1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 1: Welcome. The world is a bin fire. We know this. Gee, 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 1: it seems to be getting fiery. Err doesn't it shittier? 3 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: And you know, all of the things quite amazingly, this 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: week we've had people using their voices in particularly their fingers, 5 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: which I'm more than impressed with because you know, people 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: using their fingers can be a really helpful thing. This 7 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: particular time seems to be their thumbs, mostly because after 8 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: the Met Gala, which saw a lot of celebrities going 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: as they do every year, people not happy, not impressed 10 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: this year, and the theme was some kind of a garden. 11 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: Everyone really dressed up and looked a lot like the 12 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: Hunger Games, the Capital people from the Hunger Games. Like 13 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: it was so ironic that they literally looked like them, 14 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: I mean, which they do every year because the Met Gala, 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: you know, it encourages you to go above and beyond 16 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: and things you just wouldn't wear every day. But there 17 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 1: was one girl she said, let them eat cake. There 18 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 1: was another girl wearing sand. There was all these things. Okay, well, 19 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: some bright spark has put it out there that we 20 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: should start blocking these people unfollowing no blocking, because that 21 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: stopped revenue. A lot of bright sparks have picked it 22 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: up and started sharing it, and I, for one, couldn't 23 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: be happier because you know that I share all the 24 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: time about what's happening in Palestine, and a lot of 25 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: people won't do it for fear that they will lose 26 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: their livelihood, which is happening. You know. For me personally, 27 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: I get it. I really do. Like I have a 28 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: weird all my life. I've had this weird sense of justice. 29 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: Like you know, I as a kid, would you know, 30 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: root for the underdog and you know, rescue dogs and 31 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,119 Speaker 1: do all the things and like get the tadpoles out 32 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: of the you know, just those silly little things that 33 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: in hindsight, I realize now that I was, you know, 34 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: a little faux crusader of my own and really, unbeknownst 35 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: to me, I was just kind of, you know, a 36 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: feminist and anti capitalism back then, like I always question things, 37 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: always getting sent out of class for you know, saying 38 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: the Bible just sounded ridiculous, and why out there female 39 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: explorers were there? Like why why do women have to 40 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,119 Speaker 1: do that? Like all of these things. I was a 41 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: person that loved Star Wars because of the resistance fighters. 42 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: I loved all the underdog stories, you know, and the 43 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: same as Hunger Games, ironically enough that they looked like 44 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: the Capital because Catnus Everdeen led the resistance and fictional 45 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: of course don't want to be occupied, don't want to 46 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: be ruled. So it's playing out in real time now 47 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: we're seeing it and the backlash. Wow. You know, canceling 48 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: people is a really divisive thing, and I know that 49 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: that may happen to me one day. I could do 50 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: something that pisses enough people off to have it happen 51 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: to me. Could be my turn. I'm a white privileged woman, 52 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: and I may not recognize my privilege one day and 53 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: make huge faux pa. I just hope I don't double 54 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: down on it when I do. If I do, anyway, 55 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: people are speaking with their thumbs. The people are blocking. 56 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: It's a hard thing to do. There's a list. Block 57 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: list twenty twenty four, I think is the hashtag. There's 58 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: a list, and it's hard because I'm like, I don't 59 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: know if I can block adele oh, I don't know 60 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,799 Speaker 1: what blocks in dail like, I don't know, I don't know. Definitely, 61 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: we didn't have a problem blocking and all the Kardashians 62 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: and the Jenner's and the you know, that was quite delightful. 63 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: But I think everyone that went through the list had 64 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: a very similar reaction to me. People I knew did. 65 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,119 Speaker 1: They were like, oh, I don't think I can block 66 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: tail a swift. I'm like, well that one was easy 67 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: for me. I'm not a swiftye. So you know, it's 68 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: up to you who you do and who you don't, 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: but know that it's a way of using your voice. 70 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: It's like voting. So you know, that's why it's so 71 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: incredibly important have your say about things. And if who 72 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: you're following and who you look up to isn't inspiring you, 73 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: and they aren't making you recognize, you know, the injustices 74 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: in this world, and they're just making you feel like 75 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 1: you're so fat you need to put on a pair 76 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: of spanks. Then you know, jump on board. It's a 77 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: pretty good boat to be on. And yeah, people would disagree. 78 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: I've had it, I've lost work. It's okay, it's okay. 79 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: In the show notes today, I'm going to put a 80 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: link to an episode of Sarah Wilson's pod, which has 81 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: called wild brilliant podcast love her Australian woman who now 82 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: lives in Paris, and she's like me, single, chooses to 83 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: be child free, chooses to be a little bit of 84 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: an activist, much more than me. Very intelligent. She does 85 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: amazing episodes and they're mostly about climate change and you know, 86 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: things of that nature. There is an episode that she 87 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: does with a civilization collapse researcher and expert. Her name 88 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: is Margaret Wheatley. So that's the episode I'm going to 89 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: put in our show notes. If you will please listen 90 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: to it. It's long and it's dire. Unfortunately, what Margaret 91 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: has to say is not great. Don't listen to it 92 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: if you have children. Okay, it's all I'm saying, But 93 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Australia right now is 94 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: investing and continuing to sell gas offshore. This is gas 95 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: instead of solar, which is where we should be going. 96 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: And we have a we have a target and a 97 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: mission's target to hit by twenty twenty fifty and this 98 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: at the moment are still selling fossil fuels. Is making 99 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: sure that our target won't be hit. Just be aware 100 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: of these kind of things that are happening in our 101 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: own backyard right now. Eighty percent of the experts and 102 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: climate change have said that the warming is happening. Two 103 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: years ago, the Australian Academy of Science published a report 104 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: looking at the consequences of what half of the world 105 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: scientists and now think we're heading for. Okay, so we're 106 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: headed for major societal disruption within the next five years. 107 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: So this is kind of pressure we could start just 108 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: putting on our own government right now. This is just 109 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: a little call out to you guys listening. Talk to 110 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: your friends and family as well. Just it's not a 111 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: hard thing to send an email to albow Chris Bowen 112 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: is our Minister for Climate Change and Energy for Australia, 113 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: so we can send him an email. We'll put that 114 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: in the show notes as well. Just click on it 115 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: and say, hey, why are you selling gas overseas? If 116 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: Wa was a country, it would be the world's third 117 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: largest exporter of natural gas. Okay, But according to the 118 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: Australian Institute, the royalty is paid by that gas industry 119 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: to the WA government is just one point five percent 120 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: of the government's revenue. Okay. Motor vehicle registration contributes almost 121 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: twice as much. And our voices matter, our fingers matter. 122 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm a renter, as you know, and I know that 123 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: gas is costing us a lot of money per household, 124 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: so it's not helping us. I asked my landlord, would 125 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 1: you like to replace my gas stove with an electric stove? 126 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: And he said yes immediately because my house is on solar, 127 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: so it's even cheaper for him. He outlaid that money. 128 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: Ask your landlord if that's something that they would like 129 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: to do, put, you know, solar panels on cost of living. 130 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: It's dire, isn't it. And there's little things that we 131 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: can do. But it doesn't hurt to send an email 132 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: to Chris Bowen. It doesn't hurt to send an email 133 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: to our government. So go and listen to Wild by 134 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: Sarah Wilson. Hug the people close to you. Don't worry 135 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: about the small things anymore. Either. Don't worry about people 136 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: that are talegating you or someone that just cut you off. 137 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: You don't know what they're going through. They don't know 138 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: what you're going through. There's a really good mantra called 139 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: let them. It's a good thing to say to yourself 140 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: when you are in a little bit of a rage 141 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 1: and someone's doing something to you that makes you really unhappy. 142 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: Let them. Don't let yourself be stressed out by these things, 143 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: because there are bigger things for you to take care 144 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: of in yourself. You need to be kind to yourself, 145 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: be kind to the people around you, and hold those 146 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: in power accountable. I ever heard of writing shotgun? There's 147 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: a song, isn't it? Isn't it? I've been writing shotgun 148 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: underneath the hot song? Up it George Ezra God deepest 149 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: voice around, okay, or calling shotgun. It's used to claim 150 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: the right to the front seat of the car, like 151 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: the passenger seat. This expression refers to the passenger of 152 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: an old fashioned stage coach who sat next to the 153 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: driver with what a shotgun to protect them from attackers 154 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: and robbers along the way. There is no evidence to 155 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: suggest the expression was actually used in Times of the 156 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: Wild West, but most likely came about much later on, 157 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: when media and films began to romanticize the feeling the 158 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: period the feeling can I also just say shotgun wedding 159 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: is another one. Shotgun wedding means you're pregnant, So I'll 160 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: look up that one for you next time. Anyway, He's wonderful. 161 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: Today was gonna be the day that they're gonna throw 162 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: it back to you. By now, you should have. Somehow 163 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: we learns what you've got. I couldn't help myself.