Life Uncut - We Argue Like Sisters, But We Love Like Sisters
Episode Date: January 21, 2025Hey Lifers!!!We hope you're in the mood for a bit of a chaotic laugh! We are catching up on the highlights and 'vibe' of our summer break.Laura's attempt at spicing up their sex life ended in a h...ard, terrible way...Britt had an overseas sauna experience that she will not forget anytime soon.Tiktok came back from cancellation quicker than we've ever seen a celebrity recover.Thinking that the app would be closed for business forever, some American tiktokers confessed their lies that helped them go viral! Some were innocent, others were a lot more on the nose. Are we surprised that creators lie in order to go viral? Not at all. But is it questionable when they've financially profited off the back of deceiving people? We speak about Trump's inauguration and how Melania's outfit choice sums up the mood. We also speak about the tech bros that attended and their attempts at rebranding their personal image. You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! xxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura.
I'm Brittany. You can't just come in hot and decide when you want to start without telling
me. You were in the middle of telling me about your nipples pointing different directions and
then you started the podcast. Literally, you're like, sometimes my nipples go this way and
sometimes this way. Hey guys, it's Life Uncut. Hi, we're back. We're back. I mean, we were back
on Monday for anyone who looked at their podcast app and was like, sorry, why are they here already?
As you know, we change things up, keeping it spicy this year. Yeah, but we did withhold
information from you on Monday because that's Ask Uncut. Today is the proper catch up episode.
It's even weird for me. I haven't got my head around the change because we've been in our
ways for five years. What better way to catch up than to start it off with me talking about
my nipples one one makes eye contact and the other one's just going off you know how you always have
that one friend that's a bit of a daydreamer that's my right nipple it's just has it always
been like that or just since kids no it's only since lola because lola only she only fed on one
side the right side took a beating and the left side's good to go she did she would never feed
on my left side she would only feed on my right side it was really annoying i wonder why better
titty can't blame not anymore she ruined me I can't I can't laugh because I've split my lip
so I look like that you know that little small mouth thing I can't you know when you split your
lip you can't smile or laugh too hard because your lips pull open and split more can I just
tell you when you do the small mouth thing and you make that face yeah it actually just looks
like a butthole sorry but it does it does butthole face what happened between today and yesterday I
saw you yesterday and your mouth your mouth was working fine it was split yesterday you just
must have been funny yesterday I must have laughed too hard fair fair I was a bit off I don't know
what has happened I don't know if I'm really dry like I'm really dehydrated but my lips have just
suckled in they're like so small now and they've split open is that a stress thing a stress response
am I mimicking my plan I don't know I think it's usually more to do with like it being windy or dry
than a stress response but I mean I'm not a doctor and no one comes here for my advice on
dry lips. Anyway, I'm only commenting on that in case you watch any of the socials and I look like
I have a butthole face. Because every time she laughs, she goes like this. So Brit and I have
obviously seen each other over the last couple of weeks or the last week, I guess. Whenever we
have had a big considered break from each other, which is what we did over Christmas. Brit was
away in Dubai. I was here. Wow, Laura, don't sell it too much. We don't tell each other our stories
and I wish honestly I wish I had more interesting stories to tell you all apart from Matt leaving me
to go into the I'm a celeb jungle I feel like we had the most consistently vanilla lovely
reliable holiday like nothing outrageous happened it was just nice I think maybe because we were so
in preparation for it and for him leaving that we kind of just spent and did lots of family time
Which is wonderful for reality, but terrible for the podcast.
I know.
I was thinking, I was like, what am I going to bring to like entertain everyone?
So then I bought a cock ring online.
So I bought, I bought a cock ring because I thought.
Well, that escalated quickly.
I had a really wholesome break and then I bought a cock ring.
It was so wholesome.
But I also just wanted to like send Matt off with a bang.
I've never tried one.
That's crazy to me because you're a bit of a fiend back in the day.
Not for cock rings.
what are you talking about you like had your legs fucked and your underarms i'm surprised you didn't
use a a cock ring i'm not being crude or mean it's a fact that's what happened to you look you
need context because not everyone knows and i don't need context someone had sex with laura's
leg and armpit that is the context this is a story that has haunted me for the entire time that we
have been doing this podcast it will forever be my favorite story that you have ever taught yeah
well i also told at the live show if you came to the live show you would know it basically i dated
a guy for a really long time he was like my first long-term boyfriend and he wanted to have sex with
all of me and i thought it was really flattering and then britney told me how weird it was that
under my arm and behind my leg and in the crease of my neck was particularly arousing for both of
but I'm not I'm not you're like I was so ticklish on my neck I'm not yucking anyone's
yum I just wanted you to know it wasn't as normal as you between the toes you thought it was
but what I think is the funniest thing is like we always have to do a reset you know once every
couple of months or every year we get a bunch of new listeners which is amazing but I love that
our like hey let's just get you up to speed with who we are and what we are yes someone used to
fuck my leg let's move on like that is our update of who we are this is true that's all I bring to
the tables that's all I have in my life now but my shock about the cock ring is the fact that
I just figured that would have been a progression to the leg sex like I thought that you would have
started from ground zero and worked your way up to the crease sex but you're not you jump straight
up there well I would be like to be honest Matt and I I think I was wilder in my 20s than what
I've ever been in my relationship with Matt like Matt is pretty straighty 180 and has always been
pretty straighty 180 will he like you saying and not yeah because it's not straighty 180 in a bad
way I don't like we have great sex don't get me wrong but he's just not someone who you don't
feel the need to explore all these weird and wonderful things yeah in the past it's always
been ex-partners who have been the ones that are like hey let's try this and so because it's always
been them doing those things I've never had to really be like hey I'd love to try this thing
anyway maybe too much information but I was like well let's just give this a go spice things up
maybe it'll be fun. Was it on sale? So I bought it in the Black Friday sale. I knew it. Two for one.
So it was a discounted cock ring and nothing screams romance quite like it. So I got it in
the mail and I was like, hey, tried to make it funny. And I was like, maybe we should try this.
There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm. I tried to make it funny. Oh my God, this is so funny. This
cock ring turned up. Should we just like utilize this weird situation and try it? And then he
didn't show a lot of enthusiasm so I just like put it on charge next to the bed there's two parts
to this story the first part is I put it on charge next to the bed didn't really think about it so
it's like a black silicone ring that's got like a thicker band on the top of it yeah and the thicker
band has two buttons that has many settings like a frightening amount of settings yeah so it had
been charging for like two days I'd kind of forgotten about it and I was like well when
Saturday night rolls around isn't he in for a treat so I love how subtle you are that you just
put it on charge on the bedside table like the anticipation when's it gonna use tomorrow next
week who knows well Lola was the one who ruined the anticipation when she came downstairs wearing
it as a bracelet on full vibrate stop it my small lips my lips are splitting that is so funny she
liked it so much she wanted to put it in her daycare backpack and mummy said no
yes yes so I finally got an offer distracted her with something else hang on what happened she just
came downstairs and was like because Lola always goes through my jewelry boxes right she constantly
takes necklaces or bracelets and you know it's probably something that's like not quite normal
but because I have so many necklaces from Tony May I often just let her wear my jewelry and she
can have a lot of my necklaces. Like I'm not super precious about my jewelry because I have so much
of it. So she's never really heard me be like, no, you can't wear that one. And so she was like
walking around the house and she's like, mommy, this one moves. And then she was, yeah, like
luckily she'd only figured out how to put it on the lowest setting because my God, this thing
packs a punch. So she came downstairs, had it on her wrist. Eventually I took it off her. I put it
Back on charge and in a drawer so that she couldn't find it.
Back on charge.
I love that you're like, well, thanks for using it all, Lola.
I didn't expect for my child to be the first one to use it.
But anyway, here we are.
Talk me through it.
What was the vibration like?
So then Saturday night rolls around and we're, you know, it's about to start.
And I was like, hey, why don't we try the thing that Lola had on her wrist yesterday?
Nothing kills the mood more than saying my toddler had this on her wrist.
Why don't we try Lola's bracelet and give that a crack?
So I pull it out and I got Matt to put it on and I put it on vibrate.
And it's very anticlimactic, let me tell you this.
He absolutely hated it.
He was like, this is the most awful sensation.
He's like, it feels like someone's strangling my penis
while shaking it really hard.
He's like, it's horrible.
And then I realised just how many settings this thing has.
Oh, yeah, they're wild.
the highest setting of this ring was almost as though it was trying to sand off my clitoris
maybe you can use it for the reno you're crowding the floors standing a bag preparing
of a painting get lola to put her to work yeah anyway i really tried guys i was like this i'm
gonna get out of my box i'm gonna spice up my relationship and i feel as though it did nothing
it did nothing of the fact if anything we just had a laugh about it and then had missionary sex so
everything was normal. There are so many parts to this that I like. I love the fact that you're
like, shit, what can I do? Matt's going to the jungle for a month. I'm really going to leave
him so he never forgets me and you get out of cock ring. Secondly, I wish Lola didn't ask you
if she could take that to daycare. I wish she took that to daycare and showed off her new bracelet
to everybody. It would have been amazing. But I've used it only once and it's exactly the same
thing as you said. I don't understand it. He's like, this is the worst thing I have had on my
dick it's called a pleasure ring so I don't know if you're actually supposed to necessarily put it
over like it hasn't it has a round ring I don't think you just have to wear it as like you know
like a little dick bracelet I don't think you have to do that no that's supposed to go up to the
he was like it's really tight and it just is like violently shaking me like it didn't work for us
but maybe for you everyone it's not my vibe for the week it is my unsubscribe I'm so boring I took
sex toys to Romania to Ben. And then when I unpacked, got home, I forgot I even took them.
I didn't even bring them out. I was like, oh, that's so sad. How would he respond to it? Is
he enthusiastic? Cause Matt was just so utterly unenthusiastic about it. And I wanted more
excitement from him. I wanted him to be like, yes. Yeah. Ben would do anything. Ben would try
anything. No, that's a lie. Actually. He has vetoed some things. He's definitely vetoed some
things if I was to bring in toys he'd love that but he wouldn't do a cock ring and he wouldn't do
a butt plug shame someone a couple of days ago who I'm not going to name them but they were telling
us a story that they were using like like beads that you put inside yourself like you know the
eggs and stuff like that they were using those and then their friends were like oh my god what
was it like like asking is it worth getting and instead of just giving them like a review and
then them going and buying them they said why don't you try them and they wrapped the beads
in cling wrap and gave them to their friends and then their friends used them this is someone who's
really close to us so when she was telling us the story we were like what the fuck brit and i sat
there in utter disbelief this makes it sound like it was me sorry it wasn't me it wasn't me and i
also sat there in disbelief you did ask laura if you could borrow the cochrane you can have it
Keisha. We've used it once. It's almost new. You know, when you list things on Facebook marketplace
and you're like, it's as if it's new, just a little bit used. I understand that like you can
sanitize something, you can clean something, but you just can't clean it well enough for me to be
like, yeah, I'll give that a secondhand crack. I think that there would be a lot. Well, I mean,
to be fair, we've spoken about reusing dildos and everything else before. A lot of people do
because when you think about it, if you're single and you're using them with multiple partners,
it's still double use right you're not using it with just one romantic partner yeah but mentally
I'm using it just with one person that's true yeah it's a mental game you tell yourself yeah
you keep telling yourself things whatever makes you sleep well at night it's fine I think there
are some things in life you don't have to recycle think about the planet Brittany anyway I know I
said I had no stories but that truly is the most exciting thing that happened to me in the holidays
and then Matt has left me and I know we've spoken quite a bit already about I'm a celebrity get me
out of here he's a couple episodes deep now he's doing well he just got nominated for a challenge
yes what's his challenge uh it's called basket fall so he has to go out on a plank and he's
wearing like a bungee cord and he's got to throw the basketball into the hoop which I'm not
particularly concerned about him doing that because Matt loves heights like it's almost like it's too
easy for him he needs to do something that's grosser and harder it's gonna be famous last
words if he fails miserably you're like it's too easy he's gonna blitz it he'll be blitz it he'll
be annoyingly good at that which is like I want there to be more suspense for him I think it would
have happened last night though because we're recording this a day before obviously so I think
it happens tonight right yeah by the time everyone's listening you might be laughing right
now being like yeah he did fail miserably well we'll soon see Brit how was your holiday I know
when you go away and you see Ben on these like extended like stints of time yeah I know that I
lose you to the vortex of love like we don't hear from you you don't reply to emails you don't reply
to text messages we do text the only signs of life we get from you is a sporadic bikini photo
and then we know you're doing fine yeah i was yeah there was some thirst traps i don't know
who else there's trapping i dropped some thirst traps over the break there were some bikini photos
like who are they for i don't know i don't know i don't know the answer to that
i love a bikini i love a bikini i was at the beach i don't know
maybe it's for ben to look back on so that when you're not with him he's like oh that's right my
wife is hot i had the most delightful break like it was really really lovely but that's because
it was also super wholesome my sister sherry and jay were there baby maya was there we spent an
entire week together so like that was like the longest deepest taste of what parent life would
be for us because it's the closest we've come to ever spending that much time one-on-one with not
one-on-one four parents to one child that doesn't even roll yet it sleeps through the night because
just preppy anyway it was the closest we got so it was really nice to just like spend time as a
family see him in that position and like try to figure out what we want in relation to that
I'd feel as though though unfortunately I mean great because it will lull you into a false sense
of security but you've had the best version yeah of a baby and four adults to take care of it
which is amazing because now you're like god this you're like me after I had Marley because Marley
was so easy that I was like this parenting thing is a piece of piss then you got Hurricane Lola
yeah and then I realized that actually Marley was just like a unicorn child and then I had a normal
child and it was a lot harder it really knocked that sort of cockiness straight out of me
Well, it was, we did that.
Then Sherry and Jay left.
Ben and I spent a little bit more time in Romania.
Then we went to Switzerland to like his hometown, which was spectacular.
Like Switzerland, maybe because it's so foreign for us because it's so white, beautiful and
snowy, but it is like the cleanest place, the nicest place.
I'm obsessed with it.
Ben, to him, it's like, oh, the snow's annoying.
You know, when you, if you grow up with something, it doesn't do much for you.
I loved having this white Christmas.
it didn't actually unfortunately like fall snow but there was a lot of snow so he spent it with
his family which was really cool did all the little swiss traditions went to cheese fondue
they just eat cheese fondue as a meal also very wholesome so when we're in switzerland we went to
this a beautiful hotel and like it was huge one of those hotels that has everything and i had this
like indoor gym spas pools saunas steam rooms everything right and they had this giant sauna
and you know that I'm obsessed with a sauna.
So I go into the sauna.
Ben was finishing his workout and it's like humongous.
Like it could have fit 50 people in it.
No one was in there and I was like incredible.
Sat down in my bikini and then this woman walks in
and she walks in with no top on and a towel around her waist
and I was like hot.
Like I wish I had that confidence.
She sat down and then someone else walked in, another woman,
and she was completely naked.
And I was like, oh, great confidence.
The Swiss do it better than us.
I love that confidence.
Anyway, it was obvious that a class or something had just finished
because people started pouring in.
There were 40 people in this sauna.
Not one person had clothes on.
I was in a nudist sauna and I didn't know.
Men, women, dicks everywhere.
And then they came into the nude sauna.
There were no nude sauna signs.
Sweat, nude, ball sweat all over me.
And then Ben messages me and he goes, are you in the sauna?
and I had this moment where I was like, do I tell him?
And I was like, I sure am.
He's like, is it unisex?
And I was like, sure is.
I was like, there's space.
Come on in.
Anyway, so Ben walks in, opens the door.
There's just dicks everywhere.
And he had his like bright green board shorts on.
Like we looked so out of place.
Wait, it was actually a nude sauna?
It's a nude sauna.
How did he not know?
It was a part of this beautiful, luscious place that we're at.
But why so specific?
Only come in here if you're naked.
Like that seems odd.
No clothes.
no they didn't kick us out it's not like it's like you're clothed you're out but why I don't
everyone was it was so I was so I'm not uncomfortable around nudity I was uncomfortable
because I felt shamed my clothes were on I was like I was like I was embarrassed Ben walked in
and I saw his face just stop because there was there was a man sitting right at the bottom and
then they're not even like crossing their legs and stuff legs open like it's just unlike anything
I've ever experienced and there's layers there's tears like a normal saunas there's like three
different seats so they're all teared you can see the balls squishing down on the anyway Ben
what a beautiful cultural moment for you to really experience what it's like I loved it I was just
clothes shamed anyway so Ben walked in was I just saw the look on his face he just looked at me and
just like tried to cover his face sits down next to me and we've never felt more uncomfortable in
our entire life and they were like you know when you can feel people looking at you like people
like side-eyeing us because we had clothes on because you look like foreigners you look like
you didn't belong but then I was like do we take our clothes off I was like I didn't know what to
do it would have looked way stranger if you were like all right then and then just took your top
off mid sauna I'm confused that it wasn't more obvious it's like when you go to a massage for
example and you know well how do you know when they tug you off no but I've always wondered how
do you know if this is one is a happy ending place you know when they put their fingers inside you
that's the tell flora that's not normal also like having sex with the leg no but i'm serious people
go to happy ending massage parlors right yeah and maybe they're not always happy ending maybe
sometimes you go there and you just get a normal massage so where is the interchange between when
it goes from a normal massage to having a happier ending do they offer it are they like hello would
you like an additional service i've never been offered an additional service you're you live in
bondage you're not going to the red light district i've been to loads of massage parlors they asked
why didn't they ask me have you been asked maybe i'm vip you're she's lying see no i've not been
asked but they do i know that they do ask you because i know people that have had them
wow do they only ask men it's so sexist no they ask women too women get them we want equal rights
finish me off god damn it this is not the fourth wave feminism i feel that i think will die on i
whip out my god hey i byo do i get a discount guys it's been a while i know that this is a
really rogue intro to this episode but we've missed each other can i also say if you haven't
listened to it yet brit just recently did an interview with the shameless girls on their new
podcast inherited yeah and the quote was i'll read it to you it came out today go listen to it the
girls are all great listen to it the quote that i apparently said because i recorded it before i
went away on holiday and it just got released so you know like you sort of forget what you say
and so i saw the promo pop up today it's britney hockley on long distance love which is great
next one is there are girls sliding into ben's dms but it doesn't bother me he knows that i'm
his wholeheartedly who am i did i say that i hope not i did it's in quotation it's quotation
next one who's my favorite quote that i forgot i said laura and i act like sisters
we'll argue like sisters but we love like sisters
what was happening in my life five weeks ago i don't know we do love like sisters but we do
I will throw a hairbrush at you if you fucking piss me off.
But it's so true.
The way we act is like sisters.
Like we can be passive.
We love.
We tell each other how it is.
We laugh.
We share too much.
It's like, yeah.
But I just laughed back at my own quote sometimes when I was like,
I think I was in a spiritual moment.
You were.
You'd seen the light.
I think you were just due for a holiday.
Yeah.
You were being really introspective.
Actually, I have a question for you, Britt.
The one thing I get asked the most about your wedding,
like the most frequent question that comes up is what is your plan after the wedding with Ben
and I ask it because I also am not sure but no but genuinely after spending so much time together
over Christmas have you guys thought about or had a more firm plan around what you're going to do
once the wedding happens I get asked this daily and I imagine yeah I understand why because it's
not normal like we don't have a normal relationship so we actually get married and then the answer
short answer is no we don't know we don't have a plan yeah but I know that we won't be together yet
so we get married and then two days later Ben flies back to keep playing football and I fly
back to come back to radio and podcasting and whatever else here we're not having like an
official honeymoon we get like two max three days post wedding before he goes back so we'll have a
couple of days together just us like where we know we spend time with the family and friends before
the wedding, on the wedding. So we'll have those two or three days, then we go back to our own
worlds. And then we're just going to play on until the end of the year and then make a decision.
Because it's, it's not that easy. Like we've spoken about it before. There's so many moving
parts in both of our lives. And both of you in terms of work at the moment, like, especially
Ben, Ben's on like a contract, you know, like his contract work is, it's not like you can just get
up mid season and piss off. No, I mean, I tried, but he could very well try, but no, exactly. But
it'll depend too if I fell pregnant or we did IVF or whatever if I was having a baby then yes I would
make that decision to be together I know that I'm not going to have a baby alone so that's one thing
but that's actually made me think of something funny so when Ben and I are together I don't know
if I've really told you guys this but whenever we are together we try to fall pregnant yeah like
no you told me but I don't think you know I don't think I've told like the lifers but like we try
to the point of like I have tested ovulation I'm I'm tracking ovulation on an app we know we're
having sex on ovulation we do the pregnancy test like we've done that for 18 months really
obviously to no avail but when we're in Dubai I had ovulated we'd had sex and then it would
it'd been about a week and it was coming up to New Year's Eve and I knew that I wanted to have
some drinks so I thought I'll do a pregnancy test before I have drinks because I wanted to be very
particular I know like if I fall pregnant I'm going to do every single thing to you know have
a healthy pregnancy did a pregnancy test and it was negative so I put it in the bin like you would
with the little cup that I did the urine in like it's in the bin in our hotel room and then I left
and then I came back and it was out of the bin and like on the shelf from the cleaners yeah
and I was like that's weird so I put it back in the bin and I came back the next day it's out of
the bin they won't take it they kept taking it out of the urine cup and out of the bin and putting
it on display even though it was negative and I was like I don't understand I get it it's negative
but I didn't understand why they wouldn't throw it out it was the weirdest thing did you put the
cat back on it yeah it was in the bin in the bathroom not everyone puts a cat back on it and
it's just like the like the fibrous p tab part that's out and so that would have been worse for
them they had to take it out of the bag in the bin and leave it for me it was real I can't work
it out a place where you have to be married is that why were you getting shamed no because they
they we were married there yeah but I did ask Ben that I was like are we going is this illegal
the police outside I was like I don't know but it was really weird they just kept putting on display
that's so odd I know I can't get to the bottom of it no and still not pregnant it didn't help
situation I don't know what the point of that was but yeah so going back if we fall pregnant we will
sort it out until then like yes this podcast can be done anywhere we know that a bit more effort
and time frames and stuff like that but you guys know that if that happens we've done that for
years where we've been overseas and done it it's not going to be the issue but we also have radio
and things like that and we love radio and we don't want to give radio up so radio is the thing
that's less flexible I guess because it's the it's the job that we have that we don't control
you know life on cut is ours we're this little family and we function in a way that works with
our lifestyles and we're not normal and it's also why we've changed up the day drops this year is
because we were doing so much work on a Sunday in order to prepare and record on a Monday morning
but now with this new structure it means that we're only working throughout the week on weekdays
so we're able to make those changes when it's our own product and our own show and with the radio
show I mean it's obviously it's a broadcast network so it's not ours completely even though
we get control over some of the content it's not ours to say when we will and won't record they're
like no you will record and you will come into studio yeah we're employees yeah they just employ
us I love that I didn't know what that word was I was like it's been so long I think I
what's that thing again that I do for that company let me break it down you work for
I'm employed but yeah even radio there is a possibility in the future that radio will be
more flexible yeah maybe I'm dreaming big but we will be together I actually don't know I hope to
be together before I'm 40 which is fucked isn't it that's three years I don't know it's really
tough it's really tough I lose sleep over it yeah if we could see each other every two months it's
okay but at the moment it's going to like seems to be stretching out to like four month periods
and that's really long yeah I feel like as soon as it gets to kind of the three month period that's
and, like, things start to feel harder for you guys.
Totally.
And that's when we just – I just argue with him.
Like, and I know that.
It's me.
I'm just, like, a short little bitch.
No, it's okay.
What's your excuse for when you're like that with me?
We see each other every day.
We're like sisters.
Yeah, we fight like sisters.
We love like sisters.
We should put that on our tombstone if we die together.
Would you be buried on top of me or below me?
What would you prefer?
Well, that kind of brings you up to speed on what has been happening in our lives over the last
couple of months. There's also been other big things that have been happening in the world
that we wanted to talk about. I'm sure you've all seen by now that TikTok had the shortest
cancellation in the history of anyone's cancellation that there ever was. It was here
and then it was gone and then it was back again. No one has ever come back from a cancellation in
14 hours before like TikTok has. So on Sunday, more than 170 million users were banned from
TikTok. Isn't it crazy though that like when you think about the cancellation that happened,
so it was just in the States, 170 million users. It's so much money. Morgan and Stanley reported
that over the course of the year, if it remained banned, they would lose roughly 10 billion US
dollars in ad revenue and people would lose 32 billion hours of scroll time. 32 billion hours
of scroll time. That's insane. That's in a year. The interesting thing though about this is that's
$10 billion of ad revenue to the platform, but we're not taking into account the billions of
dollars in influencer revenue because, you know, you're not paying commission on that. You're not
paying like a subscription fee or anything like this. So the platform itself generates so many
occupations and careers for people. I know lots of people have lots of feelings about influencer
work, but it is a legitimate career that funds many people's livelihoods. So it must have been
quite frightening for people to have had that ripped away from them without having any sort
of certainty around when it would or wouldn't come back well of course for a lot of people
a lot of the big people that were making money on it it was a job loss so of course it's going
to be really scary and upsetting but I can't believe the stronghold I mean I can believe it
the stronghold that TikTok has on the everyday person people that just use it to consume media
and scroll they're not making money from it we're having like proper breakdowns where they were
in hysterics not knowing what they were going to do with their life they don't know what they're
going to do when they get home and have nothing to scroll on. That was really shocking to me.
Like I know it happens, but it was a really stark reminder of the hold that this has over
people's mental health. Did you see Jane Liu? So Jane Liu is the CEO of Showpo. She also is one
of the CEOs on Shark Tank at the moment. So she had her TikTok shut down. And the reason for that
is because she had set it up when she was on a work trip in the United States. And so she'd been
making a lot of funny content around how, you know, she was like, TikTok, it's going to be
banned. It's going to be banned. Not actually thinking hers would be being that she's an
Australian resident. Because she forgot where she set it up. Yeah, she completely forgot. And then
she went to log on to TikTok and she received that notification message that was kind of making its
way around on every other social media network, which was TikTok saying that your TikTok is no
longer available in this area. But the thing we wanted to talk about around this cancellation
is the trend that happened just preceding it. So everybody knew that on Sunday, the TikTok ban was
going to come into place. And a lot of prolific TikTok creators started sharing their final dying
lie or their final dying confession. And it is a trend that was backed to the sound. It's from
Family Guy. Since we're all going to die, there's one more secret I feel I have to share with you.
I did not care for the godfather. What? Did not care for the godfather. How can you even say that?
Didn't like it. So the way that this trend worked is that, you know, big influencers who had millions
and millions of followers would have the sound playing they would mimic and mime the sound and
then over the top of it was their confession some of them were really harmless and very very funny
all around how they'd faked content or they'd stage different things that they had created in
order to gain engagement it was all kind of fake so there were like two different categories of
them the light-hearted couldn't care less about and then there were the more serious but some of
the light-hearted ones like there was an influencer called kaylee may she went viral for believe it or
not. She used to make fancy ice cubes. I didn't even know this was a thing. It's like DIY ice
cubes that you do when you're having like fancy cocktails and stuff. If you're entertaining or
having a house party or something. So niche. Very niche. But also, I don't know if you've seen them.
They're very beautiful. Well, she admitted as her last dying purge before she got kicked off TikTok
that she never actually used any of the special ice cubes. Like that was her confession.
Who cares, right? Like you're like, okay, you're obviously talented. You can make it. I don't care.
That's a shitty confession to me.
There's another one which I came across.
So there's quite a famous TikToker named Ashley Matheson.
She has 6.5 million followers.
And there's one piece of content that made her particularly viral on TikTok.
It's been coined tripod girl.
Now it is a video that looks as though it was an accident is how it's been framed.
She's like doing a little dance in her room and then she jumps onto her bed.
But when she jumps onto her bed, she accidentally kicks up the tripod stand that has nothing
on the top of it.
So it's just a tripod stick and the stick goes right up her hoo-ha.
Anyway, she then like.
She really was a tripod.
Ew.
She makes.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
She became one with the tripod.
She makes like a funny face and she's very beautiful
and like obviously men have just gone nuts over this piece of content.
It's had 205.9 million views and hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of comments.
So this was the content that made her famous.
she came out and was like the tripod reel was completely staged and so I know no one cares
once you get it's harmless but at the same time you're like oh also funny thing to stage when it
could literally perforate your insides I don't think it actually went up her vagina oh she faked
the whole thing yeah I think she I think it was completely staged I feel really lied to and I
didn't even see it and I don't even follow her I think that's not cool there was one girl Lexi
Hidalgo. She got 2.7 million followers. Her content was around like coffee chats. She would
sit down, she'd have a coffee and she would just like talk to you about whatever's going on. And
she was not a fitness influencer, but she was known for her workouts. So she's obviously has a
rig, did all these workouts that she posted. And so a lot of people actually followed her for that.
And she admitted that she had never actually consumed one of the coffees that she had in
coffee chat. And she often didn't even do the workouts that she posted. Now, a lot of people
laughed at this but then there were some people like one of the comments is this took me out this
is the reason that i followed her and both were lies instant ick there are some serious ones there
was like a body confidence influencer that's what she was known for and she admitted in as her dying
wish that she uses a zempic the weight loss drug which is like so she's sort of faked what she was
she's lied she doesn't believe in what she was saying and i think that that is really hard when
you build a community on something like that's more serious that's making fun of your community
I think. Yeah, don't get me wrong. I understand why people, there was like mixed reactions to
this trend. There were a lot of people who saw the funny side in it. And there were a lot of
people who were pretty angry about it. And I understand the anger and this is not to get like
too deep or too nuanced on this necessarily, but I kind of liken it to a brand. Imagine if a brand
was saying, this is who we are. These are our values. This is what we stand for. And then all
of a sudden they were like ha ha ha psych thanks for all your money thanks for all your time thanks
for your investment we're actually nothing like that at all and it's all been fake I do think
that there is a reason why people feel a bit jilted no a hundred percent but on the flip side
to that I kind of also go are you surprised are you surprised that there are people out there
who use a platform that is built for engagement and they fabricate the version of themselves in
order to get as much engagement as possible i don't yeah i don't know if i believe that like
i don't know if i sort of want to follow what you're saying i know what you're trying to say
but i liken it to us right this podcast and what i will say is we have not once ever and we have
been accused sometimes when we have had really fucking wild accidentally unfiltered people like
you've made that up hand on heart we have not once ever made an accidentally unfiltered up or an ask
uncut up every single thing we have done on this pod we've never made a story up believe it or not
Mayo is my middle name.
My laugh is real.
We've never made anything up.
Actually, there was a review recently that was like,
Brittany is so full of shit she thinks her middle name is Mayo.
Let's just post – can we post your license on Instagram just to prove it?
If you blank out my address.
But my point is, like, imagine us building this for five years
and then we go out and say, hey, we've made all that up.
Of course, people are going to be offended because you become
like a family and a community and there is that parasocial relationship.
what I don't understand is what these people were thinking they're not dying the world is not ending
it's not the year 2000 you still have other platforms you're going to migrate your content
to Instagram or to one of the new platforms that are built but all of a sudden you've just
shit on your community then you're like oh just go follow me over on Instagram though
you saw it so once TikTok was reinstated after 14 hours there were a lot of people who were
backtracking and a lot of people were backtracking because I genuinely think that these influencers
who jumped on this trend probably didn't have the self-awareness to realize how people were
going to react I don't think they had the self-awareness to go so done oh actually people
are genuinely invested in me because I do create this product but the reason why they're invested
in me is on something that I have fabricated like I don't think they thought it through until they
started to receive the negative reactions and then that's what kind of made them go oh wow I
fucking, I read the room wrong on this one. Bullshit. If you have 3 million followers,
5 million followers, 10 million followers, you know, your followers are invested. Like you've
built that community on them being invested. If you don't have the capacity to read the room and
understand that pulling the wool over their eyes and being psych motherfuckers, I lied to you the
whole time. If you cannot understand that that is going to have negative repercussions, you don't
deserve the audience. That sounds deep, but I'm like, if you're going to admit to everyone and
make them feel silly for believing in what you said and like following, buying products, buying
into all the lies, then I think that you don't deserve that platform. And I know that we weren't
going to go serious, but it sort of makes me angry that people can be taking people's attention,
time, which is so precious and money with just blatant lies. Yeah, I do agree. I completely
agree. The only thing that I like in it too, though, and the reason why I say, should we be
surprised is because there is so much evidence of it that already existed before people came out and
said hey actually you know here's my dying confession we know people use facetune we know
people edit their photos we know that people sell a version of themselves that's not congruent with
who they are in the real world i'm not saying that you you shouldn't be invested in influencers
please be invested in influencers hello we have a podcast we love you being invested in us invest
but i think i think we have to be conscious about who we are investing our time in or to what
level I think that's the biggest difference though I think it's usually because when we get the aha
moment about who someone actually is you know when we get that insight and we're like oh we've
actually found the cracks in you in your facade we point it and we go oh you're not who I thought
you were but this time it's reversed they've kind of like exposed their own crack yeah I also
question like you know you're talking about Serena Kerrigan who is the TikToker who spoke about how
she, so she's the confidence TikToker and she's the one who turned around and said,
oh, I'm actually taking Monjuro, which is a type of weight loss drug, very similar to
Ozempic.
Part of me is like, yes, I get why people are mad about that because they've followed
her for her persona is being confident in her body.
They've followed her for her weight loss journey and they probably felt a bit tricked.
But on the other hand, I'm like, I understand that Ozempic has been like a highly controversial
drug that a lot of people who have used it and have found benefits in it have struggled with
being open about. That is widely reported on. I know people who also take a Zempik and are not
honest about it because there's almost like a shame attached. We did a really great episode on
this with Johan Hari, if you want to go back and have a listen. I see both sides. I understand the
outrage, but I also understand the purge because now she gets to be the version of herself that
is authentic because she can burn the lies down and if she does rebuild it's based on truth it's
not based on the version of herself that she fell into the spiral of being on social media I've
thought about that a lot and I think I've landed on where I draw the line I don't mind when people
keep whatever they want to themselves there's a very big difference for me when they're financially
profiting off of the lie though yeah true so for her her being like confidence and you know I
I haven't seen her content but if she was posting diet plans and recipes and and workouts and she
was making money off of that which she would have been because she would have been a part of the
creator fund that's different for me. I agree and I also think in relation to that Laura it's great
that now she will have honest content but it wasn't a choice to make that content while her
audience was still active. It was a choice to capitalize into the last minute before she thought
it was cancelled and they all got a beautiful amount of reprieve where the weight was lifted
off their chest for a total of 14 hours before TikTok came back with a welcome back notification
when I read I couldn't stop reading it and then I was like Trump has 100% written this like TikTok
and Trump are sucking each other's dicks right now it says welcome back thanks for your patience
and support as a result of President Trump's efforts TikTok is back in the US you can continue
to create share and discover all the things you love on tiktok making it sound like trump has like
saved it swooped in at the nth hour and said to 170 million americans i've got you i've saved you
i've brought your life back and i just think have we forgotten that trump was the person that kicked
off this ban like this was trump's idea trump wanted to cancel it and now all of a sudden at
the perfect time he has brought it back and been everyone's savior on the day of his inauguration.
Well, this is because in 2020, so the reason why this all came into effect. So during Trump's last
term, because TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, it was a breach on national security
for America. So it's like, he's the one who created the fear and he created the ban and
then he saved the ban. And now everyone's like, thanks Trump for saving the ban on TikTok.
It really has been quite a wild little rollercoaster there. But interestingly,
the inauguration only happened about one to two nights ago, depending on when you're listening
to this and when this was recorded, it was very recent. And so we woke up this morning
to photos of Melania Trump going to her own funeral. I, okay. The inauguration had some
highlights. We really did. And I just want to, we wanted to touch on just a very minimal few
because we have our very strong feelings about the inauguration in general, but Melania's hat
and her outfit perfect it was iconic is what it was she is dressed identically and fashion
critical called this out but we said it as well here there is a company in australia called lady
funerals she is wearing a lady funeral outfit she bought their uniform she went to the funeral of
her own life for the next four years i'm not convinced it's melania i think she's been cloned
i can't believe she's still there and i don't think he wants to admit it she wore the hat that
covered half of her face so you can't properly see her i don't think it's her conspiracy i don't
think it's her but the funniest part is and if you haven't seen this outfit yes she's going to
a funeral but please go and watch this video the hat is so big that there is a moment that donald
trump goes to kiss her and he can't get under her hat he physically can't reach her and he's tilting
his big fat ugly head and he's trying to get under there and air kiss her and the hat is a condom for
her face he can't reach her so he has to end up giving up and puts an air kiss in that's why she
wore the hat she's protecting herself from her own husband at her funeral we're gonna put this
video up on instagram because it really is just such a highlight i've never seen someone look as
though they have as much disdain for a kiss like imagine your husband being inaugurated as the
president it looks like he goes to kiss her on the lips she turns her head and doesn't even give him
the opportunity to get his face in below the hat and so he ends up just air kissing the side of
her face there's no contact there is no contact she doesn't even try she doesn't even assist
she could have tilted slightly to like a 45 degree angle the hat would have tilted and his
mug would have gone under it is the funniest most awkward thing I've watched it on replay
what's the bet that Melania has the ick for her own husband and will we get in trouble by saying
this no that's not her I don't I don't believe it's her I think she's done a runner I think
she's done a runner can you blame her there's another moment there's this photo if you haven't
seen it we'll put it up as well but it's Mark Zuckerberg sitting next to Jeff Bezos's wife
a fiance sorry Lauren Sanchez and she's basically like talking about Melania being in a funeral suit
she's basically wearing like white lingerie she's got this suit on looks banging but her
decolletage is looking great and it's out and the photo is just Mark Zuckerberg sitting next to her
just looking at her tits like that is what he's doing they're talking he's not even looking at
he's blatantly looking at her boobs it's and I'm like you're at the president's inauguration
talking to the richest man in the world's wife eyes up here buddy do you think he's up here
like one job one job fact check second job don't look at Jeff Bezos wife's tits
look i know we make lots of jokes about the inauguration in general and there have been
some really funny things that have come off the back of it but there's been some really
fucking terrifying things as well yeah we laugh because we're terrified literally literally i
mean one thing that has come out today which i know we will probably talk about more in depth
in the coming weeks but there was a quote that donald trump said at his inauguration and it's
around the u.s government's policies on gender and diversity he said as of today it will be
henceforth the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders,
male and female, which is horrifying for all of the progress that has been made for trans
communities, for the LGBTQI community. Like this is such a step backwards. And the thing that is
just so like devastating is that it opens up for so much more discrimination and it makes it okay
again. The reason that this is so terrifying and, you know, all the tech bros are sitting there and
and we can make jokes about what they're wearing and what they look like and the new branding that
they basically all have but Facebook's sorry Meta in total has just removed their policies that kind
of protected hate speech towards trans people and non-binary people like these things are kind of
all happening at the same time you know the owner of TikTok was sitting there at the inauguration
too like it's quite also quite scary to see them all kind of sitting there like they're just the
owners of the world and this doesn't just impact America you know this impacts us it impacts
everyone and you know what it's also just so fucking embarrassing that of all the things to
talk about of all the incredibly important points that could be made in that inauguration speech
that he thought it was important to make that claim it be that he found it so imperative
that he needed to outline what gender means to him you know and i just think of all the other
really critical and important things that a president could focus on like why that i think
it's a power move yeah i think it's hey democrats you thought you made the progress i'm here to tell
you we are back and we are going to steamroll but also it once again makes an enemy like that's what
he's doing it's also really scary because money is power and he has the richest people in the world
on his team he's got the bezos he's got the zuckerberg he's got elon musk so not only does
he literally have the power i mean he's got the money himself but he's got all the money
to back him which is really scary but it's also been proven that he's untouchable and I think
that is what when I think about it what scares me the most is because like there used to be this
little tiny part in you that thought okay he's cooked but if he does something too far he'll be
held accountable but it has been proven that he will not be held accountable and now it's even
more scary because it's like oh you can do anything you want and no one can touch you yeah
and that's scary well to all of our non-binary friends we are thinking of you because we know
how like we just know that this would have been a really fucking horrifying day so we are all
thinking of you and you have our full and unwavering support let's get into accidentally unfiltered
your most embarrassing stories and if you have one that's happened to you over the christmas break
please send them in we need them just as much as we always have the first time i stayed at my
boyfriend's place i unfortunately had my period pretty bad i went into the bathroom changed my pad
and very discreetly I rolled it up into a tissue and I put that tissue into the main bin. I even
made the point to lift things out of the bin and to put the pad underneath it so that it could not
be found. I went to chill out for a bit and flash forward 20 minutes. I come back into the kitchen
and there is the pad. It is sitting on the kitchen bench, no longer covered in tissue.
My boyfriend is a very, very tidy person so I can only assume that as he was cleaning up,
He took things out of the bin to restack it, and the pad came out too.
Luckily, it wasn't too gruesome, and after seeing it,
I put it back into the bin.
My boyfriend and I have never spoken about it.
So her bloody pad was on the kitchen bench.
I have so many questions that have gone unanswered,
and the reason why I needed to talk about this with you was because I know
she says that her boyfriend's very tidy, and he pulled it out
and maybe restacked the bin.
How did it get unwrapped?
No, who restacked?
stacks a bin how did that's the question how did the pad unwrap itself I'll never forget once I was
at my boyfriend's house I will never forget it this is when I was really really young I also
had a pad took it out and I also wrapped it in the toilet paper and I meant to put it in the bin
and I don't I must have got distracted and it was I was obviously washing my hands or something and
it was it was on the sink and then I just left yeah and then I had that realization like hours
later and I called him I was mortified because you know when you're really young I was like you
need to do me a favor please I left some rubbish in the bathroom on the sink can you please go back
and put it in the bin and he went in he's like there's nothing here babe mom's cleaned and I was
fucking mortified his mom had to pick up like my bloody menstrual tampon oh I thought you were so
rank she like if I would just leave that around I was like but you did have to break up but you
did just leave it around and we broke up can we go back to this question at hand okay I'm sorry
but I know that your boyfriend might be clean and tidy and maybe it stuck to what was underneath
but I just can't understand I'm struggling to comprehend how it unraveled itself and then
neatly laid itself on a kitchen bench unless he did it and was hoping you would bring it up maybe
he has like a period kink and you just never brought up so he was like guess that didn't fly
and then he put it back in the bin like you with the cock ring like leaving the cock ring out I
just left it out you know like there's got to be a reason like some people leave engagement rings
out as a subtle cute when they want to get engaged pictures yeah he's got a blood thing
he's got a pad thing i don't i don't get it i think we need to give him the benefit of the doubt
i don't know if we do it was only 20 minutes if it was hours and hours i could formulate some
story about a pet or something you know like 20 minutes is a pretty sure he fished it out
unwrapped it and stuck it to the kitchen bed that's not the weird thing though the weird thing
is still restacking a bin.
She says he's clean and likes to restack the bin.
There's more going on here with this dude.
You restack a cardboard bin, but you don't restack, like,
your garbage bin.
Not a bin that's got literal garbage in it.
Hey, honey, I'll cook dinner in a minute.
Just got to sort the bin.
There's going to be some restacking.
The period goes on the top.
Babe, you always put the period under things.
Why do you do that?
Put it to the side.
Put it on the left.
He's Lego-ing, Tetris-ing the bin.
that's weird to me yeah that is weird it is weird hey nah i won't tell you i won't tell you yes you
will no i just told these guys before and it was the craziest story i've ever heard it was on
another podcast i came across this on socials and i didn't save it so i don't know who the original
podcast was right but it was the social grab that was going absolutely bananas it was an american
podcast and they were reading a story out that they'd come across so this man had been taking
his wife's tampons putting them in a rehydrator that he makes beef jerky in and keeping them
but keisha there was more to the story no i didn't need more he every so often ate it would
pop one in his tea like a teapot yeah and the woman found a drawer full of rehydrated tampons
and she was like obviously freaked out and was like my husband's not the man i thought he was
and he thinks that she's overreacting and I watched this thing on Instagram and I questioned
how I got here. I'm never going to be the same person and neither are you now that you've heard
it. Laura said this to me this morning and I said I would be less surprised if I found out that my
partner had murdered someone. That's how weird that is. If he was stockpiling your used tampons.
If we didn't feel the need to nuance chat Donald Trump, I don't think we need to nuance chat the
man that steals his wife's tampons, dehydrates them with a beef jerky and uses them as a tea
bath. She also said husband. She didn't say ex-husband. How is that not grounds for divorce?
Horrifying. I know we talk about some messed up things on this podcast, but that wasn't from us.
That was not our content and it was not our story, but I came across it and I have not stopped
thinking about it since it happened. Okay. I have something similar. I saw this also just
on Instagram it's a girl that I mean she's taking recycling to the next level so what she was doing
is just like living her best life having loads of sex great great great great she was keeping
all the condoms and then she made a dress out of them no I need to show you it I'm not and she wore
it as fashion it's a condom dress a used condom dress people are so great I love people I love
I love how weird we all are.
Okay, to be fair, when you look at this, you're going to be like,
that's a fucking hot dress until you look at it.
We need to bring back bullying.
No, look at this dress.
It's fashion.
It's all condoms.
Did she wear it to like Fashion Week or something?
Yeah.
In fact, if you wore that on a date.
I don't think anybody has ever been as sex positive as her.
She takes the cake.
She wins.
It looks beautiful.
It's got ruffles.
It's got texture.
But they're all used condoms.
Oh, sorry.
She wore that to Miss Universe.
That's Miss Universe.
Good on her.
Good on her.
You know, we talk about progression and how it's been such a good thing.
Sometimes I do wonder if we swung the pendulum too far.
That's too far for me.
I don't mind condom dresses if it wasn't used,
but I find it weird that it was off the back of, like,
your sexual escapades.
For me that was a bit like clean ones, fine,
but if there's, like, semen flinging around, I don't know.
Seems unhygienic.
Seems unnecessary.
Semen's unhygienic.
Good for the planet, though.
great also good for having that much sex it'd take me years to make that dress yeah keisha
take you half your lifetime we're talking about me too i wouldn't even be able to make a boot
tube but you'd have a bit you'd have a banging bracelet every two weeks no that's a lie every
week all right we're doing good let's leave it's time to go you got a second suite still
second suite my suck for the week is look i i actually i spoke about this a bit on two
Doting Dads. I filled in for Matt this week. So if you were a Two Doting Dads listener,
you would have heard this already. But Matt changed Lola's daycare before he left to go
into the jungle. So it was terrible timing. He made the decision. He wanted Lola to go to a
different daycare. I wasn't completely on board with that decision. And we have now been going
through changing her to a new school. And it's been so much harder than I thought it would be
to the point where I picked her up from school yesterday and she was crying from the time I
picked her up till the time i put her to bed and then she woke up at 3 a.m in the morning and cried
for 20 minutes saying please mommy don't send me to school did she say why she said she's scared
and it's too many people that she doesn't know and she just doesn't want to be there she's been
at the same daycare since she was a baby and her daycare teachers are also her babysitters so like
she has such a close relationship with them so going to a new school where all the kids there
already have their networks already have their friends new teachers new everything it's been a
really really challenging transition for us like it's funny though because you've you I mean you've
told me some of the instances in the car and stuff before she goes it sounds horrific but I always
assumed and you always hear people say especially at that age that kids are so malleable and like
they make friends so quickly and they don't necessarily hold on so much to their past so
it's really unusual in my expertise as a child psychologist it's really unusual for me to for me
for me to hear that she's having such a hard time making new friends when she's only three like I
just thought it was like oh here's some new kids because you know kids go to a park right they'll
go and be best friends with the kid on the slide for four hours yeah it is not that simple and I
think anyone who has kids my like the same age as my kids age know that as much as kids can be
really adaptable and make friends quickly in some situations they also are learning like the social
cues and so like for example a child might make a friend really easy in a park but usually it's
because that friend is also on their own now she's gotten put into a new situation where everyone has
their groups of friends and she's trying to interact and she also has is missing all of the
friends that she made and everything that was familiar to her kids need routine they love
routine it is so overstimulatingly new that she is not coping with it i'm going to give it another
couple of weeks but if she hasn't changed about it i can't do 25 minutes of crying at 3 a.m saying
mummy please don't send me to daycare my sweet for the week like I said it is Matt being in the
jungle watching him on tv I feel like he was really himself on the last episode the first
episode I think he was a bit nervous it's unusual yeah and he kind of I could I can tell when he's
nervous whereas like last night's episode I felt like he was very him and I feel really proud of
him I hope he's having a good time so go and vote Maddie J and 10 play everybody 10 votes you can
vote 10 times a day just for Maddie J.
It rhymes.
My psyche is that I feel like a really bad mum as well, but I don't have Delilah.
So a lot of people have been asking in my messages because I've been going on walks,
posting stuff since I've been back the last week and she hasn't been in it.
And as you guys know, Delilah is my core content.
Like my life revolves around Delilah.
People are like, what happened to Delilah?
Yeah.
So Delilah's still here.
Don't worry.
People thought when I killed the plant that I'd also forgotten about her.
Dude, so many messages came through being like,
don't let Keisha look after Delilah.
She can't look after the plant.
Plants are different.
So different.
Dogs make noise when you neglect them.
Plants don't.
They just die quietly in the corner.
I love Delilah.
I had no emotional connection to that plant.
Shock.
So Delilah has been on a beach vacation.
She always goes on a beach vacation when I go away.
She goes to Port Macquarie with my parents and she has the time of her life.
They have two dogs.
They're free running on the beach like wild horses.
She loves her life.
but since I've gotten back, we've been pretty full on with a lot of stuff here. We've been
seven days a week work basically to catch up. And I haven't been able to drive up. It's five
hours away. And part of me is in a way, I'm not in a rush. My dad's like, you don't need to worry
because she's having the time of her life. So half of me is like, I want her to keep having fun
because she doesn't have the same life here. She's got a great life, but I don't have other
dogs to play with. And I'm not home all the time. And she's not, you know, free reign at the beach.
but then the other half of me is like she's my dog i want my dog no what if she doesn't want to
come back what if she's like fair she probably doesn't i don't want to go back there i made the
decision it was really hard when i facetime her i don't talk to her because it upsets her when she
hears my voice so i just look at her i'm such a creep dad will facetime and i just look at her
and because i when i first went i facetimed her and i was speaking to her and dad said she was
really sad after that i lie you know i make the joke dogs want to be wherever their favorite human
is it doesn't matter what else is going on like i don't think i'm the favorite anymore no i think
you are dad you always will be a toast you give her salmon that's true it's fine and your sweet
for the week my sweet for the week would be that my plant is flourishing so i've got three leaves
now the plant that we killed and i'm actually really optimistic that it might come back so
have you put period blood in there yet no because i haven't had my period yet i haven't gone around
asking the street for period donations so my period if anyone cares will be here soon and i
will update you i'm gonna use it but it's it's coming back and i'm shocked i've had a lot of
messages from people saying and i don't know if i believe this plants know their owners and can
sense them when they come home and stuff so people were like they sensed that you came home and now
it's thriving so i don't know if i believe that yet neither do i watch this space let's get out
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