting these botox in the front
of my neck. Here, if you're watching, you'll see but
if you're not watching, I'm holding the front of my neck.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
The platisma bands.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, it's called sterno cleido mastoid. It's sure full or
whatever you want to So I got it in front
of my neck, and I got extras in the back
of my neck. And what it means is, and I'm
not exaggerating, I can't hold my neck up. It's like
one of those things that go in the front of
the car, the bobble heads, you know, the wobble their
head around. If I'm laying down in bed, I have
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to hold the back of my head with my hand
and sit up. I have to push my My neck
has no strength anymore because every muscle is literally paralyzed
by botox.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
But I don't get migraines, so it's like, what do
I weigh up? Can't hold my head up and don't
get migraines. So anyway, Ben would be dipping me in
our dance and I couldn't physically get back up. I
could not, And even if he pulled me up, my
head was dangling and my body would flap up. I
was like a rag doll. It was so funny, but
I was like, between the two of us, it's going
(25:46):
to be disaster.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Imagine having I just the visual image of someone having
so much botox that they can't lift their head up.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, it's not like it's in my forehead and my
forward way sound like my forehead's so heavy of botox
that I'm dragging my head along the ground.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Anything to be wrinkled through.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But yeah, so now I've got a way up. What's
more important.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I think you just do what you know what most
people do, and that is that you just put on
a nice song and then you just kind of hold
each other and you sway from side to side.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Or are you choreographed to whole dance?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You can't say, just go and sway. We were both
on Dancing with the Stars, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Had you done dancing then? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No, no, you hadn't. No, I was angling to get
on Dancing with the Stars. Something that's come out over
the weekend are some advances in the world of online dating.
If you all advances, I think it is a technological improvement.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
One might say a dating app advance.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, specifically on hinge. If you are in the world
of online dating at the moment, and this has been
something that I think every single person who is online
dating has experienced. It's when you send a message and
you get no reply, the feeling of dissatisfaction, the feeling exhaustion,
the lack of encouragement that comes when you are matching
with people online but you're getting absolutely no response from them.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And I feel like that's the core of online dating.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well is it the core of online dating?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I'm not saying it should be, but like I mean,
I was on the dating apps for like ten twelve years,
and yet the number of times that you write to
someone and they just don't write back even though you've matched.
Having said that, I did the same thing. People would
write to me and I'd be like mah and just
leave them on on Red.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
So you guys might remember, we just did an episode
recently with Therapy Jeff. It was called why is Dating
so Hard right Now? And we really got into the
nitty gritty of dating. If you are single, please go
and listen to that episode. We've also done multiple episodes
with Logan Uri. She is the director and relationship scientist
behind Hinge, so she's worked with Hinge for a very
(27:48):
very long time. And this advancement that's been brought in
with Hinge is specifically to deter people and stop them
from leaving people on red and not answering messages and
just kind of like collecting match without actually engaging with
those matches. So you guys might know that. In twenty seventeen,
they brought in a feature which was your Turn, to
remind you to write back to the people that you've
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matched with.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, so you would have been out of the dating
game when they brought that in, Laura, but I unfortunately wasn't.
So it was annoying because you'd be on your matches
and you have you could have a hundred no you're
not swiping, you've matched right, so you're in your like
catalog of matches, and you could have one hundred matches
that you've just ignored, that have written to you that
you haven't written back. So this little it's like a
(28:33):
message alert. This alert used to come down and say
your turn, like your turn to right back, as in like, hey,
there's still ways. It was a nice way to be
like they're still waiting for you. But you could just
ignore it, so you could leave a match there for
three years if you want. Yeah, you like for any
amount of time.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Well, they've brought in a new change, So this is
it's called your turn limits, And what that's going to
do is it's going to prevent users from matching with
new people if you have eight all more unanswered messages
in your queue. So if you are somebody who uses
online dating as a way of basically like people shopping
or window shopping, but you don't have any intention of
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actually messaging those people, if you have eight or more
messages that are left unread, you will be blocked from
being able to continue to swipe until you either right
back to one or more of those people in the queue,
or you go through and delete those matches that you
have left unread. So when you hear about this, I
mean there's definitely pros and cons and we'll get into it.
But it also sounds like it's going to slow down
(29:32):
that kind of like swipe swipe swipe rhythm that a
lot of people get into, and it's going to create
a lot more adamin for people to actually go in
and do something with the matches that they've received.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I actually think it's great. That is as someone who
like I said, I had like one hundred people sitting
there at a time.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
A multiple matcher.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well, yes, it's because you want the options right and
sometimes you're bored. Sometimes you want to talk to people.
Sometimes you like, I'll keep them there as a backup.
But at the end of the day, like you're on
there wasting people time as much as you're wasting your
own time. And Logan said something that I think is brilliant.
It makes so much sense. So psychology research shows that
when we're presented with too many options, we often experience
(30:12):
analysis paralysis and decide to make no decision at all.
Your turn limits nudges you to make the decision and
help gets you closer to finding your person. But it's
so true. Think of how overwhelming it is when you
have so many options presented to you. The easiest thing
is to throw your hands off and be like it's
a too hard basket. But if you limit your options
(30:32):
or your your basket of people to five or six people,
chances are you're going to make stronger connections and you're
going to want to say, Hey, I actually do have
the time to get to know you, and I do
have the time to meet you. But when there's one
hundred people saying Hey, how are you, how is your weekend?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What are you up to? Watch?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You favorite color? Like You're like, fuck, couldn't be bothered.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And also, I mean, we've spoken about it so much,
this idea of dating fatigue. If you're having the same
small talk with fifty people at one time, the fatigue
is going to hit you a lot faster. But what
I think is so interesting about this is, and we've
spoken about Hinge quite a while ago, this idea and
their brand slogan is designed to be deleted. And at
the time when we were talking about this, I think
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we kind of took the stance a little bit of well,
that sounds like bullshit, because at the end of the day,
it is a company that makes its money on having
you continuously swipe. So this new limit that they're imposing
does seem contradictory to it being just like this machine
of wanting people to keep being in the endless dating world.
(31:32):
It actually feels like it's an app with a little
bit more of a conscience behind it. But I don't
think is it going to make a big difference to
the way that people engage with online dating. No, I
think people are still going to window shop. They're still
going to swipe for validation, They're still going to accrue
loads of matches. I don't think that this is going
to stop them from doing that.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, Hinge has done some trials and they actually have
some stats. Almost half forty eight percent of users with
your Turn Limits said the feature helps increase people's ability
to focus on quality over quantity. Meanwhile, forty five percent
said the feature helps focus on current matches, and the
same amount said that feature helps them be more thoughtful
with current matches. So I think it is going in
(32:11):
the right direction. But this is why I think it's brilliant.
I remember, and I remember this one specific example.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I remember going.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
On one day and being like I'm so bored, Like
I'm just gonna go and scroll my matches and see
two's out there. Go back.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I'll get back into the pool that I wrote to.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I went back two years. There was a match from
a conversation from two years that I hadn't written back to,
and this poor guy I hadn't really reckon he was
probably fine. So I wrote back to him. I said, Hey,
sorry for the slow response, been busy last decade. Got married.
(32:50):
I was like, sorry for the slow response, would you
want to catch up still?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
It was two years later.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Was he like yes, or I've never had a quick
He was like yeah sure, and I was like, tonight
is Cara anyway? Realize why I stopped talking to him.
It was the worst date of my life. He was
so boring and I was like, this is why we
stopped talking. This is why you should unmatch people.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You should unmatch them. But once again, Adamin, that's the problem. Look,
I think this is a hot person problem. That's all
this is. It's a hot person problem. It is, this
is Kimia. Only hot people accrue that many matches. No
they don't. They do know they spoken by a hot person.
John O's over there in the corner. No, you're also
(33:32):
a hot person, just f y. But John's over there
in the corner, nodding away, like yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's not because online dating as much as it is
the base of superficial that we judge people based on
the way they look in their photos. People who have
good profiles, who also have aesthetically pleasing photos of themselves
are going to accrue more matches. Like I understand that
is unfair, but it is the way that the world works.
So people who are more attractive. I mean, look at
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the most swiped on people on dating apps. You can
actually go on and search and be like, who are
the top ten most swiped on profiles in Australia. They'll
come up. They're all fucking hot, all of them.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Of course, because it's a looks based but that doesn't
mean that people that are not a ten aren't accruing
a lot of matches as well. To category is accruing matches,
like every person still accrues them. But of course the
supermodel is getting the super hot people and the ten
out of tens, everyone's swiping right on them. But at
the end of the day, have you seen how people
(34:28):
online date now? They don't even look at their screen,
they're out talking to friends. They just wipe right. They
just match people because then they're like, I'll go through
it later, which is half the problem, which comes back
full circle to why I think him just like, okay,
well you're wasting people's time. So let's say eight at
a time, and now it's like a tag team you
have to tag someone in to allowing you match or
like keep responding. I think it's great. It's cutting the bullshit.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I definitely agree. I definitely think it is a great feature.
But I do think that a lot of people who
use online dating are guilty of matching with people and
not replying to them. And I know it's frustrating when
you've matched with someone who you actually felt excited about matching,
But I would also put money on the fact that
you've done it to someone as well. Right, I think
we've all done it where we've matched with people and
(35:11):
then haven't really been that invested or you know, who knows.
It doesn't even come down to being invested. It's got
to do with like where you're at in your own
life and what you've got going on. Some people genuinely
just need the ego boost. But I kind of look
at online like online dating as very superficial to start with,
because I think it only you only owe someone something
(35:31):
once you've actually met up with them in real life
and you've actually invested time into them. I don't think
you owe someone a reply just because you match with them,
do you, Like, I don't think that every single person
you've matched with you owe a reply to.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
We have had this discussion before a few times. Actually
we disagree with it. If you've just matched someone.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
You had two hundred message matches.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
No, but what I'm saying, No, that's what I'm saying.
If you just match with someone, then no, you don't
owe them anything. But if you have invested time and
they having time, and you've been speaking, if you have
been speaking for two weeks and you have built this connection,
you've got this rapport, you've got this banter, you've been
making plans, then if you don't want to see them
or speak to them anymore, I do think you owe
them something because you've invested a lot of yourself emotionally
(36:17):
and mentally and physically your time, even if you haven't
met them.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I totally agree with that, though, I just don't agree
with if you match with someone that you owe them
a reply. I think you know this idea of having
an eight match limit to stop people from just matching
with people, Willy nilly. I wonder if are we as
you know, as people who are on their swiping, not
me specifically, but you know I will know I can
relate to this. I spent many years online dating before
(36:43):
I met Matt, Like I fucking dated everyone in Sydney,
to the point where I would be out. I would
be walking the Bondai promenade and I'd be like, I
know that guy. No, I don't. I've just seen him
on Tinder four times, you know, like that would happen
on the WREG.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So I have matched with people who haven't replied to me,
and I have matched people who I haven't replied to,
But I kind of don't feel like I owed them anything.
I don't feel like they owed me anything. I wasn't
so emotionally invested in a match that I expected them
to reply. Obviously, it was exciting when someone who I
kind of was like, oh he's hot, and like that
could be you know something. Yeah, I guess like I
(37:18):
didn't feel the level of disappointment from not being replied to.
And I wonder if most people, and I would love
to ask it as a pole, like how do you
feel when you match with people and you don't get
the replies? Is there a level of disappointment? Does this
affect you in a way that you are happy that
this is being implemented?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I think there is for sure, because I mean, like
it can be really soul crushing online dating one hundred percent,
and if you've matched with someone that you thought was
a vibe. Then you've written to them, you still match,
they haven't unmatched you, but they can't be bothered to
write back. It plays with your mind, it plays with
your confidence and your self esteem. And if that's happened
to you fifty times, then you're like, well, what's wrong
with me? Like, why are you matching me not talking
(37:56):
to me? You start to get in your head, right,
have you matched me and then seen something you don't like?
Have you gone onto my Instagram? I just think Hinge
is trying to position itself with this as a more
serious dating site, and that is what this your turn
limits is doing, because it's saying like, if you actually
want to make a connection, then you've got to pick
carefully because you've got eight people that you can talk to.
(38:17):
I think it's really really good.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
The only other stat I want to throw in here,
because I found this really really fascinating, is that in
twenty twenty three, there was a research study that was
done on online dating and when matches where one person
responded to the other person's first message within a day
was seventy two percent more likely to result in a date.
So if you get a response from someone within twenty
four hours of sending a message, then that is like
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such a significant impact in you actually getting it out
of the text and into real life dating, which I
feel like people realize that anyway, But I think if
you haven't received a response in forty eight hours, like
the likelihood of getting a committed and excited response from
that person is pretty fucking slim.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
It's because we're smarter datas now from the we have
the benefit of education in relationships and dating, like all
the podcasts and the books you read, the specialists we
hear from. We are so much more educated now about
what we want and what it means. So back in
the day, you would sit on a match for if
someone didn't write back to you for two weeks, you'd
make these excuses right, like they're probably busy, which they
(39:19):
could be. But now it doesn't fly. We're like, we
know what we want, We're confident in ourselves. I want
someone that knows what they want. I want someone who's
going to write back to me. So I feel like,
with how much information we're given from podcasts like this,
specialists like logan Uri, we know now what's going to
fly and what's not going to fly. And I think
we cut the shit a lot quicker than we used to.
Maybe that also comes with age and experience, Like maybe
(39:41):
it's just that comes back to that dating fatigue where
you've done it for ten years and now you're like,
I don't want to wait for two weeks anymore because
I don't have time to wait for two weeks anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, but that's specifically you, brit In terms of like dating,
there's loads of people who are at different phases of
they're dating. I just think that there's this level of excitement,
Like if you haven't received a message back from someone
for multiple days slash weeks or two fucking years, you're like,
you're not actually that excited about me. I'm just like
the bottom of the barrel in terms of messages, Like
you've obviously worked your way through all the people that
(40:10):
you've matched with, and then I'm kind of like the
last person you've sent that to. I think I've just.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Had a bit of an epiphany because most of the
dating apps other than Bumble are all owned by the
same people. Yeah, Match Group, maybe they're trying to rebrand
so that they're more distinguished. To me, it seems as
that they're trying to make Hinge this more like conscious dating,
like you're actually trying to find a relationship, because they've
only brought the limits in on this one, like the
Bumble of the match group. Yeah, but I mean Bumble
(40:35):
is the only one who's owned separately. So if you
compare it to like Tinder or Plenty of Fish or
some of the other ones that they own, because you
know how people are like, oh, you know, all that
apps are the same and blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Maybe because they do have.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Control over the large majority of them, they're just trying
to distinguish that if you're after a relationship, you should
go on Hinge, if you're after a hookup, you should
go on Tinder. I mean, I don't really know what
the difference between all of them are, but maybe it's
actually just their way of trying to distinguish a bit
more of a brand around Hinge.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah. I agree, But I also think it'd be very
interesting to hear from people who were like on the
ground and in the trenches of online dating and see
if this actually makes any significant change or whether it's
just a little bit more of a pr stunt to
get people excited about the possibilities of finding a relationship
on Hinge.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's time for suck and Sweet our highlight now lowlaud
of the week. I'm going to kick it off. On
my way home from Romania, I was about to start
like this thirty hour journey home, multiple flights and five
hour layovers and whatever. And the wheel of my luggage
broke off as I was leaving Ben's house, just flung off,
so I had three wheels left. So I had a
(41:44):
thirty hour journey with three wheels. So I was trying
to like every time it kicks something, it falls over,
and I was like, this is fucking the worst timing,
so dumb, but it was very annoying.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Also, it wasn't leaving your fiance to come back. It
was not even in a foreign country. It was the
broken wheel.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, so I bought the sorry, very expensive luggage. I
bought it six months ago. Like that's really bad. What
happened to the luggage you had before the lag my luggage? Yeah,
but you had like really nice luggage from luggage guy.
Luggage Guy was only a small carry on a shame shame. Yeah,
it was tight. Didn't give me the big one.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
That's when you know that you're not really You're not
like the girl. You just a girl. It gave you
carry on.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
No, I was the girl at the time. I don't
even think you had big luggage. Then what my sweet
is very obviously Ben. I got to see Ben for
five days in six months. I cried my eye that
when I left. So that should be my suck. You're right,
not the broken wheel. Yeah, so my sweet was spending
(42:45):
five or six wonderful sex field, beautiful love field days
with my fiance.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's why your knees are so dry.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
My knees are just dry because it was winter.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
If my knees out of this, my knees aren't dry.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I have like moisturizing shayer butter.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
I don't know why you're so offended by dry knees.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
I don't know why you're so offended by dryneese. You're
the one that comes up looking at them.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Guys, you should see my toenails at the moment. It's
out of control, like it looks like I don't have it,
but it looks like I've got like a fungal infection
all my toenails.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
You probably do have a fun I think they're fine.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
I think they're just dry. All right, watch your so
probably my toes okay, great.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
So be.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I suck for the week. Is it all sorted itself out?
You guys know that we're doing this big renovation down
south in Ala Dullah and we had a tyler booked.
We are moving at like a rapid speed pace on
this place, and we had a tyler booked to do
the downstairs bathroom. And we received all the tiles for
the downstairs bathroom, opened up the boxes and we were
accidentally sent the wrong tiles for the flooring, which was
(43:49):
a real fucking kick in the dick because it meant
that we had to we had to pay the tyler,
we had to reschedule. So it's like the never ending
thing about renovations is that you have a budget and
then things just blow the budget because shit goes wrong,
especially when you're trying to move quickly. So we ended
up which can actually be a sweet as well. So
(44:09):
the guy that we have who's doing the build, one
of his workers randomly was up in Sydney on the
Friday and he was like, oh, I can pick up
some tiles at least enough for you to be able
to do the floors of the bathroom. So he went
and he picked them up for us, just in his
You like, nice, aussy guy picking up our tired.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I mean he's getting paid. He works it, No, he
did that, Yeah, but he works.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
He's getting for three hours and picked up tigles and
he's really nice and he got paid. He's just a
nice guy, all right. So look, that was my suck
is just I feel like at the moment it's really
rewarding and it's been really challenging. But there's a lot
of small things that have gone wrong. There's been termites,
there has been white as, there's like six dead fucking
animals in the roof, the tiles didn't arrive. It's been
(44:51):
pretty chaotic and very stressful, but also fine. And then
my sweet for the week is, as you guys know,
last week was our radio week off like it was
survey week, which means that we got to have a
week off podcasting being away. But that also meant that
I was able to spend heaps time with the girls
and also loads of time on Tony May. And I
just really came out of last week feeling like I
(45:13):
have my shit together.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
I'm a kid. You had one good week honestly, I am.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
I am ovulating, and I will have baby number three
right now. I can do this. I do this.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
That's because you weren't doing radio podcasting.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
It's true. Let's see how I am in a week's time.
I'll if you're not U laying on Tuesday's episode. But
we had a really awesome time with the kids on
Friday night. We went out and had like a family dinner.
Life is good. We're in a good spot and I
was very, very happy. And that's it. That's my suck
and my sweet for the week.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
I love that you are having a really lovely time
with all the people you love. As I said goodbye
to my.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Love, I'm so sorry. Also, I feel like I've been
saying the same suck and sweet over the last couple
of weeks, where like every time I get solid family time,
like that is my sweet. It's a good sweet, but
it's yeah, it's a byproduct of just kind of doing
the juggle at the moment between work and being a mom,
and so every time when I do get to have it,
it really is like the best part of my life.
And that's it from us, guys, Just a little reminder
(46:03):
to go and vote for us in the Mariah Carey
of the Podcast Awards, which are happening very soon. It
is the linkser in the show notes, go listener's Choice
Life on Cut. We are here for you, your virtual besties
in your ears. Every week pop go vote Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
If you've ever liked even just one episode, just do
so solid. Like one episode.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
You didn't have to love it, just like it.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
It was just okay. But if you got a chuckle
you'll learnt something.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
That is it from us guys, You know the drill.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Tell your mum tea dad, tea dog. Tear friends and
share the love because we love
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