May 23, 2025 • 27 mins
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- Producer Grace had a Facebook Marketplace disaster
- Should it be okay to pick the gender of your baby?
- Who did your kids call that they shouldn't have?
- TikTok sparks debate on 'chivalry for pregnant women'
- Marlie drew a nude of Laura at school
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode was recorded on Cameragle Land.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi guys, and.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura,
I'm Brittany, and this is our radio show where we
package up all the best bits from the Pickup throughout
the week, our national radio show, and we bring it
here so that you don't have to listen to the radio.
We want to listen to the radio though, Yeah, because
you know there's ads and you should listen to those as.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, because we're on radio, and that's also important.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I love this bit because we get to package up
the ones that we like doing the best, like little
bits and pieces and the stories that we don't share
in the pod that are great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
And we had an important chat this week that I liked,
but about my sister Sherry and experience that she had
been a new mum breastfeeding on a train.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
And it was sort of off the back.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Of a TikToker who was posting about her experience being
heavily pregnant on a pack train and the idea of
chivalry being dead and no one offering their seats anymore
for pregnant women, and it is a very interesting discussion.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, and I do think like off the back. The
more I thought about it, And I'm not saying this
because I'm pregnant. I don't think that I personally have
had any negative experiences, but I think that the pendulum
kind of was in one direction, Like there was a
lot of support and chivalry around women being pregnant and
being helpful, and now I think that we are sort
(01:18):
of as a society, we're a little bit more closed
off to being helpful to people. And when you were
talking about what Sherry experienced, it's a very sad outcome.
But I also am not particularly surprised by it. Put
it that way, Yeah, well I.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Was surprised by it.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I didn't think we'd gone down the Google like that anyway,
that's all coming on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, look, I also shared a story on the show
about something that Marley overshared at school about me. So
I had a very funny and interesting conversation with one
of the after school care teachers about a particular picture
that Marley had drawn, which was very generous and very kind.
And let me tell you, it is not going on
the fridge that one.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's funny because you think that, like the overshare in
the situation is going to be you being my national
radio podcasting.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But she trumped you.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And you know what, I also think I've deserved this
because I've told so many stories about my kids that
she was just like, fuck, mum, you know what, I've
got one up on you ll not that she knows.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
She doesn't listen to the pod.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do you know what she knows? But she knows that
I know the limit. Mostly I think I know the limit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I think you've given a lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Let's get into it. There is an etiquette when it
comes to Facebook marketplace right, Like it's kind of an
unspoken etiquette about how you interact with the buyer and
the seller and what you do when you've got to
pick the thing up from their house and X y Z,
Like I think most people know how to be when
it comes to bask like a place.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's pretty annoying though, like how many conversations you have
about how much something is? Can you do a better price?
You talk to them for like where are you when's
a good time? Talked to them for three days about
picking up something for twenty bucks and then they're like
not and then they go then they got yeah, and
you're like just wasting my life.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We were talking about funny experiences that we'd had off
the back of it, because everyone's had like a bit
of a cooked experience if you've used it enough times.
I had something happened recently where I wasn't even selling it.
I was giving away a coffee table. I was like,
just someone come and take this coffee table off my hands.
And this man came into my house. I was there
with the kids, Matt wasn't home. He comes into the house.
Forty five minutes later, he is still in my house
(03:14):
having a chat. Lovely English guy. He's moving to Australia.
Just give me his life story. Maybe he's trying to
make some new friends. Maybe he was talking about his wife.
His wife was having a baby. Then he wanted to
know about the dog. And I was like, please just
take the coffee table and get out of my house.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'll pay you to go.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. I was like, I'll give you the twenty dollars
to lead an. I had to pretend like I needed
to go and have a shower and that the kids
need a nat. My kid's full. She doesn't n ask.
He's like, I'll watch the kids, want you shall But
there was one story that came up producer Grace here
she is, I don't think that anyone could top the
Facebook marketplace story that you had. There was a lot
of trust that was put in you. Yes there was.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But my wife, Diana, she is the sort of person
that gets really into hobbies and just loves buying everything
before she's even had to go at it. Yeah, so
a couple of weeks ago she was like, I want
to get really into surfing. Has never surfed in her life,
and she was like, this is my thing now. So
he organized this meet up to get this surfboard off
Facebook marketplace. The guy was like, you know what, I'm
actually out for the day, but I'm going to pop
(04:12):
it next to this table blah blah blah in the garage.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And I was like, great, We're sweet. We drove an
hour and a half there. How much was he charging
for us surfboard in the garage?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Down south? Down south?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But it was a good price, good price, great.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Surfboard looked good for beginners. We're like, were set and
I was like, I will indulge you this once, but
this will be the last surfboard you're buying anyway. So
we get there, find the surfboard exactly where he said,
next to the table. And then we're like, okay, it's
not going to fit in the car. We're going to
have to rope it to the roof. So we're in
the kind of mentality of if he can't tie knots
(04:48):
tie lots, so we have like.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
S that's the saying.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
So we've tied it all down. We're driving back on
the freeway. We're like, we've nailed this, but then the
surfboard starts flapping.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yep, the wind that gets under the surfboard on the
roof of your car. We're about to lose this surfboard
that we've just purchased. My wife's new hobby, who's.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
So excited about it. It's flapping, it's flapping, and we're
like heart thumping. You can't even pull over because it's
like a bit on a highway. So we get home
and we just made it. There's like ropes flying everywhere,
and we're like, this is so dangerous. I cannot believe
that we've made it back with this surfboard. Take a
picture of it to send it to the guy and go,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We just made it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
A bit.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Know where this is going. He sent back, that's not
my surfboard. He just stole some. We accidentally we went
into the garage.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
It was exactly where he said, but it was his
roommate's surfboard.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Stole someone's surfboard, so it was the right I thought
you'd into the wrong house.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes, no, it was the roommate's surfboard, much fancier than
the one.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We were picking up.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We were like, we've got that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You have to drive it back. Had to drive all
the way back.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
We learned how to tie nots the second time around,
so at least the surfboard.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Stayed attached to the car. I'm just imagining you're getting
this surfboard back. It's so bad enoughter being tired to
a couple of roof racksy like, there it is, give
me the other one. It's a trade up.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
When I stole that dog from the person's car.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
From Memphs, you thought we were saving it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Lost and I took it from the lawn and I
was like, don't worry, sweet angel, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gonna save you. I had to flick two days.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It turns out.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
When I finally contacted the owner, he was so grateful.
He was like, thank you so much for being worried sick,
and I was like, tell me where you live or
drop it back. He gave me his address and I
was like.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Pretty sure that's where I took it from.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I was like, you're welcome, Like it's crazy out there,
be careful.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Took the dog back, mortified.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So good grace. When you first held that story, I
thought you'd gone into the wrong house, but you didn't
have a choice returning it since you so evidently took
the wrong one. Now there is debate that's erupting online
at the moment, and off the back of doing my
gender reveal on this show only a couple of weeks ago,
I feel like the timing is quite interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I understand that for some couples, gender disappointment is a
very very real thing, and wanting to be able to
choose whether you have a girl or a boy in
some instances ideally would be something that some parents would
like to explore. I know that when Matt found out
that he was having my husband a third baby girl,
there was a little bit of him that had a
(07:31):
moment of sadness, and we spoke about it on the show.
He's thrilled to be a dad to another girl. But
at the same time, I think he always expected that
he would also be a dad to a boy and
that's not going to happen for him now unless he
does it with another woman at some point down the track.
But the reason why we're talking about this is because
there's a content creator. Her name is Caitlin Bailey. She's
a single mum. She's got three kids, two of them
(07:52):
are boys, and she has one girl now. She's just
paid forty five thousand dollars to go overseas and do
gender selection on an IVF treatment where you can choose
the gender of your unborn child. There's a lot of
moral debates surrounding this because it's something that's currently still
illegal in Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yea, And I think she was maybe a bit taken
aback about the pushback against it because she was pretty
open about her story talking about it, and I think
that the public's response has quite shocked her.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
She has said, if.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We've got the technology that allows us to do this
and it's not hurting anybody, I don't understand why it's
not an option here in Australia because sex selection of
your embryos is illegal in Australia.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's not an option. You can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You absolutely cannot choose to test which sex you want
and to implant it. But there are a lot of
countries overseas America you can do it.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So this is why she spend forty five thousand dollars to.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Go and do it.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
She feels like she needs to balance her family.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But the idea of her saying I don't understand why
it can't be done here, I do think she hasn't
thought about the broader issues surrounding this. And there have
been a few people off the back of this debate
that have.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Made some really good points.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
There's no guarantee that you might have a child a
signed female at birth who later identifies as trade totally,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean there's other things in this as well. Obviously,
in some cultures having a boy is more desirable, so
it might create like an unequal gender population which would
cause issues down the track. But also I mean, as
a mum of two little girls and I'm now having
a third little girl, even if I had the opportunity
to select the gender of my children, I wouldn't And
(09:24):
the reason for that is is because I feel as
though it puts so much pressure on that child to
be the specific gender that you wanted. It puts so
much pressure on whatever you thought that relationship was going
to be or that dynamic was going to be. Like
just because you have a little boy, doesn't mean they're
going to be into little boy things, doesn't mean they're
going to be a little quote unquote traditional little boy,
(09:44):
and vice versa. The same for a girl. And I
guess I come to it now as a mum of
two girls, both of which are completely different children, Like
both my girls are so so different, and so I
feel as though I've had two different experiences of motherhood
with them individually, because there's such their own, little unique
people that I don't feel as though I'm missing out
(10:06):
on something by not having a boy. I guess the
thing is in our in all cultures, really, gender becomes
something that people are so fixated on, and this idea
of having a balanced family, to think that you have
two little boys at home and a little girl at home,
that that's something you can't be happy with because you
don't have a balance, Like families aren't perfect. And I
kind of hate the way that the terminology is being
(10:27):
built around this.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
To be honest, it doesn't bother me that she's done it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What else I found interesting is off the back of that,
there's also discussions about the fact that a lot of
people think you shouldn't genetically test your embryos. They think
that that well, they think that even that comes down
to like a type of selection, Whereas I will disagree
with that. I have my own embryos that I have
genetically tested, and there's a reason for it. I have
(10:51):
had embryos that had things wrong with them and couldn't
and didn't survive, and if they were implanted in me
there would have been a danger to us both and
a high risk of miscarriage. So these kind of things,
genetically testing is just doing the best thing for mother
and child in the future and to reduce help reduce
things like a risk of miscarriage.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So I would like fight that argument.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I agree, but I think these are two different things.
Genetic testing is something that happens during pregnancy anyway. You know,
you have your I just had my twenty one week
morphology scans, you know, so I'm going to find out
if everything's tracking long fine, you have your NIPT scan
to make sure that your blood works and everything's fine.
And that's so that mums can have a greater control
over the life that they're going to live and also
(11:31):
over the quality of life that that child's going to have.
But this conversation around gender and choosing a gender, that's
not a disorder, that's not a chromosomal abnormality. That's not
something that's where the baby's not developing in the way
that it should.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
It's a family aesthetic choice.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's an aesthetic yeah, or it's an experience. Don't get
me wrong, I'm not outraged by it. I don't care
enough to be like jumping on the pylon of this.
I just think for me, if I had the choice,
I wouldn't explore it. I think it's a lot of
need to pay for something that's very specific that you
don't have control over.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Anyway, there's a video that came up on my feed
that had been absolutely hysterics. I do want to preface
this by saying I believed it at the start. I
had to go and do a deep dive to find
out it was a print call. But it's this five
year old Irish girl that calls the demolition company in
Ireland to knock a school down.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Have a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
My name's Becky.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yes, I have a proposal for you.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Are you the demolition man, Yes, he's the top boss.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What's okay?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I want you to help me destroy my school.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Do you want to blow up?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Couldn't blow it up?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Or knock it down?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Whatever, whatever you want done, and you just make.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Sure that they're all in the building when you.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Knock it down, you put all the names on us.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I give you a.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Brilliant It's like a ten minute call where she's saying, like,
my teachers, may we do homework?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Knocked the school down.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The demolition companies in like absolute hysterics.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But it made me think, have your kids ever done this.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Where they've called someone accidentally or they've.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Got I mean, my kids are not like they're not
that age, Like they're not at an age where they
can live. Yeah, but five is not old enough to
be like, do you know what, I'm gonna call a
demolition company and get them to knock the school down.
I also don't thinks it, so I don't they're they're
filled with that much hatred. But look, I do think
their kids do things with phones and they'll they'll call people,
but they don't always understand the repercussions of what they're doing.
(13:32):
We had one instance about six months ago, so Marley
would have just been five or five and a half,
and she was with her cousins and they were playing
on a payphone. Her cousins are all similar age, and
I was like, what are they doing? And I could
see that they were laughing really hard about it, and
I was like, oh, I don't like that. I walked
over and they just called Triple zero and someone had
answered the phone, and I obviously I gave them the
(13:55):
full schooling on why that was so problematic. And she
was so upset because she didn't really understand what it
was that she'd done, Like she had no comprehension about
the magnitude of why that's a problem you funny, No,
she literally they just pressed some buttons and then someone
answered it and they you know, and she was like,
it's the police, Like she didn't know what was going on.
But like I remember being a kid and doing prank
(14:16):
calls and thinking I was so funny. I'd call my
neighbor I'd pretend to be someone really confused OLGA.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
At the time, prank calls gave mem anxiety.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I couldn't do them. I couldn't even do a knock
and run. I was like a pretty goodie two show.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, where one of those radio shows that can't do
prank calls because everybody freaks out and freezes up. No,
it's true. Well, look, actually we've got some calls coming through.
Speaking of nat, who did your kids call?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Oh my goodness. It was the most traumatic experience with.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
My adult life.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I think had at the time six and a half
year old daughter, and you know hashtag mom life. I
hadn't been in the working game for a while, and
I finally got a gig for this new job, and
the first thing they asked me to do was a
FaceTime call with about seven or eight other people, the
HR team, the CEOs, the bosses, like, there's some well
(15:03):
known people here in the mix who are like in
the spotlight. I'll just say that I want to give
their names up. But I had the FaceTime call. Everything
was great, And then later that day I actually went
out and left the kid at home with her dad,
and she asked if she could FaceTime all of her
cousins and I said, not a problem. It's the group call,
(15:23):
the last group call on the iPad, and I had
my phone obviously, and that was fine. And then I
got home and my daughter said, Mommy, I spoke to
a really funny man on FaceTime today.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
And I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
What do you mean he spoke to a really funny
she gaess when I called my cousins, and I was like,
was it your uncle? Was it?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
And I had a look into my shock and horror.
She had FaceTime that entire last work meeting call and
the person that she'd FaceTime who answered was the CEO,
was the BOS and the call went for eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Why was he spending eight minutes of his day talking
to a sip.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Rolled To this day, we have not addressed the Ellison
in the room. I had not discussed this with my bosses.
My child can't articulate what was said, and it's just
this mystery, and I'm happy for it to stay there
because I don't know what happened in that eight minutes,
but it was truly horrifying.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That is hilarious also, like why would you just be
like you got the wrong number, sweety You.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Always like go get your mom.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Because it would have come up with your name. Two
to eight minutes. That's a full converse. That's longer than
I speak to my own mother on the phone. Like,
that's a long time. My god, Thanks Mat. We've also
got back on the line back, who did your kids call?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
My son would have been about three at the time,
and my husband was working outside and I've just kind
of needed a shower, stat him on the floor of
the bathroom, given him my phone, John what I had
to do so I could have a five minute shower
in peace. And then my husband comes running through the
door about five minutes later and snatches the phone out
(16:55):
of your hand.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
It's like everyone's just called me. She's got live on it.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, your three year old went live on Instagram three
only fans.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You didn't get money from that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's absolutely dem No one wants to be shot from
the ground up. Goddamn.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
No one wants to be shot naked when they don't
know either.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I was mortified.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
That is so not a voice call, but yeah, probably
a little bit worse.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh my god, Beck, that's amazing makes my favorite.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I never want to have.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Kids find the right buttons at the right time to
open the up.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And oh, this is my fear. Like, my kids often
take my phone and they like record funny videos on
like the video app or whatever. But my fear is
is that one day they're gonna either accidentally post something
to Instagram or they're going to open it up and
just like have a chat on my Like, I live
with this fear.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I think that this is that's warranted.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, maybe should stop.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
There's a well named Frankie.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
She's a TikToker thirty five thousand followers.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
She posts a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
She's heavily pregnant, and she's posted a video that's gone
bonkers started a pretty heated debate online. She recently was
on a train that was absolutely packed to the brim,
like people sitting everywhere, people standing in the middle of
the train, and she herself was standing. In this video,
she's sort of filmed herself standing up, heavily pregnant, filmed around,
shown everyone sitting down, and she just said chivalry for
(18:27):
pregnant women doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I still can't believe not one.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Person even offered as in even offered to stand up
so she could sit down.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Which the ridiculous thing about this is like usually on
trains there's usually a separate part of seats which are
for people who are having no poor mobility or needs
assistance or whatever, Like, there's seats there that people know
to get up from.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, And I think about when I grew up, it
was always taught if I was ever in a position
like that, that you would always stand up and offer
your seat to elderly, somebody disadvantaged or pregnant women like
that was just what I learned as a child, and
I thought that was a really standard thing. But some
of the comments in this TikTok are so disgusting. I
want to read you a few Why is your pregnancy
(19:09):
anyone else's issue? Why is your pregnancy my problem? I
hate this societal expectation. I mean, it was your choice
to get pregnant, not theirs. Hey, you wanted a quality,
you got equality, y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
They're American. I'm sorry I really went into that, y'all.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
What is with that I'm a mother, I'm more important
than you, bow down to me attitude and things like I.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Don't care that you're pregnant. I care that I've had
a long day, my.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Back end, feet hurt, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Like this is just the theme that was on this TikTok,
and I was actually disgusting, you know what, Look I mean,
I had something happen to me when I had Lola.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
She was only little and she was in the car.
It was Christmas time. We were going into the shopping center.
And you know how like in Big West Fields they
always have like the pram sections.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So but that's not even Big Westfields.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Every shopping center now, even the little ones have like
parking with prams.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yes it's parking prams. It's just an area where you can,
you know, easy duck in if you're a mom. Anyway,
it was Christmas time, it was hell busy, and I
had already had my indicator, and I was waiting to
go into this parking spot which was right in the prams.
And as I was waiting to go into the parking spot,
someone else had pulled up, so they kind of blocked
me from going in, which meant that this woman took
advantage of it, and she snuck in and took my space.
(20:19):
Didn't have a kid, took my space and I wound
down my window and I was like, dude, come on,
I've got a baby in the car. She'd been screaming
for twenty minutes. We've been driving around this car park,
and she yelled out the window. It's your choice. You
decided to have kids.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That grinds my gears, Like I would have been absolutely furious.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh I did. I was like, I wish your mother
didn't have any kids. And then I was like, oh
my god, I need to stop.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But do you know what I think?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I'm not well. I think that the people that are
making these comments assumption haven't been pregnant or there men
who's maybe their partners haven't had a baby, or maybe.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They don't know the impact on the body.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't know. I also think perception around pregnancy has
changed a little bit. Also, like the perception to kids
on planes, Like a lot of people have issue is
now with children flying on planes and the expectation that
maybe parents expect too much when actually, like other people
around them shouldn't have to bend to the kids on
the planes.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, this happened to my sister recently. So I
was over visiting my fiance in Italy. A couple of
weeks ago, and my sister was overseas as well. She's
got a at the time, like six month old baby,
and she was premy so she's actually a very small
baby anyway, like a tiny little thing. And my sister
was on the train, had to travel two and a
half hours to where we were. The train was packed
(21:31):
like sardines, right, and so Cherry's standing up holding this
baby because there's no room to put in a pram
for two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Fine, not fine, well no, but Sherry, that's what Sherry said.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Write her words.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
She's like, fine, I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Did I choose to have a baby.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, I'm happy to stand up. I'm not gonna ask
anyone to sit down.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But then she had to breastfeed. No one moved, no
one offered. I've seen the pictures. She's sitting on the
ground in a corner with all these men standing over
a bit, not for any other reason than it's sardin's right.
It's just hacked standing over a while she's trying to
breastfeed a baby and protect it from being like bumped
by luggage and bumped by people. And she's like people
were looking at me on the ground in my situation,
(22:11):
and not one person offered, And I found that's so
sad and shows like I didn't want them to give
up my seat for the rest of the trip. I'd
obviously been standing for an hour. I just wanted somewhere
safe to breastfeed for ten minutes, and I would have
gotten back up, but everyone just looked out a blatantly
nine looked away, And I thought, what kind of a
world of we living in where there is not one
person on that train that would see someone in a
more vulnerable position and offer to help.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I think that that's a really, really, such a shitty
example of people being selfish, really, I mean, And also
we can sit her and be like, yes, of course
someone decides to have kids. Guess what someone decided to.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Have you totally at the end of the way your
mom to be able to sit down.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Your mom was pregnant once upon a time too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I read these reactions and apart from that woman who
yelled at me in a car park one time, it
was Christmas and she was just full of holidays here,
I feel like most people are good people, Like I've
not had experiences where people haven't been helpful. I've had
loads of experiences where I couldn't get a pram up
the stairs and someone stop and help me carry the
pram or carry things because I had too much. Like
I would say, overwhelmingly, my experiences have been good, and
(23:13):
so it's really sad to me to hear it specifically
Sherry who's a new mum who experienced something like that,
because that's just really shit.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, I think that's the difference, right, they're the quick
little things that not really inconvenient to anyone. But people
have this really weird attachment to their seats when it
involves giving up.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
A seat for something.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
But you guys, remember, if you're listening right now, a
woman carrying baby's like they're running a marathon every single day.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So throw them a bone, give them a.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Seat, britt. I feel like being a parent it's hard.
It's hard. Sometimes it's really hard, actually, and that's it
from us today.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
That's why the show we have discovered it is indeed hot.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I feel like it comes part and parcel that sometimes
your kids are going to do stuff that embarrasses you.
Oh yeah, and you just got to take it on
the chin like a champion because they don't really know.
I don't think they do. Sometimes maybe it's malicious, but
other times I think it's really innocent and they just
don't know that what they've said or what they've done
is kind of not appropriate.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, adults, Tan, It's like when you see those videos
go around where like the little kid goes to school
and tells everyone that they heard mommy and daddy screaming
in the room in the night, Like you know, when
they get we were playing gorillas, Yeah, we're playing wrestling.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah yeah, look, I mean we've all got our own
version of that with our own kids. But I went
in to pick up Mally May. She's five, she's in kindergarten.
I went in to pick her up from school the
other day and she goes to after school care. So
I walked into after school care and there's all these lovely,
really young, beautiful young girls who like work in the
after school care center, right, got it, And they're gorgeous
(24:39):
and they take such good care of the kids. Walk
in and the girl who's like the main director, she
just starts kickling and I was like, oh, nice to
see you too, darling, and she goes, I've got something
for you She's like, Marley's been drawing some pictures cute,
and let me tell you, like, my kids draw a
thousand pictures. We have draws and draws and draws full
of drawings that we keep and keep them all. Well, no,
(25:01):
I don't keep them all. I only keep the good ones.
We've had to start culling, like the manet. Yeah, I'll
tell her. I'll say that one's not good enough to keep.
And she was like, I wanted to put this aside
for you. She's like, because I think you'd really like
to keep this one. And I walk in and I
get this picture, and I just want to show you
what it's of, Britt, because I think she's captured me
in my raw and beautiful essence.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We can say it's raw.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So marleis she's started to revert to drawing me pregnant
now because she's really excited about being a big sister.
She's so thrilled she got so she drew a picture
of me and my pregnant belly, and she drew the
baby inside the belly. It's kind of like a cross
between an X ray because you can see inside me,
but you can also see X ray and pawn. Well,
(25:51):
an X ray and just a really graphic detail photo.
You can see inside me, but you can also see
the outside of me, and I'm completely naked. She has
drawn tubes with nipples, very big nipples. We all understand why.
And she's also drawn me with a fool bush. Okay,
So then what happened is she drew this and some
of her friends were confused. They were like, what's going
on here, mummy's lazy. So then it turns out that
(26:14):
my daughter had a full on debrief with all her
friends about whether their parents or their mummies do or
don't have hair on their downstairs.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So funny.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So when I picked Marley up.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Did anyone else kids draw nudes?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
No one else drew a nude, but I know what
every other mum's downstairs looks like. So three kids came
up to me and they were like, Marley told us
that you've got hair down there, My mummy doesn't. My
mummy doesn't have any hair.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You need to put that nut.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
WhatsApp group chat, the school group chat are so funny.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Be like, hey, there is what's everyone doing downstairs?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Just like throw it in there.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I was like, surely, hey, Sharon.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
What lazy you go to So I don't know what
to do with this picture?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Do I put it on the fridge? It's really a
beautiful way for me to take it.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I reckon.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
There somewhere prices a.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Bit lazier, right, it's quite hard when you're pregnant. Don't
want to reach down there. Let it go, not it anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
There's a bit of like hyperbole here or I don't
know what's going on, but that's yeah, you need to
get that tended to.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I reckon, I could get my gardener to.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Come over, get a wik whack out anyway, what like
a whipper snipper, not a wik whacker. I was like, wait,
what we're talking about the same thing.
This episode was recorded on Cameragle Land.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi guys, and.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura,
I'm Brittany, and this is our radio show where we
package up all the best bits from the Pickup throughout
the week, our national radio show, and we bring it
here so that you don't have to listen to the radio.
We want to listen to the radio though, Yeah, because
you know there's ads and you should listen to those as.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, because we're on radio, and that's also important.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I love this bit because we get to package up
the ones that we like doing the best, like little
bits and pieces and the stories that we don't share
in the pod that are great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
And we had an important chat this week that I liked,
but about my sister Sherry and experience that she had
been a new mum breastfeeding on a train.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
And it was sort of off the back.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Of a TikToker who was posting about her experience being
heavily pregnant on a pack train and the idea of
chivalry being dead and no one offering their seats anymore
for pregnant women, and it is a very interesting discussion.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, and I do think like off the back. The
more I thought about it, And I'm not saying this
because I'm pregnant. I don't think that I personally have
had any negative experiences, but I think that the pendulum
kind of was in one direction, Like there was a
lot of support and chivalry around women being pregnant and
being helpful, and now I think that we are sort
(01:18):
of as a society, we're a little bit more closed
off to being helpful to people. And when you were
talking about what Sherry experienced, it's a very sad outcome.
But I also am not particularly surprised by it. Put
it that way, Yeah, well I.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Was surprised by it.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I didn't think we'd gone down the Google like that anyway,
that's all coming on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, look, I also shared a story on the show
about something that Marley overshared at school about me. So
I had a very funny and interesting conversation with one
of the after school care teachers about a particular picture
that Marley had drawn, which was very generous and very kind.
And let me tell you, it is not going on
the fridge that one.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's funny because you think that, like the overshare in
the situation is going to be you being my national
radio podcasting.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But she trumped you.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And you know what, I also think I've deserved this
because I've told so many stories about my kids that
she was just like, fuck, mum, you know what, I've
got one up on you ll not that she knows.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
She doesn't listen to the pod.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do you know what she knows? But she knows that
I know the limit. Mostly I think I know the limit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I think you've given a lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Let's get into it. There is an etiquette when it
comes to Facebook marketplace right, Like it's kind of an
unspoken etiquette about how you interact with the buyer and
the seller and what you do when you've got to
pick the thing up from their house and X y Z,
Like I think most people know how to be when
it comes to bask like a place.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's pretty annoying though, like how many conversations you have
about how much something is? Can you do a better price?
You talk to them for like where are you when's
a good time? Talked to them for three days about
picking up something for twenty bucks and then they're like
not and then they go then they got yeah, and
you're like just wasting my life.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We were talking about funny experiences that we'd had off
the back of it, because everyone's had like a bit
of a cooked experience if you've used it enough times.
I had something happened recently where I wasn't even selling it.
I was giving away a coffee table. I was like,
just someone come and take this coffee table off my hands.
And this man came into my house. I was there
with the kids, Matt wasn't home. He comes into the house.
Forty five minutes later, he is still in my house
(03:14):
having a chat. Lovely English guy. He's moving to Australia.
Just give me his life story. Maybe he's trying to
make some new friends. Maybe he was talking about his wife.
His wife was having a baby. Then he wanted to
know about the dog. And I was like, please just
take the coffee table and get out of my house.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'll pay you to go.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. I was like, I'll give you the twenty dollars
to lead an. I had to pretend like I needed
to go and have a shower and that the kids
need a nat. My kid's full. She doesn't n ask.
He's like, I'll watch the kids, want you shall But
there was one story that came up producer Grace here
she is, I don't think that anyone could top the
Facebook marketplace story that you had. There was a lot
of trust that was put in you. Yes there was.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But my wife, Diana, she is the sort of person
that gets really into hobbies and just loves buying everything
before she's even had to go at it. Yeah, so
a couple of weeks ago she was like, I want
to get really into surfing. Has never surfed in her life,
and she was like, this is my thing now. So
he organized this meet up to get this surfboard off
Facebook marketplace. The guy was like, you know what, I'm
actually out for the day, but I'm going to pop
(04:12):
it next to this table blah blah blah in the garage.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And I was like, great, We're sweet. We drove an
hour and a half there. How much was he charging
for us surfboard in the garage?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Down south? Down south?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But it was a good price, good price, great.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Surfboard looked good for beginners. We're like, were set and
I was like, I will indulge you this once, but
this will be the last surfboard you're buying anyway. So
we get there, find the surfboard exactly where he said,
next to the table. And then we're like, okay, it's
not going to fit in the car. We're going to
have to rope it to the roof. So we're in
the kind of mentality of if he can't tie knots
(04:48):
tie lots, so we have like.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
S that's the saying.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
So we've tied it all down. We're driving back on
the freeway. We're like, we've nailed this, but then the
surfboard starts flapping.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yep, the wind that gets under the surfboard on the
roof of your car. We're about to lose this surfboard
that we've just purchased. My wife's new hobby, who's.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
So excited about it. It's flapping, it's flapping, and we're
like heart thumping. You can't even pull over because it's
like a bit on a highway. So we get home
and we just made it. There's like ropes flying everywhere,
and we're like, this is so dangerous. I cannot believe
that we've made it back with this surfboard. Take a
picture of it to send it to the guy and go,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We just made it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
A bit.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Know where this is going. He sent back, that's not
my surfboard. He just stole some. We accidentally we went
into the garage.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
It was exactly where he said, but it was his
roommate's surfboard.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Stole someone's surfboard, so it was the right I thought
you'd into the wrong house.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes, no, it was the roommate's surfboard, much fancier than
the one.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We were picking up.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We were like, we've got that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You have to drive it back. Had to drive all
the way back.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
We learned how to tie nots the second time around,
so at least the surfboard.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Stayed attached to the car. I'm just imagining you're getting
this surfboard back. It's so bad enoughter being tired to
a couple of roof racksy like, there it is, give
me the other one. It's a trade up.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
When I stole that dog from the person's car.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
From Memphs, you thought we were saving it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Lost and I took it from the lawn and I
was like, don't worry, sweet angel, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gonna save you. I had to flick two days.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It turns out.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
When I finally contacted the owner, he was so grateful.
He was like, thank you so much for being worried sick,
and I was like, tell me where you live or
drop it back. He gave me his address and I
was like.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Pretty sure that's where I took it from.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I was like, you're welcome, Like it's crazy out there,
be careful.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Took the dog back, mortified.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So good grace. When you first held that story, I
thought you'd gone into the wrong house, but you didn't
have a choice returning it since you so evidently took
the wrong one. Now there is debate that's erupting online
at the moment, and off the back of doing my
gender reveal on this show only a couple of weeks ago,
I feel like the timing is quite interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I understand that for some couples, gender disappointment is a
very very real thing, and wanting to be able to
choose whether you have a girl or a boy in
some instances ideally would be something that some parents would
like to explore. I know that when Matt found out
that he was having my husband a third baby girl,
there was a little bit of him that had a
(07:31):
moment of sadness, and we spoke about it on the show.
He's thrilled to be a dad to another girl. But
at the same time, I think he always expected that
he would also be a dad to a boy and
that's not going to happen for him now unless he
does it with another woman at some point down the track.
But the reason why we're talking about this is because
there's a content creator. Her name is Caitlin Bailey. She's
a single mum. She's got three kids, two of them
(07:52):
are boys, and she has one girl now. She's just
paid forty five thousand dollars to go overseas and do
gender selection on an IVF treatment where you can choose
the gender of your unborn child. There's a lot of
moral debates surrounding this because it's something that's currently still
illegal in Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yea, And I think she was maybe a bit taken
aback about the pushback against it because she was pretty
open about her story talking about it, and I think
that the public's response has quite shocked her.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
She has said, if.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We've got the technology that allows us to do this
and it's not hurting anybody, I don't understand why it's
not an option here in Australia because sex selection of
your embryos is illegal in Australia.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's not an option. You can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You absolutely cannot choose to test which sex you want
and to implant it. But there are a lot of
countries overseas America you can do it.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So this is why she spend forty five thousand dollars to.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Go and do it.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
She feels like she needs to balance her family.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But the idea of her saying I don't understand why
it can't be done here, I do think she hasn't
thought about the broader issues surrounding this. And there have
been a few people off the back of this debate
that have.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Made some really good points.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
There's no guarantee that you might have a child a
signed female at birth who later identifies as trade totally,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean there's other things in this as well. Obviously,
in some cultures having a boy is more desirable, so
it might create like an unequal gender population which would
cause issues down the track. But also I mean, as
a mum of two little girls and I'm now having
a third little girl, even if I had the opportunity
to select the gender of my children, I wouldn't And
(09:24):
the reason for that is is because I feel as
though it puts so much pressure on that child to
be the specific gender that you wanted. It puts so
much pressure on whatever you thought that relationship was going
to be or that dynamic was going to be. Like
just because you have a little boy, doesn't mean they're
going to be into little boy things, doesn't mean they're
going to be a little quote unquote traditional little boy,
(09:44):
and vice versa. The same for a girl. And I
guess I come to it now as a mum of
two girls, both of which are completely different children, Like
both my girls are so so different, and so I
feel as though I've had two different experiences of motherhood
with them individually, because there's such their own, little unique
people that I don't feel as though I'm missing out
(10:06):
on something by not having a boy. I guess the
thing is in our in all cultures, really, gender becomes
something that people are so fixated on, and this idea
of having a balanced family, to think that you have
two little boys at home and a little girl at home,
that that's something you can't be happy with because you
don't have a balance, Like families aren't perfect. And I
kind of hate the way that the terminology is being
(10:27):
built around this.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
To be honest, it doesn't bother me that she's done it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What else I found interesting is off the back of that,
there's also discussions about the fact that a lot of
people think you shouldn't genetically test your embryos. They think
that that well, they think that even that comes down
to like a type of selection, Whereas I will disagree
with that. I have my own embryos that I have
genetically tested, and there's a reason for it. I have
(10:51):
had embryos that had things wrong with them and couldn't
and didn't survive, and if they were implanted in me
there would have been a danger to us both and
a high risk of miscarriage. So these kind of things,
genetically testing is just doing the best thing for mother
and child in the future and to reduce help reduce
things like a risk of miscarriage.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So I would like fight that argument.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I agree, but I think these are two different things.
Genetic testing is something that happens during pregnancy anyway. You know,
you have your I just had my twenty one week
morphology scans, you know, so I'm going to find out
if everything's tracking long fine, you have your NIPT scan
to make sure that your blood works and everything's fine.
And that's so that mums can have a greater control
over the life that they're going to live and also
(11:31):
over the quality of life that that child's going to have.
But this conversation around gender and choosing a gender, that's
not a disorder, that's not a chromosomal abnormality. That's not
something that's where the baby's not developing in the way
that it should.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
It's a family aesthetic choice.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's an aesthetic yeah, or it's an experience. Don't get
me wrong, I'm not outraged by it. I don't care
enough to be like jumping on the pylon of this.
I just think for me, if I had the choice,
I wouldn't explore it. I think it's a lot of
need to pay for something that's very specific that you
don't have control over.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Anyway, there's a video that came up on my feed
that had been absolutely hysterics. I do want to preface
this by saying I believed it at the start. I
had to go and do a deep dive to find
out it was a print call. But it's this five
year old Irish girl that calls the demolition company in
Ireland to knock a school down.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Have a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
My name's Becky.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yes, I have a proposal for you.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Are you the demolition man, Yes, he's the top boss.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What's okay?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I want you to help me destroy my school.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Do you want to blow up?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Couldn't blow it up?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Or knock it down?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Whatever, whatever you want done, and you just make.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Sure that they're all in the building when you.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Knock it down, you put all the names on us.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I give you a.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Brilliant It's like a ten minute call where she's saying, like,
my teachers, may we do homework?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Knocked the school down.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The demolition companies in like absolute hysterics.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But it made me think, have your kids ever done this.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Where they've called someone accidentally or they've.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Got I mean, my kids are not like they're not
that age, Like they're not at an age where they
can live. Yeah, but five is not old enough to
be like, do you know what, I'm gonna call a
demolition company and get them to knock the school down.
I also don't thinks it, so I don't they're they're
filled with that much hatred. But look, I do think
their kids do things with phones and they'll they'll call people,
but they don't always understand the repercussions of what they're doing.
(13:32):
We had one instance about six months ago, so Marley
would have just been five or five and a half,
and she was with her cousins and they were playing
on a payphone. Her cousins are all similar age, and
I was like, what are they doing? And I could
see that they were laughing really hard about it, and
I was like, oh, I don't like that. I walked
over and they just called Triple zero and someone had
answered the phone, and I obviously I gave them the
(13:55):
full schooling on why that was so problematic. And she
was so upset because she didn't really understand what it
was that she'd done, Like she had no comprehension about
the magnitude of why that's a problem you funny, No,
she literally they just pressed some buttons and then someone
answered it and they you know, and she was like,
it's the police, Like she didn't know what was going on.
But like I remember being a kid and doing prank
(14:16):
calls and thinking I was so funny. I'd call my
neighbor I'd pretend to be someone really confused OLGA.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
At the time, prank calls gave mem anxiety.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I couldn't do them. I couldn't even do a knock
and run. I was like a pretty goodie two show.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, where one of those radio shows that can't do
prank calls because everybody freaks out and freezes up. No,
it's true. Well, look, actually we've got some calls coming through.
Speaking of nat, who did your kids call?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Oh my goodness. It was the most traumatic experience with.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
My adult life.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I think had at the time six and a half
year old daughter, and you know hashtag mom life. I
hadn't been in the working game for a while, and
I finally got a gig for this new job, and
the first thing they asked me to do was a
FaceTime call with about seven or eight other people, the
HR team, the CEOs, the bosses, like, there's some well
(15:03):
known people here in the mix who are like in
the spotlight. I'll just say that I want to give
their names up. But I had the FaceTime call. Everything
was great, And then later that day I actually went
out and left the kid at home with her dad,
and she asked if she could FaceTime all of her
cousins and I said, not a problem. It's the group call,
(15:23):
the last group call on the iPad, and I had
my phone obviously, and that was fine. And then I
got home and my daughter said, Mommy, I spoke to
a really funny man on FaceTime today.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
And I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
What do you mean he spoke to a really funny
she gaess when I called my cousins, and I was like,
was it your uncle? Was it?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
And I had a look into my shock and horror.
She had FaceTime that entire last work meeting call and
the person that she'd FaceTime who answered was the CEO,
was the BOS and the call went for eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Why was he spending eight minutes of his day talking
to a sip.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Rolled To this day, we have not addressed the Ellison
in the room. I had not discussed this with my bosses.
My child can't articulate what was said, and it's just
this mystery, and I'm happy for it to stay there
because I don't know what happened in that eight minutes,
but it was truly horrifying.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That is hilarious also, like why would you just be
like you got the wrong number, sweety You.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Always like go get your mom.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Because it would have come up with your name. Two
to eight minutes. That's a full converse. That's longer than
I speak to my own mother on the phone. Like,
that's a long time. My god, Thanks Mat. We've also
got back on the line back, who did your kids call?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
My son would have been about three at the time,
and my husband was working outside and I've just kind
of needed a shower, stat him on the floor of
the bathroom, given him my phone, John what I had
to do so I could have a five minute shower
in peace. And then my husband comes running through the
door about five minutes later and snatches the phone out
(16:55):
of your hand.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
It's like everyone's just called me. She's got live on it.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, your three year old went live on Instagram three
only fans.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You didn't get money from that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's absolutely dem No one wants to be shot from
the ground up. Goddamn.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
No one wants to be shot naked when they don't
know either.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I was mortified.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
That is so not a voice call, but yeah, probably
a little bit worse.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh my god, Beck, that's amazing makes my favorite.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I never want to have.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Kids find the right buttons at the right time to
open the up.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And oh, this is my fear. Like, my kids often
take my phone and they like record funny videos on
like the video app or whatever. But my fear is
is that one day they're gonna either accidentally post something
to Instagram or they're going to open it up and
just like have a chat on my Like, I live
with this fear.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I think that this is that's warranted.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, maybe should stop.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
There's a well named Frankie.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
She's a TikToker thirty five thousand followers.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
She posts a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
She's heavily pregnant, and she's posted a video that's gone
bonkers started a pretty heated debate online. She recently was
on a train that was absolutely packed to the brim,
like people sitting everywhere, people standing in the middle of
the train, and she herself was standing. In this video,
she's sort of filmed herself standing up, heavily pregnant, filmed around,
shown everyone sitting down, and she just said chivalry for
(18:27):
pregnant women doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I still can't believe not one.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Person even offered as in even offered to stand up
so she could sit down.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Which the ridiculous thing about this is like usually on
trains there's usually a separate part of seats which are
for people who are having no poor mobility or needs
assistance or whatever, Like, there's seats there that people know
to get up from.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, And I think about when I grew up, it
was always taught if I was ever in a position
like that, that you would always stand up and offer
your seat to elderly, somebody disadvantaged or pregnant women like
that was just what I learned as a child, and
I thought that was a really standard thing. But some
of the comments in this TikTok are so disgusting. I
want to read you a few Why is your pregnancy
(19:09):
anyone else's issue? Why is your pregnancy my problem? I
hate this societal expectation. I mean, it was your choice
to get pregnant, not theirs. Hey, you wanted a quality,
you got equality, y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
They're American. I'm sorry I really went into that, y'all.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
What is with that I'm a mother, I'm more important
than you, bow down to me attitude and things like I.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Don't care that you're pregnant. I care that I've had
a long day, my.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Back end, feet hurt, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Like this is just the theme that was on this TikTok,
and I was actually disgusting, you know what, Look I mean,
I had something happen to me when I had Lola.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
She was only little and she was in the car.
It was Christmas time. We were going into the shopping center.
And you know how like in Big West Fields they
always have like the pram sections.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So but that's not even Big Westfields.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Every shopping center now, even the little ones have like
parking with prams.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yes it's parking prams. It's just an area where you can,
you know, easy duck in if you're a mom. Anyway,
it was Christmas time, it was hell busy, and I
had already had my indicator, and I was waiting to
go into this parking spot which was right in the prams.
And as I was waiting to go into the parking spot,
someone else had pulled up, so they kind of blocked
me from going in, which meant that this woman took
advantage of it, and she snuck in and took my space.
(20:19):
Didn't have a kid, took my space and I wound
down my window and I was like, dude, come on,
I've got a baby in the car. She'd been screaming
for twenty minutes. We've been driving around this car park,
and she yelled out the window. It's your choice. You
decided to have kids.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That grinds my gears, Like I would have been absolutely furious.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh I did. I was like, I wish your mother
didn't have any kids. And then I was like, oh
my god, I need to stop.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But do you know what I think?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I'm not well. I think that the people that are
making these comments assumption haven't been pregnant or there men
who's maybe their partners haven't had a baby, or maybe.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They don't know the impact on the body.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't know. I also think perception around pregnancy has
changed a little bit. Also, like the perception to kids
on planes, Like a lot of people have issue is
now with children flying on planes and the expectation that
maybe parents expect too much when actually, like other people
around them shouldn't have to bend to the kids on
the planes.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, this happened to my sister recently. So I
was over visiting my fiance in Italy. A couple of
weeks ago, and my sister was overseas as well. She's
got a at the time, like six month old baby,
and she was premy so she's actually a very small
baby anyway, like a tiny little thing. And my sister
was on the train, had to travel two and a
half hours to where we were. The train was packed
(21:31):
like sardines, right, and so Cherry's standing up holding this
baby because there's no room to put in a pram
for two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Fine, not fine, well no, but Sherry, that's what Sherry said.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Write her words.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
She's like, fine, I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Did I choose to have a baby.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, I'm happy to stand up. I'm not gonna ask
anyone to sit down.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But then she had to breastfeed. No one moved, no
one offered. I've seen the pictures. She's sitting on the
ground in a corner with all these men standing over
a bit, not for any other reason than it's sardin's right.
It's just hacked standing over a while she's trying to
breastfeed a baby and protect it from being like bumped
by luggage and bumped by people. And she's like people
were looking at me on the ground in my situation,
(22:11):
and not one person offered, And I found that's so
sad and shows like I didn't want them to give
up my seat for the rest of the trip. I'd
obviously been standing for an hour. I just wanted somewhere
safe to breastfeed for ten minutes, and I would have
gotten back up, but everyone just looked out a blatantly
nine looked away, And I thought, what kind of a
world of we living in where there is not one
person on that train that would see someone in a
more vulnerable position and offer to help.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I think that that's a really, really, such a shitty
example of people being selfish, really, I mean, And also
we can sit her and be like, yes, of course
someone decides to have kids. Guess what someone decided to.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Have you totally at the end of the way your
mom to be able to sit down.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Your mom was pregnant once upon a time too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I read these reactions and apart from that woman who
yelled at me in a car park one time, it
was Christmas and she was just full of holidays here,
I feel like most people are good people, Like I've
not had experiences where people haven't been helpful. I've had
loads of experiences where I couldn't get a pram up
the stairs and someone stop and help me carry the
pram or carry things because I had too much. Like
I would say, overwhelmingly, my experiences have been good, and
(23:13):
so it's really sad to me to hear it specifically
Sherry who's a new mum who experienced something like that,
because that's just really shit.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, I think that's the difference, right, they're the quick
little things that not really inconvenient to anyone. But people
have this really weird attachment to their seats when it
involves giving up.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
A seat for something.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
But you guys, remember, if you're listening right now, a
woman carrying baby's like they're running a marathon every single day.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So throw them a bone, give them a.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Seat, britt. I feel like being a parent it's hard.
It's hard. Sometimes it's really hard, actually, and that's it
from us today.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
That's why the show we have discovered it is indeed hot.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I feel like it comes part and parcel that sometimes
your kids are going to do stuff that embarrasses you.
Oh yeah, and you just got to take it on
the chin like a champion because they don't really know.
I don't think they do. Sometimes maybe it's malicious, but
other times I think it's really innocent and they just
don't know that what they've said or what they've done
is kind of not appropriate.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, adults, Tan, It's like when you see those videos
go around where like the little kid goes to school
and tells everyone that they heard mommy and daddy screaming
in the room in the night, Like you know, when
they get we were playing gorillas, Yeah, we're playing wrestling.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah yeah, look, I mean we've all got our own
version of that with our own kids. But I went
in to pick up Mally May. She's five, she's in kindergarten.
I went in to pick her up from school the
other day and she goes to after school care. So
I walked into after school care and there's all these lovely,
really young, beautiful young girls who like work in the
after school care center, right, got it, And they're gorgeous
(24:39):
and they take such good care of the kids. Walk
in and the girl who's like the main director, she
just starts kickling and I was like, oh, nice to
see you too, darling, and she goes, I've got something
for you She's like, Marley's been drawing some pictures cute,
and let me tell you, like, my kids draw a
thousand pictures. We have draws and draws and draws full
of drawings that we keep and keep them all. Well, no,
(25:01):
I don't keep them all. I only keep the good ones.
We've had to start culling, like the manet. Yeah, I'll
tell her. I'll say that one's not good enough to keep.
And she was like, I wanted to put this aside
for you. She's like, because I think you'd really like
to keep this one. And I walk in and I
get this picture, and I just want to show you
what it's of, Britt, because I think she's captured me
in my raw and beautiful essence.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We can say it's raw.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So marleis she's started to revert to drawing me pregnant
now because she's really excited about being a big sister.
She's so thrilled she got so she drew a picture
of me and my pregnant belly, and she drew the
baby inside the belly. It's kind of like a cross
between an X ray because you can see inside me,
but you can also see X ray and pawn. Well,
(25:51):
an X ray and just a really graphic detail photo.
You can see inside me, but you can also see
the outside of me, and I'm completely naked. She has
drawn tubes with nipples, very big nipples. We all understand why.
And she's also drawn me with a fool bush. Okay,
So then what happened is she drew this and some
of her friends were confused. They were like, what's going
on here, mummy's lazy. So then it turns out that
(26:14):
my daughter had a full on debrief with all her
friends about whether their parents or their mummies do or
don't have hair on their downstairs.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So funny.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So when I picked Marley up.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Did anyone else kids draw nudes?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
No one else drew a nude, but I know what
every other mum's downstairs looks like. So three kids came
up to me and they were like, Marley told us
that you've got hair down there, My mummy doesn't. My
mummy doesn't have any hair.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You need to put that nut.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
WhatsApp group chat, the school group chat are so funny.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Be like, hey, there is what's everyone doing downstairs?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Just like throw it in there.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I was like, surely, hey, Sharon.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
What lazy you go to So I don't know what
to do with this picture?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Do I put it on the fridge? It's really a
beautiful way for me to take it.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I reckon.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
There somewhere prices a.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Bit lazier, right, it's quite hard when you're pregnant. Don't
want to reach down there. Let it go, not it anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
There's a bit of like hyperbole here or I don't
know what's going on, but that's yeah, you need to
get that tended to.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I reckon, I could get my gardener to.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Come over, get a wik whack out anyway, what like
a whipper snipper, not a wik whacker. I was like, wait,
what we're talking about the same thing.
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