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Speaker 1: We extend our respect to any First Nations, Aboriginal and
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Speaker 2: So basically, I welcome to close friends everyone. I have
Speaker 2: been struggled on struggle Street this week and I wanted
Speaker 2: to bring up this conversation, which is a bit weird
Speaker 2: to talk about. And I don't know how we're going
Speaker 2: to navigate this because obviously we can't give too much
Speaker 2: away here. But I've been on struggle Street this week
Speaker 2: because I was locked out of my Instagram earlier this
Speaker 2: week and it asked me to log back in and
Speaker 2: I went, holy fucking shit, what is my Instagram password?
Speaker 2: And that I thought about it and I went, I don't
Speaker 2: know my TikTok password. I couldn't tell you my YouTube past,
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you my Netflix builgiin, I couldn't. I
Speaker 2: couldn't tell you like any of my passwords ever, And
Speaker 2: it really shook me, and I was like, does anyone
Speaker 2: else have this issue or does it just me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right there with you, Matt. I hate passwords.
Speaker 1: I fucking hate them, especially so I've got all the
Speaker 1: same passwords as you. But then we've got a business,
Speaker 1: Then we've got Shopify, Then every single one of our
Speaker 1: employees has their own Shopify log in. Then we have
Speaker 1: a billion other accounts like Australia Posts, fucking this, that
Speaker 1: and the other. We forget passwords every day, and the
Speaker 1: steps that you have to go through to get the
Speaker 1: fucking password back or reset it is too much. And
Speaker 1: now I know you hate like AI and all that,
Speaker 1: but honestly, at some stage, can we just get rid
Speaker 1: of passwords and it's a fucking fingerprint or an eyeball
Speaker 1: for everything, like I don't. And just the fact that
Speaker 1: every password has different criteria. It must contain upper case,
Speaker 1: lower case and symbol and punctuation.
Speaker 2: Weelve characters, eight characters, ten characters, So every single password
Speaker 2: is different.
Speaker 1: And it's just different variations of the same password.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of them I make real tricky to
Speaker 2: you know, figure out with changing changing the E two
Speaker 2: A three or something like that, and then other ones
Speaker 2: I don't have to do that, so I don't and like, honestly,
Speaker 2: like if I died and someone needed to log into
Speaker 2: my cat, good fucking luck, because I obviously don't have
Speaker 2: them like written down anywhere. And then sometimes as well,
Speaker 2: I've gotten lazy when I just sign up to like
Speaker 2: random sites or sites that I don't think i'll use much,
Speaker 2: and you know how Apple will suggest a password and
Speaker 2: it will just be like forty random numbers and symbols
Speaker 2: that don't make sense at all, and I just go, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just use use strong password, and then it saves.
Speaker 2: Because I think that's the problem, is like because it
Speaker 2: auto saves all the time. And then when I tried
Speaker 2: to log into my Instagram, auto save wasn't an option.
Speaker 2: I think it's because it so long ago I had
Speaker 2: logged in and never locked out that that maybe wasn't
Speaker 2: an option. Like saving the password wasn't an option.
Speaker 1: I tell you what I hate too, When you're like
Speaker 1: trying to log in, You've tried to log in six
Speaker 1: times and it's like locked you out. It's like too
Speaker 1: many failed attempts, check your email to reset password. Then
Speaker 1: you go to reset the password and it's like, can't
Speaker 1: use previous past password. It's like, but I tried that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like, what the fuck it wouldn't let me.
Speaker 2: And then also when you change the password and you're like,
Speaker 2: I've just changed it. I've even done the little eye thing,
Speaker 2: so I've looked at how it's I know it's correct,
Speaker 2: and then it's changed and you go log in and
Speaker 2: it says wrong password.
Speaker 3: I hate it. I hate passwords.
Speaker 2: I do love two factor authentication, though I do love
Speaker 2: that you know it can send me a text makb.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: I hate two factor authentication. You just got a code
Speaker 1: to your two factor authentication app. It's like, what fucking app?
Speaker 1: And this happens in our workplace on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: And then in the group chat did someone get a code?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, first of all, to where what
Speaker 1: was the mobile number ending in?
Speaker 3: Or email?
Speaker 1: Oh that wasn't that, It was authenticator app? What authenticator app?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: And then you have to.
Speaker 1: Fucking call shopify and be like I can't get into
Speaker 1: my own fucking website.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate it.
Speaker 1: There needs to be a company that comes in and
Speaker 1: just makes passwords simplified.
Speaker 3: For every platform in the world.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: And I'm all for take my fucking eyeball take my fingerprint.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: If I can just look at the device and log in,
Speaker 1: I'd be happy. I'd be happy to never remember a
Speaker 1: password ever again.
Speaker 2: The other thing as well, is do you use zero
Speaker 2: for your business? Right? I use zero as well? Love zero,
Speaker 2: shout out to zero, love you. But they used to do.
Speaker 2: You would log in and it would authenticate the log
Speaker 2: in for thirty days, and now it's every twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: resets every day. I've got to go on the authenticator
Speaker 2: app and put in the code to prove that it's me.
Speaker 2: There's no like remember this browser or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't even figure out yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: not like I can. I mean maybe you can, but
Speaker 2: I can't move money around in my zero Like in zero,
Speaker 2: I can't transfer money right yeah, or you can if
Speaker 2: you can, I don't know how. But I'm like, why
Speaker 2: do I have to authenticate? All I'm doing is it's
Speaker 2: just my invoices and me bank statements, Like it's not
Speaker 2: like they're logging into my bank cap and being able
Speaker 2: to go. I'll just transfer all the money out of
Speaker 2: the account.
Speaker 1: Cause there's so many troubles, Like even when AJ and
Speaker 1: I go overseas, which we haven't for a while because
Speaker 1: our numbers are the ones that are on all of
Speaker 1: our accounts for work.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: And then like if we're overseas and the girls have
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's caused so much troubles for us multiple
Speaker 1: times in the past where we're like, we're going overseas,
Speaker 1: no one, we can't get a code. Fucking now, just
Speaker 1: bring in the ie scanner.
Speaker 2: Honestly. Okay, Well, I'm glad someone else has the same
Speaker 2: issue as me, because every I think, every single account
Speaker 2: I have has a different password. I don't know any
Speaker 2: of them, and I don't know how to get through it.
Speaker 2: Because if I get logged out of everything in my life,
Speaker 2: I may as well just make new accounts because I
Speaker 2: don't know how to log in. And I feel like,
Speaker 2: as someone who's grown up on the Internet, it should
Speaker 2: be easier than this.
Speaker 3: But it is so complicated.
Speaker 1: Okay, mark my word, there's going to be a company
Speaker 1: that comes and revolutionizes passwords for every company.
Speaker 3: It's good They've got to because it's fucked.
Speaker 2: Go Google, girl, I would love you to look up
Speaker 2: the most commonly used password.
Speaker 3: I reckon it's like password one, two three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and see if we've used any of them ourselves.
Speaker 2: I was also going to talk about old passwords as well,
Speaker 2: because I used to have really funny old passwords, but
Speaker 2: I'm also like, hmm, they might be still attached to
Speaker 2: some accounts and I wouldn't want anyone to hack me,
Speaker 2: So maybe that's a little bit a bit full on.
Speaker 2: Quirty password and admin are the most popular. One, two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 2: We've got root. Root is a common passwordot random scroll down.
Speaker 2: There's not many ones there. It's just like.
Speaker 1: I definitely use like one two three and one two
Speaker 1: three four, Like really, when it's like it.
Speaker 3: Needs numbers at the end, I'm like, for fox sakes.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I have numbers that I use, but they're
Speaker 2: not in succession.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Admin, I've never used that.
Speaker 1: That's number two most popular, but I think workplaces would
Speaker 1: use admin as the password.
Speaker 3: Hannah's nodding her head.
Speaker 1: I hate them too, and the password is the most
Speaker 1: popular one, which I can totally see that being used.
Speaker 1: What's quirty?
Speaker 3: That's just a keyboard like that across Did you not
Speaker 3: know that?
Speaker 2: How do we learn that?
Speaker 3: In primary school? It's a quirty keyboard.
Speaker 2: That's what you call that a querty keyboard?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely grew up on a farm. It's a
Speaker 1: quirty keyboard. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Speaking of keyboards, I've been smashing the keys on mine
Speaker 2: lately because I don't know if I've spoken about this
Speaker 2: yet or not, but I started a little project. I've
Speaker 2: started writing a memoir. Remember earlier this year, obviously, I
Speaker 2: had my show Dancing Queen, which was my memoir that
Speaker 2: no one would publish. So I decided to perform it
Speaker 2: live on stage for everyone. And I just wanted to say,
Speaker 2: to anyone who has never journaled before or anything like that,
Speaker 2: are you a journaler? No? You don't strike me as
Speaker 2: a journaler.
Speaker 1: No, But I will say writing a book has made
Speaker 1: me feel like I was journaling to.
Speaker 2: How's all that going good? I don't everyone knows that, right.
Speaker 1: I've done like little stories, but I haven't done any
Speaker 1: like reels or anything yet. But about two years ago
Speaker 1: I started writing it. It's been finished for a while now.
Speaker 1: Now we're in the like print sampling phase of like
Speaker 1: getting some dummy copies made okay, and figuring out all
Speaker 1: the pages because you wouldn't think, like when you read
Speaker 1: a book, you don't think much of it, but like
Speaker 1: the font size and like where every chapter finishes and ends,
Speaker 1: and if there's any like pull out pages with quotes
Speaker 1: and stuff.
Speaker 3: So we're at that phase. And I'll tell you another thing.
Speaker 1: And for those of you that don't know, I've written
Speaker 1: my own book kind of like a memoir, bit of business,
Speaker 1: bit of life, bit of everything. When I finish writing it,
Speaker 1: I had blonde hair, like the full blonde hair. So
Speaker 1: I did a photo shoot for the cover because it's
Speaker 1: just me on the cover. So that cover was done.
Speaker 1: Then I dyed my hair dark brown, like chocolate brown.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, fuck, I can't come out with a
Speaker 1: book with blonde hair when I've got brown hair. So
Speaker 1: then we did a second photo shoot again to change
Speaker 1: the cover. Now my hair's medium light brown, and I'm
Speaker 1: reshooting it again next week.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to have at least now part of
Speaker 1: me I just burned. I'm going to have three cover options.
Speaker 1: So if I changed my hair in between now and
Speaker 1: the time it launches, i've got three options.
Speaker 2: You just go back to blonde, surely.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck, But that's where it's at. We were going
Speaker 1: to launch it at the end of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: but just had too much on so tushed it into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Nice why not? But it was a therapeutic experience for you,
Speaker 2: It really was.
Speaker 3: So I was writing it just at night when I
Speaker 3: was laying in bed.
Speaker 1: I'd put it on my headphones, put on some ADHD
Speaker 1: focus music.
Speaker 3: Oh that's playlist that I like, looking.
Speaker 2: Up fun and what's that like low five beats and
Speaker 2: things like.
Speaker 1: That, And sometimes I wouldn't have it in the headphones,
Speaker 1: and I just hope playing out my laptop.
Speaker 3: AJ is like, do you like this kind of music?
Speaker 1: It's like annoying the fuck out of me, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. So I just like put on the
Speaker 1: headphones and type away and you really get into it.
Speaker 3: Like I liked it.
Speaker 1: I found it to be a bit therapeutic. And like
Speaker 1: I said, I've never journaled or anything. I always say
Speaker 1: that I'd like to be a journal girly, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, like also Carple Tunnel to writing actually
Speaker 2: writing with a pen, I feel I couldn't do that.
Speaker 2: My hand would cramp. I feel like I write on
Speaker 2: a birthday card and my hand goes.
Speaker 1: I got on my phone at night and my hand cramps,
Speaker 1: like from scrolling, and then I have to switch to
Speaker 1: my other hand. I don't know if you're the same man.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like holding my phone in the same position
Speaker 1: for ages. Then I get like a cramp and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: got the divit?
Speaker 2: You know what I want to call bullshit on the divot? Right,
Speaker 2: let's talk about the divit in the pinky. Right, you've
Speaker 2: seen online the divit in the pinky. No, okay, both
Speaker 2: of you are holding up your pinkies right now and going, yea,
Speaker 2: I got a divi in the pinky. Baby girl, First
Speaker 2: of all, check all your fingers. You've actually got a
Speaker 2: divot on all of them. Check your grandma's finger next
Speaker 2: time you're with her. No, check your grandma's finger next
Speaker 2: time you're with her. She's never held an iPhone in
Speaker 2: her life. She's got the divot. People have the divot
Speaker 2: no matter what. So we all our bodies have always
Speaker 2: had this divot in our pinky. Trust me, I don't
Speaker 2: believe it for a second because because old people who
Speaker 2: have never held a bloody phone in their life, they've
Speaker 2: got the divot as well. And also if they do
Speaker 2: have the divot and it is from the phone. Well
Speaker 2: maybe they got it from the book. Maybe they were
Speaker 2: holding a book back in the olden days and that's
Speaker 2: where their divot came from. I don't know, but I've
Speaker 2: looked at the divots and I've gone because i never
Speaker 2: hold my hand my phone in my left hand either.
Speaker 2: I'm always in my actually feels a bit weird in
Speaker 2: my left hand, so i always hold it in my
Speaker 2: right no matter what. But I've got the divid in
Speaker 2: both hands.
Speaker 1: And you just made me think of something when you
Speaker 1: said back in the olden day, just the random thought
Speaker 1: that popped into my head. I was on TikTok and
Speaker 1: on my for you page there was a video.
Speaker 3: There's this girl.
Speaker 1: I think her name might be Analis, but I think
Speaker 1: her TikTok name is like nick Knock.
Speaker 3: Have you seen her? And she's like really in what into.
Speaker 2: Y two K again, I'm like a face person on TikTok.
Speaker 3: I'd probably know if you saw her.
Speaker 1: So she loves like hello kitty like but like Y
Speaker 1: two K vibes.
Speaker 3: Anyway, this was a few weeks back now, and.
Speaker 1: So she dresses like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie used
Speaker 1: to dress like back in the two thousands.
Speaker 3: Like you know, just really that style.
Speaker 1: And she was talking about she was wanting to create
Speaker 1: an outfit that was like two thousands clubbing because she's
Speaker 1: only like twenty or something, and so she was gone
Speaker 1: through a wardrobe and she had this like peplum top
Speaker 1: because remember like backing out, you did see it, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I've been hanging on to this, and so
Speaker 1: she was styling this whole outfit a clubbing two thousands
Speaker 1: outfit with the peplum top, and she did the makeup
Speaker 1: like two thousands clubbing makeup, and she just kept saying
Speaker 1: like this is what they used to do back in
Speaker 1: the day. And I'm watching that, and I'm like back
Speaker 1: in the day though, Like I'm not that much older
Speaker 1: than you, But isn't that funny that someone could see
Speaker 1: our clubbing era as back in the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I caught up with some of my girls from
Speaker 2: high school the other day. We did a little friends
Speaker 2: mess and we were looking at some of our old
Speaker 2: Facebook profiles. Remember you'd go on a night out or
Speaker 2: to a party, you'd take literally five hundred photos and
Speaker 2: you'd upload the entire album to face.
Speaker 3: So we need to bring it back.
Speaker 2: We were looking at all the old fashion and I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what, this actually slaps like I
Speaker 2: would love for these Remember the dresses that were all
Speaker 2: like encrusted boob dresses and then they just flared out
Speaker 2: like an a line skirt sort of vibe Like I'm like,
Speaker 2: I would wear that to this day. I love it.
Speaker 1: That's another thing, like we look back at our old
Speaker 1: like because you know how we say now that all
Speaker 1: the teenagers of today don't go through a cringe phase
Speaker 1: like we did back then, Like how we were also
Speaker 1: daggy and whatever. But back then, when we were daggy,
Speaker 1: that was cool, Like we were cool when we were
Speaker 1: going through that I don't know, side fringe phase with
Speaker 1: lots of layers and whatever. And we look at it
Speaker 1: now and we like, ugh, teenagers don't get to do
Speaker 1: that today, But what they're doing today is cool. But
Speaker 1: in another few generations that will be daggy. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were never daggy. That was just what was cool at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll probably look back in a few generations and
Speaker 2: you know, right now we're like, oh my god, all
Speaker 2: these girls with flat shoes in the club, Like in
Speaker 2: a few generations, we'll probably be like, or a few
Speaker 2: years we'll be like, I can't believe they left the
Speaker 2: house in flat shoes for the class.
Speaker 1: That's insane, though, Like, I'm so mad that we did
Speaker 1: miss out on that, because when I was in my
Speaker 1: clubbing era, when I was seventeen and eighteen, chunky platforms
Speaker 1: was the only thing that I wore, like Jeffrey Campbell. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: and now kids are wearing joggers to the club.
Speaker 3: Why couldn't that have been us? We would never be
Speaker 3: caught dead.
Speaker 1: I was in a mini soup pre boobtube skirt with
Speaker 1: chunky fucking and I was going down those stairs at
Speaker 1: King Street nightclub and I don't know how I didn't
Speaker 1: fall over.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, why do nightclubs have so many stairs?
Speaker 1: Let's have that conversation, bring out just single level nightclub honestly.
Speaker 2: Anyway, the point is I've started writing a memoir and
Speaker 2: I just want to let any of our scholars know
Speaker 2: if you've never been like a journaler, because neither of
Speaker 2: Unita has Brittany. But as you've heard writing, Brittany writing
Speaker 2: her book, very therapeutic me. I've only just begun in
Speaker 2: the last couple months and I actually had no starting point.
Speaker 2: I just kind of like pulled up a word document
Speaker 2: and once.
Speaker 3: Upon a time, because I literally didn't know what to write.
Speaker 3: So I started with that that's the first sentence.
Speaker 2: And I was just like, I have no clue where
Speaker 2: to start, but I started, and so honestly like a
Speaker 2: therapy session. And I don't know, I feel like I agree.
Speaker 2: I feel like it just something you might want to
Speaker 2: take into twenty twenty five, maybe over the Christmas New
Speaker 2: Year break, if you're not doing much, just even if
Speaker 2: you just only just open up your notes happened typing
Speaker 2: your notes up to begin with, give it a go.
Speaker 2: But I just felt like just writing words on a
Speaker 2: page kind of was like a weight lifted off my
Speaker 2: shoulders in the weirdest way. And so I just wanted
Speaker 2: today to say, give writing a memoir or go now.
Speaker 2: It's because I haven't been contacted to write a memoir.
Speaker 2: No one's like, I haven't got a book deal, nothing
Speaker 2: like that. I said, I'm just going to do this
Speaker 2: and you know what, one day, if it does get published, whatever,
Speaker 2: but for now, it's just for me and I'm just
Speaker 2: writing as a as a form of therapy. I guess
Speaker 2: and I'm very much enjoying it. So that's my little
Speaker 2: tidbit of the day is write a book. Write a
Speaker 2: book and just see how you feel afterwards, because it
Speaker 2: might change your life.
Speaker 1: Oh I have to say as well, you know how
Speaker 1: we say see you next Tuesday at the end of
Speaker 1: every Close Friends. In our broadcast channel the other week,
Speaker 1: someone was like, oh my god, the ending of that episode.
Speaker 3: Loll.
Speaker 1: It must have been like the first time they'd listened
Speaker 1: to the end of Close Friends.
Speaker 3: We say it every week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And on that note, see you next Tuesday.