Life Uncut - The Book Was Better! And Is Your Burnout A Threat?
Episode Date: February 17, 2026Hey lifers! Tonight is the first night of our new TV show and we’re so excited to unpack the ins and outs of MAFS. How does burnout feel for you? Laura had a conversation about interpretin...g ‘normal’ requests as threats when you’re at the point of burnout and how it’s showing up in every facet of her life at the moment. Are you good at spotting a liar? How about when it’s your own children? Laura can’t tell when her kids are telling the truth or when they’re conspiring to tell perfect fibs. They could be great actors or Laura could be really gullible! We need to talk about the Wuthering Heights chaos. Britt and Keeshia went to the Australian premiere last week and give their takes on what they thought of the in person versions of Margot and Jacob.We unpack whether book adaptations should stay close to the actual story line and why there’s so much criticism about this particular adaptation. We also ask “Why does Hollywood keep adapting the same stories instead of creating new ones?” You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne Produced by Keeshia Pettit Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley 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. I
just got vetoed. We just did a great intro and Laura didn't want to talk about it. No,
you didn't get vetoed. We were just, we were told, hey, shut up. Shut up. That's a veto
if i've ever heard it i was like hi i'm britney she said shut up we better not say that to each
other all the time it's like our people aren't gonna think this is funny but it's like a
relationship joke we just say it so we're like hey baby can you get me a glass of water and the
other person will go shut up and we do it we get the water but we just say shut up you know that
this is how it spirals downwards no it's actually not i think actually if anything it's a sign of a
good relationship once you have an in joke that's actually a bit mean but no one else gets it and
other people outside of the relationship would objectively go oh that's mean but neither of you
are offended that's when you know you're in the sweet spot that's when you know the honeymoon's
over well the other thing we do is we talk at a normal voice and we'll say stop yelling at me
oh yeah we're not yelling but matt does that all the time i'll be like hey honey can you
get me a glass of water and he'll go i just use that example oh sorry sorry you're like baby are
you coming to bed you're like yeah if you stop yelling stop yelling at me yeah it's so stupid
Matt's favorite thing to do is anytime I ask him something,
we were just talking about this, but if I say, once again,
can you get me a glass of water, he'll go, fuck yeah, I can.
Fuck yeah.
You can't lock eyes with me when you say that, Laura.
I'll say, can you run the bar?
Fuck yeah.
Can you change the sheets?
Fuck yeah.
And then do you have sex?
No, we don't.
We're actually very, I don't think we've ever had sex off the back of it.
I don't think we've ever had sex.
It's his favorite.
Only three times.
It's his favorite thing to do is fuck yeah.
Can we talk about yesterday?
Laura and I were doing some stuff, some recording,
filming stuff yesterday together.
we can tell you want to talk about why we can tell oh yeah okay we'll start with that okay yes
if you're watching this maybe you're thinking wow Brittany looks spectacular today maybe you're not
thinking that but I have arrived with a full face of makeup like full glam full glam you've got
lashes on stick on lashes look at my look at my shadow look at that shadow that is a that is a
winged liner shadow and I have my hair you might not be able to tell the headphones I got my hair
done really nice so we shot yesterday and we did have full makeup and then it was a really big day
and then we came home and we had to prep a really big heavy political interview for today how many
big things happened it was a big day it was two big makeup big hair big interview and anyway my
my brain power last night I wasn't so much physically exhausted my brain was just cooked
so I fell asleep on my bed clothed full hair and makeup and I woke up this morning and looked at
myself and I was like it looks really good so I just put a shirt on and came to work this is my
this is yesterday's face I can I know because I was there when you had yesterday's face done
I love it does it look like yesterday no it looks it looks fresh you look great you look like you've
put in a lot of effort to come here today but what I'm reading from that story was that you
haven't showered in two days no I showered this morning oh don't fucking but I just cut your head
out yeah I never wash my head I only wash my hair like twice a week I dry shampoo so I just I just
shower from the neck down. Wow. I'm getting a lot of jealousy. I'm feeling a lot of jealousy in the
room. I find it amazing. Truly spectacular is the fact that you only have to wash your hair twice a
week. I have to wash my hair almost every day. It is so limp and oily in equal measures that if I
don't wash it every day, it is revolting. Limp is up there with moist, isn't it? Limp. I have limp
hair. Limp hits different. It's a particularly limp and oily now that I'm going through postpartum
hair loss and I'm losing handfuls of hair, which is a real shame because I already had
very little fucking hair to start with.
What about a bit of dry shampoo?
Nah, it doesn't work for me.
Just looks like-
You sure?
Because it works for everyone else.
It works for the whole population, so I'm just wondering.
It doesn't work.
I don't know.
I just feel like it's still oily or I feel dirty.
I feel like I'm covered in powder.
I need to act- I just shower in the morning, guys.
It's fine.
And I wash my hair.
I don't feel clean unless I've put my head under the water.
Is that- Okay.
Anyway.
So, the reason we're filming yesterday is that if you're listening to this today on
Wednesday, the day that this has come out, tonight, Laura and I have filmed our brand
new show, which is Married at First Sight after the dinner party.
It is on Stan.
It's immediately after Married at First Sight airs.
You can go straight to Stan and watch it.
And it is going to be big.
I'm frightened.
I'm not going to lie, I'm actually fucking petrified, to be honest.
it all seemed like a really good idea when we're like yes signed up can't wait tv show if you guys
haven't heard of it I know we talked about a little bit and we haven't done it yet so even
we don't know entirely what it's going to be like but we've got to interview the participants
and obviously there's been some pretty awful behavior that's come out like recently Brooke
there's been so much with her and like how she's had like this complete bait and switch personality
if you're not watching it Brooke she's beautiful she's a model like she literally physically could
not be more beautiful she's stunning and she was also amazing at the start of the show and then
it is like she's just completely had this switch of personality she's like she's possessed yeah
she's gone from being amazing to being insane like not even insane horrible just so mean just
there's no other word for it than mean and so we have to sit on the couch and interview and we don't
know exactly who we're interviewing yet so like I don't know how I'm gonna go if I have to interview
someone who, who I don't like. Yeah. Basically the participants are going to come on every week
and we're going to unpack what really happened because there's always, you know, there's always
five sides to a story. So we get to unpack that. We have footage that hasn't been played
that the participants and we will be seeing for the first time. You guys are going to see it for
the first time. It's going to explain a lot of things. It might leave more questions.
They might contradict a lot of people's stories. So it's going to be really interesting. So in a
way I don't really know how to explain it yet it's a bit like chat showy in terms of we're
interviewing people but we're also throwing to all this unseen footage and it's going to break
down that fourth wall and it's a real look behind the curtains and yeah so that starts tonight I
think it's going to be amazing I'm really looking forward to it but it's my first time doing it and
I think it's something that I if we weren't nervous about it in any respect like that would just be a
level of confidence that we don't have I think that if even I was to go on a different show like
I did a couple radio interviews when cloud came out last year and a couple of podcasts and that
kind of thing and I felt really weird about the fact that I had no editing control yeah like and
it was me I'd never have never thought of myself as a control freak but I think in this environment
where people are so quick to take one thing that you've said and twist it in a way that you didn't
mean and all that kind of thing it made me really kind of be apprehensive and a bit like oh I'm not
used to not having the ability having the control did you send them some dot more editing dot points
at the end you're like i made notes actually can you just send me the file and i'll do it for you
do you know what else it is i think because we've we have interviewed so many people on this podcast
but all of it's been because we want to right as in like where people they're people we're
interested in they have similar values similar beliefs their conversations or topics that we
actually we align with and that's why we've had them this situation and speaking to some of the
participants in maths we will be talking to people whose beliefs we do not align with people whose
values we don't agree with and we have to have those conversations and instead of just on one
hand you have to figure out and unpack what's happened on the show but also call out and keep
accountable the behavior as well in some ways and I think that that's a really interesting dance that
we haven't done before and that's you know I in no way and we've done dance with the stars we've
done a lot of dancing I've done the fucking cha-cha okay on on primetime tv it wasn't good
can i say though it is going to be amazing and i think the the one thing that is incredible about
maths and as you guys know i know brit you have not watched as many episodes as i have in the
past but i just watch the dinner parties i was a fucking sucker for the drama i've said it every
year guys like it's such a conversation starter it is such a social experiment that takes over
our free-to-air tv there is nothing like it in terms of reality tv juggernauts in australia
there are so many podcasts that are about it there are so many unpacks and recaps and all
that sort of stuff and it's the only show that's eclipsing over a million views with every single
episode right like of australian viewership they end up accumulating they were telling me like two
million views once people watch like you re-watch it later on streaming and like which is insane
yeah absolutely crazy so to be able to be at the coalface having the conversations first and when
people come out of these the participants come out of these experiments and then they they go on
podcasts and they say they have receipts it's always a very one-sided story it's their one-sided
story the idea of this show is to try and get every one side and to try and get the real receipts
and not only is it what's happened since the show's finished it's also all of the like you
said brit all of the behind the scenes shit that you didn't see there's so much footage of stuff
that was said in voxies there's a voxies like the little interview to the side when you're in your
private time yeah there's so much that's happened backstage which feels a little bit jerry springer
but it's like the cameras followed people or there is no video footage but the mics were still on and
you can hear what people are saying like there is footage like that that didn't get shown on the show
it's gonna be great but i wish it was two hours i know it needs to be longer that's and and there
is also and this is something that i was shocked by when i found out there is also footage that's
being shown on our show because obviously it's on a streaming platform it's on stan it starts late
at night when it first goes to streaming there is stuff that's being shown on our show that is worse
than what you see on actual Married at First Sight
and it was edited out of Married at First Sight
because it was too much.
It was like family time viewing.
Yeah, it was too much.
And we're allowed to swear.
Fuck.
They told us we can say swear words.
But you can't say the C word.
And I was like, to be fair, as a presenter,
I don't think I'm just going to drop the C bomb.
Why not?
In case you would.
If someone's being a cunt.
No, I hate, do you know, I hate the C word.
It makes my skin crawl.
I used to.
But as someone who's half British,
I feel like there's a part of British culture that like you use it as a term of endearment.
It's not the same thing as what it means in other cultures.
For me, it's the word.
It's just the word because I grew up, I mean, I think fart was a swear word in my house
when I grew up.
So the C word was like, I was going to hell.
I love that fart was a swear word in your household.
This morning, my daughter farted on me twice and thought it was hilarious.
One time it was in my hand.
She jumped into my arms and I was holding her.
That's called a cupcake.
And she farted into my hand and then she ran around the house with her ass angled at me
trying to fart on me for a good 10 minutes as I was trying to get out of the house.
Well, that's because that's what you and Matt do.
I don't fart on my children.
No, you and Matt have always said you joke around and fart on each other.
That's what you, the kids are vacuumed.
So they think that's funny.
I haven't farted on Matt in so long.
You've set them up a failure.
It's Matt.
I blame him.
I blame him.
Anyway, look, back to it for two seconds.
After the dinner party, on stand.
Fucking subscribe, guys.
We need you.
Come and join us.
It's going to be great.
Come, support us.
love us. It's going to be awesome. It's exciting and terrifying. I'll do it just for you, Keish.
Jules might. I reckon Jules would. Actually, speaking of Jules, I had a conversation with
him. So Jules Lund is our co-host on the show. And this is a bit of a dogleg of a conversation.
I know we prep what we're going to talk about on this show, on this podcast, I should say. And
this is something that's a little bit of a spanner because it was a convo I had with him yesterday.
and I've been thinking about it ever since and you guys know last week last week I was kind of
talking about just the overwhelm I've been feeling in terms of being at this period of life with you
know a four-month-old baby and running businesses and and not sleeping again and I do think I'm
coping relatively well with it but it is a lot and it's in my nature as I said to like I always
am the person that wants to say yes to opportunities that they come up that I don't really manage my
time very well or how I'm going to do it. And so my plate just gets stacked and stacked and stacked
and stacked and stacked. And, you know, like I get so many messages from you guys who were like,
I don't know how you do it. And to be honest, I don't know how I do it either. Like I do it with
a lot of anxiety, but I was talking to Jules about it and he was saying he, he kind of hit this point
of burnout. Right. And he was talking through his own experiences with burnout. And I know that
there's a lot of discussion in the media and across like news cycles around like, what does
burnout look like and we're all living in burnout society and we've even done podcasts on burnout
before could be time for another one actually without I guess me even really realizing what
it is because I think we've talked about it but I don't think I've ever myself arrived at actual
burnout do you know I mean I think I've I think I've teetered on or come close I think I've felt
the overwhelm of burnout but I definitely don't think I've reached that point of where people
describe this like feeling of almost being catatonic where you can't do anymore I've never
gotten to there and I feel like it's like I mean you tell me but it almost is like you don't find
the joy in the day-to-day anymore things that used to be joyful it's like you just are on autopilot
well I don't like it's hard for me to know because like I said I'm such a go-getter in in terms of
like the way I approach stuff that I have not yet reached burnout and I think my capacity for taking
on things is big and I can do a lot but I do sort of stack it and stack it and stack it but I was
talking to Jules and one thing that he said which I have not stopped thinking about since he said it
was he was like the reality of burnout is that first there's a sign there's a feather then you
get hit by a bus and then it's a freight train he's like there is three different stages of it
and he's like and one of the stages is feeling under threat and what he described that as is like
someone who you might work with or your partner or your kids they have really reasonable requests
like oh hey at three o'clock can we go over xyz and instead of that being like you seemingly
interpret that as like a normal request it makes you feel angry like you feel under threat like
you're being like your time is being taken away from you and that's a feeling I have constantly
and I almost want to apologize to you guys because like Keisha you'll be like hey I need to do xyz
and I'm like why are you asking that of me like that's how I feel but the the request is like a
super reasonable I don't know you thought that I feel really in the middle like right now and I
don't know what to say I feel like it with Tony May I feel like it with Matt like I get home from
work and Matt wants to go over an email or he wants to go over a job or a pitch or something
and I feel instantly enraged by the fact that he wants to do that I think it's also that you
interpret normal things as criticism well yeah I think the way that it was described and what I
really liked was you interpret normal things as a threat and that's how I feel I feel under threat
because it is a threat it's a threat to your time and a threat to your energy which if you weren't
doing so much wouldn't feel the same way yeah and I think it's like yeah it's maybe not so much a
threat to your time which it is but it's a threat to your energy it's a threat to when you think you
have an hour of downtime but now that downtime has been taken away because you've got to do another
email or another piece of work or something that just wasn't scheduled and I've never had the words
to describe what that feeling is or why I feel so much rage and I say this as well because my
so my sister's my business partner with Tony May and she cops a lot of it like she's my sister so
I can be my true authentic asshole to her like I can be the version to her without her taking it
in a bad way but she often asks things of me and I'm like fuck just leave me alone I also don't
say that to her she probably doesn't know this but when she's just trying to do her job and run
a business totally totally and I wonder if there's other people who feel like that but haven't quite
understood why understood why it I guess is such a big deal or feels so enormous and like there's
this sense of doom and maybe it is because there is just you're living in this constant state of
overwhelm which is where I think I am at at the moment I think I'm in a very constant state of
overwhelm I think you as a friend and business partner I think you need to be really careful
because I think you are close I say that not in any behavioral way to us I say that in a I wake
up in the morning we do a lot of things at the same level like the podcasting the filming but
then I think when I go home I often think of you and I think fuck I can go home and walk my dog
and sit on the lounge and you're going home to three kids another business you're picking the
kids up from school you're like fucking forgot them the other day you went home to she went
home into a driveway and she was like something's missing forgot the kids at school drove back
I drove home.
I was on the phone to Brittany and I reversed into the driveway
and I was like, nope, not time to go home yet.
Got to pick up the kids from after school care.
Drove straight back out of the driveway and went to after school care.
I think the time is coming very soon for you where you're going
to have to start saying no to some stuff.
And I guess it's a sacrifice of some things.
That's not forever.
You are a spectacular human, but you're a human and humans need downtime
and they need sleep to recover.
I also don't want this to be about me.
It is.
No, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Keisha, would you like to contribute to those?
I wanted to be really careful with this conversation because it's not just a self-discovery.
It was more so that when I understood this terminology for it and I understood this feeling
I was having, I was like, maybe there's other people who have this reaction, but didn't
actually know what that reaction was.
Didn't know that it was this feeling of it's a threat.
Do you know what I mean?
Because it sounds so irrational and stupid.
Like why is an email a threat?
Why is a request for some time a threat?
Why is a very normal like, you know, hey, can we do this on the weekend?
Or I'm going to pop around for this.
why does that feel so like, what the fuck do you mean you're going to do that? Are you living in
an insane world? Like more so it's an understanding that like, I'm the problem, not what's happening
to me. I actually almost wonder, and this is very me putting a hypothesis that is not scientifically
backed. I wonder if neurochemically, this is actually a way like putting you into a state
of fight or flight is actually because that prolongs your energy and it makes you be able
to pay attention to things. Like I think when you're at that point of exhaustion, bordering
on burnout the only thing keeping you going is fucking adrenaline like the only thing keeping
you going are those chemicals of like kind of panic which is usually why when you stop that's
when the wheels start to fall off the wagon it's not actually you don't yeah you don't like hit
burnout whilst you're still going you hit burnout when you have a break or when you stop you're not
running on the pure fumes of adrenaline it's why every single person that's like especially parents
but everyone that's like really really busy you know this this really common idea of like why do
I always get sick as soon as I go on holiday.
I haven't been sick in months and then I finally take a break and I'm sick.
And that's why.
That's airplane air conditioning.
No, it's because you get gastro from Bali.
No, it's because your body is like, oh, I can do what I need to do now because I have time.
Your body recognizes that now is the time for you to get everything out and have your downtime so that you can keep going because it knows it's going back into that fight or flight.
Yeah.
And look, I mean, I don't have the solutions for this.
I realize we have such a huge audience and like I love and appreciate you guys as listeners and
often you will write to me and give me your thoughts and feelings and what I don't want to
happen from this is for a torrent of people being like you said you were going to pull back you said
you're going to do this you know like when the next time I post something about work I don't
want criticism that I'm working that's not helpful either but I guess my my feelings around it is I
don't actually know how to step off the ride at the moment especially when you are someone who
runs your own businesses I can't just take a holiday I can't just stop that project because
it affects other people I'm really not sure how to do it and I'm trying to figure that out for
myself so give me some grace to figure that out but I think it's like I mean maybe you need to
speak to someone and actually go through it with it no but I mean seriously so they can put some
practical tips in place but I think you need to write down the things that you know can't change
right like the podcast has a schedule right now Tony May has a schedule maps for the next eight
weeks as a schedule but then maybe you just need to have a boundary where you say no to anything
else that comes in and like protect your peace just for a short period of time to get yourself
back on track because like you just said it is a merry-go-round it's not going to stop there will
always be a request for something and you will always feel like oh I should probably just say
yes and then we've been saying for years right you've been saying that you were mad I've had
these conversations for years where you're like I'll just get through this six months and then
I'll say no and take that break and and it's never happened and I don't say that with any negativity
but it won't happen until we put boundaries in place and you say no to something and that's
tough because then you're like well what if I lose something from saying no to that opportunity
but you've got to know that you're gaining something at the same time like I think that
there's personality types where you pride yourself on your ability to do like I think that there are
types of people who get a sense of self-worth and like almost a bit of a sick kick out of just being
able to get through shit and do more and I know that I'm that person and that's like I'm not saying
it's healthy I probably don't need therapy I'm sure I can blame something on my childhood but
like there's this need to prove that I'm able to do it all that I feel sometimes spoken about that
flex of hustle culture you are definitely not the only one that's feeling it I know so many
i don't just want to say parents so many people feel like they aren't parents i have felt it i
don't have kids and i have felt it in the past but a lot of parents i imagine get there quicker
because they have the stresses of everyday life plus trying to keep humans alive so many people
feel it right now like it will be so relatable but there is no end to it unless you're saying no
there's just not i think it's so relatable there's that meme that's like adulting is just saying this
week's really busy but next week will be better for the rest of your life it's so true yeah but
I feel like so many people must think how do you get off the merry-go-round I don't know I think a
lot of people can't for practical reasons not just because it's a feeling like a lot of people have
expectations and they'd be letting other people down and so that's when it's when it's coupled
with people pleasing your fuck yeah do we start the commune I've been talking about and we all
get naked and move to Byron Bay we'll meet you there actually there was one other thing I wanted
to talk about and it's a I don't know what the fuck it is actually help me okay it's a phase
of parenting that I didn't know that I've arrived at but I have and I don't really know how to
navigate it and it's lying okay do you guys remember lying as kids like to get out of trouble
or I mean I'm sure I did I think every kid did I yeah I lied to get my belly button pierced but I
was 14 okay so my Molly and Lola are six and five right the thing though is I always thought that
When little kids lie, you know they're lying.
Like little kids are notoriously bad at lying.
They're testing it out, right?
They tell lies and you know they're lying and you figure
out whatever it is that's the actual truth
because their poker faces suck.
Not my children.
Your kids are sociopaths.
My children are so fucking good at lying, so good,
that I point blank believe it's like Marley, for example.
It's like she's been to fucking NIDA.
She will hysterically.
Short course or long course?
that was a personal joke she's only six so I think she did a short course no okay so like for example
this is a really trivial example of this I have hair extensions with which I use for shoots
and I left my hair extensions clip-ins on the table in the kitchen and I needed them yesterday
and I was like where the fuck are the hair extensions I know where I left them so the kids
I just put the kids to bed I went into the kids and I was like hey have you guys taken or seen
my hair extensions both of them no and I was like I feel I know I left them there and I know Matt
hasn't moved them so you don't pass with a mullet you just stuck them on his pubes anyway they're
like no not so point blank I press them again and I press them with a little bit like I know you're
lying but I didn't actually know if they were lying or not and Marley breaks down crying and
she's like like it's it is a theatrical performance around like why don't you believe me like I'm
like we're telling the truth it wasn't over the top it was the perfect amount that was neither
it was the perfect amount of tears that made me feel like an asshole for questioning them on
something that they were clearly being truthful about anyway they go to bed like we even a cuddle
sorry sweetheart if you didn't mommy maybe mommy put them somewhere else it's okay mommy
lol is the same never seen them they are in a pact on their fucking lie they are so it is so
unbelievably believable that I walk out and I'm like accusing Matt of moving them and Matt was
like no he goes don't you remember he's I'm sure I saw one of them in their bedroom anyway I go back
in I turn the light on they've now woken up I go through their toys and there's my hair extensions
clipped onto a teddy bear so teddy was looking lush I don't know how to distinguish when they're
lying from when they're telling the truth I cannot tell and they're six and five yeah you're
Fuck, you've got sociopath children.
They're also in cahoots together.
They're in cahoots.
Yeah.
That's you for the rest of existence.
That's your fault for having them so close in age.
Like they're in cahoots.
I had to have a big chat with them where I was like,
if you tell me the truth, you won't be in trouble,
but you're in trouble for lying.
And if you rat your sister out, you'll get a treat.
I'll give you five bucks.
Or wait till the day comes that they do,
one of them does rat the other one out.
Fuck, what do I do?
I actually don't know.
And this is not just, I know that that was one only example.
This has now happened multiple times.
I cannot tell when they're lying.
I no longer can call their bluff you just what if you are they too old to think that like that
fable of like if you lie your nose grows yeah is that are they too smart you know what though
maybe they're not that good at lying I mean you did believe every single one of your ex-boyfriends
when they said they weren't cheating on you yeah maybe it's you maybe it's you Laura you're the
problem I can't tell am I so gullible maybe no kids lie you just want to believe the best in
everyone kids lie every kid lies that's what they're doing they're testing boundaries they've
seen how far they can go they've seen they can what they can get away with but the problem is
you need to be able to distinguish when they are lying so you can call them out on it adequately
which means you've got that now so what did you do well I called them out on every lie no so then
I got they got into trouble for that and then we had the big discussion which was like you're not
in trouble for taking the hair extensions you're in trouble for lying about it yeah the same thing
happened this morning but I knew Lola was lying about something but it was so believable anyway
I don't know where to go from this but it was I don't know what to do I don't know what to do
I don't have an answer I was like the only thing I lied about as a kid was I really want my belly
button pierced my parents are pretty strict with like ages that we could do things like ages I
could shave my legs ages that I could get a phone ages that all of those things you know
ages I could dye my hair my all my friends are getting piercings and I really wanted to get my
belly button pierced and my mom was like absolutely not you can get it when you're 17 and I was like
fucking 17 i'll be old and washed up by that you know like that was so old for me when i was 14
and so i just went to dad and i was like hey dad mom said i could get my belly pierced can you take
me and so he was like yeah sweetie so he just drove me there and i got it pierced and we both
got like dad got in a lot of trouble too did he get his done as well yeah he still got it to this
day but that's it hey keisha and i went to the weathering heights premiere so emily bronte is
the author of Weathering Heights. It's a classic. I have not read it. I do want to say that. Keisha
hasn't read it either. And I haven't read it or seen it, so I don't know nothing. It's the talk
of the town right now because Emerald Fennell, along with Margot Robbie, recreated or they say
reimagined the book into a film. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are the stars and they are on
the promo trail at the moment around the world. And we brushed on it last week, but they're very
much leaning into their characters in all of their PR they're very like romantic with each other and
in love even though they're like friends they like say they love each other's friends say something
like anytime she's not in the room we must go and find each other because that and it would have
pretty much I'm like mate she's married leave her alone she doesn't need to find you I saw a video
this morning there's a scene where in the movie he blocks her eyes from the rain like he shelters
her eyes like a visor right which is a romantic moment apparently it just happened while they
were actually filming and she was like you have to do this in the movie like that was the most
romantic thing that has ever happened to me and people in the comments are like where's your
husband I say okay I saw a really funny meme this morning that was like watching Margot Robbie and
Jacob all already on the promo trailers made me realize that all I want to be in life is Margot
Robbie's husband's anxiety medication and I was like nothing truer has ever been said but we did
go to the premiere so they had a big premiere here where they were here Margot and Jacob were
here and before we get into the film at all Margot Robbie is stunning you know she is right like you
know there's always a difference you want to see someone in real life to see what they really look
like and I thought the same thing when I interviewed Kim Kardashian I remember thinking I can't wait to
see what she really looks like because I imagine she's always going to be very photoshopped in
every single image and does she really look like that anyway she really does I remember walking
away from Kim Kardashian thinking you are a work of art like I've never seen something more perfect
in my life I felt similarly with Margot Robbie I saw her walk onto the red carpet and I don't know
how you felt Keisha but I was like oh you you really are like breathtaking more importantly
what did you think of Jacob Elordi I don't want to say what I actually think because I genuinely
think people will cancel me but fuck it whatever I think he's a phenomenal actor I'm going to start
with that I also imagine that they were probably quite jet lagged and exhausted and they've been
doing this you know PR trial for however long I expected a little more charisma from him on stage
so at these premieres like essentially everyone sits down in the theater and there's like there's
usually a red carpet or two on the way in and it's all kind of decorated and in the state theater in
Sydney it is such a gorgeous theater we had a live show there a couple years ago that's amazing it's
stunning like it's classic and there's gold everywhere and marble and like it's just beautiful
you sit down in the theater and then the actors will come on stage and Georgie Tunney did a little
question and answer with them. And it was kind of cool because, you know, Jacob Elordi's friends
from high school were there. They were all from Queensland, you know, Georgie, Margot and Jacob.
And I just expected him to be a little bit more charming on stage. Like I was quite
shocked by, he seemed a lot more demure and he seemed a lot more tame.
I think he was being a bit broody. I think they were trying to still lean into their characters
on the stage. That was the impression I got, but I didn't think they had a lot of chemistry in real
life on the stage no I didn't either but in the film they did I do think that his whole MO is this
like a broody tortured artist and like I don't actually think that that is his personality or
character I mean we're very close Jacob and we hang out all the time but I don't think that
that's actually his personality I think he's known how to cultivate it for a brand image that's been
a part of this film and a part of like the actual promotional side of it I saw a really interesting
take actually just floating around online by a critic it was referencing Jacob Elordi and other
tortured soul actors and if you look back at a lot of these actors when they first burst onto
the scene they're not tortured artists and he the question was like why do we feel like and do we
feel like to take an actor seriously we need to hear them talk like this we need to hear them
talk about like I needed to immerse myself in the rain to really feel the power of the mountain like
it's like we need the suffering or something yeah it has to always be there has to always be a story
about suffering and I don't know how do you guys feel do you think it makes you take an artist more
seriously when you hear them talking like that rather than like it was fucking sick to film that
I think yeah I do I do think that there is an element of it that allows people to think that
they take their art form as an actor very seriously where it's not like a job that you
just check in like I guess for people who are at that degree of being an actor and you know filming
in those types of movies there is this belief that it encompasses your entire being and like
when you think about people who have lent into method acting for example where they don't break
character because they want to be totally immersed in it I guess that there is this sense that they
take the role more seriously than someone who dips in and dips out of being a character just
because it's a job and then goes back to their normal life see I find it a bit insufferable
I find it really annoying I'm like you're an actor you're allowed to act and be a different
person in your real life like that's the point of being an actor it's the point of being good
at what you do yeah I actually I find it quite exhausting now what I'm finding crazy about the
way that films are made now is that often there'll be a budget for the film and then there'll be a
budget for the marketing and sometimes the marketing's more and I'm like oh wow this this
world that we live in where and I think Margot Robbie arguably does it the best out of anyone
in the whole world, you know, she's really set the kind of stage with Barbie. She just encapsulates
these movements of press tours and how everything, you know, the fashion, the looks, the speech,
Wicked, we saw it through and through about this, you know, female friendship. And I just find it a
little bit exhausting. For me, I like them to be in separate categories of this is a film and this
is the press tour. It's interesting that you find exhausting. It clearly works. Hence why so many
movies are leaning into it now like the movie springs off the screen and becomes something
that permeates every part of the press tour and every part of their being and I think we want to
believe it we want to buy into it we want to buy into the romance of it we touched on it just
recently with Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney you know that whole press tour where they were
basically have come out and said that they were pretending and leaning into the chemistry off
screen as much as the chemistry on screen I think I do think it's a tried and tested method that
sells movies and so if it's selling the movies of course they're going to lean into it at the
end of the day they're going to make money yeah it took me a long time to see that movie because
they put me off because I loved it because I knew it was fake if I believed it maybe but I think I
feel that with Margot and Robbie too I'm like you're you're married and you've got a child so
like I know it's not real Pamela Anderson and old mate Liam Neeson also didn't I for me it's a
personal thing I don't like it I get that you want to be the characters and you should lean into that
but there is a line for me and I think a lot of people cross it.
Now, what I want to say about the film.
The film I absolutely loved but I went into it not knowing anything about it.
I would love to do a poll.
Maybe we should do it on Life Uncut.
How many people have read the book before watching the movie?
Like how many people have actually read Weathering Heights
or are they going to just go and see the movie?
I get the impression if you're a bookworm, you've read it.
It seems to be one of those top level classics.
Yeah, but not everyone loves a classic.
You can be a bookie and not want to read a classic.
I deliberately didn't read about the storyline.
Because you couldn't be bothered.
Well, I just wanted to go into the movie not knowing.
And I think that maybe when you don't know, like you have no expectations and that makes
it quite enjoyable.
Yeah.
I agree.
And we are going to get into that.
But I just want to set what this is about because there are so many conversations that
have come off the back of this and they're interesting and they are valid.
So Emerald Fennell and Margot Robbie.
Now they have worked together in the past.
They worked together on Saltburn.
They were offered a lot of money from Netflix, $150 million,
but it came with some prerequisites around the marketing
and who had control.
And so they actually said no to that sum of money
and they said yes to a lesser sum of about $80 million.
Do you know I have theories about this?
So Oscars, you can only get Oscar noms if the movie has had
a theatrical release.
So if it goes straight to like Netflix, straight to streaming,
you're not able to get Oscar nominations.
and so they ended up selling the film for so much less.
They sold it for $80 million.
And you know how there's all this talk at the moment
of Netflix buying Warner Brothers?
The CEO, his name is Todd Sarandos and he's been under a lot
of criticism lately because he is pretty much
against theatrical releases.
So they're saying that if, you know, if they actually
do acquire this business that we're going to lose a lot
of the movies in cinemas.
And so this is kind of like, yeah, this is involved
in that whole debate.
But I, I mean, I'm curious around like when a book, like a really old classic, when a book is adapted into a movie and the person who wrote the book, who owns the book is dead, who makes the money off that?
So like who purchases the rights to the book?
Is it the publication?
Is it the family trust?
Like who owns that royalty, I guess, in this case?
Usually in the case where it's someone who's passed away, it would be like a family member or a descendant of some type.
But in this case, and I'm not sure if this is just because it's such a historical book.
I think it came out in like 1848.
It was a roundabout then.
I think because it was so long ago, this one was a little bit
of an exception and from my understanding,
this is of the public domain.
I don't know if they even had to purchase the rights to this at all,
which is quite fascinating.
You know, if you go and purchase a book nowadays that you want
to turn into, you know, a film option, you have to pay the writer
quite a lot of money.
Well, it also means that there's probably more of a responsibility
to be true to the novel.
So, for example, and I mean, this is a very beige example, but I think of Harry Potter,
for example, right?
Buying the rights to the book.
The writer is so intrinsically involved in the production process because they care about
the value.
They care about the outcome, the storyline.
Whereas in this case, I don't think Emily Bronte cares.
I think she's moved on to bigger, better things.
Well, that's the question that's come off the back of it because, well, the book is
set in the 18th century and it has two protagonists.
Now, in the book, Jacob Elordi's character Heathcliff is described as a dark-skinned
gypsy.
So that is the way he's described in the book.
Interesting casting for Jacob Elordi if the person who is the main character in the book
is a person of color.
Well, that's what people are saying.
They've come out saying that, you know, she completely butchered it.
They completely whitewashed him.
Why wouldn't we stay true to such a classic and give a person of color that role?
And that is a great question.
Emerald came out herself and said that it is inspiration and it is not a completely
true adaptation, but does that make it okay?
I find this an interesting thing because it's happened quite a bit recently and especially
when race is involved.
And the one that I think of, also probably a beige example of this, is Snow White, okay?
Snow White copped so much fucking criticism for not being true to the storyline of Snow
White.
We all know the storyline of Snow White.
It is an enormous classic.
it also is a little bit problematic for many reasons okay and the film which came out last
year which absolutely got raked through the coals with the ratings for many reasons one of the
reasonings behind it was that they deviated too far from the classic and that the casting of
Rachel Zegler was too far departed from the traditional Snow White which is meant to be
skin as white as snow and I guess the thing is when you look at a classic and you try and
modernize it into like what is contemporary, social, political, everything else. If they had
made the classic exactly as the classic, they would have been absolutely criticized, scrutinized.
It would have not translated into today's world. But then the fact that they deviated from the
classic was also criticized. I wonder if in this instance with Wuthering Heights, if remaking that
and remaking it with all the same racial implications would have stood the test of time
as a movie adaptation?
I think because I found out on my walk home from my friend
that I saw the film with about the original,
like Heathcliff was a person of colour and obviously Jacob Elordi is white.
Walking home I was like, oh, that does actually add a layer, you know,
like it adds a layer that they chose to make that decision.
And I remember listening to a podcast, it was of The Briefing,
it was a couple of years ago, and it was talking
about the colourblind casting of Bridgerton
and how they had basically made this executive decision
to put people of all different races into Bridgerton and obviously that was not reflective
of the time because it was in Britain you know it was very white and there was controversy around
that as well from one perspective it's like yeah we want to see diversity on our screens that's
great giving equal opportunity to different people but in the same way it kind of erases a lot of the
hardship that people of color went through and it almost uh glorifies this time in a way that's
really inaccurate to what they would have experienced so there is argument for both i
think it was a very interesting decision to switch out the race of heathcliff for this particular one
and that is the most fair criticism i think of the adaptation well it's because it holds so much
weight to the story because it wasn't just about the fact that there was such a class difference
margot robbie's character is from a really wealthy family well-to-do family and he is essentially a
servant and now because I didn't know the book it still had that impact I could still see that okay
you can't be with him possibly because he's not rich but if I had have known and now I do know
that it was also because he was a person of color it a hundred percent adds far more to the story
because when I was looking at them I was like Margot I keep calling her Margot I was like you
could definitely be together like if you really of course and also really loved each other you
know but when you in that time when you know that you add in the fact that he's a person of color
you understand more why her heart was so torn yeah I wonder why they decided to deviate from
it being a discussion around race at all because it's far more I don't want to say believable in
terms of an interracial couple but I mean believable of the times believable of the times
that someone might date down in class but obviously it's very very different when there's other
parameters brought in can I read out some of the commentary that was made about it and this is from
like experts i'm putting that in quotation marks nothing screams wuthering heights more than a
blonde kathy whitewashed heathcliff and charlie xex am i right the times kevin mayer rated it
two stars he said characterizations that barely reflect the complexity of an instagram reel
let alone the greatest gothic novel in english literature the independence clarice lowry awarded
the film a single star calling it an astonishingly hollow work he said it uses the guise of
interpretation to gut one of the most impassioned emotionally violent novels ever written and then
tossed its flayed skin over whatever romance tropes seemed most marketable now in contrast
to this there were also positive reviews david fear of rolling stones he rated it and said go
batshit or go home finnell chose the former and flawed or not this drunk on pheromones take is
all the better for it do you know what though probably when it's related to race though it's
a very tricky question to answer when you are not a person of colour. Do you know what I mean? Like
for us, you can watch it and be like, oh, what a lovely commercial love story it is between Jacob
and Margot. It's got far greater implications for someone who is a person of colour because
it means a book that once discussed quite politically charged themes of racism and
racial discrimination. Those themes have been left at the door for something that's more commercially
viable. So I would say, if we're going to say, how did you feel about it? There's going to be
two groups of people there's going to be people who have never been impacted by any racial
discrimination and then there's going to be people who are like that's fucked it's interesting when
you think about the fact and laura you just brought it up with the rachel zegler is snow
white and the criticism that they got because the criticism off the back of this is it was a person
of color and you gave them a white character and that's what everyone's kicking off about
in snow white the kickoff was because you gave a person of color the opportunity to play a white
person, yet it upset the audience to the same amount. I think it's because it upsets the
audience when you deviate from a classic. I don't think, I mean, remove the race conversation from
this because obviously that is a very emotionally charged conversation, but this can be applied to
any deviation from a traditional classic. I think that there's two types. There is deviations that
are intentional and that feel big and people, I guess, are less critical of it. And I think of
things like Romeo and Juliet which was modernized it was set in a contemporary setting Leonardo
DiCaprio and Claire Danes that was people were not outraged by that back in the day that was
like such a creative and contemporary way of bringing that story into the modern day what
people get angry about is when they go to watch a classic and they get there and the classic has
changed and there's a bit of like elitism I think that comes with it like if you're someone who
reads books and you fell in love with the story of that book you imagine those characters in your
mind you followed the storyline there were parts of it that you felt connected to you you loved
like we all have books that we felt like that about and then you go and watch a movie and none
of those feelings are represented back on the screen because halfway through they fucking bait
and switch the storyline it makes people mad because they feel as though they're being led
down the garden path and I do think that there's a a bigger and more interesting conversation here
as to why they're led down the garden path in terms of the marketing and in terms of like the
storyline I think it's very hard to turn a book into a movie and do it better and I think a lot
of people will say that if you have ever read a book first and then they're making a movie it's
hard to nail but I think when you turn a book into a tv series that's where they get it right
more often than not and I guess that's because they have so much more time to play with and
they can actually really nail down a storyline and a character and a plot line and you know tv
series go over years my favorite example of this is one day do I know okay the fact you haven't
seen it it kills me inside tell me what it's about I don't think I know okay it is the most
I bawled my fucking eyes I was like never I'm never gonna be the same person again I was changed
from the day that I watched the last episode of one day I was a changed person and took me
weeks to recover it's based on a novel and there was a movie adaptation that had Anne Hathaway in
it and then there was the tv series the tv series that's why i haven't seen it no the movie was
possible like no but no the tv series doesn't have anne hathaway the tv series came out in 2024 right
and it was a netflix special basically in a quick summation of it it is two uni students they meet
on like the end of uni and she falls in love with him they have like an almost romance like an almost
one night stand but it doesn't actually eventuate in a one night stand and then it follows them for
the next 20 years her being in love with him him just being a bit of a fuck boy playboy and he like
reels her in and then but they are but they are best friends and it culminates in will they or
won't they ever be together and the reason why I think even though it departed from the book the
reason why people were so forgiving of it and it was so beautiful the casting was so different there
was the same conversations around racial conversations because the woman who's in the
tv series her name is ambika mod she's an indian actress so that's very different from the original
book it's also very different from anne hathaway playing it in the film but the reason why i don't
think there was even a conversation about the casting was because the intricacies of their
relationship and their connection had so much time to be explored and it was so believable because it
was it spanned over so many episodes and it was this incredible character development that you
often don't see in a movie right so that I think that the small departures were forgiven I do think
that that is like the perfect example of when an adaptation is slightly different but we have
fallen in love with it so much because we've been hooked on each episode that we're now entrenched
in the new story rather than comparing it to whatever it was that we read in the book yeah
my example of this is my favorite book series in the entire universe which is Outlander by
Diana Gabaldon now there's I think there's seven or eight books in the series I started reading
them when I was 19 years old and it took me, I feel like I was reading them for eight years
and then I started again. I've read them all twice. Obsessed. It's setting the Scottish
Highlands. It's why I moved to Scotland. My sister and I moved to Scotland because we loved
these books so much. Like I cannot tell you the chokehold that these had over us. And they made
it into an amazing TV series. Well, it wasn't amazing at the start and that's my point. They
I made it into a TV series who had my hall pass in it, Sam Heughan.
You guys know that that was my hall pass.
That's where he came from because I was so obsessed with the character of the book, Jamie.
I, to this day, don't know if my hall pass is actually Sam or if it's because he embodied
a character from a book.
That's how obsessed I was.
Anyway, when the series came out, we were so excited and I could not get around it.
I was so disappointed and I was so angry because for a decade, I had developed what
these characters looks like in my mind and who they were and what they should be but because
they have so long to develop the story and they've had the series going over the last 10 years I
became obsessed and it replaced it and so now when I think of the book I picture Sam Heughan
I picture Sam Heughan making sweet sweet love to me because it's a very sexy book if you guys
segue but if you haven't read Outlander like maybe that's my vibe of next week but it's just the best
book series ever I think it's because when you read a book like let's imagine how many hours it
takes right you form an emotional connection with with the fantasy of what you create from the story
and your interpretation of it but mine was a physical connection too there were two that were
actually touted as you know because we often hear oh the book was way better the book was way better
two that are kind of generally assumed to be in opposition to that statement are the devil wears
Prada and The Notebook. A lot of people fell in love more with the movies than what they did
with the original books that they came from. But some more recent ones that we've seen play out on
screen, over the weekend, I watched People We Met on Vacation. That's the first of the Emily Henry
books that has been turned into a film. Of her books, that was actually my least favorite that
I read. I found the main character quite insufferable. So I actually enjoyed the
shorter version of her than what I got from the book. But we also had Richard Osman's Thursday
murder club last year we had it ends with us you know Colleen Hoover so I think it's the emotional
buy-in that makes it so invested and and a part of me wondered like well okay if people are so
in love with the books why are they making so many movies from them like if it's actually quite a risk
that so many people are going to walk away from your film pissed off and disappointed yeah that
they liked the original version of that story better why is it that they are making some of
these films. Money. Yeah, that's exactly where I ended up finding the answer. It turns out that
it's pretty much all to do with capitalism. You know, if you have an audience that is already
invested in a story, you're more likely to sell a ticket to them. You're more likely to have a
return on investment. And I think in times like what we're living in at the moment, I think that
familiarity, that is a word I always struggle to say. Familiarity. Yeah, I think that that feels
nice and it feels kind of comforting that maybe you somewhat know what to expect well because
when you think about it it's not just having an invested audience in terms of reading a book and
that's your you know that's your target audience you're going to have obviously the new audience
of people who have never seen it and they love it because of whatever version of Hollywood stars
have been cast but also with it comes a brand comes with it it comes a community a cult following
like there is so much more that actually is encapsulated around a book or there's the book
discussions there's book club groups like and it brings that book back into the limelight you know
especially if it's a historical classic people are able to be like oh I'm gonna see the movie I want
to read the book it brings it back into this ecosystem of a branding exercise and I think more
than anything what we've seen with Wuthering Heights is the branding exercise on this PR tour
we've seen them embody the costumes we've seen them embody the characters we've seen them embody
the love story and I know we made jokes about it earlier about how Margot Robbie and Jacob
Elordi have like been almost too into each other for the press tour that it's like uncomfortable
when you know she's got a husband but this is all part of what sells a movie now and I think when
you when you really look and kind of decipher well why would a production company take a risk
on butchering a book and having people pissed off it's because even if people leave the movie
pissed off they still watched it they still went to that box office they still bought a ticket and
that's all that matters really margot robbie absolutely schools people in how to do these
promo tours she's it's a master class i don't think anyone has ever done it like her i don't
think anyone will ever do it like her i guess my question is what do you prefer if you do like a
book if you've read the book if you understand or know the background to the story do you expect
the movie to mirror that or parrot it as closely as possible or are you accepting and okay with
the fact that movies have their own creative license to pick your own ending and you can
look at them in two silos all right it is time for our suck in our suite our highlight and low
light of each and every week i am going to go first because i feel like it's going to be my
suck every week for the next little bit poppy is not sleeping i do not get any sleep anymore and
I am running on 0% battery.
No, she's like currently going through a period of waking up maybe six to eight times night
and that's a lot.
And then on top of that, Marley has a blocked nose.
So she got into bed with me last night.
It was like this.
I tell you, this is why people don't sell kids to me.
Every time I think I'm about, I'm like, I'm ready.
Laura comes in with one of these stories.
Oh, it's full of joy.
I love being a mom.
It's my favorite thing.
My sweet for the week is that I'm a mom.
I love being a mom.
They're the best things ever.
but like the sleep is a bit rough at the moment okay what's yours is that your sweet no that was
my stuff oh no I was joking I mean I do love my kids but they're not my sweet this week my sweet
for the week is actually it's a bit of a rogue one we had a big trade show over the weekend which
has nothing to do with normal retail or Tony May stuff but it's called life and style it's random
it is basically when you when you are a retail brand if you wholesale there is these big wholesale
trade shows that happen throughout the year and this is one that we do we do it in this time of
year and we also do it at christmas time in melbourne and it's where you go and you set up
a stall inside this trade show and shops from around the country like your david jones your
you know like loads like country road group like all of your buyers come through these trade shows
and pick up brands and stuff and we we had a really awesome trade show it's actually still
happening today I am not there my sister is working but it's like it was a absolute cracker
and every so often we have these moments with like work and business and like standing in a trade show
just feels like it's hard work man and it really like I was there I was there with Poppy I had her
in the pram and you feel as though you're like selling your soul because you're trying to convince
people please buy my literally yeah you're like trying to convince people as to why they should
stock your brand over the other hundreds of brands that are there on the day but we had a really
a really good trade show and it was good it was nice it felt like real yeah i feel like real
hustle culture you know it's nice to get back to the back to the grassroots again i love it cute
well my suck is just going to be the most boring suck ever i really hate adulting and i'm and i'm
over doing it on my own my dishwasher's leaking and every time i put it on before i go to bed at
nine then i come out in the morning my kitchen's flooded you need a new dishwasher i need a new
just wanted but you know when it's like i just don't want to deal with another adult thing like
you know when you look around the room to tell an adult and you realize that you're the only one
yeah that's what i do all the time in my house because it's just me i look at delilah and i'm
like clean that up she doesn't do anything so that's my i just just it's just home maintenance
it's just that shit stuff that's like you need to do it and it's so annoying but you don't ever
want to do it the one good thing though is when you rent it's only an email it's only a couple
of emails whereas if you are your own landlord you gotta buy the fucking washing machine you
You've got to buy the dishwasher.
You've got to fit it, measure it.
Anyway, that's my sack.
My sweet for the week is, and I guess this is going to be a little bit of a promo,
my sweet is the interview that is coming this Friday.
So we just did that today, and it is a really tight turnaround,
but it's an interview I've wanted to do for a long time.
It was a vibe a couple of weeks ago for me.
Aaron Parnas, who is, I mean, I don't want this to sound boring.
He's a political commentator.
He's a lawyer.
He's a journalist in America.
But we are doing an interview breaking down the Epstein files.
And I feel like the Epstein Files can feel very overwhelming to a lot of people because
there's so much of it.
You hear bits and pieces and you might not completely understand it or be able to comprehend
it.
I am also one of those people.
I'm down the rabbit hole so deeply and it's become really all consuming for me because
I've become very frustrated with not understanding why things are not happening.
Like, why are we not prosecuting people?
Brittany's turned into a conspiracy theorist also.
I just want to warn you guys, but it was really interesting.
But that's not what the ep is.
Because you recommended this as a vibe.
And when we were doing the vibe, we were like, why don't we get him on as an interview?
And then through the powers of Keisha's admin capabilities, we got him on as an interview.
And he's brilliant.
So that's coming out on Friday.
Yeah, this Friday, Epstein Files.
If you've ever had any curiosity about it and why everyone seems to be talking about
it right now, it is an interview for everybody.
Here's a sneak peek of Friday's interview.
Just recently, in the last day or two, we found out that, in fact, there was an FBI
record from the day before Epstein was murdered that was, I mean, pretty damning against Donald
Trump. Can you talk about that? Well, so it's tough. I mean, all of this is very tough as it
relates to Trump. There is no direct video or photograph of Donald Trump engaging in a crime.
No. There are many tips that the FBI received over the years from young girls and women that
Donald Trump them sexually assaulted them, knew of the sexual assault, etc, etc. Here are some
things we do know. What we do know is that the Palm Beach County Police Chief, the one in South
Florida, he testified and he told the FBI that Donald Trump called him after he arrested Epstein
the first time in the mid 2000s and said, Thank God you got him. He and Maxwell were evil. Everyone
knew what they were doing. Some said, Okay, that's Donald Trump blowing the whistle and being the
good guy to me. No, that's Donald Trump waiting until after Jeffrey Epstein's arrested to tell
the police chief what Jeffrey Epstein was up to. So presumably he knew. That's number one.
As far as the allegation that came up in the past 24 hours, what the significance of that was, was
there was a tip to the FBI that Donald Trump f***ed a child in the 80s. That was a tip,
essentially, at a high level. That tip was then investigated by the FBI. An FBI agent called
the person who put in the tip and had an interview and that was memorialized in what is called a 302,
just a record, kind of what you mentioned, that was then put in the Epstein database the day
before he died. It was put on August 9th. Now, that tip and that interview, that's just part
of it, right? You need a lot more evidence to be able to go after someone like Trump regarding that
or go after anyone regardless of their status. What was significant about that tip is that the
person, according to reporting, the person who gave that tip was so credible that she received
a settlement from the Epstein estate. You don't get a settlement unless you have some credible
allegations. Now, to me, from base level, that those allegations were against Epstein, not Trump.
She didn't get a settlement from Trump. She got a settlement from the Epstein estate.
But Pam Bondi on Capitol Hill in front of Congress said there is no evidence that Donald Trump did
anything criminal. That FBI 302, that interview, that is evidence. Whether or not it's credible,
that's beyond me. But that is evidence. And to me, she lied. So she's lying under oath.
Yes. But then who's going to go, who's going to prosecute the attorney general?
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