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: Kate Torber and coming up on today's show. More red
Speaker 1: flags for Tammy Hembro ahead of her wedding next month,
Speaker 1: Sarah's Day Is Dramatic final days of pregnancy and Steph
Speaker 1: glare Smith's anti climactic life update. But first, A bizarre
Speaker 1: rant about sausages and saunas has sparked breakup rumors between
Speaker 1: Sky Wheatley and her baby daddy, Locky war Yeah. So
Speaker 1: Lockie has been missing from Sky's social media for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks now, and it's quite odd because initially
Speaker 1: Lockie never wanted to be included on Sky's channel. He
Speaker 1: made it pretty clear he didn't want to get involved.
Speaker 1: But since she won I'm a Celeb, he has started
Speaker 1: being featured more and more. And at the time a
Speaker 1: lot of people said possibly it was because his business
Speaker 1: wasn't doing so well, so maybe he realized that he
Speaker 1: might have to go on and start a social media
Speaker 1: career of his own or be more supportive of Sky's career.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, there were media reports that
Speaker 1: his business shop fit Co, had gone into administration just
Speaker 1: last week. He hit back at those claims, saying that
Speaker 1: his business was still solvent. I have always loved seeing
Speaker 1: Lockie on Sky's channel. He is hilarious, even without trying
Speaker 1: to be. I have a soft spot for him as well,
Speaker 1: because I don't think he intentionally tries to be funny. No.
Speaker 1: I think he's just I don't want to say, an
Speaker 1: odd ball, but I think he's just a bit weird.
Speaker 1: And he and Sky just play off each other really
Speaker 1: well because he'll give it to her. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people have noticed that he's actually a bit of
Speaker 1: eye candy as well. He was never really my type,
Speaker 1: but he seems to have matured a bit. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's just been hitting the gym or not.
Speaker 1: I think it's when guys reach thirty and they start
Speaker 1: to look like real men. Yeah, maybe that has something
Speaker 1: to do with it. So I had a big laugh
Speaker 1: on Sunday because I don't follow him on social media,
Speaker 1: but one of the comments on Sky's photos said to
Speaker 1: go check it out because he was being a little
Speaker 1: bit unhinged. And his usurname is sweet Tooth, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's actually not his real name. Yeah, so when I
Speaker 1: clicked over, I was surprised his page actually has fifty
Speaker 1: one thousand followers. I'm guessing all of Sky's followers have
Speaker 1: gone over. I haven't seen someone be so real on
Speaker 1: social media for such a long time. Let's throw to
Speaker 1: some of what he said.
Speaker 3: It just a bit of fucking turpeto, you fucking buy,
Speaker 3: and you know what happens when you have a bit
Speaker 3: of Chariza. It was a bit falking. So you're gonna
Speaker 3: be back back and that that Genta baby, you fucking beer,
Speaker 3: and you know what they say when you've had too
Speaker 3: much Chriso, then too many Gent's, You're just gotta take
Speaker 3: yourself downtown.
Speaker 4: You're gotta have a really serious thing about what you've done.
Speaker 5: And you've got a sweet of their baby. And then
Speaker 5: you might find yourself sitting down pondering wondering why did
Speaker 5: I just eat three or four lengths of sausage? He
Speaker 5: might be thinking do.
Speaker 4: I really need to eat three pieces of sausage?
Speaker 5: And then I lay here, sit and wonder, and I think, well,
Speaker 5: you probably didn't need to eat three pieces of sausage.
Speaker 5: Maybe one sausage would have done, Maybe.
Speaker 4: Two bit three three pieces of sausage.
Speaker 5: That's one sausage too much.
Speaker 4: I don't know about you, guys, but I thought, I
Speaker 4: hope you guys enjoy that, because I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: I'm fucking sick to death of just seeing fucking fake shit.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's gone on in the fucking world anymore.
Speaker 4: But everyone's so just fucking serious, and everyone's just doing
Speaker 4: fitness and shit. I mean, that's all good, be fit,
Speaker 4: but like, don't live alive, just like do shit? Who cares?
Speaker 4: Stop being so fucking serious.
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with him. I want to see
Speaker 1: more content like that on social media. I want to
Speaker 1: see people being unhinged saying it how it is. There
Speaker 1: was a part of me that was thinking, is he
Speaker 1: taking aim at Sky? But let's be honest, Sky is
Speaker 1: exactly like that on social media. She does post fitness stuff,
Speaker 1: but she also never filters herself. I really enjoyed the
Speaker 1: content too. However, there was a bit of a mixed
Speaker 1: reception in our Facebook community. So one of our listeners
Speaker 1: said his stories are giving midlife crisis ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: Another said guys who jump on social media and yap
Speaker 1: are generally super embarrassing. To be honest, whilst another said
Speaker 1: I'm finding it odd because he hated being on social media. Well,
Speaker 1: the reason people think that Locke has broken up with
Speaker 1: Sky or that they're on a break is the fact
Speaker 1: that all of that footage was actually filmed at people
Speaker 1: are speculating his mum's house. It was a very nice house.
Speaker 1: It had a beautiful pool, it was very Hampton Styler
Speaker 1: even had a sauna, as you could hear. I remember
Speaker 1: seeing Locke's parents appear in a very early vlog when
Speaker 1: Sky and Locke started dating, and I think that they
Speaker 1: were meeting for a Christmas celebration, and his parents very
Speaker 1: how to do, and they looked rather taken back by
Speaker 1: some of the things that Sky was saying. So I
Speaker 1: think that they are very wealthy. Some people think that
Speaker 1: he must just be house sitting for his mum, who
Speaker 1: appears to be holidaying at the moment. I wonder if
Speaker 1: he went rogue on social media because he's a bit lonely.
Speaker 1: He's probably used to being in this very chaotic and
Speaker 1: loud house with Sky and their kids, and maybe he
Speaker 1: just felt like getting some of that energy out online.
Speaker 1: I just think he went rogue because he was enjoying himself.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a father of two and you
Speaker 1: used to being in a family environment and you've got
Speaker 1: this beautiful house by yourself. He ate three or four
Speaker 1: tritzo sausages and when in a sauna, I mean, what
Speaker 1: a perfect evening for some people. Yeah, it's just interesting
Speaker 1: that he would choose to share it, particularly when he
Speaker 1: has been so against appearing in Sky's social media content.
Speaker 1: I'm officially five days away from my dune date.
Speaker 2: I'm thirty nine weeks and two days.
Speaker 4: Ugh, you'll just have to believe me. I currently give
Speaker 4: you a.
Speaker 2: Bob up date.
Speaker 1: Sarah's Day is definitely making the most out of her
Speaker 1: third and final pregnancy. The controversial influencer has been keeping
Speaker 1: her one point two million followers regularly updated on her
Speaker 1: final weeks of pregnancy, from sharing induction methods to a
Speaker 1: daily tally of her gestation period. For the record, she's
Speaker 1: officially forty weeks today. I keep checking in on her
Speaker 1: Instagram account to see if the baby's finally here, and
Speaker 1: I just can't believe that it still hasn't arrived, because
Speaker 1: two weeks ago she did this big update saying, oh
Speaker 1: my god, everyone, I've lost my mucus plug baby must
Speaker 1: be on its way. But then she plugged her pilates
Speaker 1: or pregnancy workout guide as part of that update. Of
Speaker 1: course she did, because that has been a theme throughout it.
Speaker 1: You can tell that she really is trying to monetize
Speaker 1: this pregnancy, because pregnancy has been such a big part
Speaker 1: of her brand for the last five years. I mean,
Speaker 1: you almost get this sense of desperation of ensuring that
Speaker 1: she milks this final pregnancy. Well, I think she realizes
Speaker 1: that now that she's going to have three very young children,
Speaker 1: there's no way that she's going to be able to
Speaker 1: push out the volume of content that she used to.
Speaker 1: I mean, in the past couple of years, we've seen
Speaker 1: a huge decline in the amount of videos that she's
Speaker 1: put out and also the amount of views that she
Speaker 1: receives on videos and the hype around her. Well, her
Speaker 1: pregnancies have always created a lot of hype and also
Speaker 1: acted as distraction from some of the biggest scandals that
Speaker 1: she's been involved in. For instance, her first pregnancy with
Speaker 1: Fox was the perfect distraction away from that Sin three drama,
Speaker 1: and his birth ended up being the most watched moment
Speaker 1: on her YouTube channel to date, and she is definitely
Speaker 1: trying to build suspense with her content around baby number three.
Speaker 1: So at thirty eight weeks pregnant, Sarah revealed the methods
Speaker 1: that she was trying to induce labor. So one of
Speaker 1: those was a pregnancy leg massage, so she shared that
Speaker 1: the massage had brought on labor not only for her
Speaker 1: but also her friends within twenty four hours of having it,
Speaker 1: and the following day she was mia from her Instagram account,
Speaker 1: which caused a lot of speculation that she had gone
Speaker 1: into labor. She then returned on the Monday and told
Speaker 1: her followers that she doesn't post much on the weekend.
Speaker 1: That was despite sharing about the massage on Saturday. Well,
Speaker 1: she's a business woman. It's a great way to draw
Speaker 1: up engagement and get people coming in to check back
Speaker 1: in on your page, which I was doing now. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons that Sarah seems so keen to induce
Speaker 1: labor is because of the looming date of Halloween. So
Speaker 1: she revealed that she does not want her baby born
Speaker 1: on Halloween because of religious reasons. So a follower wrote
Speaker 1: on her page, I wonder if you're going to have
Speaker 1: a Halloween baby, to which she replied, I will put
Speaker 1: my pelvic floor to the ultimate test and keep him
Speaker 1: inside of me if my body tries to go into
Speaker 1: labor on Halloween, my worst day of the year, No thanks.
Speaker 1: A follower asked Sarah why, and she responded saying, I
Speaker 1: just think it's super demonic and totally goes against my faith.
Speaker 1: But if baby decides to come on Halloween, then I'll
Speaker 1: actually celebrate that date for a different reason, including a
Speaker 1: birthday cake emoji, as well as clapping hands and balloons.
Speaker 1: At first, I thought it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a joke the reference to Halloween, but then I realized
Speaker 1: there were some religious reasonings behind not wanting to give
Speaker 1: birth on that date. It's actually funny to hear and
Speaker 1: influencer talk badly about Halloween, because normally they're using it
Speaker 1: for content and posting costume. My deears this didn't particularly
Speaker 1: surprise me because Halloween is one of those holidays which
Speaker 1: isn't embraced by a lot of religions, particularly the Christian faith,
Speaker 1: and she does speak a lot about her religious views,
Speaker 1: so she's entitled to not want her baby born on Halloween.
Speaker 1: My husband's birthday is actually a day before Halloween, and
Speaker 1: he has grown up hating Halloween. I think it's because
Speaker 1: as a child, the day after your birthday is always
Speaker 1: so disappointing, and I think he felt like Halloween took
Speaker 1: the shine off the fact that it was his day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, moving on to the drama surrounding this last week
Speaker 1: of pregnancy. On Monday last week, while doing a tutorial
Speaker 1: on how to express colostrum, Sarah flagged that she was
Speaker 1: starting to feel unwell. So during Sarah's last labor with
Speaker 1: her son Malachi, she actually had rhinovirus and she was
Speaker 1: very unwell, and she said the fact that she was
Speaker 1: getting a scratchy throat actually was truggering her because she
Speaker 1: has opened up about having birth trauma surrounding both of
Speaker 1: the births of her sons. Oh I felt so sorry
Speaker 1: for her. She looked incredibly unwell and it seemed like
Speaker 1: she was trying anything to get better. She then asked
Speaker 1: her followers for some home remedies to help fight off
Speaker 1: her sickness, but unfortunately, the following day, she refilled that
Speaker 1: despite all of the attempts, she was struck down with
Speaker 1: the flu. She wrote on Instagram, went to bed with
Speaker 1: onions on my feet, onions next to the bed ate
Speaker 1: raw garlic, took all the vitamins and have still woken
Speaker 1: up incredibly sick. I do feel very sorry for her
Speaker 1: that she was feeling sick and that this triggered her.
Speaker 1: But I did have a laugh because it was like,
Speaker 1: can you believe it, I've done all of these things,
Speaker 1: and it's like, why didn't you go to the doctor?
Speaker 1: Like why would you be trying all these home remedies.
Speaker 1: I also saw she went to this very expensive health
Speaker 1: food store and said, I will buy everything you tell
Speaker 1: me to, And of course she came home with a
Speaker 1: huge supply of things because they probably saw dollar signs,
Speaker 1: and she had these three large smoothies that she literally
Speaker 1: sculled on her Instagram story. I would hate to think
Speaker 1: how much they cost. No wonder she ended up vomiting.
Speaker 1: She did say it could have had something to do
Speaker 1: with the raw garlic that she also ate. I think
Speaker 1: when you're that heavily pregnant and you've had such a
Speaker 1: bad experience with your other labors, that you're going to
Speaker 1: try and do anything to feel like you've got control
Speaker 1: over the situation. Well, she even asked her followers to
Speaker 1: pray for her so she put out what she called
Speaker 1: a prayer request, asking for quote health and healing over
Speaker 1: my body and that baby stays in me until I
Speaker 1: can fight this off. Please Lord, just protect this baby
Speaker 1: and keep him cooking so I don't give him this
Speaker 1: sickness or have to go through labor like this again. Now,
Speaker 1: despite saying that she didn't want to give birth, she
Speaker 1: then ended up having a bath with clary sage oil,
Speaker 1: which actually can stimulate the uterus to contract, and people
Speaker 1: normally use it to induce labor. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if she just wasn't thinking in that moment, but she
Speaker 1: has been trying so many remedies to bring forth this labor.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: After taking two days off to recover from her cold,
Speaker 1: Sarah returned online, and this time it was to share
Speaker 1: what she called her favorite optical illusion. She filmed herself
Speaker 1: front on in the mirror before turning to the side
Speaker 1: to show off her baby bump. She captured the reel
Speaker 1: forever my favorite Optical Illusion and went on to share
Speaker 1: that she was thirty nine plus two days pregnant now.
Speaker 1: Since the time of recording, this reel has a massed
Speaker 1: one point three million views and has sparked a lot
Speaker 1: of debate. Yeah, so the majority of the commentary was
Speaker 1: positive towards Sarah. Many followers were praising her for her
Speaker 1: amazing physeike. One person wrote, everyone must be so envious
Speaker 1: that you have a waste, even when so pregnant. Another
Speaker 1: person added, your body is going to bounce right back.
Speaker 1: You look absolutely incredible. One person actually passed her bump
Speaker 1: size off as being to do with the gender of
Speaker 1: the baby, so they wrote, that's a boy bump for you.
Speaker 1: Sarah seemed to take offense to that comment, responding, I'd
Speaker 1: say it's more a combo of being raging healthy, working
Speaker 1: out for the entirety of my pregnancy following a Core
Speaker 1: Strength program, body and bump and some genetics sprinkled in,
Speaker 1: rather than the gender of my baby. I love how
Speaker 1: she uses this moment to plug her fitness program. It's
Speaker 1: clear that a lot of people actually felt inadequate after
Speaker 1: seeing this real One person wrote, this makes me depressed.
Speaker 1: Happy for you, but I'm struggling not to hate myself.
Speaker 1: This is my issue, not yours. I totally understand where
Speaker 1: that person is coming from, because when I was pregnant,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel ultra comfortable showing off my bump. There's
Speaker 1: some people that get these. I want to use inverted
Speaker 1: commas around it, designer bumps that you see them everywhere
Speaker 1: on influencers, on models. It's just a little bump and
Speaker 1: you can't tell the rest of them is pregnant. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily mean that you're fitter or healthier than someone.
Speaker 1: That's just how your body holds on to weight and
Speaker 1: a growing baby. Also, a lot of women have a
Speaker 1: lot of fluid in their face, which makes them feel
Speaker 1: not like themselves. I've seen on TikTok a lot of
Speaker 1: women saying also that they get pregnancy nose and a
Speaker 1: lot of their features just look different and they don't
Speaker 1: feel like themselves. So I think that that is why
Speaker 1: it's particularly jarring to see someone saying, oh, look, this
Speaker 1: is an optical illusion. Everything else about me looks exactly
Speaker 1: the same except my little bump.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I held a lot of fluid in my
Speaker 1: face towards the end, and I only realized now that
Speaker 1: I'm not pregnant. Looking back at your wedding photos, I
Speaker 1: was like, my face looks completely different. But that's just
Speaker 1: what happens when you get pregnant. You are creating life
Speaker 1: inside of your body. You are allowed to look different.
Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous. And if you don't look different, that's
Speaker 1: also fine. But it does make me feel a little
Speaker 1: bit uncomfortable. The fact that Sarah is using these opportunities
Speaker 1: to constantly plug her fitness program. Is not a cheap guide.
Speaker 1: It cost one hundred and twenty dollars and it seems
Speaker 1: like at every opportunity she is making sure people know
Speaker 1: I look like this pregnant because of this fitness guide.
Speaker 1: And it really is playing on people's vulnerabilities because I
Speaker 1: don't think that there's a more vulnerable time in a
Speaker 1: lot of women's life than when they're pregnant, because so
Speaker 1: much is happening to them hormonally, they don't look like
Speaker 1: they once did, and they'll probably try anything to get
Speaker 1: an ounce of that.
Speaker 4: Bat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it does concern me for what Sarah is
Speaker 1: going to be like postpardon, because last pregnancy she was
Speaker 1: accused of pushing bounce back culture. Now that she actually
Speaker 1: has her guide out there, I think she gets only
Speaker 1: going to be worse. Yeah. I really hope that we
Speaker 1: don't see body checks. That is my least favorite thing
Speaker 1: to see online. It is never helpful for anyone. I
Speaker 1: don't know why people put it out there unless it's
Speaker 1: a flex for them. Well, it is only a matter
Speaker 1: of days before she has this baby, if not today,
Speaker 1: do you think she's going to update her followers. My
Speaker 1: feeling is that she'll do a bit of a cryptic
Speaker 1: update like she did when she was in labor with Malachi.
Speaker 1: So from memory, she took a photo in the car.
Speaker 1: I think it was very late at the time and
Speaker 1: they were heading into the hospital, and she did a
Speaker 1: couple of emojis referencing clues to Malachi's name. I think
Speaker 1: we'll get something similar to that. We might get a
Speaker 1: few photos of her in labor, but she will keep
Speaker 1: a lot of it for her YouTube channel, I think.
Speaker 1: And also TikTok I love you say it's cryptic, like
Speaker 1: she was literally on the way to the hospital. It's
Speaker 1: not too cryptic. Well, it was cryptic in the sense
Speaker 1: of she was still trying to tease about his name. Ah,
Speaker 1: I see. I think differently. I think that because this
Speaker 1: is her last pregnancy and she's really trying to crack TikTok,
Speaker 1: I think that she's going to host live updates a
Speaker 1: little bit. How Indy Clinton did so. Indy Clinton was
Speaker 1: popping tiktoks up as she was at the hospital and
Speaker 1: in labor. I think Sarah is going to want to
Speaker 1: copy that.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I just fucking hope that this process helps me.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Steph Claire Smith revealed she would be
Speaker 1: sharing a life update on her latest podcast episode, which
Speaker 1: would air on Monday. Now. She broke the news first
Speaker 1: to her broadcast channel before sharing this statement on her
Speaker 1: Instagram story on Sunday. She wrote, So tomorrow on the Kickpod,
Speaker 1: I'll be sharing something relatively fresh but really important to me.
Speaker 1: It's something I've been working through for quite some time now,
Speaker 1: and in ways the journey's only just begun. I'd really
Speaker 1: appreciate you listening with kindness as it's something i'd be
Speaker 1: nervous to share. Or my love kiss kiss Kiss. As
Speaker 1: soon as I saw this, I was like, what is
Speaker 1: going on? This must be a huge life update and
Speaker 1: it did lead to a lot of speculation and theories online.
Speaker 1: The most popular theory was that Steph and her husband
Speaker 1: Josh were breaking up. Now I knew this wasn't true
Speaker 1: because Steph has been posting with him as normal. They're
Speaker 1: actually away on a weekend together. I actually thought there
Speaker 1: could have been some validity to those theories, particularly because
Speaker 1: Josh was holidaying with his friends in Europe without Steph
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago, and the only times
Speaker 1: I saw Josh pop up on Steph's Instagram story well
Speaker 1: when they were out and about with Harvey, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: perhaps they're just being amicable and showing that they're joint parenting.
Speaker 1: I love that their parents and so they're going to
Speaker 1: be with their child all the time. But you thought that, what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but their parents. Of course they're going to be out
Speaker 1: with their child all the time. Yeah, but it's not
Speaker 1: like we were seeing content of them at home together
Speaker 1: or them going out on dates or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I know it's difficult when you have a child, but
Speaker 1: I thought that there could be some truth to it,
Speaker 1: particularly in the way that she led in that she
Speaker 1: was very nervous about it and it's something that she's
Speaker 1: been working through. The Other theory was that she could
Speaker 1: be opening up about fertility issues or even a health scare.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: This came off the back of Steph sharing a post
Speaker 1: of her in the car saying that there was a
Speaker 1: lot going on in her life, and you never know
Speaker 1: what's going on behind the scenes. She looked quite sad
Speaker 1: in the photo, and this has been worrying a lot
Speaker 1: of her followers.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In the post, she said, there's a lot happening behind
Speaker 1: the scenes at the moment, things bringing a multitude of
Speaker 1: emotions on. But I'm okay, so grateful for my beautiful
Speaker 1: friends and family. Teared up today thinking about it. You
Speaker 1: never know what someone's got going on. Just remember that,
Speaker 1: and if you have got something at the moment, lean
Speaker 1: on your loved ones, give them the opportunity to be
Speaker 1: there for you, because I know a lot of us
Speaker 1: feel like we need to figure it out on our own,
Speaker 1: but you don't. Lots of love, hope your weekend is
Speaker 1: filled with joy. To me, I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: there is something drastic going on in her life, and
Speaker 1: I felt a lot of sympathy for her.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, someone actually hit the nail on the head. In
Speaker 1: our Facebook group, they said, watch it will be something
Speaker 1: totally underwhelming again. Now, this is in reference to Kicks
Speaker 1: promo about their concierge service. Yeah, and that's the issue
Speaker 1: when you really do breadcrumb information like this and hype
Speaker 1: it up in order for people to consume something, so
Speaker 1: in this case clear that Steph and Laura wanted their
Speaker 1: audience to all tune into this episode. And in the episode,
Speaker 1: Steph revealed that she has ADHD. Let's throw it to
Speaker 1: some of what she said, I have a bit of
Speaker 1: a life update for everyone.
Speaker 2: For me, I've spent the whole last decade of my
Speaker 2: life publicly online, and I've always been really open about
Speaker 2: what's going on in my life, and I just feel
Speaker 2: like with this, it's been something that's been taking up
Speaker 2: a lot of my mental capacity. Just the other week,
Speaker 2: I was diagnosed with ADHD. It was probably about over
Speaker 2: a year ago now where I started to get curious
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Now. In terms of making this announcement, Steph said it
Speaker 1: felt inauthentic not to share the news as she's been
Speaker 1: sharing her life online for ten years now, and then
Speaker 1: she went on to speak about why she got assessed
Speaker 1: and also how she went about it, as well as
Speaker 1: how she felt during the process. Now, Steph said that
Speaker 1: she expected to cop criticism and also unwavering support, and
Speaker 1: she said that she actually shared the news to help others.
Speaker 1: I am all for Steph telling her story about her diagnosis,
Speaker 1: and I agree it probably will help others who maybe
Speaker 1: feel alone, and it is a serious thing. What I
Speaker 1: take issue with, though, is breadcrumbing this information and trying
Speaker 1: to hype it up and click bait it. That's what
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable with. Yeah, I think it's very
Speaker 1: commendable for Steph to open up about her diagnosis, but
Speaker 1: I also think it would have been a lot more
Speaker 1: powerful if she didn't tease it for clickbait, especially when
Speaker 1: there have been so many high profile women talking openly
Speaker 1: about having ADHD. Yeah, it's been something we've seen spoken about,
Speaker 1: particularly about women's experiences over the past two years, even
Speaker 1: to the point where there's been a lot of jokes
Speaker 1: and ridicule on TikTok that everyone thinks that they have
Speaker 1: ADHD because it seems to be popular at the moment.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's where Steph's hesitation and worry came from.
Speaker 1: She didn't want people to feel like she was jumping
Speaker 1: on some sort of trend, which I hate to call
Speaker 1: it a trend because it's not well. She did talk
Speaker 1: about that on her stories afterwards, so she said she
Speaker 1: had a bit of an oversharing hangover, but it really
Speaker 1: seemed to rile her up because she did cop negative.
Speaker 1: So one person wrote, oh spare me, everyone has ADHD
Speaker 1: these days. It's a scale chase the diagnosis and you'll
Speaker 1: find it now. That comment had sixty four likes. Someone
Speaker 1: else wrote, does actually every member of the population have it,
Speaker 1: as I've never heard of anyone not diagnosed with it
Speaker 1: when being tested. Ever since the kickpod took a new direction,
Speaker 1: Steph and Laura have opened themselves up to a lot
Speaker 1: more criticism because a lot of the material and information
Speaker 1: they share about their lives now is very click baity.
Speaker 1: Every time I see a real promoting their podcast, they
Speaker 1: are talking about very personal details, either about their sex
Speaker 1: life or controversial arguments with their partners. Yeah. Well, when
Speaker 1: I tuned into this episode, the first thing Laura shared
Speaker 1: with everyone was that she had thrush, and then she
Speaker 1: went into this very personal conversation that she and her
Speaker 1: husband Dalton had about how he had asked if they
Speaker 1: could have sex that day and she said no, she
Speaker 1: had thrush, and then he said, oh, what about your mouth?
Speaker 1: And then she said, god, I've got a cold saw
Speaker 1: and then he said what about your hand? And then
Speaker 1: they started laughing about how hand job's seen very high school.
Speaker 1: I was actually blown away. And I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: shame Laura for talking about her sex life. I think
Speaker 1: it's great that people are open about their sex life,
Speaker 1: but surely there is a line when it comes to
Speaker 1: sharing those types of details about a conversation that you've
Speaker 1: had with your husband. I think, particularly because you don't
Speaker 1: have any of the tone of that conversation, because that
Speaker 1: could be taken out of context and look particularly bad
Speaker 1: upon him, like it sounded like he was really pushing
Speaker 1: for it when she was clearly saying no.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It made me feel uncomfortable because yeah, there definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: much context given. And we have spoken about this previously,
Speaker 1: but the way that Laura speaks about her husband isn't
Speaker 1: really in a very glowing light. I would not be
Speaker 1: impressed if I was Dalton, particularly the information that she
Speaker 1: shares about their sex life.
Speaker 4: Yeh.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they're selling their souls for this podcast,
Speaker 1: and I kind of don't understand it because they already
Speaker 1: have an absolutely flourishing business. Their kick app is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I have been using it for five years, I think
Speaker 1: even longer than that. They also have this amazing line
Speaker 1: of products in Woolworths. They're both huge influencers in their
Speaker 1: own right, but I feel like they are diluting their
Speaker 1: brand by putting out this podcast. I mean, it must
Speaker 1: be making them enough money for them to do it.
Speaker 3: I'm the executive creative director, chief buyer and lifestyle coordinator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge responsibility.
Speaker 2: I'm very important.
Speaker 1: Let's get into a highs and lows of the week.
Speaker 1: My high and lower actually intertwined. So my best, of course,
Speaker 1: is returning to the podcast from maternity leave. It's hard
Speaker 1: to get my head around the fact that it's been
Speaker 1: eighteen weeks. It feels like I've never left, and then
Speaker 1: also it feels like I've had this whole other life. Ironically,
Speaker 1: you can probably hear Jack crying in the background because
Speaker 1: we're recording from my house. So I am at the
Speaker 1: moment trying to balance motherhood and being back on the podcast.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's my lower as well, because I
Speaker 1: do miss Jack when I'm not around him. We had
Speaker 1: a babysitter the other day, Thank you Mum for looking
Speaker 1: after him, and it was so sad, and it was
Speaker 1: so nice to come home to him and see him
Speaker 1: and I feel so lucky that I've got the flexibility
Speaker 1: where I can work during his nap time or when
Speaker 1: Reese's home, or if we've got a babysitter, But it
Speaker 1: is just so sad to leave him when I have
Speaker 1: to go to work. Yeah, I feel like we've got
Speaker 1: a bit of a co host happening in the background
Speaker 1: with his cute little crying. But it is really nice
Speaker 1: to have you back on the show. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get into my high of the week, and it has
Speaker 1: been discovering an incredible Christmas appeal which is called It's
Speaker 1: in the Bag, and it's run by a charity called
Speaker 1: Share the Dignity Australia and it encourages people to put
Speaker 1: together bags filled with essential items and also some luxury
Speaker 1: items for women and girls who are spending their Christmas
Speaker 1: in a domestic violence refuge or a homeless shelter. My
Speaker 1: husband's auntie has been making bags for this charity for
Speaker 1: quite some time now and it's just such a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing to do to make someone else's Christmas morning a
Speaker 1: little bit brighter. It's really easy to get involved and
Speaker 1: you can either put together an adult, teen or mum
Speaker 1: and bub bag. They do ask for the bags to
Speaker 1: be filled with essential items and then the rest is
Speaker 1: up to you. And once you you've made your bag,
Speaker 1: you can then easily drop it off at your local
Speaker 1: Bunning store between the fifteenth of November and the one
Speaker 1: of December. I know everyone might not be in the
Speaker 1: position to do so, but if you are, I would
Speaker 1: highly recommend getting involved because the charity was down one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand bags last year and they did not meet
Speaker 1: the requests of those who needed them, so I think
Speaker 1: we should all try and get behind them. Mine low
Speaker 1: of the week, and I think that this will be
Speaker 1: a low shared by many others is Liam Payne's tragic passing.
Speaker 1: We spoke on Tuesday's episode in depth about what happened
Speaker 1: and our complex feelings towards it, but I just still
Speaker 1: can't shake the feeling of being sad. I've been listening
Speaker 1: to a lot of One Direction in the car, which
Speaker 1: has been bringing me a bit of happiness and joy,
Speaker 1: particularly because Liam sings so many of the verses, and
Speaker 1: I think that all of us are holding a bit
Speaker 1: of a heavy heart this week because of it. Now,
Speaker 1: that is all we have time for today. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us for this episode. If you
Speaker 1: have enjoyed it, could you please make sure you are
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