WEBVTT - Have You Joined #BlockList2024? 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.399 Welcome. The world is a bin fire. We know this. Gee, 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:16.080 it seems to be getting fiery. Err doesn't it shittier? 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.640 And you know, all of the things quite amazingly, this 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:30.120 week we've had people using their voices in particularly their fingers, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.240 which I'm more than impressed with because you know, people 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.919 using their fingers can be a really helpful thing. This 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.000 particular time seems to be their thumbs, mostly because after 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.200 the Met Gala, which saw a lot of celebrities going 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.800 as they do every year, people not happy, not impressed 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:57.360 this year, and the theme was some kind of a garden. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.520 Everyone really dressed up and looked a lot like the 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.480 Hunger Games, the Capital people from the Hunger Games. Like 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:11.120 it was so ironic that they literally looked like them, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.520 I mean, which they do every year because the Met Gala, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.160 you know, it encourages you to go above and beyond 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.360 and things you just wouldn't wear every day. But there 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.320 was one girl she said, let them eat cake. There 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.759 was another girl wearing sand. There was all these things. Okay, well, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.360 some bright spark has put it out there that we 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:40.360 should start blocking these people unfollowing no blocking, because that 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:45.000 stopped revenue. A lot of bright sparks have picked it 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.160 up and started sharing it, and I, for one, couldn't 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.600 be happier because you know that I share all the 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.480 time about what's happening in Palestine, and a lot of 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.640 people won't do it for fear that they will lose 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:08.440 their livelihood, which is happening. You know. For me personally, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.280 I get it. I really do. Like I have a 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:17.160 weird all my life. I've had this weird sense of justice. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.520 Like you know, I as a kid, would you know, 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.640 root for the underdog and you know, rescue dogs and 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.119 do all the things and like get the tadpoles out 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.160 of the you know, just those silly little things that 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.840 in hindsight, I realize now that I was, you know, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:41.000 a little faux crusader of my own and really, unbeknownst 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.800 to me, I was just kind of, you know, a 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.960 feminist and anti capitalism back then, like I always question things, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.360 always getting sent out of class for you know, saying 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.760 the Bible just sounded ridiculous, and why out there female 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.400 explorers were there? Like why why do women have to 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.119 do that? Like all of these things. I was a 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.440 person that loved Star Wars because of the resistance fighters. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.640 I loved all the underdog stories, you know, and the 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.480 same as Hunger Games, ironically enough that they looked like 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:20.359 the Capital because Catnus Everdeen led the resistance and fictional 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.360 of course don't want to be occupied, don't want to 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.320 be ruled. So it's playing out in real time now 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:33.080 we're seeing it and the backlash. Wow. You know, canceling 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:38.360 people is a really divisive thing, and I know that 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.880 that may happen to me one day. I could do 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.040 something that pisses enough people off to have it happen 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.120 to me. Could be my turn. I'm a white privileged woman, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:54.480 and I may not recognize my privilege one day and 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.800 make huge faux pa. I just hope I don't double 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.680 down on it when I do. If I do, anyway, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.040 people are speaking with their thumbs. The people are blocking. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.760 It's a hard thing to do. There's a list. Block 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.320 list twenty twenty four, I think is the hashtag. There's 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.880 a list, and it's hard because I'm like, I don't 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.360 know if I can block adele oh, I don't know 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.799 what blocks in dail like, I don't know, I don't know. Definitely, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.680 we didn't have a problem blocking and all the Kardashians 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.000 and the Jenner's and the you know, that was quite delightful. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:36.880 But I think everyone that went through the list had 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.839 a very similar reaction to me. People I knew did. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.119 They were like, oh, I don't think I can block 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.480 tail a swift. I'm like, well that one was easy 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.880 for me. I'm not a swiftye. So you know, it's 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.320 up to you who you do and who you don't, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.040 but know that it's a way of using your voice. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.640 It's like voting. So you know, that's why it's so 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:03.880 incredibly important have your say about things. And if who 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:09.080 you're following and who you look up to isn't inspiring you, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:14.880 and they aren't making you recognize, you know, the injustices 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.320 in this world, and they're just making you feel like 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.279 you're so fat you need to put on a pair 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:25.520 of spanks. Then you know, jump on board. It's a 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.960 pretty good boat to be on. And yeah, people would disagree. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:35.680 I've had it, I've lost work. It's okay, it's okay. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.040 In the show notes today, I'm going to put a 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.880 link to an episode of Sarah Wilson's pod, which has 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:48.640 called wild brilliant podcast love her Australian woman who now 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:53.000 lives in Paris, and she's like me, single, chooses to 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.440 be child free, chooses to be a little bit of 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.880 an activist, much more than me. Very intelligent. She does 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.919 amazing episodes and they're mostly about climate change and you know, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.240 things of that nature. There is an episode that she 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.080 does with a civilization collapse researcher and expert. Her name 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.120 is Margaret Wheatley. So that's the episode I'm going to 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.520 put in our show notes. If you will please listen 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.000 to it. It's long and it's dire. Unfortunately, what Margaret 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.359 has to say is not great. Don't listen to it 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:30.000 if you have children. Okay, it's all I'm saying, But 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.120 I do want to talk about Australia right now is 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:39.200 investing and continuing to sell gas offshore. This is gas 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.799 instead of solar, which is where we should be going. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.200 And we have a we have a target and a 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.840 mission's target to hit by twenty twenty fifty and this 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.479 at the moment are still selling fossil fuels. Is making 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.560 sure that our target won't be hit. Just be aware 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.960 of these kind of things that are happening in our 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:08.560 own backyard right now. Eighty percent of the experts and 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:13.000 climate change have said that the warming is happening. Two 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.240 years ago, the Australian Academy of Science published a report 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.040 looking at the consequences of what half of the world 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.360 scientists and now think we're heading for. Okay, so we're 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.760 headed for major societal disruption within the next five years. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.080 So this is kind of pressure we could start just 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.280 putting on our own government right now. This is just 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.520 a little call out to you guys listening. Talk to 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.320 your friends and family as well. Just it's not a 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.960 hard thing to send an email to albow Chris Bowen 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.520 is our Minister for Climate Change and Energy for Australia, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.320 so we can send him an email. We'll put that 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.360 in the show notes as well. Just click on it 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:59.160 and say, hey, why are you selling gas overseas? If 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.440 Wa was a country, it would be the world's third 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:09.320 largest exporter of natural gas. Okay, But according to the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.720 Australian Institute, the royalty is paid by that gas industry 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.480 to the WA government is just one point five percent 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:23.280 of the government's revenue. Okay. Motor vehicle registration contributes almost 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.720 twice as much. And our voices matter, our fingers matter. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.680 I'm a renter, as you know, and I know that 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:37.040 gas is costing us a lot of money per household, 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:43.720 so it's not helping us. I asked my landlord, would 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.959 you like to replace my gas stove with an electric stove? 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.800 And he said yes immediately because my house is on solar, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.760 so it's even cheaper for him. He outlaid that money. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.800 Ask your landlord if that's something that they would like 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.560 to do, put, you know, solar panels on cost of living. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.440 It's dire, isn't it. And there's little things that we 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.800 can do. But it doesn't hurt to send an email 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.520 to Chris Bowen. It doesn't hurt to send an email 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.160 to our government. So go and listen to Wild by 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.320 Sarah Wilson. Hug the people close to you. Don't worry 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.800 about the small things anymore. Either. Don't worry about people 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.160 that are talegating you or someone that just cut you off. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.200 You don't know what they're going through. They don't know 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.640 what you're going through. There's a really good mantra called 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.520 let them. It's a good thing to say to yourself 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.720 when you are in a little bit of a rage 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.079 and someone's doing something to you that makes you really unhappy. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.360 Let them. Don't let yourself be stressed out by these things, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.320 because there are bigger things for you to take care 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.079 of in yourself. You need to be kind to yourself, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.280 be kind to the people around you, and hold those 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:05.480 in power accountable. I ever heard of writing shotgun? There's 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.679 a song, isn't it? Isn't it? I've been writing shotgun 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:16.680 underneath the hot song? Up it George Ezra God deepest 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.720 voice around, okay, or calling shotgun. It's used to claim 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.840 the right to the front seat of the car, like 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.600 the passenger seat. This expression refers to the passenger of 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.480 an old fashioned stage coach who sat next to the 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:38.600 driver with what a shotgun to protect them from attackers 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.000 and robbers along the way. There is no evidence to 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.760 suggest the expression was actually used in Times of the 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.400 Wild West, but most likely came about much later on, 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.520 when media and films began to romanticize the feeling the 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.720 period the feeling can I also just say shotgun wedding 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:00.800 is another one. Shotgun wedding means you're pregnant, So I'll 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.000 look up that one for you next time. Anyway, He's wonderful. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.960 Today was gonna be the day that they're gonna throw 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.520 it back to you. By now, you should have. Somehow 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.440 we learns what you've got. I couldn't help myself.