WEBVTT - A Dangerous Influencer Trend & Scurrilous Lip-Reading Gossip

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello and welcome to MoMA Mia out Loud. It's what

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<v Speaker 2>women are actually talking about On Wednesday, the eighteenth of March.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Holly Wainwright and we have some big news that

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<v Speaker 2>was embargoed until nine am today. Who wants to share it?

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<v Speaker 3>Holly? I kind of think you have to be the

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<v Speaker 3>one to share it. I think you get statistically the

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<v Speaker 3>most credit for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, we are, for the second month in a row,

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<v Speaker 2>the most listened to podcast in all of the land.

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<v Speaker 2>In the whole king.

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<v Speaker 4>They have been telling like people who don't need to

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<v Speaker 4>know this fact, this fact Like I was at the

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<v Speaker 4>supermarket and I went into that you know, the line

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<v Speaker 4>where you get to talk to a person versus scanning.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I managed to work it in. I'm Amilia Lasta.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way.

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<v Speaker 3>You may know me from Australia's Number one podcast. It's

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<v Speaker 3>funny because in the office you act very nonchalant about

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<v Speaker 3>it on the number one whatever, I mean number one before.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I'm not on Fridays, so I feel like I

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<v Speaker 4>can't take full crew.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on now, and who are you?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm clos Stephen definitely taking credit.

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<v Speaker 3>I get a little bit of credit now, Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 3>will be rubbing it in Jesse's face saying we're number

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<v Speaker 3>one without you, even though she was on the episodes.

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<v Speaker 3>But whatever, I'll find a way to read.

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<v Speaker 2>The chart comes out once a month, if you wondered

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<v Speaker 2>what we're talking about, the podcast chart, and for the

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<v Speaker 2>second month in a row, we are at number one.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes we're number two, sometimes we're number three, but not

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<v Speaker 2>anymore anyway, let's move on. It's not about us, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>n b D. Here is what's on our agenda for today.

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<v Speaker 2>Queen Mary is touring Australia. Yes, the woman wants known

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<v Speaker 2>as Our Mary is coming to Royal Meat and greets

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<v Speaker 2>near you. So why isn't anybody talking about it?

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<v Speaker 4>Plus you're seeing peptides all over your socials, and we

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<v Speaker 4>went to find out what they actually are and why

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<v Speaker 4>the trend of injecting them is really dangerous.

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<v Speaker 3>And why reference man might be making you cold.

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<v Speaker 2>But first, I'm bringing some scoreless gossips. Some of it

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<v Speaker 2>is oscars related, because you know, we're still mopping.

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<v Speaker 3>Up the little bits.

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<v Speaker 2>Of that poor one out for Timothy Challa may As.

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<v Speaker 2>We have talked about a lot on the show. He

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<v Speaker 2>didn't win the oscar on Monday. In fact, he lost it,

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<v Speaker 2>and forty eight hours after the event, we now know

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<v Speaker 2>just how mad he was about the whole I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to win the Oscar today thing, because it was

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<v Speaker 2>kind of clear by the time he sat down. The

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<v Speaker 2>reason we know this is because a lip reader has

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<v Speaker 2>translated what he was saying to Kylie Jenna when he

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<v Speaker 2>was sitting in his seat and he was like, his

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<v Speaker 2>leg was jiggling, he was smiling, but he looked.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, oh kill me now.

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<v Speaker 2>And indeed that's what he said, because according to the

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<v Speaker 2>lip reader, he said.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate this.

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<v Speaker 2>Before Kylie Jenna said to him, We're all right, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>and he goes yeah, and she says, I hope.

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<v Speaker 1>So can I ask a questionion about lip readers?

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<v Speaker 4>Where were they like five years ago, because now they're everywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>Did they have jobs five years ago?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think they might have had proper jobs five

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<v Speaker 2>years ago. There are all these influencers, so there are

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<v Speaker 2>lots of like non professional lip readers, but there are

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<v Speaker 2>also quite a lot of influencers who make their content

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<v Speaker 2>on TikTok translating what celebrities are saying to each other.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's now become so much of a big deal

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<v Speaker 2>that celebrities and royals in particular are being warned about

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<v Speaker 2>it and being told by their agents that just treat

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<v Speaker 2>the whole world like a hot mic at all times.

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<v Speaker 4>Taylor Swift has famously been doing this for a while now,

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<v Speaker 4>where she just does not talk in public unless she's

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<v Speaker 4>hiding her mouth.

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<v Speaker 3>I am on the side of TikTok that has all

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<v Speaker 3>the lipreaders, so I love that it will be every

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<v Speaker 3>just event with celebrities and a lipreader telling me what

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<v Speaker 3>they're saying. And then other one I get is psyekicks,

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<v Speaker 3>So I feel like I really know a lot. The

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<v Speaker 3>other thing about Timmy that got lip red was his

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<v Speaker 3>sister comes up to him, Pauline and Kylie sitting behind

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<v Speaker 3>him and the lip reader, and you know, the lip

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<v Speaker 3>reader is one hundred percent accurately. Let's just just put that.

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<v Speaker 2>Science says they're thirty to forty anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, Timothy says to his sister, could you go easy

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<v Speaker 3>on her, referring to Kylie as supposed to, and Pauline

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<v Speaker 3>says okay. Then Timothy reiterates, I want you to go

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<v Speaker 3>easy on.

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<v Speaker 2>Her, because what was she going to do.

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<v Speaker 3>And I believe it so hard because I'm like, that

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<v Speaker 3>is exactly what my brother would say to me if

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<v Speaker 3>he had a girlfriend.

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<v Speaker 2>By then you might be going up to him being like,

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<v Speaker 2>why are you wearing? Yeah, what's with the keyhole? Am

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<v Speaker 2>I supposed to put something in.

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<v Speaker 1>That key hole?

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<v Speaker 2>Royals are in lots of trouble with the lip readers. Recently,

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<v Speaker 2>King Charles was getting into his carriage and apparently that suck.

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<v Speaker 1>Me after his nation.

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<v Speaker 3>Remember the pin Remember his pen that ran out of

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<v Speaker 3>ink and he was really cranky. I don't even think

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<v Speaker 3>that was lip reading. I think you could hear it.

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<v Speaker 3>He's so cranky.

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<v Speaker 2>He's really cranky. But anyway, pour one out for them,

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<v Speaker 2>because they can't even get drunk and have a good

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<v Speaker 2>time anymore without everybody going I can tell what you're saying.

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<v Speaker 2>I need to talk about some actual scrorellous gossip you

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<v Speaker 2>might be seeing around your feeds. That Nicole Kidman, who

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<v Speaker 2>was definitely relaunching at the Oscars, particularly at the Vanity

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<v Speaker 2>Fair party. She looked unbelievable in that yellow dress at

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<v Speaker 2>the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars, and she was

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<v Speaker 2>very main character. I mean, of course, she is, she's thick.

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<v Speaker 4>She photo bombed Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchezos, which I loved.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because it's like only one of the people in

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<v Speaker 3>this photo should be here star power.

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<v Speaker 2>And the camera just followed her away from Jeff Lawrence.

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<v Speaker 2>Must have been very humbling for them. But anyway, the

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<v Speaker 2>rumors are that she's got a relaunch of another I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going on. You might have seen that she is dating

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<v Speaker 2>our own Simon Baker. Like three people showed this to

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<v Speaker 2>me in the kitchen this morning, showed me an Instagram

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<v Speaker 2>title of her holding hands with Simon Baker on a

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<v Speaker 2>red carpet, and we're going, is this true? Because obviously

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<v Speaker 2>they know that.

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<v Speaker 3>I know you'd know.

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<v Speaker 2>First my close personal friend Nicole Kidman. Woman's Day reports

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<v Speaker 2>they debuted their romance on the scarpeta red carpet and

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<v Speaker 2>it has Nicole's ex husband, Keith Urban.

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<v Speaker 4>Really the tabloid's just like they only flaunt their pins.

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<v Speaker 6>They're looking at it sitting on a stools.

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<v Speaker 2>In terms of whether or not we think this is true,

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<v Speaker 2>they are in a show together at the minute in

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<v Speaker 2>which they play a husband and wife.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this Scarpeader scarpet?

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<v Speaker 2>It's on Prime.

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<v Speaker 4>Have you heard it's yeah, because it's based on the

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<v Speaker 4>Patricia corn Or novels about the forensic psychologists, and I

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<v Speaker 4>love those novels. So I was tracking the reviews closely.

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<v Speaker 2>But are you going to watch it?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't think so.

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<v Speaker 1>The reviews are quite bad.

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<v Speaker 2>That's bad. Anyway. They're in it together, and they were

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<v Speaker 2>at the launch and they're standing next to each other

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<v Speaker 2>in a group of people, and indeed they are holding hands.

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<v Speaker 2>But let's get some context here. A, they're actors. B.

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<v Speaker 2>They've known each other for thirty years. Nicole is the

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<v Speaker 2>godmother of his children. She was Besti's with his ex wife.

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<v Speaker 2>The fact that they are holding hands on a red

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<v Speaker 2>carpet could mean that the popular romantic trope of friends

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<v Speaker 2>to love Us has life, or it could mean that

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<v Speaker 2>they would like to stoke a little bit of rumor

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<v Speaker 2>to get people to watch Keith to reel, get Keith

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<v Speaker 2>to reel, or to get people to watch scarpettit because,

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<v Speaker 2>as Amelia says, the reviewers are not encouraging them to

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<v Speaker 2>or they could just be mates promoting a show.

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<v Speaker 3>Nicole is very I think she's very clever and strategic

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<v Speaker 3>about this stuff. I think she'd be holding Simon Baker's

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<v Speaker 3>hand because she knows it's going to get attention. And

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<v Speaker 3>if I was next to Simon Baker, I'd want to

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<v Speaker 3>hold his hand.

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<v Speaker 4>I have famously talked on the show about the fact

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<v Speaker 4>that he was the most lovely celebrity I've ever met.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, among the only celebrities I've ever met.

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<v Speaker 3>You met him.

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<v Speaker 1>I met him at a press event.

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<v Speaker 4>He was in the car with me and he introduced

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<v Speaker 4>himself and he said, hello, I'm Simon Baker and put

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<v Speaker 4>his hand up.

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<v Speaker 3>And you said, you don't need to introduce yourself to me.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, if I shake that head, can we hold the.

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<v Speaker 1>He was reeling somewhere. What did the lipretors say? That's

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<v Speaker 1>question true.

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<v Speaker 2>We need to enlist them. I don't think they've been

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<v Speaker 2>on this one.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, look, I want to bring something from the Oscars

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<v Speaker 4>that will make your day. And it's a very short

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<v Speaker 4>clip and it's Ethan Hawk talking to Amelia de Moldenburg

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<v Speaker 4>on the Oscars Red Carpet. No further explanation needed.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you have any advice for someone who also has

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<v Speaker 3>a bit of an unrequited love theme in their life?

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<v Speaker 2>The one who's in love always wins.

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<v Speaker 7>Okay, yeah, it doesn't matter if you get your heart broken.

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<v Speaker 7>You're living when you're when you're feeling, you're alive. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>the sun doesn't care whether the grass appreciates its raise, Right,

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<v Speaker 7>it just keeps unshining.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean actual chills, right, actual chills.

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<v Speaker 3>Sorry, it's the most profound thing, liver, profound like the

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<v Speaker 3>sun doesn't care, It doesn't care. It just like it

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<v Speaker 3>makes me feel so much better about my ears.

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<v Speaker 4>Abounrequired always wins. Mean I am so here for the

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<v Speaker 4>ethan Hawk renaissance. I don't care that he allegedly cheated

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<v Speaker 4>on him with herman, with the nanny who we then married.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know if there's an alleged in that

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<v Speaker 2>sentence anymore, but.

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<v Speaker 1>He does deny it.

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<v Speaker 3>Holy, yeah, he's wise. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's a savior of gen X men, because

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<v Speaker 2>we all know that a lot of gen x heart

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<v Speaker 2>things have not let Johnny. And the thing is is that, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>Ethan Hawk has a few questionable stories in his past,

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<v Speaker 2>but every time he's interviewed, he's real. He drops something wise,

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<v Speaker 2>he's deep sea. He's a bit embarrassing, but he doesn't mind.

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<v Speaker 2>He's aging like a fine, he really is. I think

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<v Speaker 2>he could be, and he kind of has that. He

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<v Speaker 2>has the gen x sort of arty anti establishment he

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<v Speaker 2>thing that was the best of us.

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<v Speaker 4>Did you even know that he writes novels no one

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<v Speaker 4>reads them, but he continues to see them.

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<v Speaker 2>And he makes documentaries about weird shit, and he's Mayahawk's dad.

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<v Speaker 3>I just think he seems like a good dad because

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<v Speaker 3>I like my hook.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's allow him to give us all our wisdom from

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<v Speaker 2>here on in.

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<v Speaker 3>If it sometimes feels like the world just wasn't built

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<v Speaker 3>for you, that's how I feel every single day. You'd

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<v Speaker 3>be right. For example, something that I notice all the

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<v Speaker 3>time is every time I'm on a train, the handholders

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<v Speaker 3>are really high, and even if I can reach it,

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<v Speaker 3>my shirt like rides up, so I'm just exposing my

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<v Speaker 3>belly to everyone on the train.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you not getting offered a seat on the train?

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<v Speaker 3>You're obviously grave and state Okay, I have a whole

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<v Speaker 3>theory about this. People have become too politically correct and

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<v Speaker 3>they don't want to say would.

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<v Speaker 1>So you're not getting it?

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<v Speaker 2>Do not know yet? I don't think I would look

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<v Speaker 2>at you at this moment and go definitely pregnant. I

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<v Speaker 2>would put you in the borderline. I could offend her.

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<v Speaker 2>I offer her the seat category you need to wait

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<v Speaker 2>till really near the end, when no one's going like

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<v Speaker 2>she might hit me.

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<v Speaker 3>And yeah, well anyway, I do have opinions about how

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<v Speaker 3>I wish people would take more consideration. But it turns

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<v Speaker 3>out everything from public transport to cars, to medicines, to

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<v Speaker 3>phones to the temperature of your office was probably designed

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<v Speaker 3>with a specific person in mind. And his name is

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<v Speaker 3>reference Man. He is a white male, twenty five to

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<v Speaker 3>thirty five years old, weighing around seventy kilos and he's

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<v Speaker 3>about one hundred and seventy centimeters tall. In an article

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<v Speaker 3>for ABC titled women are often an afterthought when it

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<v Speaker 3>comes to designing products, Nicole Kharms who is a professor

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<v Speaker 3>in the Department of Design at Monash University and she's

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<v Speaker 3>founding director of the Monash x y X Lab, which

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<v Speaker 3>leads research into gender sensitive design. She tells reporter Amelia

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<v Speaker 3>Moseley reference Man was created in the mid nineteen seventies,

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<v Speaker 3>and he became what I would describe as a kind

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<v Speaker 3>of default or standard human that was the measure for everything.

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<v Speaker 2>I think lots of podcasts have made for reference man.

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<v Speaker 3>I think a lot of.

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<v Speaker 2>I had quite a lot of movies that one. Things

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<v Speaker 2>at the Oscars were also made for reference.

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<v Speaker 3>That's my problem with one battle after another, it was

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<v Speaker 3>the reference man movie. So the problem is that for

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<v Speaker 3>a very long time, women, despite being half the population,

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<v Speaker 3>weren't part of the research studies that informed design. And

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<v Speaker 3>what happened was they'd use men. And I remember learning

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<v Speaker 3>this at UNI. It's also because it would be men

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<v Speaker 3>who were the UNI students who would participate in all

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<v Speaker 3>the studies, but they would then just scale everything down

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<v Speaker 3>thirty or forty percent for women. They were basically saying

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<v Speaker 3>women are just short males, which didn't take into account

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<v Speaker 3>all the differences in women's body shape and bone density

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<v Speaker 3>and body fat and muscle mass and blood pressure and

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<v Speaker 3>resting heart rate and all of that. So here are

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<v Speaker 3>a few of the consequences of reference men that I

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<v Speaker 3>didn't know about. Musical instruments can be more difficult for

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<v Speaker 3>women to play, for example, the flute because they're designed

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<v Speaker 3>for male.

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<v Speaker 2>Hands, big fingers.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and so women sometimes get a flute and they

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<v Speaker 3>can't like separate their fingers enough for the.

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<v Speaker 2>Whole That's definitely why I can't.

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<v Speaker 3>I was gonna say, that's a great excuse for my

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<v Speaker 3>lack of musical skill. Women's clothes will often have no pockets,

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<v Speaker 3>or pockets that are so narrow and small they're almost useless.

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<v Speaker 3>PPE wasn't designed to fit women. Even though women make

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<v Speaker 3>up seventy percent of frontline healthcare workers. Women are up

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<v Speaker 3>to seventy five percent more likely to experience adverse reactions

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<v Speaker 3>to prescription medicines. I reckon, I've had this to be

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<v Speaker 3>a problem. Yes, I reckon, I've had this because they

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<v Speaker 3>give you a dose and they go, oh sorry. We

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<v Speaker 3>should have actually adapted it based on the fact that, like,

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<v Speaker 3>according to this, you're actually half the size of reference man. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 3>in some country, studies show women are more likely to

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<v Speaker 3>be injured in a car crash than men, and air

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<v Speaker 3>conditioning in offices feels really intense to a lot of women,

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<v Speaker 3>except for Holly, which we'll get to.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm turning into reference man. I turn that air cut up.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted.

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<v Speaker 3>Because it was based on the metabolic activity of a

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<v Speaker 3>forty year old seventy kilo male and women generally have

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<v Speaker 3>lower metabolic rates, which means we generate less heat. Holy

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<v Speaker 3>I'm actually with you on the aircon. I love a

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<v Speaker 3>crispy cold air cold the moment.

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<v Speaker 1>Holly, what other parts of reference?

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<v Speaker 4>Man? Do you think you're going to quiet? You can

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<v Speaker 4>start listening to Carl's podcast. I feel like that's very referenced.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, what else I could do?

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<v Speaker 1>John Grisham novels, Yes one hundred.

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<v Speaker 2>This is very good advice for me in a moment?

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<v Speaker 1>What is a peptide?

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<v Speaker 4>And why are you suddenly singing them everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>Out louders? Hey, it's Mia and m Vanam.

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<v Speaker 5>We weren't invited for the Oscars episode where we that

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<v Speaker 5>was really holy. Amelia and Claire did on Monday, so

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<v Speaker 5>we comment did the mics and.

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<v Speaker 2>Did our own Oscars episode.

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<v Speaker 5>But we only wanted to talk about the fashion. Really,

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<v Speaker 5>there was some judgment, but it was done with love,

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<v Speaker 5>I think, and kindness. We not only talked about the

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<v Speaker 5>Oscars Red Carpet but also the Vanity Fair red carpet.

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<v Speaker 5>I had a small rant, but we also did talk

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<v Speaker 5>about our best and worst.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not quite passionate, sneak peek.

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<v Speaker 5>My worst is all the women who couldn't walk, or

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<v Speaker 5>eat or breathe in their outfits. But there were also

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<v Speaker 5>lots of bests, weren't there so many? So if you

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<v Speaker 5>want to hear us, and you're not already a subscriber,

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<v Speaker 5>there's a link in your show notes and you can

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<v Speaker 5>listen right now. And if you are a subscriber, you've

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<v Speaker 5>probably listened to.

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<v Speaker 2>See you Sam.

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<v Speaker 4>You may have seen this on your social feed recently,

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<v Speaker 4>someone is injecting themselves with something they claim is the fountain.

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<v Speaker 1>Of Youth, which they call a peptide.

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<v Speaker 4>The ABC has reported that kids as young as fourteen

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<v Speaker 4>are ordering what they think are peptides online because of

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<v Speaker 4>reported health benefits. Joe Rogan reference man himself, urged, Matt

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<v Speaker 4>Damon also a reference.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, definitely a reference man.

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<v Speaker 1>Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. He said to them.

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<v Speaker 4>That they should take a so called wolverine peptide on

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<v Speaker 4>his show recently. Joe Rogan. Look, he's not a doctor,

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<v Speaker 4>and neither am I. But we are not here to

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<v Speaker 4>recommend that people do this. Instead, we want to talk

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<v Speaker 4>about what peptides are, why you're seeing them everywhere, and

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<v Speaker 4>why this social media driven trend, because it is very

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<v Speaker 4>much social media driven, why this trend is so dangerous? Okay, FIRS,

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<v Speaker 4>just a tiny bit of science for you. They are

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<v Speaker 4>already peptides in your body. They're already there.

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<v Speaker 1>They are the building blocks of proteins. They do lots

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<v Speaker 1>of different things. They kind of tell the body what

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<v Speaker 1>to do.

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<v Speaker 4>They're in your metabolism, they're in your growth systems, they're

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<v Speaker 4>in your immune system. But the peptides we're talking about

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<v Speaker 4>today are outside of your body, and they are being

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<v Speaker 4>created in labs.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of them are in a really nice looking jar, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>at my favorite beauty shop, which is fine, being sold

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<v Speaker 2>to me by my friend Gwyneth. Yes, is that.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, I can't speak to those specific ones, but I

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<v Speaker 4>will say that the problem is that there's a whole

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<v Speaker 4>bunch of so called peptides floating around which have not

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<v Speaker 4>been studied, not approved by the TGA, which is the

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<v Speaker 4>Therapeutic Goods Administration which regulates medicines in Australia. It may

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<v Speaker 4>not even be peptides because they're being sold online and

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<v Speaker 4>are not being regulated. And there are lots of people

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<v Speaker 4>on the internet, including our friend Robert F. Kennedy Junior,

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<v Speaker 4>as well as a lot of influencers. There are a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of women talking about this too. They're making wild

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<v Speaker 4>claims about what these peptides can do for you in

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<v Speaker 4>terms of health and well. A stat that blew my

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<v Speaker 4>mind is that the TG says that it took down

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<v Speaker 4>more than thirteen thousand advertisements in the twenty twenty four

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<v Speaker 4>to twenty five financial year online which were including peptide advertisements.

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<v Speaker 1>And the reason they're.

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<v Speaker 4>Online is because none of these are actually approved drugs,

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<v Speaker 4>so they can't be advertised in any form to the

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<v Speaker 4>general public, and experts are pretty unanimous in saying that

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<v Speaker 4>this is extremely dangerous. Before I get into why, I

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<v Speaker 4>want to know, Claire, have you seen this phenomenon online?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes. Luckily I am on the side of the internet

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<v Speaker 3>where the first stuff I saw was people criticizing peptides.

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<v Speaker 3>But then I was like, what are you criticizing? To

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<v Speaker 3>find out more so then I would look at I

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<v Speaker 3>searched it and found some of the influencers who are

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<v Speaker 3>promoting it and was gobsmacked. I just even the idea

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<v Speaker 3>of injecting yourself without having been shown how to do

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<v Speaker 3>that biomedical practitioner.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not knowing what's in and not.

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<v Speaker 3>Knowing what's in it, and apparently there can be like

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<v Speaker 3>heavy metal. I mean, they can be all sorts of

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<v Speaker 3>things because it's completely unregulated. The other thing that I

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<v Speaker 3>saw was some of the Robert F. Kennedy Junior stuff,

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<v Speaker 3>and I thought, it's very, very fascinating what he is

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<v Speaker 3>apprehensive about injecting versus what he's very means injections. Vaccine, no,

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<v Speaker 3>not crucial for health. Peptides, on the other hand, Oh yes,

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<v Speaker 3>we'll get though.

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<v Speaker 4>And apparently in a lot of these social media posts,

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<v Speaker 4>they point out that the labels on these peptides say

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<v Speaker 4>things like for research purposes only.

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<v Speaker 1>Or not for human use.

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<v Speaker 4>But the TEGA specifically wants people to know that this

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<v Speaker 4>is not some kind of get out of jail free

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<v Speaker 4>card for the people who are producing these peptides or

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<v Speaker 4>so called peptides. It doesn't change the fact that they

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<v Speaker 4>are not approved and should not be used.

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<v Speaker 3>If it says not for human use, why are you

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<v Speaker 3>allowed to sell them to humans? I just don't understand.

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<v Speaker 4>That's a question for reference man, who I'm sure is

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<v Speaker 4>currently thinking about taking them. But the thing is that

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<v Speaker 4>a doctor who's interviewed for the SITNY Morning Herald said

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<v Speaker 4>that best case scenario, you're injecting water. If you're doing this,

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<v Speaker 4>worst case scenario. You're injecting heavy metals and contaminants, which

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<v Speaker 4>doesn't sound good to me, and there's a risk of cancer,

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<v Speaker 4>of lethal hypothermia, and a lot of risks we don't

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<v Speaker 4>even know about because again we do not know what

0:20:24.834 --> 0:20:28.354
<v Speaker 4>people are injecting. Holly, have you seen the marketing around this?

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<v Speaker 4>And why do you think people are being seduced by

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<v Speaker 4>this incredibly unsafe trend.

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<v Speaker 2>It's cottage cheese. So this exists in my world. This

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<v Speaker 2>exists in the overlapping Venn diagram of midlife women and

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<v Speaker 2>teenage boys, just like cottage cheese and creatinine.

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<v Speaker 7>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm seeing fancy ladies on the internet doing it

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<v Speaker 2>as part of their morning routine. American fancy ladies on

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<v Speaker 2>the internet like giving themselves little jab And then I

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<v Speaker 2>know teenage boy moms who the boys are trading this

0:20:59.594 --> 0:21:03.194
<v Speaker 2>stuff at the gym? Really so gym's at the moment,

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<v Speaker 2>it's very like teenage boys in general. There is a

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<v Speaker 2>massive gin trend huge like muscles are in. Weightlifting is

0:21:10.354 --> 0:21:13.354
<v Speaker 2>in again overlapping with the middle aged ladies. We're like

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<v Speaker 2>weight train, weight training, forget the cardio. It's same for

0:21:15.874 --> 0:21:19.154
<v Speaker 2>teenage boys. A lot of pressure about that, right. The

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<v Speaker 2>people I know who are most concerned about this are

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<v Speaker 2>actually mothers of teenage boys who are as young as

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<v Speaker 2>the thing said, in their early teens, who are legally

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<v Speaker 2>buying it online, and they're worried about what they might

0:21:30.514 --> 0:21:34.073
<v Speaker 2>be injecting. It's interesting because these are very different fears

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<v Speaker 2>to what my mother might have been worried about what

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<v Speaker 2>I was injecting in my teenage.

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<v Speaker 1>But it is.

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<v Speaker 2>It's real. It's definitely real, and it's sort of everywhere

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<v Speaker 2>and scary. But it is interesting that it these things

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<v Speaker 2>just pop up and suddenly every woman of a certain

0:21:50.274 --> 0:21:53.474
<v Speaker 2>age is saying peptide, peptide, peptide, and every teenage boy

0:21:53.554 --> 0:21:55.313
<v Speaker 2>is saying peptide peptide, And you're like.

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<v Speaker 1>Where did that come from all?

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<v Speaker 4>And I think what's so pernicious about it is that,

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<v Speaker 4>as we've talked about, there are peptides already out there

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<v Speaker 4>in drugs that are approved for prescription use and also

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<v Speaker 4>in things like skincare, and they're also in our body.

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<v Speaker 4>So there's a sense that like, maybe this is a

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<v Speaker 4>bit of a gray area, but it's not a gray

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<v Speaker 4>area because the ones that people are injecting are not

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<v Speaker 4>approved or safe for human use.

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<v Speaker 3>They're kind of leveraging the efficacy of those drugs to

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<v Speaker 3>suggest that all of these unregulated ones will be just

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<v Speaker 3>as effective. The thing that I mean, I just am

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<v Speaker 3>overwhelmed by is the scale of marketing on social media

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<v Speaker 3>and the tone of it. So they're called they call

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<v Speaker 3>them stacks, and it's like there'll be a glow stack

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<v Speaker 3>and as you say, a wolverine stack, and all those

0:22:49.994 --> 0:22:52.514
<v Speaker 3>things are so it's like it's appealing to like our

0:22:52.634 --> 0:22:55.474
<v Speaker 3>base instincts of what we want. And the glowpack there's

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<v Speaker 3>one that like is meant to make you, like, does

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<v Speaker 3>something with melanin makes your skin darker? It's good for

0:23:02.634 --> 0:23:06.474
<v Speaker 3>skin and your hair growth and all of that. Apparently

0:23:06.594 --> 0:23:10.594
<v Speaker 3>there's no scientific evidence, but that's what it is, marketed

0:23:10.674 --> 0:23:14.714
<v Speaker 3>as some kind of biohack. And you just think, so

0:23:14.874 --> 0:23:18.513
<v Speaker 3>these people are talking like that about something for which

0:23:18.874 --> 0:23:23.234
<v Speaker 3>there is no clinical approval for their use. But I

0:23:23.274 --> 0:23:26.114
<v Speaker 3>was like, imagine if people did that about something that

0:23:26.154 --> 0:23:30.554
<v Speaker 3>there was clinical approval for, like antidepressant. Can you imagine

0:23:30.594 --> 0:23:32.874
<v Speaker 3>being like these will make you hot and happy? Like

0:23:33.234 --> 0:23:35.874
<v Speaker 3>it would just be completely bizarre because that's not how

0:23:35.874 --> 0:23:39.154
<v Speaker 3>you talk about health products, right, right, The thing is.

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<v Speaker 2>Most of us have no idea. Most people have no

0:23:41.634 --> 0:23:44.074
<v Speaker 2>idea about the science of any of this stuff. I

0:23:44.114 --> 0:23:47.274
<v Speaker 2>don't freely admit that a lot of the expensive skin

0:23:47.314 --> 0:23:49.594
<v Speaker 2>care that I am easily seduced into buying, I have

0:23:49.754 --> 0:23:52.634
<v Speaker 2>no idea what it does, no idea at all. So

0:23:53.274 --> 0:23:55.674
<v Speaker 2>the thing is is that when that takes this step

0:23:56.194 --> 0:24:00.754
<v Speaker 2>into invasive, intravenous or whatever, it is, like, I totally

0:24:00.834 --> 0:24:03.834
<v Speaker 2>understand why people are just like, she looks great, yeah,

0:24:03.874 --> 0:24:06.674
<v Speaker 2>you know, like or he looks stacked, like it just

0:24:06.794 --> 0:24:09.874
<v Speaker 2>is so so you know, we're kind of just very

0:24:09.914 --> 0:24:10.954
<v Speaker 2>easily seduced.

0:24:11.034 --> 0:24:11.994
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:24:12.074 --> 0:24:14.714
<v Speaker 4>Look, if you are curious about peptides or think you

0:24:14.754 --> 0:24:17.553
<v Speaker 4>want to explore them, we've been asked to emphasize that

0:24:17.634 --> 0:24:20.474
<v Speaker 4>you really need to talk to a doctor about it.

0:24:21.474 --> 0:24:24.194
<v Speaker 3>After the break, we used to be obsessed with this

0:24:24.314 --> 0:24:27.554
<v Speaker 3>royal couple, but now they're in Australia and no one

0:24:27.594 --> 0:24:38.474
<v Speaker 3>seems to care. There are some royals who seem to

0:24:38.634 --> 0:24:43.914
<v Speaker 3>really capture the public imagination, and some of those aren't

0:24:43.954 --> 0:24:46.914
<v Speaker 3>even royals anymore. But I remember when Harry and Meghan

0:24:47.034 --> 0:24:50.553
<v Speaker 3>visited Australia in twenty eighteen, and every new site was

0:24:50.634 --> 0:24:54.274
<v Speaker 3>wall to wall with stories about exactly what they were

0:24:54.314 --> 0:24:55.874
<v Speaker 3>doing at any given moment.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, I think you've mentioned it on this podcast

0:24:58.234 --> 0:25:00.274
<v Speaker 4>as much as I've mentioned my Simon Baker and Trader.

0:25:00.394 --> 0:25:03.314
<v Speaker 3>I know, I know I was really driving.

0:25:03.514 --> 0:25:05.474
<v Speaker 1>Moment in your life. I really was.

0:25:06.354 --> 0:25:09.513
<v Speaker 3>But right now there's a high profile royal couple in

0:25:09.554 --> 0:25:12.194
<v Speaker 3>our own backyard and there's just not that much of

0:25:12.234 --> 0:25:16.114
<v Speaker 3>a fuss. Queen Mary and King Frederick of Denmark were

0:25:16.194 --> 0:25:19.714
<v Speaker 3>in Central Australia over the weekend before traveling to Canberra

0:25:19.914 --> 0:25:22.874
<v Speaker 3>and Melbourne. In Melbourne, they're on day two of their

0:25:22.954 --> 0:25:27.874
<v Speaker 3>royal engagements, focused largely on renewable energy and sustainable development.

0:25:29.714 --> 0:25:35.034
<v Speaker 3>Well found mistake very important doing something worthy. Yeah. Yeah.

0:25:35.314 --> 0:25:38.354
<v Speaker 3>When Queen Mary, who was then known as Mary Donaldson,

0:25:38.674 --> 0:25:41.394
<v Speaker 3>met Frederick, the Crown Prince of Denmark at the Slip

0:25:41.394 --> 0:25:44.434
<v Speaker 3>Inn in Sydney during the two thousand Olympics, it was

0:25:44.474 --> 0:25:49.114
<v Speaker 3>our very favorite story that ever happened. It was they

0:25:49.154 --> 0:25:52.154
<v Speaker 3>had a long distance relationship and then the following year

0:25:52.194 --> 0:25:55.674
<v Speaker 3>Mary moved to Denmark. They were engaged, then they were

0:25:55.714 --> 0:25:57.914
<v Speaker 3>married in two thousand and four and we had our

0:25:58.074 --> 0:26:00.674
<v Speaker 3>very own Australian fairy tale. Remember, there was like the

0:26:01.874 --> 0:26:04.073
<v Speaker 3>was it a television series or a television movie?

0:26:04.114 --> 0:26:04.874
<v Speaker 2>There was a movie.

0:26:04.954 --> 0:26:05.954
<v Speaker 3>I think it was a movie.

0:26:06.034 --> 0:26:08.194
<v Speaker 4>Also the fact that they met at the Sydney Olympics.

0:26:08.194 --> 0:26:10.874
<v Speaker 4>For anyone who was lucky enough to be in Sydney

0:26:11.034 --> 0:26:13.754
<v Speaker 4>during those two weeks, I think it was the greatest

0:26:13.794 --> 0:26:15.474
<v Speaker 4>two weeks of human civilization.

0:26:15.874 --> 0:26:17.714
<v Speaker 1>And it was so it felt right that there was

0:26:17.714 --> 0:26:19.394
<v Speaker 1>this serendipitous love story to come out of.

0:26:19.394 --> 0:26:21.194
<v Speaker 3>It, and it was very It could have been made.

0:26:21.234 --> 0:26:24.234
<v Speaker 2>Oh and it was there's something very sex in the

0:26:24.274 --> 0:26:27.874
<v Speaker 2>city about everyone's like real estate agent just having cocktails

0:26:27.914 --> 0:26:30.714
<v Speaker 2>with her girls, like oh, handsome prints, like it's very

0:26:30.794 --> 0:26:33.594
<v Speaker 2>it was we ate that up with the sting.

0:26:34.074 --> 0:26:38.314
<v Speaker 3>Think about I can't count the amount of bad Netflix

0:26:38.394 --> 0:26:42.074
<v Speaker 3>movies I've watched that are based on that premise. It's like,

0:26:42.554 --> 0:26:42.994
<v Speaker 3>isn't there.

0:26:42.954 --> 0:26:45.914
<v Speaker 4>Also like an Anne Halfaway movie about almost exactly the.

0:26:46.114 --> 0:26:48.674
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and it was that movie. Like Fred would have

0:26:48.674 --> 0:26:52.794
<v Speaker 2>pretended he wasn't a Danish prince for it. It would

0:26:52.834 --> 0:26:57.154
<v Speaker 2>have just been like, hey, I really like boats that

0:26:57.994 --> 0:27:02.874
<v Speaker 2>by Jumper. That's not what happened. When I was working

0:27:02.874 --> 0:27:05.994
<v Speaker 2>in gossip Mags, she was it. We would stay up

0:27:06.034 --> 0:27:08.114
<v Speaker 2>all night to cover whatever she was doing. Everyone was

0:27:08.154 --> 0:27:11.273
<v Speaker 2>always trying to get to her friends, her exes like

0:27:11.434 --> 0:27:13.194
<v Speaker 2>she was it.

0:27:13.194 --> 0:27:15.634
<v Speaker 3>It was just this classic story of a girl from

0:27:15.634 --> 0:27:18.914
<v Speaker 3>Tasmania marrying a prince, which just isn't meant to happen.

0:27:18.954 --> 0:27:21.074
<v Speaker 3>That's why we loved it so much. Now they have

0:27:21.154 --> 0:27:24.594
<v Speaker 3>four children, and in twenty twenty four, Mary became the

0:27:24.634 --> 0:27:29.194
<v Speaker 3>first Australian born queen consort of any country after the

0:27:29.234 --> 0:27:32.553
<v Speaker 3>abdication of her mother in law. So why aren't we

0:27:32.634 --> 0:27:36.074
<v Speaker 3>following their every move in Australia? Why aren't they ever

0:27:36.114 --> 0:27:38.434
<v Speaker 3>in the headlines? Why aren't I lining up at the

0:27:38.474 --> 0:27:39.514
<v Speaker 3>opera house to see her?

0:27:39.754 --> 0:27:40.314
<v Speaker 2>Why aren't you?

0:27:40.754 --> 0:27:44.194
<v Speaker 3>I have a theory, But first, Holly, what's yours?

0:27:44.434 --> 0:27:47.034
<v Speaker 2>I have a theory. My theory is it's about age.

0:27:47.074 --> 0:27:51.313
<v Speaker 2>Like Mary is now a middle aged mother. Nobody likes those.

0:27:52.434 --> 0:27:57.434
<v Speaker 2>She has four children, she's married, she's fifty ish. I

0:27:57.474 --> 0:28:01.634
<v Speaker 2>think she's fifty four. Maybe she's not interesting anymore because

0:28:01.674 --> 0:28:04.794
<v Speaker 2>that's the way.

0:28:03.634 --> 0:28:05.834
<v Speaker 1>About okay, and she's got three.

0:28:05.594 --> 0:28:08.514
<v Speaker 2>I think this is interesting because I think that one

0:28:08.514 --> 0:28:10.314
<v Speaker 2>of the things about and I want to be clear

0:28:10.354 --> 0:28:12.274
<v Speaker 2>to the people is we are not being me. We're

0:28:12.274 --> 0:28:14.874
<v Speaker 2>not saying nobody cares about Mary's She's boring. I'm like,

0:28:15.074 --> 0:28:20.754
<v Speaker 2>we're examining why why the interest wanes? And I think

0:28:20.834 --> 0:28:24.394
<v Speaker 2>there is a tale here about if you can wait

0:28:24.514 --> 0:28:29.314
<v Speaker 2>out the mania, you know, a sort of Megan Kate

0:28:29.954 --> 0:28:32.794
<v Speaker 2>Carolyn Bissett, Not that she was ever able to do that,

0:28:33.154 --> 0:28:35.793
<v Speaker 2>but if you can wait out the mania, when you

0:28:35.954 --> 0:28:39.034
<v Speaker 2>become a middle aged woman, nobody's going to want to

0:28:39.074 --> 0:28:41.834
<v Speaker 2>look at you anymore. I just I think it's sort

0:28:41.874 --> 0:28:46.154
<v Speaker 2>of sad but true. Also I think that they are

0:28:46.194 --> 0:28:48.474
<v Speaker 2>We talk about this quite often, is that the Danes

0:28:48.514 --> 0:28:51.914
<v Speaker 2>have a very different model of monarchy than the UK royals,

0:28:52.274 --> 0:28:54.274
<v Speaker 2>and it seems to be generally a healthy one that

0:28:54.314 --> 0:28:58.154
<v Speaker 2>people like. So in Denmark their approval ratings are generally

0:28:58.194 --> 0:29:01.714
<v Speaker 2>in the late eighties early nineties, which is huge. Like

0:29:01.834 --> 0:29:05.154
<v Speaker 2>King Charles, who's popular Ish is very lucky if he's

0:29:05.154 --> 0:29:08.954
<v Speaker 2>getting around sixty percent in any kind of poll. And

0:29:09.034 --> 0:29:12.754
<v Speaker 2>it's because the Danish royals are seen as being more

0:29:12.794 --> 0:29:16.514
<v Speaker 2>down to earth, less privileged. In some ways, they're famously

0:29:16.554 --> 0:29:18.874
<v Speaker 2>called the bicycle Royals because you might actually see one

0:29:18.914 --> 0:29:21.554
<v Speaker 2>out and about and I think that all of that

0:29:21.754 --> 0:29:24.834
<v Speaker 2>is really good and healthy, but it isn't as exciting.

0:29:25.314 --> 0:29:28.354
<v Speaker 3>Do you think it's also because when they got together

0:29:28.634 --> 0:29:32.234
<v Speaker 3>and there was all the digging around, there was no

0:29:32.394 --> 0:29:32.874
<v Speaker 3>there there.

0:29:32.914 --> 0:29:34.674
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I was about to ask you about that, Holly,

0:29:34.714 --> 0:29:36.674
<v Speaker 4>do you feel like when she was it, when you

0:29:36.754 --> 0:29:39.594
<v Speaker 4>were working in women's mags, do you feel like you

0:29:39.714 --> 0:29:41.474
<v Speaker 4>ever got like kind of the dirt.

0:29:41.674 --> 0:29:44.434
<v Speaker 2>So there were rumors, right, there were rumors at the time,

0:29:44.514 --> 0:29:46.234
<v Speaker 2>and I'm not proud of any of this, but like

0:29:46.434 --> 0:29:49.074
<v Speaker 2>Mary Donaldson was, I'm going to get this wrong, but

0:29:49.234 --> 0:29:52.874
<v Speaker 2>she would have been early thirties, late twenties, so she'd

0:29:52.994 --> 0:29:55.434
<v Speaker 2>like been dating like a proper woman for a while,

0:29:56.114 --> 0:29:59.074
<v Speaker 2>and the journos of the gossip mags of the day

0:29:59.154 --> 0:30:01.474
<v Speaker 2>were digging hard, and they were all kinds of rumors

0:30:01.474 --> 0:30:03.794
<v Speaker 2>she used to date an AFL player, for example. There

0:30:03.794 --> 0:30:07.514
<v Speaker 2>were all kinds of rumors that, like all the images

0:30:07.594 --> 0:30:11.714
<v Speaker 2>from those times mysteriously disappeared from a hard drive, and

0:30:11.754 --> 0:30:14.394
<v Speaker 2>you know, like that there was almost a conspiracy to

0:30:14.514 --> 0:30:18.274
<v Speaker 2>clean up any backstory. She had some friends who were

0:30:18.834 --> 0:30:22.354
<v Speaker 2>in the media, you know, Sydney people around town, and

0:30:22.354 --> 0:30:25.034
<v Speaker 2>we used to try very hard to court them for gossip,

0:30:25.074 --> 0:30:27.754
<v Speaker 2>but they were quite tight lipped. So I think that

0:30:27.954 --> 0:30:31.394
<v Speaker 2>a she was a pretty normal and inverted commace person.

0:30:31.754 --> 0:30:35.754
<v Speaker 2>But also there was a very effective and it was

0:30:35.794 --> 0:30:38.234
<v Speaker 2>a simpler time in terms of what in terms of

0:30:38.234 --> 0:30:40.394
<v Speaker 2>what you could dig up, no social media footprint, all

0:30:40.394 --> 0:30:43.874
<v Speaker 2>that kind of stuff. There was quite an effective whitewashing

0:30:43.914 --> 0:30:47.114
<v Speaker 2>of any problematic possibilities, do you know what I mean?

0:30:47.634 --> 0:30:50.754
<v Speaker 2>So I think that all of that spoke to its time.

0:30:50.834 --> 0:30:54.754
<v Speaker 2>But there's just no question I think that glamorous young

0:30:54.794 --> 0:30:57.754
<v Speaker 2>women are more interesting. Like I was thinking about this,

0:30:57.794 --> 0:31:00.594
<v Speaker 2>I was looking at Mary's social media following, for example,

0:31:00.834 --> 0:31:02.474
<v Speaker 2>and she doesn't caught it. She's not playing in the

0:31:02.514 --> 0:31:05.074
<v Speaker 2>attention economy. So this is all good for Mary, right,

0:31:05.154 --> 0:31:10.794
<v Speaker 2>She's getting worthy headlines about environmental issues, not endless speculation

0:31:10.914 --> 0:31:13.434
<v Speaker 2>about every little bit of what she does. But she

0:31:13.554 --> 0:31:17.274
<v Speaker 2>has about one hundred and twenty three thousand followers on Instagram.

0:31:17.314 --> 0:31:20.674
<v Speaker 2>Now that is not shabby, but that is not stratospheric.

0:31:20.714 --> 0:31:23.514
<v Speaker 2>Let's remember that Kylie Jenner, for example, has three hundred

0:31:23.554 --> 0:31:27.754
<v Speaker 2>and ninety million followers on Instagram, and Megan even has

0:31:27.754 --> 0:31:29.914
<v Speaker 2>four and a half million, and she, as you say,

0:31:29.954 --> 0:31:32.994
<v Speaker 2>isn't royal anymore. Because they are playing in the attention

0:31:33.074 --> 0:31:38.434
<v Speaker 2>economy and Mary isn't to be clear, like Mary is

0:31:38.514 --> 0:31:43.154
<v Speaker 2>a gorgeous, glamorous princess, but she's just not as catnip

0:31:43.434 --> 0:31:46.394
<v Speaker 2>to the social media crowd as she would be if

0:31:46.434 --> 0:31:47.954
<v Speaker 2>she was a twenty nine year old.

0:31:48.114 --> 0:31:52.354
<v Speaker 3>And I think she's good evidence that, to some extent,

0:31:53.274 --> 0:31:59.634
<v Speaker 3>you can avoid all the speculation and all the media

0:31:59.714 --> 0:32:04.714
<v Speaker 3>obsession if you keep your head down and just keep

0:32:04.754 --> 0:32:05.394
<v Speaker 3>doing your job.

0:32:05.474 --> 0:32:07.514
<v Speaker 4>But how does this fit with the fact that there

0:32:07.714 --> 0:32:11.714
<v Speaker 4>was a scandal not involving her directly, but involving her

0:32:11.794 --> 0:32:13.474
<v Speaker 4>husband relatively recently.

0:32:13.674 --> 0:32:16.514
<v Speaker 3>Because I think for me, and I hate to say this,

0:32:16.554 --> 0:32:19.554
<v Speaker 3>but I do think my fairy tale bubble got popped

0:32:19.554 --> 0:32:23.274
<v Speaker 3>a little bit when the rumors started about how Frederick

0:32:23.394 --> 0:32:25.514
<v Speaker 3>had cheated, because for me it.

0:32:25.514 --> 0:32:29.754
<v Speaker 2>Was allegedly has always denied it, and the woman in

0:32:29.834 --> 0:32:32.554
<v Speaker 2>question sued yes.

0:32:33.234 --> 0:32:36.234
<v Speaker 3>But I think I had this idea that their love

0:32:36.314 --> 0:32:42.674
<v Speaker 3>story was so uncomplicated and so beautiful that I know

0:32:42.874 --> 0:32:46.954
<v Speaker 3>I really did. I was like, they're superhuman. And in

0:32:46.994 --> 0:32:49.754
<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty three, rumors started to circulate that he had

0:32:49.794 --> 0:32:52.754
<v Speaker 3>an affair with a Mexican socialite and there were photos

0:32:52.754 --> 0:32:55.754
<v Speaker 3>of them together in Spain. For some reason, this story

0:32:56.394 --> 0:32:58.034
<v Speaker 3>really stuck with me and blew up in my head.

0:32:58.034 --> 0:32:59.714
<v Speaker 3>And when I went back and looked at it, the

0:32:59.794 --> 0:33:04.394
<v Speaker 3>photos are so innocent, like there really was no smoking gun.

0:33:04.794 --> 0:33:08.674
<v Speaker 3>But I really became attached do it, and I really

0:33:09.674 --> 0:33:13.634
<v Speaker 3>lost hope. I thought, maybe no one's really about happy?

0:33:14.434 --> 0:33:17.114
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but where But since when there's a whiff of

0:33:17.154 --> 0:33:20.554
<v Speaker 2>achieving scandal ever made people less interested in right? Like

0:33:20.634 --> 0:33:23.594
<v Speaker 2>normally that ramps up the entry. Everyone would be like,

0:33:23.914 --> 0:33:25.314
<v Speaker 2>let's read the body language.

0:33:25.394 --> 0:33:28.034
<v Speaker 4>Let's see if no one's slip reading them, even though

0:33:28.074 --> 0:33:31.274
<v Speaker 4>there was this marriage scandal, And that's really interesting.

0:33:31.554 --> 0:33:33.634
<v Speaker 3>And is it simply that you can choose to not

0:33:33.634 --> 0:33:36.914
<v Speaker 3>be in the headlines because she didn't. Mary didn't engage,

0:33:37.314 --> 0:33:40.274
<v Speaker 3>Like if she had gone out and made some big

0:33:40.314 --> 0:33:44.274
<v Speaker 3>statement about it, or if they had made I don't know,

0:33:44.314 --> 0:33:46.194
<v Speaker 3>a bit more of a fuss about the whole story,

0:33:46.594 --> 0:33:50.594
<v Speaker 3>perhaps it would have become this fixture.

0:33:50.634 --> 0:33:53.594
<v Speaker 4>I do think that we have to give Mary some

0:33:53.674 --> 0:33:56.874
<v Speaker 4>credit for this, because the discipline it must have taken

0:33:56.914 --> 0:33:59.674
<v Speaker 4>her to be in the public eye for more than

0:33:59.714 --> 0:34:03.954
<v Speaker 4>two decades and to basically have never said anything that

0:34:04.034 --> 0:34:07.434
<v Speaker 4>blew up is extraordinary.

0:34:06.714 --> 0:34:06.954
<v Speaker 2>I know.

0:34:07.394 --> 0:34:11.314
<v Speaker 3>And to have your kids not do anything that has

0:34:11.393 --> 0:34:14.193
<v Speaker 3>particularly blown up and I wouldn't know what her kids

0:34:14.194 --> 0:34:14.594
<v Speaker 3>look like.

0:34:14.953 --> 0:34:17.674
<v Speaker 2>Really, yeah, I'm afraid I would, but that's because of

0:34:17.714 --> 0:34:21.234
<v Speaker 2>my background. I think that all of that is true.

0:34:21.234 --> 0:34:23.194
<v Speaker 2>But I think in terms of the does it show

0:34:23.234 --> 0:34:26.154
<v Speaker 2>that you can avoid the headlines? I think, as I

0:34:26.194 --> 0:34:29.274
<v Speaker 2>said before, I think the Danish royal family are a

0:34:29.314 --> 0:34:32.634
<v Speaker 2>different kettle of fish because Kate Middleton, well what do

0:34:32.674 --> 0:34:36.354
<v Speaker 2>we call a princess? Catherine has tried that. Remember she

0:34:36.434 --> 0:34:40.634
<v Speaker 2>tried that with the whole photo scandal, the whole unedifying

0:34:40.994 --> 0:34:43.154
<v Speaker 2>obsession with where she was for a while that ended

0:34:43.234 --> 0:34:45.794
<v Speaker 2>up being that she had really serious health problems. She

0:34:45.994 --> 0:34:48.634
<v Speaker 2>tried never complained, never explained, which has always been the

0:34:48.634 --> 0:34:52.594
<v Speaker 2>British royal family's mantra, and it didn't work under the

0:34:52.594 --> 0:34:56.873
<v Speaker 2>pressure of the attention economy. Whereas Mary and Fred, as

0:34:56.914 --> 0:34:59.314
<v Speaker 2>you say, they rode out those rumors and everyone was

0:34:59.314 --> 0:35:02.433
<v Speaker 2>obsessed with it for a minute, but they've disappeared. They're

0:35:02.434 --> 0:35:05.714
<v Speaker 2>barely mentioned now. There is something really interesting in that,

0:35:05.754 --> 0:35:09.754
<v Speaker 2>maybe you can chew sort of. I think most people

0:35:09.794 --> 0:35:13.674
<v Speaker 2>respect her a lot and admire her in terms of

0:35:13.714 --> 0:35:17.114
<v Speaker 2>going what a woman. As you said, Amelia, she's really

0:35:17.154 --> 0:35:19.954
<v Speaker 2>carried herself so well. But you don't get the frenzy

0:35:20.434 --> 0:35:22.993
<v Speaker 2>and that's probably really great. Or you're a bit more

0:35:22.994 --> 0:35:26.674
<v Speaker 2>complicated and a bit more out there and you're getting

0:35:26.754 --> 0:35:29.674
<v Speaker 2>that you're courting the press all the time and your

0:35:29.674 --> 0:35:30.674
<v Speaker 2>life's a bit miserable.

0:35:31.114 --> 0:35:33.714
<v Speaker 4>She's looking amazing in her a Kubra's and Zimmerman on

0:35:33.754 --> 0:35:34.274
<v Speaker 4>this trip.

0:35:34.434 --> 0:35:36.953
<v Speaker 2>I know she was kicking a football at the MCG today,

0:35:36.954 --> 0:35:39.834
<v Speaker 2>which is exactly that's peak royal tour. That's exactly the

0:35:39.874 --> 0:35:42.114
<v Speaker 2>kind of stuff you have to do. And her kick

0:35:42.314 --> 0:35:43.114
<v Speaker 2>was freaking great.

0:35:43.194 --> 0:35:43.873
<v Speaker 1>Of course it was.

0:35:44.674 --> 0:35:48.474
<v Speaker 3>Can I say the idea of looking at Mary now

0:35:48.634 --> 0:35:51.714
<v Speaker 3>and seeing that she is doing this too, She's talking

0:35:51.714 --> 0:35:56.914
<v Speaker 3>about something really important and there's not all the because

0:35:56.914 --> 0:35:58.913
<v Speaker 3>you could see it as distraction that all the other

0:35:58.954 --> 0:36:02.714
<v Speaker 3>stuff is like, it's not actually courting attention that any

0:36:02.754 --> 0:36:06.314
<v Speaker 3>of them want. No, I'm finding that the older I get,

0:36:06.474 --> 0:36:11.514
<v Speaker 3>the more I enjoy and am looking forward to becoming

0:36:11.554 --> 0:36:12.474
<v Speaker 3>more and more invisible.

0:36:12.594 --> 0:36:17.554
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, No, To be clear, in the conversations that

0:36:17.594 --> 0:36:21.033
<v Speaker 2>midlife women have about invisibility, it's a double edged sword.

0:36:21.154 --> 0:36:23.154
<v Speaker 2>There is a lot that is so great. I look

0:36:23.194 --> 0:36:25.074
<v Speaker 2>at my teenage daughter. I've talked about this a lot.

0:36:25.354 --> 0:36:28.154
<v Speaker 2>There is a lot that is so great at having

0:36:28.274 --> 0:36:31.994
<v Speaker 2>the eyes of the world turn away from you. Like,

0:36:32.394 --> 0:36:34.473
<v Speaker 2>there's a lot that's kind of sad about it, but

0:36:34.514 --> 0:36:37.994
<v Speaker 2>there's also a lot that's incredibly freeing. I'm not suggesting

0:36:38.034 --> 0:36:41.314
<v Speaker 2>that Mary is sad that she isn't being papped at

0:36:41.314 --> 0:36:44.514
<v Speaker 2>every turn anymore. You know that she isn't being stalked

0:36:44.514 --> 0:36:46.674
<v Speaker 2>and her friends are being harassed. I bet she's delighted

0:36:46.714 --> 0:36:47.114
<v Speaker 2>about it.

0:36:47.194 --> 0:36:50.234
<v Speaker 3>I think there is so much power in that. I

0:36:50.274 --> 0:36:53.154
<v Speaker 3>was at a comedy show recently and a bunch of

0:36:53.154 --> 0:36:55.953
<v Speaker 3>comedians and one of them who got up is an

0:36:55.954 --> 0:37:00.714
<v Speaker 3>Aussie comedian who's in her sixties, and she got up

0:37:00.754 --> 0:37:03.634
<v Speaker 3>and I went, you are the most powerful person in

0:37:03.674 --> 0:37:07.994
<v Speaker 3>this room because you don't that. Her whole energy was

0:37:08.274 --> 0:37:10.674
<v Speaker 3>I don't have to impress you. I'm beyond that. I'm

0:37:10.714 --> 0:37:13.954
<v Speaker 3>beyond being judged by you. And I think as a woman,

0:37:13.994 --> 0:37:17.433
<v Speaker 3>it's a really, really exciting place to be and you

0:37:17.514 --> 0:37:19.674
<v Speaker 3>probably get to explore a whole lot of things and

0:37:20.154 --> 0:37:25.433
<v Speaker 3>passions and possibilities that you've wanted to and may have

0:37:25.514 --> 0:37:26.514
<v Speaker 3>been distracted from.

0:37:26.554 --> 0:37:29.393
<v Speaker 2>Look, that's a nice way of looking at it, to

0:37:29.514 --> 0:37:29.913
<v Speaker 2>think of it.

0:37:29.994 --> 0:37:32.274
<v Speaker 4>No one's told me to smile recently. Yes, it's not

0:37:32.354 --> 0:37:34.314
<v Speaker 4>because I'm smiling.

0:37:34.034 --> 0:37:39.194
<v Speaker 3>Smiling, No, it's because they're like, we don't care. I

0:37:39.234 --> 0:37:41.513
<v Speaker 3>think you do have a point, Holly, that it's sort

0:37:41.554 --> 0:37:45.274
<v Speaker 3>of also that Denmark is a bit of a not

0:37:45.354 --> 0:37:49.114
<v Speaker 3>a boring country, but it seems to like have its

0:37:49.114 --> 0:37:52.034
<v Speaker 3>shit together politically a little bit. So I think the

0:37:52.034 --> 0:37:56.074
<v Speaker 3>British royal family, like Megan being the American connection, all

0:37:56.154 --> 0:38:00.554
<v Speaker 3>of that, really we kind of maybe apply all the

0:38:00.634 --> 0:38:04.474
<v Speaker 3>drama of those countries to those people, whereas for Mary

0:38:04.674 --> 0:38:08.314
<v Speaker 3>and Frederick it's very much it's just not as much.

0:38:08.514 --> 0:38:11.714
<v Speaker 4>No, they're just enjoying their four years of parentally yeah, exactly.

0:38:11.794 --> 0:38:15.714
<v Speaker 4>Also to learn the language, this notoriously complicated language where

0:38:15.714 --> 0:38:18.834
<v Speaker 4>there are like lines through O's to the point where

0:38:19.194 --> 0:38:23.433
<v Speaker 4>she's talking English with a Danish accent. I mean, I

0:38:23.514 --> 0:38:24.433
<v Speaker 4>can't romantic.

0:38:24.754 --> 0:38:26.074
<v Speaker 1>I think that's impressive.

0:38:26.874 --> 0:38:29.794
<v Speaker 2>My theory that nobody's interested in middle aged women, which

0:38:29.794 --> 0:38:32.873
<v Speaker 2>obviously is a self deprecating theory from where I sit,

0:38:32.954 --> 0:38:34.794
<v Speaker 2>and I hope it isn't true, And there is one

0:38:34.834 --> 0:38:36.553
<v Speaker 2>sign that in fact it is not in the least

0:38:36.594 --> 0:38:38.393
<v Speaker 2>bit true. Well, one is that we're obsessed with looking

0:38:38.434 --> 0:38:39.874
<v Speaker 2>at them on the red carpet and trying to decide

0:38:39.874 --> 0:38:42.074
<v Speaker 2>what they've done to their faces obviously.

0:38:41.994 --> 0:38:45.034
<v Speaker 3>Is another sign. Is another sign that this is the

0:38:45.154 --> 0:38:48.034
<v Speaker 3>number one podcast in the country and.

0:38:48.514 --> 0:38:53.714
<v Speaker 2>One of us is old. But also Shonda Rhimes, the

0:38:53.794 --> 0:38:57.114
<v Speaker 2>queen of TV and of knowing what people want to watch.

0:38:57.154 --> 0:38:59.354
<v Speaker 2>She is obviously the brain's behind grays Anadoamy. She is

0:38:59.434 --> 0:39:02.953
<v Speaker 2>Bridgiton brain. Says that if there's going to be another

0:39:02.994 --> 0:39:04.834
<v Speaker 2>spin off, because you know, she did a Queen Charlotte

0:39:04.834 --> 0:39:06.954
<v Speaker 2>spinoff from Bridgton, I never watched.

0:39:07.154 --> 0:39:08.754
<v Speaker 3>Oh no, it was really good because it was like

0:39:08.954 --> 0:39:12.034
<v Speaker 3>loosely historical, like it made me google, like was that

0:39:12.034 --> 0:39:15.354
<v Speaker 3>guy crazy? And I really liked the young actress and

0:39:15.354 --> 0:39:16.674
<v Speaker 3>the old actor. Yeah. No, it was really good.

0:39:16.714 --> 0:39:19.714
<v Speaker 2>So that went like into the backstory of Queen Charlotte.

0:39:19.754 --> 0:39:20.074
<v Speaker 5>Correct.

0:39:20.474 --> 0:39:22.513
<v Speaker 2>She says that if she does do another, it will

0:39:22.554 --> 0:39:26.354
<v Speaker 2>be about Violet, like Lady Bridgeton, who's the mum character

0:39:26.554 --> 0:39:28.994
<v Speaker 2>in that. And one of the things that people have

0:39:29.074 --> 0:39:32.354
<v Speaker 2>really liked about the most recent series of Bridgeton is

0:39:32.354 --> 0:39:34.754
<v Speaker 2>that instead of just being the stressy one who's always

0:39:34.754 --> 0:39:36.953
<v Speaker 2>trying to find people for her children to marry, which

0:39:36.994 --> 0:39:40.914
<v Speaker 2>is the point of the show, she fell in love.

0:39:40.954 --> 0:39:43.314
<v Speaker 2>I guess we would call it. I'm definitely in lust

0:39:43.314 --> 0:39:45.434
<v Speaker 2>with a very handsome man and was having quite a

0:39:45.474 --> 0:39:49.354
<v Speaker 2>lot of sex, and people really liked it. And obviously Shonda,

0:39:49.514 --> 0:39:52.474
<v Speaker 2>who is no fool, is like, that's where we go next.

0:39:52.914 --> 0:39:53.433
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

0:39:53.874 --> 0:39:58.274
<v Speaker 3>I just Violet. I'm a horrible, horrible person. But I

0:39:58.354 --> 0:39:59.554
<v Speaker 3>just don't think i'd watch that.

0:40:00.314 --> 0:40:00.674
<v Speaker 1>You know what.

0:40:00.714 --> 0:40:02.754
<v Speaker 2>It's just occurred to me. They probably would go into

0:40:02.794 --> 0:40:06.674
<v Speaker 2>her backstory, wouldn't they. It would probably be a young Violet.

0:40:07.154 --> 0:40:08.873
<v Speaker 3>She really loved her husband, didn't she?

0:40:08.874 --> 0:40:11.514
<v Speaker 2>She really did, and they had twenty five children together.

0:40:11.914 --> 0:40:14.794
<v Speaker 2>But it's interesting because when you say I wouldn't watch that,

0:40:14.874 --> 0:40:17.514
<v Speaker 2>I know what you mean. But do you think we

0:40:17.754 --> 0:40:21.513
<v Speaker 2>genuinely are a bit programmed to not be interested in

0:40:21.714 --> 0:40:23.274
<v Speaker 2>the love lives of middle aged people?

0:40:23.794 --> 0:40:26.314
<v Speaker 1>Well, big little lies would beg to different. That's true.

0:40:26.794 --> 0:40:28.354
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's horribly true.

0:40:28.434 --> 0:40:31.914
<v Speaker 3>The horrible thing to consider is do we care about

0:40:32.154 --> 0:40:34.794
<v Speaker 3>the love lives of middle aged people when they look

0:40:35.074 --> 0:40:37.274
<v Speaker 3>like young people? Do you know what I mean? Like,

0:40:37.554 --> 0:40:39.194
<v Speaker 3>big little lies, you've got.

0:40:39.314 --> 0:40:41.354
<v Speaker 1>I do think they have to be rich. I think

0:40:41.434 --> 0:40:42.114
<v Speaker 1>that's important.

0:40:42.394 --> 0:40:46.394
<v Speaker 3>That's important because I'm also thinking there was that mum

0:40:46.634 --> 0:40:50.114
<v Speaker 3>like she was maybe in her forties, bloody gorgeous, and

0:40:50.114 --> 0:40:53.034
<v Speaker 3>there was an Aussie guy it's called sex something.

0:40:53.114 --> 0:40:54.514
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah who lived downstairs.

0:40:54.594 --> 0:40:56.554
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

0:40:56.634 --> 0:40:59.194
<v Speaker 2>Well, everybody's saying that midlife sex is getting a big

0:40:59.274 --> 0:41:01.433
<v Speaker 2>comeback after all fours and all those things. There are

0:41:01.474 --> 0:41:04.154
<v Speaker 2>lots of books about it, but I still think there's

0:41:04.194 --> 0:41:07.634
<v Speaker 2>a difference between a book and TV. I don't know.

0:41:07.674 --> 0:41:11.154
<v Speaker 2>I would love to think that we are getting better

0:41:11.594 --> 0:41:15.154
<v Speaker 2>at confronting our own ageism about whether or not we're

0:41:15.194 --> 0:41:18.474
<v Speaker 2>interested in whether or not fifty something women are having

0:41:18.514 --> 0:41:21.554
<v Speaker 2>sex and having excited relationships. Back kind of feel like

0:41:21.594 --> 0:41:22.674
<v Speaker 2>we're probably.

0:41:22.314 --> 0:41:23.873
<v Speaker 1>Not holy one thing.

0:41:24.154 --> 0:41:26.834
<v Speaker 4>I think you're onto something with this theory, But I

0:41:26.914 --> 0:41:32.394
<v Speaker 4>still don't get how it fits with Kate, because Princess

0:41:32.474 --> 0:41:35.554
<v Speaker 4>Kate has three children, she's well into her forties at

0:41:35.554 --> 0:41:39.754
<v Speaker 4>this point, and we're all still indisputably obsessed with her.

0:41:40.474 --> 0:41:42.354
<v Speaker 4>So how do you square that circle?

0:41:42.754 --> 0:41:46.034
<v Speaker 2>Do you think we are? Though? We were obsessed with

0:41:46.074 --> 0:41:49.714
<v Speaker 2>the story of when she you know, when she disappeared,

0:41:49.754 --> 0:41:52.314
<v Speaker 2>in what had happened, and obviously with her health journey,

0:41:52.314 --> 0:41:56.033
<v Speaker 2>and I think that that has also made people much

0:41:56.114 --> 0:41:59.234
<v Speaker 2>more sympathetic to her or most But do we look

0:41:59.274 --> 0:42:00.513
<v Speaker 2>at her as an icon?

0:42:00.674 --> 0:42:00.994
<v Speaker 6>Do we?

0:42:01.434 --> 0:42:03.154
<v Speaker 3>I think so and I am.

0:42:03.234 --> 0:42:05.834
<v Speaker 2>And if they came, would we be lining the street?

0:42:05.914 --> 0:42:06.234
<v Speaker 1>Yes?

0:42:07.274 --> 0:42:12.354
<v Speaker 2>They are categorically more popular than Charles and Camilla, and

0:42:12.514 --> 0:42:14.433
<v Speaker 2>more popular than Harry and Meggs.

0:42:14.874 --> 0:42:20.754
<v Speaker 3>And arguably, arguably when William becomes king, arguably more influential

0:42:21.234 --> 0:42:25.154
<v Speaker 3>in our lives. But I have never cared as much

0:42:25.154 --> 0:42:29.953
<v Speaker 3>about anything as when William allegedly cheated with Rose. Like

0:42:30.034 --> 0:42:32.034
<v Speaker 3>I cared, so I was like, don't do that to

0:42:32.154 --> 0:42:33.274
<v Speaker 3>my Kate.

0:42:34.194 --> 0:42:36.234
<v Speaker 2>Isn't that just a cheating story?

0:42:36.314 --> 0:42:37.114
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:42:37.194 --> 0:42:40.154
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, look you well you might well be onto something there,

0:42:40.154 --> 0:42:43.194
<v Speaker 2>because I think people are obsessed with her, But I yeah,

0:42:43.314 --> 0:42:47.194
<v Speaker 2>I just I don't see her as quite as grown

0:42:47.274 --> 0:42:47.634
<v Speaker 2>up yet.

0:42:48.154 --> 0:42:50.873
<v Speaker 4>Look, we may not be as interested in Mary as

0:42:50.874 --> 0:42:54.873
<v Speaker 4>we once were, but I have a sneaky Wednesday recommendation

0:42:55.114 --> 0:42:58.754
<v Speaker 4>to end the show today, which is the book Air

0:42:58.834 --> 0:43:00.674
<v Speaker 4>Apparent by Rebecca Armatage.

0:43:00.794 --> 0:43:03.393
<v Speaker 2>I've seen it every I'm interviewing her soon.

0:43:03.874 --> 0:43:05.314
<v Speaker 1>It is a I read.

0:43:05.114 --> 0:43:06.754
<v Speaker 4>It on a plane, and I feel like books you

0:43:06.794 --> 0:43:09.474
<v Speaker 4>read on a plane, there's a really high bar because

0:43:09.514 --> 0:43:12.714
<v Speaker 4>you've got like all this terrible TV to watch and

0:43:12.994 --> 0:43:15.474
<v Speaker 4>you're just not concentrating. I read the whole thing on

0:43:15.514 --> 0:43:20.754
<v Speaker 4>a plane. She's a former ABC journalist who clearly knows

0:43:20.874 --> 0:43:22.434
<v Speaker 4>all there is to know about the history of the

0:43:22.434 --> 0:43:25.274
<v Speaker 4>British royal family. And what happens in the story is

0:43:25.314 --> 0:43:28.874
<v Speaker 4>that a Tasmanian girl marries into the British royal family.

0:43:28.994 --> 0:43:32.034
<v Speaker 4>It's very clearly based on Harry and William, but with

0:43:32.074 --> 0:43:36.234
<v Speaker 4>this Aussie twist, and it's just a tremendous look at

0:43:36.234 --> 0:43:39.194
<v Speaker 4>what it's like to be inside a royal family.

0:43:39.474 --> 0:43:42.994
<v Speaker 3>See Mary's still inspiring us the fairy Tale.

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