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Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land Always was, always

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Speaker 1: is two Broke Chicks News Arrivals where we give you

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Speaker 1: the fashion, beauty and lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: And today I Hope You've got some milk ready is

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Speaker 1: a spicy episode.

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Speaker 3: That's Alvira going in the fridge.

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Speaker 1: Put on your SBF Chicks because someone you're about to

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Speaker 1: So there's lots of news floating around in the fashion,

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Speaker 1: beauty and lifestyle world and it was actually really tricky

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Speaker 1: we were like, oh, some of these are a little

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Speaker 1: bit little bit neg vibes, but very important conversations to

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Speaker 1: be having regardless. Yeah, totally so, so I'm going to

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Speaker 1: kick it off to you straightaway to took us through

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Speaker 1: the latest beauty drama.

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Speaker 3: So Elf disappoints with its latest campaign.

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Speaker 2: In case you didn't see it this week.

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Speaker 3: Elf Cosmetics is facing quite a bit of backlash after

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Speaker 3: a controversial campaign that they went live with on the

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Speaker 3: tenth of August. So if you haven't seen it, the

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Speaker 3: ad featured comedian in Inverted commers in that Rife as

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Speaker 3: the face of their latest campaign. He featured alongside RuPaul's

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Speaker 3: drag Ray star Heidi in Closet, which Rady Heidi in Closet, which,

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Speaker 3: to be honest, I was upset.

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan in closet. Yeah, And the.

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Speaker 3: Pair featured as affordable beauty attorneys in this ad at

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Speaker 3: a law firm called Elfino and Schmanns.

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Speaker 1: I believe that ad was supposed to be a parody

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Speaker 1: of a previous law attorney, yeah, from like the two

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Speaker 1: thousands or the nineties or something, which makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was very like campy and silly, and they

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Speaker 3: and I think the name is Elfino and Schmarns is

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Speaker 3: like a play on this iconic New York law firm, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: where these two lawyers are fighting overpriced beauty products. So

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Speaker 3: in the ad, Rife says, I know a thing or

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Speaker 3: two about red flags and pricey makeup. You deserve better

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Speaker 3: than that. So naturally, this campaign has received a lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and completely warranted too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, totally a tld I. In case you don't know

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Speaker 3: who Matt Rife is and you missed all of that drama.

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Speaker 2: Gratulations. Yeah, first time job, gold star.

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Speaker 1: You have built that algorithm brick by brick baby out

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Speaker 2: Yeah, proud of you. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But Matt Rife is a comedian who built quite a

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Speaker 3: large female following during the pandemic, which is important to

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Speaker 3: know here, but since has been rightfully criticized and canceled.

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Speaker 3: I would say for his comedy special Natural Selection, which

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Speaker 3: dropped in twenty twenty three, where he featured a bunch

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Speaker 3: of domestic violence jokes.

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Speaker 2: It was actually disgusting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and naturally people were like what the fuck, Like

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Speaker 3: this shit has never been funny, but especially now, like

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Speaker 3: we know better and it's a serious issue internationally, Like

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Speaker 3: we shouldn't be making jokes about this. It's not funny.

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Speaker 3: And at the time he released an apology, but the

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Speaker 3: apology linked out to a website that sold helmets for

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Speaker 3: people with special needs and was like, here's an apology

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Speaker 3: for anybody who's been offended by any of my jokes.

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Speaker 3: So again, and just double down and didn't take ownership

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Speaker 2: Behavior, and yeah, he's an awful person.

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Speaker 3: Back to current day. Naturally, people are really upset and disappointed.

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Speaker 2: And I think surprised. Yeah, I think surprised.

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Speaker 1: I think there was a really amazing TikTok from a

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Speaker 1: creator that referenced a lot of the work ELF has

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Speaker 1: done to empower women and support women. So then to

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Speaker 1: have a campaign like this is so backwards and feels

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Speaker 1: like a betrayal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, because the majority of their customer base is

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Speaker 3: I am just like so shocked how these things get

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Speaker 3: made jokes about domestic violence in our campaign that's targeted

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Speaker 3: was put perfectly by TikTok creator and beauty influencer Jilly Clark,

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Speaker 1: Jilly made an amazing video about this. Yeah, big fan

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Speaker 3: One part that I think struck a chord with a

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 1: There was also an absolutely slay comment that she made

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Speaker 1: in a follow up video where she said Jilly deliciously

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Speaker 1: noted that her video calling them out got five million

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Speaker 1: more views than the Elf Cosmetics campaign.

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Speaker 3: Hell, I mean and rightfully. So and rightfully and I

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Speaker 3: think a lot of people are also really disappointed because

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Speaker 3: it was released I think four or so days ago

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Speaker 3: now and Elf have yet to remove it, but they

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Speaker 3: did publish an apology of sorts on their Instagram which read,

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Speaker 3: This campaign aimed to humorously spotlight beauty injustice. We understand

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Speaker 3: we miss the mark with people we care about in

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Speaker 3: our ELF community. While Elf and Fino and Schmann's closes today,

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Speaker 3: will continue to make the case against overpriced beauty love Heart.

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Speaker 1: I'm really disappointed by that because we have loved Elf

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Speaker 2: But the response like this is basically oops, but will

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Speaker 1: I think you can't publish a statement like that and

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Speaker 2: It's basically ignoring your customers.

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Speaker 3: And also the apology is pretty apology.

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Speaker 2: There's no sorry in there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so true, there's no actual sorry, and they don't

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Speaker 3: address what people were upset about, Like they don't mention

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Speaker 3: him by name, they don't mention why it was inappropriate

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Speaker 3: I think even the fact that they've said, oh, Schmanns

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Speaker 3: from today, Like don't make a joke, don't yeah, true,

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Speaker 1: And I also think if you go to the comment

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Speaker 1: the other thing that you and I were speaking about

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Speaker 1: that are aimed at women, that are ostracizing women.

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Speaker 2: Look at Sydney Sweeney's ad, We're all like, wait, was

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Speaker 3: That was just yeah, that was ostracizing everyone with two

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Speaker 3: brains all s rub together. I'm wondering, is rage bait

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Speaker 3: I think because it's so fresh and we've had quite

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Speaker 3: a few recent examples, it's hard to know what the

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Speaker 3: long term impacts of these sorts of ads and the

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Speaker 3: controversy new deadlines, what kind of impact that will have

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Speaker 3: So I'm almost like, yes, like these brands are being canceled,

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Speaker 3: and are they doing this on purpose to get more

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting because our producer also noted that since

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Speaker 1: acquiring Road Beauty, Hailey Baber's brand, ELF's sales had increased

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Speaker 1: by nine percent. But I'm going to be really really

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Speaker 1: interested to see how those sales go off the back

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Speaker 3: So yeah, fuck that guy and disappointing.

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Speaker 2: All right, moving on to something a little bit more fun.

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Speaker 1: Hey, ponchos are the next big fashion flair in a

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Speaker 1: twist of fates, the newest fashion trend about to be

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Speaker 1: everywhere is, in fact ponchos, shawls and capes, the incredibles

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Speaker 2: Gapes and the mode is rolling over in a great.

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Speaker 1: Like what did I say?

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Speaker 2: Ok, what did I say? Chess roll them montage? That

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Speaker 1: But ed Na, I'm sorry, I've just got a report

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Speaker 1: on the news. So, according to Style Analytics, searches for

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Speaker 1: So it kind of feels like this natural evolution from

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Speaker 1: The fashion up and comer was also called out in

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Speaker 1: that the poncho is far from you. They've been worn

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Speaker 1: to influence fashion globally, which I think is also incredibly

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Speaker 1: important to know. Yeah, you may also recall that the

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Speaker 1: But I think that kind of also shows how it's

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Speaker 1: not too surprising to see this as a resurgence, as

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Speaker 2: So I do think that it.

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Speaker 3: Makes sense for it to come back, given that you know,

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Speaker 3: it was relevant then and relevant in the seventies and

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Speaker 3: we're seeing it back.

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Speaker 1: But we're seeing it now stocked and referenced. As you know, capes, ponchos, shawls,

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Speaker 1: it's now they're in target, Mango Zara, They're definitely popping up.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting.

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Speaker 1: Style Analytics did note that the product amount was very

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Speaker 1: far behind the amount of like want for these items.

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Speaker 1: Yeah the demand, Yeah, the demand is larger than the supply.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was trying to say. Good jobs

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Speaker 1: our God's staff for you. So yeah, I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: see how this continues to develop. And I'm all for

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Speaker 1: This headline is inspired by the fact that my boyfriend

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Speaker 1: Netflix has raised its prices again, and Mecha removes its

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Speaker 1: birthday reward beauty Loop. The National Mental Health Commission has

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Speaker 1: found the number of people experiencing financial stress has almost

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Speaker 1: doubled since twenty twenty. It rose from seventeen point one

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Speaker 1: percent in November twenty twenty to thirty four point six

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Speaker 2: The brand's care they said, fuck you in you're stress.

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Speaker 1: I've raised my prices twice an year. I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: you pretty middle of that literally, but it's like you

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Speaker 1: can get to you in your little bank account too,

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Speaker 1: Fuck you.

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Speaker 2: And your savings.

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Speaker 1: About a third of Australians are financially stressed, with women

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Speaker 1: consistently reporting more anxiety about money, according to the latest

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Speaker 1: snapshot into the mental health system. And it's followed by

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Speaker 1: a period where prices have risen by more than twenty

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Speaker 1: percent in five years, and it continues with Netflix raising

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Speaker 1: its prices by twenty six percent since May twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: That's so hectic.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: If you feel like a Netflix price raise is coming

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Speaker 1: more often than you think it is, you're not wrong.

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Speaker 1: So they've increased Australian pricing twice in just over a year.

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Speaker 1: Am I too far gone in the world that I

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Speaker 1: believe a price increase should be coming maybe every five years? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I don't think that we should be getting multiple in

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Speaker 3: a year, and not by twenty six percent.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 1: So the minimum cost for an AD free plan is

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Speaker 1: now twenty dollars and ninety nine cents. The standard plan

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Speaker 1: went from sixteen ninety nine to eighteen ninety nine in

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Speaker 1: May twenty twenty four and now to twenty ninety nine

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Speaker 1: in September twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Crazy.

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Speaker 1: Please, The minimum cost for a plan with ads is

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Speaker 1: now nine ninety nine, which was previously seven ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: It also costs an additional six ninety nine six dollars

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Speaker 1: and ninety nine cents to add someone else to your plan,

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Speaker 1: so forget about splitting the cost with someone with.

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Speaker 2: Your single people.

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Speaker 1: Fuck you, that's what they said, Like, that's the only

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Speaker 1: reason I got a boyfriend.

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Speaker 2: I can't afford Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Honestly, while this is really disappointing, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be coming in being like.

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Speaker 2: Doom and gloom to the jis being.

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Speaker 1: Like, guess what, It's still getting more expensive.

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Speaker 2: There's no end in sight.

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Speaker 1: It is a really really good kick up the bum

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Speaker 1: to look at your subscriptions and to ask yourself the question,

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Speaker 1: is this subscription worthy.

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Speaker 2: Amount of money I'm paying for it? Maybe it is.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you watch Netflix every single day and that price

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Speaker 1: point is worth it to you. But when we were

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Speaker 1: discussing it previous to recording this, Sau literally verbally out

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Speaker 2: What do I even watch on Netflix? And I was like,

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Speaker 2: where'd you get to in that?

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Speaker 1: Someone on Reddit said this is a lot to pay

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Speaker 1: just to watch Happy You'll more too.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, well, I feel like, yeah, what I have been

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Speaker 3: watching is like reruns of Brooklyn nine nine. Is that

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Speaker 3: really necessary? And then I was trying to think of

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Speaker 3: like the Netflix original that I was most excited to watch,

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Speaker 3: and it would be Stranger Things, But that doesn't come

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Speaker 3: out until the end of the year. I could just

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Speaker 3: cancel it until then.

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Speaker 1: Another little PSA in case you haven't used it yet,

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Speaker 1: Mecca is officially getting rid of its Birthday E gift

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Speaker 1: card Beauty Loop reward.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a year after its launch, the Mecca Beauty Loop

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Speaker 3: Birthday E gift Card reward is coming to an end.

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Speaker 2: I'm sad. I'm very sad about this. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was only in October twenty twenty four that Mecca

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Speaker 3: announced that the Beauty Loop Birthday gift would be an

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Speaker 3: E gift card, and I think everybody was, like.

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Speaker 2: Carlo Luis, it was everyone was so excited.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't realize that this was just for

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Speaker 1: one year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think this was a very very smart pr move

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Speaker 1: in a very noisy reception where a lot of people

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Speaker 1: were discussing the value of Mecca's reward program, and I

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Speaker 1: think this was a response to that, and I thought

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Speaker 1: it was a great response. However, maybe we just missed

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Speaker 1: the mark that it was for one year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that was communicated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, or if it was you know, just always in

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Speaker 3: the fine print, yet we didn't see.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of fine prints, I'm really speaking.

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Speaker 2: Of fine print.

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Speaker 1: The birthday gift cards for the Mecca Rewards Beauty Loop

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Speaker 1: are only valid for thirty days. Now, whilst I understand

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Speaker 1: it's a birthday reward and for that to have a

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Speaker 1: thirty day surrounding timeframe makes sense.

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Speaker 2: I understand that.

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Speaker 1: However, in Australia, E gift cards and vouchers are for

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Speaker 1: a minimum of three years, yeah, and are legally supposed

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Speaker 1: to be for a minimum of three years. So I

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Speaker 1: actually don't quite understand how.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it must be some sort of like loophole that

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Speaker 3: because it's a birthday reward, yes, and that makes that.

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Speaker 1: Kind of so if you're an idiot like me and

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Speaker 1: didn't know that, and then four days after that, that

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Speaker 1: thirty days you went to go and use it, and

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Speaker 1: you were heartbroken because I could have had seventy dollars

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Speaker 3: You get your E gift card the day before your birthday,

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Speaker 3: and then you only have thirty days to use it,

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Speaker 3: so it's not thirty within thirty days from before you one.

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Speaker 2: Is out of stock. Yeah, I mean yeah, And I

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Speaker 2: get it like it's it's a reward. You're like, they're

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Speaker 2: giving you a reward back. They're allowed to decide how

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Speaker 2: they want to do that and manage that.

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Speaker 1: But I'm really sad to see it go, and I

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Speaker 1: really really hope that they renew it because it obviously

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Speaker 1: had such strong reception. But basically, if your birthday is

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Speaker 1: in August or September, you guys are the last of

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Speaker 1: the Mecca Birthday beauty loops.

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Speaker 3: Yep. It wraps up on the thirtieth of September, so

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Speaker 3: I will have to keep our eyes peeled for what.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's the reward will be if you don't want

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Speaker 2: to use it, hit a girl.

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Speaker 3: Up, Yes, send it our way.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you my Netflix password. It's basically the same price.

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Speaker 1: I did, however, have a little hack that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to wrap up this episode with kind of going back

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Speaker 1: to our subscriptions cozilibs.

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Speaker 2: The Cozi Lift strikes back.

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Speaker 1: I saw this one TikTok a while ago, and then

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're like sitting at your laptop and

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Speaker 1: a hack to unsubscribe from all of the pesky newsletters

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Speaker 1: in your Gmail. So you open your Gmail and on

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Speaker 1: the left, right down the bottom where you've got like inbox,

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Speaker 1: spam trash, you go more options and there's a little

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Speaker 1: button that says managed subscriptions. It will then list out

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Speaker 1: all of the newsletters, edms and brands that you're subscribed

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Speaker 1: to with a button next to it saying unsubscribe no,

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Speaker 1: And you just go down and click it and unsubscribe

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Speaker 1: from all of those super annoying edms that you didn't

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Speaker 1: even sign up for. You just bought something from them

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Speaker 1: two years ago, and you've never been able to unsubscribe.

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Speaker 1: And it literally took me fifteen minutes to unsubscribe from

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Speaker 1: all of them. Wow.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, if you love the brand and you want to

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Speaker 1: stay subscribed, go for gold, but I don't.

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Speaker 3: I think most of us could do with a couple

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Speaker 3: less subscriptions necessary.

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Speaker 1: That is a wrap for news arrivals this week.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We would love to hear your thoughts, feelings,

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Speaker 2: and emotions.

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Speaker 1: And feel free to send us any news stories that

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Speaker 1: you want us to cover in these episodes because when there.

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Speaker 2: Was a Little Girls, it was a Little Girls.

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