Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Speaker 1: Sophie Tuba and I'm Amy Torber and coming up on
Speaker 1: today's show, why Matt Zukowski savagely uninvited friends to his
Speaker 1: upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembro, the Frozen Sandwich debate, dividing
Speaker 1: the Internet, and our highs and lows of the week.
Speaker 1: But first, fitness influencer and entrepreneur Steph Claire Smith has
Speaker 1: been forced to defend her decision to blur her son's
Speaker 1: face on social media. Yeah so. Over the weekend, Steph
Speaker 1: uploaded a video of her and her husband Josh Miller,
Speaker 1: taking Harvey, who's three years old, to a monster truck show.
Speaker 1: It was a really cute real but all I could
Speaker 1: focus on was Harvey's pixelated face. It almost looked like
Speaker 1: he was on the news and he'd been accused of
Speaker 1: a crime or in witness protection because it switched between
Speaker 1: his whole face being pixelated or a large emoji. And
Speaker 1: it was quite funny because at one moment and everything
Speaker 1: disappeared and you could clearly see his face. I also
Speaker 1: noticed the blur moved at one point to a man
Speaker 1: who was sitting behind them. I was like, why is
Speaker 1: going on here? And as somebody who does video editing,
Speaker 1: it actually takes a lot of time to pixelate people's
Speaker 1: faces because you have to keep moving where the pixelation goes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely makes it more complicated. Now, this is, of course,
Speaker 1: off the back of Steph announcing last week that going forward,
Speaker 1: she would no longer be sharing Harvey's face online, and
Speaker 1: the decision was sparked by Harvey being recognized in the
Speaker 1: street by strangers. So when he wasn't with Steph and Josh,
Speaker 1: when he was in childcare or he was with his grandparents,
Speaker 1: Rando's would come up to him and be like, hey, Harvey,
Speaker 1: which would be so creepy. Well, last week we were
Speaker 1: debating how Steph and Josh would navigate no longer including
Speaker 1: Harvey and their vision. I just assumed that she was
Speaker 1: going to keep him off socials altogether, but no, they've
Speaker 1: decided to go with the pixelation, which has elicited a
Speaker 1: huge response from Steph's followers, and I think it's partly
Speaker 1: because it's one of the first times that we've seen
Speaker 1: a local influencer conceal their child's face in this way. Now.
Speaker 1: While some followers commended Steph's steps to protect her son's privacy,
Speaker 1: the vast majority seemed very confused by this approach, particularly
Speaker 1: those who had missed her updates about it. So one
Speaker 1: follower tagged her friends under the post and said, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Nah, that's it. I'm done. Blurred face has
Speaker 1: done it for me, whilst another said it's literally three
Speaker 1: years too late. All you have to do is go
Speaker 1: back through her page. Are the three thousand photos and
Speaker 1: videos of him. People know who she is, they know
Speaker 1: who he is. Blurring his face won't make a difference,
Speaker 1: not now now. One of Steph's followers jumped to her
Speaker 1: defense and wrote back, it's all about consent, right. You
Speaker 1: may have said yes to it before, but you have
Speaker 1: every right to change your mind and people should respect
Speaker 1: that a yes before doesn't mean a yes every time.
Speaker 1: And I tend to agree with this now. Steph was
Speaker 1: really visibly upset and frustrated by the critic, and she
Speaker 1: responded to the negativity by saying this.
Speaker 2: It absolutely baffles me how people feel like they can
Speaker 2: absolutely chime in to your life and your choices. I
Speaker 2: understand that there's photos and stuff of him up there
Speaker 2: from the past. Intention was not to erase him completely
Speaker 2: from the Internet. It was to avoid putting up anything
Speaker 2: from now as he's growing into as he looks like
Speaker 2: a little boy. Whether or not you agree with what
Speaker 2: we're doing that is totally up to you. But I'm
Speaker 2: so sick of it. I'm so sick of people's judgment
Speaker 2: on our decisions for our family. If it's not what
Speaker 2: you would do, that's fine. I've been avoiding ping contact
Speaker 2: of his face and that's been fine. That monster truck
Speaker 2: video was really special to me. It was really fun
Speaker 2: outing as a family. I really wanted to be able
Speaker 2: to share it as like the cutest reactions from Harvey
Speaker 2: and we had the best time. And so the way
Speaker 2: I talk to sharing that was blurring out his face.
Speaker 2: That might not make sense to a lot of you
Speaker 2: who has seen his face on social media before, but
Speaker 2: it's what we've decided to do. So maybe I'll just
Speaker 2: go back to not putting him up much at all.
Speaker 1: This is a really hard one because I can see
Speaker 1: both sides. I think that parenting in this digital age,
Speaker 1: particularly when you have a large following like Steph, would
Speaker 1: be really tough to navigate, and I truly think that
Speaker 1: people do have the right to change their mind and
Speaker 1: put boundaries in place to protect their children. However, I
Speaker 1: can see why this elicited such a big response because
Speaker 1: it was really jarring and confusing to Steph's followers who
Speaker 1: missed these original posts about it, and it just looked ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But on Steph's comment about it was a really cute
Speaker 1: video because of the way Harvey was reacting, we couldn't
Speaker 1: see his reactions because his whole face was pixelated, And
Speaker 1: that's the issue I think with this video is that
Speaker 1: there was no point in sharing it because the Picks
Speaker 1: took away from this fun family day. It was so distracting.
Speaker 1: I think, moving forward, if they don't want to share
Speaker 1: Harvey online, which is one hundred percent fine, maybe choose
Speaker 1: other content to share that doesn't involve him. The thing is,
Speaker 1: because we've already had all of this access to his
Speaker 1: life for three years. To someone who hasn't seen her updates,
Speaker 1: they're sort of like, oh my god, what has happened
Speaker 1: to him? Why is he suddenly being blurred like you're
Speaker 1: just comical? Didn't Yeah, the thing that's concerning is that
Speaker 1: if suddenly every child's face is pixelated and blurred, or
Speaker 1: mummy bloggers suddenly cut children out of their content, where
Speaker 1: are we seeing real life parenting play out? Because for me,
Speaker 1: I don't have children yet, but I think it's really
Speaker 1: worthwhile to see the realities of parenting and hear about
Speaker 1: what it's like instead of being fed the highlight reel
Speaker 1: all o the time, I have to see their face constantly.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's also the other debate about, I suppose
Speaker 1: the safety of the children and how much information is
Speaker 1: being shared about them online. I understand that you don't
Speaker 1: want to totally eraise mother's and father's experiences, but is
Speaker 1: it that necessary for us to see Harvey's reaction to
Speaker 1: the monster trucks or could we just see that they're
Speaker 1: on a family day out and here's the back of
Speaker 1: his head, and Steph could explain what they'd gotten. Also,
Speaker 1: because all we saw was her reaction, that's what yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what it seemed like she wanted to put
Speaker 1: out there. I can also see why people are questioning
Speaker 1: why she hasn't got rid of the other photos of
Speaker 1: Harvey in her feed. I mean, I'm not suggesting that
Speaker 1: she has to go back and delete three years of content,
Speaker 1: but you might remove the stuff from this year because
Speaker 1: she said, oh, he's growing into a young boy, his
Speaker 1: features are becoming more recognizable. We'll then go back and
Speaker 1: delete the recent photos of him. That would make a
Speaker 1: lot more sense. But maybe it's just a decision they've
Speaker 1: made from this point forward. We've both agreed as parents
Speaker 1: that we're not going to share his face anymore. Obviously
Speaker 1: he's going to change over the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: But it seems to me that they've just gone from
Speaker 1: now on, we're doing it. Do you know What's funny? Though,
Speaker 1: no one's having a crack at and saying, oh, he
Speaker 1: better go and delete all of the photos of Harvey,
Speaker 1: Like I hope he's not going to be making Harvey
Speaker 1: baby chinos and have Harvey's face blurred as he drinks there.
Speaker 1: That's just the odd thing about it. I'm really interesting
Speaker 1: to see how Steph navigates this. Now, will the blur continue?
Speaker 1: I don't think it will. Do you know what? Seeing
Speaker 1: that blur actually reminded me of when I used to
Speaker 1: work it today tonight, and I used to feel so
Speaker 1: bad for the editors because, as I said, It's quite
Speaker 1: a lengthy task to actually blur someone's face because you
Speaker 1: have to keep moving the blur. And I remember there
Speaker 1: was a story and this man's face had to be
Speaker 1: blurred for legal reasons, and in one scene the editor
Speaker 1: missed the blur. So this ten minute was like blur, blow, blur,
Speaker 1: and then it just dropped off. Oh my god. I
Speaker 1: do think it sends a strong message to her followers though,
Speaker 1: because this has been covered in a lot of mainstream
Speaker 1: media publications, that she's wanting to conceal his identity because
Speaker 1: people have been coming up to him. Now, when people
Speaker 1: see Steph, Josh and Harvey on the street, they know
Speaker 1: not to come up and say hello.
Speaker 3: It's pretty savage, like that's red hot from you.
Speaker 4: It's a wedding.
Speaker 1: Matt Szakowski says he was forced to uninvite guests from
Speaker 1: his upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembro due to numbers being
Speaker 1: too tight. Talking on his podcast alongside his co host
Speaker 1: Anna mcavoyd, he revealed his mates were upset when he
Speaker 1: cut their girlfriends from the list.
Speaker 3: Are people asking for more plus ones?
Speaker 4: Not really a couple? They know that the list is
Speaker 4: really tight, Ye, Like I've leaned it up. I actually,
Speaker 4: originally this sounds shit. Has invited a lot of my
Speaker 4: mates girlfriends that I know and I've known for years.
Speaker 4: And then I had to send him a message saying, hey,
Speaker 4: I've had to lean up the list. They're not like
Speaker 4: I have to uninvite, Like, sorry, dude, that's me. One
Speaker 4: of my mates was pretty up mortified. Yeah, because but
Speaker 4: we hadn't handed out the invitation yet.
Speaker 3: Sorry, so you hadn't.
Speaker 4: I'd asked for names and addresses, full names, spelling of theirs.
Speaker 3: If they're and they just assumed their partners have been back.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So one of my mates is pretty savage, like, that's
Speaker 3: red hot from me. It's wedding, It's the wedding of
Speaker 3: the year, baby.
Speaker 1: How pissed off would you be if you were one
Speaker 1: of these girlfriends. You'd probably been telling everybody you're going
Speaker 1: to the wedding of the year, going to Tammy and Matt's,
Speaker 1: only to find out last minute that you have been
Speaker 1: bumped from the invite list, especially because this is a
Speaker 1: destination wedding and all of Matt's friends and family are
Speaker 1: in Melbourne. So as soon as you heard it was happening,
Speaker 1: you would have jumped on booked flights, booked accommodation. I
Speaker 1: just think the thing that makes it worse is also
Speaker 1: that Matt has clearly known his mate's girlfriends for years.
Speaker 1: He said that these people are genuinely friends and he's
Speaker 1: gotten to know them well. It'd be different if your
Speaker 1: friend had a new girlfriend maybe you hadn't met. But
Speaker 1: this is really brutal. I got the vibe from Matt's
Speaker 1: grub that Tammy had asked him to un invite the
Speaker 1: guests because maybe she hasn't met the girlfriends. I think
Speaker 1: it's really different when you were bride and there are
Speaker 1: restrictions on how many people you can invite. I know,
Speaker 1: for me, I didn't really want people being at Dale
Speaker 1: and My wedding who didn't know us very well. I
Speaker 1: get that in a normal situation you want to invite
Speaker 1: people that know you as a couple and have seen
Speaker 1: you hang out as a couple before. But in their case,
Speaker 1: they literally got engaged after knowing each other for a
Speaker 1: couple of months and then forged ahead with this very
Speaker 1: fast wedding. So I'm sure there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: at this wedding who haven't hung out with them as well.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Tammy's had to uninvite her friends, like
Speaker 1: her female friend. I doubt it. He's probably covering the bill.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing I don't understand. I know some
Speaker 1: people have to keep their guest lists really tight because
Speaker 1: of budget constraints, but when you're worth fifty million dollars,
Speaker 1: you think you can invite a couple of extra people
Speaker 1: just to save the piece. But maybe it's a specific
Speaker 1: venue that has restrictions as well. It's quite funny because
Speaker 1: Dale has been in that situation before before I knew him,
Speaker 1: and he was with his ex. He got invited to
Speaker 1: a wedding, but the ex was told not to come,
Speaker 1: and all of his friend's partners were also not invited,
Speaker 1: so it was just one big boy's table. That's just
Speaker 1: asking for drug.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: I actually thought, you know what, sometimes there's nothing worse
Speaker 1: than going to a wedding where you don't really know
Speaker 1: the people that well and they're not really your friends.
Speaker 1: So I actually don't mind it. But it's clear that
Speaker 1: he is friends with these people. It is totally offensive.
Speaker 1: And what makes it even worse is that one of
Speaker 1: the girlfriends who has now subsequently been uninvited. It's actually
Speaker 1: her birthday the weekend of the wedding, so she is
Speaker 1: flying over to Byron Bay to basically sit in a
Speaker 1: hotel room by herself. Well, let's be honest, she's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna be by herself. All of the other jaded
Speaker 1: girlfriends who got uninvited are probably gonna be up there
Speaker 1: as well. That's what makes it even tougher though, because
Speaker 1: if you're invited as a couple, you can split the
Speaker 1: cost of the accommodation. But I mean, I suppose they
Speaker 1: could bunk in with other guys there, but it just
Speaker 1: makes it more complicated. And I personally be pissed off
Speaker 1: if my husband was going away and sending all of
Speaker 1: this money to go to a wedding that I hadn't
Speaker 1: been invited to. It's really cute because Matt also mentioned
Speaker 1: on the podcast how he'd recently caught up with his
Speaker 1: grandparents and thank goodness, they have not been uninvited. So
Speaker 1: they went ahead and booked flights, but they went to
Speaker 1: flight Centered and booked in with a travel agent to
Speaker 1: get their flights and accommodations sorted. That is so cute
Speaker 1: for interstate travel is absolutely darling that they did that,
Speaker 1: and the grandma actually brought in her invite which had
Speaker 1: all of the information on it, and apparently one of
Speaker 1: the travel agents spotted it and was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: is this for Matt and Tammy Hembro's wedding And she
Speaker 1: was like, please don't say anything. You can't tell a
Speaker 1: soul about it, and was really worried about it. I
Speaker 1: wonder if this was after the whole Sofa dofa leaking incident.
Speaker 1: What I want to know is if Matt's having to
Speaker 1: uninvite all of his friend's girlfriends, how it held it
Speaker 1: Sofa dofa Coppy an invite because I have never ever
Speaker 1: seen her hang out with Tammy Hembro, which isn't to
Speaker 1: say that they're not secretly friends behind the scenes, but
Speaker 1: they don't even live in the same state. What doesn't
Speaker 1: not add another level of disappointment for the girls who
Speaker 1: were uninvited, because this place will be crawling with influence.
Speaker 1: It's been the best people watching spots, and Matt has
Speaker 1: actually experienced being uninvited to a wedding himself, which I
Speaker 1: think makes this even more of a dick move because
Speaker 1: he knows how shit you feel when you're not included.
Speaker 1: So a few years ago, when he was attending a
Speaker 1: wedding with his ex in Geelong, he spent the whole
Speaker 1: weekend sitting in a hotel room in a suit, waiting
Speaker 1: to see if he got a call up. And Anna
Speaker 1: said that it's so hypocritical of him now to do
Speaker 1: the same thing to others, because he literally would not
Speaker 1: stop going on about being not invited to this wedding. Now,
Speaker 1: in tomorrow's subscriber episode, we're going to be talking more
Speaker 1: about wedding invite etiquette and about a couple who actually
Speaker 1: sent out You're not invited cards to family of friends
Speaker 1: ahead of their wedding. Maybe they could have done this. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just a huge slap in the face, isn't it.
Speaker 1: And if you do want to listen to that episode,
Speaker 1: don't forget to subscribe to Outspoken Plus.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna pop this altogether and into the freezer.
Speaker 1: This week, a Sunshine Coast content creator sparked a huge
Speaker 1: debate in our Facebook group to freeze or not to
Speaker 1: freeze sandwiches for kids lunchboxes? Now, Amy, this post went
Speaker 1: off in our group. Can you bring us up to speed? Yeah? So,
Speaker 1: Asia Easel who shares cooking videos and budgeting tips on
Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok, shared with her fifty nine thousand followers
Speaker 1: on Instagram how she just got back into bulk prepping
Speaker 1: her three sons sandwiches for their school lunchboxes. Let's have
Speaker 1: a listen to what Asha said.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to encourage you togs pack their own lunches
Speaker 5: in the morning. If it means I just would make
Speaker 5: chanveranges once every couple weeks, freeze it and they packed
Speaker 5: the lunches, that would make my life so much easier.
Speaker 5: Let's tell me why I took three full loads of
Speaker 5: bread just make eight days worth of sandwiches for my boys.
Speaker 5: Like I did not realize, Like this is how many
Speaker 5: sandwiches I make in eight days. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1: Her spreads of choice were veggimie and cheese honey and
Speaker 1: also Ntella. Oh that's the winner there. Yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: mind a Natella sandwich when I was at school. And
Speaker 1: I've got to say, eight sandwiches each for three boys,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of food and requires a lot of
Speaker 1: freezer space. Is it a sandwich a day?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Is this covering eight days of school? Lunchboxes. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what it is. So the idea is that in
Speaker 1: the morning, the kids grub out their sandwiches from the
Speaker 1: freezer and buy lunchtime. These sandwiches are dishausted, perfect for lunchtime.
Speaker 1: How soggy would that be? Though? I have never eaten
Speaker 1: a frozen sandwich before, and I can imagine it would
Speaker 1: be even more difficult to persuade a child to eat
Speaker 1: a frozen, soggy sandwich. There was a lot of mixed
Speaker 1: reaction in our Facebook group. So some people like you,
Speaker 1: were disgusted at the thought of eating frozen sandwiches, and
Speaker 1: the main concern, as you said, was that the sandwiches
Speaker 1: would be so by the time they were defrosted. However,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of group members pointing out that
Speaker 1: because of the spreads she had chosen, they would not
Speaker 1: be soggy by lunchtime. So Asia said she's specifically chosen
Speaker 1: to tell her honey and also veggimie and cheese because
Speaker 1: they're not It's all like you're putting a salad sandwich
Speaker 1: in the freezer, it's gonna get gross, really good point,
Speaker 1: or a tuna sandwich. A lot of members in our
Speaker 1: Facebook group who were mums were saying that this is
Speaker 1: something that they do all of the time. And because
Speaker 1: when I first saw this, I thought, well, how long
Speaker 1: does it take to make a sandwich in the morning?
Speaker 1: Do you really need to freeze and a tell a sandwich. However,
Speaker 1: I'm not a mum disclaimer, so when I have children
Speaker 1: and I'm making the kids lunches, who knows I might
Speaker 1: be fucking freezing everything over It is actually so refreshing
Speaker 1: to see a mum sharing a realistic lunch box, because
Speaker 1: as someone who's not even a parent myself, I get
Speaker 1: enrage seeing these influencers sharing these fancy is it called
Speaker 1: a bear toe box or whatever the other week and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, look at these different apartments and everything's homemade,
Speaker 1: everything's made by scratch, and it's meeting all of my
Speaker 1: child's nutritional needs. And it's like, I'm sorry, but when
Speaker 1: you've got a life, a job, you're looking after a
Speaker 1: busy household, probably most of the time because your husband's
Speaker 1: not helping, when you have the time to be coming
Speaker 1: up with these extravagant lunch boxes. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of mums are really loving Asia's content because it's relatable.
Speaker 1: They're getting good tips on it, and it's budget friendly
Speaker 1: because I creating one of those big Bento boxes would
Speaker 1: be so expensive. But I like her content. I had
Speaker 1: never heard of her before this sandwich debate. I went
Speaker 1: and checked out her content. She's a Hillary Duff fan,
Speaker 1: so she's high up there. My only thing is, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be real. I hate the taste of frozen bread,
Speaker 1: like I just don't know what is. It just has
Speaker 1: a weird after taste to it. However, these kids are
Speaker 1: being given to Tella sandwiches, So if I was a child,
Speaker 1: I think I could put up with that taste in
Speaker 1: order to get an a Tella sandwich lunch. Yeah, frozen
Speaker 1: sandwiches just remind me of aeroplane food or I mean
Speaker 1: even they seem to serve up very cold sandwiches in
Speaker 1: nursing homes. I don't think a sandwich should ever be
Speaker 1: in the fridge. Well, do you know what the worst
Speaker 1: thing was? Remember when we were all at school, and
Speaker 1: of course no one had the fancy Stanley cups. You
Speaker 1: all had an ice drink bottle and it had a
Speaker 1: tea towel around it with a rubber band, and often
Speaker 1: that would sit on top of your lunch box, and
Speaker 1: our mum would always pack us. It was like a
Speaker 1: bread roll for lunch plane because I think we'd complain
Speaker 1: about having soggy sandwiches. If there were salad, we'd have
Speaker 1: an apple for recess. But every time it would get
Speaker 1: to lunch, because your drink bottle had been sitting on it,
Speaker 1: it would inadvertently get soggy. And the worst thing is, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're trying to stomach this bread roll, and there would
Speaker 1: be kids chowing down on fucking dunk a use yogos
Speaker 1: roll up Simber. I won't name names, but there was
Speaker 1: this one girl who her mother. If they had Instagram,
Speaker 1: like twenty years ago, oh, probably longer than that, twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago, she would have been the one with
Speaker 1: the perfect lunch box. I mean, I don't think it
Speaker 1: was nutritional at all, but she literally had marble cake
Speaker 1: every day, She'd have chocolate beats, slammed shoes on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Everyone would abuse her for serving a chiwre well, they would,
Speaker 1: but I remember she had the most envy lunch box
Speaker 1: out of anyone. One of our friends used to bring
Speaker 1: in a whole wheel of bree or cameon beer cheese, yeah,
Speaker 1: and eat the whole thing at lunchtime. That's a great lunchbox.
Speaker 1: Do you remember? This is so random, but one of
Speaker 1: the news stations came down to our school when we
Speaker 1: were in reception because they were doing a story about
Speaker 1: junk food. Yeah, and I was in that yees report.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So our mom's a dental therapist and as I said,
Speaker 1: she would only pack like fucking apple and too bread roll. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so the cameraman's there filming at lunchtime and he pans
Speaker 1: to Sophie. And in this shop that was aired everywhere
Speaker 1: was Sophie opening one of our friends very sugary musley bars,
Speaker 1: and you had a lot of explaining to do when
Speaker 1: you got home to her. We were not allowed to
Speaker 1: have muslee bars, and I was having to explain to
Speaker 1: Mum that I was merely helping my friend open it
Speaker 1: for her to remember ghost drop. Sorry, this is getting
Speaker 1: really nice because we were the best. There was a
Speaker 1: girl at school and was so terrible because I don't
Speaker 1: think she had many friends, but she would try and
Speaker 1: buy friends with these ghost drops, So I shouldn't love
Speaker 1: but well, actually, recently we found out that one of
Speaker 1: our really good friends. I won't our best friend. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: I hope she doesn't mind us telling the story. But
Speaker 1: we found out that she got a lunch order every
Speaker 1: day at school. She was living every child's dream. And
Speaker 1: her mum is American. So she pointed out, well, that's
Speaker 1: just normal for my mum, because in American schools, everyone
Speaker 1: goes to school and gets lunch. But for us, we
Speaker 1: got a lunch order like every term. It was every term,
Speaker 1: and we would decorate the paper bag. We were that excited.
Speaker 1: We draw cartoons on it. We'd say thank you to
Speaker 1: the ladies working in the care I want to know
Speaker 1: in our Facebook community how frequent your lunch orders were
Speaker 1: and did every school around the country have pizza around us?
Speaker 1: What else when you served up? I remember there were
Speaker 1: Wienas like. I used to be so embarrassed. I worked
Speaker 1: in the canteen and people be like, could I have
Speaker 1: a Wiener please? Would it be like fruit balls slash puppies? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What else? Well, they'd have macaroni and cheese cups for
Speaker 1: lunch orders. I remember they would have the salads and
Speaker 1: the teachers would always get it to have like a
Speaker 1: boiled egg. I would order the salads because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be like the teachers and they'd have they just
Speaker 1: have like a pizza that was just in a box.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's so much pineapple on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to love pizza around as at school, and
Speaker 1: I went on a mission last year to see if
Speaker 1: I could find the original ones they'd serve at the canteen.
Speaker 1: They do still exist, but you literally have to do
Speaker 1: a bulk order of around fifty of them to get
Speaker 1: your hands on them. I've seen them at my local
Speaker 1: Coals and Woolies. They look pretty similar. They don't have
Speaker 1: vegetarian versions, though, which is what I want. Well, that
Speaker 1: was a debate we just had off microphone. I think
Speaker 1: I think they did have vegetarian they didn't. I think
Speaker 1: the shit ones at the store have ham in it,
Speaker 1: which is why I've never bought them. Can someone settle
Speaker 1: this for us? Put in our Facebook community if they
Speaker 1: had some sort of handy bacon in the See Sophie,
Speaker 1: this is a picture of ones with hands I understand.
Speaker 1: I used to order them at the canteen and cam
Speaker 1: and we pick it out. Let's get into our highs
Speaker 1: and lows of the week, and I want to start
Speaker 1: with my low because it's pretty funny. So this last weekend,
Speaker 1: I had my family and also Dale's family over for
Speaker 1: an afternoon tea, and Dale's little nephew came over and
Speaker 1: he's around twelve, and the poor thing, he had no
Speaker 1: one to play with during this afternoon tea because everyone
Speaker 1: was adults, so he was kind of just roaming around
Speaker 1: the house trying to entertain himself. I was outside chatting
Speaker 1: to all the other adults and Dale's nephew came running
Speaker 1: out and in front of everyone, amy, why do you
Speaker 1: own a penguin shaped dildo? And I just the conversation stopped.
Speaker 1: Everyone's heads just looked at me. I said, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? He's like, you have a penguin shaped
Speaker 1: dildo inside.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: What he was actually referring to is the porcelain penises
Speaker 1: that we painted at Kate's Hen's party, which was almost
Speaker 1: two years ago. And I told you that this does
Speaker 1: not belong in your kitchen. So these are if you're
Speaker 1: in Adelaide. We've got the plaster fun house and Sophie
Speaker 1: and I collected these plaster penises for everyone to paint,
Speaker 1: and I turned mine into a penguin at Kate's hen's party,
Speaker 1: and it has been sitting on my kitchen bench. I
Speaker 1: actually had a little hat on it, like your little
Speaker 1: Mexican hat. You couldn't even really tell what it was anyway,
Speaker 1: So we quickly catton onto what he's talking about, and
Speaker 1: our mum, who was at the hen's party, goes, oh,
Speaker 1: it's fine, sweetheart. We all have them, and everyone just
Speaker 1: looks at her, like, what on earth it's fine, sweety
Speaker 1: before all have large diodos in our home. Is quite
Speaker 1: funny because our mum also has her porcelain penis still
Speaker 1: on display in her kitchen, which she's quite conservative. I
Speaker 1: thought she would have gotten rid of that. Mine was
Speaker 1: living in my garage. That was until I moved house
Speaker 1: when my in laws spotted it and it got a
Speaker 1: bit awkward. I think that they should have been disposed
Speaker 1: of straight after the hen's party. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to share a photo of this penis online because
Speaker 1: it looks very cute. That's why I haven't thrown it out.
Speaker 1: It's really quite funny. The sweetest thing was one of
Speaker 1: Dale's friends. Later in the evening, his son came around,
Speaker 1: and he's five, and we were telling Dale's friend about
Speaker 1: the incident. Anyway, He's like, bring it out and show
Speaker 1: Arlo and see what he says. Anyway, we showed him
Speaker 1: and go what do you think this is? And he goes,
Speaker 1: it's a penguin that was very whole, so cute. Now,
Speaker 1: what's your high of the week. My eye of the
Speaker 1: week is probably a work one because we just attended
Speaker 1: one of our clients' events and it was a banana split.
Speaker 1: What would you call it?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Well, they were attempting to beat the record in South
Speaker 1: Australia of the most banana splits given away, so they
Speaker 1: gave away over a thousand banana splits and so it's
Speaker 1: quite incredible for banana days. So I was filming this
Speaker 1: and my favorite part of the day was everyone was
Speaker 1: literally dressed up in bright yellow and then seeing all
Speaker 1: of the confused shoppers who had also worn yellow trying
Speaker 1: to work out what was going on. Also, seeing you
Speaker 1: chow down on a banana split at around ten thirty
Speaker 1: am was pretty entertaining, going down quite nicely. Isn't that
Speaker 1: such an old person? Dessert? Like, the majority of the
Speaker 1: people lining up for these banana splits were elderly men
Speaker 1: and elderly. They were like, well between fifties, like fifty plus,
Speaker 1: I say fifty to seventy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you could tell who the Almond moms were because
Speaker 1: there were all these older women that were like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not having anything. Oh they'd say, I'm just grabbing
Speaker 1: this for my husband.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: My high of the week is that its events season.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's actually getting exciting. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's so many things coming up. And one of the
Speaker 1: things I'm looking forward to most is your Halloween party.
Speaker 2: Amy.
Speaker 1: We're having it next Friday. You say Halloween party, I've
Speaker 1: literally only invited a handful of we I still think
Speaker 1: that's a party when you're in your thirties. And I
Speaker 1: have found the perfect pop culture costume.
Speaker 3: So you say.
Speaker 1: Perfect pop culture. Everyone is coming. I don't want to
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. Everyone's Swift, but it's Taylor and Travis at Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: It's basically Sophie rocking up in a nice dress and
Speaker 1: then everyone be like, who is she meant to be?
Speaker 1: It's a real token effort. It's not a token effort.
Speaker 1: I have gone and sourced the red dress. I've got
Speaker 1: the sunglasses, I've got the jewelry. I'm thinking of buying
Speaker 1: a clip in fringe. And then it's really Brandon who
Speaker 1: is going to add to my costume because he is
Speaker 1: going to be wearing that iconic Gucci outfit that Travis
Speaker 1: wore with the bucket hat. And has he even got that? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: we are currently going through his wardrobe and we're going
Speaker 1: to be adjusting and adding a few of the red
Speaker 1: and green stripes. I'm going to make him a special
Speaker 1: bucket hat. I think it's going to look really good.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it, and I'm really excited because
Speaker 1: a few of our friends have surprise outfits, so I'm
Speaker 1: one of those people. You're one of those people, and
Speaker 1: it sounds like the outfits are going to be quite rogue.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The people who have the surprise outfits, they're going for
Speaker 1: the laughs. Well, I certainly am. Yeah. My love of
Speaker 1: the week is that I can no longer trust food
Speaker 1: that is not in a package, and I know that
Speaker 1: that is not environmentally food. I was at the supermarket
Speaker 1: the other night and I witnessed a child pick up
Speaker 1: a bunch of broccolini, put it in their mouth, suck
Speaker 1: on it, and then proceed to put it back in
Speaker 1: the box, and it they missed because they were so sure,
Speaker 1: and it ended up dropping on the ground, and the
Speaker 1: person's parent came over and proceeded to pick it off
Speaker 1: the ground and put it back in the box where
Speaker 1: people were purchasing from. And I was horrified. And my
Speaker 1: partner pointed out to me, he said, why didn't you
Speaker 1: remove it from the box so that no one else
Speaker 1: end up buying it? And that you that's a very
Speaker 1: good point. But I was almost frozen in disbelief at
Speaker 1: I kept All I could think about was, Oh, my god,
Speaker 1: what have I eaten from here in the past that
Speaker 1: kids have put their hands and possibly mouths all over.
Speaker 1: So this is your body to wash your vegetables? Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that is important to what I get confused
Speaker 1: because I keep seeing these tiktoks pop up and it's
Speaker 1: people washing berries. They're going through all this stuff like
Speaker 1: they're putting in all these different cleaning products or just
Speaker 1: well just to get rid of all of the nasty
Speaker 1: chemicals that are sprayed on them. Yeah, Sophy, I do
Speaker 1: have an update for you, and this could add to
Speaker 1: your high of the week. I have actually found the
Speaker 1: ingredients lists for pizza around us. Why would this be
Speaker 1: my home because it does say that they contain pork
Speaker 1: told you all right anyway, So just to save people
Speaker 1: from writing in but you are wrong, Amy, do you
Speaker 1: know what I'm actually gonna make for my TikTok? This
Speaker 1: is a subtle plugged to go and follow my TikTok
Speaker 1: which has like ninety seven followers. I'm gonna make my
Speaker 1: own pizza round us and not have any meat in them.
Speaker 1: So for people who don't actually, Oh, Sophie and I
Speaker 1: we grew up vegetarian. I do eat a bit of
Speaker 1: chicken now, but I'm mainly vegios. I'm gonna fucking flogging
Speaker 1: your TikTok amy at Amy Torbol. That is all we
Speaker 1: have time for. On that note, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us. If you have enjoyed today's show, could
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Speaker 1: traditional land of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Planes.
Speaker 1: We pay respect to elders past and present,