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Speaker 2: one isn't really a rant, but I do want to
Speaker 2: bring something up. Yeah, I have got a new like
Speaker 2: little petty grute with the Internet that I wonder if
Speaker 2: you've ever picked up on or whether you've ever noticed so,
Speaker 2: someone I know recently just announced a pregnancy. They are pregnant.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to them. And you know what, I fucking can't
Speaker 2: stand when someone announces their pregnancy and they're like bub
Speaker 2: coming due February twenty whenever the fuck whatever they say beautiful,
Speaker 2: nothing against the pregnancy announcement, absolutely gorgeous. You know what
Speaker 2: pisses me the fuck off the bitches in the comments going, oh,
Speaker 2: so glad it's finally all out, Like so glad we
Speaker 2: can finally talk about this. Oh my god, babe, like
Speaker 2: so happy that you finally told everyone, Like we get
Speaker 2: out you knew, you knew six weeks ago. We get
Speaker 2: at babes like they go, oh my god, girl, finally
Speaker 2: it's been so hard to keep this secret. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is not about you.
Speaker 1: To add to that, to add to this rant, because
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that one. But also when someone
Speaker 1: does a gender reveal video, okay, and it's like long.
Speaker 1: Let's say the video is forty seconds long, and in
Speaker 1: the last ten seconds is when you find out if
Speaker 1: it's pink balloons or blue balloons, and someone in the
Speaker 1: comments comments congratulations on your girl with all pink hearts,
Speaker 1: and they fucking spoil it for anyone else watching, Like
Speaker 1: just write congratulations, don't spoil it in the comments. What
Speaker 1: the baby's gender is?
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Yeah, so with you on that as well,
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, I spoil it, Like, let me wait until the
Speaker 1: fucking massive cannons go off in the air that cost
Speaker 1: the price of a car. I want to see the reveal.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see you know how on Instagram
Speaker 1: you can see like the first two comments or whatever.
Speaker 1: If it's all blue hearts, I'm like, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: fucking watching it now, am I?
Speaker 2: Oh? Seriously, how funny moving on Did you say sixteen
Speaker 2: year olds are getting banned from social media in Australia?
Speaker 2: Did you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I'll tell what I have to say about this.
Speaker 2: Here we go. So wait, give a bit of context.
Speaker 1: Okay, So not forg know, is it the Australian government, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Anthony Anthony Albanesi has said that if you're sixteen or under,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to use social media or under sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it comes into effect next year.
Speaker 2: And I don't know whether if you've already got social
Speaker 2: media and you're twelve, you can continue using it or
Speaker 2: whether you just they just a blanket ban. I've got
Speaker 2: no idea how they're going to police this either.
Speaker 1: And you know what my first thought is they are
Speaker 1: still going to use it. Oh for sure, they're gonna
Speaker 1: use it. That is how teenagers communicate through fucking Snapchat
Speaker 1: and whatever else. This is not gonna be successful.
Speaker 2: I'm also that girl, get your elbow, get your priorities right.
Speaker 2: Why is this the biggest problem that apparently we are facing.
Speaker 1: I get it for tax everything else. I get it
Speaker 1: for bullying reasons, like online bullying is relentless, especially amongst teenagers.
Speaker 1: So I'm all for it from that angle, But like,
Speaker 1: do they think that by saying that you can't be
Speaker 1: on it, they're not going to It'll probably just be
Speaker 1: like you have to put your birthday in and then
Speaker 1: you just lie and put your birthday. That's what I
Speaker 1: used to do when I was playing hab A Hotel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was on Facebook, I lied about my age.
Speaker 1: Like kids will one hundred percent just still use it anyway.
Speaker 2: I just don't. Yeah, I don't understand how they're going
Speaker 2: to police it. I also it actually I think it's
Speaker 2: more of a parental issue than anything.
Speaker 1: It also makes me wonder as well, does this apply
Speaker 1: to babies and kids and toddlers that are in parents' content?
Speaker 2: Uh No, I don't think so. I just think they
Speaker 2: can't have an account.
Speaker 1: Right, But you could still use your twelve year old
Speaker 1: in your content, Yeah for sure. See that's a gray line,
Speaker 1: fuzzy line as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes no sense to me, and thankfully I
Speaker 2: don't think it'll affect us. I don't know if we
Speaker 2: have anyone under the age of sixteen listening to this podcast.
Speaker 2: Surely not unless they're in the back of the car.
Speaker 2: I know sometimes we have some parents in the back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kids are in the back.
Speaker 1: I will say though, ever since like we took fate
Speaker 1: to TikTok and like started making TikTok videos, I have
Speaker 1: gained like a younger audience on TikTok because now, like
Speaker 1: the other day, I was at our Paramatt store and
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of schoolgirls walking past in their
Speaker 1: school informaly and I'm like, holy shit, like I've got
Speaker 1: tea fucking watched me again and it took me back
Speaker 1: to like the YouTube days when our audiences were teenagers.
Speaker 1: But TikTok has given me a bit of a younger
Speaker 1: audience again, Okay, but only on TikTok. And they're like,
Speaker 1: I love your tiktoks when that's like not the main
Speaker 1: thing that I do.
Speaker 2: Weird, Yeah, I don't think it'll affect me or my
Speaker 2: audience said, like so true, Like.
Speaker 1: My creators that have a predominantly teenage or kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. Some of these some of these
Speaker 2: ones with like millions of followers out there, they've got
Speaker 2: kid kids as young as like eight years old watching
Speaker 2: them on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to be interested, like all in all
Speaker 1: this whole thing, Like I'm all for kids not being
Speaker 1: on social media for bullying, because like, that's fucked up,
Speaker 1: Like the kids that bully other kids online behind Snapchat,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on there? And what are
Speaker 1: the parents doing in that scenario. But I just I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see how this plays out, because I don't
Speaker 1: see it playing out at all. I can see kids
Speaker 1: still just using Snapchat and Instagram and everything. Anyway.
Speaker 2: I just think it's a weird step for the government
Speaker 2: to be like, no, you can't do this, whereas it's like,
Speaker 2: like I feel like it's more of a parent thing,
Speaker 2: Like I feel like it's.
Speaker 1: More of a I feel like kids also need to
Speaker 1: be fucking punished. No, I feel like why what do
Speaker 1: you mean? Like, I feel like there needs to be
Speaker 1: more consequences to the actions of bullying on social media,
Speaker 1: Like I actually feel really fucking passionately about that, the
Speaker 1: same way I'm not going to ag the other day.
Speaker 1: We're going off topic here a little bit, Matt. Graffiti, Yeah, okay, graffiti.
Speaker 1: I hate graffiti.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's the ugliest fucking thing I've ever seen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and to all the kids, hopefully it's only kids doing graffiti.
Speaker 1: If it's adults, grow the fuck up. But to all
Speaker 1: the people out there that do graffiti, the only other
Speaker 1: people that think it's cool is other losers that do graffiti.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of losers trying to impress one another.
Speaker 1: It looks it looks shit, it's ugly, and I want
Speaker 1: to get a hand chopped off.
Speaker 2: I never understand because I just I've never in my
Speaker 2: life been compelled to draw on something permanently, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, I've never in my life gone
Speaker 2: I want to pick up a permanent market or a
Speaker 2: spray pan, a spray can of paint and spray it
Speaker 2: on a wall. Never in my life have I thought
Speaker 2: only enjoyment.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's fucking sick. Is the other idiots to
Speaker 1: do it as well? Like you just all try to
Speaker 1: impress each other and you're all losers. I reckon. There
Speaker 1: needs to be more consequences for the graffiti. If you graffiti,
Speaker 1: you get your hand chopped off.
Speaker 2: You reckon. It's extreme.
Speaker 1: Penalize these people.
Speaker 2: I think it's also weird how much dead I have
Speaker 2: to give them. I have to actually give graffiti artists
Speaker 2: some credit, some credit here, because when you think about it,
Speaker 2: no one's going to the lenks that graffiti artists are
Speaker 2: to share their with the world. Is it because you
Speaker 2: see it underneath the fucking bridge? How the fuck did
Speaker 2: you get there to spray paint.
Speaker 1: That top of a bridge as well?
Speaker 2: I used to catch the train down to Sydney from
Speaker 2: the Central Coast and there was an area with no reception,
Speaker 2: nothing but trees and tunnels for the trains, the tunnels
Speaker 2: covering graffiti. I thought, how have you? You can't drive
Speaker 2: out there. You can't, you'd have to bushwalk. I feel
Speaker 2: for like kilometers and kilometers to get there to draw
Speaker 2: a fucking word that I can't even read because you've
Speaker 2: done it in bubble text on a train tunnel. I
Speaker 2: just say they've got a lot of work ethic or
Speaker 2: something to be able to get a lot of.
Speaker 1: Spare time, is what they have.
Speaker 2: Actually, they've probably got now up.
Speaker 1: I think graffiti is fucking so dumb. I hate it,
Speaker 1: and it makes everything look ugly, like you go through
Speaker 1: a CBD, like in Newcastle CBD. All the poor fucking
Speaker 1: businesses that get graffitied every day, then that business has
Speaker 1: to pay to have it cleaned off, Like it's just disrespectful,
Speaker 1: like graffiti your own bedroom walls.
Speaker 2: I will say I think, like, obviously, I think the
Speaker 2: problem is when you are damaging someone else's property. I
Speaker 2: guess there's not many places you could graffiti that didn't.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying the people who like graffiti a fucking
Speaker 2: shop window, Like if someone graffiti the front of Fate,
Speaker 2: for sure, fuck off. That's just disrespectful. But like you know,
Speaker 2: out in the bush on the train tunnels, like, I
Speaker 2: guess that's not really harming anyone. But I'm also like,
Speaker 2: what's the fucking point. I just don't understand that.
Speaker 1: It's to impress other people that do graffiti that are
Speaker 1: in a different group.
Speaker 2: Who do you reckon? People are sitting on the train
Speaker 2: then going past, and they're going, fuck, that's a.
Speaker 1: Nice fucking yes they are, they are No.
Speaker 2: And then you see the ones at like the top
Speaker 2: of a damn or like just somewhere that you can't
Speaker 2: even reach. I've gone. You have literally put your life
Speaker 2: at risk to spray paint this word on a bridge,
Speaker 2: on a on a building, on a and how did
Speaker 2: you get up there to do that? I got to
Speaker 2: give them some credit, but.
Speaker 1: Also creativity, and it's a bit creative. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit of art, but fuck off you're making this like Newcastle,
Speaker 1: CEBD is just fucking full of graffiti and it's disgusting.
Speaker 2: Which it must be so bad that like the council
Speaker 2: can't even be bothered painting over it because it'll just
Speaker 2: get done again. Like is that the vibe?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't know, I just hate it. I
Speaker 1: hate it. Get your hands chopped off, fair enough? Okay,
Speaker 1: bring back fucking stuff like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, let's bring back execution. Let's do that.
Speaker 2: We may as well or just go all the way
Speaker 2: to the top and sort it out. And like, so
Speaker 2: more punishments is what you're wanting in the world, Yes, Like, if.
Speaker 1: Someone's fucked up enough, fucking bring back punishments. And like
Speaker 1: I've seen the whole kids being banned from social media thing.
Speaker 1: So they can be banned from social media until they're sixteen,
Speaker 1: but they can go to jail when they're ten.
Speaker 2: Mm.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, but that's it's a slippery slope pee because I
Speaker 2: will say in high school, when I was in high school,
Speaker 2: social media was just coming about, you know, teaching about
Speaker 2: because what do you call that instead of prevention, you
Speaker 2: call it something else, like similar to safe sex, Like
Speaker 2: teach safe sex instead of teach don't have sex because
Speaker 2: kids are gonna have We'll not kids, but who knows.
Speaker 2: But anyway, people aren't gonna People are gonna have sex,
Speaker 2: so we want to teach them to have safe sex,
Speaker 2: not to not have sex because it's gonna happen. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, instead of just banning social media, we should
Speaker 2: be teaching them how to use it. But I will
Speaker 2: say in their defense, like we were taught I don't
Speaker 2: know if you were taught in high school, but we
Speaker 2: were definitely taught about But we had a big scandal
Speaker 2: at our school, which actually I probably Nova wouldn't let
Speaker 2: me talk about it on the podcast, but it had
Speaker 2: to do with the sharing of one's photos. I will
Speaker 2: say around the school. It was a big.
Speaker 1: Scandal in schools Now, yes, what is going on?
Speaker 2: We had to we had, like our school had to
Speaker 2: take action on that and teach us about internet safety
Speaker 2: and bullying online and all the rest of that. So
Speaker 2: we actually learned a lot. I don't think it stopped
Speaker 2: any once people were still all so I think I
Speaker 2: think this might also be a last resort for the government.
Speaker 2: But also I'm still like, it just doesn't seem right
Speaker 2: to me. And I'm not like someone who's like, yes,
Speaker 2: every kid should have social media. I just think wasting
Speaker 2: our time implementing this band.
Speaker 1: They're still going to go on it anyway.
Speaker 2: I just think it's like a waste of and I
Speaker 2: haven't seen many people say like, yes, this is a
Speaker 2: good decision. I'm like, this is what governments do, aren't they.
Speaker 2: We go, hello, we're starving, we can't afford groceries, we
Speaker 2: can't afford rent And they go, well, guess what we're
Speaker 2: gonna do. We're going to ban social media for kids.
Speaker 2: It's like, thank you back to the rental crisis. Just
Speaker 2: think it was in poor taste to make such a
Speaker 2: hulla baloo about the whole thing when I feel there
Speaker 2: are more issues at the top of the pyramid for
Speaker 2: our government to reflect on. But anyway, we're not a
Speaker 2: political podcast. We're a pop culture podcast. So I don't
Speaker 2: know why we spent close friends talking about all this. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Should we wrap it up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice? Well, thanks Gay, thanks for listening. Scroll to see
Speaker 2: you next Tuesday.