WEBVTT - "Uh-Oh, I'm A Finger Princess"

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Hello and welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>Mom and Mia out loud.

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<v Speaker 2>What women are actually talking about on Friday, the thirteenth

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<v Speaker 2>of February.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm hollywayn Right. What sorry, it's bad luck?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh shit thirty Yeah, that's bad luck.

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<v Speaker 2>Friday thirteen, Okay, Friday, the twelve ay Ofbruary.

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<v Speaker 3>All the fourteen like is kind of Valentine's Day, but

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<v Speaker 3>a day before Friday.

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<v Speaker 1>Valentine's Eve, Yes, February. We love that. And I am

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<v Speaker 1>Hollywayne right.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm Claire Stephens and I'm Jesse Stevens.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's what's on our agenda for our Friday show.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the week that the robots finally really freaked

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<v Speaker 2>me out, and we need to debrief.

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<v Speaker 3>Plus the petty hills we will always always die on

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<v Speaker 3>And are you a finger princess, because apparently there's one

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<v Speaker 3>in every friendship?

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<v Speaker 1>Have anything to do with that?

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<v Speaker 3>I think? I don't know, Holly, that's in your dreams.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's move on from here, but first, in case you

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<v Speaker 3>missed it, we are about to enter the year of

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<v Speaker 3>the Horse, the fire Horse, the Year of the fire Horse,

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<v Speaker 3>and there are some things everyone should know.

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<v Speaker 1>This is in the lunar calendar.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, this is Chinese stroll.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the lunar calendar. I think the new year starts

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<v Speaker 1>on the seventeenth.

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<v Speaker 3>On the secondeenth, which is next Tuesday, my wedding anniversary. Really,

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<v Speaker 3>stay well, Claire, I think it's our year. I did

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<v Speaker 3>some reading. I think it's our year. Feel like so

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<v Speaker 3>much holly over here is year of the pig.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's not say that with so much glee.

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<v Speaker 3>I like it.

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<v Speaker 1>I am a pig. Yes, we'll leave it.

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<v Speaker 3>You've had your years, Claire. We're the year of the

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<v Speaker 3>horse because we were born in nineteen ninety. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 3>this has come round. We are, along with anyone born

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<v Speaker 3>nineteen fifty four, nineteen sixty six, nineteen seventy eight, two

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<v Speaker 3>thousand and two, twenty fourteen. Beyond that, I don't believe

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<v Speaker 3>you exist. And after reading about the Chinese zodiac for

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<v Speaker 3>eleven minutes this morning, I get the strong sense that

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<v Speaker 3>good things are coming for us. The fire horse is

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<v Speaker 3>one of the most powerful combinations on the Chinese zodiac.

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<v Speaker 3>Susan Goo, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and acupuncturist who

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<v Speaker 3>probably knows a little bit more about this than a

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<v Speaker 3>White Girl on TikTok or Me says that in Eastern culture,

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<v Speaker 3>the horse represents action, freedom, speed. You're known for your speed,

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<v Speaker 3>but fast on your feet, not and breakthrough. It reflects

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<v Speaker 3>a stage of life that moves boldly forward without the

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<v Speaker 3>fear of obstacles, placing emphasis on being in motion rather

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<v Speaker 3>than standing still. So this year, anything that we want

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<v Speaker 3>to do. Let's say, we want to start running, we

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<v Speaker 3>want to start gardening, we want to become really into weightlifting.

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<v Speaker 3>No planning. This is not the year for planning, ladies.

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<v Speaker 3>This is the year of just going for it. And

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<v Speaker 3>I was feeling really positive right and I thought, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>going to rabit in Holly's face.

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<v Speaker 1>Then can I just quickly tell you what's going to

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<v Speaker 1>happen to pigs this year?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? Yes, just because you know, I think you want

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<v Speaker 2>to be represented.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to be represented.

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<v Speaker 2>And also it's not good news as opposed to you,

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<v Speaker 2>who's got lots.

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<v Speaker 1>Of good news.

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<v Speaker 2>The Year of the fire Horse presents a challenging, high energy,

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<v Speaker 2>and tumultuous period for pigs. Due to the rapid, unpredictable

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<v Speaker 2>nature of this year, pigs may face increased stress, emotional sensitivity,

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<v Speaker 2>and instability in work and relationships.

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<v Speaker 1>That doesn't sound.

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<v Speaker 3>Good, guys, like you've got to go back to bed. Well,

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<v Speaker 3>Holly in solidarity. I then came across something that was

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<v Speaker 3>not so good for us, right, because the horse does

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<v Speaker 3>sound Horses are beautiful, horses are beautiful, energy healthy. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe that's why bio Sensory was sitting on one naked

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<v Speaker 3>in that Vanity fair profile that we.

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<v Speaker 1>Talked about it. It was a nod to. It was a nod.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So in nineteen sixty six, which was the last

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<v Speaker 3>time we had a fire horse year, and you know

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<v Speaker 3>how I said, historically it's a very important year, there

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<v Speaker 3>was a statistical drop in birth rates in a bunch

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<v Speaker 3>of Eastern countries. You know why, because there are superstitions

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<v Speaker 3>around having babies in the year of Christ. Do not

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<v Speaker 3>want babies in the year of the horse. Apparently they're wild,

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<v Speaker 3>they're too difficult, and they bring bad luck to the

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<v Speaker 3>whole family. Oh no, Claire, do you have any feelings

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<v Speaker 3>about that? Yeah, I mean you're gonna have two of them,

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<v Speaker 3>so hahah that's hilarious. And we already know that the

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<v Speaker 3>girl is that Yeah, there's doing a lot of kicking.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm getting a big horse energy from the girl. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>she's wreaking havoc in there, but I am also having

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<v Speaker 3>a horse.

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<v Speaker 4>Baby.

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<v Speaker 3>You're having a horse. I'm having a little horse in July.

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<v Speaker 3>End of July.

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<v Speaker 2>This is news for people who did not listen to

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<v Speaker 2>yes Yesterday's subscriber Episo said with me where you two talked.

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<v Speaker 1>About your weird twinness pregnancies.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly when I said weird, sorry to every twin in

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<v Speaker 2>the world, I meant you're interesting, intriguing and curiosity inducing

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<v Speaker 2>twin pregnancy.

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<v Speaker 3>Sorry, girls, how do you feel about having that baby

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<v Speaker 3>in the Year of the Horse? You've been anxious? Well, no,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean I think to have a horse. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>I already had a horse.

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<v Speaker 1>She came kicking.

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<v Speaker 3>She did come say that. Matilda came out of the

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<v Speaker 3>womb going ah, she got lost and there were lots

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<v Speaker 3>of issues. So there's going to be some wildness. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of city still. Yeah, but I have to

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<v Speaker 3>say this whole thing about it being our year. No, no, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 3>high energy. I have done nothing. I'm doing a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of standing still, a lot of life.

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<v Speaker 2>You're building a baby. We need to reframe that as

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<v Speaker 2>work and not laziness.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, well I would say I'm feeling less fire

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<v Speaker 3>horse and more water. Is there a wa No, there

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<v Speaker 3>is one I've added.

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<v Speaker 1>In the world.

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<v Speaker 3>Water exactly exactly. But I'm on my back, floating, sleeping. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>and that's the energy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have a wildlife story that has nothing to

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<v Speaker 2>do with anything just sidebarring. We can take it out

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<v Speaker 2>if we want. Because another Chinese early ex sign.

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<v Speaker 3>Is snake, which was the year we'd just had.

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<v Speaker 2>I think, so yes, yes, And on Saturday, this is right,

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<v Speaker 2>this is the exit of the Year of the Snake.

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<v Speaker 2>And on Saturday, I was driving down a road near

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<v Speaker 2>where I live, and I see steaks quite a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>Where I live, because I live.

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<v Speaker 2>In the in the country, not really the country, but

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<v Speaker 2>you know, regional area, I see stakes quite a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>I was driving down the roadwhere I live and.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a huge like a huge.

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<v Speaker 2>Green python in the middle of the road, like in

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<v Speaker 2>the middle of the road, right it was going to

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<v Speaker 2>get run over. And I was early in the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>was like seven thirty in the morning and Saturday, and.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like a sign, Holly, but I don't know what.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, here's me.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like that poor snake it's going to get

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<v Speaker 2>run over. So I pulled the car over.

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<v Speaker 1>I go over the sea.

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<v Speaker 3>Then what.

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<v Speaker 2>Holly, I go over to see if the snake is

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<v Speaker 2>in fact alive.

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<v Speaker 1>It is. His little heads up. It's like all very

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<v Speaker 1>busy like looking looking.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, how do I get the snake off

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<v Speaker 2>the river along? Because it's going to get squished. And

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know a lot about snakes, but I know

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<v Speaker 2>that like where I live, we have black red belly snakes,

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<v Speaker 2>venomous hie them's a chill.

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<v Speaker 1>Hythens be chill. Anyway, I'm standing there looking like an.

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<v Speaker 2>Idiot, like a city slicking idiot, staring at this snake.

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<v Speaker 2>And a ute comes along and pulls up, and the

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<v Speaker 2>man from Central Casting.

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<v Speaker 1>Gets out of this car. Is the ozziest country bloke

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<v Speaker 1>you have ever seen in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>He's kind of older. He's literally wearing overalls. He's like

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<v Speaker 2>looks at me like I'm really stupid. But he's quite kind,

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<v Speaker 2>so he's like dull.

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<v Speaker 1>For that sake.

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<v Speaker 3>You're like, I was just having a child.

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<v Speaker 1>I just don't want him to die.

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<v Speaker 2>He's just looking at me like anyway, I said, I

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<v Speaker 2>was thinking, how am I get a stick?

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<v Speaker 1>And like, try and.

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<v Speaker 2>Push it off the road, and he's like, you're an idiot,

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<v Speaker 2>and he said, not poisons, but they're snappy little buggers.

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<v Speaker 2>And then he goes over to the snake. He picked

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<v Speaker 2>it up, grabs it by the head and throws it

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<v Speaker 2>into the giant python.

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<v Speaker 1>And he was just like, there you go. He'll live

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<v Speaker 1>to fight another day now. And he goes back in.

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<v Speaker 3>His car and he drives off.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like, snake encounters.

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<v Speaker 3>I love country people.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I realized that was the exit of the Year

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<v Speaker 1>of the snake.

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<v Speaker 3>I still have a few days to have a snake

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<v Speaker 3>baby well, because I was too early for this.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you can't one of that battle no snake baby

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<v Speaker 2>babies inside.

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<v Speaker 3>But I have had two snake encounters this year. We

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<v Speaker 3>had an encounter with a diamond pythen and I got

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<v Speaker 3>Matilda really into the snake, and then every morning she'd

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<v Speaker 3>get up and say snakes. Yah. It was in a

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<v Speaker 3>tree where Matilda was playing. Yeah. And then we saw

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<v Speaker 3>one on the road as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Apparently they like to warm themselves up on the tarmac. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that's my friend, that's what my friend would who picked

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<v Speaker 2>the snake up told me, don't try that at home

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<v Speaker 2>kN and that had nothing to do with that, but

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<v Speaker 2>I just wanted to share.

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<v Speaker 3>Also, just a reminder, So, Claire, you and I are

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<v Speaker 3>on a subscriber episode with Maya where you talk about

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<v Speaker 3>discovering that you were pregnant. What the journey's been like

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<v Speaker 3>so far. There's some Duty Twins stuff. Yeah, yeah, that

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<v Speaker 3>of mea locktus in a room and just asked all

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<v Speaker 3>the questions. Yeah, and she even said yes sday she

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<v Speaker 3>said I left a little surprise for you at the

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<v Speaker 3>end of the episode. So she's making us listen downloads. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>she's desperate.

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<v Speaker 2>Moving on Lewis Kim kissing at the Super Bowl AI.

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<v Speaker 2>Apparently they were there. They were sitting next week to

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<v Speaker 2>other but apparently.

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<v Speaker 1>Those photos you've seen of them kissing AI.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't trick me. You know what I keep getting spammed

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<v Speaker 3>is AI images of Megan and Harry and their children. Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's clearly not them because I don't share pictures

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<v Speaker 3>of their kids. But I'm like, who is making these

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<v Speaker 3>and why?

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<v Speaker 2>Catherine and William like laughing up Royal's lee and passion,

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<v Speaker 2>Like there's a lot of confusing stuff out there. Obviously

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<v Speaker 2>Posh dancing at Brooklyn's wedding. We know thats AI because

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<v Speaker 2>Brooklyn's holding that ace up his sleep for his next drop.

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<v Speaker 2>But did you know that a lot of people are

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<v Speaker 2>also getting AI kids school pictures? Now, let me tell

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<v Speaker 2>you a story in the Nine Newspapers this week by

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<v Speaker 2>Marie Eldar explained that when she picked her kid up

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<v Speaker 2>from school photo day recently, she was like, how did

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<v Speaker 2>the photos go? And her kids said, we didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>class photo. They're going to use AI to make it. Evidently,

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<v Speaker 2>Marie writes, the photographer took individual photos of each student

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<v Speaker 2>instead and seething positions. So that's a lot of a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of work still, and then we'll string them together

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<v Speaker 2>using AI to create a group one where everybody looks great.

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<v Speaker 2>Individual photos stitch together to create a moment that never happened,

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<v Speaker 2>rather than capture one that did. I hate this so right,

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<v Speaker 2>So I kind of hate it too because I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>but somebody looking weird on the weird.

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<v Speaker 1>I need to start. I think it's pejorative, someone looking

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<v Speaker 1>a bit distracted, a bit messy, yeah, eyes closed.

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<v Speaker 3>The fact it takes you half a day and teachers,

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<v Speaker 3>you get out of class, it's really hot, you get

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<v Speaker 3>a really angry photographer. A quarter of the people in

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<v Speaker 3>the photo look really bad. You then have the status

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<v Speaker 3>of whether you have to sit in the front row

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<v Speaker 3>or the back you're going to go.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I was thinking about all that too, and

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<v Speaker 2>what we have lost, And then I made a point

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<v Speaker 2>that's probably more intellectual than mine. She said, we've just

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<v Speaker 2>won a small victory in the new social media band

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<v Speaker 2>for kids, but now it's showing them that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's okay to fake photos.

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<v Speaker 2>In discussion with other parents in the group chat, I

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<v Speaker 2>assume they pointed out bigger concerns. Where would these images

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<v Speaker 2>be stored, Which AI tool were they being fed into?

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<v Speaker 2>Would their likenesses turn up somewhere unexpected? And I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like this is the week where everywhere I've looked, the

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<v Speaker 2>sort of tsunami of AI use is finally tipping over

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<v Speaker 2>into everything. There was a really confronting, very thorough four

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<v Speaker 2>thousand word piece in the Australian mag by Roz Thomas

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<v Speaker 2>about the use of AI among UNI students and that

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<v Speaker 2>basically said that a conservative estimate of how many students

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<v Speaker 2>and these were like, these students were studying everything from

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<v Speaker 2>economic social sciences, nursing, marketing, business were outsourcing almost all

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<v Speaker 2>their study, and conservative estimate was around eighty five percent,

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<v Speaker 2>and a lot of the academics said they think it's

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<v Speaker 2>closer to ninety at least. A typical quote from this

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<v Speaker 2>from one of the students was it's seven forty am,

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<v Speaker 2>twenty minutes before the exam is due to begin, and

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<v Speaker 2>Hayden is still asleep. Has he slept through his alarm,

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<v Speaker 2>exhausted from late night crammy? Nope, the only work he's

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<v Speaker 2>done for this exam is researching which AI he'll.

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<v Speaker 1>Cheat to get the best marks.

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<v Speaker 2>In a minute or two, he'll roll out of bed,

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<v Speaker 2>slap some water on his face, and fire up his laptop.

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<v Speaker 2>At eight am, he'll feed his exam paper into chat GPT.

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<v Speaker 2>By eight six am, it will have gifted him thirty

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<v Speaker 2>correct answers. Hayden knows a perfect score will trip the

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<v Speaker 2>university's AI detectors, so he'll deliberately mangle a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>responses to get him to ninety four percent. Then he'll

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<v Speaker 2>wait three hours to mimic a genuine exam effort before

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<v Speaker 2>firing his A plus paper back to his examiner. Hayden

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<v Speaker 2>has now graduated with a high distinction. How much of

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<v Speaker 2>his final year studies did he outsource to AI?

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<v Speaker 1>All of it? He says, without skipping a beat.

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<v Speaker 2>And this article goes on to interview more students who

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<v Speaker 2>all say the same thing. More teachers also the same thing,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, I'm troubled.

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<v Speaker 1>Are we troubled?

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<v Speaker 3>We're so troubled?

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<v Speaker 1>But then I thought, am I being a Luddite for

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<v Speaker 1>being troubled? No?

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<v Speaker 3>No, there's a quote in there that says it's from

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<v Speaker 3>a Unie student who says, we use AI to answer

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<v Speaker 3>the questions on our AI generated papers so that our

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<v Speaker 3>lecturers or tutors can use AI to mark them. And

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<v Speaker 3>I was like, that is the most depressing thing I've

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<v Speaker 3>ever heard. I mean, you're not learning anything. And academics,

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of academics are saying, is this going to

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<v Speaker 3>be a post literate generation? And I feel for not

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<v Speaker 3>only academics, but teachers who went into this field because

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<v Speaker 3>they love reading the thoughts and the ideas and the

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<v Speaker 3>mistakes of young people like that. That's the whole point

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<v Speaker 3>is like engaging with that and being like, I have

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<v Speaker 3>never read that idea before, What an interesting perspective, And

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<v Speaker 3>that's never going to come out of AI and you've

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<v Speaker 3>got you could even tell they interviewed someone who is

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<v Speaker 3>in like year eight, that year eight kid thinks they're

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<v Speaker 3>smarter than the teacher, which even that dynamic and maybe

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<v Speaker 3>when it comes to AI and kind of getting around them,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe they are. But the worry with the university students

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<v Speaker 3>is that in five minutes they're going to be in

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<v Speaker 3>the workplace.

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<v Speaker 1>Having faked the.

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<v Speaker 3>Answers. But then I went, Okay, maybe they're more set

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<v Speaker 3>up for the workplace than I am, because that's what

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<v Speaker 3>I'm torn about. I'm thinking, well, is the future of

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<v Speaker 3>the workplace, is the future of social sciences? Is the

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<v Speaker 3>future of engineering? Or is the future of nursing just

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<v Speaker 3>the ability to use AI? Really well, maybe it is,

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<v Speaker 3>and maybe they're better trained than any of us. As

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<v Speaker 3>depressing as that is, however, something that I take a

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<v Speaker 3>little bit of glee from is that AI still stuffs up.

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<v Speaker 3>And so I love when we're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>So little bit worrying. If you're a patient of the nursing.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, exactly A has a little hallucinating exactly so, Jess,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if you've told this story or not

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<v Speaker 3>loud before about so you know, we're all using chat

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<v Speaker 3>jpt some kind of AI tool for a million different things.

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<v Speaker 3>I am using it as a doctor at this point,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm ingesting. The other day I had food poisonings. Doctors

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<v Speaker 3>will love that. Yeah, and it's pretty bloody good. It

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<v Speaker 3>breaks down like this to go to the hospital.

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<v Speaker 1>As far as you know, it's pretty good.

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<v Speaker 3>Anyway, I'm still standing, Yeah, I'm still standing. But we

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<v Speaker 3>went to a lovely murder mystery murder mystery night at

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<v Speaker 3>a friend's place late last year, and obviously the person,

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<v Speaker 3>lovely lovely girl who organized it did it through chat JPT.

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<v Speaker 3>So she's like, chat JPT, we're doing a murder mystery night.

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<v Speaker 3>Give me characters, give me like an outfit that people

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<v Speaker 3>should wear. Yeah, I had to wear a ball gown.

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<v Speaker 3>It was everybody else was in these funny costumes and

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<v Speaker 3>I was in heels and address and I'm like, that's

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<v Speaker 3>chat JPT. I hate you. But chat GPT had aneurysm

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<v Speaker 3>at some point during planning this whole thing. The hallucination

0:16:57.234 --> 0:16:59.354
<v Speaker 3>of chat JPT made the night. It was because it

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<v Speaker 3>was completely inconsistent. It was that clue didn't match that

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<v Speaker 3>we get being like, wait, what, that's not what my thing,

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<v Speaker 3>and everyone speaking in accents. It was a nineteen twenties

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<v Speaker 3>murder mystery. There was one guy who was like a

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<v Speaker 3>pe teacher and was complete. He was running a gym. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>and we were like, I don't think there were gims

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<v Speaker 3>completely modern and it was the funniest but I just

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<v Speaker 3>went so long as chat GPT still makes mistakes, we're safe.

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<v Speaker 3>So long as there are images where people have three hands,

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<v Speaker 3>at least we've got some chance.

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<v Speaker 2>Of where far off that I can tell, I've Kim

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<v Speaker 2>and Lewis looked pretty convincing pashing at the super Bowl.

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<v Speaker 1>They were in exactly the right outfits. Didn't you come

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<v Speaker 1>across a weird robot thing this week?

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<v Speaker 2>Too?

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<v Speaker 3>So? I was watching the Lucy let Be documentary on Netflix.

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<v Speaker 2>So she is the British nurse, Yeah, who is convicted

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<v Speaker 2>of murdering several children.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, so over a twelve month period there were a

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<v Speaker 3>number of children.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's another one of those light things that you like

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<v Speaker 1>to watch.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly who died. They were in Nicu, and they

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<v Speaker 3>died because of circumstances that no one could really explained.

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<v Speaker 3>So they did an investigation. Lucy let Be came out

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<v Speaker 3>as having been on shift. So Lucy let Be was

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<v Speaker 3>found guilty in a court of law, and it's about

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<v Speaker 3>the courtroom and the trial and everything that happened, but

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<v Speaker 3>also the debate that's occurred even since. But she's convicted

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<v Speaker 3>and she's currently in jail. So at the beginning of

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<v Speaker 3>the documentary it says names, appearances, and voices have been altered,

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<v Speaker 3>which is something I've seen before to protect identifying information.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought, particularly because it was to do with babies

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<v Speaker 3>and the sensitive, incredibly sensitive subject matter, I thought, oh, okay,

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<v Speaker 3>I totally understand that. But it was when digitally anonymized

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<v Speaker 3>came up that I went, oh, that's a term I'm

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<v Speaker 3>unfamiliar with. And the first I suppose, like witness person

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<v Speaker 3>that they have comes on and it says Zoe's mum

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<v Speaker 3>and Zoe was one of the victims. And in the

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<v Speaker 3>top right corner it said digitally anonymized something wasn't right.

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<v Speaker 3>Her eyes weren't right, her skin wasn't quite right. And

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<v Speaker 3>I went, robot and I just want to play you

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<v Speaker 3>a little bit of what this person says.

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<v Speaker 4>Three weeks before my duty, I woke up and my

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<v Speaker 4>water had broken.

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<v Speaker 2>This was it.

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<v Speaker 3>It was happening at the hospital.

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<v Speaker 2>I got checked out and a scan confirmed everything was fine,

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<v Speaker 2>so we were ready to meet little Zoe.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's not a human talking, no.

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<v Speaker 3>So I was really confused, just going is that a

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<v Speaker 3>human or not? And to be clear, Zoe's mum cries,

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<v Speaker 3>she emotes, she picks up a tissue. There's another one

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<v Speaker 3>where a best friend of Lucy let be she goes

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<v Speaker 3>through pictures of her and Lucy like from all across

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<v Speaker 3>the years, and it's this woman.

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<v Speaker 2>But they're robots, so I can understand what you're saying.

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<v Speaker 2>Bear with me because I'm not a robot. It takes

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<v Speaker 2>me a minute. So in a documentary, you know how,

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes they might interview someone who doesn't want their face

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<v Speaker 2>on camera. Yes, and they might just cast them in

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<v Speaker 2>a dark shadow and maybe change their voice by like oo.

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<v Speaker 1>Like that kind of thing.

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<v Speaker 2>It's kind of the new version of that. Yeah, So

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<v Speaker 2>Zoe's mum, those were her words. I believe she had

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<v Speaker 2>said or given to an interviewer, put through a different

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<v Speaker 2>voice and given a whole new face, so that her

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<v Speaker 2>anonimity is protected. But you have a human to sort

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<v Speaker 2>of relate to again.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, but then the irony is I suppose in this documentary,

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<v Speaker 3>and I turned it off after the friend came on.

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<v Speaker 3>I just found it so discombobulating and confusing because I thought,

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<v Speaker 3>the reason we have these testimonies, the reason you would

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<v Speaker 3>add these into the documentary, is to humanize this story

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<v Speaker 3>and to remind you that there are real victims and

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<v Speaker 3>real people at the center of this. They are not

0:21:07.674 --> 0:21:11.394
<v Speaker 3>real victims, but real peak extent. We've always done that.

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<v Speaker 3>If we run an anonymous story on the site, you

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<v Speaker 3>use a stockphold, you use a stock photo. And but

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<v Speaker 3>it was something about the crying. It was like the

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<v Speaker 3>fact that this AI generated image was emoting and trying

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<v Speaker 3>to make me feel something, and I was like, but

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<v Speaker 3>is that how she would say it? Like? It just

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<v Speaker 3>felt so disingenuous. And I know that there are other

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<v Speaker 3>documentaries that have started to kind of play with it,

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<v Speaker 3>but I think because of the sensitivity of the subject

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<v Speaker 3>matter as well, a lot of people went, I absolutely

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<v Speaker 3>have the ick with this and I can't continue.

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<v Speaker 2>To watch it.

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<v Speaker 3>So I was watching the Gabby Potito documentary. So it's

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<v Speaker 3>called American Murder Gabby Potito on Netflix, and it's the

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<v Speaker 3>young woman who was murdered by her boyfriend while they

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<v Speaker 3>were traveling around America, and they have got snippets of

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<v Speaker 3>her voice because she did so much content online. She

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<v Speaker 3>was doing YouTube and Instagram videos. They've got her voice

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<v Speaker 3>that they've been able to use AI to kind of

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<v Speaker 3>emulate her reading out her text messages. I was so

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<v Speaker 3>torn because I was like, on the one hand, you've

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<v Speaker 3>always had like a voice actor do that and you

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<v Speaker 3>kind of signposts. I mean, the difference is that the

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<v Speaker 3>voice actor is paid. Yes, that's true, that that's literally

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<v Speaker 3>putting people out of work. I mean, on the one hand,

0:22:31.954 --> 0:22:34.793
<v Speaker 3>I thought, well, is it more authentic if it's her voice?

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<v Speaker 3>But then it's adding emotion and it's adding emphasis where

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<v Speaker 3>it may not have been there.

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<v Speaker 2>It's very complicated because there are sensible reasons why both

0:22:44.514 --> 0:22:48.394
<v Speaker 2>those decisions would be made in those In these two examples,

0:22:48.994 --> 0:22:52.514
<v Speaker 2>you know that it might be more affecting to see

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<v Speaker 2>a person talking than a shadow head, even if that

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<v Speaker 2>person isn't real. And this is the thing I worry

0:22:58.794 --> 0:23:00.833
<v Speaker 2>that I worry about this stuff because maybe that just

0:23:00.874 --> 0:23:03.474
<v Speaker 2>sort of dates me, makes me a lot. I like

0:23:03.474 --> 0:23:05.634
<v Speaker 2>the people who worried about calculators and people who worried

0:23:05.634 --> 0:23:08.234
<v Speaker 2>about Google and people who worried about the printing press.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But also it just feels like.

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<v Speaker 2>It matters what kind of tone of voice Gabby Petito

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<v Speaker 2>had have been using the artistic decisions that you would

0:23:20.274 --> 0:23:23.273
<v Speaker 2>make about how that mother said those words, what a

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<v Speaker 2>tone of voice was. Yeah, are all manipulating your experience

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<v Speaker 2>with sort of homogenizing humanity. I know that sounds like

0:23:31.954 --> 0:23:34.954
<v Speaker 2>a big hyfaluton thing, but homogenizing humanity not seeing the

0:23:34.994 --> 0:23:37.474
<v Speaker 2>weird little nuances in the way people would how do

0:23:37.514 --> 0:23:39.954
<v Speaker 2>you decide what accent she's gonna have, you know, like

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<v Speaker 2>is she from somewhere else? All those It's just really

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<v Speaker 2>it's beginning to freak me out.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, and we're declaring it now, but how long

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<v Speaker 3>until it's not declared? Until I'm sitting there just feeling

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<v Speaker 3>genuinely confused. And it's just part and parcel of the

0:23:53.194 --> 0:23:58.714
<v Speaker 3>content that we consume. And I worry that having ethics

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<v Speaker 3>about these sorts of things. I think about it with

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<v Speaker 3>writing as well, because as the story at the moment

0:24:03.794 --> 0:24:06.594
<v Speaker 3>about an American author who's written two hundred books in

0:24:06.594 --> 0:24:10.434
<v Speaker 3>the last year with AI, the quote from her is,

0:24:10.514 --> 0:24:12.273
<v Speaker 3>if I can generate a book in a day and

0:24:12.314 --> 0:24:14.754
<v Speaker 3>you need six months to write a book, which Jesus

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<v Speaker 3>six months, I will trying to write a book in

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<v Speaker 3>six months. Who's going to win the race? And I

0:24:18.754 --> 0:24:20.394
<v Speaker 3>was like, one, I didn't know it was a race.

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<v Speaker 3>It is actually very I mean, she did that near

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<v Speaker 3>the snakes. But it does make me think, are these

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<v Speaker 3>ethical concerns can hold people back in the workforce going

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<v Speaker 3>to hold people back from No one's studying the ethics

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<v Speaker 3>anymore because they're just doing their essays on the.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, actually success because you're asking the robot what they

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<v Speaker 2>think about robots, and guess what they think about robots?

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<v Speaker 3>Grabulous out louders. In a moment, we're going to talk

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<v Speaker 3>about the petty hills. We will always always die on.

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<v Speaker 1>Out louders.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm having so much fun being back in your ears

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<v Speaker 4>twice a week on our subscriber episodes. On Tuesday, we

0:25:06.474 --> 0:25:10.434
<v Speaker 4>spoke with Holly we the Royal we Me. I spoke

0:25:10.514 --> 0:25:14.154
<v Speaker 4>with Holly and Jesse and we've talked about generational parenting.

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<v Speaker 4>But on that note, as you may have heard, someone

0:25:18.074 --> 0:25:21.234
<v Speaker 4>is doing some weird twin shit. Claire and Jesse pregnant

0:25:21.234 --> 0:25:24.154
<v Speaker 4>again at the same time. If you want to know

0:25:24.514 --> 0:25:27.674
<v Speaker 4>everything about that, and I had questions. Let me tell you,

0:25:28.234 --> 0:25:31.074
<v Speaker 4>I have shoehorned them into the studio and made them

0:25:31.074 --> 0:25:33.714
<v Speaker 4>sit down. Jesse had to put a feed up, and

0:25:34.234 --> 0:25:37.114
<v Speaker 4>I've asked them a lot of questions about Claire's pregnancy

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<v Speaker 4>and how they're feeling. If you're not already a subscriber,

0:25:40.114 --> 0:25:41.914
<v Speaker 4>follow the link in the show notes and you can

0:25:41.994 --> 0:25:44.073
<v Speaker 4>listen to it right now and get us in your

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<v Speaker 4>ears five days a week.

0:25:47.594 --> 0:25:50.073
<v Speaker 3>Now. We've discussed how this is the year of the

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<v Speaker 3>Horse and the many ways in which we can become

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<v Speaker 3>better people, But sometimes we also need a break from

0:25:57.234 --> 0:26:02.834
<v Speaker 3>self improvement by being unnecessarily and inappropriately Betty. An article

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<v Speaker 3>on MMEA last week asked seventeen women about the petty

0:26:06.194 --> 0:26:09.714
<v Speaker 3>hill they're willing to die on. I clicked immediately because

0:26:09.794 --> 0:26:12.314
<v Speaker 3>I too would like to lie down on a hill. Yea,

0:26:12.594 --> 0:26:15.513
<v Speaker 3>and it probably wouldn't take that much to make me

0:26:15.674 --> 0:26:19.154
<v Speaker 3>just collapse on that film. A couple of the responses

0:26:19.434 --> 0:26:21.794
<v Speaker 3>were things like, I always make a point of walking

0:26:21.834 --> 0:26:23.994
<v Speaker 3>straight into someone if they don't make room for me

0:26:24.194 --> 0:26:30.074
<v Speaker 3>when getting off a train. Yeah, that's fine.

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<v Speaker 2>There are a lot of public transport related ones, right,

0:26:33.074 --> 0:26:35.674
<v Speaker 2>People who do not let people get off trains before

0:26:35.834 --> 0:26:38.994
<v Speaker 2>they get on. That's not okay. No, those people.

0:26:39.434 --> 0:26:40.914
<v Speaker 3>Really upside around the world.

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<v Speaker 1>They would all be gone.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes. Another one was if a car starts to tailgate

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<v Speaker 3>me when I'm going the speed limit or even a

0:26:48.874 --> 0:26:52.994
<v Speaker 3>bit over, I will purposely slow down. That sounds dangerous

0:26:52.994 --> 0:26:55.794
<v Speaker 3>and annoying. Yeah, I always convince myself it's a police

0:26:55.834 --> 0:26:58.793
<v Speaker 3>officer tailgating me and they're testing me, So I always

0:26:58.834 --> 0:27:01.754
<v Speaker 3>say the speed limit, which must also be annoying. But

0:27:01.834 --> 0:27:05.313
<v Speaker 3>we also asked around the Mummeya office and here's a

0:27:05.394 --> 0:27:08.154
<v Speaker 3>few of the hills our friends would like to die on.

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<v Speaker 5>If there is a full boss and someone has their

0:27:11.514 --> 0:27:13.714
<v Speaker 5>bag on the seat, I will very loudly ask them,

0:27:13.754 --> 0:27:15.434
<v Speaker 5>can you please take your bag off the seat so

0:27:15.514 --> 0:27:19.114
<v Speaker 5>I can sit down. When people that are like not

0:27:19.234 --> 0:27:22.634
<v Speaker 5>sitting in your row on the plane put their carry

0:27:22.634 --> 0:27:25.313
<v Speaker 5>on luggage in the overhead locker for your section so

0:27:25.314 --> 0:27:27.114
<v Speaker 5>that when you get on there there's no space, it

0:27:27.474 --> 0:27:29.634
<v Speaker 5>really drives me nuts, and I.

0:27:29.554 --> 0:27:31.674
<v Speaker 3>Do make a song and dance about it. I get

0:27:31.674 --> 0:27:33.954
<v Speaker 3>really annoyed when people put things in lockers at the gym,

0:27:33.954 --> 0:27:36.594
<v Speaker 3>but they don't lock it. I open them and there's

0:27:36.634 --> 0:27:39.234
<v Speaker 3>like people stuff inside, and I've thought about setting a

0:27:39.274 --> 0:27:42.033
<v Speaker 3>pin code unlocking it because I have never done it,

0:27:42.074 --> 0:27:45.194
<v Speaker 3>but I'm so close to you because it's annoying. My

0:27:45.354 --> 0:27:48.874
<v Speaker 3>petty hill that I die on is when cyclists cut

0:27:48.914 --> 0:27:51.874
<v Speaker 3>you off and you're a pedestrian. I'll just go so sir,

0:27:52.274 --> 0:27:56.834
<v Speaker 3>to let them know you've done wrong. You've done wrong,

0:27:57.554 --> 0:28:00.194
<v Speaker 3>done wrong, did wrong. I never set a pin code

0:28:00.194 --> 0:28:02.513
<v Speaker 3>at the gym. Yeah, No, I think it signals to

0:28:02.514 --> 0:28:05.114
<v Speaker 3>the world that I'm trusting. I trust everyone. Yeah, I

0:28:05.194 --> 0:28:08.914
<v Speaker 3>leave my backpack in all thoughts of places. I like

0:28:08.994 --> 0:28:11.474
<v Speaker 3>to think that the three of us are quite rational

0:28:11.554 --> 0:28:15.914
<v Speaker 3>and sensible, not particularly emotional or sensitive. But I do

0:28:16.074 --> 0:28:18.474
<v Speaker 3>have some strong opinions I'm not afraid to share with

0:28:18.514 --> 0:28:21.273
<v Speaker 3>the group. Here are the petty hills I'm willing to

0:28:21.314 --> 0:28:26.194
<v Speaker 3>die on. Sparkling water is simply ruined water. Yeah, if

0:28:26.234 --> 0:28:29.514
<v Speaker 3>you want bubbles in a beverage, get a coke. It's

0:28:29.594 --> 0:28:32.394
<v Speaker 3>not right in water. And we've talked about this on

0:28:32.434 --> 0:28:35.513
<v Speaker 3>a subscriber episode. But also if someone comes to the

0:28:35.554 --> 0:28:37.594
<v Speaker 3>table and says, what water do you want, I just

0:28:37.594 --> 0:28:40.114
<v Speaker 3>think that we've got to be speaking default in tap water.

0:28:40.594 --> 0:28:41.274
<v Speaker 1>Tap is fine.

0:28:41.554 --> 0:28:44.874
<v Speaker 3>Still, it's fine, but don't bring me a still bottle

0:28:44.914 --> 0:28:47.274
<v Speaker 3>and then charge me seventeen dollars for it. I was fine,

0:28:47.554 --> 0:28:49.914
<v Speaker 3>fine with tap. When people say still, I'm like, oh,

0:28:49.914 --> 0:28:55.594
<v Speaker 3>you do it well? Goodness. Yeah, crocs are a hideous shoe,

0:28:55.634 --> 0:28:58.514
<v Speaker 3>and not in an ironic way. No, I disagree. I

0:28:58.514 --> 0:29:01.634
<v Speaker 3>think that we've moved on. They're dated.

0:29:02.274 --> 0:29:06.154
<v Speaker 1>My son lives only in crops. Yes, they don't look great,

0:29:06.914 --> 0:29:10.314
<v Speaker 1>but they're easy. And you know, I don't need him

0:29:10.354 --> 0:29:13.194
<v Speaker 1>to look great. I need him to have his feet.

0:29:14.674 --> 0:29:19.394
<v Speaker 3>Step on the snakes. People who become your best friend

0:29:19.634 --> 0:29:23.914
<v Speaker 3>immediately are bad news. That's that's a rule. I've always

0:29:23.954 --> 0:29:27.874
<v Speaker 3>that my nan news to say that. I believe it.

0:29:28.034 --> 0:29:32.914
<v Speaker 2>People who go straight to a nickname of time, but

0:29:32.994 --> 0:29:34.994
<v Speaker 2>a time must elapse before nicknames are used.

0:29:34.994 --> 0:29:38.874
<v Speaker 3>To Marritt, first sight is just as worthy of analysis

0:29:38.914 --> 0:29:41.274
<v Speaker 3>and pages in the newspaper as elite sports.

0:29:42.074 --> 0:29:43.914
<v Speaker 1>I just gets them.

0:29:44.114 --> 0:29:49.274
<v Speaker 3>Yes, sure, fact, there's a whole sports section and I'm like,

0:29:50.794 --> 0:29:52.154
<v Speaker 3>what isn't that great?

0:29:52.594 --> 0:29:55.474
<v Speaker 1>Are you joking? There's some really good anyway, We don't know,

0:29:56.114 --> 0:29:58.794
<v Speaker 1>we won't. You've got a tennis correspondent here.

0:29:58.714 --> 0:30:02.274
<v Speaker 3>And if one correspondent and my football you're also a

0:30:02.314 --> 0:30:05.194
<v Speaker 3>maps correspmard and that's a coincidence. Okay, I think it

0:30:05.234 --> 0:30:08.434
<v Speaker 3>lives in the same universe. Ring tones are a nervous

0:30:08.434 --> 0:30:11.634
<v Speaker 3>system hazard. There's no reason to have your phone on

0:30:11.754 --> 0:30:14.874
<v Speaker 3>loud because, let's be honest, it's in your hand. What

0:30:14.954 --> 0:30:18.634
<v Speaker 3>if you're a doctor, that's actually more annoying. No, in

0:30:18.674 --> 0:30:21.514
<v Speaker 3>the pit where their phones keep going off during surgery,

0:30:21.554 --> 0:30:26.754
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, put it on silent. Person delivering my baby

0:30:26.794 --> 0:30:30.154
<v Speaker 3>to have their phone on loud, why, well, because if

0:30:30.154 --> 0:30:32.874
<v Speaker 3>they're at home or something, I want them notified it's

0:30:32.914 --> 0:30:34.554
<v Speaker 3>in their back pocket. Yeah, it's vibrate.

0:30:35.554 --> 0:30:38.314
<v Speaker 2>People who have don't have their phones on silent. I

0:30:38.314 --> 0:30:40.514
<v Speaker 2>want the outlouders to give us lots of good examples

0:30:40.514 --> 0:30:42.714
<v Speaker 2>of when your phone needs to be on loud. I

0:30:42.714 --> 0:30:43.914
<v Speaker 2>guess if it's not next to.

0:30:43.874 --> 0:30:46.834
<v Speaker 3>You, Yeah, but have it on you have pocketed on

0:30:46.874 --> 0:30:50.634
<v Speaker 3>your person. And my final one is and this is

0:30:50.634 --> 0:30:54.354
<v Speaker 3>something I think about most days. Bad Neighbors and Bad

0:30:54.354 --> 0:30:57.354
<v Speaker 3>Neighbors Too are two of the greatest films of the

0:30:57.434 --> 0:31:01.634
<v Speaker 3>last decade. They're actually so funny, they're so good zach

0:31:01.674 --> 0:31:04.594
<v Speaker 3>Efron both at their hot and every time I watch it,

0:31:04.634 --> 0:31:08.274
<v Speaker 3>I go nah, I didn't overhype this. These are really good,

0:31:08.354 --> 0:31:10.674
<v Speaker 3>great premise. I think about them often. No, I agree

0:31:10.714 --> 0:31:13.994
<v Speaker 3>with funny, but in like quite a progressive way. Yeah, yeah, no,

0:31:14.114 --> 0:31:16.434
<v Speaker 3>everyone should watch those films. Okay, I have a few.

0:31:17.554 --> 0:31:21.314
<v Speaker 3>Nuts are not a satisfying snack that anyone ever truly wants. Okay,

0:31:21.394 --> 0:31:22.994
<v Speaker 3>I feel like all of yours are going to be

0:31:23.034 --> 0:31:25.954
<v Speaker 3>about nuts because it's one of the few snacks you're

0:31:25.954 --> 0:31:28.194
<v Speaker 3>allowed to have. Exactly all you do is text me.

0:31:28.354 --> 0:31:32.874
<v Speaker 2>My second one is nutritional robots are always like four almonds.

0:31:33.634 --> 0:31:37.994
<v Speaker 3>I don't. I've never met someone who feels like four almonds.

0:31:38.154 --> 0:31:41.074
<v Speaker 3>This is my second one, Suggesting someone have a handful

0:31:41.154 --> 0:31:43.634
<v Speaker 3>of nuts as a snack has passed thee these are

0:31:43.674 --> 0:31:46.074
<v Speaker 3>all about and then this is my third one. Most

0:31:46.154 --> 0:31:49.394
<v Speaker 3>nuts taste like tree unless they're covered in salt or chocolate.

0:31:49.474 --> 0:31:50.394
<v Speaker 3>Can you have salt?

0:31:50.754 --> 0:31:50.994
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:31:51.034 --> 0:31:53.394
<v Speaker 3>I think a little bit, but I can't really have truck.

0:31:53.274 --> 0:31:54.914
<v Speaker 1>And they kill people. Nuts kill people.

0:31:56.434 --> 0:31:58.994
<v Speaker 3>True, I hate nuts.

0:31:58.994 --> 0:32:02.754
<v Speaker 1>They're so right like almonds are like pistaschios.

0:32:02.954 --> 0:32:08.354
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but I want to hold back four This is obvious.

0:32:08.434 --> 0:32:10.994
<v Speaker 3>But if I order a diet coke, a coke zero

0:32:11.074 --> 0:32:11.554
<v Speaker 3>isn't fine.

0:32:12.274 --> 0:32:14.834
<v Speaker 1>I often ask that, now, don't they Yes, oh we

0:32:14.874 --> 0:32:15.554
<v Speaker 1>do have coke zero.

0:32:15.594 --> 0:32:17.434
<v Speaker 3>And it's like, well, that's not what I asked for.

0:32:17.554 --> 0:32:20.354
<v Speaker 3>And when Holly asked for a peanut gree, you didn't say, oh,

0:32:20.354 --> 0:32:21.074
<v Speaker 3>we have a sab blanc.

0:32:21.194 --> 0:32:21.634
<v Speaker 1>Is that fine?

0:32:21.794 --> 0:32:27.394
<v Speaker 3>No, it's not. It's very very important. And a diet

0:32:27.434 --> 0:32:28.954
<v Speaker 3>coke in a can is not the same as a

0:32:28.994 --> 0:32:30.754
<v Speaker 3>diet coke in a bottle, is not the same as

0:32:30.754 --> 0:32:33.314
<v Speaker 3>a diet coke in a glass bottle. And it's not

0:32:33.394 --> 0:32:36.474
<v Speaker 3>just is not the same as on tap on tap,

0:32:36.554 --> 0:32:38.514
<v Speaker 3>that's different. If you've got post mix, I'll have pepsi

0:32:38.514 --> 0:32:40.474
<v Speaker 3>mat can we just get ow?

0:32:42.194 --> 0:32:45.114
<v Speaker 1>Is she maintenance? Not at all? Only when it comes

0:32:45.194 --> 0:32:46.714
<v Speaker 1>to her soft drink juices.

0:32:47.194 --> 0:32:50.914
<v Speaker 3>No more apps, We're all, oh the things I you know,

0:32:50.994 --> 0:32:54.834
<v Speaker 3>for daycare, I've got two apps for daycare, one to pay,

0:32:55.074 --> 0:32:57.594
<v Speaker 3>one to check speaking of my diabetes. You't know how

0:32:57.634 --> 0:32:58.034
<v Speaker 3>many apps?

0:32:58.034 --> 0:32:58.274
<v Speaker 1>I have.

0:32:59.754 --> 0:33:01.154
<v Speaker 3>Too many? And then it's like, you want to look

0:33:01.154 --> 0:33:03.274
<v Speaker 3>at pictures of your baby, download this app like from

0:33:03.354 --> 0:33:05.554
<v Speaker 3>ultrasounds and stuff, and I'm like, I.

0:33:05.554 --> 0:33:06.474
<v Speaker 1>Don't want to look that bad.

0:33:10.274 --> 0:33:13.274
<v Speaker 3>And if I'm eating at your establishment, I don't think

0:33:13.314 --> 0:33:15.834
<v Speaker 3>I should have to ask you to use the toilet,

0:33:15.914 --> 0:33:17.714
<v Speaker 3>and then you should have to give me a key

0:33:17.834 --> 0:33:20.434
<v Speaker 3>with a wooden spoon on the edge. I think that

0:33:20.554 --> 0:33:25.474
<v Speaker 3>it should just be easily accessible, but there's something embarrassing

0:33:26.034 --> 0:33:27.954
<v Speaker 3>walking around with the huge thing, and the next time

0:33:27.994 --> 0:33:29.074
<v Speaker 3>I need to go being like.

0:33:31.874 --> 0:33:35.554
<v Speaker 2>You wouldn't spoon again public transport, clearly lots of people

0:33:35.594 --> 0:33:38.114
<v Speaker 2>have lots of hills to die on. A quiet carriage

0:33:38.154 --> 0:33:41.394
<v Speaker 2>is a quiet carriage? The amount of time I spend

0:33:41.834 --> 0:33:44.794
<v Speaker 2>in my quiet carriage listening to the guy behind me

0:33:45.354 --> 0:33:50.274
<v Speaker 2>watching sometimes pawn, just porn, but also just some terrible

0:33:50.274 --> 0:33:53.554
<v Speaker 2>comedy or a really bad bro podcast on loud with

0:33:53.634 --> 0:33:54.874
<v Speaker 2>no headphones.

0:33:54.594 --> 0:33:56.194
<v Speaker 3>And is he like this is a good place to

0:33:56.234 --> 0:33:58.794
<v Speaker 3>listen because it's quiet.

0:34:00.914 --> 0:34:02.234
<v Speaker 1>Is the hill to die on? A bit?

0:34:02.394 --> 0:34:04.594
<v Speaker 2>Is that if I turn around to a person who's

0:34:05.274 --> 0:34:07.834
<v Speaker 2>perfectly happy to watch porn with sound up in a

0:34:07.874 --> 0:34:10.473
<v Speaker 2>quiet carriage, yeah, it's not gonna go well for me.

0:34:10.634 --> 0:34:13.514
<v Speaker 3>No, And you would have to speak, which is breaking

0:34:13.514 --> 0:34:14.714
<v Speaker 3>your own rules exactly.

0:34:15.274 --> 0:34:20.954
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, sign usually look around for someone who's pettier

0:34:20.994 --> 0:34:22.354
<v Speaker 2>and braver than I am and.

0:34:22.274 --> 0:34:24.393
<v Speaker 1>Say tell him on that.

0:34:24.474 --> 0:34:27.314
<v Speaker 2>Point about the people who put bags on seats. My

0:34:27.514 --> 0:34:30.234
<v Speaker 2>brother is so obsessed with that. That one time I

0:34:30.274 --> 0:34:32.033
<v Speaker 2>was talking to him because he gets the tram into

0:34:32.034 --> 0:34:34.354
<v Speaker 2>work in Manchester every day, and he was telling me

0:34:34.394 --> 0:34:36.674
<v Speaker 2>that he one time saw our local MP and he'd

0:34:36.714 --> 0:34:38.914
<v Speaker 2>voted for him and he likes this guy and everything,

0:34:39.314 --> 0:34:41.674
<v Speaker 2>and he had put the local and put his bag

0:34:41.754 --> 0:34:43.314
<v Speaker 2>on the seat next to him. He's like, that's it.

0:34:43.514 --> 0:34:47.873
<v Speaker 2>I've never voting with him again. Something in my brother's world.

0:34:47.634 --> 0:34:49.554
<v Speaker 1>That means bad person.

0:34:50.114 --> 0:34:57.074
<v Speaker 2>The baggage carousel stand back, I can't bear what's wrong

0:34:57.114 --> 0:34:57.473
<v Speaker 2>with us?

0:34:57.514 --> 0:34:59.873
<v Speaker 1>All like pushed up against the carousel said, no one

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<v Speaker 1>can see their bag.

0:35:00.874 --> 0:35:03.314
<v Speaker 3>You'll see your bag coming and then you can die

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<v Speaker 3>to it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like every time I do that, I get really

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<v Speaker 2>up that about the state of humanity because I'm like,

0:35:09.274 --> 0:35:10.514
<v Speaker 2>you're just being selfish.

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<v Speaker 3>Stand back again, and you've got plenty of time to

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<v Speaker 3>see it. You do move too quickly. Yeah, that's actually

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<v Speaker 3>part of the problem.

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<v Speaker 2>Cottage cheese is not cheese, and cuge cheese brings pleasure.

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<v Speaker 1>Cottage cheese does not, ain't it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like, really nuts.

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<v Speaker 2>All tomatoes do not go in the fridge ever. Now,

0:35:31.954 --> 0:35:33.954
<v Speaker 2>if you put your tomato in the fridge, I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>talking to you.

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<v Speaker 1>You make it taste like nothing.

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<v Speaker 3>Tomatoes, Why I'm having tomato issues. No, most things actually

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<v Speaker 3>do go on the bench.

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<v Speaker 2>On the bench, but particularly tomatoes. They are always bad

0:35:46.154 --> 0:35:48.714
<v Speaker 2>if they go in the fridge. The most controversial one

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<v Speaker 2>I always get a lot of shit for is cream before.

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<v Speaker 1>Jam on is gone. I know it's not traditional, except

0:35:53.474 --> 0:35:54.954
<v Speaker 1>apparently the Queen does it that way.

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<v Speaker 2>The cream is like the butter. It goes on the bottom. Okay,

0:35:58.314 --> 0:36:01.674
<v Speaker 2>bag out of a teacup. Don't leave the bag in.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that is very long. It feels a little bit incomplete.

0:36:06.194 --> 0:36:07.074
<v Speaker 3>It's like giving you work.

0:36:07.474 --> 0:36:09.074
<v Speaker 2>And then often if you get a tea when you're

0:36:09.074 --> 0:36:12.154
<v Speaker 2>out there, say leave the bag in, like, no, I'm

0:36:12.154 --> 0:36:13.154
<v Speaker 2>paying five point fifty.

0:36:14.074 --> 0:36:16.674
<v Speaker 3>Feels like it also feels like the tea is never done.

0:36:16.794 --> 0:36:18.474
<v Speaker 3>Like every time you take a sip, you're taking a

0:36:18.474 --> 0:36:21.953
<v Speaker 3>sip of a fundamentally different cup of tea. Yeah, because

0:36:21.954 --> 0:36:25.394
<v Speaker 3>the concentration of the tea is different at all times.

0:36:26.034 --> 0:36:28.074
<v Speaker 2>And lastly, this is very parent one. But if you

0:36:28.114 --> 0:36:29.674
<v Speaker 2>do not say please, I cannot hear you.

0:36:30.034 --> 0:36:31.114
<v Speaker 1>That is the parents.

0:36:31.274 --> 0:36:34.034
<v Speaker 2>Everybody's like when they say can I have a chocolate?

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<v Speaker 1>You just ignore them.

0:36:35.714 --> 0:36:37.953
<v Speaker 2>They say it again you say, pardon, I can't hear

0:36:37.994 --> 0:36:39.234
<v Speaker 2>you in a loud voice.

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<v Speaker 1>That's very important. You will get to this.

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<v Speaker 3>That is so, That is so true. Yeah, man is

0:36:44.834 --> 0:36:49.234
<v Speaker 3>a good teach teach toddlers, because you're like, I know

0:36:49.314 --> 0:36:54.074
<v Speaker 3>how badly you want that, don't You'll do anything.

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<v Speaker 2>But I cannot hear you until you say the magic word.

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<v Speaker 2>It's been working for centuries.

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<v Speaker 3>After the break. There is a finger princess in every group,

0:37:05.514 --> 0:37:16.274
<v Speaker 3>and it's less dirty than it sounds. Apparently everyone has

0:37:16.274 --> 0:37:19.314
<v Speaker 3>an annoying friend called the finger princess. And I fear

0:37:19.354 --> 0:37:22.074
<v Speaker 3>the more I read about this, the more I discover

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<v Speaker 3>I am one. A finger princess is someone who asks

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<v Speaker 3>extremely simple questions they could easily google. There are definitely

0:37:33.554 --> 0:37:36.274
<v Speaker 3>a few out louders who might be finger princesses, and

0:37:36.314 --> 0:37:38.154
<v Speaker 3>they jump in the group and they ask things.

0:37:37.994 --> 0:37:40.433
<v Speaker 1>Although actually getting opinions.

0:37:39.954 --> 0:37:44.794
<v Speaker 3>Exactly and recommendations. I feel very defensive of them because solidarity.

0:37:45.634 --> 0:37:47.954
<v Speaker 3>So that the type of person who says, you're in

0:37:47.994 --> 0:37:49.994
<v Speaker 3>a group chat and they say, so, what times doennis night?

0:37:50.314 --> 0:37:51.594
<v Speaker 3>What restaurant do we agree on?

0:37:52.034 --> 0:37:52.194
<v Speaker 4>Hey?

0:37:52.234 --> 0:37:53.993
<v Speaker 3>Can you send me the menu? Where are we park?

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<v Speaker 1>Where is it?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Yeah, all of that that's what they do. They

0:37:57.234 --> 0:37:59.754
<v Speaker 3>might post in a Facebook group and if ask if

0:37:59.754 --> 0:38:02.954
<v Speaker 3>someone knows of a hairdresser in Sorry Hill's, and people go,

0:38:03.474 --> 0:38:06.794
<v Speaker 3>you could google ah. They might say to their partner

0:38:07.194 --> 0:38:08.993
<v Speaker 3>where my water bottle is, even though they haven't moved

0:38:09.034 --> 0:38:13.114
<v Speaker 3>up the lounch and looked for themselves. They ask questions

0:38:13.234 --> 0:38:16.114
<v Speaker 3>that really they should use a little bit of initiative.

0:38:16.234 --> 0:38:18.274
<v Speaker 3>That was the term I heard a lot in high school,

0:38:18.754 --> 0:38:20.714
<v Speaker 3>was like, you should use initiative, and I was like,

0:38:20.834 --> 0:38:23.274
<v Speaker 3>I remember a teacher playing a guessing game with me

0:38:23.474 --> 0:38:25.634
<v Speaker 3>where the word who was clearly getting me to come

0:38:25.714 --> 0:38:28.154
<v Speaker 3>up with was initiative and it went for like seven minutes.

0:38:28.194 --> 0:38:29.594
<v Speaker 1>I was like, I have no.

0:38:29.514 --> 0:38:33.274
<v Speaker 3>Idea what you're asking me. Finger princesses are used to

0:38:33.314 --> 0:38:35.834
<v Speaker 3>people doing things for them and won't engage in any

0:38:35.874 --> 0:38:39.834
<v Speaker 3>basic problem solving. Do we have any finger princesses in

0:38:39.874 --> 0:38:40.194
<v Speaker 3>the room.

0:38:40.274 --> 0:38:44.474
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I am one, and I don't mean to be.

0:38:45.074 --> 0:38:47.873
<v Speaker 2>And this goes back to our AI conversation sometimes is

0:38:47.914 --> 0:38:50.114
<v Speaker 2>I sometimes realized that even in a work setting, I'll

0:38:50.154 --> 0:38:51.914
<v Speaker 2>be like, oh, I don't know how to do X

0:38:52.034 --> 0:38:54.513
<v Speaker 2>y Z, and I might ask someone how to.

0:38:54.394 --> 0:38:55.074
<v Speaker 1>Do X y Z.

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<v Speaker 2>The look I get on the faces of the young

0:38:57.714 --> 0:38:59.914
<v Speaker 2>people make me realize I was meant.

0:38:59.674 --> 0:39:01.114
<v Speaker 1>To ask Ai that question.

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<v Speaker 3>Luke has started saying that to me. He will say

0:39:02.954 --> 0:39:04.873
<v Speaker 3>to me, so just so you know what I'm going

0:39:04.954 --> 0:39:08.234
<v Speaker 3>to do is asking my chat And I'm like, okay,

0:39:08.274 --> 0:39:11.154
<v Speaker 3>you ask I don't like, but sometimes I need someone

0:39:11.154 --> 0:39:11.794
<v Speaker 3>to tell me that.

0:39:12.114 --> 0:39:17.314
<v Speaker 2>And sometimes and also sometimes you need to actually have

0:39:17.354 --> 0:39:19.954
<v Speaker 2>a conversation with a person and you learn better that way.

0:39:20.354 --> 0:39:23.674
<v Speaker 2>And awesome defensive finger princesses, is there are hairdressers in

0:39:23.714 --> 0:39:26.314
<v Speaker 2>sorry hills. You're not really asking, is there? You're asking?

0:39:26.674 --> 0:39:30.474
<v Speaker 2>Do you recommend one? Recommendations from robots are not reliable,

0:39:30.554 --> 0:39:35.594
<v Speaker 2>as we've discussed, whereas recommendations from out louders are very good.

0:39:36.074 --> 0:39:38.754
<v Speaker 3>How your foster a sense of community? All Facebook groups

0:39:38.914 --> 0:39:42.554
<v Speaker 3>are people asking questions they could google. Like that's that's

0:39:42.554 --> 0:39:46.194
<v Speaker 3>how people spend their time. If we just googled everything

0:39:46.194 --> 0:39:48.554
<v Speaker 3>we possibly could, we would simply never ask a question

0:39:48.794 --> 0:39:52.234
<v Speaker 3>because Google slash AI can answer everything. The other thing

0:39:52.394 --> 0:39:55.913
<v Speaker 3>is like, sometimes you need the vibe, not a chat

0:39:55.954 --> 0:39:59.314
<v Speaker 3>GPT response. It's like when people go to a Facebook

0:39:59.314 --> 0:40:02.034
<v Speaker 3>group and they've got a weird rash and like I've

0:40:02.034 --> 0:40:03.754
<v Speaker 3>got a weird rash, and all the responses that are

0:40:03.754 --> 0:40:07.154
<v Speaker 3>always will go to the docks. It's like, well, I

0:40:07.194 --> 0:40:11.274
<v Speaker 3>don't want to go to the doctor. I want to vibe.

0:40:11.234 --> 0:40:13.554
<v Speaker 1>And someone will say picture.

0:40:13.514 --> 0:40:17.314
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it's like, well, now you've made me panic. Yeah,

0:40:17.354 --> 0:40:19.154
<v Speaker 3>you've made which is one But the only answer I

0:40:19.234 --> 0:40:22.034
<v Speaker 3>ever want is it's fine. Yeah. It's like do I

0:40:22.154 --> 0:40:26.114
<v Speaker 3>currently have sepsis? Because if not, I'm actually just gonna

0:40:26.154 --> 0:40:28.473
<v Speaker 3>chill and read your responses. Are we all good? Are

0:40:28.474 --> 0:40:31.714
<v Speaker 3>we all good? But I also think everyone needs to

0:40:31.714 --> 0:40:36.714
<v Speaker 3>calm their hell down and stop pointing fingers at their

0:40:36.754 --> 0:40:39.714
<v Speaker 3>friends and coming up with bloody criticisms.

0:40:40.274 --> 0:40:42.754
<v Speaker 1>Print exactly finger.

0:40:43.034 --> 0:40:43.314
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:40:43.754 --> 0:40:46.073
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was good to ask people for help

0:40:46.114 --> 0:40:49.234
<v Speaker 3>because it makes them feel like they matter. Yes, mattering,

0:40:49.514 --> 0:40:54.234
<v Speaker 3>And I actually always think I ask very little of

0:40:54.274 --> 0:40:58.194
<v Speaker 3>people in tangible terms, like I'd never ask I'd very

0:40:58.274 --> 0:41:00.714
<v Speaker 3>rarely ask for like a lift or like can you

0:41:00.754 --> 0:41:03.674
<v Speaker 3>help me move or anything like that, But I will

0:41:04.074 --> 0:41:06.674
<v Speaker 3>say when's dinner? Where am I going? All of that.

0:41:07.394 --> 0:41:10.194
<v Speaker 3>I do think that's probably quite annoying, like for the

0:41:10.234 --> 0:41:12.594
<v Speaker 3>people that always know, and it's like they booked and

0:41:12.674 --> 0:41:14.393
<v Speaker 3>they found the thing and it's like, Hey, well, we

0:41:14.514 --> 0:41:15.553
<v Speaker 3>going to dinner and what time?

0:41:15.594 --> 0:41:16.474
<v Speaker 1>Like that's probably annoying.

0:41:16.554 --> 0:41:19.394
<v Speaker 3>The other thing is I read this article and I thought,

0:41:19.674 --> 0:41:23.314
<v Speaker 3>what we need to encourage? And this is completely hypocritical

0:41:23.634 --> 0:41:27.234
<v Speaker 3>of me because I don't do it. But just be

0:41:27.514 --> 0:41:29.834
<v Speaker 3>direct if you have an issue. If your friend says

0:41:29.994 --> 0:41:32.473
<v Speaker 3>what time's dinner, you can say I don't know, look

0:41:32.514 --> 0:41:36.274
<v Speaker 3>it up. Okay. No, I disagree because this article had

0:41:36.274 --> 0:41:37.954
<v Speaker 3>some advice on what to say if you have a

0:41:37.954 --> 0:41:41.554
<v Speaker 3>fingerprintcess friend and it says you ask, hey, have you

0:41:41.554 --> 0:41:43.194
<v Speaker 3>seen my water bottle in the office day? And I

0:41:43.194 --> 0:41:46.474
<v Speaker 3>say I'm not sure. Where have you tried looking for it? Okay,

0:41:46.554 --> 0:41:49.473
<v Speaker 3>so you're a bitch. And then you say to me, hey,

0:41:49.754 --> 0:41:51.433
<v Speaker 3>can you send me the menu for tonight? So I

0:41:51.514 --> 0:41:53.674
<v Speaker 3>just know what's on the menu. I don't have it,

0:41:53.714 --> 0:41:55.034
<v Speaker 3>but it should be easy to find.

0:41:55.114 --> 0:41:57.394
<v Speaker 1>Yes, on the website, say on the website.

0:41:57.434 --> 0:41:59.754
<v Speaker 3>It should be on the website. And then you'll say, well,

0:41:59.754 --> 0:42:03.994
<v Speaker 3>of that, and then where are we going ak to

0:42:03.994 --> 0:42:07.433
<v Speaker 3>the website? Can you send me the url? Please? And

0:42:07.514 --> 0:42:10.394
<v Speaker 3>then like you ask me, you know, some vague question,

0:42:10.434 --> 0:42:12.433
<v Speaker 3>and I say, can you actually look into that for

0:42:12.514 --> 0:42:15.194
<v Speaker 3>me and let me know what you find m power,

0:42:15.194 --> 0:42:19.234
<v Speaker 3>move absolute power. You can't. A finer princess will never

0:42:19.314 --> 0:42:21.834
<v Speaker 3>take on the mental load. They'll just be like that's

0:42:21.874 --> 0:42:23.594
<v Speaker 3>weird and then not just go to someone in their

0:42:23.594 --> 0:42:25.913
<v Speaker 3>house and be like, hey, can you do this job?

0:42:28.114 --> 0:42:30.754
<v Speaker 1>There is no bigger finger princess than a teenage daughter.

0:42:31.034 --> 0:42:33.714
<v Speaker 1>She is on the couch and she is mom, is

0:42:33.714 --> 0:42:34.514
<v Speaker 1>there any water?

0:42:36.554 --> 0:42:37.794
<v Speaker 3>No way out?

0:42:38.834 --> 0:42:41.154
<v Speaker 2>Like imagine if I tried that one and I was

0:42:41.554 --> 0:42:42.674
<v Speaker 2>you could find.

0:42:44.074 --> 0:42:45.953
<v Speaker 1>Why didn't you go find out? Tell me if there's

0:42:45.954 --> 0:42:46.473
<v Speaker 1>any water?

0:42:47.194 --> 0:42:53.954
<v Speaker 3>You get me one? She'ld be like, what, mom's broken?

0:42:54.594 --> 0:42:54.794
<v Speaker 1>Dad?

0:42:54.914 --> 0:42:55.913
<v Speaker 3>Can you get MoMA water?

0:42:56.914 --> 0:42:57.594
<v Speaker 1>Exactly.

0:42:58.234 --> 0:43:02.394
<v Speaker 3>People are annoying and they do ask questions they could google.

0:43:02.634 --> 0:43:06.674
<v Speaker 3>But the cost of human relationships is that friction of

0:43:06.754 --> 0:43:11.114
<v Speaker 3>every then being like, h shut up. It's not something

0:43:11.154 --> 0:43:12.433
<v Speaker 3>we need to diagnose.

0:43:12.954 --> 0:43:14.674
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I think out loud.

0:43:14.714 --> 0:43:16.594
<v Speaker 2>Is it going to have a lot of fun diagnosed

0:43:16.634 --> 0:43:19.474
<v Speaker 2>with finger princess people in their last Yeah.

0:43:20.834 --> 0:43:24.714
<v Speaker 4>Vibes, ideas atmosphere, something casual, something fun.

0:43:25.274 --> 0:43:29.594
<v Speaker 3>This is my best recommendation. It's Friday, so we want

0:43:29.674 --> 0:43:33.954
<v Speaker 3>to help set up your weekend with our best recommendations. Holly,

0:43:34.434 --> 0:43:35.194
<v Speaker 3>you go first.

0:43:35.554 --> 0:43:38.354
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to recommend hip new books that everyone is

0:43:38.394 --> 0:43:41.873
<v Speaker 2>talking about. It was written in eighteen forty six.

0:43:42.274 --> 0:43:46.114
<v Speaker 3>Oh, don't tell me you've reread Buthering I have.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I told the outlouders this, but I am

0:43:48.074 --> 0:43:51.034
<v Speaker 2>reckoing it today because this is the week that Wuthering

0:43:51.114 --> 0:43:55.194
<v Speaker 2>Heights comes out. We went to the premiere in fact,

0:43:55.234 --> 0:43:57.834
<v Speaker 2>and we're saving all of the juicy details about what

0:43:57.874 --> 0:43:59.754
<v Speaker 2>it's actually like until next week.

0:43:59.834 --> 0:44:01.034
<v Speaker 1>But it is huge.

0:44:01.074 --> 0:44:03.594
<v Speaker 2>And the thing is what's exciting about it is everybody

0:44:03.714 --> 0:44:06.954
<v Speaker 2>is going to read Wuthering Heights. They have had Penguins

0:44:06.954 --> 0:44:09.034
<v Speaker 2>say that they have had a four hundred and sixty

0:44:09.114 --> 0:44:12.994
<v Speaker 2>nine percent increase in sales of Wuthering Heights this year alone,

0:44:13.074 --> 0:44:16.433
<v Speaker 2>and it's only going to get more. So I am

0:44:16.474 --> 0:44:19.554
<v Speaker 2>recommending it. But I need to give you a little

0:44:19.554 --> 0:44:23.834
<v Speaker 2>bit of warning about that book, right, Okay, So Emily

0:44:23.914 --> 0:44:26.913
<v Speaker 2>Bronte wrote that book one hundred and eighty years ago,

0:44:27.474 --> 0:44:31.354
<v Speaker 2>and it is some twisted shit. If you haven't seen

0:44:31.394 --> 0:44:34.474
<v Speaker 2>the movie and you've just seen the greatest love story

0:44:34.514 --> 0:44:37.873
<v Speaker 2>of all time and all that stuff, like, just be

0:44:37.994 --> 0:44:40.873
<v Speaker 2>prepared for what you're about to step into. When it

0:44:40.954 --> 0:44:43.314
<v Speaker 2>was written and in the old days, the Brontes wrote

0:44:43.354 --> 0:44:46.274
<v Speaker 2>their books under a male pseudonym because women were allowed

0:44:46.274 --> 0:44:48.034
<v Speaker 2>to write books, and if they were, they were dismissed

0:44:48.034 --> 0:44:50.634
<v Speaker 2>as very silly. When it was published, one of its

0:44:50.674 --> 0:44:54.194
<v Speaker 2>early reviewers said, how a human being could have attempted

0:44:54.234 --> 0:44:57.434
<v Speaker 2>such a book without committing suicide before he had finished

0:44:57.474 --> 0:45:00.634
<v Speaker 2>a dozen chapters is a mystery. It is a compound

0:45:00.674 --> 0:45:04.234
<v Speaker 2>of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors.

0:45:04.234 --> 0:45:07.114
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, that is why it stood the test.

0:45:06.914 --> 0:45:10.194
<v Speaker 2>Of That is what we have to contend with with

0:45:10.314 --> 0:45:14.393
<v Speaker 2>Wuthering Heights right now. Emily wrote this in lesson a year.

0:45:15.074 --> 0:45:17.953
<v Speaker 2>It is the only novel she ever wrote. It is

0:45:17.994 --> 0:45:21.154
<v Speaker 2>not believed that Emily Bronte ever had a boyfriend or

0:45:21.194 --> 0:45:23.354
<v Speaker 2>a lover, or actually knew any men that she was

0:45:23.394 --> 0:45:26.473
<v Speaker 2>not related to, so they think that Heathcliff was really

0:45:26.514 --> 0:45:28.274
<v Speaker 2>based on her brother, who was.

0:45:28.314 --> 0:45:30.594
<v Speaker 1>To use a pejorative, a crazy person.

0:45:31.354 --> 0:45:34.554
<v Speaker 2>Anyway, if you think it is a soppy love story,

0:45:34.554 --> 0:45:36.594
<v Speaker 2>you have a very big shotcoming. So I don't want

0:45:36.634 --> 0:45:39.873
<v Speaker 2>to hear any winging about trigger warnings about going this

0:45:40.074 --> 0:45:43.794
<v Speaker 2>movie or reading this book. It is some dark, twisted shit. However,

0:45:44.234 --> 0:45:47.674
<v Speaker 2>I am recommending it because it is brilliant. It stands

0:45:47.674 --> 0:45:48.434
<v Speaker 2>a test of time.

0:45:49.074 --> 0:45:52.674
<v Speaker 1>It's actually a book that's gossip because the whole plot.

0:45:52.434 --> 0:45:55.474
<v Speaker 2>Of Wuthering Heights is somebody who used to work in

0:45:55.514 --> 0:45:58.194
<v Speaker 2>the house where all this went down telling someone.

0:45:57.914 --> 0:46:01.754
<v Speaker 1>Else about it. So it's like earwigging on a gossip session, just.

0:46:01.794 --> 0:46:04.114
<v Speaker 3>A bit like married at first sight. It's so like

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<v Speaker 3>my first sight. Are you one of those people who

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<v Speaker 3>is mad that the film is not a perfect because

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<v Speaker 3>there are a lot of literary shits.

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<v Speaker 2>Not, No, I'm not at all, because I think we've

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<v Speaker 2>talked about this on the show. But I've got my

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<v Speaker 2>head around the fact that Emerald Fanell says she's written

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<v Speaker 2>a movie inspired by the book.

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<v Speaker 1>All accounts that it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Brilliant, it's dark, it's twisted, and I am recommending you

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<v Speaker 2>read it because it is brilliant, but it isn't a

0:46:30.674 --> 0:46:35.834
<v Speaker 2>stoppy love story. And also to remind everybody that women

0:46:35.914 --> 0:46:40.554
<v Speaker 2>have been writing dark, crazy, sexy, pucked up shit forever

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<v Speaker 2>without church epity, without with no robots, and even when

0:46:44.794 --> 0:46:46.513
<v Speaker 2>they had to pretend they were doing to write them.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's like, there's something deeply feminist about that book.

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<v Speaker 2>And I am highly recommending that if you're going to

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<v Speaker 2>go see the movie. Read it, not because you need

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<v Speaker 2>to for the movie, but just to like wallow in

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<v Speaker 2>the depravity.

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<v Speaker 1>As that reviewer said, there's all kinds of abuse, there's

0:47:02.394 --> 0:47:05.434
<v Speaker 1>all kinds of unhealthy relationships on display. It's great.

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<v Speaker 3>I have a recommendation for a book as well, which

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<v Speaker 3>is called The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.

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<v Speaker 1>Was that written in eighteen forty sereo?

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<v Speaker 3>It was not. I believe the reason why I had

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<v Speaker 3>to read it was because it kept coming up, as

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<v Speaker 3>which I think I said about Heart the Lover as well,

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<v Speaker 3>it kept coming up in everyone's best twenty twenty five books.

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<v Speaker 3>This one it was plaguing me. Everyone was going, you

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<v Speaker 3>have to read this. It's brilliant and it sounds unreadable

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<v Speaker 3>because it's a series of letters, so the whole thing

0:47:35.394 --> 0:47:38.274
<v Speaker 3>is written in letter form. The main character is named

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<v Speaker 3>Sybil van Antwerp, and she's a seventy year old woman

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<v Speaker 3>and it's about memory and guilt and aging and relationships

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<v Speaker 3>and her relationship with her daughter. The way they unfold.

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<v Speaker 3>This author is able to unfold plot through letters is

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<v Speaker 3>just nothing short of genius. It's just incredibly mesmerizing. Like

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<v Speaker 3>from the first page, I was just in Claire. You've

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<v Speaker 3>read it too. I sobbed and sobbed. Yeah, it's just

0:48:07.594 --> 0:48:08.434
<v Speaker 3>and that.

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<v Speaker 1>What's it about.

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<v Speaker 3>It starts off being about all the little things in

0:48:11.194 --> 0:48:13.594
<v Speaker 3>her life, like her neighbor who's clearly kind of interested

0:48:13.634 --> 0:48:17.434
<v Speaker 3>in her, and her brother and her, but it becomes

0:48:17.474 --> 0:48:20.634
<v Speaker 3>clear that she's lost her son. It's got the most

0:48:20.634 --> 0:48:24.433
<v Speaker 3>incredible passages about grief. She's got a fractured relationship with

0:48:24.474 --> 0:48:27.033
<v Speaker 3>her daughter that kind of opens up. But you also

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<v Speaker 3>see her bitching about her daughter like to other people

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<v Speaker 3>in the letters, and so things are changing over time.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's also like it reminds you of the beauty

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<v Speaker 3>and the power of letters, Like how much has been

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<v Speaker 3>lost that we don't write each other letters anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>You can get GPT to write emails. I'm sure they'd

0:48:43.794 --> 0:48:45.394
<v Speaker 2>have just the same emotional heft.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah, Well there's actually a personality in these and

0:48:49.514 --> 0:48:53.034
<v Speaker 3>the tone of everyone that's really different is just amazing.

0:48:53.754 --> 0:48:56.074
<v Speaker 3>And I also want to throw in another one actually,

0:48:56.114 --> 0:48:59.354
<v Speaker 3>because I listen to true crime conversations all the time.

0:48:59.394 --> 0:49:01.754
<v Speaker 3>I used to host it. It is a Mummere podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>It is one of our biggest podcasts. It is fascinating

0:49:05.074 --> 0:49:08.274
<v Speaker 3>they interview every week someone who who knows is an

0:49:08.354 --> 0:49:12.594
<v Speaker 3>expert in a particular criminal case. And you might remember

0:49:12.914 --> 0:49:15.754
<v Speaker 3>in twenty nineteen there was a young woman, a twenty

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<v Speaker 3>five year old named Courtney Heron, who was murdered after

0:49:18.754 --> 0:49:23.714
<v Speaker 3>a night out in Melbourne's CBD. Jemma Bath just last

0:49:23.754 --> 0:49:29.433
<v Speaker 3>week interviewed Courtney Heron's father and he goes into his

0:49:30.394 --> 0:49:35.354
<v Speaker 3>very personal experience of the justice system and the mental

0:49:35.354 --> 0:49:41.514
<v Speaker 3>health systems and why he believes Courtney was denied justice.

0:49:41.634 --> 0:49:44.994
<v Speaker 3>It's just such a generous podcast for him to even

0:49:45.634 --> 0:49:48.873
<v Speaker 3>sit down and talk about it. But also it has

0:49:48.954 --> 0:49:53.194
<v Speaker 3>so much heart and twenty nineteen it just feels so

0:49:53.194 --> 0:49:56.594
<v Speaker 3>so recent, and Jemma does such a brilliant job with it,

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<v Speaker 3>so we'll link to that in the show.

0:49:58.994 --> 0:49:59.994
<v Speaker 1>Notes as well.

0:50:00.274 --> 0:50:04.913
<v Speaker 3>My recommendation is I listened to this podcast on a

0:50:04.994 --> 0:50:08.674
<v Speaker 3>long car trip over the holiday and oh my god.

0:50:09.114 --> 0:50:13.874
<v Speaker 3>It's a documentary style Apple original podcast called a Drift

0:50:14.474 --> 0:50:18.114
<v Speaker 3>and it follows the story of the Robertson family and

0:50:18.234 --> 0:50:21.194
<v Speaker 3>it's the late nineteen sixties in England. They're struggling with

0:50:21.714 --> 0:50:27.114
<v Speaker 3>life on a farm when Google the father decides, guys,

0:50:27.234 --> 0:50:29.874
<v Speaker 3>let's sail around the world. So it's a true story.

0:50:29.954 --> 0:50:32.433
<v Speaker 3>It's a true story, okay, and there's been a book

0:50:32.474 --> 0:50:37.714
<v Speaker 3>written about it, and you've got the stories from all

0:50:37.754 --> 0:50:40.714
<v Speaker 3>the kids who were there and went through this whole experience.

0:50:40.754 --> 0:50:44.074
<v Speaker 3>And it's fascinating because there's a big plot point of

0:50:44.074 --> 0:50:46.794
<v Speaker 3>what happens, which we'll get to, but even just all

0:50:46.874 --> 0:50:53.154
<v Speaker 3>the tiny side stories it goes into are brilliant. So

0:50:53.194 --> 0:50:57.114
<v Speaker 3>it's the parents and they're four kids and so interesting

0:50:57.194 --> 0:51:00.394
<v Speaker 3>in terms of family dynamics. What happens when they stop

0:51:00.394 --> 0:51:03.234
<v Speaker 3>in Florida for a few months to work and kind

0:51:03.274 --> 0:51:05.154
<v Speaker 3>of get involved with a bit of a shady guy,

0:51:05.594 --> 0:51:08.514
<v Speaker 3>and what it's like to sail in literal paradise, the

0:51:08.514 --> 0:51:12.714
<v Speaker 3>things they see that having been like inland in England,

0:51:12.914 --> 0:51:15.354
<v Speaker 3>they had never seen before. But the crux of the

0:51:15.394 --> 0:51:17.834
<v Speaker 3>story is that one day they are sailing in the

0:51:17.874 --> 0:51:21.194
<v Speaker 3>Pacific Ocean pretty much as as much in the middle

0:51:21.194 --> 0:51:23.953
<v Speaker 3>of nowhere as you could possibly be. They have an

0:51:24.034 --> 0:51:28.554
<v Speaker 3>encounter with killer whales that makes their boat sink and

0:51:28.594 --> 0:51:32.394
<v Speaker 3>they are stranded, oh shit, and no way to contact anyone,

0:51:32.554 --> 0:51:37.194
<v Speaker 3>minimal supplies, surrounded by sharks, and it is just the

0:51:37.234 --> 0:51:40.234
<v Speaker 3>most you can't believe. It's a true story, except that

0:51:40.514 --> 0:51:42.554
<v Speaker 3>they are telling it. The kids who are in the

0:51:42.554 --> 0:51:45.434
<v Speaker 3>boat are telling the story. So it's a beautifully made

0:51:45.594 --> 0:51:48.834
<v Speaker 3>show with you know, all the soundscaping and like all

0:51:49.474 --> 0:51:55.154
<v Speaker 3>how many episodic And I love a limited series podcast,

0:51:55.274 --> 0:51:57.913
<v Speaker 3>especially for a road trip that you know you'll get

0:51:57.914 --> 0:51:58.834
<v Speaker 3>this whole story.

0:51:58.914 --> 0:52:00.514
<v Speaker 1>It's great to jump into one of those.

0:52:00.834 --> 0:52:03.634
<v Speaker 3>And you're just enthralled. So go and listen wherever you

0:52:03.634 --> 0:52:04.194
<v Speaker 3>get your podcast.

0:52:04.234 --> 0:52:05.394
<v Speaker 1>It's called a drift.

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<v Speaker 2>Just one thing about reading about books. I just want

0:52:09.994 --> 0:52:13.073
<v Speaker 2>to remind everybody about our summer book club series which

0:52:13.074 --> 0:52:15.834
<v Speaker 2>we made with our partners at Royal Caribbean. We did

0:52:15.914 --> 0:52:19.873
<v Speaker 2>three very different books Jesse m and I. We did

0:52:19.914 --> 0:52:23.314
<v Speaker 2>All Fours by Miranda July, we did Great, Big Beautiful

0:52:23.314 --> 0:52:26.393
<v Speaker 2>Life by Emily Henry, and we did Angie fe Martin's Malluka.

0:52:26.554 --> 0:52:29.513
<v Speaker 2>And the people who have listened along with that, we've

0:52:29.514 --> 0:52:31.114
<v Speaker 2>had lots of great feedback about it.

0:52:31.274 --> 0:52:34.114
<v Speaker 3>We had a lot of out louders say that Malaluca

0:52:34.354 --> 0:52:36.554
<v Speaker 3>was the one that they enjoyed the most, which I

0:52:36.554 --> 0:52:39.433
<v Speaker 3>think we said as well because we hadn't read it yet. Yeah,

0:52:39.594 --> 0:52:44.634
<v Speaker 3>Australian fiction debut author came out last year, so much

0:52:44.674 --> 0:52:46.074
<v Speaker 3>discussion happening about that book.

0:52:46.114 --> 0:52:49.354
<v Speaker 2>All four was probably the most divisive. Yeah, probably most

0:52:49.354 --> 0:52:53.393
<v Speaker 2>in the spirit of my friend Emily Bronte.

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<v Speaker 1>But anyway, you.

0:52:54.714 --> 0:52:57.434
<v Speaker 2>Can find all the Mom and Mere book Club episodes

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<v Speaker 2>in our feed and we'll put a link in our

0:52:59.234 --> 0:53:01.834
<v Speaker 2>show notes. You can go straight there if you and

0:53:01.874 --> 0:53:04.594
<v Speaker 2>your mates want to read along and listen to those epps.

0:53:05.194 --> 0:53:08.234
<v Speaker 2>That is all we have time for out Louder. Feels

0:53:08.274 --> 0:53:09.954
<v Speaker 2>like it's been quite a lot today.

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<v Speaker 1>We've been all over the place.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much to you Claire Stevens for filling

0:53:15.274 --> 0:53:18.634
<v Speaker 2>in for our Emily. Thank you to our brilliant team.

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<v Speaker 1>You want to shout some of them out.

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<v Speaker 3>Group Executive producer Ruth Devine, Senior producer Tina Mattalov, our

0:53:25.914 --> 0:53:29.674
<v Speaker 3>senior audio producer is Leah Porgies, video producer Josh Green,

0:53:29.754 --> 0:53:40.913
<v Speaker 3>and our junior content producer is Tessa Kodovich. Bye Bye, Mamma.

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<v Speaker 2>Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which

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<v Speaker 2>we've recorded this podcast.