December 12, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode was recorded on cameragle Land. Hi guys, and
welcome back to another episode of Life on Cut. I
am Britney.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
My name is and always has been and always will be. Well.
I thought about changing it. Did you thought about the paperwork?
It's just too much.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I haven't even changed my last name since I got married.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Isn't that point.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's a lot of damage control and like paperwork and
filling it out on new passports, and.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I just couldn't face it, Like my LinkedIn, I have
to change my LinkedIn.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I changed it on Instagram though that's like halfway there?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Did you? I don't believe you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, just like in my bio, it says Brittany Hockley Secrest,
hang on a second, one, just checked that also while
Matt's looking that up. Guys, this is the pick up
our radio show, so we do this on top of
the podcast. We package it up every week and we
bring you the best bits. Have you found it?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Mat?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh? Yeah? Secrist? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's just a name. It's a Swiss German name.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
What does it stand for? Does it mean? Like?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I could be very wrong and this might have just
been his granddad's job, but it has something to do
with like ringing a BELLA is that right, Grace?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
It means either victorious protector or peaceful.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Victor the bells from Ben's a bell.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Like they live in a small town in Switzerland
and his job was to ring the bell. And I
think I must have just mistaken that with like a meaning.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Occupational referring to a churchwarden, so.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That maybe there was something in that. Maybe he was
a warden. And then he got promoted to bell ringer.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I don't know if he loses hearing it all from
so much ringing of the bell.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's their version of industrial tonight. When you step on
in the rusty name.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was so close. I knew, I knew I wasn't
quite there. I knew that if I planted the clues
and you guys would like pick up the treasure.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What I can say is Ben and I hadn't really
discussed the name change, but he was so chuffed when
he saw that I just added it to my Instagram bio,
like he was really proud.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Has he put any pressure on you to go like
the whole nine yards and full transfer across to like
Britney Segrest.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He would like us to all have the same name,
but he also understands it's a bit hard too hard
basket and you know, I my name, I guess comes
with a lot now like my I don't know. I
don't want to sound like a wanker, but like people
know me as Brittany Hockley. I feel like it would
be weird to change it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeahone if someone came to me and they're like, oh
my gosh, she did that show with Britney Segrest, but
who the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And I'm just putting too much blood, sweat and tears
on Dance with the Stars for people to forget that totally.
I think if we have kids would change it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I knew Laura was never going to change. I was like,
Paperwork's not paperwork is her number one, that's her Achilles heel.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
She's literally never going to do it. I don't even
think Poppy is properly registered yet.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I wouldn't want her to, you know, really, Yeah, I
just she looks like a burn. She doesn't look it's
not really a Johnson ISSU.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, no, that's because she hasn't done the paper.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But I don't think it is sooner, you know, I
think I look at her, and I'm like, you just
don't suit.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do you know what I think I'll do?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Hit me when the time comes.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I think that i'll change it legally, like if I
have kids, I think i'd change it, But I don't
think i've change it publicly, so I think i'd keep
those two separate. Oh yeah, so on a technicality, we've
all got the same name, but like publicly, I'll still
be who I am.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, at Cole, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Am I a secret?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Produced Grace? Have you changed your name?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I always said that I'd only change my name if
it was better than my current name, which is Grace Guard,
And I really like it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Grace Guard's strong. I love the same letters as well.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah yeah. Also like good for the forms your wife
what's her last name?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Cal cool? Oh but that's cool, Grace cal cool?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
K A L ko U L?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's hard though as well, when you're like the amount
of times your wife must have to be like this is?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Then what will when you guys have kids, because I
know that's in your future, what name you're you going
to give them?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I think we'll go with God, but I think we'll
use one of Diana's family names as the middle name
is cal Cool.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Know that you're going, God, yep, okay, Carol Cool's cool
with it, cal Call's cool. But then would you have
cal cool as a middle name.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
No, we'd probably go like one of Diana's mom's. Yeah
I made a name kind of thing. Yeah, what's that soriso?
Oh yeah, it's like kind.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of very good from Brittany. These are the things when
you're in your thirties and your forties that you have
to start thinking about. When need to talk about this
in high school?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think, well, no, because we're in high school. It's like,
don't have kids. We're a condom. And now it's like
the adamin that comes with it. It's trying to fall
pregnant as well. It's a whole lot that we could
have learned in school that we absolutely didn't learn.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Brittany, I hate to do this, but I have to
cough ah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Past the It is your last.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
No one has fucking said Matt, well done for rocking
up sick to work.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Because that's just what you're just a bare minimum.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, it's not the bare minimum coming away.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You can't not come to work on your last day,
that's why.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, but like you know, no one's Matt well done
for coming to work sick. No praise no, No, like, hey,
well done, you've pushed through. We know your own well.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But I mean Laura was working in labor, so you've
got those high standards for you to keep up with.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, that's fine, that's all right. When you're sick, brit
and you're struggling, just just know that I'm always going
to cheer you on. I'm always going to give you
some encouragement.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Just know that I was just about to give you
props and say, last ten weeks with you on air
has been one of the biggest jories of my life.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, it was all right if you're into that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was like five, it was a five out of ten.
Did you have fun?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Really, I would not recommend going to work after a
baby is born. If I could change anything about this experience.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It wouldn't have done it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It would be doing it before Poppy was born. Yes,
it has added a layer of complexity that is not
always wanted when you've got three kids. Yeah, but being
here with Easy who does our videos, producer, Grace who
steers the ship and Yourselfney has just been a delight.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah. Look, we had some highs, we had some loads,
we had some laughs. So let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The loads, Brittany coming to work with you.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
We love you so joke. Sometimes it's low hanging fruit
and you hand it to us on a platter.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
These are the parts that you're not This is being
Britney's punching bag every single day.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But you know you can only do that to somebody
when it's not true. Do you know what I mean?
Say those things when I have.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
My breakdown, I want you to feel guilty. Okay, when
they're like, I wonder what was it? What was the
straw that broke the camel's back? And they'll listen back
to this episode and they'll be like, Britney secret, Brittany, the.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Problem pretty secret because no one will know who it is.
We love you, mad Let's get into the.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Last episode and you'll have to change your name.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Maddie Jay. You and I have both had our time
in the South African jungle. We both hit on slivery
to get me out of here. Neither of us won.
We did make it to the end, like we made
it pretty far.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I do actually have a bone with you, Brittany, because
I spoke to you before I did I'm a Celebrity,
which was this year.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, because I did it last year.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And you were like, it's fine, You'll have such a
fun time.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. Matt came and he's like, should I do I'm
a celeb I'm like, yes, I loved it. I came
out of the jungle and wanted to go back in.
I couldn't face real life anymore. Life was easier in there.
It was fun, no time, no stress, no bills.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wow. I was mismanaged so severely. I remember going into it.
I thought it was going to be just like fun
from the get go. Within the first few hours, I
was thinking, oh my gosh, I have made a huge mistake.
I didn't love it as much as you, Brittany. I
was just hungry.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's different I think if you have kids, because I
think there's this pull at home that makes you miss
it a bit more, Whereas I live with my dog,
so I was like, I'm not gone home do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, Delilah, I mean not the best dog, is it.
She's actually yeah, she's well, they're actually for the first time,
they're not filming it live and I have been paying
attention to some of the behind the scenes producers who
were over there right now in Africa. They are filming
as we speak. I feel like I'm a detective by
(08:07):
showing that information.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well they're also, I mean, there's very public information too.
They've dropped some very public hints a to who is
going into this season, and we want to try and
work out who it is. So have a listened to
this first hint A rugby league Romeo is going from
dodging tackles dodging frocks. They won't be kicking goals in
the jungle. They'll just be kicking and screaming a rugby player.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, I got it. Okay, and I will bet my
life on the fact that it will be Luke Bateman
on the show the Book toop guy there she is.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I'm getting professional rugby player. He wasn't a professional.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Played NRL Camber Raiders shout out, okay the Raiders, big
Raiders fan, I reckon. I guarantee he's got a huge
following because he now you know, he does his videos
where he's like covered in grease on a farm tractor somewhere,
but also talking about fantasy. The women go wild, Luke Bateman,
Producer Grace, write it down, lock it in please?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, all right, well let's get a hint. Number two.
An international supermodel is strutting her way into Africa. She
connected to rock and roll Royalty.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well we'll have them Crocodile rocking too.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Something shocking. Do you know who I think this is?
Go hit me and I'm just trying to think. Now
she's connected to Royalty. I reckon this could be Tyra Banks.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I was going to say Tyra because hit me go.
She needs the money.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
She needs the money. I don't know why she decided
to make Australia home, but she has like she came
here and set up a business. She has an ice
cream business. But I just feel like in Australian media
she's been everywhere this year and she obviously was one
of the biggest supermodels. She used to run the Supermodel
show like the Model Get me out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of here, am. I could be wrong, but I agree
to Banks will be in Producer Grace.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
If it's filming currently.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Though.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Tyra Banks was at a pub in Sydney performing her
new Christmas song last night.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I reckon she's already been kicked.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Out, oh, because it's been filming for.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
A while, and I reckon, I'm going to put two
and two to make sixteen. I feel like she will
struggle in the jungle, Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I have also just tried to google if she has
a connection to rock and roll and she has been
in video appearances in like Michael Jackson and Tina Turner
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I have a list here, Brittany, who I reckon. I
guaranteed Sarah Harris, former host of Studio ten and the
project she will be on there, I guarantee.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I just saw her get papped on the weekend in
the Eastern Beaches, so I don't reckon at her. But
what about MILITALYNG Because they've said a master chef person.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
NRL players and master chef. That's a bottomless pit right there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But do you think that there's one that says a
jungle princess? Do you think they're bringing someone back that's
done it before, because what else is it?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Actually? No, I don't reckon they would because it'd be
so hard to manage because they would know all like
the behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
What could jungle princess mean?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Though? I don't know because for anyone wondering. They are
so strict that even the only time you have any
contact with the production crew is to change your batteries
on your MIC pack. And they are so strict that
they won't even tell you the time.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Do you want to know? You know what, here's some information.
I'm going to tell you something that I did. I
negotiated something when I went in that I said, I
will only come in if I have this one luxury item.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It was a hair brush?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
What?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How did you negotiate that because I have hair extensions
and I said, guys, you have to brush it or
I'll end up balled, like I'll have to shave my
head in there that were tempted to make that happen.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Did people know that you had that luxury?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No one you except for I just told everyone.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now, oh my, can I also just add to my
list Bianka die You may remember her. She was on
the radio on the Gold Coast on the Golden Bachelor.
I think she'll be there. And I also want to say, Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Lewis, that's who you think is.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
The Matt Zakowski married to Tammy Hembro for five seconds?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What category with that?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
For?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Under reality TV bad Boy.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And there is also a reality Bridezilla that's maps. There's
always a mass, could be any They're all. I can't
wait to watch it. I'm super so excited. Mattie J.
Have you seen all the stuff around Quentin Tarantino kicking
off online?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Because I love a bit of gossip, brit I love it. There,
I said it, I'll admit it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I don't know if this is gossip as much as
you said it earlier. Quentin has woken up and chosen war.
He has been absolutely slammed by Hollywood, Like I don't
think I've seen so much of Hollywood come out since
the picketing riots from the writers protest. What was that
I couldn't get? You can tell?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Tarantino made an appearance on the Brett eastern Ellis podcast
where he was aiming the ten best movies of the
twenty first century. They were just having a discussion on
what they loved, but the discussion turned into who they
don't love. Have a listen.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
There Will be Blood would stand a better chance to
be in number one or number two if it didn't
have a big giant fly in it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And the fly is Paul Danna he's just such.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
A weak, weak, uninteresting guy.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
That just crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
There's got to be like he's got to owe him
money or something. There's gotta be some reason why he's
come out and he's so aggressive.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, because he also it wasn't just that one attack.
He also slammed Matthew Lillard. Who who's that He was
in Scooby Doo, he was in Scream. He's like a
really everyone knows him to do.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Not the best baggy Yeah, pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And also interestingly Owen Wilson. He slammed Owen Wilson as well. Now,
I think Owen Wilson's a great actor, but Hollywood have
just said, you know what, you can't come out and
slam these like our colleagues out. There's almost like there's
an unspoken rule where you're just not supposed to do it,
like you're not supposed to come out unless something huge
has happened or somebody's going to prison, or someone's done
(14:13):
something illegal, Like you can't just come out when you
are I guess as well respected and decorated as someone
like Quentin Tarantino, like the world looks at him to
be such this incredible inspirational director that's done all these
amazing things. So when you come out and say publicly
how bad an actor is, that he's unnecessary and unwarranted,
you're literally impacting their career. But it's had a backfire
(14:35):
because like anyone who is anyone in Hollywood has come
out in force. Reese Witherspoon came out saying Paul Dano
is an incredibly gifted, versatile actor and more importantly, he's
a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I love that how everyone's come out and support of
Paul dan Those other actors don't haven't any mention of
them anywhere, Owen Wilson, no one's defending him.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I actually had questions about that because we've got Josh
gadd and John Cusack, Ben Stiller, so many different people
have pull Dano all Paul down.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Can I just say, though you can't buy this type
of publicity, if you're pulled Dano, I mean, you'd be
pretty happy with the result right now. I mean, I
would love it if anyone out there wants to critique
me and my radio hosting abilities, come for me, but
don't attack me.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I actually think it's going to be interesting. Twenty twenty
six week pull down as year you watch. He will
be cast in everything as almost alike. We will show
you kind of there.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
This is an amazing result for Paul. I think this
is honestly the best thing that has ever happened to him.
So he will be He'll be sending Christmas cards every
year to Tarantino being like, hey, thanks so much for
those comments on the podcast. That really gave me a
leg up.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, Matthew Lillard has actually come out and made his
own statement. He was at like one of those comic
Con events and he said, the point is that it
hurts your feelings. It really beep sucks, and you wouldn't
say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn't say that to
somebody who is a top line actor in Hollywood. And
I think that's a good point. And it just sucks
that someone like Quentin Terrant, you know, he's punching down
(16:01):
so much. That's the part. I think it's gotten a
lot of people offside, but I love to see Hollywood
coming out in force.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Tom Cruise is pretty good actor, though, wasn't he. No
One's going to say that about him because he's just
so good.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
You it was so shaggy, is he?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Though?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Indy Clinton, she is one of the biggest most followed
influences from Australia. She's got millions millions across TikTok and Instagram.
You've had her on the podcast before, Brittany.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, she's like I guess she does like mum fluencing,
like mum top.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
She's married, beautiful husband, three kids. Yeah, but one of
her children. She has announced that she wants to change
the date of her birthday. Have a listened to what
she said?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
My third child, Solina, I decided to change her birthday
to the twelfth of December. She was actually just too
close to Christmas for my liking, and I just I
just thought, going forward, she's never going to know we
have officially changed. Genuinely, I cannot think of every reason
why this would be bad. I know why more people
don't do it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
This is kicking off online. Can I tell you maybe
this is controversial? Yeah, I'm not mad about it. Neither
am I to be think it's sort of okay.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I think, can I just ask really quickly, when is
your birthday?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I say this, I'm good, I'm August. I'm like the
middle of the year. There's nothing around my birthday.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Okate, that is a great time to be born. I
am July sixth, which like great, not mad about it.
Apparently I read in an article it was done by
the Guardian December sixteenth is the worst date to have
your birthday. Apparently I was sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You'd think like December twenty five would suck way more
all the twenty fourth or the twenty sixth or the
thirty first.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Look, hey, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just telling you
what I heard. But I think December eighteen it's a shocker. Well,
we have soccer a birthday.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We have someone in the room with quite a lot
of experience in this producer. Grace is actually born on
let me see if I can remember it, the twentieth
of December. Correct, Yeah, it so it's Grace's thirtieth next week. Yeah,
how do you feel because you had your party last weekend?
And that's because no one wants to come to you
party five days before.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Literally my entire life, I've struggled having a birthday so
close to Christmas because everyone's either having their family Christmas,
their work Christmas party, they're away for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, what was that like growing up?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Look, my dad's the twenty third as well.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Oh my god, generational dad.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You had to share it.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
No, but my parents were very good at making it
feel special because my dad knew what it was like
kind of thing, and they were very good at separating
the events and separating presents and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It was more just everyone's away. But I think growing
up it's like not even the present part because like
you're always going to get the extra presents. But it's
like what you just said, it's like when you're a kid,
you never really get to have the parties because no
one's there like you are, well and truly on school holidays,
every family is away or they just like they do
not have the capacity to take their kid to a
birthday party at that time.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So would you change the date that you have the
birthday party?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I do often, especially if I've got a big one,
like a thirtieth I'll just pick a random date in
November or the start of December and just go with that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You're not stuck to a particular No.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No, no. Grace called her birthday on the weekend Happy
almost thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Almost thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I don't like that or a fake birthday. It's fun too,
I think it's okay. I don't think she's legally changing
her daughter's name. I don't think she can. But I
think she's like, hey, it's not going to hurt anyone
if I just celebrated a bit early. But people are
kicking off about it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
My only bit of criticism here as she says, well,
she's never going to know she Well, look, at some
point she will get an ID card and be like,
hang on a second. December twelve, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Because I think her kid, I think soul the kids
she's speaking about. I think she's like three, maybe she's
very little, but like, you can't just lie to her forever,
Like the truth has to come out at some point, and.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Everyone out there who was born in December, my heart
goes out to you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Can you just tell me why does this say why
the sixteenth is so bad? Because I just feel like
this worst age?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't have the answer
that I'd love to know as well. I'd love to know.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I would have loved you to google that when you
brought that fact. Producer Grace is googling, and I can.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Tell apparently December sixth, there's the worst birthday. It falls
too close to Christmas. No, there are worst dates in
the sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Sorry, that's so dumb. I don't believe that, Brittany.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You may remember last week we celebrated a very special
occasion in the Johnson household.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It was, of course, there was a dance recital and
there was a graduation.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, big week, and one of those events has rubbed
people up the wrong way. I did a video it
was a little cut down from our podcast two Dotting Dads,
and I was talking about the fact that I got
a little bit emotional at the daycare graduation of Lola.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yes, you cried. It was all the feelings. It was
a whole big thing.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Now, a couple of people reached out and had some
thoughts on the event. One in particular got my attention.
I'm going to read you the message from Brad Smith eight.
He says, it's freaking daycare. That is not an achievement.
Parents are out of control if they think it's important
to celebrate nothing with the kid. Kids need to start
learning that it's a hate to lose. They need to
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start learning that life is just life. Seriously, what the
actual And I was like.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
That also feels like there's something deeper there, because it's
like saying that you shouldn't be celebrating this and they
need to lose and stuff, like they just finished school
and what's he mad about it?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean, we're not like wrapping the kids in bubble
wrap and saying that they can never have any disappointment.
I mean, we're just celebrating daycare. Look, I do understand
that people may be like, well, why are you celebrating that.
It's not that much of an achievement to graduate daycare.
It's not like there's no kid that doesn't graduate. If
you're just in that year, you just buy default.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You don't like fail the sand piece.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, it's exactly like, sorry, Timmy, you're gonna have to
spend another year finger painting. That was not good. That
was a shocker. Sorry he cannot graduate this year. Yeah,
he's like he just he's just not doing it. He's
pretty bit he's struggling. But it does seem a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Do you know what the thing with me is like,
I think it's important to celebrate those things. Do I
think that we are in the like participation era where
everyone gets an award for trying, and I think it's
important to try. But I do think that, like when
you're in a running race, I get that if you
come last, it's important that you tried. It is, but
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everyone shouldn't get a medal because you do have to learn,
because life isn't That isn't life right, Like there are
clear winners in life at certain things and that kind
of stuff. It's okay for them to be like I'm
not as good of a runner, Like, that's okay, You're
going to be better at something else.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I hear. And I think you want to build some
resilience in your kids. Absolutely I agree with you, And
I think when it comes to sport, I'm absolutely not
opposed to giving first, second, and third the little ribbon,
a little medal if you will, and the rest can
then try harder the next year. But I think when
it comes to we're talking about five year olds here,
and I think does it need to happen? Probably not.
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Do the kids really love it? Did Lola get super
excited the fact that we built it up to this
big occasion it's the end of daycare? Did she then
look back at the photos and did she reminisce And
was it a nice chance for all the parents to
get together.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It was. Here's a question, because sometimes I do think
it is a lot. Like for me, for example, when
I look at that, I'm like, yes, I think you
should celebrate graduating and going off to school and making
it feel special. Do I think you need to have
graduation capes and graduation hats with the tassels and like
that all seems like a lot? Do you have to
pay for that as a parent, because you know what, UNI,
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when you graduate, you have to like buy your graduation outfit,
so they provide the graduation stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I mean I was paying one hundred and eighty bucks
a day a day. Yes, so I'm sure at some
point those fees for the capes and they had to
swallow it in their somewhere, but they just they reuse
those capes, and you know what, it's a bit silly,
you know the fact that they are standing there in
capes and they're five years old. But it just adds
a little bit of theater. And when we talk about
the graduation process, all that happens is they sing two songs.
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They then each get a little certificate. They then like
throw the little hat in the air and that is it.
It's over in about half an hour.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And then you give the capes back and then we've got.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
To give the capes back. And that is it?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So to you, Brad Brad Smith eight?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, Brad Smith eight, I said, tell me you think
this is a good comeback or not. I said, tell
me you don't have kids without telling me you don't
have kids, and he said I have three actually, and
he goes, but I don't have the brats that you'll have,
and then which I replied, well, if there're anything like
their dad, I beg to differ.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Drop cape drop? Hen can I just graduation hat?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Drop? Can we have a ground of applause?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That was God. I don't know if we should be
encouraging online troll fighting, but like congratulations low, that was.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
A civil fight. And if anyone wants to come at
me for daycare graduations, I will come at you with
a wrath of one thousand tired parents. Okay, Brittany one
thing we haven't spoken about this week, which I think
is a real miss is miss Universe.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
We have been chatting about that the last couple of weeks.
There's been a lot of controversy.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I think we've spoken more about miss Universe in the
last couple of weeks and I have my entire life,
which is a great thing.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What's happening now?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I can't get enough. Okay, I want to talk about
former Miss Jamaica. Her name is April Jackson. Now she
does something with her kids that has outraged people online.
Parents are now coming for her. Guess what she doesn't
give them?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What doesn't she give them? I hope she gives them love.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
She gives them love again. I'll tell you she doesn't
do any gifts. She doesn't do birthdays, Christmas or whatever.
And she says here I quote, I want my girls
to value people, not things.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I did actually see this. This is kicking off right,
Like a lot of people were angry about it. A
lot of people calling her selfish and like, you're only
not spending money on your kids because you want to
spend it on yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Witch, Like, good on it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I don't know if like what I'm about to say
is the minority or majority opinion, but I kind of
get what she's doing. I kind of think if you
are giving your kids many experiences, because she said she's
been traveling the world with them, like giving them loads.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Of Yeah, they're living a great life, living.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
A great life. I kind of think that, like if
somebody asked me if I would rather like travel the
world and have experiences or just get like a gift
that I'm going to use for a week and the
neverviews again, I'd be wanting to travel the world.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I do think when people feel outrage enough to come
for another parent, knowing that these kids look happy, they're healthy,
they're safebados. Yeah, they're having a pretty good life. Like, let's,
you know, focus on the more important things, the kids
that are in danger. But can I ask you something, Britney, Yes,
do you have a core memory at all from your
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birthday or Christmas? Was there a particular gift that stands
out as a great memory for you?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
No, let me tell you this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I only she'd be coming for Britney's parents.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, because I can tell you all the core holidays
that I had. And this is maybe why I'm leaning
more into I understand what she's doing. I saw a
video last night. I'm going to share it with you,
Matt after this because it was very powerful and it
was just coincidental that this came up with my algorithm.
It was a mom. She has three kids that ranged
from like four to eight or something like that, and
she goes up to them all and she films them
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and she says, hey, what was your favorite present from
last year's Christmas? And no prompting nothing, she just asked
the question. They think about it for a while, and
the first one says, I don't remember. I'm sorry, Mom,
I don't remember. She's like, that's okay, and then she says,
what was your favorite holiday we took last year? And
they start rattling them off, and she asked all three kids,
and not one of them can name one gift they
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got the year before because they all named the holidays.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
She's obviously getting pretty bad gifts, isn't she No, it's
upper gift game.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It's true. It's true. I don't forget.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
As a kid, I was raised by a single mom.
There was five of us. We didn't have a lot
of money at all in our household, but there would
be one big gift that we would get each year,
and I remember vividly what these were like. One was
a cricket bat. I wanted it so badly and I
had to wait all year, and finally, on Christmas morning,
I got that cricket bat. There was a new bicycle
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as I remember getting.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
No, don't get me wrong, I got a great gift
from my parents. But what I'm saying is I remember
the camping trip that we did over the Christmas holidays
more so than I remember what I got on that Christmas,
If that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's a beautiful thing, the anticipation of a child when
you're counting down the days to your birthday or Christmas.
I loved it. I loved it. Do I enjoy holidays, absolutely,
But I think you can just give them one little gift.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Sorry, I didn't mean a talking baby voice. I promise
I will never do that again.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Viscerally uncomfortable. I agree a little bit of a Christmas present.
I agree that you shouldn't be going sands gifts completely.
Do I think that we do too much? Yes, you
see those videos online now where there's like one hundred
gifts wrapped under a tree. Too much. Your kids are
not going to remember it. You're doing that for you,
not them. Wind it back a little bit, give them
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something that they've really wanted. But then I think it's
about experiences, and I'm not saying take them on a
holiday like that's that's crazy. We can't all do that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
April Mede, the former Miss Universe from Jamaica. She says
she doesn't do any gift nothing, nothing at all. I mean,
like you do you, but I want to give my kids.
I want to give you something.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, but if my parents said, hey, you canna have
a cricket bat or go to the mold Eves, I'm
going to the mold Eves.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Like I'm sorry, I mean cricket bats like a couple
hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
But that's my point, right, Like, these kids are doing
just fine.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
People need to as a parent, a cricket bat can't afford. Brittany,
I want to get your thoughts on whether you think
this is a red or a green flag in a relationship.
You're a big fan of Travis Kelcey engaged to te Swift.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I'm only a fan of Travis because I'm a fan
of Tea Swizz.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I don't know personally, but I'm not a I'm not
an American football fan, so I hadn't really heard of
him until that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't think you need to be a fan of
football to appreciate just how amazing he is, so handsome,
so kind. I like him a lot. I'm a huge fan.
Here's a podcast and a recent guest they had on
the podcast was George Clooney. Now, he said something that
was very surprising to me, at least about his relationship
with a Mile Clooney. This is what he said. You
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claim that you and your wife haven't got in a
fight in ten years. That's right? Are you lying? No,
I'm not lying.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Travis the same questions.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, it's only been two and a half years, and
you're right, I haven't gotten no argument to all right,
never once.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Honestly, you know neither of us are going to win
the arguments or why get in it?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Firstly, his laugh is very cute.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Also, sorry, a Mile would always win an argument. If
George and a Mile were in an argument, one hundred percent,
he's going down. That is why he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Is she a lawyer? What does she do again?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yes, she is such an incredibly intelligent woman, and I
think that's why he was attracted during in the first place.
She definitely runs that ship.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you think that in ten years not having any
argument at all, that's going to be some kind of
conflict avoidance issue? Right?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I don't believe it. I would like to know what
they categorized as an argument, because I think there'd be
disagreements of such. But maybe they have great conflict resolution.
But do you know what I say to that go on?
And it is hard because it's not their fault. They
are billionaires. They are uber rich. She's a little billionaire.
So the things if you think about the day to
day things that a couple argue about, it's finances, it's
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division of labor, it's who's cleaning up. But they've got cleaners,
they have people doing their shopping, they have people cooking
for them. They just have to be together and enjoy
their life.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Do you remember the last fight that you and Ben had?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
What was it about?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It was like two days ago.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, I just told you guys, I was moving to
Italy and I asked him would he ever come here
if he didn't have a football job?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Ooh go on?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
And he said no?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Well, and I understood it and it wasn't a proper fight.
It was and I never would ask him to He's like,
that would be asking me to give up my higher
career that I worked my whole life for. And it
was a hypothetical question. You know, it's that time of
the month and sometimes girls are like, would you still
love me if I was a frog? It was like
that kind of a thing, and he did explain it,
and I was like, yeah, cool, that's actually wild to say,
would you give up your whole career to come here
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and do nothing? And so it was like an argument
over that. But we don't argue a lot either. But
that's because we live on the other side of the
world tow each But I know that you guys have
Laura have a couple of tips.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
We have flights all the time. My last flight was
about the fact that I said to the kids that
they cannot watch any more TV. They too much TV
during the day.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
And don't say Laura put it on for them, and.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, yeah, that's where this is going. I said, no TV,
I'm putting my foot down, absolutely not. The reaction from
the kids was a huge meltdown. I then went upstairs
and I heard Laura go, don't worry, I'll turn it on,
and I said, Laura, we've got to be on the
same page here.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's like everyone knows. That's the number one rule to
parenting is to even if you don't agree, you have
to get on the same page.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And so on a Sunday night, after a week and
of parenting, the weather wasn't great, so we're stuck indoors
all day. That is what we had to fight about.
But I agree it's more important. It's not about the fights,
it's about the conflict resolution. It's the communication afterwards. And
I just hope for George and a Miles say that
they are having those fights, that maybe there were being
honest about it on the podcast, but they're resolving it
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in a very amicable way.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I actually think Clooney's a billionaire too, so of course
they're not fighting. I'm not fighting with my billionaires, and
either billionaires.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Fight about honestly, did you refuel the jet? I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, totally. Where's the caveat?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah? It must be nice. Did you ever have an
elf on the shelf in your household during Christmas?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I don't think they existed when I was a kid.
I think they're like the last decade kind of thing,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I feel like they've really balloon producer Grace, did you
ever have an elf on the shelf? No?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I didn't know. We're too old.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Matt Okay, Well, we were never lucky enough as kids
growing up to have an elf on the shelf come
into our household. But would you believe it? Just recently
this year an elf from the shelf appeared in our household.
That's crazy. It's really crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And very exciting.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Do you know the rules about elf and the shelf?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Well, they just sort of let themselves into the house
and they play tricks or something. Is that it?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, the thing is you cannot touch the elf and
the shelf. If you touch the ylf, it loses.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Its magic, which the kiddies can't touch it.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, Marley was touching it for a while and we
were saying, Marley, if you touch the elf at night time,
it'll have no magic left, so it has no ability
to move around and be cheeky, so it will just
stay there. And so then Marley was like, all right, well,
I'm just going to give it one night where I
don't touch the elf. The magic came back. And apparently
I've also heard if you get a little bit of
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cinnamon and you sprinkle it next to the elf, that
allows the magic to come back in addition to not
touching it.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Does it? Is that?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's true?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's what I wonder what the cinnamon does is that
because it's like a Christmas nutmeging kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I think it's just like, yeah, it's a bit of
a Christmas spirit. It's like they're fuel if you will.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And is the most signing part that the kids wake
up and they're like, where is he? What pranks he done?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
It is amazing, Britney, the things that this elf has
gotten up to whilst we're all in bed. I mean,
one night it was on the toilet and toilet paper
where's everywhere, all over the floor. Another time it wrote
Merry Christmas in flower on the kitchen bench.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Does it ever play a trick where it's like I'm
actually not gonna move, I'm going to stay huge now.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, the only time that was a bit tricky was
when we had we had a cleaner come and they
cleaned the house, and then the kids came home from
school and they're like, oh my god, the elf has
moved during the date and only moves at nighttime. And
we were like, oh, that was accidentally, no cinnamon, nonamon get.
But I think the best thing of all is the
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fact that you the kids can tell the elf what
they want for Christmas. The elf can listen, but the
elf can't talk, okay for those wondering, So it's so
important for the kids to tell the elf what they want,
because the elf would talk to Santa Claus at the
end of each night.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's really wholesome.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
What are they asking for?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Weirdly, Lola wants a light up glitter water bottle.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh, okay, I don't know if Santa. So Laura did
tell me that, and I don't know if Santa can.
If Santa can't bring that, we have actually located one
go on. Laura was talking about on the podcast, saying
the Santa's list and that sometimes the gifts are pretty
tricky for Santa and they can't do everything. So Laura
was also on the hunt for it, just in case
Santa did it.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Imagine if we didn't have Elf in the shelf, we
wouldn't have that vital information in the lead up to Christmas.
And I just want to say, just someone who was
a little bit apprehensive about the thought of having a
roommate move in in December and Elf in the shelf,
it has been the best thing that has ever happened
to our household. Better than Poppy being born. Put that
on that show. If you're unsure, get an el from
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the shelf. It'll change your life.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Maddie Jay, you are three kids. I think that you're
done now. I don't think there's anymore. When you were
having your kids and Laura was falling pregnant, did you
plan what time of year that they would be born.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
No? I didn't, And I think it's a good question.
We didn't give much thought to it. We kind of
just got caught in the moment. I just kind of
started doing the horizontal dance, and we thought, when it's
going to happen, it's going to happen. But my brother
is born on December sixth. I think you don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
You do have a lot of I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, I'm one of five.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I know.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
My sister is jan six, my brother December. And December's
when you're the fifth kid and you're like the last
one in the year. No offense to my brother, David.
I love you very much and so does everyone in
the family.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
But it doesn't cares anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
We're over it.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, we're over it. You're a fifth kid, you're born
a Christmas. You don't get a.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Look in you know Tania Hennessy. Yeah, I think she's
due on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Which is really cute because is it. Well, she spoke
for so long about not being able to fall pre
and she's had really, like really tough fertility problems. I
feel like that's like a little bit of sprinkle of magic,
you know, like it's a gift. It's her literal gift.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
It's I mean, it sucks with the baby, great fortnia,
terrible for that kid growing up.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
My husband Ben and I we don't have kids yet,
but we do speak about it often, and it's been
difficult because we've been in different countries, et cetera. But
I'm nearing my late thirties and I do need to
get a wriggle on if I'm going to do it.
But I didn't know this is a thing. When we
were talking about it recently. He was like giving me
the months of the year that it has to happen,
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and I was like, what do you mean, Like why
are we like I think it'll happen, if and when
it happens, because.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Maybe he wants you to give birth when he's off
season so he can help more.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
So, Yes, there were two things and they changed right.
So originally it was like, well, you need to give
birth around May June because that is the only time
off of the whole year. And there are my husband's
a footballer, if you guys don't know, he lives in Italy,
but that's the only time of the year they're off,
and there are plenty of footballers that miss the birth
of their children because I mean, some teams are good.
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A lot of teams don't care, right, They're like, we're
paying you to play. Yeah, it's a big game. A
lot of coaches are really good, and they let it slide.
So it started to be around that, right, it has
to be an off season. But then he's recently come
back and changed it, and he has said now that
I need to give birth in the first three months
of the year, so Jan Feb. Much, maybe it can
push to April because studies say that having a baby
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or been born earlier in the year increases your chance
of being a professional footballer. So now he wants his
kid to be a professional footballer, and so now I
have to have it at the start of the year,
purely so that has a better chance.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I'd love to know who's done this research and how
does it benefit the child.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
So I can tell you. I mean, this study was
based on footballers, but it's a lot of athletes. And
the reason is, and it does make a lot of sense.
They're bigger, Well, they've got more time to develop their
skills in the year. But they're in the same age
bracket as a kid that's born in December. So if
you're in jan and another kids in December, and you're
up against the same age group, you've technically almost had
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a year of like training or skill development or whatever
it is, on top of other people in your years.
So it does make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
It's like a biological cheat code.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, it is a biological cheat code.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
And that's why I was never an athlete because I
was born in July. It makes so much sense. Now
do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That's the only reason.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
That's so annoying. I'm blaming my mom for that.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Okay, well we love it early. So anyway, I watched
their space. It's going to have to be January, February March.
And then if I do that and in fifteen years
that kid is not a professional, I've got to be dirty.
This episode was recorded on cameragle Land. Hi guys, and
welcome back to another episode of Life on Cut. I
am Britney.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
My name is and always has been and always will be. Well.
I thought about changing it. Did you thought about the paperwork?
It's just too much.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I haven't even changed my last name since I got married.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Isn't that point.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's a lot of damage control and like paperwork and
filling it out on new passports, and.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I just couldn't face it, Like my LinkedIn, I have
to change my LinkedIn.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I changed it on Instagram though that's like halfway there?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Did you? I don't believe you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, just like in my bio, it says Brittany Hockley Secrest,
hang on a second, one, just checked that also while
Matt's looking that up. Guys, this is the pick up
our radio show, so we do this on top of
the podcast. We package it up every week and we
bring you the best bits. Have you found it?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Mat?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh? Yeah? Secrist? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's just a name. It's a Swiss German name.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
What does it stand for? Does it mean? Like?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I could be very wrong and this might have just
been his granddad's job, but it has something to do
with like ringing a BELLA is that right, Grace?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
It means either victorious protector or peaceful.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Victor the bells from Ben's a bell.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Like they live in a small town in Switzerland
and his job was to ring the bell. And I
think I must have just mistaken that with like a meaning.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Occupational referring to a churchwarden, so.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That maybe there was something in that. Maybe he was
a warden. And then he got promoted to bell ringer.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I don't know if he loses hearing it all from
so much ringing of the bell.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's their version of industrial tonight. When you step on
in the rusty name.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was so close. I knew, I knew I wasn't
quite there. I knew that if I planted the clues
and you guys would like pick up the treasure.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What I can say is Ben and I hadn't really
discussed the name change, but he was so chuffed when
he saw that I just added it to my Instagram bio,
like he was really proud.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Has he put any pressure on you to go like
the whole nine yards and full transfer across to like
Britney Segrest.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He would like us to all have the same name,
but he also understands it's a bit hard too hard
basket and you know, I my name, I guess comes
with a lot now like my I don't know. I
don't want to sound like a wanker, but like people
know me as Brittany Hockley. I feel like it would
be weird to change it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeahone if someone came to me and they're like, oh
my gosh, she did that show with Britney Segrest, but
who the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And I'm just putting too much blood, sweat and tears
on Dance with the Stars for people to forget that totally.
I think if we have kids would change it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I knew Laura was never going to change. I was like,
Paperwork's not paperwork is her number one, that's her Achilles heel.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
She's literally never going to do it. I don't even
think Poppy is properly registered yet.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I wouldn't want her to, you know, really, Yeah, I
just she looks like a burn. She doesn't look it's
not really a Johnson ISSU.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, no, that's because she hasn't done the paper.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But I don't think it is sooner, you know, I
think I look at her, and I'm like, you just
don't suit.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do you know what I think I'll do?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Hit me when the time comes.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I think that i'll change it legally, like if I
have kids, I think i'd change it, But I don't
think i've change it publicly, so I think i'd keep
those two separate. Oh yeah, so on a technicality, we've
all got the same name, but like publicly, I'll still
be who I am.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, at Cole, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Am I a secret?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Produced Grace? Have you changed your name?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I always said that I'd only change my name if
it was better than my current name, which is Grace Guard,
And I really like it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Grace Guard's strong. I love the same letters as well.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah yeah. Also like good for the forms your wife
what's her last name?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Cal cool? Oh but that's cool, Grace cal cool?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
K A L ko U L?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's hard though as well, when you're like the amount
of times your wife must have to be like this is?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Then what will when you guys have kids, because I
know that's in your future, what name you're you going
to give them?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I think we'll go with God, but I think we'll
use one of Diana's family names as the middle name
is cal Cool.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Know that you're going, God, yep, okay, Carol Cool's cool
with it, cal Call's cool. But then would you have
cal cool as a middle name.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
No, we'd probably go like one of Diana's mom's. Yeah
I made a name kind of thing. Yeah, what's that soriso?
Oh yeah, it's like kind.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of very good from Brittany. These are the things when
you're in your thirties and your forties that you have
to start thinking about. When need to talk about this
in high school?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think, well, no, because we're in high school. It's like,
don't have kids. We're a condom. And now it's like
the adamin that comes with it. It's trying to fall
pregnant as well. It's a whole lot that we could
have learned in school that we absolutely didn't learn.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Brittany, I hate to do this, but I have to
cough ah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Past the It is your last.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
No one has fucking said Matt, well done for rocking
up sick to work.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Because that's just what you're just a bare minimum.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, it's not the bare minimum coming away.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You can't not come to work on your last day,
that's why.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, but like you know, no one's Matt well done
for coming to work sick. No praise no, No, like, hey,
well done, you've pushed through. We know your own well.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But I mean Laura was working in labor, so you've
got those high standards for you to keep up with.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, that's fine, that's all right. When you're sick, brit
and you're struggling, just just know that I'm always going
to cheer you on. I'm always going to give you
some encouragement.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Just know that I was just about to give you
props and say, last ten weeks with you on air
has been one of the biggest jories of my life.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, it was all right if you're into that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was like five, it was a five out of ten.
Did you have fun?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Really, I would not recommend going to work after a
baby is born. If I could change anything about this experience.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It wouldn't have done it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It would be doing it before Poppy was born. Yes,
it has added a layer of complexity that is not
always wanted when you've got three kids. Yeah, but being
here with Easy who does our videos, producer, Grace who
steers the ship and Yourselfney has just been a delight.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah. Look, we had some highs, we had some loads,
we had some laughs. So let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The loads, Brittany coming to work with you.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
We love you so joke. Sometimes it's low hanging fruit
and you hand it to us on a platter.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
These are the parts that you're not This is being
Britney's punching bag every single day.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But you know you can only do that to somebody
when it's not true. Do you know what I mean?
Say those things when I have.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
My breakdown, I want you to feel guilty. Okay, when
they're like, I wonder what was it? What was the
straw that broke the camel's back? And they'll listen back
to this episode and they'll be like, Britney secret, Brittany, the.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Problem pretty secret because no one will know who it is.
We love you, mad Let's get into the.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Last episode and you'll have to change your name.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Maddie Jay. You and I have both had our time
in the South African jungle. We both hit on slivery
to get me out of here. Neither of us won.
We did make it to the end, like we made
it pretty far.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I do actually have a bone with you, Brittany, because
I spoke to you before I did I'm a Celebrity,
which was this year.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, because I did it last year.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And you were like, it's fine, You'll have such a
fun time.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. Matt came and he's like, should I do I'm
a celeb I'm like, yes, I loved it. I came
out of the jungle and wanted to go back in.
I couldn't face real life anymore. Life was easier in there.
It was fun, no time, no stress, no bills.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wow. I was mismanaged so severely. I remember going into it.
I thought it was going to be just like fun
from the get go. Within the first few hours, I
was thinking, oh my gosh, I have made a huge mistake.
I didn't love it as much as you, Brittany. I
was just hungry.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's different I think if you have kids, because I
think there's this pull at home that makes you miss
it a bit more, Whereas I live with my dog,
so I was like, I'm not gone home do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, Delilah, I mean not the best dog, is it.
She's actually yeah, she's well, they're actually for the first time,
they're not filming it live and I have been paying
attention to some of the behind the scenes producers who
were over there right now in Africa. They are filming
as we speak. I feel like I'm a detective by
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showing that information.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well they're also, I mean, there's very public information too.
They've dropped some very public hints a to who is
going into this season, and we want to try and
work out who it is. So have a listened to
this first hint A rugby league Romeo is going from
dodging tackles dodging frocks. They won't be kicking goals in
the jungle. They'll just be kicking and screaming a rugby player.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, I got it. Okay, and I will bet my
life on the fact that it will be Luke Bateman
on the show the Book toop guy there she is.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I'm getting professional rugby player. He wasn't a professional.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Played NRL Camber Raiders shout out, okay the Raiders, big
Raiders fan, I reckon. I guarantee he's got a huge
following because he now you know, he does his videos
where he's like covered in grease on a farm tractor somewhere,
but also talking about fantasy. The women go wild, Luke Bateman,
Producer Grace, write it down, lock it in please?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, all right, well let's get a hint. Number two.
An international supermodel is strutting her way into Africa. She
connected to rock and roll Royalty.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well we'll have them Crocodile rocking too.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Something shocking. Do you know who I think this is?
Go hit me and I'm just trying to think. Now
she's connected to Royalty. I reckon this could be Tyra Banks.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I was going to say Tyra because hit me go.
She needs the money.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
She needs the money. I don't know why she decided
to make Australia home, but she has like she came
here and set up a business. She has an ice
cream business. But I just feel like in Australian media
she's been everywhere this year and she obviously was one
of the biggest supermodels. She used to run the Supermodel
show like the Model Get me out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of here, am. I could be wrong, but I agree
to Banks will be in Producer Grace.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
If it's filming currently.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Though.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Tyra Banks was at a pub in Sydney performing her
new Christmas song last night.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I reckon she's already been kicked.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Out, oh, because it's been filming for.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
A while, and I reckon, I'm going to put two
and two to make sixteen. I feel like she will
struggle in the jungle, Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I have also just tried to google if she has
a connection to rock and roll and she has been
in video appearances in like Michael Jackson and Tina Turner
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I have a list here, Brittany, who I reckon. I
guaranteed Sarah Harris, former host of Studio ten and the
project she will be on there, I guarantee.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I just saw her get papped on the weekend in
the Eastern Beaches, so I don't reckon at her. But
what about MILITALYNG Because they've said a master chef person.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
NRL players and master chef. That's a bottomless pit right there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But do you think that there's one that says a
jungle princess? Do you think they're bringing someone back that's
done it before, because what else is it?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Actually? No, I don't reckon they would because it'd be
so hard to manage because they would know all like
the behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
What could jungle princess mean?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Though? I don't know because for anyone wondering. They are
so strict that even the only time you have any
contact with the production crew is to change your batteries
on your MIC pack. And they are so strict that
they won't even tell you the time.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Do you want to know? You know what, here's some information.
I'm going to tell you something that I did. I
negotiated something when I went in that I said, I
will only come in if I have this one luxury item.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It was a hair brush?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
What?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How did you negotiate that because I have hair extensions
and I said, guys, you have to brush it or
I'll end up balled, like I'll have to shave my
head in there that were tempted to make that happen.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Did people know that you had that luxury?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No one you except for I just told everyone.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now, oh my, can I also just add to my
list Bianka die You may remember her. She was on
the radio on the Gold Coast on the Golden Bachelor.
I think she'll be there. And I also want to say, Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Lewis, that's who you think is.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
The Matt Zakowski married to Tammy Hembro for five seconds?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What category with that?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
For?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Under reality TV bad Boy.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And there is also a reality Bridezilla that's maps. There's
always a mass, could be any They're all. I can't
wait to watch it. I'm super so excited. Mattie J.
Have you seen all the stuff around Quentin Tarantino kicking
off online?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Because I love a bit of gossip, brit I love it. There,
I said it, I'll admit it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I don't know if this is gossip as much as
you said it earlier. Quentin has woken up and chosen war.
He has been absolutely slammed by Hollywood, Like I don't
think I've seen so much of Hollywood come out since
the picketing riots from the writers protest. What was that
I couldn't get? You can tell?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Tarantino made an appearance on the Brett eastern Ellis podcast
where he was aiming the ten best movies of the
twenty first century. They were just having a discussion on
what they loved, but the discussion turned into who they
don't love. Have a listen.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
There Will be Blood would stand a better chance to
be in number one or number two if it didn't
have a big giant fly in it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And the fly is Paul Danna he's just such.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
A weak, weak, uninteresting guy.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
That just crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
There's got to be like he's got to owe him
money or something. There's gotta be some reason why he's
come out and he's so aggressive.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, because he also it wasn't just that one attack.
He also slammed Matthew Lillard. Who who's that He was
in Scooby Doo, he was in Scream. He's like a
really everyone knows him to do.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Not the best baggy Yeah, pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And also interestingly Owen Wilson. He slammed Owen Wilson as well. Now,
I think Owen Wilson's a great actor, but Hollywood have
just said, you know what, you can't come out and
slam these like our colleagues out. There's almost like there's
an unspoken rule where you're just not supposed to do it,
like you're not supposed to come out unless something huge
has happened or somebody's going to prison, or someone's done
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something illegal, Like you can't just come out when you
are I guess as well respected and decorated as someone
like Quentin Tarantino, like the world looks at him to
be such this incredible inspirational director that's done all these
amazing things. So when you come out and say publicly
how bad an actor is, that he's unnecessary and unwarranted,
you're literally impacting their career. But it's had a backfire
(14:35):
because like anyone who is anyone in Hollywood has come
out in force. Reese Witherspoon came out saying Paul Dano
is an incredibly gifted, versatile actor and more importantly, he's
a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I love that how everyone's come out and support of
Paul dan Those other actors don't haven't any mention of
them anywhere, Owen Wilson, no one's defending him.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I actually had questions about that because we've got Josh
gadd and John Cusack, Ben Stiller, so many different people
have pull Dano all Paul down.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Can I just say, though you can't buy this type
of publicity, if you're pulled Dano, I mean, you'd be
pretty happy with the result right now. I mean, I
would love it if anyone out there wants to critique
me and my radio hosting abilities, come for me, but
don't attack me.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I actually think it's going to be interesting. Twenty twenty
six week pull down as year you watch. He will
be cast in everything as almost alike. We will show
you kind of there.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
This is an amazing result for Paul. I think this
is honestly the best thing that has ever happened to him.
So he will be He'll be sending Christmas cards every
year to Tarantino being like, hey, thanks so much for
those comments on the podcast. That really gave me a
leg up.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, Matthew Lillard has actually come out and made his
own statement. He was at like one of those comic
Con events and he said, the point is that it
hurts your feelings. It really beep sucks, and you wouldn't
say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn't say that to
somebody who is a top line actor in Hollywood. And
I think that's a good point. And it just sucks
that someone like Quentin Terrant, you know, he's punching down
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so much. That's the part. I think it's gotten a
lot of people offside, but I love to see Hollywood
coming out in force.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Tom Cruise is pretty good actor, though, wasn't he. No
One's going to say that about him because he's just
so good.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
You it was so shaggy, is he?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Though?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Indy Clinton, she is one of the biggest most followed
influences from Australia. She's got millions millions across TikTok and Instagram.
You've had her on the podcast before, Brittany.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, she's like I guess she does like mum fluencing,
like mum top.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
She's married, beautiful husband, three kids. Yeah, but one of
her children. She has announced that she wants to change
the date of her birthday. Have a listened to what
she said?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
My third child, Solina, I decided to change her birthday
to the twelfth of December. She was actually just too
close to Christmas for my liking, and I just I
just thought, going forward, she's never going to know we
have officially changed. Genuinely, I cannot think of every reason
why this would be bad. I know why more people
don't do it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
This is kicking off online. Can I tell you maybe
this is controversial? Yeah, I'm not mad about it. Neither
am I to be think it's sort of okay.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I think, can I just ask really quickly, when is
your birthday?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I say this, I'm good, I'm August. I'm like the
middle of the year. There's nothing around my birthday.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Okate, that is a great time to be born. I
am July sixth, which like great, not mad about it.
Apparently I read in an article it was done by
the Guardian December sixteenth is the worst date to have
your birthday. Apparently I was sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You'd think like December twenty five would suck way more
all the twenty fourth or the twenty sixth or the
thirty first.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Look, hey, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just telling you
what I heard. But I think December eighteen it's a shocker. Well,
we have soccer a birthday.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We have someone in the room with quite a lot
of experience in this producer. Grace is actually born on
let me see if I can remember it, the twentieth
of December. Correct, Yeah, it so it's Grace's thirtieth next week. Yeah,
how do you feel because you had your party last weekend?
And that's because no one wants to come to you
party five days before.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Literally my entire life, I've struggled having a birthday so
close to Christmas because everyone's either having their family Christmas,
their work Christmas party, they're away for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, what was that like growing up?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Look, my dad's the twenty third as well.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Oh my god, generational dad.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You had to share it.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
No, but my parents were very good at making it
feel special because my dad knew what it was like
kind of thing, and they were very good at separating
the events and separating presents and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It was more just everyone's away. But I think growing
up it's like not even the present part because like
you're always going to get the extra presents. But it's
like what you just said, it's like when you're a kid,
you never really get to have the parties because no
one's there like you are, well and truly on school holidays,
every family is away or they just like they do
not have the capacity to take their kid to a
birthday party at that time.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So would you change the date that you have the
birthday party?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I do often, especially if I've got a big one,
like a thirtieth I'll just pick a random date in
November or the start of December and just go with that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You're not stuck to a particular No.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No, no. Grace called her birthday on the weekend Happy
almost thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Almost thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I don't like that or a fake birthday. It's fun too,
I think it's okay. I don't think she's legally changing
her daughter's name. I don't think she can. But I
think she's like, hey, it's not going to hurt anyone
if I just celebrated a bit early. But people are
kicking off about it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
My only bit of criticism here as she says, well,
she's never going to know she Well, look, at some
point she will get an ID card and be like,
hang on a second. December twelve, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Because I think her kid, I think soul the kids
she's speaking about. I think she's like three, maybe she's
very little, but like, you can't just lie to her forever,
Like the truth has to come out at some point, and.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Everyone out there who was born in December, my heart
goes out to you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Can you just tell me why does this say why
the sixteenth is so bad? Because I just feel like
this worst age?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't have the answer
that I'd love to know as well. I'd love to know.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I would have loved you to google that when you
brought that fact. Producer Grace is googling, and I can.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Tell apparently December sixth, there's the worst birthday. It falls
too close to Christmas. No, there are worst dates in
the sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Sorry, that's so dumb. I don't believe that, Brittany.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You may remember last week we celebrated a very special
occasion in the Johnson household.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It was, of course, there was a dance recital and
there was a graduation.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, big week, and one of those events has rubbed
people up the wrong way. I did a video it
was a little cut down from our podcast two Dotting Dads,
and I was talking about the fact that I got
a little bit emotional at the daycare graduation of Lola.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yes, you cried. It was all the feelings. It was
a whole big thing.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Now, a couple of people reached out and had some
thoughts on the event. One in particular got my attention.
I'm going to read you the message from Brad Smith eight.
He says, it's freaking daycare. That is not an achievement.
Parents are out of control if they think it's important
to celebrate nothing with the kid. Kids need to start
learning that it's a hate to lose. They need to
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start learning that life is just life. Seriously, what the
actual And I was like.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
That also feels like there's something deeper there, because it's
like saying that you shouldn't be celebrating this and they
need to lose and stuff, like they just finished school
and what's he mad about it?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean, we're not like wrapping the kids in bubble
wrap and saying that they can never have any disappointment.
I mean, we're just celebrating daycare. Look, I do understand
that people may be like, well, why are you celebrating that.
It's not that much of an achievement to graduate daycare.
It's not like there's no kid that doesn't graduate. If
you're just in that year, you just buy default.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You don't like fail the sand piece.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, it's exactly like, sorry, Timmy, you're gonna have to
spend another year finger painting. That was not good. That
was a shocker. Sorry he cannot graduate this year. Yeah,
he's like he just he's just not doing it. He's
pretty bit he's struggling. But it does seem a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Do you know what the thing with me is like,
I think it's important to celebrate those things. Do I
think that we are in the like participation era where
everyone gets an award for trying, and I think it's
important to try. But I do think that, like when
you're in a running race, I get that if you
come last, it's important that you tried. It is, but
(22:16):
everyone shouldn't get a medal because you do have to learn,
because life isn't That isn't life right, Like there are
clear winners in life at certain things and that kind
of stuff. It's okay for them to be like I'm
not as good of a runner, Like, that's okay, You're
going to be better at something else.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I hear. And I think you want to build some
resilience in your kids. Absolutely I agree with you, And
I think when it comes to sport, I'm absolutely not
opposed to giving first, second, and third the little ribbon,
a little medal if you will, and the rest can
then try harder the next year. But I think when
it comes to we're talking about five year olds here,
and I think does it need to happen? Probably not.
(22:52):
Do the kids really love it? Did Lola get super
excited the fact that we built it up to this
big occasion it's the end of daycare? Did she then
look back at the photos and did she reminisce And
was it a nice chance for all the parents to
get together.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It was. Here's a question, because sometimes I do think
it is a lot. Like for me, for example, when
I look at that, I'm like, yes, I think you
should celebrate graduating and going off to school and making
it feel special. Do I think you need to have
graduation capes and graduation hats with the tassels and like
that all seems like a lot? Do you have to
pay for that as a parent, because you know what, UNI,
(23:25):
when you graduate, you have to like buy your graduation outfit,
so they provide the graduation stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I mean I was paying one hundred and eighty bucks
a day a day. Yes, so I'm sure at some
point those fees for the capes and they had to
swallow it in their somewhere, but they just they reuse
those capes, and you know what, it's a bit silly,
you know the fact that they are standing there in
capes and they're five years old. But it just adds
a little bit of theater. And when we talk about
the graduation process, all that happens is they sing two songs.
(23:52):
They then each get a little certificate. They then like
throw the little hat in the air and that is it.
It's over in about half an hour.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And then you give the capes back and then we've got.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
To give the capes back. And that is it?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So to you, Brad Brad Smith eight?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, Brad Smith eight, I said, tell me you think
this is a good comeback or not. I said, tell
me you don't have kids without telling me you don't
have kids, and he said I have three actually, and
he goes, but I don't have the brats that you'll have,
and then which I replied, well, if there're anything like
their dad, I beg to differ.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Drop cape drop? Hen can I just graduation hat?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Drop? Can we have a ground of applause?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That was God. I don't know if we should be
encouraging online troll fighting, but like congratulations low, that was.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
A civil fight. And if anyone wants to come at
me for daycare graduations, I will come at you with
a wrath of one thousand tired parents. Okay, Brittany one
thing we haven't spoken about this week, which I think
is a real miss is miss Universe.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
We have been chatting about that the last couple of weeks.
There's been a lot of controversy.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I think we've spoken more about miss Universe in the
last couple of weeks and I have my entire life,
which is a great thing.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What's happening now?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I can't get enough. Okay, I want to talk about
former Miss Jamaica. Her name is April Jackson. Now she
does something with her kids that has outraged people online.
Parents are now coming for her. Guess what she doesn't
give them?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What doesn't she give them? I hope she gives them love.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
She gives them love again. I'll tell you she doesn't
do any gifts. She doesn't do birthdays, Christmas or whatever.
And she says here I quote, I want my girls
to value people, not things.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I did actually see this. This is kicking off right,
Like a lot of people were angry about it. A
lot of people calling her selfish and like, you're only
not spending money on your kids because you want to
spend it on yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Witch, Like, good on it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I don't know if like what I'm about to say
is the minority or majority opinion, but I kind of
get what she's doing. I kind of think if you
are giving your kids many experiences, because she said she's
been traveling the world with them, like giving them loads.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Of Yeah, they're living a great life, living.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
A great life. I kind of think that, like if
somebody asked me if I would rather like travel the
world and have experiences or just get like a gift
that I'm going to use for a week and the
neverviews again, I'd be wanting to travel the world.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I do think when people feel outrage enough to come
for another parent, knowing that these kids look happy, they're healthy,
they're safebados. Yeah, they're having a pretty good life. Like, let's,
you know, focus on the more important things, the kids
that are in danger. But can I ask you something, Britney, Yes,
do you have a core memory at all from your
(26:41):
birthday or Christmas? Was there a particular gift that stands
out as a great memory for you?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
No, let me tell you this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I only she'd be coming for Britney's parents.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, because I can tell you all the core holidays
that I had. And this is maybe why I'm leaning
more into I understand what she's doing. I saw a
video last night. I'm going to share it with you,
Matt after this because it was very powerful and it
was just coincidental that this came up with my algorithm.
It was a mom. She has three kids that ranged
from like four to eight or something like that, and
she goes up to them all and she films them
(27:13):
and she says, hey, what was your favorite present from
last year's Christmas? And no prompting nothing, she just asked
the question. They think about it for a while, and
the first one says, I don't remember. I'm sorry, Mom,
I don't remember. She's like, that's okay, and then she says,
what was your favorite holiday we took last year? And
they start rattling them off, and she asked all three kids,
and not one of them can name one gift they
(27:35):
got the year before because they all named the holidays.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
She's obviously getting pretty bad gifts, isn't she No, it's
upper gift game.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It's true. It's true. I don't forget.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
As a kid, I was raised by a single mom.
There was five of us. We didn't have a lot
of money at all in our household, but there would
be one big gift that we would get each year,
and I remember vividly what these were like. One was
a cricket bat. I wanted it so badly and I
had to wait all year, and finally, on Christmas morning,
I got that cricket bat. There was a new bicycle
(28:06):
as I remember getting.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
No, don't get me wrong, I got a great gift
from my parents. But what I'm saying is I remember
the camping trip that we did over the Christmas holidays
more so than I remember what I got on that Christmas,
If that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's a beautiful thing, the anticipation of a child when
you're counting down the days to your birthday or Christmas.
I loved it. I loved it. Do I enjoy holidays, absolutely,
But I think you can just give them one little gift.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Sorry, I didn't mean a talking baby voice. I promise
I will never do that again.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Viscerally uncomfortable. I agree a little bit of a Christmas present.
I agree that you shouldn't be going sands gifts completely.
Do I think that we do too much? Yes, you
see those videos online now where there's like one hundred
gifts wrapped under a tree. Too much. Your kids are
not going to remember it. You're doing that for you,
not them. Wind it back a little bit, give them
(28:58):
something that they've really wanted. But then I think it's
about experiences, and I'm not saying take them on a
holiday like that's that's crazy. We can't all do that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
April Mede, the former Miss Universe from Jamaica. She says
she doesn't do any gift nothing, nothing at all. I mean,
like you do you, but I want to give my kids.
I want to give you something.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, but if my parents said, hey, you canna have
a cricket bat or go to the mold Eves, I'm
going to the mold Eves.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Like I'm sorry, I mean cricket bats like a couple
hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
But that's my point, right, Like, these kids are doing
just fine.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
People need to as a parent, a cricket bat can't afford. Brittany,
I want to get your thoughts on whether you think
this is a red or a green flag in a relationship.
You're a big fan of Travis Kelcey engaged to te Swift.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I'm only a fan of Travis because I'm a fan
of Tea Swizz.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I don't know personally, but I'm not a I'm not
an American football fan, so I hadn't really heard of
him until that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't think you need to be a fan of
football to appreciate just how amazing he is, so handsome,
so kind. I like him a lot. I'm a huge fan.
Here's a podcast and a recent guest they had on
the podcast was George Clooney. Now, he said something that
was very surprising to me, at least about his relationship
with a Mile Clooney. This is what he said. You
(30:15):
claim that you and your wife haven't got in a
fight in ten years. That's right? Are you lying? No,
I'm not lying.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Travis the same questions.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, it's only been two and a half years, and
you're right, I haven't gotten no argument to all right,
never once.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Honestly, you know neither of us are going to win
the arguments or why get in it?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Firstly, his laugh is very cute.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Also, sorry, a Mile would always win an argument. If
George and a Mile were in an argument, one hundred percent,
he's going down. That is why he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Is she a lawyer? What does she do again?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yes, she is such an incredibly intelligent woman, and I
think that's why he was attracted during in the first place.
She definitely runs that ship.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you think that in ten years not having any
argument at all, that's going to be some kind of
conflict avoidance issue? Right?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I don't believe it. I would like to know what
they categorized as an argument, because I think there'd be
disagreements of such. But maybe they have great conflict resolution.
But do you know what I say to that go on?
And it is hard because it's not their fault. They
are billionaires. They are uber rich. She's a little billionaire.
So the things if you think about the day to
day things that a couple argue about, it's finances, it's
(31:27):
division of labor, it's who's cleaning up. But they've got cleaners,
they have people doing their shopping, they have people cooking
for them. They just have to be together and enjoy
their life.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Do you remember the last fight that you and Ben had?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
What was it about?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It was like two days ago.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, I just told you guys, I was moving to
Italy and I asked him would he ever come here
if he didn't have a football job?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Ooh go on?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
And he said no?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Well, and I understood it and it wasn't a proper fight.
It was and I never would ask him to He's like,
that would be asking me to give up my higher
career that I worked my whole life for. And it
was a hypothetical question. You know, it's that time of
the month and sometimes girls are like, would you still
love me if I was a frog? It was like
that kind of a thing, and he did explain it,
and I was like, yeah, cool, that's actually wild to say,
would you give up your whole career to come here
(32:14):
and do nothing? And so it was like an argument
over that. But we don't argue a lot either. But
that's because we live on the other side of the
world tow each But I know that you guys have
Laura have a couple of tips.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
We have flights all the time. My last flight was
about the fact that I said to the kids that
they cannot watch any more TV. They too much TV
during the day.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
And don't say Laura put it on for them, and.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, yeah, that's where this is going. I said, no TV,
I'm putting my foot down, absolutely not. The reaction from
the kids was a huge meltdown. I then went upstairs
and I heard Laura go, don't worry, I'll turn it on,
and I said, Laura, we've got to be on the
same page here.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's like everyone knows. That's the number one rule to
parenting is to even if you don't agree, you have
to get on the same page.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And so on a Sunday night, after a week and
of parenting, the weather wasn't great, so we're stuck indoors
all day. That is what we had to fight about.
But I agree it's more important. It's not about the fights,
it's about the conflict resolution. It's the communication afterwards. And
I just hope for George and a Miles say that
they are having those fights, that maybe there were being
honest about it on the podcast, but they're resolving it
(33:16):
in a very amicable way.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I actually think Clooney's a billionaire too, so of course
they're not fighting. I'm not fighting with my billionaires, and
either billionaires.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Fight about honestly, did you refuel the jet? I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, totally. Where's the caveat?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah? It must be nice. Did you ever have an
elf on the shelf in your household during Christmas?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I don't think they existed when I was a kid.
I think they're like the last decade kind of thing,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I feel like they've really balloon producer Grace, did you
ever have an elf on the shelf? No?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I didn't know. We're too old.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Matt Okay, Well, we were never lucky enough as kids
growing up to have an elf on the shelf come
into our household. But would you believe it? Just recently
this year an elf from the shelf appeared in our household.
That's crazy. It's really crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And very exciting.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Do you know the rules about elf and the shelf?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Well, they just sort of let themselves into the house
and they play tricks or something. Is that it?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, the thing is you cannot touch the elf and
the shelf. If you touch the ylf, it loses.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Its magic, which the kiddies can't touch it.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, Marley was touching it for a while and we
were saying, Marley, if you touch the elf at night time,
it'll have no magic left, so it has no ability
to move around and be cheeky, so it will just
stay there. And so then Marley was like, all right, well,
I'm just going to give it one night where I
don't touch the elf. The magic came back. And apparently
I've also heard if you get a little bit of
(34:39):
cinnamon and you sprinkle it next to the elf, that
allows the magic to come back in addition to not
touching it.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Does it? Is that?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's true?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's what I wonder what the cinnamon does is that
because it's like a Christmas nutmeging kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I think it's just like, yeah, it's a bit of
a Christmas spirit. It's like they're fuel if you will.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And is the most signing part that the kids wake
up and they're like, where is he? What pranks he done?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
It is amazing, Britney, the things that this elf has
gotten up to whilst we're all in bed. I mean,
one night it was on the toilet and toilet paper
where's everywhere, all over the floor. Another time it wrote
Merry Christmas in flower on the kitchen bench.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Does it ever play a trick where it's like I'm
actually not gonna move, I'm going to stay huge now.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, the only time that was a bit tricky was
when we had we had a cleaner come and they
cleaned the house, and then the kids came home from
school and they're like, oh my god, the elf has
moved during the date and only moves at nighttime. And
we were like, oh, that was accidentally, no cinnamon, nonamon get.
But I think the best thing of all is the
(35:49):
fact that you the kids can tell the elf what
they want for Christmas. The elf can listen, but the
elf can't talk, okay for those wondering, So it's so
important for the kids to tell the elf what they want,
because the elf would talk to Santa Claus at the
end of each night.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's really wholesome.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
What are they asking for?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Weirdly, Lola wants a light up glitter water bottle.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh, okay, I don't know if Santa. So Laura did
tell me that, and I don't know if Santa can.
If Santa can't bring that, we have actually located one
go on. Laura was talking about on the podcast, saying
the Santa's list and that sometimes the gifts are pretty
tricky for Santa and they can't do everything. So Laura
was also on the hunt for it, just in case
Santa did it.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Imagine if we didn't have Elf in the shelf, we
wouldn't have that vital information in the lead up to Christmas.
And I just want to say, just someone who was
a little bit apprehensive about the thought of having a
roommate move in in December and Elf in the shelf,
it has been the best thing that has ever happened
to our household. Better than Poppy being born. Put that
on that show. If you're unsure, get an el from
(36:55):
the shelf. It'll change your life.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Maddie Jay, you are three kids. I think that you're
done now. I don't think there's anymore. When you were
having your kids and Laura was falling pregnant, did you
plan what time of year that they would be born.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
No? I didn't, And I think it's a good question.
We didn't give much thought to it. We kind of
just got caught in the moment. I just kind of
started doing the horizontal dance, and we thought, when it's
going to happen, it's going to happen. But my brother
is born on December sixth. I think you don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
You do have a lot of I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, I'm one of five.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I know.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
My sister is jan six, my brother December. And December's
when you're the fifth kid and you're like the last
one in the year. No offense to my brother, David.
I love you very much and so does everyone in
the family.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
But it doesn't cares anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
We're over it.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, we're over it. You're a fifth kid, you're born
a Christmas. You don't get a.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Look in you know Tania Hennessy. Yeah, I think she's
due on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Which is really cute because is it. Well, she spoke
for so long about not being able to fall pre
and she's had really, like really tough fertility problems. I
feel like that's like a little bit of sprinkle of magic,
you know, like it's a gift. It's her literal gift.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
It's I mean, it sucks with the baby, great fortnia,
terrible for that kid growing up.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
My husband Ben and I we don't have kids yet,
but we do speak about it often, and it's been
difficult because we've been in different countries, et cetera. But
I'm nearing my late thirties and I do need to
get a wriggle on if I'm going to do it.
But I didn't know this is a thing. When we
were talking about it recently. He was like giving me
the months of the year that it has to happen,
(38:38):
and I was like, what do you mean, Like why
are we like I think it'll happen, if and when
it happens, because.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Maybe he wants you to give birth when he's off
season so he can help more.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
So, Yes, there were two things and they changed right.
So originally it was like, well, you need to give
birth around May June because that is the only time
off of the whole year. And there are my husband's
a footballer, if you guys don't know, he lives in Italy,
but that's the only time of the year they're off,
and there are plenty of footballers that miss the birth
of their children because I mean, some teams are good.
(39:11):
A lot of teams don't care, right, They're like, we're
paying you to play. Yeah, it's a big game. A
lot of coaches are really good, and they let it slide.
So it started to be around that, right, it has
to be an off season. But then he's recently come
back and changed it, and he has said now that
I need to give birth in the first three months
of the year, so Jan Feb. Much, maybe it can
push to April because studies say that having a baby
(39:36):
or been born earlier in the year increases your chance
of being a professional footballer. So now he wants his
kid to be a professional footballer, and so now I
have to have it at the start of the year,
purely so that has a better chance.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I'd love to know who's done this research and how
does it benefit the child.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
So I can tell you. I mean, this study was
based on footballers, but it's a lot of athletes. And
the reason is, and it does make a lot of sense.
They're bigger, Well, they've got more time to develop their
skills in the year. But they're in the same age
bracket as a kid that's born in December. So if
you're in jan and another kids in December, and you're
up against the same age group, you've technically almost had
(40:17):
a year of like training or skill development or whatever
it is, on top of other people in your years.
So it does make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
It's like a biological cheat code.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, it is a biological cheat code.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
And that's why I was never an athlete because I
was born in July. It makes so much sense. Now
do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That's the only reason.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
That's so annoying. I'm blaming my mom for that.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Okay, well we love it early. So anyway, I watched
their space. It's going to have to be January, February March.
And then if I do that and in fifteen years
that kid is not a professional, I've got to be dirty.
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