WEBVTT - Rear in your view of 2022! 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.280 Life Uncut podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:09.120 Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.920 pay our respect to their elders past and present and 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.360 extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:16.120 peoples today. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.560 This episode is recorded on Gadigal Land of the Aurora Nation. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.000 Hi guys, and welcome back to a very freaking special 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.240 episode of Life Uncut. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:45.320 I'm Laura, I'm Brittany. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.839 We did say that last week was the last episode, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.480 but we told you we'd have some special little morsels 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.959 lined up for you, and well this is one of them. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.760 This is officially we're not putting out anything else. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.240 I know we always say we're not doing anything else 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.840 than something else kind, but maybe we will. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.720 No, we're not holiday. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.920 This is officially the last episode of twenty twenty two. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.400 We did want to end it on a bit of 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.040 a high and a little bit of a walk down 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.679 memory lane to some of our favorite moments, guests and. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:10.960 Episodes of twenty twenty two. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:12.480 Do you know what I had to listen to the 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.400 one of these that we did in twenty twenty one, 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.440 and we started off by saying twenty twenty one was 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:18.880 a dumpster fire of a year. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.760 Do you remember? That's because we were stuck in COVID. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.160 It was a dumpster fire. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.000 It was a bit of a fucking shit show. But 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.000 twenty twenty two was a mighty good year. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.680 It was such a wonderful year. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.720 And I look, we did live shot for a bit 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:31.959 of Lannina whatever it's. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.480 Called lan Nina La Nina. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.520 That thing stuck around for a bit too long, didn't it. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.679 You know, everything has its ups and downs. But when 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.000 I look back, I just think we just had such 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.320 a wonderful year together, you and I, with the audience, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.479 with you guys, the listeners, We did our live show. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.240 Who would have thought we'd still be sitting in your 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:47.440 bedroom recording this, and. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.520 You think we'd get a studio on office by now. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.600 So we think it's never changed in the bedroom. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:51.920 You know why. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.440 It's because we're creatures of comfort. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:54.800 Change is scary. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:56.560 Oh yeah, well, okay, this is how much we are 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.520 creatures of comfort. We have to every time we record, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.680 we sit at the same sides of the desk, we 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:01.680 sit in the dark. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.080 Everything's the same. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.120 But I'm gonna say it now because I'm gonna hold 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.519 ourselves accountable for it now. I think we're gonna get 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.480 maybe a studio next show or somewhere to record. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:13.600 Nah, this is good. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.640 I could be in my underwork and naturally my own space, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.160 which is your space. But you know what my highlight 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.160 of this year, there's been a lot. We're gonna hand 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.280 this episode over to produce Akisha soon and she's going 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.560 to walk you through what are some of our favorite episodes. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.000 But one of the things that I feel really really 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.600 freaking proud of, and something that so many of you 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.720 still tag us in of like daily, is we Love 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.560 Love the Book. I just honestly can't believe. I went 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.480 into came up the other day in the midst of 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:40.880 boxing day sales, and. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:41.320 There it was. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.880 I saw our little book right there on the bookshelf. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.520 Wasn't on sale, unfortunately, but it was there. And I 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.960 still can't believe that, after all the work and all 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.240 the energy that went into that, that. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.840 This little podcast has its own book out there. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:52.079 Yeah. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.240 So looking back for me, I mean, I love so 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.520 many episodes, but my two highlights, okay, I have three highlights. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.880 One was the live show amazing. It was just amazing. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.120 You guys were just incredible. The energy was incredible, Laura 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.920 and I love sharing that part with you too. The 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.720 book again exactly the same thing for the reasons we 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.680 just said, it's something that we feel really proud of 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.760 and we just love. And three, which isn't podcasts related, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.040 but it's you know, it's in that realm, but it's 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.600 your wedding to Mandy j Obviously my sister's wedding too, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.480 but seeing you and many j Ti than not. And 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.720 you know, you guys are the Life un Cut family too. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.000 Mad Aj is a part of this. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.160 Life on Cut. Well, I didn't realize we were doing 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.360 like life highlights. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.400 I'm like the book. Yeah, of course my wedding was 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.800 also a life highlight. I'll throw that one out there 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.320 as well. In terms of podcast episodes, I mean, this 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.960 year has been truly amazing in terms of who we've 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.480 gotten to speak to. And it's not just been the 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.720 celebrity esque interviews that we've done. For me, the ones 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.000 that stand out the most are the interviews of people 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.880 who are very ordinary people who have extraordinary stories. What 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.440 was your favorite interview of twenty twenty two. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.280 Well, it's funny you say that because one of the 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.440 ones I wanted to start with, and it's so hard 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.480 to pick any Every single interview we do, we walk 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.560 away and we're like, that was the best one I've 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:01.920 ever done. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:02.520 That was amazing. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.560 Like I mean, not all of them, well most of them, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.240 well for me, most of them blow me away for 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.520 different reasons. But the first one that jumped out at 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.120 me that I just was in awe of and hooked 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.880 on was Jess Buchanan, who was kidnapped in Somalia when 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.480 she was working there as a humanitarian worker. She was 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.080 kidnapped for three months, and her story and the way 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.160 she tells the story, her resolve, I really was on 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.000 the edge of my seat. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.640 Well, my favorite one is going back to February, and 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.039 it's one that has stuck with me. A conversation that 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.800 I love so much. Not did I just love the conversation, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.560 but I also loved that Eldi brought her baby into 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.400 the studio with us. Hey pull Eliti Pullen, and I 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.839 got to hold her little baby whilst we did the interview. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.800 Now it is from February. It's called Grief is Love 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.880 with Nowhere to Go uncut with Eliti Pullen, A lot 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.000 of you may know Eldi's story. She was the girlfriend 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.240 of Chumpy Chumpy Pullen who passed away, and Elidi has 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.640 an incredible story around her own motherhood journey, how they 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.680 went through sperm retrieval to get sperm from after he'd 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.599 passed away, and how she has brought her little baby 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.000 into the world without her partner by her side. She 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.240 speaks about being a widow, but she also speaks about 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.240 motherhood in a way that I don't think I've heard 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.600 anybody else speak about it, and it's a story that 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.480 truly just stuck with me so much. We are going 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.200 to hand this episode over to produce Akisha in a second, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.960 but we wanted to say the biggest thank you to 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.279 every single one of you who have joined us for 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.520 the last year, who are like well and truly on 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.760 the life Uncut ride. We have some incredible things planned 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.240 for you next year. There are more live shows, there 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.919 are some other very fun, little secret squirrel things that 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:34.679 are in the works. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.640 At the moment, we're really looking. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:36.839 Forward to it. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.479 We're really really looking forward to going away having a 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.040 little break and twenty twenty three is going to be 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.760 absolutely wild and I'm really looking. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.200 Forward to it. Well, that's it from us. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:44.880 Keisha is going to take you for a little walk 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.400 down memory lane. Also, Keich, thanks for being just such 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.720 a rockstar part of the Life Uncut team. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.000 Yeah, there is so much work that goes on behind 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.760 the scenes in Life Uncut that Keisha producer. Keisha is 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.480 so so deep in that. Sometimes she's up to her neck. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.279 Sometimes she's like, get me out, I don't want to 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.080 be here anymore, but here she is, and we love 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:02.560 her for it. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.960 And Maddie Jay, there's my sister Sherry. We have a 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.160 wonderful girl, Taylor that works for us as well. There 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.480 is a very small but it's a very mighty team 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.200 that works for Life un Cut and we're such a 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.640 cute little family. And Keisha, thank you for everything that 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:14.880 you have done in this past year. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.200 Thanks guys, I can't wait to go through last year. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.120 We called it the rear in your View because one 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.280 time when we were saying year in review. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:21.720 We couldn't get it out. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.160 I can't remember who fucked it up, but one of 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.560 us fucked it up and said rear in your. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.440 It was Britt. It was just the episode. Do you 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:27.760 know what? 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.359 Maybe that should be what we call every Rearing review. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:31.800 Yeah, it feels fitting. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.560 This is the twenty twenty three Rearing Review and that's 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:35.120 it from us. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.400 Guys. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.880 Hello, Hello, how are you going? If you had a 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.720 wonderful Christmas. I'm very excited for us to go through the. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.680 Rearing Review or year in review for. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.159 Twenty twenty two together. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.520 These are some of the best moments of the year, 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.760 or some of the standout moments you think, And I'm very. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.280 Grateful for all of you that wrote in with your 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:53.880 favorite moment. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.880 It made it a lot easier for me to package 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.719 these up, for me to decide, I think that was 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.880 like the hard point was actually deciding. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.320 Which ten we wanted to put into this. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.200 But this entire episode is just some of our favorite 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.120 moments over the course of the year, and I'm going 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:07.800 to be walking. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.320 You through them and kind of giving you a little. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:10.960 Bit of a behind the scenes to some of them, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.760 some stuff that happened like off Mike or maybe what 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:14.960 led to the interviews. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.240 And for each of. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.840 The episodes, if you like the little snippet that you hear, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.000 but maybe you missed the whole episode, I'm going to 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.160 put a link to that episode in our show notes, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.880 so you can find that there. Kicking it off for 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.200 this year is none other than Rebel Wilson. Now, I 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.960 think for some of us our career paths they take 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.400 a few different twists and turns, but maybe not as 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.520 big of a twist or a turn as Rebel Wilson's. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.560 One of my favorite moments from this chat was finding 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.720 out what disease not a typho. What disease led Rebel 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.360 Wilson to becoming an actress. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.120 And here's that chat. So I always thought I would 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.360 go into Laura politics. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.360 I got into like the best law school after I 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.520 got my HC results and was like yep, and then 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.920 I was selected. I was a youth ambassador for Australia, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.800 which was a program that Rodari was running at the time. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.800 They sent one boy and one girl to different countries 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.520 and I got sent to South Africa and had like 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.760 a life changing experience going to Southern Africa for a 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.280 year and not knowing anybody, and it was crazy. Then 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.680 I got the malaria there, which was really bad. You 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.480 got malaria, had a vision that I was an actress. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.760 Hang on, you were speeding through this story. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:21.920 I know, well, there's home. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.320 So you're in Africa yeah for a year. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:25.920 Yes, you get malaria. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.560 Yeah, it was terrible. I got a really bad strain, 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.320 so I was hospitalized. I caught it in rural Mozambique, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.760 but it takes about two weeks to develop in your system. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.840 And then I was very, very sick. Got hospitalized with 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.440 another girl that was on the trip as well, and then. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:41.199 It was bad. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.760 It was like this, it's hard to describe. It's not 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.560 like a cold or flu. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.000 It's like you out of your body kind of thing 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.920 and you're like hallucinating and everything. And then I was like, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.840 I had this vision that I won an Academy award, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.360 that I was an actress, and then I was really 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.520 good and I came out of hospital saying, guys, I'm gonna, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.719 I think, think I've got to leave Africa, like immediately 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.360 go back to Australia. I got an audition for the 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.080 Drama School. I'm gonna be like the next Dame Judy 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:13.319 Dench or something. So you're like rebeling, no, like you're 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.640 not an actress. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.000 Like beause I definitely didn't. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.880 I wasn't glamorous like I was, you know, an academic 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.000 girl like I wasn't glamois. I didn't look like Nicole 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.839 Kidman or Cate Blanchette or something. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.280 So your catalyst for getting into acting, your catalyst that 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.160 was the driving force for you to go cool, I'm 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.560 going to take this and pivot my career seriously. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:33.640 Was malaria? 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.400 Yeah wow, Because sometimes they say if you get really sick, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.160 if you have a life changing event like that, it 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.720 can really change the course of your life. And I 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.600 used to love Oprah well. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:44.920 I mean, obviously I still love Opra. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.800 I shouldn't. I used to all the time. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.720 And I used to watch her every day in Africa 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.080 because it was really hard. There was a lot going 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.520 on in South Africa at the time and post apartheid 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.319 and a lot of violence and everything, and there's a 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.040 lot going on, and so I would watch Oprah every day, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.880 love it. And she'd say, oh the UNI like sometimes 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.640 it gives you a whisper and sometimes it's like a 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.839 full blown rick wall falling on you with the message. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.840 And I was like, this is a message, like this 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.120 is like this is what I should do with my life. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.120 So even though I was still in law school, I 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.760 went back and I auditioned for drama. Like no one 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.800 would take me at the drama schools. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.240 Who'd you audition for nighter? 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.680 Yeah maybe that. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.400 Firstly, only just night because I thought, well, better the child, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.800 but yeah, just go to the best one. And because 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.079 my law school was across the road, I thought, oh 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:27.920 maybe I'll do both. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.160 I am such an overachiever. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.480 Then yeah, they didn't accept me, so I just did. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:32.720 I did law and arts. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:37.960 So I did theater and film subjects at my university UNSW. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.800 And I think we all know that things ended up 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:40.360 pretty well. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.160 Rebel in the acting world, she's gonen to do magnificent things. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.920 Up next in A Year in Review is Australia's funny man, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:49.839 someone that I think we are all very very proud 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.040 to call one of our own, and that is Hamish Blake. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.640 But really hit home for me with Hamish was his 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.920 perspective on hustle culture and what gave meaning to his life. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.680 I mean, arguably he's Australia's fun biggest person. He's Australia's 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.400 entertaining person. His podcasts always at number one in Australia. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.679 He host TV shows, It rate really well. He even 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.920 won the Gold Logi this year, and so I think 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.200 a lot of us were kind of like, oh, you 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.040 know what's next for you, Like what's the next thing 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:13.840 that you want to conquer? 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.800 And here's what he had to say about that. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.040 But even before when you were like, you know, why 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.839 would you go? You were you could earn lots of 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:20.480 money on radio? 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:21.840 Could I don't know? 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.360 My answer to that now is a forty year old 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.960 person with if I was like, I'm not gonna bely 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.920 going to do TV anymore, with people like but why not, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.880 like then you won't be famous or you won't make money. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.520 My answer that legitimately, I know this is a privileged 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.240 position to be in, having sort of like done it 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.600 for a long time. My answer that was like, yeah, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.480 that's great, I will let's I look forward to seeing 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.319 how that goes. Those aren't the reasons that. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:44.360 I do anything. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.840 Yeah, they are kind of like their flow on effects 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.000 of doing this thing that I enjoy doing for now 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.679 personally for me, So twenty twenty two, you know, like 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.960 my workload is actually not that intense. Like I got 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.319 podcasting with Ando, we. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.640 Got forty episodes of You pisodes a year. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.160 Grueling, then the Government Mandata break. If you're familiar with 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:03.600 the show. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.320 Twelve weeks I'm terrible. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.679 Then you know, kind of legs at the end of 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.800 the year. But my as I sort of said before, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.320 my goal is to be unbusy because the kids are little. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.120 And again, I know how lucky I am to be 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.880 in this position, but I'm like, if I'm going to 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.400 use what we've worked for for anything, I will use 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.520 it to buy time. And I love saying no. I 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.679 spend my whole time saying no to other shows or 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.040 ideas because I want to be at home. I want 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.480 to be doing more living. I want to be doing 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.360 more enjoying life stuff, especially post you know, after two 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.160 years lockdown again, total luxury. But that's my this is 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.640 how I want to spend the time I do. I'm 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:45.080 not interested in leveraging as hard as we can. I'm 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.000 just I'm not really interested in the next level. I'm 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.960 not trying to rapidly like ascend. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.000 Which I think is like such. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.199 I mean, that's it's such a great thing to hear 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.880 in terms of like you would think that someone who's 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.480 just come off the back of winning the goal. LOGI 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.920 is like, what can I like, what's next? What's the 0:12:58.920 --> 0:12:59.480 biggest piece? 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.800 How can I wriggle out of pretty much everything that gets. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.160 Asked of me being in that position and winning the 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.400 goal LOGI I think a lot of people's expectations would 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.240 be like, well, what's next, and having the agency and 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.760 the ability to be like it doesn't actually have to 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.200 be a next. Yeah, I guess is that in the 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:16.840 same way. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.000 I guess it comes into meaning and like I really 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:20.719 enjoy what I do and I love that it makes 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.200 people laugh and that people enjoy the shows, and I 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.000 do take that seriously. But to just do stuff to 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.040 be famous or to be on TV, it doesn't mean anything, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.880 Like it doesn't mean anything to me. I don't care 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.320 about it at all. But what does mean something is 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:40.319 like walking to school or with your kids by yourself, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:45.640 not as fine from down the roads back again, I 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.040 forgot the kids. But that's what means something to me, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:50.959 Like being able to go on family holidays, Like that 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.240 means something to me. Again, I know not everyone's in 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.880 that position, but for me, that's that is one hundred 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.720 percent of the filter I'm putting it through, Like does 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.640 this have meaning? Working TV is? And is it a 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.160 really enjoyable way to have a job, But it does 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.840 not mean everything to me at all, because just other things. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.080 Do now to take you behind the scenes a little 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.760 bit of this particular episode. We ran into him at 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.439 a coffee shop around the corner, and I'll never forget 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.680 We had such a nice chat about expectations and he 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.200 gave us some really good advice on. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.800 How to view things like expectations. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.840 Of the medial world and living up to what people 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.360 want from you, and that that was a really special 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.040 moment for me. Actually, we were then interrupted by someone 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.280 who ran past and asked him for a dollar, which 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:34.880 is a joke that you'll get if you are a 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.960 ham Shanani fan. Up next in our Year in Review 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.280 is a very special episode. This is actually the one 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.440 that Britt referred to in the intro as being one 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.840 of her standout moments from the year, and this had 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.400 me glued to the speaker, and of course talking about 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.080 Jessica Buchanan. Her story of resilience and pushing through trauma 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.560 is one that I think it's quite hard to actually 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.400 believe unless you hear it straight from her mouth. She 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.200 was kidnapped b Somali Lampards, where she spent ninety one 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.320 days fighting for her life in the desert. While the 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.680 kidnapp has tried to negotiate her ransom with the American government. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.440 Jess was eventually rescued by the same team that killed 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.480 Asama bin Laden. And here's just telling the story of 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.160 how they initially were taken. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.520 About fifteen minutes into the raid, somebody comes up along 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.040 the right side of us, another vehicle and cuts us 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.680 off so that we can't proceed, and splashes mud up 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.600 all over the windows in the windshield, and I'm just like, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.600 you know, I'm used to like crazy driving and stuff 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.000 in this part of the world, but I'm like, God, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.280 what a jerk drives like that? Come on, like, let's 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.160 get moving. And then I hear the butt, the crack 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.800 of the butt of an NK forty seven on the 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.360 car hood, and I start hearing all of this angry 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:49.200 screaming men screaming in Somali and some other language I 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.320 don't understand. And then my door is pulled open. Abdu 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.600 Rizak is dragged out. This van dressed in a police 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.600 uniform gets in and he has an n K forty seven. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.720 He puts it to my head and you start screaming 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.960 at the driver to drive, and we just take off 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.760 like you know, baths out of hell, you know. We're 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.520