Speaker 1: Come on Thursday, pickup time, Happy afternoon, Happy Thursday, Happy
Speaker 1: almost Friday.
Speaker 2: Headed the chemist ware house today, great savings every day.
Speaker 3: Say that again, Britt, you're gonna pay me up in
Speaker 3: visil line, Guys, I got a visile line.
Speaker 1: It's not a big What did you get to get?
Speaker 1: Let me be I actually speak fine. I got in
Speaker 1: visy line. You do when you really enunciate? When you annunciated.
Speaker 2: It's enunciate. You sound like you're doing one of those
Speaker 2: like annunciation classes. You've gone to etiquette school.
Speaker 4: Don't come at me because I speak better than you.
Speaker 2: Okay, say it, that's spray.
Speaker 5: Delilah.
Speaker 3: My dogs ate my buzzeline and my teeth started to
Speaker 3: move back, and then I had to get some more
Speaker 3: in basineline.
Speaker 4: And here we are. Guys, you're gonna have to bear
Speaker 4: with my apologies if.
Speaker 2: The show is a bit flippery today.
Speaker 4: I don't even have a list.
Speaker 2: Okay, Today on the show, a woman who had took
Speaker 2: time off work because she faked her pregnancy.
Speaker 1: Wow. Now, there's also been some very interesting laws that
Speaker 1: have just been passed in France. This is around sharinging,
Speaker 1: so sharing your kids on Instagram and on social media
Speaker 1: sharing them in what way? Well, I mean not sharing
Speaker 1: them around, just putting pictures up if your kids on
Speaker 1: social media posting. There's been a whole lot of laws
Speaker 1: that have come out in France and this is something
Speaker 1: that might make any parents who've been sharing photos of
Speaker 1: their children think twice.
Speaker 4: Not sharing much except my listing.
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Speaker 2: this if the big it's a pickup Britt, Laura and
Speaker 2: Midge Thursday afternoon here at kiss Or thanks to Chemists Warehouse,
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Speaker 3: We are going to France today, but not for what
Speaker 3: you think. They're bringing in some potential laws around sharenting,
Speaker 3: which is parents sharing photos of their children on websites, Instagram, YouTube,
Speaker 3: basically anything that's a free for all for anyone. They're
Speaker 3: saying that privacy of children should be more important. This
Speaker 3: needs to be regulated. This will, though very largely affect
Speaker 3: influences or I guess they call the mummy bloggers. This
Speaker 3: will affect a huge part of their income if they're
Speaker 3: not allowed to be posting their children. So it's opened
Speaker 3: up this whole conversation about what is appropriate to share
Speaker 3: of your child online. Are you allowed to make money
Speaker 3: from your child online?
Speaker 1: The reason why I struggle with this obviously, are you
Speaker 1: very transparent? Like I share photos of my kids online
Speaker 1: not because I'm making money off them, but because they're
Speaker 1: such a huge part of my life that like, I
Speaker 1: share my life online and I often share photos of
Speaker 1: my kids. But I think the reason why I sit
Speaker 1: in two camps about this conversation is because there's a
Speaker 1: huge scale. There's a massive difference between mums who have
Speaker 1: created YouTube channels where the main stars are children, and
Speaker 1: those children are making an income, but the money's going
Speaker 1: to the parents. Yeah, A lot of the articles I've
Speaker 1: read on this makes it feel like anyone who's putting
Speaker 1: photos of their children online is exploiting their children, And
Speaker 1: I think that that's just too much of a simple
Speaker 1: way of looking at this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think the core of this is
Speaker 2: the rise of the social media child and famous kids.
Speaker 2: Because there's over thirteen million subscribers on this one kid
Speaker 2: the Labrands, they're massive in the US and people are saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: the parents are the ones profiting. They get millions of
Speaker 2: dollars from exploiting their children at what expense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's something to be said.
Speaker 3: So just over on knows the labrands what they capitalize
Speaker 3: on the way they make their money. They're not like
Speaker 3: putting their kids out on a farm and making them
Speaker 3: work all day for unpaid labor. They're unpacking toys and
Speaker 3: playing with toys. That is the way, and people pay
Speaker 3: to watch that.
Speaker 4: There's got to.
Speaker 3: Be something to where you realize that. I think it's
Speaker 3: okay if the kids are benefiting. Are the kids getting
Speaker 3: this money that they're earning put back into a bank account?
Speaker 3: Where does the money go? But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, if it's not overly exploiting the child, that
Speaker 3: child is going to have an overall better life if
Speaker 3: their parents have more money. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: argue that point for me.
Speaker 1: The reason why this is such a tricky one to
Speaker 1: kind of unpack is because the problem with influencing and
Speaker 1: the problem with using kids in social media to make money.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of issues with it, but the biggest
Speaker 1: one is that it is so largely unregulated. Like if
Speaker 1: you have a child that appears in a bond's ad
Speaker 1: on TV, or they appear in some sort of advertising
Speaker 1: in print, there's so many rules. When you get to
Speaker 1: that actual shoot day, kids can only be on set
Speaker 1: for X amount of time, you have to have a
Speaker 1: nurse on site. There's so many rules around using children
Speaker 1: in advertising. But because with influencing, it's happening on a
Speaker 1: platform with parents, there are no regulations. We don't know
Speaker 1: how long parents are making their kids do this sort
Speaker 1: of work for and then are they exploiting it or
Speaker 1: does the child want to be involved. I think ultimately
Speaker 1: it is a very good thing to bring in legislation
Speaker 1: around this.
Speaker 3: I think everyone should have the right to share their
Speaker 3: child if they want to, but do so with discretion.
Speaker 3: Because in the darker side of things, the police found
Speaker 3: that on inappropriate websites on the Internet, half of those
Speaker 3: photos on those websites were just taken from innocent posting
Speaker 3: on people's.
Speaker 2: Instrument family album, family album.
Speaker 3: So it is just something that you do have to
Speaker 3: be aware of. I think it's your child, You're entitled
Speaker 3: to post pictures of them who want, but keep that
Speaker 3: in mind. Keep that in mind of where they could
Speaker 3: possibly end up.
Speaker 2: Totally Hey, next on the pickup, Imagine celebrating with a
Speaker 2: coworker who told you that she was pregnant and she's
Speaker 2: taking time off. Yeah, it's great, right, And she's pregnant
Speaker 2: and she's going to go off and have her baby
Speaker 2: and you'll see her.
Speaker 1: In a year having some maternitally totally paid lovely maternityly
Speaker 1: and you realize that she was lying about it the
Speaker 1: whole time.
Speaker 2: That's a real story that has actually happened, and the
Speaker 2: detail it's going to blow you away. So I can't.
Speaker 2: And it's not someone we work with. It's not a
Speaker 2: duty out there in the Kiss final. It's next to
Speaker 2: the pickup. It's the pickup. Thursday afternoon on Kiss with Britt,
Speaker 2: Laura and Mitch. Where here headed to the chemists warehouse today?
Speaker 2: Great savings every day, ladies. This is I think the
Speaker 2: funniest headline I've ever read in my entire life.
Speaker 4: That's a big carmage.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is true. It's so funny. A
Speaker 2: woman in Georgia, in the United States has just been
Speaker 2: charged with faking her pregnancy to get time off work
Speaker 2: like sickly Hi maternityly, she said she was pregnant, took
Speaker 2: time off, and then the coworkers started to get suspicious
Speaker 2: that it wasn't potentially real. They caught her out and
Speaker 2: she's being charged.
Speaker 4: Wait, how did she get caught out?
Speaker 1: I mean, was it because there was no baby?
Speaker 4: Because the belly was the fake pillow that was stuffed
Speaker 4: up the belly.
Speaker 2: Robin's colleagues became suspicious when they noticed her bump was
Speaker 2: a skew getting up from her desk at work, and
Speaker 2: then when she sent them inconsistent photos of different children
Speaker 2: when they asked to see the image of the newborn baby.
Speaker 1: Wait, what do you mean inconsistent? No, because newborn babies
Speaker 1: could just look weird. They always look a bit different. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you take a photo one day their face
Speaker 1: is a bit squished, then the other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good corn. Apparently she said pictures to her staff
Speaker 2: in a group chat, and the images of the children
Speaker 2: were inconsistent because they depicted children with varying skin tones.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, if you got a lie, just pick
Speaker 4: one child.
Speaker 6: Race.
Speaker 2: But she went to Google images said new baby went.
Speaker 4: To the Bahamas with a family on a holiday. Got ten.
Speaker 2: No, the thing is a coworker observed the lower portion
Speaker 2: of her stomach come away from her body and they
Speaker 2: saw double side of tape sat down to her abdomen.
Speaker 6: Blue.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I Okay, if you're faking a pregnancy and
Speaker 1: you're wearing a prosthetic belly, surely you're wearing Maxi dresses
Speaker 1: and stuff like. She's not rocking up in a mid
Speaker 1: drift where you can see some double sided tainer.
Speaker 3: Buy the proper prosthetic. You can bind them. Buy a
Speaker 3: bump prosthetic. Don't put a pillow up there.
Speaker 4: That's all awkward and goes off to the side.
Speaker 2: Hollywood and get it VFX.
Speaker 4: I guarantee you be able to get one online.
Speaker 2: Guarranet Laura, she got lazy because this isn't the first
Speaker 2: time she's done it. No, this is no second fake
Speaker 2: pregnancy that she has had. That's why they thought it
Speaker 2: was we're the second time around. Also because she announced
Speaker 2: she was pregnant at the end in November of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty and then had the baby in May of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, so the gestation period was format.
Speaker 3: That is such a such a commitment to the lie,
Speaker 3: like it's a forever lie. It's not nine months, because
Speaker 3: then you've got to pretend you've got kids for the
Speaker 3: rest of your life.
Speaker 1: What do you do with the lack of baby, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you do? You just continue to send fake
Speaker 1: photos or she.
Speaker 4: Will get eighteenth birthday.
Speaker 1: Surely, if you're gonna do this lie, you've got to commit.
Speaker 1: You've got to hone in onor like maybe it's your
Speaker 1: friend's kid and you just start sending photos.
Speaker 4: It's got to be consistent. Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well she got seven weeks paid leave off and then
Speaker 2: she got found out and I've got a photo of
Speaker 2: the baby on the screen. This is a fake baby
Speaker 2: bump that she showed her coworkers.
Speaker 4: It's so ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So we've got up some fake baby bumps that you
Speaker 2: can buy online. They're actually quite legit.
Speaker 1: Some of them look more realistic than others. I like
Speaker 1: the fleshy looking one. I'm not so sure about the
Speaker 1: black one.
Speaker 2: You can get one that's just a Lily Dale chicken breast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this one here, that colored one is just
Speaker 1: it looks like a bra insert. It looks like one
Speaker 1: of my push up bras.
Speaker 4: What is the punishment? What do you get charged for?
Speaker 2: Okay, seeah, you can't charge someone for wearing a chicken
Speaker 2: feel it and saying it's a baby that doesn't hold
Speaker 2: up in a corner.
Speaker 4: Not in Australia.
Speaker 2: No, she was charged for identity fraud because she made
Speaker 2: up a fake partner as well. She's not actually in
Speaker 2: a relationship.
Speaker 1: Wait, so she came off. She only got her own
Speaker 1: maternity leave. But she but like, what is having a partner?
Speaker 1: Does she get extra money for the partner or something?
Speaker 3: No, hang on, it says here because I've got this sheet,
Speaker 3: and says here that the fraud was because her fake
Speaker 3: partner emailed saying that doctors had ordered her mandated several
Speaker 3: weeks of rest following the delivery. So she's pretending to
Speaker 3: be like doctor's orders of a partner.
Speaker 4: So it's like there's multiple people here. She impersonated.
Speaker 2: She made up her partner, and the name for the
Speaker 2: partner they should have been a dead giveway on the
Speaker 2: email was brand Ottom when Bember Bay. I'm not joking.
Speaker 2: She could have just said Sam Johnson, but no, she
Speaker 2: went Brand Optember Bember If she lent on the keyboard.
Speaker 1: And send it off and then she's like, yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: do it and then she said, guys, baby ill pember,
Speaker 1: but tender ways here rhyme.
Speaker 2: It's so stupid. All right, next time the pickup, Laura,
Speaker 2: something's going on socials. You've done something on social media
Speaker 2: that this involves you. It involves you.
Speaker 1: I did the dumbest thing I've ever done in my
Speaker 1: entire life in a blind rage, and it involves you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what this is about. That's next
Speaker 2: to the pickup thurs Day on Kids. It's the pickup Britt,
Speaker 2: Laura and mid Thanks to chemist Warehouse, get Blackmore's executive
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Speaker 2: for just forty seven ninety nine. Always read the label
Speaker 2: and follow the directions for use.
Speaker 1: Now this is a story that mixed.
Speaker 2: Sure you have something to do with I'm worried about
Speaker 2: this because you've been talking about it all show and
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is you're going to bring
Speaker 2: up with me.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when I was I was ranting about
Speaker 1: somebody on social media? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do remember that.
Speaker 4: It was you're in a wild range?
Speaker 2: Is a public figure that you were ranting about?
Speaker 4: I was not Okay. Now I've made it sound worse
Speaker 4: than what it is.
Speaker 1: God, I was talking about someone who I don't have
Speaker 1: the best relationship with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, an Australian media personality.
Speaker 4: Okay, give more clues, jury.
Speaker 1: I was telling you the backstory, and at that time
Speaker 1: I had their Instagram open, but I was waving my
Speaker 1: phone around chatting to you, telling you the beef. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I left that day, I went home. Later that night,
Speaker 1: I opened up Instagram and whose story pops up as
Speaker 1: my next view story? I accidentally followed them?
Speaker 4: Oh no, when I was waving. Now I'm following them.
Speaker 4: That's calmer following your enemy.
Speaker 1: They know I'm following them, and I can't unfollow them
Speaker 1: or they gonna know.
Speaker 4: You have to unfollow them.
Speaker 1: I can't follow.
Speaker 4: Follow them immediately right now, give me the phone.
Speaker 2: No, I'll do it. Give me. If you don't know,
Speaker 2: because they know that you followed them.
Speaker 4: Maybe they'll know do they follow you back? I know.
Speaker 3: That's even worse because now when you unfollow them, they're
Speaker 3: gonna be like, oh, she unfollowed me because I didn't.
Speaker 1: But the reason why I haven't unfollowed them is because
Speaker 1: one I hope that they don't listen to this show.
Speaker 1: They won't because they don't like me. But the reason
Speaker 1: why I don't want to unfollow them is because I want.
Speaker 4: Them to think I did it on purpose.
Speaker 2: I don't want them to know.
Speaker 1: I don't want them to have the satisfaction that they
Speaker 1: think it was an accident.
Speaker 4: I feel viscerally uncomfortable for you.
Speaker 2: Can I just say that?
Speaker 4: And that's what happens when you wave your phone around?
Speaker 2: Are you trying to blame me and somehow say that
Speaker 2: because you were telling me the story of the beef?
Speaker 2: This is my fault?
Speaker 4: Correct? Yes, I didn't.
Speaker 1: You asked me questions and you got me fired up,
Speaker 1: and I had to tell you the whole thing from
Speaker 1: start to finish. It was a long story and the
Speaker 1: whole time I was waving my phone around, And.
Speaker 4: It's entirely your fault.
Speaker 1: Which during this led me to think, how many of
Speaker 1: you out there have gotten yourself into trouble because you've
Speaker 1: accidentally followed someone you shouldn't, You've accidentally liked a photo
Speaker 1: that you shouldn't have liked, and then you just want
Speaker 1: to throw your phone into the ocean and run away
Speaker 1: and move to Spain, which is where you'll be able
Speaker 1: to find me.
Speaker 2: I think Amy's done just that. On thirteen one six five, Amy,
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 5: Well, I was stalking my year six teacher, who, as
Speaker 5: a twelve year old I inappropriately had a crush on
Speaker 5: along with half.
Speaker 4: Of the class, and I.
Speaker 5: Accidentally hit ad friends. Didn't realize until he popped up
Speaker 5: in my feed, And now we're just awkwardly friends. I'm
Speaker 5: thirty four, and he'd be.
Speaker 1: Like, it's been like thirty years.
Speaker 5: It's more awkward now to unfollow him with zero explanations.
Speaker 5: So now I see his stuff.
Speaker 1: I understand. I'm also committed to the follow now awkwardly forever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. So now I just get his family
Speaker 5: popping up and he's a lovely wife, the beautiful daughters,
Speaker 5: and I'm just the weird over a crush me where
Speaker 5: I was twelve years old.
Speaker 4: All right, all you weird as it? Wait, I'm following.
Speaker 2: Laurence called on thirteen one of sixty five, Lauren, what happened?
Speaker 2: Who did you follow accidentally?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Well it wasn't me. I actually went for a job
Speaker 6: interview and my boss, my future boss, he accidentally friended me.
Speaker 6: He must have been like stalking my page to see,
Speaker 6: like what was I up to and it was really
Speaker 6: awkward because I was like, you've added me as a
Speaker 6: friend and he's like, oh yeah, and yeah sorry, and
Speaker 6: I'm like, well what, like yeah, it was just awkward
Speaker 6: and I said I hope you liked all my bikini
Speaker 6: photos and like yeah, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, he went right red. Did you get the job?
Speaker 2: Where did you ask?
Speaker 6: I did? I did actually get the job. It was
Speaker 6: like when I went into work, I was just so awkward.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, well done and you got the job on your
Speaker 2: own merrit Nothing.
Speaker 6: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. See it pays off, Laura. Maybe just
Speaker 2: leave it. Let it sit with his mystery celeb.
Speaker 4: I'm going to leave it.
Speaker 3: I know the sad day faction they have though, knowing
Speaker 3: that you follow them and they don't follow you back,
Speaker 3: there is so much satisfaction.
Speaker 4: No, it's like it's like they think I'm desperate to
Speaker 4: be friends with them.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I'm so cringe. Let's get out of here,
Speaker 2: will And what are you up next? To drive your home?
Speaker 2: They've got Australia's Easy as Quiz within a thousand bucks cash.
Speaker 2: That'd be nice and we will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: See you guys. Bye,