September 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Dogfishing has returned to dating profiles, Laura has JUST realised she has no health insurance (at 9 months pregnant) and September is apparently the month for breakups.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist and listen
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good pickup with Britt Hogley and Laura.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Ben Brady or what our windows done?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
My world?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Reason the dust only good?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Bab dogle Do I've done much?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
But yeah I'm not. I'll big get and what I want.
It don't matter where Brad done. This is the pickup.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Piles went back again? Have you Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But back again? You're always sound so shocked.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, you know Wednesday? What I don't say? It's Wednesday.
It's not Wednesday, don't.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We you know why you're giving birth any day now?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So you don't know which ways are?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I really don't. I snow. I said it yesterday, But
I've been having the most intense bracks and hicks that
I just came into work and I said, what's the
plan if this happens?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Because and I said, don't worry, I have birth to
child before.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We're no longer at the point of it being early,
like it actually would just be on time if I
went into labor now up, But we're pretending as though
it's coming in. We're still pretending like it's weeks away.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But really, because the problem is you grab your belly
and you going, oh.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It feels really tight, like it's contracting.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm like, cool, that's what happens when you go into labor,
which is any day now.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And I, even though I have well this would be
my third I've never gone into labor. I've always been
in duced. So every time I feel something weird, I'm like,
is that labor? Anyway? Do you know what I wanted
to tell you, though, Britt, I came across a new
term and I really like it. It's romo. You know, you
know we having fomo fear of missing out? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I actually sent this in as well. Oh okay, sorry,
relief of missing out?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Romo? So Killian Murphy? Who Britt Apparently I've just discovered
it's like one of her crushes.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, he's not my crush, but the character he played
in Piggy Blinders because he was like a.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Really baddy mobby boss. I had a crush on the character.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
There's nothing sexier than me called a mobby boss.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Whatever. Everybody that has watched Piggy Blinders.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, okay, so Romo, relief of missing out? That is me?
I have Please cancel plans, don't answer your phone, don't text.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Me, don't contact I don't want to know, don't make
eye contact with Laura burn, do not disturb anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Laura.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
There's a lot of things that people are supposed to
be looking out for in the dating world, like a
lot of red flags flapping about in the wind.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Narcissus it's the one that always pops up.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Double life, yep, cheating, people that don't want to share food.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like pants. That's another one that was one that I
feel like I came in contact with quite a lot.
Peter Pans, the type of people who just never really
want to settle down and they think they're twenty by
their forty.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, there's also there's like catfishing, you know the term
cat fishing, somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Pretending to be something that they're not.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Or someone that they're not.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, and then there was this trend of people being
really turned off on dating apps by people that had
like fish in their profile pictures.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You remember, like every guy went through a phase of
like they.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Caught their fish and they thought that was a turn on,
and every woman was like instant.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, yeah, I don't know where it came from. Fish
became the shirtless photos. So like for a while there
it's like Jim Bros. Would post photos with themselves without
shirts on, and then on the flip side of that,
it's men holding up fish.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Okay, now the one it's now called dog fishing. Now
what's a dog fish? I'm going to tell you, but
I don't know how I feel about it yet. I
do want to unpack it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So dog fishing people are now sick to death of men,
and it is mainly men, Like this is one sided
for this conversation. But it's men that have dogs in
their photos, like they've replaced the fish with a dog, but.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The dog's not theirs.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
They're dog fishing you because it's cute, it's wholesome. It's like,
look how much better I look with a little puppy
on my shirtless photo?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Gives a reason to be at the beach with your
shirt off or whatever. So people are.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now getting really mad and calling them out like it's
a red flag, like if they're pretending that dog is theirs,
like that is a no.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I don't think people are getting mad.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There is a reddit thread that is dog free dating
subreddit thread. How can you filter out people online so
that anyone with a dog doesn't come up that people
are mad.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I feel like this about men who have photos with kids,
but they're not their kids. So if they're an uncle,
it's their niece or nephew, and it's just like them
with a cute baby photo and then they'll say and
then they'll say directly underneath, like not my child.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
The thing is, though, it's like fun uncle that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like women don't seem to do that, Like we don't
post photos with other people's babies because that's not a
turn on for men. So like we don't have in
our dating profiles, we don't have photos of us with
the babies, whereas like guys do. And I think it's
the same effect, the puppy effect and the baby effect,
it's the same thing. It makes us think that they're
nurturing and caring and soft and empathetic.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And I from personal experience, I have been sucked into
hot dog man.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I know you are, and I know you have been
britt but isn't that the only the reason why you
got Delilah? At the start you're like, no, you got
Dalilah with your ex boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, well, rub in my heart.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But the amount of times that you've said that she's
come in very advantageous down on the dog Walk boulevard.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I didn't have a lot of lock in dating. And
when I say that was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Like I didn't usually get hit on by a lot
of people. There wasn't a lot of interest. You know.
Maybe that was off the back of the Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't know, but I I got to my dog
Delilah with my partner at the time, and then we
broke up when I was out pumping that well, I
was gonna say pumping the pavement when I was.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
When I was pumping the pavement.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
With Delilah, my dog, it's such a conversation start, and
somebody just looks more like appealing, more.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Open to conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But you probably maybe this law because you and I
have been on quite the dating journey the last six
seven years.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
But there was this.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Guy that I got sucked into his vortex because I
knew nothing about him other than he had a dog
and I'd seen him with his shirt off, and I
was like, it's the puppy for me, and I ended
up like tracking him down on the promenade one day
with his dog. The dog was the convo starter, and
then bam bam, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's because it's an easy in if someone has a dog,
it's an easy thing to spark a conversation about. But
the person that you're specifically referring to, britt we coined
him hot dog Man, not hot dogs in the Dog
You Eat. But he was hot, he had a dog
and he was and he also was on the Instagram page,
which I think it still exists, Grace, do you remember it?
It was Hot Dudes with Dogs, Hot Dudes with Dogs.
(06:17):
I was actually looking for it this morning and could
not find it. Okay, so it might have maybe it's
been shut down that he used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Did you shut down Hot Guys and Dogs?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It was Hot Dudes and Dogs or Hot Guys and Dogs.
And it is literally just an Instagram account that's dedicated
to people in Australia, men in Australia. It was worldwide,
Oh well world wide, there we go international, and it
was just photos of very very attractive men with dogs.
And this guy that Brittany ended up dating for a
very short period of time was on that Instagram site.
And I'm pretty sure that that's how you tracked him down, brit.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But do you want to know the part that I
feel bad saying this right because the reason I follow
hot dudes with dogs the Instagram, right because I like
to look at dogs and hot men used to be
a favorite pastime, so soon me. Anyway, he got fed
into my feed one day and I was like, oh
my god, that is the guy that is on the promenade.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But the thing that would like put.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Me off was that for him to get featured on
that page, he had to tag himself on hot.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Deos with dogs and that's and that was the part
for me where I was like, man, do I.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Still do it? Obviously you did? Yeah, you did? You did.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It was a touchy point.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Look, people can be outraged by it all they like
in the Reddit threads. It clearly works. Men who have
dogs are more attractive, Men who pose with dogs are
more attractive. We like dogs, you know what I think? Though.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The thing is, you have too many things to worry
about in the dating world already.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Let's not add a man with a dog to it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like, if you are filtering through your dating apps and
you think that's a red flag, I think you're probably
gonna be alone for But.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, if you can't do it, the men who have fish,
men who have dogs, men who have no shirts, and
men who are posing with other people's children. There's not
many men left. That's all the men.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
This, guys, I do swear I'm gonna stop talking about
this pregnancy soon because.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Then you talk about having a newborn tradition.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, because I'm going to be having a break. Someone's
going to be filling in for me soon. Yeah, that
is a little spoiler. We will reveal all secrets next
week on the show. However, in the interim, I'm still
going to keep talking about being heavily, heavily pregnant. So
this is the very first pregnancy that I've had where
we've decided to go private. Every other pregnancy we've gone
(08:22):
through the public system. It's been fantastic.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh, I thought you've ben about social media.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, No, we kept a private No, we went private hospital,
which meant the only thing about when we went private
is we were in and out. Like I had my
last two kids and I went in, was induced and
I was out within the same twenty four hours, Like
I did not stay in hospital at all. And I
think going into this one having the two kids at home,
we've also got Matt's mum who lives with us. We've
(08:46):
got the doll, We've got the cat. It's just it's
a full household. And so I really wanted to be
able to stay in hospital a little bit longer if
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Not booked a six months day.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
So I've gone on a health retreat, so I'm actually
going to bud Noice. So I decided to go private
this time with my own obstetrician. And the other reason
as well is because things were a little bit hairy
with Lola. We didn't have an easy berth. She had
quite a few complications going into that, and so I
just kind of gave me a bit more peace of
mind I felt. However, the reason why we chose that
(09:15):
is because we've had private health insurance for so long.
Like we've been on private health insurance and I never
use it. It's always one of those things where I'm liked,
we pay all this money for this thing and I
never claim anything. But you know what, finally the baby's coming,
We're going to gain some of this back. So I
booked in. I've got everything organized at the hospital, except
it kept getting this like error message coming through like
(09:37):
an email you know, basically being like your health insurance
hasn't been linked correctly. And I was like, oh, that's annoying.
I'll do it. And I'm really bad with paperwork, like
my admin is not my strong point. So even though
I'm one week off having the baby, I was like,
I'll do it later. Anyway, it came to punch t
like crunch time, punch, punch that out. Please want to
punch me. And I've got a call from hospital and
(10:00):
they were like, we need your health insurance details to
be able to process all this. I was like, cool,
call my husband, because that's one thing that Matt's in
charge of. He is the health insurance person in our family.
He does the rin dules, he does everything. I called
him and I was like, hey, can you send me
through all the details for the health insurance that we're on.
I need to send it across to the hospital. And
he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll get that for you. And
(10:21):
I was like that doesn't sound reassuring.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It seems a bit shit.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Anyway, a few hours later, I was like, just just
open up your emails. Just look. If you just type
in color insurance booper cover, it'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, just forward me that email.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was like, yeah, I can't find it anywhere. Last
night we were laying in bed and I was like, Sweetart,
I really need I've got to call the hospital tomorrow.
I need the health insurance details, and he goes, yeah,
I was just looking at my emails. I kind of
get the feeling that maybe we're not covered. And I
was like, sorry, what gives you the feeling that we're
not covered? And something in my gut were just going off,
(10:54):
like the vibe of the last email, and I was
like the vibe of the last email. I was like,
can you sorry, can you please hand me your phone
and show me the last email walk me through this vibe.
So the last email we received from Booper was in
February and it said you're is overdue and for your
new renewal and your health insurance will be canceled if
this is not paid. So we don't have health insurance.
(11:15):
And I was like, oh, and you're giving birth in
like four days. When we talk about the vibe, I
think it's pretty evident we don't havel.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I've got red exclamation marks in the heading. He's like,
something my spidery senses A're telling me oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
To letter's fine, but you've had it for like ten
years and haven't had it for.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Long and like the one time that we could actually
use it, I was like, we are the problem. It's
you and me combined. We're terrible at admin.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
To be fair, I'm not on anyone's side, but it's
all I mean, it's also yours, to be fair.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And also in defense of my husband, he was in
the African jungle doing I'm a celebrity at the time.
And the other thing that I have now discovered is
that we never updated our address, so all of those
letters have been going to.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Your house prove all right. So I didn't renew your
health insurance, so it's my fault.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So I blame you, and now you owe me my
private cover. Stay.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh I feel Sophie your bank account then.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, so do I. But I feel like these types
of things happen to people all the time. That you
think you covered, you think you've paid your car registration,
you think you paid remember that was me, and then
you find yourself driving around whoop whoop.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Three months three months.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I had to hand my plates in, I had to
take my plates off, and I was like, what do
you mean the officer was like, take them off now.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I was like, I don't have a portable drill. That
was That was a bad time.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That's a dark time in anyone's days.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Hey, I just feel like I am the bearer of
bad news in the dating world this week.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We're talking about like the things.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
To look out for earlier, like dog fishing. What dog
fishing is? But I have grim news about the month
of September, i e.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
The month we in right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Apparently, according to Christine Raith, who's like a sex and
relationship therapist, September is like the number one month of
the year where.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
People get broken up with, like where you get dumped.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I feel like it makes sense, though, hear me out.
I've got a theory around this. I think that September
is a good time if you're gonna if you've been
thinking about breaking up with your partner, because it's far
enough from Christmas. You know, some people spend months thinking
about do a show? Stay shouldn't. I like, you've already
done the mental breakup, the mental gymnastics, but you just
don't have the confidence to actually do the breaking up part.
September is the perfect month. It's far enough away from
(13:23):
Christmas that you're not an asshole because you can't. November
too close, December way too close. October is still fine,
but I feel like September is better, so like, get it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No October November, guys, you can still break up with
your partners in October.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
November.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You can't cut out a quarter because Christmas is coming.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Hear me out. And also September it works well because
we're already spring cleaning. I think mentally, you're spring cleaning
your house, you're spring cleaning your wardrobe, you're changing over.
It's like this real sort of like air of like
okay freshness, and I think we can apply that to
our relationships.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I don't think it's that.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I just think people are like, yeah, it's summer, it's hot,
the sunlight's out.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I want to hook up.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I want to party, I want to be free, I
want to hook up.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Just because they want to be single. Some people just
want to.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Why didn't say why? Look don't come for me. It's
Christine Rae. She's the therapist or she's come for her.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, that's what she is linked to. So she says,
it's linked to exactly what you said.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Laura, like a psychological spring clean, like, so do the dusting,
change your sheet in your bed, and change the person.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
In your bed. Hormonal ships like increase.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Serotonin because the sun's coming back after winter, and seasonal
effective disorder, which is known as like SAD, which like
they say, can contribute to winter stagnation in relationships.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But I think it's like literally, like who was the
psychologist that came up with that. It's called SAD and
it's a winter stagnation. It's it's like we've literally coined
the term for everything. It's so ridiculous, but it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Makes a lot of sense if you are not locked
into the relationship, Like if your relationship is not the
person you want to marry, this is the time where
people are like, you know what, I want to be
just having fun over somewhere.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I want to be on a boat parties.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, I mean I've definitely had like I mean not
for a long time. I'm very happily married, but I've
definitely had like a winter cuddle buddy. And then when
it came summer, I was like sorry, like this and
he knew it too. This was not a one sided thing.
We were not worth each other's summers, but we were
worth to tray each other's winters for winter. It's like
I didn't want to go dating in the rain. I
didn't want to go out to clubs.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I was like, I don't ever move to Scotland.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I don't want to go out dating and it's cold,
like going out for dinners. I just want to stay
inside and harmonate win netflix with the man.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The winter is there is a direct correlation to dating
people that you wouldn't normally date in winter.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But okay, do you feel as though, in your history
of datings and relationships and whatnot, that you have preferred
being single in summer.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I never wanted to be single. I didn't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Sorry, no, it's it is easier to be sick in summer. Yeah,
because you you've got weather depression in winter and like
all you want is someone to hold you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And I don't have a gas heater. So I had
a really cold winter.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It was cold and low.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's just me and my dog, all right, guys.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That is it from us today.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good pickup with Britt Hogley and Laura.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Ben Brady or what our windows done?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
My world?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Reason the dust only good?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Bab dogle Do I've done much?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
But yeah I'm not. I'll big get and what I want.
It don't matter where Brad done. This is the pickup.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Piles went back again? Have you Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But back again? You're always sound so shocked.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, you know Wednesday? What I don't say? It's Wednesday.
It's not Wednesday, don't.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We you know why you're giving birth any day now?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So you don't know which ways are?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I really don't. I snow. I said it yesterday, But
I've been having the most intense bracks and hicks that
I just came into work and I said, what's the
plan if this happens?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Because and I said, don't worry, I have birth to
child before.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We're no longer at the point of it being early,
like it actually would just be on time if I
went into labor now up, But we're pretending as though
it's coming in. We're still pretending like it's weeks away.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But really, because the problem is you grab your belly
and you going, oh.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It feels really tight, like it's contracting.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm like, cool, that's what happens when you go into labor,
which is any day now.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And I, even though I have well this would be
my third I've never gone into labor. I've always been
in duced. So every time I feel something weird, I'm like,
is that labor? Anyway? Do you know what I wanted
to tell you, though, Britt, I came across a new
term and I really like it. It's romo. You know, you
know we having fomo fear of missing out? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I actually sent this in as well. Oh okay, sorry,
relief of missing out?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Romo? So Killian Murphy? Who Britt Apparently I've just discovered
it's like one of her crushes.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, he's not my crush, but the character he played
in Piggy Blinders because he was like a.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Really baddy mobby boss. I had a crush on the character.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
There's nothing sexier than me called a mobby boss.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Whatever. Everybody that has watched Piggy Blinders.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, okay, so Romo, relief of missing out? That is me?
I have Please cancel plans, don't answer your phone, don't text.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Me, don't contact I don't want to know, don't make
eye contact with Laura burn, do not disturb anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Laura.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
There's a lot of things that people are supposed to
be looking out for in the dating world, like a
lot of red flags flapping about in the wind.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Narcissus it's the one that always pops up.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Double life, yep, cheating, people that don't want to share food.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like pants. That's another one that was one that I
feel like I came in contact with quite a lot.
Peter Pans, the type of people who just never really
want to settle down and they think they're twenty by
their forty.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, there's also there's like catfishing, you know the term
cat fishing, somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Pretending to be something that they're not.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Or someone that they're not.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, and then there was this trend of people being
really turned off on dating apps by people that had
like fish in their profile pictures.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You remember, like every guy went through a phase of
like they.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Caught their fish and they thought that was a turn on,
and every woman was like instant.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, yeah, I don't know where it came from. Fish
became the shirtless photos. So like for a while there
it's like Jim Bros. Would post photos with themselves without
shirts on, and then on the flip side of that,
it's men holding up fish.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Okay, now the one it's now called dog fishing. Now
what's a dog fish? I'm going to tell you, but
I don't know how I feel about it yet. I
do want to unpack it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So dog fishing people are now sick to death of men,
and it is mainly men, Like this is one sided
for this conversation. But it's men that have dogs in
their photos, like they've replaced the fish with a dog, but.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The dog's not theirs.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
They're dog fishing you because it's cute, it's wholesome. It's like,
look how much better I look with a little puppy
on my shirtless photo?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Gives a reason to be at the beach with your
shirt off or whatever. So people are.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now getting really mad and calling them out like it's
a red flag, like if they're pretending that dog is theirs,
like that is a no.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I don't think people are getting mad.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There is a reddit thread that is dog free dating
subreddit thread. How can you filter out people online so
that anyone with a dog doesn't come up that people
are mad.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I feel like this about men who have photos with kids,
but they're not their kids. So if they're an uncle,
it's their niece or nephew, and it's just like them
with a cute baby photo and then they'll say and
then they'll say directly underneath, like not my child.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
The thing is, though, it's like fun uncle that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like women don't seem to do that, Like we don't
post photos with other people's babies because that's not a
turn on for men. So like we don't have in
our dating profiles, we don't have photos of us with
the babies, whereas like guys do. And I think it's
the same effect, the puppy effect and the baby effect,
it's the same thing. It makes us think that they're
nurturing and caring and soft and empathetic.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And I from personal experience, I have been sucked into
hot dog man.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I know you are, and I know you have been
britt but isn't that the only the reason why you
got Delilah? At the start you're like, no, you got
Dalilah with your ex boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, well, rub in my heart.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But the amount of times that you've said that she's
come in very advantageous down on the dog Walk boulevard.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I didn't have a lot of lock in dating. And
when I say that was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Like I didn't usually get hit on by a lot
of people. There wasn't a lot of interest. You know.
Maybe that was off the back of the Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't know, but I I got to my dog
Delilah with my partner at the time, and then we
broke up when I was out pumping that well, I
was gonna say pumping the pavement when I was.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
When I was pumping the pavement.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
With Delilah, my dog, it's such a conversation start, and
somebody just looks more like appealing, more.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Open to conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But you probably maybe this law because you and I
have been on quite the dating journey the last six
seven years.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
But there was this.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Guy that I got sucked into his vortex because I
knew nothing about him other than he had a dog
and I'd seen him with his shirt off, and I
was like, it's the puppy for me, and I ended
up like tracking him down on the promenade one day
with his dog. The dog was the convo starter, and
then bam bam, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's because it's an easy in if someone has a dog,
it's an easy thing to spark a conversation about. But
the person that you're specifically referring to, britt we coined
him hot dog Man, not hot dogs in the Dog
You Eat. But he was hot, he had a dog
and he was and he also was on the Instagram page,
which I think it still exists, Grace, do you remember it?
It was Hot Dudes with Dogs, Hot Dudes with Dogs.
(06:17):
I was actually looking for it this morning and could
not find it. Okay, so it might have maybe it's
been shut down that he used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Did you shut down Hot Guys and Dogs?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It was Hot Dudes and Dogs or Hot Guys and Dogs.
And it is literally just an Instagram account that's dedicated
to people in Australia, men in Australia. It was worldwide,
Oh well world wide, there we go international, and it
was just photos of very very attractive men with dogs.
And this guy that Brittany ended up dating for a
very short period of time was on that Instagram site.
And I'm pretty sure that that's how you tracked him down, brit.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But do you want to know the part that I
feel bad saying this right because the reason I follow
hot dudes with dogs the Instagram, right because I like
to look at dogs and hot men used to be
a favorite pastime, so soon me. Anyway, he got fed
into my feed one day and I was like, oh
my god, that is the guy that is on the promenade.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But the thing that would like put.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Me off was that for him to get featured on
that page, he had to tag himself on hot.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Deos with dogs and that's and that was the part
for me where I was like, man, do I.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Still do it? Obviously you did? Yeah, you did? You did.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It was a touchy point.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Look, people can be outraged by it all they like
in the Reddit threads. It clearly works. Men who have
dogs are more attractive, Men who pose with dogs are
more attractive. We like dogs, you know what I think? Though.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The thing is, you have too many things to worry
about in the dating world already.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Let's not add a man with a dog to it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like, if you are filtering through your dating apps and
you think that's a red flag, I think you're probably
gonna be alone for But.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, if you can't do it, the men who have fish,
men who have dogs, men who have no shirts, and
men who are posing with other people's children. There's not
many men left. That's all the men.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
This, guys, I do swear I'm gonna stop talking about
this pregnancy soon because.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Then you talk about having a newborn tradition.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, because I'm going to be having a break. Someone's
going to be filling in for me soon. Yeah, that
is a little spoiler. We will reveal all secrets next
week on the show. However, in the interim, I'm still
going to keep talking about being heavily, heavily pregnant. So
this is the very first pregnancy that I've had where
we've decided to go private. Every other pregnancy we've gone
(08:22):
through the public system. It's been fantastic.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh, I thought you've ben about social media.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, No, we kept a private No, we went private hospital,
which meant the only thing about when we went private
is we were in and out. Like I had my
last two kids and I went in, was induced and
I was out within the same twenty four hours, Like
I did not stay in hospital at all. And I
think going into this one having the two kids at home,
we've also got Matt's mum who lives with us. We've
(08:46):
got the doll, We've got the cat. It's just it's
a full household. And so I really wanted to be
able to stay in hospital a little bit longer if
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Not booked a six months day.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
So I've gone on a health retreat, so I'm actually
going to bud Noice. So I decided to go private
this time with my own obstetrician. And the other reason
as well is because things were a little bit hairy
with Lola. We didn't have an easy berth. She had
quite a few complications going into that, and so I
just kind of gave me a bit more peace of
mind I felt. However, the reason why we chose that
(09:15):
is because we've had private health insurance for so long.
Like we've been on private health insurance and I never
use it. It's always one of those things where I'm liked,
we pay all this money for this thing and I
never claim anything. But you know what, finally the baby's coming,
We're going to gain some of this back. So I
booked in. I've got everything organized at the hospital, except
it kept getting this like error message coming through like
(09:37):
an email you know, basically being like your health insurance
hasn't been linked correctly. And I was like, oh, that's annoying.
I'll do it. And I'm really bad with paperwork, like
my admin is not my strong point. So even though
I'm one week off having the baby, I was like,
I'll do it later. Anyway, it came to punch t
like crunch time, punch, punch that out. Please want to
punch me. And I've got a call from hospital and
(10:00):
they were like, we need your health insurance details to
be able to process all this. I was like, cool,
call my husband, because that's one thing that Matt's in
charge of. He is the health insurance person in our family.
He does the rin dules, he does everything. I called
him and I was like, hey, can you send me
through all the details for the health insurance that we're on.
I need to send it across to the hospital. And
he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll get that for you. And
(10:21):
I was like that doesn't sound reassuring.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It seems a bit shit.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Anyway, a few hours later, I was like, just just
open up your emails. Just look. If you just type
in color insurance booper cover, it'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, just forward me that email.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was like, yeah, I can't find it anywhere. Last
night we were laying in bed and I was like, Sweetart,
I really need I've got to call the hospital tomorrow.
I need the health insurance details, and he goes, yeah,
I was just looking at my emails. I kind of
get the feeling that maybe we're not covered. And I
was like, sorry, what gives you the feeling that we're
not covered? And something in my gut were just going off,
(10:54):
like the vibe of the last email, and I was
like the vibe of the last email. I was like,
can you sorry, can you please hand me your phone
and show me the last email walk me through this vibe.
So the last email we received from Booper was in
February and it said you're is overdue and for your
new renewal and your health insurance will be canceled if
this is not paid. So we don't have health insurance.
(11:15):
And I was like, oh, and you're giving birth in
like four days. When we talk about the vibe, I
think it's pretty evident we don't havel.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I've got red exclamation marks in the heading. He's like,
something my spidery senses A're telling me oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
To letter's fine, but you've had it for like ten
years and haven't had it for.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Long and like the one time that we could actually
use it, I was like, we are the problem. It's
you and me combined. We're terrible at admin.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
To be fair, I'm not on anyone's side, but it's
all I mean, it's also yours, to be fair.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And also in defense of my husband, he was in
the African jungle doing I'm a celebrity at the time.
And the other thing that I have now discovered is
that we never updated our address, so all of those
letters have been going to.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Your house prove all right. So I didn't renew your
health insurance, so it's my fault.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So I blame you, and now you owe me my
private cover. Stay.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh I feel Sophie your bank account then.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, so do I. But I feel like these types
of things happen to people all the time. That you
think you covered, you think you've paid your car registration,
you think you paid remember that was me, and then
you find yourself driving around whoop whoop.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Three months three months.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I had to hand my plates in, I had to
take my plates off, and I was like, what do
you mean the officer was like, take them off now.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I was like, I don't have a portable drill. That
was That was a bad time.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That's a dark time in anyone's days.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Hey, I just feel like I am the bearer of
bad news in the dating world this week.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We're talking about like the things.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
To look out for earlier, like dog fishing. What dog
fishing is? But I have grim news about the month
of September, i e.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
The month we in right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Apparently, according to Christine Raith, who's like a sex and
relationship therapist, September is like the number one month of
the year where.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
People get broken up with, like where you get dumped.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I feel like it makes sense, though, hear me out.
I've got a theory around this. I think that September
is a good time if you're gonna if you've been
thinking about breaking up with your partner, because it's far
enough from Christmas. You know, some people spend months thinking
about do a show? Stay shouldn't. I like, you've already
done the mental breakup, the mental gymnastics, but you just
don't have the confidence to actually do the breaking up part.
September is the perfect month. It's far enough away from
(13:23):
Christmas that you're not an asshole because you can't. November
too close, December way too close. October is still fine,
but I feel like September is better, so like, get it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No October November, guys, you can still break up with
your partners in October.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
November.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You can't cut out a quarter because Christmas is coming.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Hear me out. And also September it works well because
we're already spring cleaning. I think mentally, you're spring cleaning
your house, you're spring cleaning your wardrobe, you're changing over.
It's like this real sort of like air of like
okay freshness, and I think we can apply that to
our relationships.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I don't think it's that.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I just think people are like, yeah, it's summer, it's hot,
the sunlight's out.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I want to hook up.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I want to party, I want to be free, I
want to hook up.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Just because they want to be single. Some people just
want to.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Why didn't say why? Look don't come for me. It's
Christine Rae. She's the therapist or she's come for her.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, that's what she is linked to. So she says,
it's linked to exactly what you said.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Laura, like a psychological spring clean, like, so do the dusting,
change your sheet in your bed, and change the person.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
In your bed. Hormonal ships like increase.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Serotonin because the sun's coming back after winter, and seasonal
effective disorder, which is known as like SAD, which like
they say, can contribute to winter stagnation in relationships.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But I think it's like literally, like who was the
psychologist that came up with that. It's called SAD and
it's a winter stagnation. It's it's like we've literally coined
the term for everything. It's so ridiculous, but it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Makes a lot of sense if you are not locked
into the relationship, Like if your relationship is not the
person you want to marry, this is the time where
people are like, you know what, I want to be
just having fun over somewhere.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I want to be on a boat parties.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, I mean I've definitely had like I mean not
for a long time. I'm very happily married, but I've
definitely had like a winter cuddle buddy. And then when
it came summer, I was like sorry, like this and
he knew it too. This was not a one sided thing.
We were not worth each other's summers, but we were
worth to tray each other's winters for winter. It's like
I didn't want to go dating in the rain. I
didn't want to go out to clubs.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I was like, I don't ever move to Scotland.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I don't want to go out dating and it's cold,
like going out for dinners. I just want to stay
inside and harmonate win netflix with the man.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The winter is there is a direct correlation to dating
people that you wouldn't normally date in winter.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But okay, do you feel as though, in your history
of datings and relationships and whatnot, that you have preferred
being single in summer.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I never wanted to be single. I didn't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Sorry, no, it's it is easier to be sick in summer. Yeah,
because you you've got weather depression in winter and like
all you want is someone to hold you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And I don't have a gas heater. So I had
a really cold winter.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It was cold and low.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's just me and my dog, all right, guys.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That is it from us today.
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