Life Uncut - It’s Birthday Week! If We Were In Our 20s Again, Here’s What We’d Do Differently
Episode Date: August 19, 2025Hey Lifers! Laura’s house is back in chaos and Britt has embarrassed herself in an elevator full of people. What’s your phone wallpaper? Has it ever been a hot photo of yourself? It’...s ½ the team’s birthdays. Another year older, another year w̶̶i̶̶s̶̶e̶̶r̶̶ still wondering what the heck we are doing in life. We speak about how birthdays can feel pretty anticlimactic and differently if you are spending it with someone in particular. We flash back to last week where Britt gave …feedback on some fashion choices. We asked you what some of your funniest back handed ‘kill them with kindness’ comments.We love that for you. With birthdays and a lot of self reflection this week, we really enjoyed the substack written by Leanne Ely titled ‘If I Were 50 Again, Here’s Exactly What I’d Do Differently’. We spoke about Leanne’s advice on detoxing her relationships before she detoxed her liver and how a lot of women have done a lot of living for everyone else and put their own wants and desires on the back burner. You can read the whole substack here We each asked ourselves if we were to have another go at our 20s, what would we do completely differently. You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! XxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura.
I'm Brittany.
Do you know what I had to do last night, Britt? You're going to be thrilled.
If I could have a stab in the dark, I'm going to say you had to milk Buster's anal glands.
I've never had to do it myself. I take him to the vet for that.
Every week?
No, like once every six weeks I take him to the vet.
Why don't you just do it yourself?
Because you have to.
No, it's not.
I always thought you could do it from the outside,
but then I had to be in the vet this one time.
They made me hold him and it was really traumatic for him, for me,
for everyone there, and they put them inside and milk it.
It's a lot.
How are we here within 30 seconds?
Because it's life on God.
Well, Laura said.
No, that's not how I started my, that's not how I ended my day.
I ended my day with a knit treatment, everyone.
Family knit treatment.
Here we are again.
In the Johnson Burn household.
Yesterday we got the email from daycare being like,
there is a knit outbreak.
And then I kind of wrote to Matt and I was like,
Lola has been scratching her head a lot.
Did she have them?
Yeah.
Yeah, she did.
So you've got them?
No, I don't anymore.
Because that K424, whatever it's called, is really effective.
So I blitzed the whole family.
We're knit free again.
But yesterday not so much the case.
And now Vanessa's scratching her head.
Oh, God.
I actually just scratched mine too.
You know, it's like an instant reflex.
Someone says knits and you're like.
To be fair though, kids, unfortunately,
just kids bring them home from school all the time.
Yeah, of course.
And especially if you have kids that don't wear their hair back.
Like Molly always takes her hair out.
Even if we ask her to wear it in a bun,
she'll just pull it out during the day.
Yeah, I think you've got to plait them or something.
Yeah, we do.
We do.
And then she wants to be Taylor Swift, so she takes her hair out.
Tell her Taylor Swift does plaits.
The problem is she comes home with cat eyes.
Matt and I just wanted to be known because I'm sure Daily Mail
is going to write an article about us being the Knit family.
Matt and I did not have knits, just the kids.
So you can write that.
Pretty sure the Daily Mail weren't going to write.
Imagine that.
Imagine that's the headline, Laura and Matt have knits.
Like slow news though.
They've done slower.
They've done worse.
Have they?
The knits.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, dude, you walk out of the house wearing a crop top
and they're like Brittany's stunning abs, blah, blah, blah.
No one's ever said that.
No one.
They do.
Give me some buzzwords that they use.
Brittany's glistening abdominals.
Showing off.
That's what they do.
Shows off.
Trim figure.
Shows off what husband is missing.
It's what ex is missing.
That's what it is.
Brittany shows ex what he's missing.
I was like, Brittany's married.
Brittany doesn't think about her ex.
Brittany has moved on.
Okay.
So I want to tell you something.
I don't get embarrassed.
You guys know this, but very occasionally, very occasionally something slips in and it
happened to me on the weekend.
I had the feeling.
I felt the emotion.
I was embarrassed.
When something slipped in.
So, no, unfortunately nothing has slipped in in a long time.
So I am embarrassed to even admit this before I tell you the embarrassing story.
Last week's episode of the podcast, if you listened to it, we said, you know, this is
really rogue.
This is a rogue episode, but it was so funny.
I also would love it to be known that we did plan content for that episode.
We actually prepped some relatively nuanced things and then something happened and it
It was like two hours in and we hadn't gotten to it yet.
We just decided it was time to go.
It was very funny though.
It's one of the episodes that I got the most amount of responses from people just saying,
laugh so hard, couldn't stop laughing, screaming, howling.
Like this went on and on and on.
And we got so many that I was like, I'm going to listen to it.
I'm going to listen back right now.
Usually it takes me a few weeks to listen to an episode after we've recorded it because
I'm like, it's fresh in my mind.
But I was like, wow, it must have been really funny to listen back to.
I wish Keisha and I had the same privilege of that.
Well, you've got to edit it.
Because we've got to edit it.
Nah.
We had to edit that steaming pile of shit.
But if I give it a few weeks, it's like a new episode to me
because I don't quite remember what we said or did.
Anyway, so many people had said that it was so funny
and they were laughing.
So I was like, I'm going to listen to it.
So I put it on in the car and I drove up to Bondi Junction
because I needed to go to the shopping centre.
Playing it out loud.
Get out of the car.
It's winter.
So I put my phone in my pocket, my jacket pocket,
and then I put my coat over the top.
get out of the car walk in to the most packed elevator and I'm in the elevator and everything
is dead quiet and it must have just hit against my leg and me my own podcast starts playing out
loud in the elevator full of people there's like 15 people there and because it's on the inside
pocket it's dead silent no one's talking no one gets in the elevator and it's just us so it's me
listening to my own episode obnoxiously out loud on my iPhone in an elevator and I was like oh
sorry sorry and I'm trying to get it out and as you're speaking they're like hey that's you
no and I was mortified a I was mortified at the fact that I was like I'm obnoxiously just playing
a podcast b I thought I say no it's me I'm playing myself out loud and I'm trying it because it's not
in the outside coat I'd put it in like my blazer pocket and then I had a jacket I'm fumbling trying
to get it off we're screeching we're laughing the sexist anyway I was just mortified and like you
know it goes the elevator goes so long and anyway I finally get into my pocket elevator opens this
girl walks out at the front and she turns around and she goes don't worry i like life uncut too
and then walks away and i was like oh my god i was like no that's i think it's not this is not me
i was like i don't know like i don't have any i was so embarrassed i thought imagine these people
that know i'm thinking i'm walk around playing my own podcast out loud you do though like you do
it's fine it's so embarrassed no you can't own that like there's some things you can't do
and playing your own podcast out loud in an elevator is one of them.
I would say that this is akin to people who have themselves
as their own screensavers because that's like me.
That was you as well.
Let me just check.
No, I always have me, but I have me and Ben from the wedding.
Yeah, so cute if it's a couple photo.
But, like, you know when someone's just, like, gotten hot
and then they have a bikini photo of themselves?
No one has their own bikini photo on their phone.
Yes.
No, they don't.
People aren't doing that.
If you do it, change it now.
Do they really?
Okay, people always do it as like a strategic one.
So they've gotten like fit and then they've gone on a holiday
and it's like them in a bikini, a bit of sunset.
So it's like it's the sunset photo but really we all know it's
because you're hot in a bikini.
On your own phone screen?
On your own, yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe it's a 20-year-old thing.
Maybe I'm too old.
I don't have any photos of me anymore.
I'm like literally the other day I was like after I have this kid,
can I get a facelift and start it at the knees
and just pull everything up?
That's not called a facelift.
Can I just pull the whole thing up and then just tie it off the head?
Oh, guys, can a guy get a labiectomy and just trim the eye as well?
Start here and end it here.
No, I'm not loving photos at the moment, but that's fine.
Can I ask you guys about the phone screen thing?
Most of the time I think people would have their partner if they have one as their phone screen.
Maybe your kid, maybe your pet.
I've had me and Delilah.
Sometimes if I'm a bit annoyed at him, if it's like a photo of him on my phone screen
and we've had some spicy fight or whatever and we're in that stimmy,
I swipe up and I change it to a location photo.
That is so petty.
That is the most petty thing I've done.
I have rotating photos on my phone.
So like mine is like I've chosen the kids and Matt
and I get like a rotating pic of them that comes up.
But it's created this real popularity dynamic in my household
because now the kids get really offended.
So if Lola sees it and like Marley's been on there too many times
for her liking, she'll be like, why is it always Marley?
Oh, she doesn't love me.
so they don't have to put Lola back on and then 10 minutes later.
It changes every 20 minutes.
It's because you've got knits, Lola.
It's because you're ground zero of the knits.
No, I remember when I tried to do that and I realised quick smart,
I'm in a long-distance relationship and I have a lot of nudes on my phone
that I couldn't do that.
I had sexy lingerie photo pop up on my screensaver.
That's very interesting because I actually think that it is very,
like, AI savvy.
So it knows what it's rotating through.
When you pick a person, it doesn't put nudes on there.
So, like, I have, I shouldn't say I have lots of nudes.
It was pretty hot to be fair.
It was a hot photo.
But, like, I've taken photos, and this probably sounds weird,
but it's in the most innocent way.
Like, I've taken photos of the kids in the bath or the kids in the shower
and stuff, right?
Look at that just say, this is the most innocent way I take photos
of my butthole, but it's, like, super innocent.
I've just taken photos of, you know, Matt with his penis out.
Like, it's fine.
It's super innocent, you know, and those ones have never popped up.
So I don't know what you're talking about, Britt.
Mine popped up, let me tell you.
That's why I can't have a rotating photo.
Oh, well, anyway, I don't know how we arrived here, but here we are.
Anal glands.
From anal glands to Matt's nudes.
We have something very big that is happening this week.
Do we?
It's Brittany and Keisha's birthday.
I thought you were about to say there's another big life announcement
and I was like, not again.
No, no joke.
I didn't know what you were about to say.
I was like, do I know this?
I didn't know what announcement you were about to make.
Tomorrow, if you're listening to this on the day that it came out,
Wednesday, tomorrow is Brittany and Keisha's birthday.
It is literally half of the team's birthday tomorrow.
I know.
We're both cute, both 33.
It's cute.
I'm actually turning 32 you're turning 30 I don't want to age you 38 don't age me yeah okay you're
38 no yeah she is isn't it crazy though that you I mean I know we discuss this every single year
but of all the days that you guys could be born the fact that it was the same day what I really
love about it because I've never really been a big birthday person you know I think you kind of
tend to fall into one of two camps you're either the person who celebrates their birthday loves
their birthday love the attention that comes from it wants to celebrate you know everything that
has to do with it or you're the type of person who's kind of like take it or leave it like I
really just I feel a bit awkward about it I know we talk about this every year it's like if anyone's
listening they're probably like guys you talk about this every year but it's true I hate birthdays I
hate birthday week I go into like a depresso mode I've always hated them I probably always will hate
them I don't know why I hate them less because we can share it oh same
me too that's what I was about to say you just you cut her off I was just yeah if you didn't
interrupt me then I was going to finish with but since I met you it's better
you're the light of my life the end you can speak again I'm trying something new
No, but I really enjoy that we get to share it
because it makes it kind of a little bit less, I don't know,
I feel less weird about, you know, having the attention on it
and I like that I get to share it with someone that I'm so close with.
It also makes it easier to kind of, you know, do the birthday dinner thing.
Well, what I do want to say is, and it's no one's fault, Keisha,
it's not your fault, but Keisha and I always do something together
on our birthday, but Keisha fell in love and she's with her toddler own
and obviously I fell in love too, but I'm still single.
And I was like, what should we do on our birthday?
And she's like, oh, I've got dinner with Tobin.
I was like, yeah, obviously.
Me, I'm doing stuff too.
I was like, I'm going to also do my own thing.
Don't excuse me.
We were going to go to Alex Warren concert with my kids.
When you said you're bringing Marley, I was like, oh, it's a family thing.
I was like, you guys go.
No, it was just me and Marley.
And also I did invite you to our couple's dinner.
Because you were a part of it.
I'm not going to crash your romantic couple's dinner.
It's all right.
Everything is fine.
Floor is lava.
I mean, a couple of years ago, we did an episode around birthdays and also because I think originally when we spoke about it, it was like how for some people it feels so anticlimactic and you have this like, it should be a time, there should be a celebration, but for a lot of people, and it's not necessarily age related, but it feels like a brace yourself moment.
And Keisha, I think you put it perfectly where you were saying it's a date, kind of like
New Year's that makes you have this self-reflection as to whether your life is where you expected
it to be at by that arbitrary age point is that you've kind of like set for yourself.
How do you feel?
Do you feel any different about it this year?
It took me a second to recognize this.
So on the weekend, I was like, what is wrong with me?
I was so, I don't want to throw out around the word depressed, but I'm going to say it
as in like, I was flat, right?
Like I was so depresso.
though. I just, yeah, I was so low. I just was crying so much. I didn't want to go out. I didn't
want to see anyone. I just like was feeling really sorry for myself. And I can say that,
like it's not warranted. I have a great life and I can also recognize that. That doesn't take away
from, you know, and it doesn't take away from the fact of you feeling low. Sometimes I feel like it
can actually exacerbate it because you're like, but I have all these great things and I still feel
so flat. Yeah. I was just, I said it to, I told Ben, I was like, I just fucking hate everything
right now like I just don't feel good I don't I'm not happy I'm not and it's such a throwaway
comment because of course I'm happy but in that moment I just felt like and then I it took me I
always forget no joke I forgot it when you just said now like big week I forget it's my birthday
and it took me a second to be like oh it's my birthday week I wonder if that is pre-empting
the feeling just because like I always used to hate my birthday because I always felt really
alone on it and it was just a reminder of like you're doing this on your own again it's another
year and you're in the same place you were last year even though you know everything else for
other reasons we're not I'm married career's great but there's still a moment of like oh I'm still
just living alone and not with my partner and not celebrating and not and you know everyone else is
moving on with their lives but I feel stuck so that was my feeling like you're having your babies
and you've just bought a house you're moving in with your partner you're celebrating with your
partner I'm still just living the same way I did last year even though I got married nothing's
changed I still don't have that connection or relationship or special moments I don't get to
go home and see him you know we talk for half an hour in the morning and if I can stay awake until
midnight I speak to him for 20 minutes and it's vice versa and I just was like just for another
fucking year I was like it doesn't it just takes away anything so it's just nothing to me like it
just feels like nothing I don't feel happy about it I don't care that I'm older I love like I've
never felt better in my body and comfortable with who I am and that is such an interesting thing
with age and every year you get older I get way more comfortable with who I am and like sure of
myself and my life decisions and so it's not that it's just the feeling I think for me it's just the
relationship aspect not the age well yeah it's another big milestone and you're like and I want
to be with my husband totally and he's not here yeah also I think it's you know I know that there'll
be people listening to this who aren't maybe regular listeners or who've just tapped in and
they're like well why don't you go then and I think next year there's going to be things that
will look different like once we know exactly what that's like we will be able to share that
but yeah radio makes things quite tricky at the moment yeah I'm definitely I mean we will
definitely be taking steps next year to see each other more and spend more time together that
and I know that all the lifers understand nothing changes for the podcast like we're so lucky we can
do this anywhere. But yeah, that's the feeling. And I think when you look back at, when I look
back at my twenties, by all accounts, your twenties, you should have more energy. You
should feel younger. You should, things haven't started sagging yet and going south. You've got
less wrinkles. Oh, you don't know what you're doing with it though. It's wasted you. But that's
why it's interesting because I feel way better in myself now. And I always used to hear people say
that and you don't understand it until you, it's unfortunate you can't have the confidence and
wisdom of your thirties and forties in your 20 year old life, but you don't have, I don't know,
they come with their pros and cons, but I've never felt better in who I am and where I'm going and
what I want. So I feel good like that. Yeah, absolutely. It's the whole attitude youth is
wasted on the young, right? How do you, what about you Keish this year? Yeah. I mean, we've
have spoken about this over the years and I think I remember it must've been three years ago now
because I remember talking about this for the first time and I didn't know there's actually
a word for it. It's called milestone anxiety. So like you said, Laura, a lot of people experience
it around these kind of monumental things where you reflect on your life and you go like does it
measure up is this where I thought I would be you know what did I want in my life what did I kind of
want to achieve or what did I want to have and kind of makes you put a magnifying glass on the
things that you don't and then the year later I remember speaking about it and saying like I
actually feel really guilty about the fact that I feel so much better and so much happier with my
birthday rolling around because I'm in a happy relationship and I was like I kind of feel a bit
pathetic for that because you shouldn't need a relationship to make yourself happy and you know
we've done all this work on like loving yourself and blah blah blah but yeah but sometimes that's
a wank fest too like it's easy to say you shouldn't need a relationship to make you happier but if
you're in a healthy relationship it's likely you are going to be happier like you don't have to be
in a relationship to be happy but for something like a birthday for example maybe for you it's
a different feeling of being safe and loved and you know celebrated yeah and I remember speaking
about that at the time and Laura you said this thing to me you were like well it's because
there's someone else that there that is going to celebrate you and you know I think the one thing
I took away from those conversations was actually to really try and make more of an effort to
celebrate and honor my friends if they weren't in a relationship when it comes to things like
their birthday or even other things that they might achieve like that was the takeaway that
I was like, I need to remember how I felt then and how I felt now, because for the people
in my life that don't have that person to wake up next to, they're probably feeling
how I used to.
And so, yeah, that was something that really was a bit of a, an eye opener for me.
So this year, I mean, firstly, I do not feel 32.
Like it's so crazy to me that we're here, you know, we're here.
And I think I had this year for me in particular, you know, buying my first house with my partner
has been a particularly big, like tick the box kind of thing. And I feel as though I am making
really good steps, but I still don't feel as though, you know, I have all the things that I
thought I'd have at 32. And, and I think I'm just learning to be a little bit more comfortable with
that and just go, it doesn't look how I thought it was going to, but maybe that's kind of part
of the fun. I also think it's because the goalposts keep shifting. So like you can set these
expectations for yourself years in advance and be like, I'm going to be here by the time I'm this
age. And like a five-year plan is great in theory and life rarely follows that five-year plan. Let's
be real. And I also think there's been a couple of things that have happened in my life that I
thought at the time were just terrible, mostly career related, you know, where there's been
forks in the road, things have happened that are outside of my control. And I've just been like,
oh my gosh, it's all been for nothing. You know, one was that I started, I did degrees in a certain
area that I never ended up pursuing. Then you worked for Life Uncut. That was fucking horrible.
Then you got stuck here. Well, then I was in radio and, you know, we all got made redundant
on our birthday, actually, ironically. Yeah, we've got something to tell you after this.
second time that's happening and you know those things not working out ended up being the biggest
blessings in disguise because it redirected me to something that made me so much happier but you
can't see it at the time sometimes you can only see it from hindsight so yeah I don't know this
birthday I actually feel really comfortable with and not because I'm gonna do anything like we're
just having dinner at home I am wondering if look not gonna care either way wondering what if Ben's
going to send me something remember last year when I tried to play it cool and I was like baby let's
not get it like let's not do presents this year and I was like let's save for a house and like
let's just save for our flights towards each other because we fly so much let's not get presents and
then nothing turned up and I was like did you not give me a present and he was he's like you
literally he's like baby you literally said we're saving for a flight and I was like obviously I
didn't mean that he was like you trapped me I was yeah I mean I can recognize I can recognize that
but I haven't been so forth with the no present this year so yeah you're like I need a present
I expect one, and I was extremely disappointed last year
and told everybody on my very big podcast.
Yes, but, I mean, you guys hopefully know that I'm joking.
But I'm not.
Do with it what you will.
Well, look, speaking about last week's episode on Wednesday,
if you haven't listened to it, just go back and listen.
It's really –
In the elevator out loud.
You won't learn anything.
You're not going to come away from it smarter,
but you might have a chuckle.
And if you just need something to, like, get you in a good mood,
that is the episode.
Stop what you're doing right now.
Go back, listen to that, and then come back to this.
It's Wednesday's episode.
It's called Britney Has Big News.
Oh, yeah, you don't want to miss it.
If you haven't heard my news, you do not want to miss it.
I did actually name the episode with an asterisk and not,
and Laura removed that.
Yeah, you can't give it away, Keisha.
If we're going to say Brit's got big news, at least lean into it hard.
Brit's got big news, not.
Keisha named the episode in the back end and she was like,
Britney has big news, but we're just kidding and it's actually not big.
Don't listen to the episode.
It's really boring.
And I was like, I might delete all of that.
Strung you along.
Okay.
Actually, there was one review.
Where's my phone?
It's so funny.
We don't often breadcrumb.
There was one review that really gave me a tickle.
And Golden Life Kate, I hope you're listening.
It said, clickbait.
Complain about Daily Mail.
Then post a clickbait bait news episode.
Then brag about being too on the charts because of clickbait.
Boring.
Not funny.
Definitely not brag worthy.
Sorry, Kate.
How many stars did we get for that one?
Kate gave one.
One star.
It's a tough crowd, Kate.
Kate wasn't a fan and that's okay, Kate.
But it was very funny and something that happened in that episode was that
Britt really had an issue with my shoes.
Okay, everyone?
I really didn't have an issue.
I think that's evident.
I made one comment and I've learnt to never say anything again.
One unsolicited comment.
Let's just take a little step back and revisit this.
Your shoes just remind me of little elf shoes.
I can't take you seriously.
They're the only thing comfortable that I can wear.
It's the only thing that fits me right now.
My feet are so swollen that, like, my normal shoes don't fit.
They feel too tight.
It is the only thing you've ever worn for, like, the last three years.
No, no, just since pregnancy.
I know my pregnancy feels like it's been going for three years,
but it's literally just since pregnancy.
I like them.
Thanks, Kish.
I get a lot of comments on them.
Not from you, Brittany.
Go fuck yourself.
I don't particularly like them.
But that's okay.
How do you feel about my Birkenstocks?
We've got dip.
No, I like those.
I get so many compliments on these shoes,
and Lola calls them my fancy shoes.
Do you reckon?
And they're not just from my child.
I'm joking.
I'm joking.
lola who accessorizes like a queen lola knows more than you do brit
lola wears undies on her head accessorize queen and earmuffs with everything no i love them
does anyone have sunnies i need to put some sunnies on because i'm getting
shone in that i like them they suit you oh shut up that is a backhanded compliment
Hang on.
I am not going to be ashamed for saying something is not my style.
I don't like what you're wearing, but they suit you.
No.
It's pretty rough.
No, I didn't say I don't like what you're wearing.
Are those shoes for me?
No, but you know that.
You know that.
I didn't, but now I do.
You did.
You know that they're not my type.
Look what I'm wearing.
That's okay.
They're not my type.
Dig out of the hole.
It's not a hole.
I'm not offended.
I am.
No, you're not.
No, you're not.
You're wearing sparkly jeans with Adidas pants.
It's not for me.
It's okay.
And my clothes aren't for you.
Keisha's trying something new today too.
Do you know what I feel the equivalent of this is,
is when you ask a friend, like, hey, what do you think of this?
And they turn and they look at you and they go,
have you packed anything else?
No, they're like, what's the other option?
Yeah, what are the other options?
What else have you got?
But I would want you to say that to me.
Like, I think if we're friends, I would want you to be like,
what is that?
And if I like it that much, I'm not going to care.
But, like, I would still want your feedback.
I don't know.
At this point in pregnancy, I'm actually not after feedback
from anyone.
Like, I'm really not.
Please don't give me feedback on my clothes.
Not a lot fits me.
Oh, no, lesson learned.
I'm not even going to look you in the eye.
I was like, I'm not going to look at you sideways.
I'm not going to address you.
I'm going to bow to you when I answer.
I'm going to kiss your feet.
Ew, never in a while.
Can you suck my toes?
you couldn't you could not pay me how much okay that's gonna take a weird tangent if we start
getting down that okay so off the back of this we were talking about like what are your backhanded
I don't mean backhanded compliments I mean like backhanded kill them with kindness sentences I
guess or comebacks like if someone says something to you and it could be a compliment but actually
it's kind of an insult an example of this could be I love that for you you don't really love that
for them that's not true you don't love it at all pretty you say it all the time I was gonna say
princesses all the time. I actually don't think there's anyone with that one. I was like, how did
that one get on the list? I love that for you. Is this just all taken from my vocab? Okay. So we did
the call out. We wanted to know like, what is your like sassy little comeback that you use
that kind of floors the conversation, but also could be potentially construed as being polite
still. Yeah. And you could defend yourself in a court of law if you had to. Okay. I want to start
with my absolute favorite. Like this is the best thing you can do as a throwback to somebody. I
wish you were as right as you are passionate. That's good. That's good. Just leave it, drop it,
walk away. What about when people say like, you know, look, it doesn't matter what anyone else
says. I really like you. Oh, that's so pass ag. It's so mean. Yeah. Don't worry about what everyone
else has been talking about. You're like, what? Such a power move, isn't it? It's okay. We know
that's the best you can do. That in a work capacity would absolutely destroy someone's
self-confidence. I know you've tried really hard and this is the best that you can do,
But it's not good enough.
Okay, what about this?
I don't have the time or crayons to explain this to you right now.
I'm surprised you felt comfortable saying that out loud.
Have the day you deserve.
Wisdom has been chasing you, but you've always been faster.
It's your lie.
Tell it how you want.
That leans into, like, there's three sides to a story.
Oh, sweetheart, you're so pretty.
Oh, sorry.
Awful.
I'd be like, thanks.
she's like pins that pins that comment to the top thank you so much that's the kind of trying
something new that's the comment that you screenshot and put on your stories like you
can't believe people are so aggressive just because like you're so pretty the last one i
want to say is something that i say a lot and now i might need to reconsider if i say it because i
don't say it pass ag i just use the term bless like oh bless yeah bless is bless is fine but i
I say this in like, oh, that's so sweet.
Thank you.
That's how I use it.
But I think maybe I might use it in the wrong way.
But if someone said something to you, like they've asked you for something or they've
like told you their political stance and you go, oh, bless.
Well, no, for example.
It's different.
For example, my car broke down on the weekend and one of Keisha's friends who I know messaged
me and she's like, I have a spare car, like if you want to use it.
And she was really nice.
And I wrote back, bless.
I was like, bless.
Thank you so much.
No, that's fine.
That's a normal compliment.
Yeah, so then when I read it on this Passag thing, I was like,
am I like, is that a demeaning thing to say?
But I just mean like I literally, for the most non-religious person
you've ever met, I mean it as in like bless your heart.
That is the kindest thing.
No, I think that's fine.
I think it would be like, you know, it would hit different
if someone was like, oh, I'm really into Donald Trump's policies
and you were like, oh, bless.
Or like when that guy said he loves me and I didn't want to say it back.
Imagine if he's like, I love you, and you go, bless.
Or you say, I love that for you.
I admire your confidence.
I love your confidence.
Speaking of birthdays and reflections and everything that comes along with it,
I came across this sub stack that really resonated with me, which is interesting because it's written
by a woman called Leanne Ellie or Eli, I'm not sure. She's a New York Times bestselling author,
but she is in her sixties. And it's an article about reflecting on the decade prior and what
you've learned in that time. It's called, If I Were 50 Again, Here's Exactly What I Would Do
differently because I waited until I was 60 to figure it out. And now before anyone loses interest
because you're not 50 and you're not in that decade, we do have some 50-year-old listeners,
but we also have 20-year-old listeners. I think this is relevant to everybody because the idea
remains the same. The idea is that you've lived a life, you've learned, you're wiser, and you can
reflect back on the decade prior to what you would have done had you had the knowledge that you have
now well it's kind of like the conversation where people say like what I would tell my 20 year old
self if I could again but sometimes I think about these conversations and I'm like you can't because
you have to live the experience it's all well and good to be like I wish I would have known this and
then I would have said this and it's like but you would never have learned that lesson if you didn't
have the experience of being xyz in the first place so I don't know sometimes I think it's akin
to like having regrets or not being able to value something when you have it but people arrive at a
destination at all different times in life. I want to read you the opening paragraph. Leanne
starts with, if I were 50 again, I'd be dangerous. Not because I'd suddenly be rocking leather pants
and starting a retro girl band, but because I'd finally understand the one thing that no one
really tells you. Our culture may worship youth, but you don't have to kneel at the altar. Aging
is a privilege. Irrelevance is optional. Use your voice, take up space and never ever apologize for
any of it. And heads up, 50 is not old, but it is undervalued. Let me explain. It's when those
body whispers become full-on nudges, when your people-pleasing tolerance shrinks faster than
your estrogen levels, when the idea of reinvention starts sounding less like an overly used word and
more like a great idea. So if I could take a time machine back to 50 with the clarity I have now
and the collagen I wish I had, here's exactly what I'd do for my whole self. So basically the article
she's broken down into these four key pillars, which are heart, mind, body, and soul. And she
sort of explains each a little bit. Now we are only going to touch on the ones that I think we
really connected with. But for me, the first one was heart. I would detox my relationships before
I detoxed my liver. So she goes on to talk about the importance of keeping people in your life
that you actually want to have in your life. People that are adding to it and not taking
away from it. Well, I think with this one is that we get so caught up. Okay. Obviously we all know
what we need to do for our own health and everything. And there's so much that you can
do on working on yourself and bettering yourself, ice baths and whatnot. But also I think the part
of this that is really quite important is that we spend a lot of time being affected by the
relationships that are around us. And we hold onto people who don't serve us, whether that's
romantic relationships or friendships. And I'm not saying go out there and be brutal and fucking
cut them all the knees. But maybe you do need to. I think that's her point. Her point is,
she says a true detox starts with the people in your life that shouldn't be there anymore.
not some gross green juice that makes you gag. I guess what she's trying to say is the importance
of health. We underestimate the impact that negativity or people in our lives or those
connections in our lives or relationships that we're keeping around when deep down,
you know, they are not right for you. They're not serving you. When you know that you have to ask
yourself, well, why are they here? And why do I feel like I need to keep them and people please?
And like, you know, I've been friends with them for 15 years. How can I cut them out now? Just
because they're being a fuckwit. But we find it, myself included, we find it very difficult
to cut people that have been involved in our life for a certain amount of time.
Yeah, but I think that there is a reason why we find it difficult. And that's because relationships,
especially longstanding ones, you're still able to see the good or the good times or reflect on
things that have been wonderful. And it's very easy to look at something and go, I should have
just cut all those people that didn't serve me. Most of us aren't able to be that ruthless with
our relationships and we also shouldn't be that ruthless with our relationships. I think it's
important to keep this in mind for things like if you're in a really toxic relationship that
absolutely affects your mental health and your life and you know or you're in a marriage that's
unhappy and stagnant and nothing has changed and you know it's not going to change and so you're
like all right well I can just foresee that my future is going to be this forever and no one is
actively trying to do anything different. Friendships I think sometimes are a hard one
because as much as like it's easy to get on a podcast and say cut those friends that you know
it's time is limited sometimes friends are more transient in that you might only see that person
once or twice a year how much are they impacting your life do you need to go through the severance
of cutting a friendship I think that sometimes we look at it with such absolutes and you can
have people that move from being really close friends to going into sort of more as like you
know and I don't want to say acquaintance because they're not an acquaintance but they are one or
two times a year friend I think there's ways that you can manage this that allows you to preserve
your energy without having to people please. And the way I kind of interpreted this more so
is that I think a lot of us live our lives people pleasing and saying yes to doing things that we
deeply don't want to do with people that we just can't be bothered to do it with. But we do it
because we feel like there's some expectation or we've committed to plans or it's been so long
since we've seen them. We feel like we have to. I think that they're the instances where you can
actually kind of reserve your energy and assess whether or not you have the time to keep that
many people in your life do you know what word really stood out to me she asked this question
does this obligation serve any purpose other than to make me feel guilty I think the word guilty is
really what I have tried to learn to grapple with because friendships are going to be different
maintenance levels and also depending on different stages of life we've all got those friends where
you might not talk to each other for a month or two but then you catch up and it's all great and
there's never been that animosity of like well you didn't message me for two months you know I think
it for me I read that and I was like are there friendships in my life where I feel guilty if I
haven't made an effort for a certain amount of time and is there a reason for that if they've
been going through a really hard time and I've not reached out I should feel guilty about that
because that's not being a very good friend but if it's just kind of like standard every day and
there's that obligation that you have to maintain something I find that really emotionally exhausting
but my understanding of this is that it's not at these levels that you're you guys are talking
about of course you're not just going to go and cut your friends if something happens this is at
a higher level people that are not sparking peace people that when you leave you always feel more
empty and exhausted than when criticized is a big one because there are those relationships right
there are those relationships where you feel the guilt we've been friends for ages i need to show
up i could not think of anything worse right now but i need to be there for her so there's the
obligation so then you go there and they unload on you for however many times which is totally fine
if it's that's what a friendship is right it's give and take but there are certain
friendships that run their courses and that every single time you leave your cup is so much more
empty and your mental load is so much greater and I think they're the friendships that she's saying
okay does it spark and bring peace or does it bring chaos are there so many red flags and I
just feel the guilt and obligation to maintain it because of the sunk cost fallacy and we've
been friends for 20 years I think she's talking at a greater level and I do think she's leaning
a lot into relationships that are probably romantic as well like when we know deep down
that it is ruining our life but we love them you know we want to make it work we want to put the
energy in because you see the potential because you see the potentials I think it's those that
and it's always easier to take a step back outside of that looking glass and look back in and say oh
cut those people it's that's always easier than when you're in the relationship but I think that's
why these conversations are important but it also depends on who that relationship is with like it's
very different if it's a friend from school versus a parent or a sibling or an aunt or someone like
you know people would have these relationships with their parents where they feel as though
every interaction they have with them is just kind of criticism and makes them feel guilty and they
don't walk away feeling good for themselves it's much harder to remove yourself from certain
relationships and like I think that that is a really important thing to identify but of course
If you find that you have people in your life where every single time you leave them, you
feel depleted or you feel criticized or the relationship has become one where you are
the support person.
I think that happens a lot is like people use their friendships as like a dumping point
for like complaining about something they're unhappy with.
And I understand that that's normal and every relationship goes through ebbs and flows.
But sometimes you see a pattern where you're like, I'm only the dumping ground for this
friend.
And sometimes I'm like, should I send you an invoice for therapy?
Yeah.
And I mean, I think I have some friendships like that where I'm like, wow, I feel like
every time, doesn't matter what's going on, it's always because you're having a hard time.
And that becomes an exhausting friendship after a while because there's no give and
take to that.
It's just a take relationship.
And so I think that's a really big one to be aware of.
But we're all guilty of it.
And I don't think anyone perfectly bridges.
Came in this morning and was like, I'm depressed.
oh i was sad when we kind of cried not that at all no i'm joking but i think it's it's a really
hard one to ever get a place of peace with because i think you're always going to have
some of those relationships that circle around you at different times yeah okay what's what
i really enjoyed the breakdown on the category soul and i want to read this to you because i
think that a lot of women who are currently finding themselves either in relationships
that don't make them happy or maybe you're in the trenches of motherhood and you have
deprioritized yourself so much that you don't really recognize who the fuck you are anymore,
you'll resonate with this. By 50, a lot of women have done a lot of living for everyone else.
We have raised kids, held marriages together, kept households running, built careers,
survived heartbreak, made sacrifices. And somewhere along the way, our own desires got
shelled. Not because we didn't have them, but because everything else got in the way and we
got used to waiting. If I were 50 again, I'd stop postponing the things that make me feel alive.
I wouldn't wait until burnout or a crisis forced me to make a change here is the unvarnished truth
sister you are not selfish for wanting more I think like we as women especially when you have
children it is kind of something that you do and maybe it happens both sides I can't don't think
we can just isolate it to just women but when you have kids and you have other responsibilities and
you're you're hustling and you're trying to keep a household and everything else I think it is very
easy to slip into the lifestyle of doing everything for everyone else and prioritizing everyone else
all the time. And then you get to the end of the day and you're like, but what did I actually do
for me? I know I went to work and I know I got shit done, but what was in that day for me? What
was in that week for me? What was in that month for me? Yeah. It's really interesting when we
talk about this in terms of perimenopause and menopause, right? Because there's a lot of
research that's come out around menopause is one of the greatest time for divorces in relationships,
but the research hasn't quite extended is it because it's purely hormonal related where like
women go fucking crazy or is it actually also a time where women are usually in their mid-40s
or 50s and they realize they're fucking unhappy with their lives and so everything is just
screaming at them yes the hormones are there but also maybe their kids are a little bit older maybe
it's a time of reflection where they're like holy shit I have all of these feelings about
the place that I've arrived at and I'm actually not that happy with it. And so I do question
whether it's a bit of chicken and the egg with this whole menopause conversation.
I mean, I also took away something from the soul category and it's about at 50, I'd stop
postponing the things that make me feel fully alive. I think this leans into for everyone,
child-free or kids or whoever you are, I think it leans into age. We feel like we are too old
to start again or to try something new. Like so many times people are like,
oh, I can't go back to school. I'm already in my thirties or I'm in my forties. I always wanted
to do this. I always wanted to start my own business, but like, I'm too old now. The
competition's too much. There's too many young people that are doing the same thing. We get
sucked into this vacuum of like, your life had to have been done and set up by the time you hit 30.
And there's, you are crazy if you want to start again, any, any older than that.
Milestone anxiety.
But I also think there's an element specifically for women in this,
and maybe it's not, maybe I just feel that way because I'm in it. I think that women also have
that scarcity mindset put onto us because there hasn't always been a piece of the pie. So you
kind of think, well, if I, you know, I've always wanted to do this thing, or if I've always wanted
to go and achieve that or go and experience that, it could be something fun as well.
There can be a part of you that's so scared to actually do it in case what you come back to
isn't there anymore. In case that role or that piece of the pie has been given elsewhere. And
it's because we have always had to fight for a seat at the table and it's always kind of been
assumed that if you got that seat at the table hold on to it because it might not be there when
you return yeah and even if that means you're not living the life you want to or the dreams that you
want to do then you know too bad because this is your option now but I also think it's one of these
things time is going past anyway just say you're 30 and you've always wanted to go back and study
psychology you're like well it's going to be four years of my life not going to be finished until
I'm 34 and I probably won't be working till I'm 35. Well, you either get to 35 and you've got
your psychology degree or you get to 35 and you wish you got your psychology degree. But my point
is like the time is passing. So when you get to that milestone, you can either have done what you
wanted to have done, or you can get there and just wish you did it. That's something that I think is
really, really true. And not everyone is in the position to give up their life and go back and
study or start their business. But you do have to weigh up the fact that time is going to pass
regardless it's not going to wait for you but it could be there holding your hand you know like you
could be doing it together I think there's a motto about this it's like the best time to start was
yesterday the second best time to start was now and then the third is tomorrow that's not the
same that is very bumper sticker live laugh love but I kind of get the point that they're talking
about it's kind of the fact that you know you can delay these things for as long as you want the
best time to start is now because just do it you said you're not getting younger I mean I think we
can romanticize it in some ways because there's absolutely going to be some things that you do
get past the timeframe of being able to do in life, right? Like I think it's almost like a bit
magical and it's kind of like telling a kid, you can be anything you want to be. Some kids will
not be anything they want to be, right? There's like structure within the system, but you absolutely
can reinvent yourself. I think it's like, you know, reinventing yourself within a metric that
makes sense to your life as well is important because like if you've got kids and you have a
family and you have responsibilities and then you go, you know what? I always wanted to be a cruise
captain and fucking never be in the one spot like you're not going to do that right like that's not
maybe if your kids go on the cruise ship with you potentially potentially but like you know and I
think that that's why sometimes this concept gets hijacked because it's all great in merit but then
people like oh well but you know if you're 72 you're not going to become a surgeon you know
because then you'll be 85 and you know of course there's going to be limitations to these type of
stuff but I think the really most important concept around this is like if you want to make a big life
pivot there are small and incremental or big changes that you can make at any point in life
which will lead you to something that's more fulfilling and what if you feel stuck you don't
have to just maintain and be stuck but the thing is unless you're the one who's willing to change
something fucking nothing's going to change and you also need supportive families or a supportive
partner like if you've got kids and you want to go back and study of course you're going to need
help like it's not like limitations for some people yeah there's always limitations but the
idea is whatever life you're in now, it doesn't have to stay that way. And whatever pivot that
is, it might be small, might be big. It might be completely left field, whatever it is. It can be
done obviously with the right pillars. I don't want anyone to write to us and say like, I could
never go back to uni. Like we can't afford it. That's not what we're saying. We're not saying
like, fuck your life now and go and do what you want to do. But there are ways to get unstuck.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, there's other pillars and categories that are broken down in this.
If you feel like you're in that phase of life where you're like, I need an overhaul,
there is something or you feel that shift in that dynamic go and read the whole sub stack because I
think it's really enlightening the way it's being put it's always nice to see other people's
reflections but I also think it's nice to like sit back and you know I feel like we've made this a
birthday episode so let's lean in hard it's also nice to look back on your own reflections like if
you were to look back on the last 10 years of your life and you were able to sit down and go okay
cool here is the lessons I've learned the things I would do differently if I was able to live those
10 years with The Beauty of Hindsight, what would they be? Like, what would be your number one Brit?
That I would do differently? Yeah. I mean, I thought about this all night. What would I have
changed? What would I have done differently? Was there a regret? What did I wish I didn't do?
And I found it really hard to think of something I would do differently, to be honest.
I am pretty proud of the fact that I was doing a lot of things that I wanted to do at the same
time. Like I was in a hospital, but I really wanted to go to acting school. So I went to
acting school, but I really wanted to travel too. So I figured out that I could get a license
overseas for my job and travel. So I clocked 60 countries. I was really lucky that I was able to
go after what I wanted. I don't know where that came from other than like, I've got nothing to
lose. But one of my biggest life lessons is, and what I think maybe some people that are new to
Life Uncut might not remember or know, but when we talk about the fact that you can change your
life. I was 32 when I gave up like 90 hours a week in a hospital to try a podcast. Like that is
crazy. And I had no experience. I had, you know, I just wanted to try something new and that was
really scary. And I only thought about this yesterday because out of the blue, I had this
old hospital worker from so long ago that messaged me and he said, wow, have I been living under a
rock. I've just caught up to where you are in life. Like he was a bit older. He's like, well done,
well done for like changing your life in the way you did. And that made me think, wow, like maybe
I don't think about that enough because it was a really scary big leap. But it just goes back to
what we just said is like, it is hard and it's not easy for everyone and it's not possible for
everybody. But if you really want to make some kind of a change in your life, the only way to
do it is to make some kind of a change in your life. And it doesn't matter how small that is,
but you have to give it a go because if you don't give something a go, the answer's always no.
I think I interpreted this in a different way. Like we asked what's one thing you'd do
completely differently. I really wish that I could go back and understand my really quite
desperate need for validation in a different way. That's exactly mine. Really? Exactly mine. That's
so interesting because I think my ADHD diagnosis brought about a lot of like introspection and
trying to work out why I had done certain things and what behaviors were linked to a condition that
I thought was just a personality and and through that I learned so much about how I used to crave
validation in like literally every sense of it in my romantic relationships that was the worst
in my familial relationships my friendships my career like every single thing I did in my 20s
I can actually relate back to trying to feel as though I was good enough for something and trying
to kind of have that reflected back to me whether it be with words whether it be with behavior and
it was really exhausting and you can never reach that goalpost and a massive part of me wishes I
could go back and be like you know what it's actually an unattainable goal you're never going
to feel how you think it's going to make you feel so stop trying to get it I think that is was my
biggest reflection as well when I was like okay what would be and mine isn't in the last 10 years
because to be honest I mean taking a punt meeting Matt like my life dramatically changed in the last
we've been together for eight years now so I would honestly look back on the last eight years my life
and I'm like I feel so lucky that I'm in the place that I'm in but the 10 years prior like the 20s
the 20s well it was it was until I was 31 really but like that period of my life I was so desperately
seeking validation and really deeply did not understand that it has to come from yourself
and you have to be able to provide all of those things to yourself that you are seeking from
external relationships and I think it was you know like you say Keish it was like the desperate need
to wanting to be loved the desperate need of like wanting to feel as though I don't know feel as
though there was value or I had value I could give something to someone how much better will
your life be if I'm in it yeah and I think the thing is is like it's weird because you can put
that on someone else and you can be like you know I felt not valued in that relationship I felt like
this but when I look back at it I'm like I put myself in all these situations that left me feeling
that way but it's because I had super low self-esteem really and I think a lot of it came
from trying to fill this unlovable hole. If I'm a little bit skinnier, if I'm funnier, if I'm this,
if I'm that, always trying to fix to be a better version. The other thing that happens when you
find yourself in that place in life, if you're always tweaking and moderating yourself so that
the person that's in front of you likes you more, you kind of lose your sense of self.
I would be a chameleon in, and I'm not just talking about romantic relationships. I was
just a chameleon in my friendships, in my relationships, at my work. I'm very good at
mirroring what I think the other person across from me wants and that's not who I am now I feel
like I actually know who I am now and yeah that I don't know what it was that kind of shifted that
because it wasn't getting into a relationship I think it's age I think it's acceptance it's
probably also just a secure relationship too like you have so much safety now and I mean you're so
sure of your relationship your husband your kids who you are what you want your work I would say
that it's funny though I when you when I listen to you both say that I could not have been more
polar opposite and I don't know if I believe it but I was the opposite to us like I don't need
you I don't need anyone I will get through life on my own but I think I did need people but it's
what I was telling myself was the opposite and maybe that in hindsight was detrimental because
there was I need fucking did need people and I did need help but I was adamant I was like no I am
gonna go live in this country on my own and I am so happy here of course I wasn't at times I was
like what am I doing on my own I was like crying myself to sleep in Italy and I was like but I had
convinced myself of like there's no one in this life that I need which is such a weird thing do
you not look back on that now and be like that was also a protection mechanism like yeah you were
very avoidant in relationships and your avoidance manifested itself in you being like I don't need
anyone absolutely but then like we would all be privy to like the breakdowns around no one loves
me yeah yeah do you know I mean like it wasn't it's not real I think we all tell ourselves these
we all tell ourselves these lies we all have this narrative of the life that we want to live by
but when you really unpick it you're like oh I have some fucking work to do and I am the problem
well I wanted and yeah and 100% like 100% that is it but I did want to get myself to a place
I used to say I want to get myself to a point where I don't need anyone but I want them
and that's where I got myself to I made myself so hyper independent that it almost became
counterintuitive because I almost didn't want anyone in my space anymore but I wanted to get
myself to a point where I was like I am choosing to be with you because I want to not because I
need you for internal reasons for financial reasons for external reasons you know mine
was the opposite I was like I need you because my life means nothing yeah but it's interesting
it's interesting to look back and reflect on those little things and you can't see them in
the time when you're living them but you sure as hell see them now well it is time for second
suite our highlight and our low light of the week Laura Byrne hello started off with the suck okay
my suck for the week is and I feel like I said it last week that this is the best pregnancy I've
ever had it is hands down it's been the easiest but it's very close to due date and I genuinely
feel if I'm standing up for too long my cervix is not built like it used to be I feel like I have a
head hanging out of me I'm in denial I'm like holding my own vagina yeah no it's not my head
I'm holding her head in no like there are honestly by the end of the day I'm so heavy my hips hurt
my pelvis hurts but I genuinely am like am I crowning can someone check am I dilated
how dilated someone just have a squeeze I would love to check to see if I could see it like the
other day maybe she's coming earlier I've been on my feet all day and I honestly got to the end of
the day and I sat down I was like a dear god I feel like I have a head between my legs it's so
uncomfortable maybe that's her sign of coming early I don't know which we're not ready for
so we're not we haven't done enough pre-records invert yourself put you put your legs in the air
But my sweet for the week, and actually it's a really silly one
because I know I'm always complaining about book week
and how, like, how much effort it takes.
And the reason why I, unlike some mums, I can't stand book week
is because when you have kids in preschool, every day is book week.
Like, as in, like, every day they have to go as a different character.
I don't know if that's standard for preschools across the country,
but three, I have to have three separate outfits for Lola
because she's in daycare three days.
Anyway, I was, like, complaining because I was like,
this is ridiculous and I don't have time to make them
so then I have to buy the costumes.
She woke me up at 5.30 on Monday morning because she was
so excited about book week.
She sat at the table dressed in her full bluey outfit
with her bluey mask on trying to eat her sultana bran
through her bluey mask.
So cute.
She got on the back of Matt's bike because Matt rides
them to daycare.
She got on the back of Matt's bike and she wore her full
bluey outfit with mask the whole way.
And Matt said it was really cute because everyone was beeping.
And then this morning she did the same thing.
She got up and she was just so fucking stoked.
That's really cute.
To be Thelma the unicorn.
and she put on her unicorn outfit and like it's just it is beyond adorable it's so cute how much
even if I hate it how much this is just the highlight of her life okay my suck is my car
breakdown on the weekend on a Sunday it was not ideal the number of people that told me to call
the NRA to get a battery I obviously did that thank you for your help this was interesting
actually because a lot of people didn't understand it I didn't know this so the lady said to me
you can call someone out generally speaking we do have batteries on us but she's like people
the people that well i don't know what they call the service men and women like what are they called
the mechanics the call out mechanics yeah the on-call mechanics whatever i have no idea either
so apparently i shouldn't laugh because i don't know yeah apparently they pick up their batteries
on a monday for the week and that's what lasts in the week yeah it's real that's what she said
and i was like oh she's like so often by sunday afternoon like when you're calling she's like
they might not have your battery left if they had a lot of call outs that week with your kind
of battery. She's like, so it's late Sunday afternoon. If you don't need it now, I would
suggest wait till you're safe. She's like, of course we can come out. And I was like,
I just couldn't be bothered. I was like, I'll just do it tomorrow. But that was something that
I found really interesting. And I'd never thought about that. They go and collect everything for the
week. So I don't know if she was pulling my leg, but that is what the lady on the phone told me.
She wasn't. And I also learned this because we've got the same car because I copied you.
same birthday same car I found out that if your car has the stop start at a traffic light kind
of vibe it's a whole different type of battery so the NRMA can't even replace it in your car
even if they had one yeah right if their every car is a stop start car now aren't they apparently
it's a different type of battery the reason I learned this is because they are at least $200
more and I was like great I don't even use that feature but it's like a different type so it
requires I don't know more installation I don't know yeah so I whatever my car broke down it was
shit and I was already crying I was like oh you know you know I just Delilah and I and Delilah
and I just sat in the car you know when whenever life feels overwhelming the safest place is just
to sit in your car it's like you just feel safe in there so we just sat there for a while and
Delilah was frothing to get out and I was like we just need to chill for a minute squid I was like
we just let's just sit in this feeling let's just sit here and cry let's just sit here in this
feeling and cry she's like i'd rather not she's like i give no fucks about your emotions my sweet
of the week is it's our birthday and i'm going up to see my little niece maya and sherry and stuff
obviously but it's my birthday next week as well so we're having like birthday parties and stuff
and yeah so that's my sweet cute well that is it from us guys we are out of here for today and if
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or you can watch it all on YouTube and you can see the repeat offence
of outfits.
Laura is always like, oh, dude, I just watched a video the other day.
You throw the biggest leggies.
There was a video the other day where your computer wasn't on your lap
and it was just a leg spread into your vagina.
Sorry.
I was like, just put a banana or an emoji over it next time.
I wish that I could say that it's pregnancy related.
It's probably not, but it's worse at the moment
because I have a whole stomach to accommodate.
and you often have holes in your pants in the crotch so it's like we can see right i can see
that the head's not quite out yet if that doesn't entice you to watch the youtube channel i don't
know what will anyway guys you know the drill tell your mom tell your dad tell your dog tell
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