Speaker 1: Laura, come on in.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, It's Thursday.
Speaker 3: I know everybody, guys, the time has finally come. I
Speaker 3: can stop talking about my daughter's graduation after this.
Speaker 4: Oh we've been graduating for four years.
Speaker 5: We've got a master's at this point.
Speaker 3: Marley May she's five years old. She starts school next year,
Speaker 3: and it's been as Marley start school everyone. In case
Speaker 3: you didn't hear on this show, she starts school. But
Speaker 3: she had her graduation last night. And you might remember
Speaker 3: if you were listening on Monday, I said it was
Speaker 3: that night, but I got my dates wrong, so I
Speaker 3: am very useless at calendars at the moment. It was
Speaker 3: so good moment at the moment. Yeah, look, there's a
Speaker 3: lot going on it.
Speaker 5: So did you turn up to the hall Monday?
Speaker 3: I went home from the show like I left radio.
Speaker 3: I drove home quickly because I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: you've got to get to this graduation. I walked in
Speaker 3: the door and Matt was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Graduation is you know Wednesday? Anyway, that's not the point.
Speaker 3: The point is it was very sad, was it? It's
Speaker 3: just a cry? Did you the whole thing? And she
Speaker 3: sung and she was beautiful. You know, I just can't
Speaker 3: believe that she's starting school next year.
Speaker 4: It's so a graduation present.
Speaker 3: No, but I was expecting like little hats in a
Speaker 3: robe and they didn't do that. So I was like,
Speaker 3: come on, guys, like surely you know, like where is
Speaker 3: the limit to this whole graduation thing when it's preschool?
Speaker 5: Is she a famous kid?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: Do they all know that her mum's on the radio
Speaker 5: and podcast?
Speaker 2: I don't know on a bus?
Speaker 3: She is on a bus. She knows she's on a bus.
Speaker 3: She was on an ad for Kan's council.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 3: Hockeys and sunscreen and if there's something you're gonna HOWK
Speaker 3: make it s it's some safety. It's very important.
Speaker 6: Hey, huge show coming up. We have a listener with
Speaker 6: a huge issue with baby names. But her and a
Speaker 6: sister want to call their kid the exact same name.
Speaker 2: M tricky one. Do it Alphaba? That's it happened, you know,
Speaker 2: a wicked I just thought it would be the craze current.
Speaker 2: All right, that's next. Welcome to you Thursday pick up.
Speaker 4: Ask our pat.
Speaker 6: Thanks for bringing that in me to ask gun cut,
Speaker 6: something that Laura and I do every single Thursday on
Speaker 6: our podcast Life Uncut, where you guys writing or you
Speaker 6: call up with your biggest, darkest conundrums, we do our
Speaker 6: best to answer them. And today we have Christy on
Speaker 6: the phone, who's got some issues with her sister and
Speaker 6: baby names.
Speaker 3: Hey Christy, Hi.
Speaker 1: Christy, Hi, Hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Good?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 1: So my sister and I were both pregnant and we're
Speaker 1: due within a month of each other. But we both
Speaker 1: have the same name that we want to name our daughters.
Speaker 1: So it's our mom's middle name that we want to
Speaker 1: give our daughter as her first name. And so I
Speaker 1: just want to know how we should decide who gets
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 3: Did someone have the idea first or was it just
Speaker 3: one of those situations where you were talking about baby
Speaker 3: names and you were like, oh my god, me too. Crap.
Speaker 1: Yes, we were sitting down, we were trying to decide
Speaker 1: our names, and we just were, you know, comparing names
Speaker 1: to make sure that we weren't going to give our
Speaker 1: daughters the same name. Yes, there was the name, the
Speaker 1: same name at the top of Olice.
Speaker 4: What is the name?
Speaker 1: It's Eloise, So it's name.
Speaker 4: Can you I've got a couple of opinions here right.
Speaker 6: My opinion is you cannot both call your child the
Speaker 6: same name.
Speaker 3: I disagree.
Speaker 6: Laura thinks you can. I don't think you can. I
Speaker 6: think it's too much. I think maybe you could use
Speaker 6: it as a middle name. You can both have it
Speaker 6: as the middle name. It's okay to share middle names
Speaker 6: with all different family members, and you both choose.
Speaker 4: Surely you have like a second favorite name on the list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, otherwise we're thinking Stephanie, So Stephanie Elouise or Eloise Stephanie.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I know, But what if you did variations of Eloise,
Speaker 6: like something that's close, like Ellie, Ella, Ellen, Like what
Speaker 6: if Louise? What if both of you had like an
Speaker 6: ode to the mum that wasn't just the exact name.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a couple of ways that you can
Speaker 3: work without. Firstly, whoever has the baby first gets right away.
Speaker 2: Nah.
Speaker 3: Secondly, rock paper scissors badly? Just who cares? I mean,
Speaker 3: I have two kids and my sister has two kids.
Speaker 3: I'm not as protective of that name, so I might
Speaker 3: not be the best person to ask. But I honestly,
Speaker 3: if I loved a name and it was a family name,
Speaker 3: Rubbie and both cousins had it, I just wouldn't care.
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 3: It would make Christmas? So it would make Christmas so easy.
Speaker 3: Imagine like all the cousins are in the backyard just
Speaker 3: being a little you know, naughty, and you're like, you're hello,
Speaker 3: ways and then they all come running.
Speaker 6: You know, Laura, if you called your daughter like you did,
Speaker 6: Marley May, and then your sister had a baby and
Speaker 6: called it Marley May, you were telling me that you
Speaker 6: would not have a problem.
Speaker 3: Can I do because a lot of people wouldn't know this. So, yes,
Speaker 3: my daughter's name is Marley May. But my niece, my
Speaker 3: sister's firstborn child, her name is Tasman May. Not the
Speaker 3: same thing. It's very similar though. I think Eloise is
Speaker 3: a great middle name and that would be a perfect solution.
Speaker 3: But if you guys can't agree, then you just have
Speaker 3: to agree to disagree and have the same name. Christy.
Speaker 6: What do you think would happen if it was first investress?
Speaker 6: So if you got there, first, gave birth, first called
Speaker 6: it Eloise, do you think that would cause a rift
Speaker 6: in between you and your sister?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Look, she's really dramatic, so I feel like if
Speaker 1: I did that, she would not be happy, and I
Speaker 1: feel like that would definitely cause some tensions. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think we definitely have to come to some sort
Speaker 1: of agreement beforehand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think from like from everyone getting along
Speaker 3: and it being like as amicable and peaceful as possible
Speaker 3: during what is going to be a very stressful time
Speaker 3: having a newborn baby. I think you have to have
Speaker 3: these conversations straight up and figure out a solution. And
Speaker 3: I just just go with the name. Call everyone Eloise.
Speaker 3: It's fine, beautiful name, so nice. They called it three times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got Eloise and she's beautiful. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: I only know nice Elouise.
Speaker 3: Thanks mish.
Speaker 4: Hey, it's the time of year that Uber ratings are out, guys,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: His favorite of you. No, we do this every year
Speaker 3: and I hate it.
Speaker 6: Or we're gonna talk about it next. You'll be surprised
Speaker 6: which state came out on top.
Speaker 2: Actually, all right after this on the pickup this week,
Speaker 2: Uber have dropped, are you guys across the Uber ratings?
Speaker 5: Uberankings they dropped them.
Speaker 3: Do they do this every year?
Speaker 2: They do it every year, but it's perpetually on your app.
Speaker 2: But it kind of every year because it's the end
Speaker 2: of the year. It's like you've had all the ubers
Speaker 2: that year. That is the most pad version of your rating.
Speaker 3: They do it state by state, don't they, So like
Speaker 3: every state gets like an overall uber rating. Is that
Speaker 3: how it works?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I understand everyone wants to do
Speaker 3: a rap. We've got Spotify rap, we've got Uber rap,
Speaker 3: We've got rap for everything. But I the Uber wrap,
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: Really Can I guess which state one?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's out of five obviously, if you've gotten in
Speaker 2: an uber you know it's out of five stars, so
Speaker 2: it is out of five your score. So yeah, have
Speaker 2: a guess what state had the highest average UBER rating
Speaker 2: in Australia. I reckon it.
Speaker 6: Would be I feel like Melbourneites would be like really good,
Speaker 6: So I'll go Victoria.
Speaker 3: I reckon it's going to be Western Australia. I reckon.
Speaker 3: Everyone's right, you.
Speaker 5: Both picked the bottom two.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Wa was four point seventy nine to the
Speaker 2: lowest in Australia.
Speaker 3: Oh those poor people.
Speaker 5: Victoria just up four point.
Speaker 4: Eight Interesting, So what in New South Wales?
Speaker 2: New South Wales number one four point eight four on average.
Speaker 2: But I don't really care about the results of the country.
Speaker 2: I also care about the results of the pickup. So
Speaker 2: what I'm wanting to do now?
Speaker 3: No, okay, I this is a stitch up because we
Speaker 3: do this every year, and I know my Uber rating
Speaker 3: is low. But I have a defense for this. It's
Speaker 3: because I used to live in a really inconvenient spot
Speaker 3: that was fIF so long, it was so difficult for
Speaker 3: them to drop you off.
Speaker 4: But Laura, that was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: It's based on your last five hundred rides. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 6: He's done fifteen years of riding since you lived in
Speaker 6: the inconvenient location.
Speaker 5: And I say, this is just you know what that
Speaker 5: is guilty?
Speaker 3: What a defense mechanism. I'm living in fear because the
Speaker 3: last time we did this, mine was particularly low.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should try driving them all right, grab your
Speaker 2: Uber I thought I thought I was gonna hit.
Speaker 4: I am worried about mine.
Speaker 2: Or if you'd like to play along in the car,
Speaker 2: or if you're a passenger, or if you're listening where
Speaker 2: if you're listening, grab your phone, go to the Uber app.
Speaker 2: Thank sure, the latest version of Uber is downloaded. Once
Speaker 2: the app is open. Tap account. It's in the bottom right. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: your star rating will be waiting for you in the
Speaker 2: top left corner.
Speaker 5: Let's start with Britney Hockley out of five stars.
Speaker 3: Not bad.
Speaker 4: Out of five stars, I've got a four point eight.
Speaker 5: That is good.
Speaker 2: That is good?
Speaker 3: Is that good?
Speaker 5: Well, that's where Victoria isn't there seventh?
Speaker 6: In there we see four point out of five sounds great.
Speaker 6: But then when you say it's like second bottom state.
Speaker 3: The national average? Can I say is four point eight two?
Speaker 5: All right? Mine is four point seven?
Speaker 6: I'm beating you. You're below average.
Speaker 2: Mine's bad, Laura Burn, friend.
Speaker 4: That fifteen years ago lived somewhere that was inconvenience.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I slam car doors.
Speaker 2: Okay, Lura, what's your uber rating out of five?
Speaker 3: It's four point six five. Oh, that's pretty bad.
Speaker 2: That is so bad you should be ashamed.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, producer, Grace, mine four point seventy four. But
Speaker 3: can I point out Alfie, who's helping us outside on
Speaker 3: the phone today, here's a perfect five. Alfie, you have
Speaker 3: always been a dream. I've always thought this about you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't talk in the uber because I don't want
Speaker 3: to talk to.
Speaker 2: Them at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I do talk. I thought that that's what
Speaker 3: they want problem.
Speaker 5: You're a child. Oh sorry, okay, I know.
Speaker 6: I think Laura's problem is you're always talking on the phone,
Speaker 6: so you're having like these other big animated conversations and
Speaker 6: your phone's broken so everything had to be on loud speaker.
Speaker 3: So I think you're in the back of the uber
Speaker 3: on loudspeaker.
Speaker 6: It's not that fifteen years ago you lived in an
Speaker 6: intermediate location.
Speaker 3: I do often have Yeah, it's really obnoxious, isn't it.
Speaker 3: But my phone is broken, so I can't help that.
Speaker 3: You can have headphones, It's true, I always lose one.
Speaker 2: Just to admit it, Laura, I'm arguing British the winner. Correct, No, Alfie. Sorry,
Speaker 2: our intern Alfie is ELFI is.
Speaker 4: Here for one day that Alfi, you are the Winnerie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Thanks, guys brought Alfie into.
Speaker 2: The show for one day. He'll never be heard of again.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Alfie, appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: Look, I might have upset some ubers, but I've also
Speaker 3: upset somebody else in my life. My daughter.
Speaker 6: She wants to break up with me. I think our
Speaker 6: relationship is over. I think that's called emancipation.
Speaker 3: A five year old emnspate themselves from their mother.
Speaker 5: At what point do you start looking inwards?
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift brother, all right, Laura, another issue she's caused,
Speaker 2: that's the ratio.
Speaker 3: I've hit a heartbreaking stage of my life as being
Speaker 3: a mum. Just a new journey that we're on now.
Speaker 3: My five year old daughter, she threatened to run away
Speaker 3: from home because I'm such a horrible parent.
Speaker 4: Oh that's all right, we all go through that. I've
Speaker 4: run away once.
Speaker 3: I think five is early, though, don't you.
Speaker 6: I've ran away and I lasted about twenty minutes, and
Speaker 6: then I moved into the garage and that was really
Speaker 6: cold and damps.
Speaker 2: I'm back out.
Speaker 4: How old were you at the time when I moved
Speaker 4: into the garage? Yeah, probably eight, since I was born.
Speaker 6: I shared a room with my sister, and you get
Speaker 6: to that point where you're like, I'm my own person,
Speaker 6: I deserve my own space. But there was no room
Speaker 6: in the house, so I was like, fine, I'll sleep
Speaker 6: in the garage Mum and dad knowing full wells full
Speaker 6: of like spiders and cold.
Speaker 2: So I came back.
Speaker 3: This is this is different. You didn't You weren't angry
Speaker 3: at your parents, so you didn't like run away from
Speaker 3: your parents. You just wanted more space.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: I ran away once and then I lasted like twenty
Speaker 6: minutes because I was like, what do I How do
Speaker 6: I survive in this world?
Speaker 5: I ran away? I remember it.
Speaker 2: I was like eight, but I didn't run.
Speaker 5: I had heelis on. You know those shoes that that's
Speaker 5: the wheels in them.
Speaker 3: So I was so mad.
Speaker 2: I actually went screw you, Mum and Dad and I
Speaker 2: skated down the streets.
Speaker 3: Did you say I'm wheeling away?
Speaker 5: I think I did.
Speaker 2: And I said at Niko Kiriakos's house for a couple
Speaker 2: of hours and.
Speaker 3: That was it. And do they come looking for you?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 4: I know you're going to wheel back like.
Speaker 5: That's the gay kid.
Speaker 2: He'll be terrified out in the streets.
Speaker 3: He's well, we were staying at my sister in law's
Speaker 3: house and they've got like a big farm down south right,
Speaker 3: and on that farm there's an adjoining shed which has
Speaker 3: got bunk beds and stuff in it. So all the
Speaker 3: cousins were sleeping in the shed for the night, but
Speaker 3: there was no adults in the shed. And I said
Speaker 3: to Marley, it was like, sweetheart, you're too You are
Speaker 3: just too little. You have to stay in here. She
Speaker 3: gets scared, and I was worried that she'd have a
Speaker 3: nightmare or whatever. So I was like, sorry, honey, I've
Speaker 3: made a rule. You're gonna stay in the room with us.
Speaker 2: Oh so many, Fine, I think that's pretty rough.
Speaker 4: All the cousins are out there.
Speaker 3: But the cousins are older. How old are like eight, nine, ten?
Speaker 3: She's five, she's too little. The five year on the
Speaker 3: three year old had to stay. Maybe I am a
Speaker 3: helicopter mom, and this is the problem.
Speaker 4: You know what happened?
Speaker 3: So he said no, okay, So she So it went
Speaker 3: on for a long time, like she negotiated every which
Speaker 3: way that she possibly could, Like she tried bribery, she
Speaker 3: tried insults, she screamed, she had a tantrum. And then
Speaker 3: she was like, well, you know what, mum, when you
Speaker 3: go to sleep, I'm going to run away. I was
Speaker 3: a airy threat, right, okay, Well that's happening. And to
Speaker 3: be fair, it was like eight o'clock at night, so
Speaker 3: when she should have been asleep, we're all out there
Speaker 3: eating dinner. And she tried to run away, but I
Speaker 3: caught her in the act. So she was she had
Speaker 3: her pillow, she had her blanket. She'd open the door
Speaker 3: and she was sneaking out to the shed. She was
Speaker 3: running away to the shed. She wasn't running away for good.
Speaker 3: And so I got her and I put her back
Speaker 3: in her room and she was like, fine, I'm breaking
Speaker 3: up with you. We're not together anymore.
Speaker 2: You were like, I hate to break Yeah.
Speaker 3: He depended on me for your survival. No, made me
Speaker 3: realize that she thinks her in a relationship because she's
Speaker 3: been watching and listening to too much Taylor Swift. She
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I'm in a relationship with my mum.
Speaker 3: She's broken up with me. We're no longer dating.
Speaker 4: It's emancipation.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the same.
Speaker 5: I think she's confused with the concept.
Speaker 2: I think she thinks you guys are in a potonic relationship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because there's more to this, right, Like, so when
Speaker 3: I got married to Matt, like her dad, Marley was
Speaker 3: three at the time, and she was like a really
Speaker 3: big part of the wedding, and she's always said it
Speaker 3: was our wedding. But now I realize that she actually
Speaker 3: thinks it was our wedding. She thinks the three of
Speaker 3: us are in a relationship together. So divorcing. The Thropple
Speaker 3: is turning into a couple. Yeah, my five year old's
Speaker 3: leaving our I mean.
Speaker 5: This is just I wasn't aroundhen the Bachelor was happening
Speaker 5: because Dad and I he.
Speaker 2: Would have picked me.
Speaker 3: He probably would chance.
Speaker 5: How does Lola do your other one in all this situation?
Speaker 3: Nah, she she loves me, heaps, She doesn't care. She
Speaker 3: just wants to be anywhere I am, Like if I'm there,
Speaker 3: she just wants to be in bed, like she would
Speaker 3: climb back into the room.
Speaker 4: If she could imagine the day she tries to break
Speaker 4: up with you, it'll happen. I hate to break it in.
Speaker 3: I know when she's thirteen. I know it's going to come.
Speaker 3: There is always that day when like a little girl
Speaker 3: turns around to their mum AND's.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't love you.
Speaker 3: I remember doing it to my mother when I was
Speaker 3: like fifteen years old.
Speaker 6: I like, in your family, Lola is going to be
Speaker 6: the difficult teenager. I reckon Miley will be okay, and
Speaker 6: I think Lala's going to be like pushing boundaries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but isn't that always the case? Like firstborn child
Speaker 3: is like quite obedient. They like usually want to you
Speaker 3: know not my family.
Speaker 5: Reason my family isn't that.
Speaker 3: I think like firstborn is like the good kid, and
Speaker 3: then second born is the rebel. I think there's no rule.
Speaker 3: It is what it is.
Speaker 4: But out of your kids' personalities, Lola is going to
Speaker 4: be ter rebel.
Speaker 3: Oh well, we're after a great start out with anyway.
Speaker 3: I've broken up with my daughter, so that I hope
Speaker 3: you get back together.
Speaker 4: I'm praying, pray.
Speaker 5: I think it's crossed. It works out in the end.
Speaker 5: Maybe couple cancel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, help, let's get out of here. We're back tomorrow
Speaker 2: to end the week. If you missed any of it,
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Speaker 2: pick up everybody tomorrow tomorrow. Bye guy,