Life Uncut - LOCK IT DOWN, dating in isolation

Episode Date: April 7, 2020

Dating has now entered unchartered territory. We are in a place that no man (nor woman) has ever been before. A place where we must get to know each other instead of simply ‘hooking up’. Where we must put in effort for no physical return. Where we must look outside the box. Where we don’t even have to put pants on to date.Join us as we unpack dating during lockdown and what that means for the future, we even throw in a few date ideas.That and OMG we hit 1 MILLION DOWNLOADS WE’RE NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING!Thank you lovers for coming on this crazy lollercoaster journey with us. We couldn’t do it without you and love every second💕If you can relate in any way to these episodes or know someone that may, please share they love, because, well, we love loveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I can't even intro this right now because I'm too pumped. Guys, you have to still say hi, guys, and welcome to another episode of Life Uncut. No, I can't this time. Guys, I have big news. I have really, really big news, and I can't wait to share it. We have just hit 1.1 million downloads, and we have been waiting for this day, and we're so, so excited, so, so pumped. Guys, thank you to every single person who has downloaded an episode over the last eight

months. I promise you it's not my dad and your mom downloading it 1 million times. Actually, now that you've said that. No, but seriously, for every single person who has downloaded or listened to an app, every single person who has subscribed or left a review, like we are so immensely grateful. We never, ever would have thought that we would be hitting 1.1 million downloads at this point in time. It's just unreal.

We absolutely love that. You know, the advice that we're giving, some of you all are listening to it and it's so special that the content we're putting out there makes a difference to you and we know it does because you let us know and it just means the world to us i i actually am in disbelief and i'm so that anyone would listen yeah i meant yes i when laura and i started this we were just like these two random friends that had this random idea and we're like let's start a podcast as a hobby like we actually just did this as a hobby whether people listen or not we were like maybe someone will listen maybe someone will laugh maybe someone will get advice from this but to have

over a million of you download now and listen to this, we're just, we're humbled, we're stoked, we're chuffed, we're in disbelief. We're all the feels. I have all the feels. I just want to thank every single one of you for, for just tuning in and sharing the love and supporting us on this journey, because I feel like we're all supporting each other. We're here to support you. You guys are supporting us. You're, you're writing in and saying that we're helping you through some bad times. We're helping you through breakups. We're just helping you feel good. You're having a laugh at our expense. And to us, that's what matters. If we can change one person's life, we leave here feeling really happy. And we talk to each other about it. We tell each other the messages we

receive. Those of you that write in and say, you've really helped me through this moment. We share that with each other because that's why we're here. We have been really, really open with our stories and our relationships and things that have happened in the past and the present. And it's, it is kind of a big deal for us to be so vulnerable and so open talking about our life experiences. And we're really appreciative that you guys have never been judging of us. You have been such incredible cheerleaders for us. You have been such incredible support, and that's what makes us want to keep continuing creating this content for you and keep on putting out episodes every week and we will keep doing that right until the very bitter end guys i think laura and i

sometimes forget i don't know if i'm speaking on your behalf laura but we get in go on then no but we get in here and we talk to each other and we talk to each other like we're friends sometimes the way we talk to each other is like we forget that a million of you are going to download this so we're we're really open with each other we're very exposing of ourselves we're very vulnerable and I think sometimes we forget that so many of you are going to listen and I want you guys to know that whilst you're writing to us saying that we've helped and we're helping you through a bad time, I want you to know that you have helped us through a lot of bad times too. So if you do have a friend that you think might benefit from one of our episodes, maybe they're going through a breakup,

maybe they're having a really hard time, maybe they could benefit from one of our Ask Uncut episodes or just maybe they need a laugh. And some virtual girlfriends in this weird time of self-isolation yeah if you have anyone that you know will benefit or just want to chuckle direct them to our podcast direct them to our instagram page at life uncut podcast because they can just go there for a laugh there is nothing serious on that page but guys 1 million downloads like my mind is blown but now we will get into the episode i know that in every episode in the last couple of weeks i've been talking about how i'm getting remote recording equipment so that we can record these podcasts separately well i did it i got the equipment

and then we got everything set up and it was perfect and we were we were pumped we're excited and i stuck the micro usb into the back of the podcasting equipment and it got fucking stuck like proper real good stuck stuck so then we had to mad dash rush into the podcasting studio where we normally record and here we are the the end i mean that was a quick story there was a lot of frustration and a lot of like oh my god how could this happen to us there was a lot of alan keys and trying to fit them into the podcaster and like look things have just gone a bit rogue today but i'm very happy that we've made it here i'm always so amazed i'm so so amazed that every single week we get thrown some sort of adversity about how we're going to actually get this episode to air

and every single week we managed to do it it's a miracle it's a christmas miracle guys it actually is if there's one thing we're good at just one it's come it's overcoming adversity so how what's what's been happening it's a hard question now isn't it because nothing actually happens oh speak for yourself well actually i saw you had a drunk party at home the other night i have had a two-day hangover which after the last episode of me talking about how much i've been drinking in isolation it probably doesn't bode very well but Saturday night if anyone's been on Instagram and saw my Instagram stories there's this DJ called Hot Dub Time Machine and he's the freaking best he does like a number one hit from 1960 and counts back through the years

or counts forward through the years to 2020. He counts somewhere. He just counts and so he plays the best song from each year as like a countdown mashup and he did this amazing live DJ set which we streamed to our TV and we had a few margaritas that we got from our local Mexican place, takeaway margaritas and just had a bloody great time. So I called, FaceTimed Laura at probably 1pm the next day. She answers looking worse for wear on the phone and I'm like, babe, are you all right?

She's like, babe, I'm real hung. Mum's gone wild. She goes, mum's gone wild. And she goes, oh, hang on, can I call you back? My Mexican just arrived. And I was like, oh, you know, it's bad. The worst thing about being hung over in isolation is that you cannot hire a babysitter. Normally, if there was a day where I didn't feel like I was equipped to parent,

I would call our babysitter to come and take, because you know what? I think that's the responsible thing to do, having a second pair of hands. But no, I just had to man up. Actually, that's a lie. I didn't really do anything. Matt did it, but it was still a really tough day. And now I've got a bloody micro USB stuck in a fucking podcasting equipment at home. and look coronavirus is taking over the whole country so it's been a bit of a challenging week

but once again we're here and we've got this episode to you thank you for giving me the first three minutes to complain so i actually have discovered a new game this week that i didn't know existed but you can play it online guys this is not sponsored but i don't know if i'm behind the times have you heard of jackbox tv no what is it oh my god it's brilliant but i think you need three plays minimum you you have to like purchase it online but it's not expensive and then it links to your tv and all you do is type into your phone browser jackbox tv and everyone in everyone can link up and play so it's an online game that's like who's the faker so they ask all these questions like you know those murder mystery games like who's the murderer and you have to

figure it out it's like that kind of stuff anyway for me it just it's killed hours of time so i just It's my recommendation. You haven't really sold it yet though. What do you do? How does it work? You log into it and it comes up on your TV. Now, everyone in the room, it has to be three people. So you have to have housemates or brothers or sisters or mums or dads

or very smart dogs for this one. Correctly. Correctly? That is correctly. Listen, let me tell you. I'm just trying to give a really good recommendation. I just can't get it out. Long story short, it's like you're typing this code.

so that everyone everyone types it in so that jackbox tv knows that you your phone is playing this one game so you're linked to the tv then questions will come up on your phone so like one person it says is the faker they're pretending they know what's going on but they have no idea but they've got to try and fit in because they don't want to be caught the other people in the room know what's going on just say i'm the faker to the other three people it's going to say who in this room is most likely to kill someone and then it goes three two one and you have to point to someone now i don't know who to point at because i don't know the actual question but i have to pretend like i do so you have to try and read other people and point to someone you think

if everyone's pointing to one person because it might be like who's got the biggest dick in that room and you might point to me and if i pointed to you everyone's like well she didn't know the question she's a little faker how do you know well i don't know i haven't seen your vagina anyway guys just look just google it what a wild saturday night it was in britney's house hey playing jack-in-a-box with our housemates jack-in-a-box i'd i'd down two bottles of red don't you worry well guys last night was maths finale the maths finale i feel like fell a little bit short this year so laura made me watch it because i've sporadically watched random episodes throughout the series when you've made me been very very vocal that this is not her show that

this is not her jam but you know what i was open to it i tried to let it grow on me and i can confirm it is still not my show i did i have to test it i just i just can't stand it i can't i don't know for anybody else who watched the show but this season i really feel like i think that last season it was like they set the bar so high it was so good yes the drama was manufactured but it felt a little bit more organic whereas like this year it really felt like the whole storyline was very scripted in like the producers were creating scenarios or setting up different environments to try and get very specific manufactured outcomes. It just all felt a lot faker. I thought this season overproduced now, I think. I feel like maybe Australians have had

enough of that show for a while. Do you? Well, I don't know if we've had enough of maths in particular, but I think that people and the audience are becoming so acutely aware of what is what's being done. Well, that's because so many people are breaking the rules and coming, like this whole show has broke, everyone in it has broken the rules and come out and are outing what's going on. So there's no mystery or like romanticism anymore. Everybody just knows that it's manipulated.

Just on that, so Michelle, who is one of the, she was one of the wives, like one of the couples that made it to the end. She has come out recently on a YouTube channel, which is called Get Real Entertainment, and totally exposed just how crazy manipulative the production is we all know that they don't have to stay until they both say leave or stay but the what she's explained in this like little segment is that the producers make you so fearful that if you leave outside of like the parameters that they've created for you so if you leave at another time than when both people on the couch

have written leave then they will make your life hell and they say like they hold it over you like like a threat of well if you don't do what we say then you'll get a bad edit so I feel like people who are naive to how these things play out they kind of are at the mercy of production a little bit because they they don't want their character to be assassinated on tv it's something that you really do need to think about and it's something that I have said to people in the past when they've messaged me saying should I do reality tv should I do it I loved it great for me I had a really great experience and I loved my journey but I will I will always say to them you need to be prepared to be portrayed as the worst human in the world because it could happen like you need

to be prepared for you need to have a thick skin in case that happens because you don't you don't know what edit you'll get at all you just don't know it's a risk maybe i'm being naive or maybe i'm being super biased in this but i don't think the bachelor manufactures storylines in the same way that math seems to absolutely not not at all the bachelor might just like exaggerate something slightly or but all the storylines are pretty organic on the bachelor they're not organic on Married at First Sight. Yeah. And I think that with the batch, obviously we are a little bit biased because neither of us have done a Married at First Sight episode, but when people have come out, I find from Bachelor series and they've been really angry with their edit. I agree with you.

I think that things are just amplified. I think if someone behaved badly, then it amplifies their bad behavior, but I don't think they've ever tried to make someone who is totally lovely and good look bad or vice versa. There are some creative things that they do with the edit, but I really do think that if, if people come across as a, as an asshole on the show, it's because they behave like an asshole behind the scenes. Well, they've come out and said that they, that this cast from Married at First Sight this year is the most badly behaved cast that they've ever had. And I was saying this to you earlier, but I think what happens and you know, it happened in our season with Bachelor as well, but when you take away some, all of someone's rights and you treat them

like they're children, then they behave like children. Like I even know with the girls from our season and myself included like i am 100 guilty we behaved so badly so what's something what did you what's something you guys did when we were when we were filming our season of the show they had really strict rules around alcohol so we weren't allowed to drink alcohol unless it was on a cocktail party night or unless it was on a group date and it was specifically given to us and then they're really good with it being like two an hour and things like that yeah like no big glasses i mean it can still you can still get two bottles you can still get pretty jazzy at a cocktail party if you want to so but but they had definitely restricted our alcohol intake because

they one they didn't want us being hung over filming and also they wanted to make sure that we were you know not doing anything that was too anti-social or putting ourselves in harm's way but i guess when you are in your 30s and someone says because like we wouldn't film over the weekend right so on the weekends it we were free to do whatever we wanted but we couldn't have any alcohol. And like when you're in your thirties or your late twenties, you're like, I want to have a nice glass of wine with my dinner. And if I want that, then I should be able to have that because I'm a, I'm an adult. I'm a freaking adult. So instead of being a freaking adult, we behave like children. And we broke in to the room that, that they had locked and

barricaded off for cocktail parties. We broke into that and then stole some alcohol and went and had a party down on the tennis court. That makes so much sense to me because our alcohol room which obviously my series was the year following Laura's series our alcohol room it was like a chastity belt that fridge it had like it had like five chains around it with these huge locks like there was no way we were getting into that fridge because we tried my opinion of participants retaliation and like pushing back against production is kind of if you treat someone like a child then they're going to behave like a child so if you take away all their rights then they're like well fuck you I'm going to do whatever I want anyway so I think that each

season the contestants are pushing back more and pushing back more but it's going to ruin the show you just reminded me of something like so the bachelor's filmed over three months and i and sophie cass and myself we were all so close the whole show but we were really really good with not getting drunk at cocktail parties because you just i would just make the decision that i didn't want to put myself in a situation that i was going to look like an idiot that i was going to say something dumb do something dumb tumble down some stairs whatever it may be you're like I'm not going to embarrass myself on national TV. So Soph, Cass and I all were like that.

We'd have a few drinks but we never got drunk in the three months and then it was our last cocktail party that we were together. So it was just us there and we were like nothing bad can happen now. We're the only ones left and we got wasted. Like the cameraman, like it was so funny. The cameraman couldn't do anything. We were like trying to ride the cameras like horses. We were like giddy and up and they came upstairs.

are like you girls have given us no content for an hour they're like no we need the drama you need to fight and we just knew it was our last time together we were all friends and it was just like I don't know what they got from that episode but I guess with maths this season I just am a bit off it and I know that that doesn't make for very interesting like sorry guys that I didn't come to you with a better conclusion on the whole thing but I I don't I know that they get mass ratings and I know that it's such a love show and I love to hate the show, don't get me wrong, but I do feel like it wasn't as impactful, it wasn't as powerful and it wasn't as entertaining

as what past seasons have been because I really feel like the storylines are so heavily manufactured now. The only people I believed in was Liz, Lizzie, Elizabeth, whatever they call her. Yes, but even Liz and maybe because you didn't watch last season, she is a completely different person to last season. Well, she probably knows how it works now. but but like not even I mean like her personality is absolute chalk and cheese from last season

really completely different and so I found it difficult to warm to her as a character as like I'm gonna say like as a character on the tv show like I know she's a real person but as a character because I was so heavily invested in the last season I was like who is this imposter she didn't even come across with the same mannerisms or the same she spoke differently she behaved differently everything about her persona was so different which makes me think did she just know how to work the work the camera now like did she know how to work the production or did she get a bad edit last did she get a bad edit like who is the real lizzie that then i don't know the only other thing that gives me hope is that jewels has just come out as pregnant jewels from last year so

that worked they went on the season fell in love and now they're having a baby so there is hope for lot married at first sight oh they're having a baby I love babies it's really really exciting and also Elora from my season of Bachelor forgot what show I was on she just got married I know I told you well I'm telling everyone else she did she got married but like super small wedding with no one there didn't even wear a white dress just like just obviously was in love and wanted to do it you remember from my season the fire twirling girl that's Elora she she was engaged and her wedding fell during this whole crazy time where you can only have five people at your wedding and whole social distancing stuff. And do you know what I love? I love that she went through with

it and she had her wedding now, a really, really small, beautiful little marriage. That in itself is just such a beautiful thing because it shows how much it's about the relationship and how it's not about having a wedding to impress people for magazines or for media. It's just something that they did for themselves. And that's so special. Absolutely. Also Bindi Irwin did the same thing. same thing there were like four people there so bindi's bindi married her now husband chandler obviously just such about love because there were five people there mind you it's been on the cover of every magazine and it's on every site now but but they did it because they love each other and i think that that's really beautiful i want to actually i want to tell you something

i just remembered it last week when we left the podcast studio i need you to wind back last week we recorded and then we left in different cars because social distancing Laura sped off in front of me but we both live across the road from each other so we're going to end up at the same destination we take the same route she speeds ahead of me and then I think that I see her like 100 meters ahead of me going back towards Bondi in like three lanes so I speed up I'm not speeding but I speed up she was speeding and I swear on my life this was you in this car i put my hand out i wind the window down i put my hand out with my finger up you flicked me off and then i stuck out my tongue as if i was like that i was like no like you know stuff you

like like i was trying to act like a gangster i looked like the meanest nastiest person what gangster sticks their tongue out brit i was like and then so you poked your tongue out like a gangster like a mean nasty gangster with your tongue poked out guys i really wish you could see the faces she's making right now but i had this my hand my arm was straight out the window i was leaning across like with this mean look on my face with my finger out like this and then you who i thought was you looked at me right next to the car and it was some innocent lady i was and she looked at me and was like and then i didn't even know what to do i just went sorry i'm out i was like sorry and then just like sped off she doesn't need this abuse from a random

girl on the road imagine if she recognized you she probably did I'm glad it didn't get anywhere I felt horrible because I just thought it'd be funny if you looked over and I was like well I feel like that's a perfect little segue into our accidentally unfiltered Brit have you got me an accidentally unfiltered today I feel like that is by accidentally unfiltered but I've I do have another one that somebody wrote in actually I just thought this was funny for those of you that aren't original listeners that don't know what accidentally unfiltered is it's just this segment that we sort of made up one time so you write in your most embarrassing moments that's literally what it is things that just went so wrong things that you wish you would the ground

would just swallow you whole imagine the worst thing that could happen to you we want to hear that so write it in so carrying on from the things we've been speaking about in corona lockdown people are all you know everyone's working from home now we told some stories last week about just unfortunate things that had happened to people we had one listener write in saying that her her best friends a principal and the principal was having a zoom meeting they're all from home with other teachers but she's a bit older and she doesn't really she's sort of like me not older but just doesn't get technology so she's on the zoom meeting and she's talking away looking to her computer and one of her colleagues is like oh oh your camera's on the wrong way quickly turn it

around turn around she's like oh i don't know how to turn around like turn it around anyway her camera has turned around straight onto her dildo that was just sitting there for all her just to see like all her colleagues just to see a dildo sitting there and bless her soul you where do you go from that you don't you just have to own that did you see the zoom meeting it's been making the traps around instagram at the moment where a boss she turned herself into a potato by the filter have you seen the no i haven't seen that so she put a filter over herself where it turned her into potato and then she had to do the whole meeting as a potato with all her staff because she couldn't figure out how to turn the filter off.

So it was an accident. It was an accident. It's been making the traps around Instagram. It's actually so funny. If I can find it, I'll put a link to it on our Instagram so you guys can all have a look. So, guys, we do actually have a few more accidentally unfiltered stories that have come in to us this week.

I'm going to read you one right now. So there's this girl on the phone to her boyfriend and they're having a bit of an argument because he's trying to say, I have never sent you a dick pic. She's like, bro, you've sent me dick pics. He's like, I haven't. She's like, you have. I'll find it for you and I'll send it back to you to prove it.

So she goes into her phone. She finds this like fully hard wrecked penis that he's holding. Now, mind you, he's holding it with a hand that's very distinct. It's covered in tattoos. It could be no one else's hand and no one else's penis. So she's like incoming because she's on the phone to him. Presses send. He doesn't get it.

He's like, where's it gone? She's like, oh, my actual God. I've just sent your hard dick to my mum. And her mum's like, oh, Sally, do you often send dick pics like that? And she was like, mum, please never, never mention that again. And now her mum has seen her boyfriend's hard penis. I don't think it gets much worse than sending a dick pic to your mum. How do you explain that?

Yeah, mum, sorry. I was just trying to convince my boyfriend that he had actually sent one to me in the past by resending our upcycled dick pic back enjoy mom save it what a great time she's having you know the only thing that could be worse for that is if your dad sends you one no no that's i mean hello yeah that's terrific but if not if if he had sent it to his own mom if you send your own dick to your own mom at least this wasn't her child's penis you know like it was it was her child's boyfriend's penis but imagine if you're a mom and your son sent you a picture of She's hard penis.

I disagree. I think if I'm imagining. Okay, sicko. No, I'm imagining being in my 50s and Marley being in her 20s and her sending me a photo of her boyfriend's penis. I would be mortified. I would be, one, I'd be like, that's my baby. How dare you disrespect my baby like that?

I still don't think it would sit very well. But guys, please, like we literally live for these accidentally unfiltered. So keep sending them in and just caption them at the top, Accidentally Unfiltered, aka most embarrassing moment of my life, so that we can live vicariously through them. So if you're wondering where to send them, jump onto our Instagram. It's at Life Uncut Podcast. And you can send us through your Accidentally Unfiltered stories, just as Britt has said. Or you can also send us your Ask Uncut questions because every Thursday we do a sneaky little

episode, which is Ask Uncut, where we answer all of the questions, the deep, dark, burning questions that you have for the week. whether they're relationship or life-based, send them through and we will add them to the pile for this coming Thursday's episode. Now, should we jump on in to the episode? Yes. Well, guys, considering what is going on in the world at the moment, and we cannot escape the corona. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. We've been trying really hard to bring you content that is not just heavily based in this whole conversation around coronavirus, because we really feel like no matter where you look, no matter where you turn, everything is Corona,

Corona, Corona. Ah, Corona. You didn't. No, but you did. I did. Anyway, so we didn't want to bring you more content to flood your ears with doom, gloom, Corona. However, the landscape of dating has changed for the interim, for the long-term. We don't know how long we're going to be having to self-isolate and maintain social distancing. And I think as a relationships podcast, we'd be really doing ourselves a disservice to not talk about how this is affecting dating and to talk about how this is affecting relationships so we really wanted to touch on this episode about what does dating look like now that we're in this world where we can't be physical with each other exactly and we don't know how long this is going to last so it's nice to see a big a few of the

really really big plays in the game like bumble and tinder and like the whole match.com conglomerate jumping on board and they've all started to do this video function where a few of them have actually had it for a while and they haven't had a it hasn't been popular they haven't had a lot of use in it in all my years on the online dating i never used that function but now yeah like ain't no one want to put on makeup and facetime some guy that they've literally just exchanged a short chat with no and she's like no one looks good on facetime and that reminds me of like i think i told you last year i'm just gonna bring this in the last person i was dating um we'd only be i was like i hadn't actually met him yet but he got my number and we we were texting back and forth so

this was happening like we were texting and then all of a sudden it popped up on my screen facetime i literally threw the phone out the window i was like oh my god you can't just oh my god you can't just facetime me i was like fresh out of bed no makeup hair in a top knot and this was someone that i like really wanted to impress and then he was like i know you're there like you're just texting me and i was like no this is this relationship is going too fast too quick we are not in facetime territory people no because you don't want to say that so i said oh sorry it's just that i'm naked so i couldn't answer give me a few minutes put my clothes on anyway i was like brows mascara give me a few times to put my face on my face clothes anyway the moral of the story

is don't just ever sporadically facetime someone if it's a date give them a give them a little heads up hey I'm going to call you in an hour or whatever but the the whole thing is these are online dating or all bringing in this video function which I think is really really nice because you don't necessarily want to just straight out give your number up so you can FaceTime someone that's that sounds ideal but then you've just given your number to someone so I like the fact that you can now do video calls online without without swapping your details I think that makes a lot of people feel more comfortable I hadn't thought of it like that I hadn't realized that the reason why they would have the FaceTime in the app is to try and save

you from giving away all your personal details sort of to someone who you don't know. You can kind of have that conversation within the dating app to start with. Exactly. That's amazing. And there's been an increase of about 21%. So that was from Bumble. Bumble said 21% increase in messaging men starting the first message, obviously, because that's what Bumble is. But Tinder, every single app has registered an increase in downloads and communication starting and communication length, so how long people are talking. So everything online has gone up.

Everything is skyrocketing. Well, this is something that I thought was really interesting about the whole dating and isolation thing because I would have thought that people wouldn't be jumping on Tinder as much, purely because you can't meet up in real life. But we threw this out to you guys and we put a poll up and a questionnaire up on our Instagram page. And it was actually really interesting getting your feedback and your take on what does dating look like now for you.

We had quite a few people write in and say that because they no longer feel like there's this immense pressure to meet up, they're almost wanting to use dating apps more because it's like a soft way of getting to know each other without this intensity around it. And so one person's written in saying, I'm using Tinder because I don't actually have to worry about seeing them in real life. Okay. So that is just a time killer. What a time waster. yeah but i mean i guess the guys are doing the same thing right i think it's gonna be really difficult i think there's gonna be like i don't know 50 50 there's gonna be people that are just like i'm so bored give me someone to talk to but they don't actually want anything and there's

gonna be people that are like okay let me actually see if i can form like some sort of real human connection here or totally another girl has said that she's found herself swiping right and talking to guys that she would normally never ever speak to just out of pure boredom like let's be real you're gonna talk to people that you probably never would have on the street or that you never would have even online because your your time in real life this is the thing and this is what i always found this is what i always found online dating my time was so limited that i i didn't give probably enough people a chance but that's because i didn't have the time so i'd be like okay i'm just gonna really stick to what i know i i like instead of just going outside the box a lot more you were

like fuck boy yes fuck boy yes asshole yes red flag yes red flag yes i love the red flags oh my god this guy looks really nice left and i'm like brit he's wearing a prison jumpsuit you're like he's so cute and orange but he only has two teardrop tattoos on his face he's only killed two people um no but that's what i used to find so i think what's happening now people have all this time on their hands so they're saying yes to people that they probably wouldn't they're giving more people a chance they're they're communicating with people that that they might not have liked their occupation previously they might not like the way they look they might not have liked they might have been the same height as them they're widening the net oh my god same height we're that

i think that that's like the number one thing for people in dating apps like we are all we're not racist we're not sexist we're just heightest we're heightest i am a heightest that's it i would rather date someone 10 years younger than me than shorter than me i have done that it is i have dated someone shorter than me and i like bless him he's an angel but he was a short man it's nothing i mean being short doesn't make you an arsehole flora you and i actually we're pretty tall so we do need someone that's i has to be my height at least because even if they're your height then you feel like you can't wear heels because you're 10 times taller than them and just gets but that's okay like i mean that comes down to anything you're allowed to have a preference it doesn't make you

an arsehole you're allowed to say you know i'm attracted to guys who are brunette over guys who are blonde i'm attracted to guys who are taller or who are taller than me like all of that is acceptable, but like just getting back on track with the dating and isolation. I do agree with you. I think that this is going to widen the net and allow people to start talking to people outside of their normal, like in your lane, what you would normally go for just because there's more time to explore. But I do think that this is also going to open up the time for exactly what we said, time wasters. You're going to be spending time talking to people and it isn't going to eventuate into anything because there are guys as well are out there sitting at home with nothing to

do. They want to be entertained. They want some attention. And so definitely going to be a great area for some people where maybe it'll allow them to form deeper and more unique connections online, but it's also going to be a lot of time wasting. I think the people, thank God we've got so much fucking time. I think the people, I could be wrong. I'm not often, but I think the people that take the next step, because you can't, there's only so much time you can talk to someone online and and then it's it's nothing you lose interest the the band is gone your friend zone the people that are going to take it to the next level and actually start to video date and video call i think that's going to start to weed the people out that are actually serious or not because

people that are not serious and they're just killing time they're the texters they're the people that are texting you while they're netflexing you know they're the people that are just bored the people that are taking that effort to then meet you for an online date which is which is what everyone in the world is doing now i think they're the people that are actually probably a little bit more serious well that was actually something else somebody else had written in that it's forcing the conversations in their online dating to be a little bit more interesting so instead of just getting like hey you up hey how was your day what's doing you like stuff like how was your day i don't know mate my day was shit i sat inside all day what did you do like

they can't ask the same sorts of questions so one person who had written in had said that they find that the conversations that they're getting are a lot more in depth and that are a lot more interesting yeah because you have to ask questions that are outside your normal safe zone but you can't say how was your day like everyone's day is pretty much the same at the moment you know there's there's obviously variants of it but we're all in the same kind of pile of shit right now okay everyone's online dating they're all making their connections but then they start to do the video calls and people are really and i think it's quite nice people that wrote into us things that i've read um it's happening a lot in new york right now because obviously in new york the city

that doesn't sleep. Dating is huge over there. Online dating is huge, but New York is really suffering. Like they are getting a beating with what's happening right now. So there are a lot of really cute stories coming out of that. For example, I was reading about this guy that met a girl online and they wanted to have a, he really actually quite liked her. They had spoken on the phone, but not video called. And they decided to go on a first date and they actually got dressed like a date he bless him he sent her a bottle of wine and then he had the exact same wine so that they could drink together on the date and talk about the wine they ordered the same foods in so that they were eating the same foods like it was like they were together literally everything was

like they were together except they actually obviously weren't together but i thought bless your soul that's beautiful and if anyone's listening right now that is a great idea if you're a single and you're wanting to be still dating online and you're not really sure how to navigate this like obviously virtual dates amazing way very new age very still very strange and weird territory like we're not going to pretend like that this is a totally normal thing that we're all across yet it's weird everyone's doing it but everyone's doing it totally and there are some really cute virtual dates that you could do like i've talked to a couple of people who are single and they're doing things like cooking dates where they're facetiming or zooming each other and

they're cooking the same meal it's similar to similar to this couple who had the same wine and had a cute date they're cooking the same meal and then they're watching a movie together but they're kind of watching it on their own tv or their that would be weird wouldn't it but it's like real life goggle box but imagine also if they were it was like a first date you're watching movie now we're a talker because i hate talkers in movie that's me i'm the person that's always like what just happened what's gonna happen now and the person sitting next to me which is normally matt is like i have seen the same amount of this movie as you have laura i'm like but why does she say that he's like i'm gonna kill you okay so i only do that in scary movies scary thriller movies

and i think it's a way of it's a coping mechanism of like stopping what i'm seeing on the screen i'm like oh my god no he didn't yes he is oh my god he's gonna do it he's gonna do it she's gonna die and it takes away the scariness of like the background music that's my story so anyway i just feel like watching a movie together is cute but also if they're a talker you might just have to mute them but also good to know that they're a talker now because maybe they're not your person and maybe that's like oh sorry this is never going to work out because you talk through movies you get to learn a lot about people when you're in isolation especially the couples who are in isolation right now learning a lot about your partners I'm sure but to be fair

we've had a lot of people say that isolation has been really good for them as a couple yeah well this is something that I found really interesting and it's also something that I like I wanted to bring up personally in relation to like Matt and I so I think and I've seen it a lot on Instagram I've seen it a lot on social media. We're being really quick to like make jokes about how shit it is being trapped in isolation with your partner and how, you know, you get really annoyed by the fact that you spend 24 seven with them. But I actually think, and the overwhelming response to what we put up on Instagram was that most couples who are in isolation together, it's been great for their relationship and it's made them really, really happy. And it's made them spend

quality time together and it's made them appreciate their partner and all the things that they do for them. You know, some, one girl had written in saying that her partner's cleaning heaps more because now he's got more time. There were a few people who wrote in saying that it hasn't been good for their relationships. But what I think this situation is going to do is it's going to be a real pressure cooker and it's absolute make or break for these relationships. For some people, it's going to fast track them to babies and weddings, and maybe it will make the relationship move at a quicker pace than what they'd originally thought. And for other people, it will also make it move to a quicker pace, but it will make it move towards breaking up because that's also

going to happen for some people. It's going to like put the pressure on and it's a situation where you never would experience normally. But I imagine that would be tough for the people that are going to break up because you wouldn't do it now. You wouldn't do it till it's over. How do you break up in isolation? You can't. I think you ride it out. Do you? Do you just stay? Where do you go? The world's on pause. It's not straightforward and it sucks to be leaving a relationship now when people have lost their jobs. People have been a be codependent on people when they wouldn't normally there's a lot there's so much happening now where people it's out of our control and I think we're leaning on a lot of people in our

lives more than ever just on what you just said as well and a little bit of advice that I want to give to listeners too is that if you are going through a really hard patch with your partners now and this is overwhelming for you I don't think it's necessarily a reflection that your relationship is bad and that the person you're with isn't the right person for you I think that this is an unprecedented stressful situation that you will never have to go through with your partner again. There'll be other stressful situations, sure, but it won't be like this. It's never going to be that you have to stay locked in a house with someone for 24 seven of your time. So I think if people are not on their best behavior at the moment, they are afforded a little bit of time and they

can be afforded a little bit of leeway because this situation is not going to bring out the best in everyone. Yeah. You need some wiggle room. Yeah. It doesn't mean that your relationship is shit and doesn't mean that your relationship should be over. It may be for some people, it will be the sort of the icing on the cake and it will make them realize that they weren't in the right relationship. And for those people, then that's, that's actually in the long run, a good revelation. But for some people, I think this is just super stressful and it doesn't mean that your relationship is the wrong one. It's just means that, you know, this is not something that anyone could have could have been prepared for and so I think don't put too much pressure on

yourself or or be too hard on yourself if you're not super happy in your relationship right now either the other thing in regards to that is for sure you can have some leeway know that it's not forever you need your wiggle room you need your leniency you need your understanding but if if you're in a situation that's really really extremely uncomfortable if you're in in any way you know that you need out you can do that also because this could be going on for six months you know they have said that there could be restrictions and warnings for six months so know that if if you are 100 that this is not right and you are uncomfortable there are so you can still get rentals you can still leave we're just saying that if you're with your partner and you

just want to strangle him right now write it out because totally totally that will get better but i guess there's this other idea too for new couples there's so like there's so much i've been trying to think about and get my head around for all these new couples right that are social distancing everybody seems to have this different idea of what social distancing is and what it means to them and there are some new couples that are saying okay well you know we were seeing each other before this so let's continue to see each other and they're a bit more lenient and then the other the other partner is saying oh absolutely not like who knows where you've been in terms of like obviously to the shop or something but like they're taking it really seriously so they're not

wanting to see their partner yeah what an what an easy way of like forcing a breakup if you were not happy in your relationship be like sorry babe got a social distance for the rest of my life gomo said 1.5 meters i can't see you for six months and then just don't call them ghost them and by the time we all come out of isolation you're like boyfriend who what yeah but that's that that's a pickle I feel sorry for the I oh I just feel sorry for these people well I mean also for people who freshly got into a relationship before this happened now that they're in lockdown but they live in different states or one person works in medicine and then therefore there's even more restrictions like a lot of people who wrote in we had a lot of nurses who can't see their

boyfriends or can't see their partners because they need to isolate more than sort of like a regular person and it puts massive strain on a relationship but I guess you just kind of have to view it as though you're doing long distance for a little while. And that's like, it's a new way of navigating the relationship. But I think this is, like I said, this whole period is going to be the make or break. The relationships that come out of this are going to be such strong and unified relationships. And the ones that fall apart because of this, maybe it's just a fast track to them falling apart. Maybe they were already going to do that at some point in time in the future anyway I do think it's really important that we we don't stop dating and I'm

putting that in inverted commas because we still do need social connection we still do do need an emotional connection human contact you do need all that but it's I'm going to say don't go and physically see people it's just it defeats the whole purpose of what we're trying to do here which is not spread corona and flatten the curve that's what we need to do and just saying oh just one night i'm just going to see him one night it doesn't work like that it's that's all it takes you know so i'm i'm going to be a real advocate here for if you just to not go and actually hook up with these people that you've met online you're telling everyone to go on a severe dd why don't you tell everyone what a dd is laura get yourself on the dick detox ladies i do i think we

need a nation a worldwide dick detox this is the only way to stop coronavirus is if everybody goes in a dick detox we'll be all out in the open again and you guys can go hunting once more but look i mean like brit said we are we are absolutely advocating for you guys to you know maintain social distancing and not go out not you know do like do the right thing totally if everybody does the right thing now you can all go and do whatever the hell you want sooner but also because it's going to be like, obviously if you're online dating still, it's going to be tempting to just sneak over to their house to meet them. Especially if you've met someone who you have what seems like a great connection with them. But I think also keep in mind that unless it is just

hangs and bangs that you're after, but if you're after a relationship and you really do think this person might be great going over to their house as like a secret little meetup, you're putting yourself into that category of just being a fuck buddy, potentially, especially if you don't have the chance of meeting them in a way where it's a proper date and you can put some parameters and some protection around yourself also it it can just be dangerous like going to someone's house who you've never met before who you have no information on like you know and I know that a lot of people do it and I've done it in the past you know having a tinder hookup but be smart ladies like don't put yourself in a situation that's going to be dangerous for you because we can't

go out and have a normal date at a pub or a bar and that's the only way of seeing them because the thing you have to keep in mind is is that you don't know how many people they've done that with that week or within the last two weeks and not only could you get hurt in other ways you could also catch corona now which is a whole nother amazing thing to throw into the list of potential possibilities that could happen it's not just an std now it's corona and an std totally so i think be safe and be smart with how you're dating at the moment and as much as like like brit said as much as it's it seems like it's a bit futile i think it is really important to maintain human connections and it is okay to kind of line up your pen pals for once this whole thing is over

then you can have your dates and i do want to put one little ad on there for all of you listeners who are especially like it will in sydney all of you listeners there in sydney but especially in the east near laura and i in bondi or any of the eastern beaches i'm talking to you don't go and hook up with anyone because Bondi is the epicenter of the nation for Corona. We have more Corona cases spreading in Bondi than anywhere else in Australia. So if that's not going to keep you away from your one night stand, I don't know what is. If you're someone who is a serial dater and you're like, have been punching out those dates, girlfriend, left, right, and center, then this could be a really great time to sort of stop and reassess what it is that you want in a

partner and what you want in a relationship. And like, you can still online date, you can still be chatting to guys, but it's a really good time to kind of like slow it down a little bit and make some decisions about what you actually want in a partner so that you're not, you're breaking that routine of just serial, serial dating, which I think can sometimes cloud what, what your decision making is in a relationship. And it can also make you choose guys who aren't necessarily the right guys for you because you're just, you're too busy dating to actually stop and take stock of what's happening around you. So I think that this could be a good thing for those serial daters out there. I also think that for a silver lining of sorts, I know that that's horrible to say.

We're reaching for straws here, guys. No, but a silver lining for sure is that I think that this could be like the major disruption that we need to get dating back to the old days of being more respectful and more wholesome and more of literally getting to know someone on a level that's not physical. And I think there's a lot to be said for that because if you look back at the generations of dating we've gone from like courting one person from a long time ago putting a lot of energy into it to now half the people don't even know the name of the person they've hooked up with like people just go and have these one-night stands so I think that silver lining is going to be really

nice to spend some time getting to know somebody and if somebody isn't willing right now to commit to some time getting to know you in terms of online video dates they're probably not going to be someone that's going to commit the time to you in the real world either so if they're not if They can't be bothered to date you now at this time in this pandemic, in this situation. They're probably not going to be bothered in the real world. So I wouldn't bother with them. Oh my God, totally. And you also know that if somebody is putting in the effort and the time now,

and they're actually maintaining this communication and this conversation throughout all the ups and downs of this period, they are someone that you want to invest time in once we can go back to life as normal. Well, imagine how great that guy's going to be in real life that sent the bottle of wine to the girl and then they drank the same wine on a video date. Angel. what an angel. One of my girlfriends who is kind of talking to this guy at the moment on Tinder and it's progressed. They're like WhatsAppping each other all the time. And, and they've been

video Skyping. They haven't met. She's been really good with maintaining this whole social distancing thing. She said to me, you know, maybe it's going to be really weird and like not meet my expectations when I meet him in real life. Like she's like really worried that it's going to be weird meeting someone who she's had such an online connection with. But I think it will be the opposite I think if you are facetiming and you have seen their mannerisms and you've spoken to them on video call and you are maintaining a constant flow of conversation I think when you meet them for the first time on that first date if you've already had such a level of of communication and connection that is going to transcend and translate into real life if

anything you'll feel like your old friends you'll feel like this has been something that's been going on for ages and it probably will progress very quickly after you do meet up in real life all right i think it's story time this just reminded me well if we had the new podcasting equipment i could have had a little sound effect in there because the new stuff is great this is reminding me of a perfect story that's exactly what you just said so um after my sister and i we'd spent about six or seven months in south america something like that before we were moving to the uk to scotland now you wouldn't know because oh actually you might have were you around on tinder when tinder had the geolocation you could you could swipe into another country

you didn't have to be there did you have that yeah yeah okay cool i didn't know how out of the game you were i was on tinder back in the day when tinder used to tell you how long your match like how long ago your match had been online and you couldn't turn it off that was the worst it would be like your match was online 10 minutes ago but he hasn't spoken to you yeah um we had been in south america for so long and we knew that we were then moving to scotland for a little while So one day we're really bored. We're like let's geo-swipe in to Scotland to see what men are waiting for us. We were like let's get ready.

We just – we weren't going to talk to anyone on there. We just wanted to see what the men in Scotland were like because I imagined them all to be Jamie from Outlander. So anyway, I got a rude shock. And a lick his chest. So Sheridan, I was swiping, right, and I came across this guy, an Indian guy, and I don't know – he was young. He was too young for me.

He was 26. and I don't know what it was but I was like Sherry you need to find this guy and say yes and I showed her and she was like why and I was like I don't know you just need to say yes there's something about him I don't know what it is she'd never dated someone of color before I cannot tell you what it was that made me say that but I was like go and find this guy his name's Jay say yes and she was like okay whatever I didn't think much of it we're both laying in bed swiping next to each about an hour later she comes across the guy so she's like well swipe yes it was a match they start talking you have never experienced anything like this they were talking online

probably 100 messages a day easily 200 messages a day non-stop and that went on for two and a half months they spoke non-stop non-stop non-stop and I was like you're a sicko and they were like we're so obsessed with each other they'd never met so this is like the isolation thing right they finally meet after two months in real life thinking that they're soul mates and I was on the first date with them they finally meet and Sheridan walks away and they were so nervous because they just thought they were the most perfect people for each other and Sheridan walks away and she's like well that was nothing like it was I think we're just friends and I'm like surely not you've been obsessed with him for two months and she's like I don't know I

don't know I think we're just friends like I think we hyped it up too much but they were both so nervous anyway she was probably saying that as well because she was like i really like him but i don't want to like a bit of a defense mechanism so after you build this like you were just saying about your friend you for two months talking to someone non-stop and and skyping each other you build like such a strong emotional connection that as soon as it came time to meet each other she was like he's not gonna like me in real life turns out he thought the same thing like there was so much pressure on it that they just weren't themselves when they met but they gave it a few more times to meet and thank god they did because he lives in australia now and they've been together

for five years isn't that amazing is that amazing yeah i knew who i knew who this story was about i had to pretend like i didn't know but i knew but like it's i just feel like it's the same thing as what's going on now people are going to be talking to each other for months not knowing they're going to then meet each other feel all the pressure it might not be ideal the first time like your friend said but push through it because you're just going to be nervous and you could find a little pot at the end of the rainbow there could be a penguin there could be an isolation penguin isopenguin isopeng well just imagine imagine how nuts the dating world is going to be when we're all allowed back in the wild can you imagine so i guess to tie this up is whatever you want goes

right now as long as you don't physically meet them up there's no actually i was about to say there's no rules but there are some fucking rules no there are some strict rules do not go within 1.5 meters do not physically touch kissing is not allowed at this period in time when you are supposed to be self-isolating we're not supposed to go over and see people and actually have dates in the flesh I know it can feel like especially if you're single and you want to be in a relationship and you have been looking for someone for a period of time and look this is going to sound like oh yeah great coming from the girl who's in a relationship like screw you Laura but it's not going to be that long it's not it's we're not going to be in this phase forever it's

not going to last forever it's like three maybe six months of being single and i know that for some people that sounds like a really long time but hey i've been single for nine years so but you know what brit's doing fine and here she is don't be so hard on yourself it is not the end of the world to be single during this period lean on your girlfriends as well facetime people who you love, FaceTime your friends, FaceTime your family, and spend some time on yourself as well, because this is going to be a bit of a strange time for dating. And I think try and have as much fun with it as you can. And don't get too caught up if these connections and relationships aren't working out or people aren't sort of writing back to you in the way that you would

expect, because I think other people are online time-wasting as well. Okay, guys, like, yes, you can't get intimate in real life, but there's still phone sex. For some people, that might be weird territory that you maybe you've never done that before you mean just with partners though because i wouldn't be phone sexing like a tinder date well i mean maybe you will be if you've been tinder dating him for three months though in isolation like oh for sure if it's a long-term yeah like tinder isolation if you if you're building connection with someone and it's progressing in a way and you want to get more intimate with them like there are other options as to how you can show intimacy with someone than other than just meeting up with them maybe it's a

new time to explore something that's a little bit outside your comfort zone push those boundaries girlfriend my advice if you are going to take this next step like laura has just said is if you've been dating someone for a few months i can i can attest that even after two years you can guarantee know someone you don't so after you've been dating someone for a few months you do want to take the next step my advice is to just do phone sex not skype sex not video sex because it's that's out there you don't know who this person is you don't know they're recording it you don't know anything could happen with that so just just don't go there just do not go there stay verbal without video on the phone people stay verbal do it orally not by video but no

that's actually such a good point but brit and sexting totally in messages if you don't feel comfortable actually saying the words then you can do it through your fingertips you do still have to protect yourself because it is so easy for someone to screen record or for someone to video record a zoom or a Skype. So make sure that you're not doing something that could put you into an, a compromising situation later on with someone who you don't know that well. That's such a good point. Yeah. I can't stress that enough, but onto the last little point that is a bit more of a positive point. We just thought we'd throw out some date ideas. We wanted to put together a couple of things that we thought could be nice date ideas that you could throw around to a

potential partner if you guys are tossing up how to kind of progress things to the next stage so i love the idea of sending the wine or even i guess if you wanted to go the extra hog you could uber eats a meal to them as well so it's like you've bought them dinner and then you could eat together on skype i i love that i think that's really really really cute that's something that i would do but i think that's really really nice because you're eating the same meal you're drinking the same wine i don't know it feels like you're having dinner together it does and i just think it's it gives you something more to talk about than if you were both drinking and eating something different because you can't compare it you know if you were eating thai and i'm eating a pizza

you can't be like what do you think of the pepperoni you know you can't you can't compare your food and like i don't know i love that that's like a baseline of an important part of your initial date is the fact that you can compare the food that you're eating food and wine dude that's my life. No, but it's not, it's nice to have these shared experiences. And if you can find small ways to do something together, I mean, I know that there were other people who were saying that they were meeting up and going for a walk, but maintaining social distancing whilst going for a walk. I mean, you can potentially still do that. I think that that errs into the gray area of what is and isn't acceptable though. I really liked the idea of doing like a date.

That's a cooking date. And I know that all of this is around by food, but if you guys decide on something that you're both going to cook in your own house and you can have it on Skype or on zoom and you can do like a little cooking date together i know a couple of people who have done that and that seems like a really cute little first date as well and at least then it's also a bit interactive so you're not just sitting there being like so what have you done today i know a couple that went for a walk at the exact same time for an hour like their hour exercise not together but they skyped while they did it so they were both walking out and they just tried to pretend they were walking together i was pretty cute so cute god we live in a weird world guys all right

Give me another one, Brett. I would always do like this is I'm just thinking what's the things that I would do. You could do like a workout together, organize for the same, like put it on the TV or whatever you're going to do. And then you're on Skype. You'd have to be so painfully fitspo to want to do that. Like that's what I would do. That's oh, I'm tired just talking to you. Do you like a HIIT workout or if yoga?

If a guy hit me up and was like, hey, let's do a workout for our first date. I'd be like, you sound exhausting. okay i can't tell you how many first dates i have suggested that have been exercised going for a walk fine fine tennis hike walk surf okay i can get on board with most of them tennis no but that's because i'm very uncoordinated but hike walk great if someone was like let's go and do a boxing and a pilates class i'd be like i would do it do i look like i need to lose some weight i would tone no i'd be like yes are you fat shaming me i will marry you yes it's a yes and he'll be like, what?

And I'll be like, yes, I'll go to the boxing class. I do. I mean, I will. I'll come. So I think that's a really cute idea. But if you guys have any other ideas that you've been doing or if you've had a really cute date that we haven't spoken about, we do want to hear about it because we want to pop it out on this platform

to help other people because there are a lot of people in this position right now. A lot of people have written in to us saying we don't know how to date, we don't know what to do right now. So if you've had something really cute happen to you that maybe they've done to you, you've done to them any ideas send it in to us on instagram at life uncut podcast and we want to share the love and get it out there because we want all of you guys to find love absolutely guys we'll keep on adding to this and we will put some things up on instagram if you guys share some great ideas with us then we will share it with the crew i.e you and enjoy dating in this really

weird and wonderful time no that's not wonderful it's just weird but enjoy dating because guys human connection is still so important even though you can't see each other or touch each other in real life we're so lucky that we live in a day and age where we still can online connect with people and there is still the potential to get out there and maybe meet your soulmate who knows yeah corona it's it's going to cause our lives to be significantly different for a very long time and i think it's really important that you all understand self-isolation doesn't have to be emotional isolation. Ooh, good one, Brittany.

XOXO. Alright, guys. We never finish an episode without our favourite part of the episode. I said that about the accidentally unfiltered part, but you know what? This is also our favourite part too. And that is Suckin' Sweet, baby. Alright, Britt, give me

your suck. Straight up, my suck was when I was fanging it up the road at like 80 kilometers an hour sticking my finger out at you and it wasn't you that was my straight up like I just felt like the nastiest bitch so that was that was such a thug that was for sure my suck um my sweet was probably I went for a walk um and I just wanted to go around the corner I said to my sister because that's who I'm isolating with um hey just come around the corner I want to just check out this little area that I hadn't been to before so she's like i'm tired but like whatever fine so we start walking and we accidentally walked for 12 kilometers that is not a sweet you're so weird

how is that a sweet because it was i accidentally walked for 12 kilometers well did you have an aneurysm how the hell did you accidentally walk somewhere for 12 kilometers i just felt yeah okay i'm weird that is my sweet i just felt really good because i was like literally nothing is happening in your life is what you've just proved imagine if you accidentally did 12 kilometers how good you'd feel because you're like i i accidentally did it now i've done it no i'm see that would never happen to me because i'm the person that goes for a run and i'm like yes this has to be like five k's and then i look at my fitbit and i've run 600 meters you're at your letterbox everything hurts that's me i will never accidentally exercise more because i am acutely

aware of how much i've exercised because every step hurts well i'm not gonna lie nothing good has happened to me this week so that that is well it hasn't it's been it's tough life's shit don't say that it could be better how many corona patients have you diagnosed oh yeah guys look brit's still working in hospital and she is right there on the front line with all this craziness so she's allowed to have a bit more of a debbie downer than the rest of us yeah i don't actually mean life shit it's not like my life my life is really really good i'm very very lucky i'm very grateful it's perspective but like yes that is as good as it got this week was my accidental 12 kilometers tell me about your suck so my suck was getting the usb stuck in the back of the

roadcaster that was really really really crap that was like i just guys i just bought the and i can't stress this enough i just bought this brand new podcasting equipment it costs like almost two grand and the first time we go to use it i get the fucking usb jammed in the back of it like an absolute idiot. Yeah, it was Laura. Laura goes, oh, my God, can you believe I have done this? And I was like, yes, yes, yes, I can. Thanks for the support there, Brittany.

And my suite, I have a couple of suites. Oh, break the rules. Why not? So my suite is us hitting a million. Oh, my God. 1.1, 1.1 mil. 1.1. Okay, 1.1.

We're in the one million club. Yeah, bitches. Guys, we're in the one million club. And my other sweet is, my other sweet was honestly, as much as being in isolation has been, has been really challenging at some times, I loved my Saturday night. Like Matt and I had the cutest Saturday night together. We had a proper date night and a boogie at home. We danced around our apartment for two hours together and we drank margaritas until we

were both very drunk and we just had such a good night. And it made me realize that even though we can't go out, it doesn't mean that we can't still have fun together. And I thought this time would put a lot of pressure on us. And I thought that we would be bickering and I thought that it would be difficult for us, but it's actually been really great for us. And I'm really grateful for it. That's really cute. I like that. I love that for you. I'm not grateful for Corona. I'm grateful for the extra time we get to spend together. And also like Matt's lost all of his work. So it's really stressful for him. He was supposed to be filming Luxury Escapes at the moment. That's obviously been called off because it's a travel

show. He can't be presenting with that at the moment. So he would have been away. He would have been away for the better half of the next three months but now he's stuck at home with me sucker i love having an unemployed boyfriend it's great guys thanks so much for tuning in and thank you so much every single one of you that has listened you have got us to the 1 million club i am still shocked that that many of you want to listen to us by 1 million downloads that's freaking crazy man yeah i am i did forget i would like to change my suite from 12 kilometers to 1 million downloads please so incredible guys we're so so grateful for every single person who has listened subscribed left a review some of the messages that we get from you guys uh that have

said you know that the content that we've put out has really helped you through bad breakup or through difficult times in your life like we we are so grateful that what we can give to you may in some way brighten your day or a little piece of advice that might put you on the right trajectory like that's the whole reason why we're doing this and we know that it's made an impact in some of your lives because you've told us so and it's such an incredible privilege to be able to do that so thank you so much guys we honestly are so grateful um this is like i'm probably the thing i'm most proud of ever is is making impact and doing this with you creating this with you um obviously our friendship like who would have thought so when brit and i met we just like randomly met through

the whole bachelor franchise because we both had gone through the same similar experience and I reached out to her we never in a million years did we think that we would start a podcast never in a million years do we think that once we'd started the podcast that you guys would listen to it on such a mass scale and here we are it's just incredible and just to show you how far we've come I had to go pick up something from Laura's house this morning I waltzed on in and I saw some fresh hot cross buns there and I was like Laura won't mind just pulled one out got it out the pantry got myself some honey toasted it she literally walked into my kitchen toasted herself a hot cross bun and i was like this is how you know when you've got a real friend when you can

go to their fridge without asking and then she was like have you got honey like where's your honey in this house i was like babe it's right there in the pantry i can help yourself at least i offered you if you wanted one too but you didn't but guys if you if you know somebody right now that you think might benefit from anything we any of our episodes ever or especially now any of these episodes relating to corona relating to dating if they just are feeling down and they need to laugh tell them to listen to our bonus episode two weeks ago because it's literally it's it's made for laughter and it's just golden it's our most embarrassing moment so it's brilliant but just share it with your friends because that's what helps us grow and we really really really appreciate

it we read every single review we like it makes our day when we read your we send them to each other like it's sad but but we love it but also just on what brit said like if you know someone who is going through a hard time maybe they're going through a breakup maybe they're in a challenging relationship right now where they need to get out or you know that that's not the right relationship for them recommend it to those friends because this content is created for them this content is created for people who are going through the ups and downs of life and yeah if we can make a little bit of an impact in someone's life then that's just exactly why we're doing this Yeah, share the love because we love love!

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