Speaker 1: Welcome. The world is a bin fire. We know this. Gee,
Speaker 1: it seems to be getting fiery. Err doesn't it shittier?
Speaker 1: And you know, all of the things quite amazingly, this
Speaker 1: week we've had people using their voices in particularly their fingers,
Speaker 1: which I'm more than impressed with because you know, people
Speaker 1: using their fingers can be a really helpful thing. This
Speaker 1: particular time seems to be their thumbs, mostly because after
Speaker 1: the Met Gala, which saw a lot of celebrities going
Speaker 1: as they do every year, people not happy, not impressed
Speaker 1: this year, and the theme was some kind of a garden.
Speaker 1: Everyone really dressed up and looked a lot like the
Speaker 1: Hunger Games, the Capital people from the Hunger Games. Like
Speaker 1: it was so ironic that they literally looked like them,
Speaker 1: I mean, which they do every year because the Met Gala,
Speaker 1: you know, it encourages you to go above and beyond
Speaker 1: and things you just wouldn't wear every day. But there
Speaker 1: was one girl she said, let them eat cake. There
Speaker 1: was another girl wearing sand. There was all these things. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: some bright spark has put it out there that we
Speaker 1: should start blocking these people unfollowing no blocking, because that
Speaker 1: stopped revenue. A lot of bright sparks have picked it
Speaker 1: up and started sharing it, and I, for one, couldn't
Speaker 1: be happier because you know that I share all the
Speaker 1: time about what's happening in Palestine, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people won't do it for fear that they will lose
Speaker 1: their livelihood, which is happening. You know. For me personally,
Speaker 1: I get it. I really do. Like I have a
Speaker 1: weird all my life. I've had this weird sense of justice.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I as a kid, would you know,
Speaker 1: root for the underdog and you know, rescue dogs and
Speaker 1: do all the things and like get the tadpoles out
Speaker 1: of the you know, just those silly little things that
Speaker 1: in hindsight, I realize now that I was, you know,
Speaker 1: a little faux crusader of my own and really, unbeknownst
Speaker 1: to me, I was just kind of, you know, a
Speaker 1: feminist and anti capitalism back then, like I always question things,
Speaker 1: always getting sent out of class for you know, saying
Speaker 1: the Bible just sounded ridiculous, and why out there female
Speaker 1: explorers were there? Like why why do women have to
Speaker 1: do that? Like all of these things. I was a
Speaker 1: person that loved Star Wars because of the resistance fighters.
Speaker 1: I loved all the underdog stories, you know, and the
Speaker 1: same as Hunger Games, ironically enough that they looked like
Speaker 1: the Capital because Catnus Everdeen led the resistance and fictional
Speaker 1: of course don't want to be occupied, don't want to
Speaker 1: be ruled. So it's playing out in real time now
Speaker 1: we're seeing it and the backlash. Wow. You know, canceling
Speaker 1: people is a really divisive thing, and I know that
Speaker 1: that may happen to me one day. I could do
Speaker 1: something that pisses enough people off to have it happen
Speaker 1: to me. Could be my turn. I'm a white privileged woman,
Speaker 1: and I may not recognize my privilege one day and
Speaker 1: make huge faux pa. I just hope I don't double
Speaker 1: down on it when I do. If I do, anyway,
Speaker 1: people are speaking with their thumbs. The people are blocking.
Speaker 1: It's a hard thing to do. There's a list. Block
Speaker 1: list twenty twenty four, I think is the hashtag. There's
Speaker 1: a list, and it's hard because I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can block adele oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: what blocks in dail like, I don't know, I don't know. Definitely,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a problem blocking and all the Kardashians
Speaker 1: and the Jenner's and the you know, that was quite delightful.
Speaker 1: But I think everyone that went through the list had
Speaker 1: a very similar reaction to me. People I knew did.
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, I don't think I can block
Speaker 1: tail a swift. I'm like, well that one was easy
Speaker 1: for me. I'm not a swiftye. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: up to you who you do and who you don't,
Speaker 1: but know that it's a way of using your voice.
Speaker 1: It's like voting. So you know, that's why it's so
Speaker 1: incredibly important have your say about things. And if who
Speaker 1: you're following and who you look up to isn't inspiring you,
Speaker 1: and they aren't making you recognize, you know, the injustices
Speaker 1: in this world, and they're just making you feel like
Speaker 1: you're so fat you need to put on a pair
Speaker 1: of spanks. Then you know, jump on board. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty good boat to be on. And yeah, people would disagree.
Speaker 1: I've had it, I've lost work. It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1: In the show notes today, I'm going to put a
Speaker 1: link to an episode of Sarah Wilson's pod, which has
Speaker 1: called wild brilliant podcast love her Australian woman who now
Speaker 1: lives in Paris, and she's like me, single, chooses to
Speaker 1: be child free, chooses to be a little bit of
Speaker 1: an activist, much more than me. Very intelligent. She does
Speaker 1: amazing episodes and they're mostly about climate change and you know,
Speaker 1: things of that nature. There is an episode that she
Speaker 1: does with a civilization collapse researcher and expert. Her name
Speaker 1: is Margaret Wheatley. So that's the episode I'm going to
Speaker 1: put in our show notes. If you will please listen
Speaker 1: to it. It's long and it's dire. Unfortunately, what Margaret
Speaker 1: has to say is not great. Don't listen to it
Speaker 1: if you have children. Okay, it's all I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Australia right now is
Speaker 1: investing and continuing to sell gas offshore. This is gas
Speaker 1: instead of solar, which is where we should be going.
Speaker 1: And we have a we have a target and a
Speaker 1: mission's target to hit by twenty twenty fifty and this
Speaker 1: at the moment are still selling fossil fuels. Is making
Speaker 1: sure that our target won't be hit. Just be aware
Speaker 1: of these kind of things that are happening in our
Speaker 1: own backyard right now. Eighty percent of the experts and
Speaker 1: climate change have said that the warming is happening. Two
Speaker 1: years ago, the Australian Academy of Science published a report
Speaker 1: looking at the consequences of what half of the world
Speaker 1: scientists and now think we're heading for. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: headed for major societal disruption within the next five years.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of pressure we could start just
Speaker 1: putting on our own government right now. This is just
Speaker 1: a little call out to you guys listening. Talk to
Speaker 1: your friends and family as well. Just it's not a
Speaker 1: hard thing to send an email to albow Chris Bowen
Speaker 1: is our Minister for Climate Change and Energy for Australia,
Speaker 1: so we can send him an email. We'll put that
Speaker 1: in the show notes as well. Just click on it
Speaker 1: and say, hey, why are you selling gas overseas? If
Speaker 1: Wa was a country, it would be the world's third
Speaker 1: largest exporter of natural gas. Okay, But according to the
Speaker 1: Australian Institute, the royalty is paid by that gas industry
Speaker 1: to the WA government is just one point five percent
Speaker 1: of the government's revenue. Okay. Motor vehicle registration contributes almost
Speaker 1: twice as much. And our voices matter, our fingers matter.
Speaker 1: I'm a renter, as you know, and I know that
Speaker 1: gas is costing us a lot of money per household,
Speaker 1: so it's not helping us. I asked my landlord, would
Speaker 1: you like to replace my gas stove with an electric stove?
Speaker 1: And he said yes immediately because my house is on solar,
Speaker 1: so it's even cheaper for him. He outlaid that money.
Speaker 1: Ask your landlord if that's something that they would like
Speaker 1: to do, put, you know, solar panels on cost of living.
Speaker 1: It's dire, isn't it. And there's little things that we
Speaker 1: can do. But it doesn't hurt to send an email
Speaker 1: to Chris Bowen. It doesn't hurt to send an email
Speaker 1: to our government. So go and listen to Wild by
Speaker 1: Sarah Wilson. Hug the people close to you. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about the small things anymore. Either. Don't worry about people
Speaker 1: that are talegating you or someone that just cut you off.
Speaker 1: You don't know what they're going through. They don't know
Speaker 1: what you're going through. There's a really good mantra called
Speaker 1: let them. It's a good thing to say to yourself
Speaker 1: when you are in a little bit of a rage
Speaker 1: and someone's doing something to you that makes you really unhappy.
Speaker 1: Let them. Don't let yourself be stressed out by these things,
Speaker 1: because there are bigger things for you to take care
Speaker 1: of in yourself. You need to be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: be kind to the people around you, and hold those
Speaker 1: in power accountable. I ever heard of writing shotgun? There's
Speaker 1: a song, isn't it? Isn't it? I've been writing shotgun
Speaker 1: underneath the hot song? Up it George Ezra God deepest
Speaker 1: voice around, okay, or calling shotgun. It's used to claim
Speaker 1: the right to the front seat of the car, like
Speaker 1: the passenger seat. This expression refers to the passenger of
Speaker 1: an old fashioned stage coach who sat next to the
Speaker 1: driver with what a shotgun to protect them from attackers
Speaker 1: and robbers along the way. There is no evidence to
Speaker 1: suggest the expression was actually used in Times of the
Speaker 1: Wild West, but most likely came about much later on,
Speaker 1: when media and films began to romanticize the feeling the
Speaker 1: period the feeling can I also just say shotgun wedding
Speaker 1: is another one. Shotgun wedding means you're pregnant, So I'll
Speaker 1: look up that one for you next time. Anyway, He's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Today was gonna be the day that they're gonna throw
Speaker 1: it back to you. By now, you should have. Somehow
Speaker 1: we learns what you've got. I couldn't help myself.