Life Uncut - The Missing Finger, More Possum Chat And Get To Know Producer Soph!

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

Hey Lifers! BIG episode, yes we’re finally diving in to who the hell is this new producer on our podcast and of course that means a classic “Accidentally Unfiltered".  But first, we kick off chatting the $1000+ "shoe" that is somehow just a heel and a prayer, and then get a little deeper: Laura opens up about a pattern of forgetting names and faces of people she absolutely should know, and the girls debate whether it's a perimenopause symptom, undiagnosed ADHD, or just the cost of running multiple businesses and a household at once.  But the juicy main event: producer Sophie FINALLY sits in the hot seat for her official get-to-know-you episode, and she comes in swinging with a 3am possum-on-the-bed story, plus some unhinged radio tales. Britt and Laura go through all the quick q’s from the Lifers and BONUS, we also get a cheeky accidentally unfiltered with Laura thrown in there too!  Content note: Light discussion of memory/health anxiety. Timestamps 03:24 The barefoot heel trend nobody asked for 07:19 Laura opens up about her memory worries 22:05 Sophie’s Audition - The possum chat  27:56 Accidentally unfiltered radio moment  33.33 Laura’s surprise accidentally unfiltered 38.23 Your quick fire questions answered Keep your questions coming! Slide into the Life Uncut DMs at @lifeuncutpodcast on Instagram You can watch us on Youtube Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne Produced by Sophie Nathan 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! Xx Listen back: Delilah's possum encounter: Apple | Spotify  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncutt. I'm Brittany. I'm Laura. How's it chips, Britt? Everyone's laughing at us because we've been trying to start for a long time. Sometimes, I'll tell you this. Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes you sit down on these little podcast chairs and you just start chatting and it just flows out of you. And other times, it doesn't flow anywhere. Not as easy, but we are here and there's some important stuff to talk about today, everyone. There is some really important stuff to talk about. I'm glad you mentioned that. Oh, what? She's sort of something. No, I. She's had a thought.

She needed to let us know. What is it? I'm on the edge of my seat. Oh, God. I don't know why. I don't know why this week has felt so hard and it's only Wednesday. It is a really important episode because this is the episode we teased last week. We said we were going to do a get-to-know producer Sof.

She's here in the hot seat. But once again, you will wait. I love to sit here giggling to myself. You will giggle in silence. So we will get to you later. No, we... This is the whole episode today. The basis is Sophie, where one minute in and Laura's just remembered.

She's like, I remembered. I remember what I'm supposed to say. That was so funny. We are doing to get to know producer Sophie. Yeah. Which is going to be exciting because we don't know much. Who are you? We will be finding out a lot today as well, Sov.

How do you feel about that? I'm excited. The first big question I have is, are we going producer Sof or producer Sophie? What would you like? Because you are actually allowed to choose your own name. I thought it was a... dictated area. No, because Sophie and Sophie, if you're a Sophie, I mean, I don't know from experience, I'm not a Sophie, but you are one or the other, right? Like, you're either don't drop the letters

or you're a soph. You know what? I think I'm going to take the next 30 minutes to think about it. Well, you're about to say that up until this point, I've just been calling you a nickname that you do not like it all and you're like, do not call me soap. Now that we've hit record, taking this opportunity to tell me. I can, okay, let it be known. I have a preference. Okay, what's your preference? As to what rolls off my tongue. Oh, I thought you meant for yourself. I'm not going to call you shithead, so. But I will call Britt it from time to time. No, I think, even though I said producer Sof, I don't know why I did that. I like producer Sophie. Do you? I think so, yeah. Okay, well, I guess we'll figure that out as we go. But I'm very malleable. So I could use either. You tell me. I actually don't

think you've got 30 minutes to think about it. We need to set the tone now. So what are you going to be? Oh, this is so much pressure. Okay, let's go. We're producer Sof. Easier. Just so quicker. Less syllables. Yeah. And I'm all about efficiency, so I like that.

Love it. Britt. Laura, Sof. I mean, Laura, you're not one syllable, but I tried. Britt. Loh. Lahr. I don't know.

Anyway, you have been calling me Laws lately, which is, it's a small crete. Nah. Hey, Laws. I don't care enough to make a point about it. Oh, because you just brought it up. I would argue that that is not true. What about? Do you ever go by Ra?

I used to get called R. rah-rah when I was in my 20s, but that was my drunk alter ego. Sophie, Sophie, so I am not going to be saying, hey guys, it's Britain Ra. I think we bring it in. Britain Ra. That's producers say this first change is it's Britain Ra. It's Britain Ra. Actually, Ra has something that she wants to talk about.

We have not referred you as a third person and as Ra. Ra. Please, Laura, go on. If you are someone who has uncontrollable toes, and I know that this is. is a side step, okay? But has anyone seen the Chanel shoes that have been making headlines recently? They actually made for you. I agree. Thank you. Yeah, they are, if there's, they're the dumbest things I have ever seen. That's not why they're made for you. They're the most ridiculous shoes. If you haven't seen them, it's just a heel and it ties around your ankle and there's nothing else. You're barefoot.

And Laura has the most insanely wild, unleascible toes you've ever seen. Like those toes, you can cannot control. So every shoe she wears, there's like one fighting for its life, dragging along the ground on the outside of the shoe. I like to think of it as my party trick. Like I can pick up pretty much anything with my feet. And some people call it, except I could pick up a man with my feet. No, I can pick up most things. I can pick up a cup. I can pick up a bottle. Like, I mean, I've peeled a banana up before with my feet. Like, I can do a lot of things with my feet. Because my toes kind of like splay out like this, anytime I'm wearing strappy shoes, my little toes just like, hang on for dear life. So there's this really great photo.

from my wedding. We're like, Matt and I are happy and we're laughing. And anyone who's seen it's like, toes, because all you can see is these two pinky toes that have escaped from the straps of my shoes. That actually made you the most money on WikiFeet. Hanging out the sides. Is that on WikiFeet? Yeah, you went viral for that. That got you like so many subscribers to OnlyFans. I would like everyone to know that the WikiFeed page that exists. I don't get kickbacks from that. I didn't create that. Anyway, you promote it like you do. Let's talk about, let's talk about these shoes. So Chanel was the first people to create, like brand to create these shoes. Like Brits said, they had like a heel, zero soul of the front of the foot. So your entire

ball of your foot and your toes are just like grounding themselves on the earth. But the reason why it's kind of come up again is because Margaret Colley, who is an actress, didn't know who she was, but I'm glad everyone else in this room did. Very big actress. She's just walked down the red carpet wearing these like free feet heeled shoes. Anyway, and then Jeffrey Campbell on the weekend launched that they've brought out the same thing. And I can't tell if the brands are being satirical if this is real. They're actually not being satirical and these are selling for thousands of dollars. Like these are so expensive. Surely you get a 50% discount. It's only 50% of a shoe. I just want, well, it's not. It's a hundred times more than you'd ever pay for a shoe and you're paying

for no shoe. It's beyond me, but it's not satirical. Like Chanel isn't the kind of brand that's like releasing memes and stuff. They're not. They're very, very serious. I just don't understand. What if you step on a needle? What if you, you are barefoot walking around. It must be the most I just hate the pressure that fashion puts on women. Now we're expected to walk on fake shoes with bare feet on the dirty ground because someone called it fashion and we pay thousands of dollars for it. No, thank you. I disagree.

I actually think that... You bought them, didn't you? She's got them outside. Oh my gosh. It's my first pair of designer anything. No, I think it's just outrage marketing. It's doing exactly what they want it to do. It's the same like Balenciaga does it quite a bit.

And I know that Kanye is a, oh, I don't know if we can talk about Kanye because I think you do get it a bit too far. But outrage marketing is a very real way in order to get people to talk about your brand. Not that many people are going to buy these shoes, but people will go on the website to see what it is that they're offering. And then when you're on there, you're seeing like all the other parts of the brand. I think it's very smart. And I do think that there's a strategy behind why brands are bringing this out. I can't believe for a second that Jeffrey Campbell, that their designers that were sitting within their studios, were like, you know what we're going to indent on really. heavily, we're going to buy thousands upon thousands of the solar shoe. We're going to do that.

That's going to be the next big hit. They're probably ordering like 50 pairs or something, having them, they'll sell out. They get the marketing and the PR off it, but it's not actually something that costs them anything. But I don't think it's going to take off. It's not practical. At the end of the day, a shoe should do the bare minimum, which is create a barrier between the ground and your skin, and your bare skin. Can you call it a shoe if it doesn't actually do that though? It's a shh. She's half a one. Something I actually, I wanted to talk about. And I have been thinking about when was the right time to bring this up because it's

something that's quite personal. Don't you dare. Don't even make jokes about that. So I've just started. And you're going to go have a baby. She's a perfect fill-in. I'll go by rough. So far.

No, it's something that, I mean, it's, look, we can make jokes about it and we will make jokes about it. It's how we do with everything. But I wanted to talk about this because, firstly, I'm kind of canvassing as to whether there are other people who are experiencing the same thing or whether this is, I don't know, something I should probably worry about more so. So I have always been particularly bad at remembering faces and names. You know, like that's not something that's new for me.

It's kind of like when I get introduced to someone, they're like, hi, my name is dood! And then they start speaking again. And within 10 seconds, I cannot remember what their name was. And I'm trying really hard to be conscious of that. there's loads of different techniques that you're supposed to use to help you be able to remember people's names and like, you know, you repeat their name back to them when they first say it. Don't get me wrong. I try all those things. But there's something that's been happening recently, which has a couple of times been particularly alarming. I have found it really hard to remember

people's people. This goes beyond acquaintances. It's not just people I've met once and they're never seen again. I have had this happen on four separate occasions recently. One of them was quite alarming. So we went out for a really nice lunch with someone who we work with here at SCA, at our, you know, the company that we work with from podcasting. To be fair, we did sink a lot of cocktails that day. We sunk a few cocktails that day. A couple of Amarado showers, I'm not ever going to say no. We followed her on Instagram.

Like, I definitely have seen her quite a bit. And then it's been a little while since I've seen her. And I got into the lift recently at work, like in the environment as to which you would think I might run into this person, hopped into the lift, completely did not recognize her. Like didn't even one iota of me did not register that I'd met this person before. Just you and her in the elevator. Sorry. Sorry. No, some of the team were there. Some of the team. Walked in. We just exchanged like this weird kind of smile. And I think she was a bit startled that I wasn't like, oh my God, hi. So then she was a bit. She gave us our job. She literally gave us

our job here. Broke in our contracts. No, laws. Did not remember her face at all. It wasn't until after we walked out of the lift and she said, oh, bye, Laura. That my brain was like, oh, oh, I think I, oh, my God. It was as though my brain fully could not process her face at all. This has happened on three other separate occasions with three other people in the last couple of weeks or months, I should say. One of them was an ex-employee of Tony May who came up to me. We were out for dinner and she was like, oh my God, so nice to see you.

Could not place her. It's like I'm trying to clutch it. something that's happening in the dark. Like I couldn't place her at all. And then it's happened two more times, not to get into all the details, but it's all very similar stuff. And I think it's something that's getting worse. And I don't know whether it's situational. I don't know whether I'm going through perimenopause. But it's definitely been something that's been making me quite worried about it, to be honest. Yeah. Is that a perimenopause symptom? Have you looked at us? Forgetfulness? Well, no, because it's not forgetfulness. It sounds more like a

subcategory of forgetfulness. When you say, am I going through perimenopause? Have you looked up if like not being able to place someone's face and name is. Because I don't think it's just forgetfulness. It feels different. I have looked it up. But it's only because perimenopause is like, any symptom you have in your 40s is perimenopause. You're hot, it's perimenopause. Confuse perimenopause.

What I will say. Smelly perimenopause. Like literally everything. Hemorrhoids are menopause. I'm not even joking. You could say anything and the internet will tell you it's perimenopause. Yeah, it's because women have fucking everything under the sign. I like having something to blame it on though.

I actually don't even know if I'm in perimenopause, but I'll tell people I am. I don't. I don't think you are, but that's not a medical diagnosis. You can find out for yourself. I don't think it's that abnormal to forget people's names and or faces to an extent. So, like, so he says, what's that disease? It's not a disease, but it's like facial recognition. Yeah, it's a proper disorder.

It's facial recognition. You cannot place it or remember it or when you meet that person again, your brain will think you've never met them. I can't remember. It is a facial recognition thing. Apparently, Hamish Blake has the same thing. I've heard him speak about it. I might be diagnosing a lie, but apparently he's spoken about it before that like he can't

remember people's faces when he sees them meets him out of context. And so they did a big bit on Hamish Nandy years ago where they got some of the salespeople to come in and they'd work with Hamish for years and he didn't know their fucking names. Like it was really bad. I just think that also comes down to working for a big company. That's what I think. When you come across people from different departments all the time all day, I will never remember someone's name. That's something, I'm way better at their faces, but names for me

in one ear and out the other, when somebody introduces themselves to me or a friend is introducing the two of us, it's like my brain is not listening to what they say, but processing what they look like, make a good impression, who are they, where did they come from, what's their relationship? My brain thinks of a hundred things in the instance that I shake their hand, except for the name. And I will do that with almost everyone. I will never, ever, ever remember name of somebody that I have been introduced to. I also think, like, I know exactly what you're saying, because I definitely, I definitely sympathise with exactly that as well. But I do wonder whether it comes down to, with the work that we do, we're always meeting new people. There's always, there's always

so much change. And specifically for me and for my work, like, I have three different jobs. And so sometimes it's hard to place people from which job. Like, are they a customer of Tony May? Are they someone who works in sales? Is it a life on cut person? Did I interview you? Like, I honestly find it really hard to remember and place them therefore to kind of like pull the memory. But I think the thing that's been concerning for me is that it has been happening way more frequently. And I don't know whether it's just a combination of being sleep deprived, having another kid, hormones from postpartum, potentially bury menopause. But I guess like that was the big question for me is like, is this something that other people experience? Is this an anomaly? Should I be going?

You're getting my brain tested? I don't know. And I do have these big fears around dementia. and Alzheimer's and stuff. I've spoken about this before because it does run into my family. So anytime there's anything that kind of instigates that fear, it runs right for me. Hemorrhoids, Alzheimer's.

Same. Forget the face, Alzheimer's. It's like everything. I understand it. I think you'll be surprised how many people experience that. So if I don't know if you, I don't know what you're like

when you meet someone and you shake, are you good with remembering their names? Well, interestingly, I think what you kind of spoke on is your roles are very different, say, from a regular 9 to 5, where you are experiencing the same people consistently at the same time and the same place. You are constantly interviewing at different times, different places, different people. And I wonder if it's just, it's autonomy

of a normal job makes it easier. If I go into an office and I sit down at my desk and I'm around the same six people, likelihood it's a lot easier for me to remember than it is for someone whose work takes a completely different form. It's always changing. And interestingly, I listen to the Hamish Blake podcast and he spoke about that as well. And one of the comments or one of the things that came up was just how many people nowadays and how the world works, how many people we meet. It never sort of used to be that interconnected and that many social media people you're chatting to and real people you're chatting to. Is it just an inundation of information that your brain is trying to withhold? I think as well, I said there was four instances. One of the ones that I

didn't go into detail, but it was like we were leaving the Joanne McNally live show that we went to. Amazing. So much fun. Laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, walking out, big crowd of people. And this one woman standing next to me was like, oh my God, so good to see you. And I must have just had this look of complete fucking fear on my face. I'm like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. I know I know you. I know I know you. And I know we're kind of friends.

And I can't place why I know you. Well, because you can also tell by the way, you can tell if it's somebody that might know you from social media versus someone in real life by the way they approach you. Yeah. Absolutely. And like, I think that that's probably why it's because, becoming a little bit distressing because I was like, I know, I know this person and I know that they are a friend in a friend capacity and I can't figure out why. And it was a mom of one of the

girls that Marley used to go to daycare with who's come to my house for birthday parties. Like I have spent time with her. We've been in WhatsApp group chats together, but we haven't seen each other for about six or seven months since Marley's started going to school and her daughter went to another school. And I was like, is that alarming? Like we had so many interactions with each other over the course of three years. And it's just been that we haven't seen each other for six months. And my brain was like, we don't need that information anymore. Turth. I literally just forgot her face. That's also what our brains are made to do. They say you're only supposed to remember things

that are uber important to you. And the more that you take on your load, like the more you've got kids and you're busy and you're running businesses and you're doing social media and you're whatever else, your brain without you knowing filters through and empties what it doesn't need to remember. If it's not that important, it'll take you longer to be able to call that. So somebody that is a, I'm sure you are friends with her in a capacity from school, but somebody that is a mum of a school friend of Mali's that you haven't seen in seven months is not going to be the first thing that pops into your mind out of context. Yeah, because if she was with her daughter and you were with Mali, would that connection have happened more easily?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think so. The thing is, though, not to minimize it. If it is concerning, do check. Oh, I am. For sure. No, so I know that. My next thing was book yourself the Fuck in. I just cancelled the second week. Come on because I'm like, I'm a medical person. You're fine. I'm a woman of science. Sorry, as we call you.

You are the woman of science, but I'm so glad. I will take your word for it. No, look, I know that for some people listening to this, they'd be like, so obvious. Just go and get checked. I am. And we had this conversation. The reason why I'm talking about this now is because this is kind of a follow-up to something we spoke about a few weeks back.

If you've been listening, I talked about the whole Alzheimer's dementia thing and how I've been putting my head in the sand around actually getting tested. because there is a couple of new tests that have come out that check for a genetic predisposition to these things. And I have actually booked myself in. So I have rescheduled this appointment multiple times in the past. But when we did that episode and we talked about it briefly, it kind of wasn't the time to talk about this, but this is the reason why I had booked myself in because it's become something that I'm way more concerned about than what I ever was before. I do as much, I'm not trying to minimize it in all seriousness. As much as I say, I think a lot of people

experience not being able to recall somebody's name, just as many people don't experience that and it actually could be something. So I think 100% get checked. The other thing that I would say, sometimes never good, sometimes never shit. The other thing that I would say is, and we often talk about you potentially being undiagnosed ADHD, when you meet someone, like I sort of touched on before what I do, but I'm sure yours is more intense. Your brain is thinking about a hundred other things, especially as a mum, your brain is thinking about what you need to do, even though you're in the moment and you're saying hi it's nice to meet you your brain is like fuck did I turn the hair dryer off oh my god I got to pick my money up at 3 30 I wonder if Matt brought them lunch oh my god I've got to post that thing on

Tony mate like your brain is on especially if you do have ADHD your brain is always going 100 miles an hour and thinking of what it's got to do so it could be again Dr Brittany it could be something where maybe there are techniques you'd have to look it up or speak to doctor there might be techniques that help you to zone in and focus on something in the moment. It's just a food for thought. Well, anyway, look, guys, if you've experienced or have been experiencing something similar, slide onto the DMs, I would rally the mutual support. I think it's perimenopause.

It's definitely the hemorrho. Do you know how many people are going to message being like, you're going through perimenopause and you've got ADHD? That's all, I mean, it would be influxed by messages saying this and I'm not mad about it. It's okay. Someone said to me recently, I can't remember what my symptom was. I said something. I can't remember and they said, oh, it could be perimenopause.

And I was like, what the fuck? I haven't even started kids yet. I'm like, how can I be in peri menopause? Look, it's one of those things that it's a possibility, but that's also a very unkind thing to send to someone. Totally. With absolutely no context. It wasn't out of the blue with no context.

Someone just didn't message me and be like, metapause. Yell at me on Instagram. I looked at your photos and think you're going through menopause. I could smell it from me through your Instagram. I don't think that's where it came from. But yes. All right, it is time to get into what you actually came here to listen to. And that is, it is time to get to know, producer Sof.

So do, do, do you. So I can't remember if I teased this on the last episode or not. But when we sat down. Sorry, that is very funny after this talking about about this. Oh, no. There's more. You can't remember what you can't remember. No, we did like a chemistry test.

We already know each other. We've already known each other for years. But we'd never, ever sat down and ever. recorded together, this is and was a very new thing. And we said that we wanted to get Sof to come into the studio and we do a really quick chemistry test. We might do an ask uncut question, see if she's completely off the mark with her advice. And then just like bring a story. And it was the story that really made me go, this is the gal for us. Here she is, everyone. Can I ask? Even when you just said that, Laura, I feel like I would have such immense anxiety if my job interview,

you was like, hey, just come and be yourself, bring a story, going to give advice. The pressure on me to, I'd be like, what fucking story am I going to bring? How am I going to make something up? Are they going to laugh? Like, what if it's not? You get one shot, one story. Were you stress? Oh my gosh.

I was so nervous. The only thing, the only thing that brought it all together was that was the morning you released a podcast episode about your possum. Yeah. And I went, boy. That Laura said wasn't relatable. And I went, boy, I've got a possum story. I'm in.

And that's what I thought coming in. I just went, I'm going to tell them about my possum. And if that's all I ever say. I think that it's probably deserving of a little woosh. You know what we're going to do? We're going to add the possum story here. Oh, no. This is Sophie's audition.

It really is. Here we go. Woosh. And we have producer Sophie in the hot seat today, wanting to talk about possums. Guys, look, I only applied for the possum chat after I saw Brett's story. I just went, you know what? I've got a story for these guys. I don't mind if you kick me out after this, quite frankly.

That's the only reason why we have you here. No, so so. Just to set this up, just before you came in, we had a conversation, and I was bringing up a life I had written in her possum story. And Laura was like, I don't know how relatable this is. There's not that many possum stories. And then you walked in and you're like strappy. Oh, I say, if we put a thread on the Facebook page, tell us your possum chat. Hundreds.

Sorry, I just snorted out my nose. I'm frothing at the nose for possum chat. In New Zealand, possums are treated a bit differently. Like, they're piss, but they're also not relevant in city life. You will not see a possum in a big city like Auckland. Very different in Sydney where they're just like hanging out of Hyde Park. Yeah, I would never see one. I have never seen one.

One night, I'm staying at my mum's. I went back to New Zealand and we have got two gorgeous dogs. They're quite small, little sausage dog and a little like mixed bag of lollies kind of dog thing. Stir fry. When I stay with my mum back in New Zealand, I stay downstairs in like the basement kind of area, the door shots, the dogs are upstairs. Is there ventilation? It sounds quite grim. There is ventilation.

I'm suddenly in the middle of the night, 2, 3 a.m., I feel a little walk across my leg. Like cute, the stir fried dogs here. Cute. Come here at half asleep being like, oh, what is this? And then I realize the door is closed. Dogs are upstairs. What the fuck is crawling? Fuck that moment where you're like across my leg, 3 a.m.

I turn on the light. Possum. At the bottom of the bed. Looking at me, I'm looking at it. Possum like, why are you in my bed? I call my mum. In the middle of the night, she's upstairs. I'm like, mum, there's a possum.

She comes downstairs being like, what is going on? This girl's lost her mind. She's now in the room in her dressing gown. I'm still on the bed, possum's still on the bed. And we're like, we don't know what to do. Why did you not get out of the bed? I didn't want to disturb it. He was cozy.

Like, oh, the possum was asleep. On the bed. And so then when I jumped out of the bed, he obviously had come in through a window. In suburban Auckland, we were not as quick thinking as you were to grab the possum. And so I went, all right, what's the natural enemy of a possum? A cat. So I'm in the corner of the room going, pretending to be a cow.

Meow! My mom's with her, with her, like robe open going like this. What's like she did? I'll make it run. Honestly, I'm like they're meowing. She's hissing. We finally get this possum out of the bedroom. The possum's on a podcast somewhere in New Zealand. This fucking naked woman and this cat.

I just want to say like, I will eat my own shit because I did not think that the possum chat was going to take a strangle hole like it seems to have. I'm a person of the people. I know. That's what I say about you, Brin. Nailed it. So. Now I've just outed my mum.

for flashing a possum. Did you send her the story, though? I did. And how did she respond to that? She had a good giggle. I feel like if we've recruited a new life, I'm and Sof's mom. Yes, she's definitely. And I think my brother as well, my brother just listened to the orgasm episode and sent me

the title that said, orgasms on demand, produced by Sophie Nathan. And said, proud brother. He sends it to the whole extended family group chat. Like, this is what Sof does now. Do you know what? There are moments in this. Actually, they happen very frequently.

There are so many moments where you think to yourself, it's so hard to tell anyone what I do. Like, it is so hard to explain what my job is. Because we do so many unhinged things and talk about so many crazy things when someone's like, what is it that you do? Like, I don't even really know anymore. I'd like to bring it to everyone's attention that this week there was an article written about me having hemorrhoids on the red carpet.

I know I did it to myself, the hemorrhoids and the article. I did it to myself. Tell you, about that one. When that is one of those moments where I was like, oh yeah, yeah, this is what I do for a job. I share far too much about my butthole. Your mum's not sticking that one on the fridge. She would, though. My mom's a big fan.

Yeah, she'd stick my hammerones on the fridge. Do you know what the actual hemorrhoid once you get cut off? If she could. Well, good thing my mum didn't Google who my bosses were that week, because that would have been the first article that popped up. She's like, you left a stable job for them. Literally. She's like, how long is this going to last?

Actually, speaking of, okay, Sophie, you were from New Zealand. Talk to us. Where'd you come from? I am from the beautiful North Island. I'm from Auckland. so people say it's kind of like a small version of Sydney. We also have a bridge and that's about the connection right there. We also have a bridge.

But I used to work in radio actually at this place called The Edge, who a couple of the lifers used to be edge listeners in New Zealand, which is really sweet. Oh, so they've reached out and said that. Yeah, they'll remember a few stories from back in the day. I got onto radio very spontaneously. I've always been a diggy marketing girly doing social media. Yeah, I had some really good times on radio.

I had some pretty embarrassing times in New Zealand radio. The worst was, actually, I'll see if you guys get what's wrong with the story. And by the way, this was live across national radio in New Zealand. I was doing a segment, someone got stuck in a bathroom, you know. And so my question to the audience was, where did you get stuck? Classic radio question. I know, right. Classic.

Guys, this is my beginning radio. I also think Will and Woody did that call out once, but no one called. Laura, we did that call out. Remember when I got stuck in the fence? I don't remember. Oh, okay. Well, here we go. So where did you get stuck?

You don't remember. Shut up. I get these guys call up and they're like, oh, my gosh, my step sister was stuck in the dryer. And I'm like, oh my gosh, that's a crazy story. Hold there. I'm going to put you live on radio because what a wild story. You could see Locky's face. Immediately he knows something is wrong.

So I'm on the phone to this guy, live radio. Oh my gosh, tell me your stepsister stuck in. in a dryer. What do you do? He's like, yeah, it was so stressful. I was having to be right in behind her, really trying hard, like everything. I start looking at the text machine that's coming in. Text after text after text. Sophie, stop. Stop. What are you doing? You're live on radio. Apparently, stepsister stuck in dryer? Huge porn category. Stop it. I had no idea. I spoke to this guy for five minutes on air. But what do you mean? Take your pants off, stick your head in the dryer. She's bent over to get something out of the dryer.

She's gotten stuck in the dryer. Sorry, the fact that we have to spell this out to me shows you how little porn I want. And the stepbrother has come along and what was worse, they were on a job site. They filmed the whole thing on their radio and put it on TikTok. And they're taking the pierce. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then they put it on TikTok and we managed to get a porn story on national radio.

And this was right in the beginning of my radio career. That's how Sophie got five. It turns out you have a couple of rogue employment stories from breaking. the TV last week to almost getting yourself canceled on live radio. Although, to be fair, that is the perfect version of a story that would be why you would get hired here. Fire from there, hired here. Exactly.

And now here we are. All right. Well, like, I was going to ask you what your accidentally unfiltered story is, but I mean, I feel like that one already almost takes the K. We'll see if you've got another one. Yeah. What would be your accidentally unfiltered story? Oh, I mean, that one is pretty up there.

One that I go to sleep thinking about sometimes. You know what's bad when you think about it. later. Yeah, and it was, it's because I embarrassed myself in someone in front of someone I really admired and was obsessed with. This was around the time of Top Gun 2 and hot, hot stuff. And One Republic got really big again, you know, the band. It was very early on on radio as well. And I was telling the breakfast team, you know, breakfast radio is really exciting. And they said, who's your favorite band? I was like, one Republic. I'm obsessed with them. Love their music. favorite band.

Next morning at about 8 o'clock in the morning, I get a phone call from a unknown number. And I answer and he's like, hey, it's Ryan. Who the hell is Ryan? And I went, yep.

And he's like, it's Ryan Teta. And I went, and? Oh, my. It's one republic. Tell me. He's the main guy. And I didn't know.

And I said that One Republic was my favorite band. And Ryan Teter. And so the breakfast team were like, she's so obsessed. We're going to surprise her by giving her the interview and we won't tell her and she's going to be so excited on the phone. It's going to make great radio.

I just went, and who are you? Stop it. And then he goes, Ryan Tadda from one rep-I don't know if he's British. But you do a great English accent. He's Ryan Tadda from one republic and I went, fuck. And again, live on right, I was just traumatized and sometimes at night I sit there and I think about how to Ryan Teter on the phone, I just went, and who are you? Too late to apologize.

I think that's Justin Timberlake. It's Justin Timberlake, babe. I love what they did, but what I will say is that's really unfair because so many people can genuinely be obsessed with a band's music but not know the names of the people in it. Almost every band that I would love, I don't actually know. Besides like Spicycle or something, you don't know all the individual's names and maybe you know their first name.

Well, that's evident because you just thought that that song was sung by, I mean, it wasn't Justin Timberlake. He thought it was one republic. I apologize. I told you. It's too late to apologize. I don't think that's one republic. I googled it.

It was their biggest hit. It's what I was trying to find the whole time. I just want to point out that I do agree with what you're saying, though, Britt. But I think it's different when your job is in radio. You don't even know Beyonce in radio. Yeah, but I'm not good at radio. I don't have a job there anymore. Same.

So I would love to give people, because like obviously the life is, firstly, for everyone who was messaged in the last week, You guys have rallied. You have been so, like, wonderfully warm and accepting. We are so grateful. Like, everyone's been so supportive of so, so far. It's really, really nice to see. A little bit too much, actually.

It's not my favorites. Yeah, what if she leaves? There's still two other hosts here. No, but what I was going to say to that is, is like, you know, you're obviously someone that we have known from before this. It wasn't like we went out and did, like, a random call out, like we said. You were working at ARN doing the KEDA, which is like the digital channel show, whilst we were doing the pickup.

So we were all kind of under the same. umbrella, even though we weren't working in the same network. We were all under the same umbrella. And it was a couple of years where we were all working in the same network. That's how we kind of got to know each other. That was really great. And that was the first time I kind of got to experience what you guys do when you were on radio. And then I happened to be in Bali with Keisha when we were doing a little girl's holiday and Laura, you were doing a jewelry shoot there. I was there for legitimate work and you guys wanted a tax deduction. I think is how it played out. Because Keisha has actually worked for Tony May before and worked for me quite a bit. But then she was like,

I also have my friend Sophia, who's also very good at social media. She can come and do the same thing. As this is on the record, let it be known, they did really work. No, they did. It was a tax deduction. Was that the first time? Obviously, we'd seen each other all at the radio and we would interact coming in out of the studio. Was that our first proper interaction?

Because you lift quite a big impression on me. No, I had a truly embarrassing moment that happened. This could be my own accidentally unfiltered. So, do you want to or no? Yes, she fucking does. You don't breadcrum that and then take that away from it. me. So Fave came and we're at the day with us and so was Kij. We were there. We did like a full photo shoot. It was a campaign shoot for Tony May. I was doing the photography for the day. Sof was on doing

socials. When we're over there, there's a couple of really good modeling agencies that you can hire from over there as well. So we did like the casting calls the days before. Picked our model. Everything was great. Very long days in the sun, in the heat. So about the time you're finished, everyone is absolute cooked. We're in the car on the way home from the shoot. And so it was like, how do you cast for your models? The problem with jewelry is like it's very specific. right? So we had an actual casting call where we went through the girls. I had one girl that I was really hoping to cast and that was my primary number one choice. And then when she came in for the casting call, she had really short fingers. So I decided that she wasn't right for the ring shots.

And Sof goes, what's wrong with short fingers? Sof goes, what the fuck do you have against people with short fingers? Now you might not know this about Sophie, but she has half a finger. A very short finger. If you heard my ghost story, that's how I knew there was a ghost in my house. Because, as I said, I don't have two full handprints, and I saw two handprints on the mirror. Show me, hold these up. Let the lifers know. I'll tell them about it. Because we had a couple of messages about what happened.

And as you can see, my middle finger is a little half finger. And what you may not know is the two fingers either side, they actually don't have knuckles. So I can't. I did not notice that. I can't even notice that. No. So they're completely smooth bone. They're quite a bit smaller than my other hand as well.

In school, I used to tell everyone a million different stories because I found it so. entertaining. You know, run over by the lawnmower. I real feel bad about this, but one of the girls in my football team, I told her that my dad had accidentally bitten it off and she believed that for a year. You know when you were a kid and you play the pretend to bite finger off game? I told her that my dad just did it accidentally. But the truth is, it was the way that I was born. There was a little cord that was wrapped around my fingers. And so my hand didn't develop properly. And so it came out and that's why it doesn't have knuckles. And I remember my mum so vividly saying that when, and I don't know if this still happens,

but often when you have a baby, people go, oh, they got 10 toes, 10 fingers. And my mom was like, nope. Nope. But yeah, so I have always grown up with it. I've always been like that. I got some awful things in high school. And I learned that I was just going to embrace it. The first time I did radio, they posted a video on socials.

And people were commenting about it being like, what's wrong? with her? What is that? So now I just, I make the light of it because I think it's so fun. When I'm really angry at someone, I'm like, yeah, fuck you. And when I'm a little bit angry, I'm like, oh, just ha, fuck you. Sorry, I didn't expect that to be so funny. So that's what my finger is. So if anyone, yeah, had seen the video or I wanted to know, that's the story. Can I, I'm really embarrassed to say this. And I don't actually know where this came from. Okay. Are you okay?

No, because I've been telling people... Oh no. I'm going to blame Keisha. I think she told me at some point. I wouldn't have made it up. I've been telling people that your little stump one. That one is your toe. Is it?

Oh, it's right. It's my toe. Some like, yes. See? So the story was, so that's how I was born. And then the doctors went, well, if you, because I didn't, it was almost not a finger completely. And they went, you won't have a lot of dexterity without a finger completely. What we can do,

is we can cut through your toe, take out the bone from your toe, put it into your finger, and that bone will grow as you grow. So you can see there's the scar, like a little Harry Potter scar. So that entire thing is my toe bone. And as I've grown, and I've grown a lot. It's grown with me so that I have that dexterity. And then I have a tiny little toe as well. That's actually amazing that they're able to do that.

That is incredible. I love. I was bringing rumors. I was like, yeah, she chopped a toe off and put it on hand. It's so fun. How many people have I told? Who have you been telling us to? We got this new producer and she's got a toe finger.

But back the other day, I had a few people ask. What happened? And I was like, I don't actually know, but I know she's got a toe on a hand. Well, there you go. And I didn't worry that I made that up. I do want to say, though, it was one of those really humbling moments. You know, when you say something, then you really just know you put your foot in your mouth. And like, we all sat in the car.

Put your toe on your hand. Yeah, we fucking. We all laughed so hard in this car after this long day of shooting. But I was like, yeah, fair. And that's the moment I went one day. But what I will say is you don't notice. No. To look at you and meet you, you absolutely do not notice.

But I also find this about anything that maybe you feel insecure about on your body. I just found in high school particularly, some girls could be so cruel about it. And there was one comment in particular I remember so vividly where I had this crush on this boy and she liked him too. and she text him when she could see me with him on the quad or whatever and said, oh, give that bitch a high four and a half instead of a high five. And I just went, fuck yeah, buddy, like, come here. Like, give me a high four and a half because they can't take it away from you. Yeah.

If you're the one that owns it. Like, there's nothing you can do to hurt me about that. Because I'm just going to be like, cool, yeah, high four and a half to you. Okay, let's go, big part of life on cut relationships. What's your status? Okay, status is taken. I'm dating a lovely Australian man, which I thought wasn't going to happen because Australian men and dating is horrific. We went to a concert together.

So I remember we were at this concert. We were lining up and there was this gorgeous man. I'm fucking stunning, stunning man. Who walked into the line. No, he was. He walked into the line and then he came and stood next to Sophie and I was like, hello. Anyway, apparently you guys have been seeing each other for a bit, but you were like, ugh. You just want it to work because it's so.

beautiful, but it's so far from being a possibility. But this is the first date that I went on in Australia, this man, and we met on Hinge or something, said, oh, let's go get a drink. We went down to the opera house. It was very romantic. About five minutes into the date, he goes, I'd love your opinion on something. And I'm sort of, oh, okay, what could it be? And he goes, I'm considering having a threesome with my personal trainer and her girlfriend. What do you think I should do? So I whip out my notes and we're doing a pros and cons list on the first date for him to have a three-sum. threesome with two other people. Why?

Sorry. I mean, it obviously works because you locked down. I dated with them for a while. Wait, this isn't my current boyfriend, I have to say. This is not my current boyfriend. I thought this was who you were dating now and I was like, fucking, wow, he came out hot. No, this is the terrible other guy. Do you know what that screams to me though?

That screams to me that he was trying to make it very clear to you that this was just casual. Do you mean? He was like, I'll put something crazy on the table. She'll know that this is where I'm at in terms of, what I want from a date. And so therefore, if anything happens after this, she can't be surprised. She can't act shocked. And yet, I was.

Did you hook out with him? Several times. Yeah, went back many times. Okay, so how did you meet your now partner? My now partner, we met actually at work. So at the radio company that we all worked at back in the day. And he was very, very shy. So I'm a very talkative gal.

And I actually had to ask him out. And he didn't realize. And he told us. friends that he thought I wanted to hang out because I didn't have any friends. And he pretty hung out with me. Oh my God. I'd moved from New Zealand to Australia. I spent the first year of my time in Australia dating and going on the dating apps and giving it a world, dating in the wild. I met some amazing people, some terrible people, knew this guy from work as a friend, had kind of talked to him as a friend and our group of friends really liked him, gorgeous guy. He would not

pick up what I was putting down. I remember so specifically, Anne Zach, day. In New Zealand, we don't celebrate Anzac Day like you guys. It's quite a somber occasion in New Zealand. And here, everyone gets pissed. And I told him, oh, I don't have plans for Anzac Day. What are you doing? Oh, I'm going to the pub with all my friends. I went, cool. I don't have plans for Anzac Day. You know, what? Handing it to him on a platter. Handing it to him. Nothing. And so the next day, I ended up asking him for a drink. And it took him a while to get the picture. But he finally got the picture. What did, has he explained to you why he didn't quite get the picture to start with?

Like, what was his, so hot? No, I know. I know. But like what is the reasoning? I don't know. I feel like that situation has happened in the past to me, but it was because they didn't want a day thing. Maybe he doesn't, two years old, or like a year and a half in. He said the reason was one, we work together. And so it was very much a, I'm not sure if I, if this is crossing a boundary, I'm being very cautious of the work situation. I think the other was he genuinely wasn't, he's a very, very, like, shy, sweet person. He wasn't looking to date.

So I think in his brain it was just, oh, I really like this person. This is nice to hang out with. But I'm not the one asking or pursuing. So I don't know. Maybe I should go home and ask him. I really start like that. Why didn't you get the head sooner? Actually, I've got a question for you guys.

Do you think you should have to ask someone to be your boyfriend or girlfriend? I don't think you necessarily have to ask, will you be my boyfriend or will you be my girlfriend? But I think that there has to be some discussion so that there is no ambiguity. Because sometimes when the discussion doesn't happen, it can be weaponized down the track. If one person thinks you're exclusive and the other person's like, I just didn't know. I think it's like the boyfriend girlfriend thing is, for me, is quite teenage. I don't think it's teenage. Well, no, I do because I think it's like, I think you ask without asking.

So the conversation doesn't become, do you want to be my boyfriend? The conversation is, do you want to be exclusive? Like, are you seeing other people or are we just like locking this down? Okay, interesting. I think that that is also a gray area. And I say this because I found myself in that situation. You were never in an exclusive relationship. No, I was.

So I was in that situation ship that I was in for a year that has come up from time to time. So he was a friend. We were dating for more than a year. We were together. We were exclusive, but he didn't want to call me his girlfriend. And that's what he said. What's the different? He was like, this is the question.

Commitment is the difference. But exclusive is commitment. He wanted to be able to not be tethered to the relationship whenever he decided he was done with it. And being a girlfriend in his mind meant more responsibility. So he said to me, like, you know, we had been dating for a little while. I brought that up and I was like, are we exclusive or not? Because I'm obviously going to not be on the dating apps and stuff. And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can be exclusive.

He was like, but I don't want to have a label of calling you my girlfriend. And I don't want you to have the label of calling me your boyfriend because that's not what this is. But he was like, but I'm not going to be with anyone else. I just find that so immature. I was like that's the biggest head fuck. That's why that year went on for so long because in my mind I was like, but you're doing all the things and saying all the things that actually does make me a girlfriend. I'm meeting your family.

I'm spending time with your friends. You're not seeing anyone else. And so I guess maybe that's why I feel a little bit more passionately around like actually sometimes you've got to drill down on what this is more so than just going off vibes. The reason I brought this up is because we were exclusive. of, you know, relatively early on. But I said we didn't start dating until he actually asked. Well, we have a few little quick fire questions just to try and pull out some more information

from you. What did you want to be as a kid? Pizza delivery girl. Did you? Yeah, because I just, I thought, what makes people the most happy, pizza getting delivered to your home. I want to bring happiness. Yes, I want to bring happiness.

It's so giving. It's so like the most empathetic answer. I want to make people happy, not be a therapist. No, pizza. Pizza to your door makes people happy. It still stand by it. It's still a dream job one day. All right.

So what is your star sign? I am a Gemini. Oh, duplicitous. You'll stab you in the back. Just no, multiple personalities. Same like every guy I'd ever dated. What are you guys? I literally have only ever dated Gemini's or cancers.

What's Maddie? He's a cancer. Gemini's never worked out well. Fuck. We're fucked friends. What is a Gemini? The twins. Twins.

No, sorry, but what's the like character of six? It's just so great in every aspect. Just ask me. Just phenomenal in every single way. Gotcha. We're fun. We're intelligent. We have multiple personalities, so you never know quite which one you're going to get, which is great.

Maybe not so great for us. My mom is also a Gemini, and so is Mali. Oh, perfect. We'll get on. Perfect. I'm a Leo, but I'm not very Leo-ish. I'm not like your typical Leo. I'm on the cusp.

Casp. Is anyone that's listening to this actually into Star Signs? I feel like Star Science is kind of like hearing people's dreams. I love dreams. It's the hill. die on. I know if there's a question about what's the hell. It's up there with ghost stories, guys. Fuck me. All right. Okay. What's your most irrational fear? Moths. Hate them. Great. Terrified of moths. Okay. What about it? When you kill them, right? When they go? Where do they go?

They just turn into dust? And it really stresses me out. I actually have wondered that. And they leave like a really gray mark. Where do they go? I think they're amazing. They kind of spontaneously cremate themselves at room temperature. What's your best travel experience? Have you guys gone on a Kintiki or a travel like that? I have dabbled in Kintiki also. I went on one amazing one. And this was, I mean, all of the places we traveled were amazing. The thing I love most, I met this girl called Bodie. She was an Aussie girl. So if she's out there listening, we met it on Kintiki, went on the most amazing trip around Europe. And then we were finishing off. I was going to spend another week in London. And she's like, oh, it's my 20th or 21st birthday. And I don't

really know what I'm going to do. And I said, stay in the hotel. And you and me were just going to have a Girls Week. This is a girl I met two weeks prior, had no idea. We stayed in this tiny, tiny hotel room. And I had the most fun time. And it was one of those things when you're traveling. And you meet gals and you're all in the same mindset of let's just live. And that was beautiful. And did you ever see Bodie again? Never. Love you, Bodie. Okay. I feel like this flows on. What is your biggest green flag for friendship? Oh, that's hard. Getting really deep about things very quickly. I don't want the filter of, you know, when you hang out with someone and it's very surface level chat. Like, if you have something going on or you want to tell me the deep, dark history of this,

that or the other, let's talk about it. I'm so past small talk. Just get me in the absolute chaos of your life. And if that happens in the first hangout, I think it's a green flag when you can talk openly with someone. I think we, Laura, I don't know about you, but I would say the same. Maybe because Laura and I've been doing this for so long, I will meet someone in the first five minutes.

I have their deepest. We're talking about their trauma. We are like so deep in it and it comes so naturally, but I get so curious. And all of a sudden they're like, how are we talking about my trauma when I was 18? And I was like, doesn't it feel good? Yeah, I don't know if it's a red flag or a green flag in friendships, but I love it. I think it's great. All right.

Last question. So what is something that you are weirdly good at? Party trick. Hidden talent. My party trick is the most lame party trick. It's also very specific. But I can do a Rubik's cube. And that is my party trick.

How fast? Oh, it does take me a couple a minute. I would say about two to three minutes. And if I go to someone's house and go and see their child has a Rubik's cube, I will go and make it right and then put it back in the kids' room or back and hide it. So it looks like someone has mysteriously done the Rubik's cube. Like they've got an amazing smart child. That to me has always been a bit of an anomaly because that seems like an impossible

feat. Why and how did you learn that? I learned it during math class. So you're going to learn I was a mega nerd at school. I was a proper, proper nerd, and I was in this very competitive math class, and there was one girl who could do it really fast. And Rubik's cubes are just algorithms. So you just need to learn the pattern, and you can do it from anything. And so during math class, all we would do sit there with our Rubik's Cube and our algorithms and practice with each other doing Rubik's.

Wow, what a time to be alive. Surprise you out of boyfriend. Sorry, basket maker. You're both as bad as each other. Mine was at university, though. That's worse. So welcome to the team officially. I know we've done it before, but it's a nice little get to know you.

I mean, I'm not surprised. Everyone loved you from the first episode. It meant so much seeing them. You do get so nervous because I've listened for so long as well. And I know people don't like change. And I know that it's hard to step into such a family. And everyone has been so incredibly kind and welcoming that I have felt like a long lost sister on their wayward way from New Zealand. Just like joining the commune.

And it's been amazing. We're so happy to have you as part of the commune. It does really feel like it's home for you. We're very grateful that you left your last job to come here and took my very rogue call that came in. But welcome. Welcome to the Life on Cut family. And guys, here she is. Producer So in all her glory.

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