WEBVTT - Surviving an eruption with  Kelsey Waghorn

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<v Speaker 1>Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands

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<v Speaker 1>were never seated. We pay our respects to their elders

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<v Speaker 1>past and present, Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

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<v Speaker 1>This episode of the podcast was recorded on Gadigal Land

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<v Speaker 1>of the Orination. Hey guys, and welcome back to another

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<v Speaker 1>episode of Life Uncut.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Brittany and I'm Laura. And last week I gave

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<v Speaker 2>y'all some homework. Indeed I did, and I'm wondering if

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<v Speaker 2>anybody actually went and watch it.

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<v Speaker 1>Well I did, but I did before you gave me

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<v Speaker 1>the homeworks.

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<v Speaker 2>So I did it a little while ago. Okay, well

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<v Speaker 2>you get a gold star for anybody else. I did

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<v Speaker 2>tell you all that we were interviewing Kelsey Waghorn, who

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<v Speaker 2>was from a Netflix documentary. It's called The Volcano Rescue

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<v Speaker 2>from Fakari and it's all about the White Island volcano

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<v Speaker 2>eruption that happened in New Zealand. Now, Kelsey is a

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<v Speaker 2>survivor of the volcano eruption and she speaks so openly

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<v Speaker 2>and so rawly about her experience, about her recovery, but

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<v Speaker 2>not just her physical recovery, also her mental recovery as well.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just not something anyone is ever going to experience.

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<v Speaker 2>It must be comprehensible.

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<v Speaker 1>It's so hard to I think that there's so many times,

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<v Speaker 1>and we talk about this, but there's so many times

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<v Speaker 1>in life that you go through something and you reach

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<v Speaker 1>out to a support group. While there's other people that

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<v Speaker 1>can help you through that situation. But I think for Kelsey,

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<v Speaker 1>there is not a huge group of people that survived

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<v Speaker 1>something as traumatic as a volcano eruption, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>she had a lot of repercussions from that, and we

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<v Speaker 1>do get into that. It's a truly humbling story. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't have to have seen the documentary to listen to

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<v Speaker 1>this episode, but I can guarantee you after this episode, you're.

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<v Speaker 2>Going to want to go back and watch the documentary.

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<v Speaker 2>Before we get into speaking to Kelsey, though, there is

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<v Speaker 2>something else that we wanted to talk about. There has

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<v Speaker 2>been a research that has gone into why is it

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<v Speaker 2>that people like to date people who look almost the

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<v Speaker 2>same as them. I love to date our siblings. I

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<v Speaker 2>love the.

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<v Speaker 1>People that put the funding into this. Somebody has funded

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<v Speaker 1>this study. Someone has said we need to know why

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<v Speaker 1>people date people that look like their brother and sister.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if it was the Instagram siblings all dating.

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<v Speaker 2>Probably I just had this thought.

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<v Speaker 1>Now you went away to Hamilton Island, it looked magnificent.

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<v Speaker 1>Keisha producer Kisha went away to Melbourne, had an amazing wedding,

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<v Speaker 1>amazing time. I don't think I spoke to another human

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<v Speaker 1>the whole weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>You had dinner with someone. Last night. I literally was

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<v Speaker 2>messaging you about work and you were like, sorry, I

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<v Speaker 2>can't do it now I'm at dinner until Sunday night

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<v Speaker 2>at my house.

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<v Speaker 1>I just had one of those weekends where I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna speak to any one of these weekend

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<v Speaker 1>I actually hung out with my dog.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually think that that's great. Every so often, it's

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<v Speaker 2>nice to just go for like an extended period of

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<v Speaker 2>time where you're like, I am not speaking to another human.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I don't say it. Like, have sympathy for me.

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<v Speaker 1>I love shutting down sometimes, Like I love going into

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<v Speaker 1>a little hermit box. Like if I were an animal,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd probably be a hermit crab, I would think.

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<v Speaker 2>But like with a big lush shell, But that's that's

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<v Speaker 2>what happened with like a Gucci shell that has some

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<v Speaker 2>sort of branding on the I would have spent.

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<v Speaker 1>My javonchi shell and then I would upgrade you the Guchi.

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<v Speaker 1>In my wildest dreams, I would love that. The only

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<v Speaker 1>person I spoke to you really was the lady from

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<v Speaker 1>the store, from the cocoa whip store. So I have

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<v Speaker 1>a new addiction, Laura, coco whip.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you tried it? It's like, yeah, yeah, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>I have. Am I addicted to it?

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<v Speaker 1>No?

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<v Speaker 2>Have I tried it? Yes, I'm addicted, like as in

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<v Speaker 2>frozen yogurt, coconut frozen yogurt.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's organic, so it's so healthy. Etce too much

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<v Speaker 1>of a good thing is still too much? I mean

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<v Speaker 1>it's still it's still like ten table suits of sugar,

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<v Speaker 1>I think. But it's across the road from me very conveniently.

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<v Speaker 1>It's my new thing that I'm doing every single day.

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<v Speaker 2>So you know what I one single day? Well, you

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<v Speaker 2>know last time I had this addiction, because this is

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<v Speaker 2>also what I do.

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<v Speaker 1>I find one thing. I have it every day for

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<v Speaker 1>like four months. So it was yes, recently this light

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<v Speaker 1>where Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Last year it was spinach sausage rolls from the health

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<v Speaker 2>food and porium and it was like, because they're from

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<v Speaker 2>the health food and porium, they're healthy, and I reckon.

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<v Speaker 2>She would eat two a day, like she'd come home

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<v Speaker 2>with just two brown paper bags, and then often she

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<v Speaker 2>would buy four of them, two for herself, one for

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<v Speaker 2>me and Keisha. I didn't even like them. They were

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<v Speaker 2>actually fucking awful every day, every day. Yeah, which was

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<v Speaker 2>very generous of you, but it was almost like you

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<v Speaker 2>wanted other people to get involved in your addiction to

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<v Speaker 2>sausage rolls. And now I feel like we're there with

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<v Speaker 2>the coco Whip, which I'm okay with because I like

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<v Speaker 2>cocoa whip.

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<v Speaker 1>You will eat the sausage roll, and then I upgraded

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<v Speaker 1>upside to eat the meat sausage roll because the thirty

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<v Speaker 1>sausage roll wasn't enough.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyway, I've transitioned. I haven't had a sausage roll for

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<v Speaker 2>a while.

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<v Speaker 1>I weaned myself off them, and they were really surprised.

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<v Speaker 1>I went in one day. They were like, just a

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<v Speaker 1>sausage roll and I was like.

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<v Speaker 2>No, can't do it anymore, and they were like, what

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<v Speaker 2>are you okay?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you?

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<v Speaker 2>Went well, but it's the coca whip now, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm doing. It's like when you go so hard

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<v Speaker 2>on a song, like you really like a song, and

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<v Speaker 2>then you play it NonStop and then all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 2>one day you just get the itck for that song

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<v Speaker 2>and you can't play it again because you've done it

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<v Speaker 2>so many times. But going back to sausage rolls just

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<v Speaker 2>one second.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know why this is what we're talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>but like I'm gonna go with it. Last week we

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<v Speaker 1>did radio out at our you know, the air and studios.

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<v Speaker 1>We're out of mccuori Park and every Thursday they load

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<v Speaker 1>up they've got like these what's the brea and the

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<v Speaker 1>guy was from The Bachelor.

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<v Speaker 2>Garlo's Pies Jackson Garlic.

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<v Speaker 1>Who remember there was that big scene on The Bachelor

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<v Speaker 1>and the Bachelotte with Andie Kent where he brought her

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<v Speaker 1>a pie.

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<v Speaker 2>And he took her to the pie shop and she

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<v Speaker 2>was a vegan. Well, we have two like of those

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<v Speaker 2>like little hot what are they the little pie ovens.

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<v Speaker 2>There's two pie ovens at the radio station, right and

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<v Speaker 2>every Thursday they load them up with pies and we

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<v Speaker 2>can go and we can have a free pie. Anyway. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like the highlight of the week and that's what

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<v Speaker 2>we used to do, Like last year when we were

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<v Speaker 2>doing radio, we'd go and get a pie every week.

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<v Speaker 2>So it was Friday, We've just done our radio show

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<v Speaker 2>and I went and I was like, oh, there's pies

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<v Speaker 2>in the oven and I when I got one, I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, Oh, it's a bit cold, but fine. Fucking

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<v Speaker 2>bit into it and realized it was yesterday's sausage roll

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<v Speaker 2>that had been sitting in there since the Thursday. And

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, had this moment where I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>do I swallow this? You did? Though for sure I

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<v Speaker 2>did because I was in the foyer and Daisy was

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<v Speaker 2>sitting Anyway, how we've managed to get onto a long

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<v Speaker 2>five minute conversation about sausage rolls is on me. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that was my experience. Okay, never again. Okay. So how

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<v Speaker 2>was Hamilton Island? Hamilton Island was the absolute freaking best.

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<v Speaker 2>It was also very hot, very muggy, peak wet season,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was beautiful. Now I feel like I'm having

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<v Speaker 2>a real Drew Barrymore moment though, because in sorry, what

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<v Speaker 2>capacity never been kissed or in that it was Lala's birthday,

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<v Speaker 2>Lola's second birthday, and we decided that we were not

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<v Speaker 2>going to do presents, so we did no presence for

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<v Speaker 2>Lola this year, but we took her. She's too She's

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<v Speaker 2>got no idea it could be a problem when she's eight,

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<v Speaker 2>but we took her to Hamilton Island and we had

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<v Speaker 2>like the most beautiful family time together. But it wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>until the Sunday when a lot of our friends and

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<v Speaker 2>family were like, oh, it's Lala's Like everyone forgot because

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<v Speaker 2>we did include on us because we didn't put on

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<v Speaker 2>social media.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's my It was my nephew's birthday on Laala's

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<v Speaker 1>birthday too, so they're born on the same day.

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<v Speaker 2>Cue. Did you remember your nephew's birthday? Yes? I did? Okay, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>now next year, it's going to make it so easy

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<v Speaker 2>for you to remember. So here's the question. Do you

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<v Speaker 2>think you're setting like a scary precedent for your children's birthdays?

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<v Speaker 1>If Lola's second birthday you took it a Hamilton Island,

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<v Speaker 1>What does Marley get for her birthday?

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<v Speaker 2>And what you do every year?

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<v Speaker 1>Now, like I reckon, you've got to wind it back,

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<v Speaker 1>go back to the Tonka truck.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess the way that we're going to approach this

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<v Speaker 2>is kids don't get presents if there's a big holiday

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<v Speaker 2>on their birthday, But if there isn't and we're not

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<v Speaker 2>doing anything particularly special, then they can have presents. Will

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<v Speaker 2>that come back and bite us in the ass? I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, maybe, but like we're just like, we don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what we're doing when it comes to this parenting thing,

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<v Speaker 2>and we're absolutely just kind of throwing caution to the

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<v Speaker 2>wind and doing our best.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think you'd ever give them a choice and

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<v Speaker 1>say now you can go away for the weekend or

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<v Speaker 1>you can have presents, or do you think because you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna want the holiday anyway? You're like, this is what

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<v Speaker 1>we're doing. So it was like hack your suit, gay.

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<v Speaker 2>The present was for.

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<v Speaker 1>Us real, Like when I bought that massage Hot massage kit.

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<v Speaker 2>For my boyfriend at the time for a present, but

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<v Speaker 2>I just wanted him to massage me back. It's the

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<v Speaker 2>same thing. Yeah, it is the same thing, Okay, but

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<v Speaker 2>something happened on this holiday and I kind of want

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know if I bought your opinion on it,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was the most outrageous parenting thing I've ever experienced,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was filled with so much fucking rage from

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<v Speaker 2>this that I need to tell you, and I also

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<v Speaker 2>like want everybody else to kind of DM me and

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<v Speaker 2>tell me what you would have done in this instance. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>well I can just listen if you don't want my opinion, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I would love your input. Okay. So we went out

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<v Speaker 2>on it. We had amazing day trip, went on a

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<v Speaker 2>beautiful boat. It was phenomenal and it was an organized trip.

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<v Speaker 2>There were quite a few families on this trip, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was like we're on a boat, zero phone reception.

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<v Speaker 2>But while we were sitting there, Matt and I kept

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<v Speaker 2>on getting something air drop to us, like air drop

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<v Speaker 2>after air drop after air drop. And this sounds really dumb,

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<v Speaker 2>but at the time I didn't realize that you could

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<v Speaker 2>change your settings and your phone so that you can't

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<v Speaker 2>like as in turn air drop receiving off. So I

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<v Speaker 2>was just canceling them. But Matt, thinking it was funny,

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<v Speaker 2>was accepting the air drops right, And there were just

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<v Speaker 2>pictures of these kids being silly, sending selfies, like really

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<v Speaker 2>silly stuff, and Matt was like, look, if someone's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>send me an air drop, I'm no accept it. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>this went on the boat where it was two hours

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<v Speaker 2>it went on for about half an hour of the boat.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, so some other kid has stolen his parents phone.

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<v Speaker 2>Some kid or maybe it's his own phone, who knows.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like fourteen year old kids. And there was a

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<v Speaker 2>group of fourteen year old kids on the boat, like

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<v Speaker 2>this little group of boys, right, So it wasn't an accident.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm picturing a two year old no, no, no no.

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<v Speaker 2>This was like and it was like incessantly sending. You

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't open your phone without having an air drop request

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<v Speaker 2>pop up every two seconds, right, And so instantly I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, Oh, it's those it's that group of boys,

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<v Speaker 2>like they are the culprit, the little turd burgers. And

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<v Speaker 2>I definitely made that assumption without like going and checking

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<v Speaker 2>the boat or anything. I was like, it's that group.

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<v Speaker 2>I made that assumption pretty quickly. Anyway, about twenty minutes

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<v Speaker 2>past and I gave my phone to Marley because I'd

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<v Speaker 2>loaded up Coco Melon, I loaded up some other like

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<v Speaker 2>things for her to watch, and she's watching the preloaded

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<v Speaker 2>videos because there was nothing else, Like there was no reception,

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<v Speaker 2>so we couldn't get onto the internet, which is important

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<v Speaker 2>to this story. I could see that the air drops

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<v Speaker 2>were still coming through and she was accepting some of

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<v Speaker 2>the air drops, and I kept going back in to

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<v Speaker 2>turn it off and to like go back to the

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<v Speaker 2>video that she was watching. And then I saw this

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<v Speaker 2>one thing pop up, and it was a video that

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<v Speaker 2>was playing. The kids had started to air drop hardcore,

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<v Speaker 2>fucking pawn hard core, and I'm like, oh, I just

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<v Speaker 2>got goosebumps. It was revolting the porn that they were dropping, right,

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<v Speaker 2>and it had popped up on the screen in front

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<v Speaker 2>of Marley, so she had seen a couple of seconds

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<v Speaker 2>of it before I saw what it was, and I

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<v Speaker 2>grabbed the phone and I obviously turned it off. But

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<v Speaker 2>Matt and I had had a conversation prior where Matt

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<v Speaker 2>was like, do not go and say anything to their parents,

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<v Speaker 2>Like we're on this fucking boat with them, Like, do

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<v Speaker 2>not go and say a thing. I'm sorry you. I

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<v Speaker 2>hope you stormed over there. Mate. As soon as I

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<v Speaker 2>saw this pop up, I was like, I am shaking out.

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<v Speaker 2>I was filled with rage. I'm so mad still, and

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<v Speaker 2>the more I talk about it, the matter I get. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>So I went up to this family. Actually Matt, Matt

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<v Speaker 2>did it first. I made him because I was so

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<v Speaker 2>enraged that Matt was like, okay, I'll go. So he

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<v Speaker 2>went up and spoke to the parents. He spoke to

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<v Speaker 2>the two dads first, and it was a big groups.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a big group of kids and a big

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<v Speaker 2>group of parents, And he went out and spoke up

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<v Speaker 2>to two of the dads that was standing off to

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<v Speaker 2>the side and just said, hey, your kid's air dropping

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<v Speaker 2>some pretty and appropriate stuff to us, like I just

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<v Speaker 2>want to make you aware of this, and they kind

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<v Speaker 2>of like laughed it off until Matt showed them one

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<v Speaker 2>of the videos and like the video was I can't

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<v Speaker 2>even I won't even describe it because it was so

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<v Speaker 2>unbelievably repulsive, right, I can imagine Matt also being very

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<v Speaker 2>diplomatic and careful at the start. So diplomatic, Yeah, that's

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<v Speaker 2>so polite, so like non accusatory. Anyway, Hey, just so

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like my two year olds watching, how got porn?

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<v Speaker 2>Because yes, because of your sad so yeah. And also

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<v Speaker 2>this is content that they had to have had on

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<v Speaker 2>the phone because there was no internet reception, so it

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't like they were downloading it. It was already there. True anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>so good detective work. They didn't take it seriously. Then

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<v Speaker 2>the mother came over to me because I was like, hey, no,

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<v Speaker 2>this is something you need to address. The mother came

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<v Speaker 2>over to me and then started to accuse me of

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<v Speaker 2>like why did we assume that it was their children?

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<v Speaker 2>Like have you gone around the boat? Have you checked

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<v Speaker 2>that one else? She was like, how do you know

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<v Speaker 2>it's my kids? And I felt the rage go through

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<v Speaker 2>the fucking roof. Do you have a mom fight? I

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<v Speaker 2>had a mom fight. She was defending her fourteen year

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<v Speaker 2>old boys, and I was like, you need to reprimand

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<v Speaker 2>your children for just sending my three year old hardcore

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<v Speaker 2>porn or go up.

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<v Speaker 1>And just say, can I please look at your phone?

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<v Speaker 2>So anyway, she ended up taking the phone. Well, the

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<v Speaker 2>dad did and he went through the phone and he

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<v Speaker 2>came up to us about fifteen minutes later, and he

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<v Speaker 2>was like really casual about it. He was like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>so sorry about that. Uh yeah, look one of the

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<v Speaker 2>videos was on my son's phone, so I guess it

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<v Speaker 2>was them. Haha. Teenagers? Hey, and I cannot accept that

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<v Speaker 2>this is just teenagers? So do you okay? No, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>here we go, here we go? Is this just teenagers?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that? Like?

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<v Speaker 2>How do you as a parent not know that that's

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<v Speaker 2>what your teenager has loaded onto their phone. Nah, I know,

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<v Speaker 2>I know, I get it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, I get that this is a thing that teenagers

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<v Speaker 1>would do in terms of they're curious, they're gonna download porn,

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<v Speaker 1>they're gonna watch porn. I get that, But it is

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<v Speaker 1>not it just oh, just teenagers. You can't brush that

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<v Speaker 1>off when they are sending that to other people because

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<v Speaker 1>they think it's entertaining.

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<v Speaker 2>Like that is different.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think that a fourteen year old, fifteen year

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<v Speaker 1>old is going to be looking at porn. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think you can avoid that. But you can go and

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<v Speaker 1>reprimand your child and say, you know what, I get

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<v Speaker 1>you curious, you're gonna look at it. That's fine, but

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<v Speaker 1>you can't go and force that onto someone else, especially

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<v Speaker 1>when there's a two year old on the phone.

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<v Speaker 2>I think for me, it was the type of porn.

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<v Speaker 2>So this pawn was very and like you know, just

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<v Speaker 2>very much trigger warning here for anybody who this is

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<v Speaker 2>going to be too much for So this pawn was

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<v Speaker 2>very much rape culture porn, and so to me, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>if your child has that on their phone and you

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<v Speaker 2>don't take that seriously like that is not just boys

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<v Speaker 2>will be boys, That is not just old teenagers will

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<v Speaker 2>be teenagers. That is absolutely fucking frightening, and it makes

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<v Speaker 2>me think like, what are these fourteen year old boys

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<v Speaker 2>thinking about women, thinking about how women want to enjoy

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<v Speaker 2>sexual experiences? How do they respect women or girls their

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<v Speaker 2>own age? There was so much more loaded into this

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen minute encounter that for me, as a parent of

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<v Speaker 2>really young children who I know will become teenagers one day,

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<v Speaker 2>was really frightening. That is different. That changes things.

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<v Speaker 1>If it's not just like this is curiosity. No, if

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<v Speaker 1>it's not just like I don't want to say standard sex.

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<v Speaker 1>But if it if.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not just that it's missionary, I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>hear about it. I mean, missionary is one thing.

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<v Speaker 1>But no, when you're add in that it's a rape

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<v Speaker 1>culture style porn, I mean that of course that changes things.

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<v Speaker 1>And they're standing there and they think it's funny. We

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<v Speaker 1>don't know that they think the rape culture is funny.

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<v Speaker 1>We know they think sending porn and making someone uncomfortable

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<v Speaker 1>is funny. But the fact that at fourteen, when you

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<v Speaker 1>were so impressionable, and that is what you are learning,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is when you're developing your interests and what

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<v Speaker 1>you think is okay, the way you respect people, the

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<v Speaker 1>way you navigate that life. If that is what they're

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<v Speaker 1>choosing to watch over anything else, extremely problematic. Yes, that

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<v Speaker 1>is something the parents need to talk about. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think that you, in this case were completely in the right.

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<v Speaker 1>These parents were obviously completely in the wrong. And if

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<v Speaker 1>they if they parents laugh this off, it's an indication

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<v Speaker 1>of why the kids think that this is okay. Like,

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<v Speaker 1>learn from your surroundings and like the five people you're

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<v Speaker 1>closest to. So if your parents who you're learning from,

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<v Speaker 1>think that this is okay, I don't know what the

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<v Speaker 1>kid's gonna hap.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, maybe they didn't think okay. Maybe it was

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<v Speaker 2>one of those situations where it's like they want to

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<v Speaker 2>have a nice day with their kids. They've they've taken

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<v Speaker 2>them out on this experience, and it's like to reprimand

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<v Speaker 2>them would just mean that everyone has a terrible time.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's kind of like, well, like, look, it's unfortunate,

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<v Speaker 2>let's put it off to the side. But I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>There was a part of me that felt even more

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<v Speaker 2>frustrated that they hadn't taken it more seriously, that was

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<v Speaker 2>my okay, that was like something that happened on the weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>The trip was literally a trip of a lifetime. It

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<v Speaker 2>was phenomenal. But that was just such a parenting moment

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<v Speaker 2>where I was like, Wow, there's a right way in

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<v Speaker 2>a wrong way, and I feel like this was handled

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<v Speaker 2>so badly.

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<v Speaker 1>I am just picturing what my dad like. They call

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<v Speaker 1>him big tones, big Tony. I call him for a reason.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a big boy Papa hockey hockey.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes he's just more oh my god, my dad's the best.

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<v Speaker 1>But he would gone off someon would have been overboard

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<v Speaker 1>like that, that would not have flown.

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<v Speaker 2>Well. No, look Matt very much. He stood up to

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<v Speaker 2>the plate after it kind of escalated, But it was

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<v Speaker 2>more so just I know it's human nature and parenting

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<v Speaker 2>nature to want to defend your children, like you never

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<v Speaker 2>want to think the worst of them, but like, it

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<v Speaker 2>was such an unusual experience. I never ever thought I

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<v Speaker 2>would be in that situation, And I don't know how

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<v Speaker 2>I would have responded if I was on the other side,

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<v Speaker 2>but I think I would have responded quite differently.

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<v Speaker 1>I would like to think that these parents were probably

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<v Speaker 1>embarrassed a level of embarrassment. Didn't want to make maybe

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<v Speaker 1>a big scene, like you said, and let's all hope

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<v Speaker 1>that they went up to the kids.

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<v Speaker 2>And we're like, we're gonna deal with this later.

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<v Speaker 1>Well in by the year, but like, I'm not going

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<v Speaker 1>to cause a scene right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Never having a phone again or sex ever.

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<v Speaker 1>No, well, speaking of parenting, my brother had a baby

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<v Speaker 1>on the weekend. He obviously h didn't, but his fiance

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<v Speaker 1>Kim did. Is my brother Dane and his partner Kim

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<v Speaker 1>had a baby. So I'm an auntie again, which is

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<v Speaker 1>very nice, very cute.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to gauge your opinion. No, I know what

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<v Speaker 2>you're doing here, and I'm not okay with this. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't like that you have waited until we're on record

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<v Speaker 2>to tell me the name, which makes me think that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to have adverse feelings towards No, the child

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<v Speaker 2>had had no choice in this. It's not their fault.

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever your brother named their child, it's not your child.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of those names that gonna be like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna prey scarticle or fucking cupcake or something, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of those names that like at the start,

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<v Speaker 1>you're like, okay, okay, unusual, but then I think it

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<v Speaker 1>grows on you. Okay, So that happened with my niece,

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<v Speaker 1>same family. My niece she's six, so six years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>so I don't think his name was as common as

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<v Speaker 1>six or seven years ago. Pick.

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<v Speaker 2>Her name's Pixie and I like that.

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<v Speaker 3>Well.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember when they were like, he it's Pixie. Sherry

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<v Speaker 1>and I were like, oh, that's nice, but we didn't

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<v Speaker 1>but we hadn't heard it a lot and it was unusual.

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<v Speaker 1>But like you know, a month later, she's never going

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<v Speaker 1>to be anything else. It's Pixie and it's adorable and

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<v Speaker 1>I love it, and I think his name's the same.

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<v Speaker 2>This is one of those things, right where like whatever

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<v Speaker 2>you name your child is going to have an impact

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<v Speaker 2>on who they are and what they grow up to

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<v Speaker 2>be because it actually influences the way that people speak

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<v Speaker 2>to them. So if you give someone a cutesy name,

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<v Speaker 2>they're never going to be like missus Cupcake, who's representing

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<v Speaker 2>you in the legal services. I've met a kid and

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<v Speaker 2>their name was Okay, and it's thrown me the rest

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<v Speaker 2>of my life, which is wild.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe we need to do a call out for like

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<v Speaker 1>the most unusual names at preschool. But yeah, so that's

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<v Speaker 1>funny that you say that, like it's who they're grow into.

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<v Speaker 1>Because my brother is a big boy. He's six foot

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<v Speaker 1>two or something like big, broad shoulders, he's chattered like

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<v Speaker 1>he's a big boy.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a film say, Kim's.

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<v Speaker 1>A beautiful, amazing but she's very tall as well. So

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<v Speaker 1>they're gonna have tall kids.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like they just done. She ain't gonna be a pixie,

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<v Speaker 2>she's gonna be a tall Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's a little boy and his name is Bear.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh I like that. Why do you think that that's

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<v Speaker 2>so weird? Well it's not.

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<v Speaker 1>It's weird, but it's unusual to me because I haven't

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<v Speaker 1>heard it. Yeah, like rah bear like bear.

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<v Speaker 2>B e r Yeah, grizzly be like rah bear cute.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm okay with that. Do you think it's Do you

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<v Speaker 2>think that he's gonna grow up and he's.

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<v Speaker 1>Going to be he's going to be so tall and

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<v Speaker 1>his name's bet.

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<v Speaker 2>Also very good if he turns out to be gay,

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<v Speaker 2>because it's already sort of for him, he'll be the bear.

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<v Speaker 1>Well that's the other thing, because he's gonna be Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he's gonna like the grizzly bed.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a gay term, isn't it. I only know that

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<v Speaker 2>from your brother, Yes, it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Anyway, I'm an auntie again and he's absolutely adorable. So

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go visit probably next week, and I'll give

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<v Speaker 1>you a little update. But is Yeah, it's fun to

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<v Speaker 1>be an auntie because I get my mom fixed.

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<v Speaker 2>Without having to give birth.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like I see your kids, and I see my

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<v Speaker 1>aunt my nieces and nephews, and all my friends have kids,

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<v Speaker 1>and I get what I need for the minute. Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>do you want to know an update on that?

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<v Speaker 2>What on the egg freezing situation? I think I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>freeze my eggs again. Yeah, how many eggs do you need?

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<v Speaker 2>To freeze as many as you can?

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<v Speaker 1>So I only got fifteen, which sounds like a lot,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's actually not that many. So that could result

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<v Speaker 1>in maybe four viable They might not actually take four

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<v Speaker 1>is enough for children, but that's only if they take

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<v Speaker 1>so then they might not work anyway. But no, what

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<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say is, for the first time ever,

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<v Speaker 1>You know how I always talk about kids and like

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I've always been more.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think I want them, No, Like I'm always no, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>when we first started this podcast, you were always like, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>I know I want them, and then over the years

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<v Speaker 2>you were like, the more time I spend with your children,

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<v Speaker 2>I think I don't want that. And I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>that's really offensive. That's a super offensive thing to say,

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<v Speaker 2>but let's go with it.

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, that is true, but it's also not your kids.

0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm obsessed with them and then the best kids. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just the way it changes your life. I've always thought

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't ready for that, so it's my life now,

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<v Speaker 1>So it's your entire existence. So it's actually everything about

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<v Speaker 1>the way that you live that I hate. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>all of you in a package. I don't want it. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm joking, but it's there.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, we all know parenting is a full time job.

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<v Speaker 2>It is, but it's one thing to know it, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's another thing to see it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one thing for me to sit at home knowing

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<v Speaker 1>how busy someone is and tied there and screaming in tantrums,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's another thing when you're there. And I've always

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<v Speaker 1>thought that every time I'm around my friend's kids, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I'm not ready for that. I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>I want it for the first time ever. Now I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if it's an age thing. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>if it's banned minu partner. I don't know what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>But for the first time, if I've been on that

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<v Speaker 1>precipice in the middle and I don't know which way

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<v Speaker 1>to fall, I'm starting to fool the kid's way.

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<v Speaker 2>It's because you're newly a life of no because I

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't like that with Jordan.

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<v Speaker 1>I was still like, I don't think I want them.

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<v Speaker 1>And I also don't know if it's because this year

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thirty six.

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<v Speaker 2>Guys, the truth is out. Finally, may put that into

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<v Speaker 2>your reporting. We'll still thirty five technically. Okay, wait, I

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<v Speaker 2>have a question for you about this, because I think

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<v Speaker 2>this is really interesting. Do you think it partly plays

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<v Speaker 2>into the fact that Jordan was quite on the opposite

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<v Speaker 2>side of it. So Jordan was very much that he

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<v Speaker 2>didn't want to have kids, or he would do it

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<v Speaker 2>to make you happy, but it wasn't something that he

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<v Speaker 2>was excited about. And I know that this is a

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<v Speaker 2>personal preference. I don't want anyone to think that just

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<v Speaker 2>because you have a partner who really wants to have children,

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<v Speaker 2>that you'll change your mind. But do you think for

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<v Speaker 2>you it has had an influence on how you're feeling.

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<v Speaker 1>I genuinely don't think so, because I mean, yes, of

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<v Speaker 1>course there's going to be some level for sure, But

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<v Speaker 1>I went into that. I met Jordan when I was

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<v Speaker 1>already freezing my eggs. I was freezing my eggs because well,

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't in a situation to have a child, and

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<v Speaker 1>I also didn't want that child yet. And I had

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<v Speaker 1>this conversation with my sister and my friends and you

0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.080
<v Speaker 1>guys for years, how do you know when am I

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<v Speaker 1>going to know?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, like I'm waiting for that time

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<v Speaker 1>to come where it hits me like a train, being

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<v Speaker 1>like I can't wait to have a baby, and it

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<v Speaker 1>never came. So then if I really wanted children and

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<v Speaker 1>I started to date someone that didn't, that's a bit

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<v Speaker 1>of a deal breaker for me, right If two people

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<v Speaker 1>are pole opposite with something as big as a life

0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.040
<v Speaker 1>change like children, it's not gonna work out. But it

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<v Speaker 1>didn't put me off at all when I met Jordan,

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<v Speaker 1>because I wasn't sure myself, and I was always like,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I want that whole life change,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was something I was really working on in

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<v Speaker 1>myself because it's a scary thought to think you might

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<v Speaker 1>not want it, because there's no going back down the

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<v Speaker 1>track like later on in the track.

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<v Speaker 2>And also when you have to deal with so many

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<v Speaker 2>people constantly telling you that you will regret it, and

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<v Speaker 2>even if you don't think that you will, that constantness

0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.040
<v Speaker 2>would definitely plant some doubt, plant some fear if nothing else.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I think a lot of people will understand

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying that are in my position where they

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<v Speaker 1>don't think they want them. They will resonate with what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying. Where it is a scary thought because even

0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.320
<v Speaker 1>though you could almost be sure about something, there's still

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<v Speaker 1>this little bit of doubt. And it's not something you

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<v Speaker 1>can just change, like you down the track in twenty years.

0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:04.119
<v Speaker 1>You can't be like, it's not like when you were,

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<v Speaker 1>like I wish I went on that holiday to Iceland,

0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:08.840
<v Speaker 1>I'll just go. You can't go back in time and

0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:11.240
<v Speaker 1>change that situation. So it's it puts a lot of

0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:15.360
<v Speaker 1>pressure on you. But for the first time I've changed,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that it's something that I do want in

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<v Speaker 1>my future now and I'm not saying that I'm having

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<v Speaker 1>them and I'm excited, And I do think maybe it's

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<v Speaker 1>a thing where it's I am thirty five now, and

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<v Speaker 1>maybe that maternal instinct for me is kicking in a

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<v Speaker 1>lot later in life. But I think, yeah, I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's my life update. I think I'm rolling over.

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<v Speaker 2>One more question about this. If you were not with

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<v Speaker 2>Ben and you were on your own, would you still

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<v Speaker 2>want to do it? Do you think that you would

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<v Speaker 2>ever pursue having children regardless of your relationship status at

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<v Speaker 2>this stage?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 2>Right, yeah, at this stage no.

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<v Speaker 1>I would be okay if it happened, of course, and

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<v Speaker 1>you'd make it work. But I still don't think it's

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<v Speaker 1>a choice I'd go down My whole being doesn't want

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<v Speaker 1>it enough to go down that track alone.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, then maybe it does have this massive influence. The

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<v Speaker 2>fact that you're in a relationship now with someone who

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<v Speaker 2>wants kids in their future. It has helped to push

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<v Speaker 2>you within a direction where you're seeing that as part

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<v Speaker 2>of your future. Because I had the same thing with Matt,

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't ever have that maternal push. I really didn't,

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<v Speaker 2>but I knew Matt really wanted to have kids, and

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<v Speaker 2>for him, that was a huge deal breaker. If I

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<v Speaker 2>said I didn't want to have children, we would never

0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:21.720
<v Speaker 2>have been together. I never felt strongly either way. So

0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:24.040
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't a case that I got into relationship with

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<v Speaker 2>him and it forced me to have children. It was

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<v Speaker 2>that because I was with him, well, I could see

0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:30.720
<v Speaker 2>myself then having kids more than I could say a

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<v Speaker 2>year prior, and now I couldn't see my life without children.

0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:36.959
<v Speaker 2>But I know that everybody's experience around that is so different.

0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.720
<v Speaker 2>And that's why we've done an episode on being childless

0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:42.000
<v Speaker 2>by choice, because I think it's so important that for

0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:44.679
<v Speaker 2>people who know that they don't want children that they

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<v Speaker 2>feel represented but also not just represented, respected in their decisions.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I know Ben, it's early days, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of months.

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<v Speaker 2>But I know Ben as a person.

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<v Speaker 1>We've spoken about it enough to know, you know, like,

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<v Speaker 1>do you want kids?

0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.600
<v Speaker 2>Do you not? Like we talk about that stuff. He's

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<v Speaker 2>a bit like me too.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like, if you adamantly didn't want them, that would

0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:05.959
<v Speaker 1>be okay. He's like, but I've always sort of just

0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.440
<v Speaker 1>seen them in my life, so he's also not strongly

0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:10.840
<v Speaker 1>wanting them. But when I look at him and I

0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:13.040
<v Speaker 1>think this is something any woman thinks about when they

0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.520
<v Speaker 1>start to date somebody, whether it's a woman or a man,

0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:18.480
<v Speaker 1>do you look at them in that parental light? Do

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<v Speaker 1>you think that would be a good parent, a good dad,

0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:22.760
<v Speaker 1>or a good mom. And I know he would be

0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.600
<v Speaker 1>a great dad. He's so gentle and kind, And there's

0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:27.360
<v Speaker 1>a part of me that's like, oh, I can if

0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:29.920
<v Speaker 1>I went down that track with that person one day,

0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.560
<v Speaker 1>I can see that it would be a really good situation.

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<v Speaker 1>So there might be a little part of that too

0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:34.960
<v Speaker 1>where I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Like, oh, and also, would you make a good team?

0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.080
<v Speaker 2>I think is the biggest thing. Yeah. Well, before we

0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:41.480
<v Speaker 2>get into speaking to Kelsey on today's episode, there was

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<v Speaker 2>one more thing that I wanted to talk to you about,

0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:45.680
<v Speaker 2>Britt and it is an article that came out in

0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:49.000
<v Speaker 2>Psychology today. Pedestrian also did a peace on it. But

0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:54.160
<v Speaker 2>it's all around how there are now scientific reasons as

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<v Speaker 2>to why we seem to choose people who look like us.

0:25:57.320 --> 0:25:59.920
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, the whole Instagram account, siblings or dating.

0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.640
<v Speaker 2>I do know it. You also know that people think

0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:04.560
<v Speaker 2>that Matt and I look like we could be related.

0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:06.639
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I actually has crossed my mind before.

0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:09.480
<v Speaker 2>To be fair, I think that every single guy I've

0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.719
<v Speaker 2>ever had a long term relationship with looks like they

0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:15.080
<v Speaker 2>could be my brother. Well, so maybe this is a thing.

0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:16.320
<v Speaker 2>Maybe so, oh no, it's a thing.

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<v Speaker 1>It is science is doing its job and being science,

0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:20.840
<v Speaker 1>and there's a room behind it.

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<v Speaker 2>That was the most profound thing that you said. Science

0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:26.800
<v Speaker 2>is doing its job and it is doing science.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's funny you say that, like the whole you

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<v Speaker 1>just said, you know, this is this is this article

0:26:30.240 --> 0:26:32.040
<v Speaker 1>it says there's a scientific reason. Then you're like, hang

0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:34.360
<v Speaker 1>on a minute, everyone I've dated.

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<v Speaker 2>Look like my brother, well everybody, actually, nobody I've dated

0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:42.240
<v Speaker 2>has looked like my brother. But everybody I've dated has

0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:44.320
<v Speaker 2>kind of looked like myself, which I think is way

0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.400
<v Speaker 2>more problematic than dating someone who you look like you're

0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:48.600
<v Speaker 2>related to. The thing is you don't look.

0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.199
<v Speaker 1>At you and Matt and think that you look the same.

0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:54.080
<v Speaker 1>But if you did take a step back and look,

0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:57.239
<v Speaker 1>you're like, okay, I can see similarities, Like, yes, there

0:26:57.240 --> 0:26:57.920
<v Speaker 1>could be a relation.

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<v Speaker 2>Well okay. This has always been something that's floated around

0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.399
<v Speaker 2>the nether like. People have made the comment and this

0:27:03.520 --> 0:27:05.879
<v Speaker 2>is not about me specifically, but people have made the

0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:08.560
<v Speaker 2>comment that often we were attracted to people who look

0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:11.000
<v Speaker 2>similar to us, or people will end up dating people

0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:13.320
<v Speaker 2>who look almost the saint. I mean, look at the

0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:15.680
<v Speaker 2>couple who are on Mass at the moment, who literally

0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:19.040
<v Speaker 2>look like they could be related. Yeah, and remember you,

0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:20.320
<v Speaker 2>I don't watch maths, so I don't know.

0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:22.360
<v Speaker 1>But remember there was this big thing or the life

0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:24.000
<v Speaker 1>is a remember, but there was that big thing that

0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:25.960
<v Speaker 1>everyone said that I was dating.

0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:26.879
<v Speaker 2>Jordan and Jordan looked like you.

0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:27.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:30.320
<v Speaker 2>Remember they did it. They did a comparison and they

0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:31.040
<v Speaker 2>put a beard on me.

0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:32.760
<v Speaker 1>So, yeah, you're the person I see the most of

0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:35.240
<v Speaker 1>my life and I started dating you, like, maybe there

0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:36.000
<v Speaker 1>is something to us.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, Well, I wanted to break down some of the

0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:41.119
<v Speaker 2>reasons that psychology today has given as to why we

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:43.679
<v Speaker 2>are attracted to people who look similar to us. Yeah, now,

0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:45.399
<v Speaker 2>straight off the back one of them. I mean, and

0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:48.680
<v Speaker 2>this is pretty obvious. I think it's called a group biases.

0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:50.639
<v Speaker 2>So the reason for this is that we attracted to

0:27:50.680 --> 0:27:52.719
<v Speaker 2>people who are of similar race to us, So like

0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:55.440
<v Speaker 2>the same race, were attracted to people who are from

0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:58.320
<v Speaker 2>our own communities who look similar to us in that vein.

0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:00.600
<v Speaker 2>I think that this one, though, is a bit more

0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:04.200
<v Speaker 2>self explanatory because often we live in communities where, say,

0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.680
<v Speaker 2>if you're Anglo Saxon, you live with Anglo Saxon people

0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:10.199
<v Speaker 2>within Australia. Yeah, that's a blanket statement totally. People who

0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:13.120
<v Speaker 2>are Latino often end up dating Latinos, not just because

0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:15.600
<v Speaker 2>you live around each other, but because all your close networks,

0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:17.840
<v Speaker 2>your friends, your families. You know, often the people who

0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:20.359
<v Speaker 2>are surrounded by you and in your communities are of

0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:22.520
<v Speaker 2>a similar race, just by circumstance.

0:28:22.640 --> 0:28:25.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, whereas I was always like a fly to a flame.

0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:30.040
<v Speaker 2>What's that thing that's not it? I'm to a fly

0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.040
<v Speaker 2>to a one day old pizza.

0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:34.200
<v Speaker 1>I was like a flagal pizza.

0:28:34.359 --> 0:28:35.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that's a good one.

0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:37.639
<v Speaker 1>I was a fly to a pizza with people that

0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:39.960
<v Speaker 1>couldn't be more different to me. So maybe I would

0:28:40.000 --> 0:28:42.240
<v Speaker 1>lay outside the box. But everyone I know that is

0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.400
<v Speaker 1>a thing. Yeah, people are attracted to people that are

0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:45.760
<v Speaker 1>very similar to them.

0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.840
<v Speaker 2>So there's another thing called implicit egotism. Sid that break

0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:51.760
<v Speaker 2>that down for us. Implicit egotism is kind of that

0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:54.880
<v Speaker 2>we are attracted to people who look similar to us

0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:57.760
<v Speaker 2>because we like to see ourselves reflected back in that

0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:00.880
<v Speaker 2>other person, which sounds so monumentally fucked. That's where the

0:29:00.920 --> 0:29:03.160
<v Speaker 2>eco part comes in. But there was a research study

0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:06.400
<v Speaker 2>that was done and basically they used AI to morph

0:29:07.120 --> 0:29:09.479
<v Speaker 2>the face, so they gave like they did tests, right,

0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:12.680
<v Speaker 2>they gave all these different facial options, and the facial

0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:16.080
<v Speaker 2>option that the person the participant found the most attractive

0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:19.760
<v Speaker 2>was the person who had at least twenty percent of

0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:22.880
<v Speaker 2>their own facial features morphed onto it. So that's great.

0:29:22.920 --> 0:29:26.760
<v Speaker 2>We always say you need to love yourself, you need

0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:28.880
<v Speaker 2>to look in the mirror and be like, you are beautiful.

0:29:28.920 --> 0:29:31.280
<v Speaker 2>You can do this, so okay. The thing that's interesting

0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:34.120
<v Speaker 2>about this though, is that it would almost imply that

0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:36.800
<v Speaker 2>we should then be attracted to our siblings, if that's

0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:39.520
<v Speaker 2>the case. But it's like people in this study were

0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:42.200
<v Speaker 2>attracted to people who looked like them, not evenly, just

0:29:42.240 --> 0:29:45.200
<v Speaker 2>looked like them, like had physical features that were identical

0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:48.040
<v Speaker 2>to theirs because of this AI technology. But as soon

0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:51.880
<v Speaker 2>as that research group were told that they were doing

0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:56.000
<v Speaker 2>a study on incest, they instantly found those people not attractive.

0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:58.080
<v Speaker 2>So like when they were shown other options that had

0:29:58.080 --> 0:30:01.360
<v Speaker 2>that twenty percent phase morph. It's not about like wanting

0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:03.760
<v Speaker 2>to date your brother. It's just about that we like

0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:06.440
<v Speaker 2>to see things mirrored back because that's a face or

0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:08.960
<v Speaker 2>a feature that we have become so familiar with, you know,

0:30:08.960 --> 0:30:11.200
<v Speaker 2>it's a feature that looks safe to us, not just

0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.320
<v Speaker 2>from an egotistical point of view. Well, I think that.

0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:15.480
<v Speaker 1>Leans into the fact why they say a lot of

0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:19.160
<v Speaker 1>women date men or look for men with characteristics of

0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:21.880
<v Speaker 1>their dad. And now obviously that's not everyone, but a

0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:24.640
<v Speaker 1>lot of women seek out somebody and it's not because

0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:26.680
<v Speaker 1>they look like their dad, but it's because they have

0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:28.080
<v Speaker 1>this close relationship with the dad.

0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:29.840
<v Speaker 2>They usually would like have a level.

0:30:29.640 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 1>Of respect and love, and they seek out someone that

0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:37.400
<v Speaker 1>has these daddy values. But it's not this weird daddy

0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:40.200
<v Speaker 1>issues thing. It's just that, like, so, I know I

0:30:40.240 --> 0:30:42.160
<v Speaker 1>would do it because I love the way my dad's

0:30:42.200 --> 0:30:44.360
<v Speaker 1>morals and I love the way he goes about his life,

0:30:44.400 --> 0:30:46.800
<v Speaker 1>his work and his family and is so I've always

0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:48.960
<v Speaker 1>sought out someone that has that. And it's been a

0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:50.520
<v Speaker 1>problem in the past. People have been like, I'm not

0:30:50.600 --> 0:30:53.840
<v Speaker 1>your dad, and I'm like, well, yeah, should be, because

0:30:53.880 --> 0:30:54.880
<v Speaker 1>my dad would never say that.

0:30:55.280 --> 0:30:57.280
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well this is this is actually one of them,

0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:59.840
<v Speaker 2>is that we are attracted to people who if not

0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:03.040
<v Speaker 2>reflecting ourselves back who reflect our parents if we have

0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:06.160
<v Speaker 2>healthy attachment relationships with our parents, which kind of sounds

0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:09.520
<v Speaker 2>like some sort of messed up Freudian situation where you know,

0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:12.360
<v Speaker 2>boys want to date their mummies and we want to

0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:14.760
<v Speaker 2>date that our daddies, which also is weird because people

0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:16.440
<v Speaker 2>say that I am kind of similar to Matt's mum,

0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:18.240
<v Speaker 2>so like I'm having a hand.

0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.000
<v Speaker 1>Are you his sister or his mum?

0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:23.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm definitely not a silt. We look very different. I

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:25.000
<v Speaker 2>think I'm more Matt's mum than I am his sister,

0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:27.880
<v Speaker 2>which is kind of weird, but anyway, we can kind

0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:29.960
<v Speaker 2>of move past that. But it's totally a thing where

0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:32.240
<v Speaker 2>if you have a strong emotional connection to your parents

0:31:32.280 --> 0:31:34.800
<v Speaker 2>and they've laid that blueprint for like what a healthy

0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:37.600
<v Speaker 2>relationship should be, then we tend to seek out people

0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:39.960
<v Speaker 2>who are similar and maybe even look similar to our

0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:44.120
<v Speaker 2>parents as well. Yeah weird, I'm about that anything else? Yeah, okay.

0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:45.360
<v Speaker 2>So one of the other ones I thought was really

0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:49.200
<v Speaker 2>interesting is there's another thing called game theory, which I

0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:54.000
<v Speaker 2>think makes total sense because when you think people date

0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:56.640
<v Speaker 2>of all different levels of hotness. Okay, hear me out here,

0:31:57.120 --> 0:32:01.000
<v Speaker 2>So theoretically, there are the hottest peaceeople in society, and

0:32:01.000 --> 0:32:02.840
<v Speaker 2>then there are less hot people as it kind of

0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:05.600
<v Speaker 2>goes on, Right, But people seem to date other people

0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:08.040
<v Speaker 2>who match their level of hotness. Right. Someone has actually

0:32:08.080 --> 0:32:10.600
<v Speaker 2>done a research study into this, and the reason behind

0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:12.240
<v Speaker 2>it is because it's kind of like the top of

0:32:12.280 --> 0:32:14.840
<v Speaker 2>the food chain. If everybody went for the hottest person,

0:32:15.200 --> 0:32:17.320
<v Speaker 2>the option would be so minimal, like there was not

0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:20.080
<v Speaker 2>that many people to choose from, So we tend to

0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:22.120
<v Speaker 2>go for people who are like for like, we tend

0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:24.640
<v Speaker 2>to date people or be attracted to people who look

0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:28.960
<v Speaker 2>similar to us in terms of our social or theoretical hotness,

0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.560
<v Speaker 2>if that makes sense. It's funny you say that except

0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:33.760
<v Speaker 2>for some men who have inflated self egos and date

0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:34.520
<v Speaker 2>really hot chicks.

0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:36.600
<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm going to speak on behalf of like a

0:32:36.640 --> 0:32:40.360
<v Speaker 1>group of my friends. We've had these conversations many times

0:32:41.040 --> 0:32:44.240
<v Speaker 1>when we're online dating. Right, A lot of my friends

0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:47.920
<v Speaker 1>have said that they were like, they'll look at someone

0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:50.080
<v Speaker 1>and I'll say I would never swipe them, or I'd

0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:52.440
<v Speaker 1>never ask them out. I would say why and they're like,

0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:54.920
<v Speaker 1>they're too hot. They're like, I wouldn't want to date

0:32:54.960 --> 0:32:58.160
<v Speaker 1>someone that good looking. And there's a real general consensus

0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.960
<v Speaker 1>that a lot of women on a date somebody that

0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:05.400
<v Speaker 1>they think is less attractive but like personality, funny in everything,

0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:09.120
<v Speaker 1>but less attractive because they don't feel as attractive when

0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:10.280
<v Speaker 1>they're with someone that's hotter.

0:33:10.400 --> 0:33:11.800
<v Speaker 2>And this is not like a one off.

0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:14.160
<v Speaker 1>I have had so many friends say that, oh he's

0:33:14.200 --> 0:33:16.680
<v Speaker 1>too he's too ripped, like he's too hot. I would

0:33:16.760 --> 0:33:19.640
<v Speaker 1>just feel like inadequate next to him. And I find

0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:23.000
<v Speaker 1>that really interesting because I've always shot my shot way higher.

0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:24.440
<v Speaker 2>I've always gone.

0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:26.640
<v Speaker 1>I was like, I ain't got nothing to lose, because

0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:27.200
<v Speaker 1>what are they gonna do?

0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.560
<v Speaker 2>Say no? Like if I could go for that ten,

0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:30.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try.

0:33:30.840 --> 0:33:30.880
<v Speaker 1>No.

0:33:31.080 --> 0:33:35.920
<v Speaker 2>I am. I completely agree with the general consensus of

0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:38.200
<v Speaker 2>other women. Like I mean, I think Matt is like

0:33:38.360 --> 0:33:42.080
<v Speaker 2>a very very attractive man. Would I have sought him

0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 2>out had we met in a different circumstance, probably not,

0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:47.720
<v Speaker 2>or had I met him on a dating side or something.

0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:50.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I would have thought that we would

0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:52.920
<v Speaker 2>have been compatible. And maybe that makes me seem like

0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:54.920
<v Speaker 2>I have a low self esteem, but I don't. It

0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:56.720
<v Speaker 2>doesn't come down to self esteem for me. What it

0:33:56.720 --> 0:34:00.640
<v Speaker 2>comes down to, is this assumption that really hot people

0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:02.720
<v Speaker 2>will be arrogant, or they'll know that they're hot, or

0:34:02.720 --> 0:34:04.880
<v Speaker 2>they won't be as funny, or because they've been so

0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:07.200
<v Speaker 2>good looking, they haven't had to work on their personality.

0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.440
<v Speaker 2>So I guess I have had this like bias towards

0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:12.440
<v Speaker 2>really hot people in the past, and they haven't been

0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:13.600
<v Speaker 2>the people that I've been attracted to.

0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:16.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but mine's also not about the way I view

0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:18.000
<v Speaker 1>myself because I'm not a ten.

0:34:18.200 --> 0:34:20.480
<v Speaker 2>I know that I know are a ten. Shut up. No, No,

0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:23.360
<v Speaker 2>that's annoying. Everyone listening to this is annoyed by that.

0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:23.960
<v Speaker 2>But listen.

0:34:24.040 --> 0:34:25.839
<v Speaker 1>My point is I don't do it because I think

0:34:25.880 --> 0:34:28.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm hot. I do it because if there's a chance

0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:31.399
<v Speaker 1>I could bang Brad Pitt, I'm gonna take it, like

0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:35.120
<v Speaker 1>because if you're not scared of failure, it doesn't matter

0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:39.279
<v Speaker 1>like failure, No, And I'm not scared of failure. So

0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:42.000
<v Speaker 1>I think if Brad Pitt's there, right, and this has happened,

0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:44.880
<v Speaker 1>Remember Channing Tatum. I saw him on RAYA. I super

0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:46.760
<v Speaker 1>liked this shit out of Channing ten, which.

0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:48.440
<v Speaker 2>Was embarrassing because you kept super liking him and he

0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:51.040
<v Speaker 2>was like go away. Well yeah, well I was like,

0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:52.920
<v Speaker 2>maybe got lost in the mail. I don't know. I'm

0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:53.959
<v Speaker 2>I still do it again.

0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.000
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's just wind it back. I super liked him

0:34:56.000 --> 0:34:57.960
<v Speaker 1>twice for a long time. That is, that is a

0:34:57.960 --> 0:34:58.840
<v Speaker 1>lot of super liking.

0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:02.000
<v Speaker 2>If any guys super me twice, I'd be like, slow down, buddy,

0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:04.759
<v Speaker 2>I got it the first time, and I'm not interested.

0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:08.520
<v Speaker 1>My boy me is like, I've dated all different people

0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:10.160
<v Speaker 1>that look all different ways, but I just think it's

0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:11.719
<v Speaker 1>not because I think I deserve it and I'm hot,

0:35:11.760 --> 0:35:13.520
<v Speaker 1>but I'm like, if there's any chance that I could

0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:14.600
<v Speaker 1>go to bed with prep?

0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:18.880
<v Speaker 2>Okay. The last one I want to talk to you

0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:24.160
<v Speaker 2>about is something called empathetic mimicking. Right, So apparently this

0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:26.720
<v Speaker 2>means that sometimes we will date someone who doesn't actually

0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:29.360
<v Speaker 2>look like us, but over time, because you spend so

0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:32.880
<v Speaker 2>much time together, because you start to like the same things,

0:35:32.960 --> 0:35:36.120
<v Speaker 2>because like your interests start to merch you literally, yeah,

0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:38.320
<v Speaker 2>and I'm looking at you, Brittany Hockley. You literally start

0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:41.560
<v Speaker 2>to look like your partner because you are morphing into

0:35:41.600 --> 0:35:44.919
<v Speaker 2>them because of similar like similar everything. You start wearing

0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:46.960
<v Speaker 2>their clothes. Yeah, fuck, I went into BRIT's house the

0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:49.040
<v Speaker 2>other day and she had a fucking football jersey hanging

0:35:49.080 --> 0:35:50.919
<v Speaker 2>up in the bathroom, and I was like, Oh, here

0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:54.360
<v Speaker 2>we go. It's empathetic mimicking happening. She's turning into bed.

0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:57.439
<v Speaker 2>I don't hang on a minute.

0:35:57.520 --> 0:35:59.360
<v Speaker 1>I don't actually wear that as my fashion.

0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:03.319
<v Speaker 2>I do. Okay, you say this, nut nap. I will

0:36:03.320 --> 0:36:05.719
<v Speaker 2>put money on the fact that in at least six

0:36:05.760 --> 0:36:08.360
<v Speaker 2>months time, you'll forget this conversation. You will upload a

0:36:08.400 --> 0:36:10.719
<v Speaker 2>storage Instagram and you will be out going for a

0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:12.399
<v Speaker 2>fucking walk. You'll be going out to lunch and you'll

0:36:12.400 --> 0:36:14.359
<v Speaker 2>be wearing a football jersey. Go do it, money, I'm

0:36:14.360 --> 0:36:16.160
<v Speaker 2>gonna do money. I'm gonna do it tomorrow. Money on

0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:20.239
<v Speaker 2>the table. Let's get okay, let's move all right. Well,

0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:23.239
<v Speaker 2>you have a couple of absolutely freaking hilarious stories that

0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:24.960
<v Speaker 2>have come in, and there was one that I wanted

0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:27.600
<v Speaker 2>to read to you guys straight off the bat, because

0:36:27.680 --> 0:36:29.839
<v Speaker 2>holy dick, this is great. We did a call out

0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:32.400
<v Speaker 2>a couple of weeks ago for some dating disaster stories,

0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:35.120
<v Speaker 2>and now we've all got a dating disaster story. But

0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:37.440
<v Speaker 2>this one truly hit home. I went on a date

0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:39.680
<v Speaker 2>with a fireman who bragged about taking me for a

0:36:39.680 --> 0:36:42.879
<v Speaker 2>spin in his fire truck after dinner. When we got

0:36:42.880 --> 0:36:45.200
<v Speaker 2>to the fire station, he made a big deal about it,

0:36:45.280 --> 0:36:47.160
<v Speaker 2>and he lifted me up into the truck and he

0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:49.360
<v Speaker 2>put a fireman hat on my head and told me

0:36:49.400 --> 0:36:52.239
<v Speaker 2>I could ring the sirens. He then went back to

0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:55.200
<v Speaker 2>the truck, reversed about three meters, and then drove it

0:36:55.239 --> 0:36:57.640
<v Speaker 2>forward again back into the station, and he turned to

0:36:57.640 --> 0:37:00.279
<v Speaker 2>me and said, so, how was that. I thought he

0:37:00.320 --> 0:37:02.799
<v Speaker 2>was kidding, so I started to laugh, but then he

0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:05.320
<v Speaker 2>turned off the ignition and he got out. He genuinely

0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:07.799
<v Speaker 2>thought that the three meter reverse in his truck was

0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:11.279
<v Speaker 2>taking me for a spin. I feel like he has

0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:14.080
<v Speaker 2>had so many small children that he's had like been

0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:15.759
<v Speaker 2>like this is how we do it, and he kind

0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:19.520
<v Speaker 2>of is infantizing women. Also how patronizing he is, but

0:37:19.719 --> 0:37:21.719
<v Speaker 2>like I'll lift you up, like you can't get the

0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:23.560
<v Speaker 2>truck your old child, and do you want to ring

0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:23.919
<v Speaker 2>the bell?

0:37:24.040 --> 0:37:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Like I'm sorry, I'd be hot out of there.

0:37:26.200 --> 0:37:28.120
<v Speaker 2>If anything's going to keep your pennies on, it's a

0:37:28.160 --> 0:37:30.520
<v Speaker 2>man who says, put my little hat on, ring the.

0:37:30.440 --> 0:37:32.640
<v Speaker 1>Bell, sweetie, Like, where's the part where you take your

0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:34.120
<v Speaker 1>shirt off and hoe yourself down and we take a

0:37:34.160 --> 0:37:36.400
<v Speaker 1>calendar picture, like he just went from being like a

0:37:36.520 --> 0:37:39.160
<v Speaker 1>hot fireman to being a daddy all of a sudden.

0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:41.560
<v Speaker 1>That which with some people that might actually get them off,

0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:42.720
<v Speaker 1>but you know what, not this person.

0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:43.680
<v Speaker 2>I'm just not.

0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:45.800
<v Speaker 1>Sure when that ever worked for him, though.

0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:47.040
<v Speaker 2>Maybe that has in the past.

0:37:47.080 --> 0:37:50.799
<v Speaker 1>And therefore, what grown woman is going to get off

0:37:50.880 --> 0:37:52.160
<v Speaker 1>on a firetruck?

0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:54.200
<v Speaker 2>Okay? Do you know what this makes me think? Though?

0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:55.719
<v Speaker 2>It makes me think that he was like, I'm going

0:37:55.800 --> 0:37:57.200
<v Speaker 2>to take you for a spin in my fire truck.

0:37:57.200 --> 0:37:59.040
<v Speaker 2>But legally he's actually not allowed to take the fire

0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:00.839
<v Speaker 2>truck out, so that's why he drove it down them

0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:01.600
<v Speaker 2>for driveway and back.

0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:03.839
<v Speaker 1>Arackon, he's just a volunteer and he's probably stolen the keys.

0:38:03.840 --> 0:38:05.879
<v Speaker 2>He's not even out in it. That's what I reckon. Okay.

0:38:06.000 --> 0:38:07.880
<v Speaker 1>My one is we got sent in a screenshot. We

0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:11.880
<v Speaker 1>got sent in a dating profile screenshot, and there's a

0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:15.960
<v Speaker 1>picture of two women having a drink, two friends obviously,

0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:20.280
<v Speaker 1>and he has written to her and said I'm changing

0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:23.719
<v Speaker 1>the names. He's written to her and said, hey, Sarah

0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:26.480
<v Speaker 1>is your friend in the pick single because she looks nice.

0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:29.560
<v Speaker 1>So he's added Sarah and matched and then asked about

0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:30.640
<v Speaker 1>the friend in the picture.

0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:34.160
<v Speaker 2>Good game good. I've wanted to do that before. I mean,

0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:36.160
<v Speaker 2>I think that this is shows you that you can.

0:38:36.320 --> 0:38:40.160
<v Speaker 2>Will it be a successful outcome? Absolutely not, but it's

0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:41.200
<v Speaker 2>going to show your shot.

0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:44.719
<v Speaker 1>Actually I just said, no, you can't, but can you?

0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:47.640
<v Speaker 2>Maybe you care? It's very offensive. It's never gonna go

0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:49.440
<v Speaker 2>down well. But I feel like that this is not

0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:51.800
<v Speaker 2>an uncommon thing for people who are on dating apps.

0:38:52.120 --> 0:38:54.000
<v Speaker 2>How often is it that you match with someone and

0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:56.040
<v Speaker 2>then you find out that the person you match with

0:38:56.160 --> 0:38:57.920
<v Speaker 2>isn't the one that you thought was hot in the pictures,

0:38:58.239 --> 0:39:00.480
<v Speaker 2>It was their friend And did you want a message

0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:02.040
<v Speaker 2>to them and say, hey, who's your friend? Yes?

0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:04.600
<v Speaker 1>So I've done it multiple times where I've seen someone

0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:06.880
<v Speaker 1>and I know they're the main person, and I'm like,

0:39:06.960 --> 0:39:08.719
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to match with you, but god, I

0:39:08.760 --> 0:39:10.120
<v Speaker 1>want to know your friend and you can't.

0:39:10.239 --> 0:39:12.160
<v Speaker 2>So then you go onto their Instagram and you stalk

0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:13.520
<v Speaker 2>them to try and find who their friend is.

0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:16.960
<v Speaker 1>It only works if they've linked their Instagram like otherwise

0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:19.439
<v Speaker 1>there's absolutely no way to do it. So I don't

0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:20.960
<v Speaker 1>know if what if that person could be the love

0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:23.400
<v Speaker 1>of your life. Do you match like Shane did? Do

0:39:23.480 --> 0:39:25.880
<v Speaker 1>you match and shoot your shot with a friend. It

0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.480
<v Speaker 1>is very offensive because if you've matched, that girl has

0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:32.320
<v Speaker 1>said like, I'm choosing you, but you're choosing there choosing

0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:33.880
<v Speaker 1>my friend and then as a friend.

0:39:33.960 --> 0:39:37.440
<v Speaker 2>Do you cock blocker? Cock block? Do you say fuck you?

0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:37.640
<v Speaker 1>No?

0:39:38.080 --> 0:39:39.200
<v Speaker 2>Or do you link them up?

0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:39.400
<v Speaker 1>No?

0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:41.480
<v Speaker 2>You don't, no question? Now you cock block? You don't?

0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.200
<v Speaker 2>Like you know, don't. You're not a dating app for

0:39:43.200 --> 0:39:45.600
<v Speaker 2>your friends. You're not there facilitating your friend's dating. You're

0:39:45.600 --> 0:39:47.080
<v Speaker 2>there for yourself and yourself only.

0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:49.720
<v Speaker 1>Okay, if this has ever happened to anyone, please write

0:39:49.719 --> 0:39:50.960
<v Speaker 1>in if you've ever met up.

0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:53.640
<v Speaker 2>Keisha's in the corner saying all she does is facilitate

0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:54.319
<v Speaker 2>Brits dating.

0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:57.440
<v Speaker 1>Oh please, I facilitate her dating.

0:39:57.680 --> 0:40:01.440
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's get into the chat with Kelsey. The

0:40:01.480 --> 0:40:04.799
<v Speaker 2>film called The Volcano Rescue from Forkari is currently on

0:40:04.880 --> 0:40:08.040
<v Speaker 2>Netflix and it documents the White Island disaster. On the

0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:11.399
<v Speaker 2>ninth of December in twenty nineteen, forty seven people were

0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:14.520
<v Speaker 2>on Forkari when it erupted. It killed twenty two people

0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:17.640
<v Speaker 2>and it injured twenty five others, with the majority suffering

0:40:17.680 --> 0:40:19.439
<v Speaker 2>from severe burns.

0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:24.040
<v Speaker 1>It was a beautiful day. You could fill the heat

0:40:24.560 --> 0:40:26.400
<v Speaker 1>from the volcano.

0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:28.799
<v Speaker 4>From a description, it was an icy, easy height. They

0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:30.200
<v Speaker 4>didn't make it sound dangerous.

0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:33.600
<v Speaker 3>I knew what could happen out there, but you don't

0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:34.680
<v Speaker 3>believe it will happen.

0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:50.440
<v Speaker 4>Right, I thought, this is it. We're going to die

0:40:50.480 --> 0:40:51.200
<v Speaker 4>on her honeymoon.

0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:55.560
<v Speaker 1>I heard the call, there's people on the island and

0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:57.320
<v Speaker 1>she's erupting.

0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:02.640
<v Speaker 3>The hate alone, it's just unbearable. The burns went through

0:41:02.800 --> 0:41:05.759
<v Speaker 3>all my clothes. I fear dealing with people who are

0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:07.839
<v Speaker 3>going to die within the next hour of.

0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:08.760
<v Speaker 4>Sils or stuff.

0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:12.680
<v Speaker 2>At this stage, it is too dangerous for police and

0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:15.080
<v Speaker 2>rescue services to go to the island of the authority.

0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:16.399
<v Speaker 4>See, they're on your eyes.

0:41:17.440 --> 0:41:20.800
<v Speaker 2>An eruption that lasted two minutes but has had consequences

0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:25.760
<v Speaker 2>that will last forever. Joining us today is survivor Kelsey Waghorn. Kelsey,

0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:28.120
<v Speaker 2>we are so grateful for you giving your time to

0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:28.720
<v Speaker 2>us today.

0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:31.319
<v Speaker 3>Hello, No, it's it's pleasure to be here.

0:41:31.480 --> 0:41:33.719
<v Speaker 2>What was it like for you watching back that documentary?

0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:35.839
<v Speaker 3>It was a bit weird. Yeah. Every time I see

0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:38.040
<v Speaker 3>or hear something about it, it's always just a bit weird.

0:41:38.080 --> 0:41:40.080
<v Speaker 3>And it's like even the footage, Like I still see

0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:42.400
<v Speaker 3>the footage and there's a big part of me that

0:41:42.440 --> 0:41:45.360
<v Speaker 3>always just goes, there's no way anyone walked off their island,

0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:46.759
<v Speaker 3>and then it's like I did.

0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:49.280
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly what we thought when we watched it.

0:41:49.280 --> 0:41:51.360
<v Speaker 3>It's just really weird, Like even the first time I

0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:53.560
<v Speaker 3>saw any of the footage, it was like, no, there's

0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:56.319
<v Speaker 3>no way that's what happened, Like, how could anyone have

0:41:56.360 --> 0:41:59.919
<v Speaker 3>walked off that? And it's like you walked off that? Yeah,

0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:01.480
<v Speaker 3>I guess It's just one of those things that's just

0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:03.080
<v Speaker 3>so big it's kind of about hard to write. You

0:42:03.160 --> 0:42:03.600
<v Speaker 3>hit around.

0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:05.640
<v Speaker 2>Can you tell us a little bit about what you

0:42:05.640 --> 0:42:07.960
<v Speaker 2>were doing, because you worked with the tour company that

0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:11.520
<v Speaker 2>was bringing people onto the island. Can you talk through

0:42:11.920 --> 0:42:14.480
<v Speaker 2>what your role was and what it was like on

0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:15.359
<v Speaker 2>the island that day.

0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.120
<v Speaker 3>It was just a normal tour, So we would just

0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:20.239
<v Speaker 3>do the toers of the and a crater and it

0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.960
<v Speaker 3>was just normal up until the second that it wasn't.

0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:25.400
<v Speaker 2>How long had you been working as a tour guide

0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:25.839
<v Speaker 2>for at this.

0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:30.200
<v Speaker 3>Point five years and one day one day?

0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:31.600
<v Speaker 2>What an anniversary?

0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:33.120
<v Speaker 3>Literally one day too long?

0:42:33.239 --> 0:42:36.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Wow, did you just feel like every day was

0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:38.480
<v Speaker 1>the same every tour you did. I guess after five

0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:40.480
<v Speaker 1>years you get a level of comfort because you've done

0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:41.240
<v Speaker 1>it so many times.

0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:41.920
<v Speaker 2>In safety.

0:42:42.080 --> 0:42:44.120
<v Speaker 1>Was there a part of you that thought nothing's ever

0:42:44.120 --> 0:42:46.160
<v Speaker 1>going to happen to me, like I feel very comfortable

0:42:46.160 --> 0:42:47.920
<v Speaker 1>and very safe doing this, or was there always this

0:42:48.000 --> 0:42:49.600
<v Speaker 1>tiny part in the back of your head that thought,

0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.680
<v Speaker 1>this is an active volcano, something could happen one day.

0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:55.200
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I guess a better both. Like I was under

0:42:55.239 --> 0:42:57.279
<v Speaker 3>no allusions as to what their island could do, like

0:42:57.360 --> 0:42:59.279
<v Speaker 3>that was part of the tour. We talked about what

0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:01.920
<v Speaker 3>happens interruptions sort of thing. So I knew what it

0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:04.719
<v Speaker 3>could do, and I knew the likelihood of getting off

0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:07.840
<v Speaker 3>if it did what it did that day was slim

0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:10.200
<v Speaker 3>to none. So yeah, I mean I knew, I knew

0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:11.719
<v Speaker 3>what it could do, but I just never believe that

0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:13.840
<v Speaker 3>it would actually do it the way that it did it,

0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:17.160
<v Speaker 3>I suppose, which maybe is naive or stupid, but yeah,

0:43:17.239 --> 0:43:19.000
<v Speaker 3>I mean I wouldn't have been there obviously if I

0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:20.840
<v Speaker 3>thought that anything bad was going to happen.

0:43:21.120 --> 0:43:23.120
<v Speaker 2>I mean, one of the things from watching the documentary

0:43:23.160 --> 0:43:26.200
<v Speaker 2>that was so hard to process was this idea that

0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:29.200
<v Speaker 2>there's different stages of volcano, like there's a dormant volcano,

0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:33.000
<v Speaker 2>a volcano that's active, and then a volcano that's literally erupting.

0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.200
<v Speaker 2>It almost felt like as if you are I was like,

0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:37.880
<v Speaker 2>where are the where's the in between stages as to

0:43:37.960 --> 0:43:41.120
<v Speaker 2>what the volcano was doing or was there any indication

0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:45.320
<v Speaker 2>that you know of that things maybe were more active

0:43:45.440 --> 0:43:47.440
<v Speaker 2>or is it? Honestly, I mean, I guess with the volcano,

0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.800
<v Speaker 2>it's one of these things where it is so unpredictable

0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:52.840
<v Speaker 2>and you're putting your hands in the mercy of mother nature.

0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:55.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I mean for me, it's like I know I

0:43:55.560 --> 0:43:57.160
<v Speaker 3>could get in a car crash every time I could

0:43:57.160 --> 0:43:59.279
<v Speaker 3>get in my car, but it doesn't stop me getting

0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:01.439
<v Speaker 3>my car. A reader, you kind of just go, yep,

0:44:01.480 --> 0:44:04.160
<v Speaker 3>I accept that risk because the risk is low. And

0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:06.480
<v Speaker 3>so I mean, for me, that's exactly what it was.

0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:08.399
<v Speaker 3>It's like swimming in the ocean. You know that there's

0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:11.440
<v Speaker 3>with his sharks, or could drown, or you hd caught

0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:13.680
<v Speaker 3>in a rip, like there's so many things that could happen,

0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:15.640
<v Speaker 3>And for me, it was just one of those things

0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:18.360
<v Speaker 3>where it's like I understand the risks. I upset the

0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:21.120
<v Speaker 3>resk because I genuinely don't believe that I'm going to

0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.160
<v Speaker 3>be the one that gets caught out by it, but

0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:26.080
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I guess at some point someone has to

0:44:26.120 --> 0:44:28.439
<v Speaker 3>be the one, and unfortunately that was us that day.

0:44:28.960 --> 0:44:30.439
<v Speaker 2>Can you talk me through that day?

0:44:30.480 --> 0:44:30.799
<v Speaker 3>For you?

0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:34.239
<v Speaker 2>A standard day of taking people onto the island and

0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:37.839
<v Speaker 2>showing them what is just the most beautiful thing to view.

0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:39.279
<v Speaker 2>And I think that that was one of the things

0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:43.080
<v Speaker 2>that was so incredible watching it. It is otherworldly being

0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:46.160
<v Speaker 2>on this island. What was that daylight for you? Where

0:44:46.160 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 2>were you in terms of taking your tour through the island.

0:44:49.640 --> 0:44:52.200
<v Speaker 3>So I've now separated from the guy I was seeing

0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:54.640
<v Speaker 3>at the time, and I'd actually posted a video of

0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:56.440
<v Speaker 3>being on the farm that afternoon. Actually, a lot of

0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:58.400
<v Speaker 3>friends and family didn't think that I was on the island.

0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:00.160
<v Speaker 3>They thought I was out on the farm, and so

0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:02.560
<v Speaker 3>they're like, cool, she's safe. But yeah, I mean I

0:45:02.600 --> 0:45:05.360
<v Speaker 3>came in and it was normal day. We loaded the

0:45:05.360 --> 0:45:07.480
<v Speaker 3>boat up, we headed out to the island. We did

0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:11.359
<v Speaker 3>eighty percent of the tour, and then we turned around

0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:14.040
<v Speaker 3>and it was erupting. So there was no solent boom

0:45:14.120 --> 0:45:16.719
<v Speaker 3>or what you kind of think there would be. So

0:45:17.000 --> 0:45:19.160
<v Speaker 3>it just yeah, was kicking off when we realized.

0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:21.360
<v Speaker 1>So you were on the way back, you were almost

0:45:21.400 --> 0:45:22.880
<v Speaker 1>back to the boat when this happened.

0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:24.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we'd been to the crater and we were making

0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:25.440
<v Speaker 3>our way back to the wharf.

0:45:25.840 --> 0:45:26.640
<v Speaker 2>And how long?

0:45:26.719 --> 0:45:28.319
<v Speaker 1>Like what was it like when you just said it

0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:30.719
<v Speaker 1>wasn't a typical bang, Like you know, you sit here

0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:33.080
<v Speaker 1>as a viewer or someone that has no experience, and

0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:37.080
<v Speaker 1>you think, okay, when a volcano erupts, it's like the TV.

0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:38.640
<v Speaker 2>It's very cliche. It's like a movie.

0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:40.840
<v Speaker 1>It's like, you know, you hear this a big eruption

0:45:40.880 --> 0:45:43.040
<v Speaker 1>and then lava paus out and then there's smoke, And

0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:46.640
<v Speaker 1>what was it actually like? And once it started happening,

0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:49.040
<v Speaker 1>when was the moment where you were like, holy moly,

0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:51.560
<v Speaker 1>this is an actual eruption. This is not just a

0:45:51.600 --> 0:45:53.960
<v Speaker 1>bit of smoke a bit of bash, Like this is happening.

0:45:53.760 --> 0:45:56.600
<v Speaker 3>Immediately, I suppose would be the quick answer, Yeah, because

0:45:56.600 --> 0:45:59.360
<v Speaker 3>I actually had my back to it whenever I started realizing,

0:45:59.360 --> 0:46:01.560
<v Speaker 3>because I was just my talk as I always did,

0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.239
<v Speaker 3>and it wasn't until be able sort of every all

0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.600
<v Speaker 3>at the same time realized what was going on, and

0:46:06.680 --> 0:46:10.040
<v Speaker 3>so we basically hit it for cover straight away, and

0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:12.360
<v Speaker 3>I kind of in my head as we were like

0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:15.239
<v Speaker 3>moving for cover. I remember thinking at the time, I

0:46:15.360 --> 0:46:17.239
<v Speaker 3>just like having this little chuckle in my head because

0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:19.000
<v Speaker 3>it was like this is like I drilled and it

0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:20.839
<v Speaker 3>was just like running along just like having a little

0:46:20.880 --> 0:46:22.720
<v Speaker 3>laugh in my head because I don't know, my brain

0:46:23.000 --> 0:46:25.120
<v Speaker 3>just works in a weird way. Then when we saw

0:46:25.120 --> 0:46:27.799
<v Speaker 3>the paracastic flow, when I saw the paracoystic flow, it

0:46:27.880 --> 0:46:30.160
<v Speaker 3>was like, Okay, well that's us then, because I know

0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:32.640
<v Speaker 3>the likelihood of surviving that is, and so it was

0:46:32.719 --> 0:46:35.440
<v Speaker 3>kind of just like, oh, well that's us, Like I

0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:37.600
<v Speaker 3>don't what else can I do? You can't fight mother

0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:39.120
<v Speaker 3>nature when you're in the middle of it like that.

0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:41.160
<v Speaker 3>So it was just like shitty things to try and

0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:42.640
<v Speaker 3>have to accept in the moment.

0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:46.080
<v Speaker 2>Kelsey, when you say that it's almost unbelievable to think

0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:48.400
<v Speaker 2>that you have this moment in life where you're life

0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:50.480
<v Speaker 2>that's it. I have to accept the fact that I'm

0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:52.359
<v Speaker 2>not going to be here and here you are not

0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:55.440
<v Speaker 2>just I mean you're not just here. You're thriving. And

0:46:55.880 --> 0:46:57.600
<v Speaker 2>one of the things that I loved seeing on the

0:46:57.640 --> 0:47:00.759
<v Speaker 2>documentary is just what an incredibly positive force you are

0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:04.000
<v Speaker 2>off the back end of this. But what's that moment

0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:06.920
<v Speaker 2>like where you go, fuck, like I could die on

0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:09.759
<v Speaker 2>this island. Is there the fight in you to be

0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:11.920
<v Speaker 2>like no, this is not the place and this is

0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:14.719
<v Speaker 2>not how or did you in that moment feel like

0:47:14.760 --> 0:47:16.680
<v Speaker 2>you had to just be relinquished to what happened?

0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:19.959
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was definitely a kind of matter of just like, well,

0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:23.840
<v Speaker 3>I know scientifically what the odds are of one of

0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:26.319
<v Speaker 3>us getting off, So it was like, well, yeah, it

0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:28.280
<v Speaker 3>was just one of those kind of white flag moments

0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:30.719
<v Speaker 3>where you just kind of accept it. Didn't want to

0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:32.680
<v Speaker 3>accept it obviously, and it was kind of a bit weird,

0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:34.920
<v Speaker 3>but then obviously popped out the other side and it

0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:39.680
<v Speaker 3>was like, okay, now, what we didn't have like lava

0:47:39.680 --> 0:47:42.200
<v Speaker 3>flows or anything like that, which I suppose on one

0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:44.680
<v Speaker 3>sense is good. What was coming out of the island

0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:48.320
<v Speaker 3>was what burnt us. So it was rather than thermal burns,

0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:50.920
<v Speaker 3>it was more or less, I guess all of the

0:47:50.960 --> 0:47:53.120
<v Speaker 3>burns were chemical, so it was kind of like acid

0:47:53.120 --> 0:47:56.480
<v Speaker 3>and alkali burns, which in one sense sounds worse, but

0:47:56.800 --> 0:48:00.400
<v Speaker 3>it actually meant like for me, especially like I literally

0:48:00.440 --> 0:48:03.080
<v Speaker 3>have my uniform burnt in me for life now, So

0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:05.839
<v Speaker 3>like it was just all skin that was exposed got

0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:08.120
<v Speaker 3>burnt for me because I didn't move, I just basically

0:48:08.200 --> 0:48:11.160
<v Speaker 3>fetal positioned and was just like, well, that's it. Yeah,

0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:13.440
<v Speaker 3>it was just exposed skin that got burnt. So that

0:48:13.560 --> 0:48:15.719
<v Speaker 3>was kind of a blessing in a weird kind of

0:48:15.760 --> 0:48:18.120
<v Speaker 3>way because it meant that obviously it saved a lot

0:48:18.160 --> 0:48:20.279
<v Speaker 3>of skin. If it had been thermal burns, then we

0:48:20.480 --> 0:48:21.879
<v Speaker 3>possibly would have been worse off.

0:48:22.280 --> 0:48:26.360
<v Speaker 1>What do you remember about, if anything, the smells and

0:48:26.400 --> 0:48:31.000
<v Speaker 1>the fields and the sight. So I guess for someone

0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:33.240
<v Speaker 1>sitting at home now that hasn't watched it, that's listening,

0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:35.640
<v Speaker 1>what was the order of how things happened? Because we

0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:39.040
<v Speaker 1>do see complete blackness take hold. I can't imagine what

0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:42.239
<v Speaker 1>you were smelling and hearing, how loud it was.

0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:45.799
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember smell. That's probably the one thing I

0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:47.839
<v Speaker 3>don't remember. But then again, I'm so used to the

0:48:47.840 --> 0:48:50.040
<v Speaker 3>island because I've been there. I must have done about

0:48:50.080 --> 0:48:52.120
<v Speaker 3>nine hundred odds. TiO was there, so it's not like

0:48:52.160 --> 0:48:54.680
<v Speaker 3>it was a rat. It wasn't a new smell to me,

0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:57.480
<v Speaker 3>so I don't remember that. And then obviously, like through

0:48:57.520 --> 0:49:00.440
<v Speaker 3>the paraclastic flow. Couldn't see anything because it was just black.

0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:04.400
<v Speaker 3>But I remember hearing everything, and I find now that

0:49:04.520 --> 0:49:06.640
<v Speaker 3>audio is something that will set me off quite easily.

0:49:07.080 --> 0:49:08.840
<v Speaker 3>So there's been a few things that have been like

0:49:08.920 --> 0:49:11.040
<v Speaker 3>sounds that have set me off in the last kind

0:49:11.040 --> 0:49:14.799
<v Speaker 3>of three years. I suppose sound is quite hard. Initially,

0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:18.360
<v Speaker 3>it felt like for me, it was like standing on

0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.880
<v Speaker 3>a beach on a really hot day and on a

0:49:20.920 --> 0:49:23.120
<v Speaker 3>really windy hot day, and so it was just like

0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:25.320
<v Speaker 3>you could feel all the like sand and like small

0:49:25.360 --> 0:49:27.799
<v Speaker 3>gravel and like everything like hitting you and bouncing off you,

0:49:27.840 --> 0:49:30.239
<v Speaker 3>and it was just really warm. And I say really warm.

0:49:30.239 --> 0:49:32.440
<v Speaker 3>It was pretty hot. That's the only way I can

0:49:32.480 --> 0:49:34.279
<v Speaker 3>think of to describe it, becau otherwise I don't really

0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:36.200
<v Speaker 3>know how to put that into words. And then obviously

0:49:36.560 --> 0:49:39.040
<v Speaker 3>the burns I'm not even going to dry. But yeah,

0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:43.359
<v Speaker 3>it was I remember everything, unfortunately or fortunately as well,

0:49:43.400 --> 0:49:45.640
<v Speaker 3>because it's like there's no question for me, it's what happened,

0:49:45.680 --> 0:49:48.040
<v Speaker 3>So it's not like I woke up, Oh my dog's

0:49:48.080 --> 0:49:48.560
<v Speaker 3>just bursting.

0:49:50.080 --> 0:49:51.359
<v Speaker 2>That's okay, we're pro dog here.

0:49:53.480 --> 0:49:55.640
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so remember it all, which is good in a

0:49:55.680 --> 0:49:57.719
<v Speaker 3>sense because it means that there's no question, Like I

0:49:57.760 --> 0:49:59.759
<v Speaker 3>woke up from my coma and remembered it all when

0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:03.319
<v Speaker 3>basically recited it all to my family immediately, and they're

0:50:03.320 --> 0:50:05.560
<v Speaker 3>all like, oh, okay, we weren't expecting you'd better remember

0:50:05.560 --> 0:50:05.960
<v Speaker 3>any of that.

0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:10.520
<v Speaker 2>But good not focusing on what happened on the island.

0:50:10.520 --> 0:50:12.560
<v Speaker 2>But I think the really powerful part of this is

0:50:12.719 --> 0:50:15.120
<v Speaker 2>actually how you were all rescued and how you managed

0:50:15.160 --> 0:50:18.279
<v Speaker 2>to get off the island. What was that process for you? Like,

0:50:18.360 --> 0:50:21.040
<v Speaker 2>were you somebody who was taken onto the boat? Were

0:50:21.080 --> 0:50:25.440
<v Speaker 2>you helicoptered out of there once everything had subsided and

0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:28.360
<v Speaker 2>it was then a rescue mission? What were those moments

0:50:28.440 --> 0:50:28.799
<v Speaker 2>like for you?

0:50:30.000 --> 0:50:33.480
<v Speaker 3>Pretty full on. So we walked off the island and

0:50:34.239 --> 0:50:36.600
<v Speaker 3>my group I yeh led off the island and we

0:50:36.680 --> 0:50:40.359
<v Speaker 3>got to the wharf and my colleagues basically came back

0:50:40.400 --> 0:50:42.040
<v Speaker 3>and packed me out because the boat I came out

0:50:42.080 --> 0:50:44.440
<v Speaker 3>and got hit so that was out of water for

0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:48.000
<v Speaker 3>that moment. So my colleagues came and packed us up

0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:50.120
<v Speaker 3>and put us on Phoenix, which is the boat that

0:50:50.239 --> 0:50:53.240
<v Speaker 3>had people are not already who had just left the island.

0:50:53.600 --> 0:50:56.400
<v Speaker 3>So we came home on that. It was the longest

0:50:56.520 --> 0:50:59.640
<v Speaker 3>hour of my life. Yeah, that two minutes felt like

0:50:59.640 --> 0:51:01.520
<v Speaker 3>a really long time, but that hour was just a

0:51:01.600 --> 0:51:03.399
<v Speaker 3>fellow days and it was just like I didn't feel

0:51:03.400 --> 0:51:05.720
<v Speaker 3>like we were doing any close to the mainland. We

0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:09.719
<v Speaker 3>made it back to the shore and we were well,

0:51:09.760 --> 0:51:12.239
<v Speaker 3>my brain set's sort of get a bit patchy here.

0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:14.759
<v Speaker 3>But we got put into ambulances and taken to fucking

0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:18.239
<v Speaker 3>Signi Hospital where they did all our initial triage. I

0:51:18.280 --> 0:51:20.640
<v Speaker 3>suppose think kre trying to get our pain out of

0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:23.359
<v Speaker 3>control and just trying to like triage us to ship

0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:25.400
<v Speaker 3>us off to the burns units around New Zealand, and

0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:28.360
<v Speaker 3>so we got shipped out within I think it was

0:51:28.400 --> 0:51:29.760
<v Speaker 3>within twenty four hours.

0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:32.279
<v Speaker 1>The last one was gone on the boat ride home,

0:51:32.320 --> 0:51:33.799
<v Speaker 1>because you just said it was the longest hour of

0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:36.240
<v Speaker 1>your life. But there's a moment in the documentary where

0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.719
<v Speaker 1>when you land, you say the ambulance is there, and

0:51:39.760 --> 0:51:41.719
<v Speaker 1>it was triage and it was chaos. Everyone was there,

0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:43.800
<v Speaker 1>But there was a moment where you saw your family members.

0:51:43.800 --> 0:51:45.719
<v Speaker 1>I think it was your mum and your sister, and

0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:49.200
<v Speaker 1>you said, I saw my family there and I didn't

0:51:49.280 --> 0:51:52.279
<v Speaker 1>want them to see me like this. So I can't

0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:54.359
<v Speaker 1>even imagine when you're going through what you're going through

0:51:54.360 --> 0:51:56.319
<v Speaker 1>in the feeling, but you still had enough in you

0:51:56.680 --> 0:51:59.799
<v Speaker 1>to worry about your family. Is this a way that

0:51:59.840 --> 0:52:02.040
<v Speaker 1>you're my body started to cope with the trauma and

0:52:02.080 --> 0:52:04.200
<v Speaker 1>the pain. I guess I'm just so interested in the

0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:06.759
<v Speaker 1>psychology and what was happening in your mind at that time.

0:52:06.920 --> 0:52:08.960
<v Speaker 3>I think the adrenaline well and truly worn off by

0:52:08.960 --> 0:52:11.000
<v Speaker 3>that point, because Yeah, as we got to the wharf,

0:52:11.040 --> 0:52:12.719
<v Speaker 3>like I couldn't see the group behind me, and I

0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:14.360
<v Speaker 3>was adamant that I was going to go back and

0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:16.759
<v Speaker 3>find my friend Hayden, who was leading the other group.

0:52:16.800 --> 0:52:18.960
<v Speaker 3>So I was going to go back, but the adrenaline wore

0:52:18.960 --> 0:52:21.560
<v Speaker 3>off pretty quickly and there was no way that I

0:52:21.600 --> 0:52:25.200
<v Speaker 3>could go back. Then at the wharf, as we pulled

0:52:25.239 --> 0:52:28.000
<v Speaker 3>into all the help, Yeah, I just remember seeing my

0:52:28.080 --> 0:52:29.839
<v Speaker 3>mum and my sister and I was like looking at

0:52:29.880 --> 0:52:32.319
<v Speaker 3>my hands and I'm like, no, they don't need to

0:52:32.360 --> 0:52:35.160
<v Speaker 3>see this. Like this was pretty grim. And so I

0:52:35.200 --> 0:52:36.640
<v Speaker 3>said to one of the crew that was working on

0:52:36.680 --> 0:52:37.920
<v Speaker 3>the BI I just said, I need to get off

0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:39.600
<v Speaker 3>this boat, and she's just like, yeah, just give us

0:52:39.600 --> 0:52:41.600
<v Speaker 3>a minute. And I was like no, no, I'm out

0:52:41.600 --> 0:52:43.239
<v Speaker 3>of here, mate, And I just like stood up and

0:52:43.239 --> 0:52:45.040
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't straighten my legs. I was kind of like

0:52:45.120 --> 0:52:47.760
<v Speaker 3>quasi moto, just like oh, lamb it off the boat

0:52:47.800 --> 0:52:50.040
<v Speaker 3>like some sort of like yeah, it was a bit

0:52:50.080 --> 0:52:51.799
<v Speaker 3>of a mess. I went to the front of the

0:52:51.800 --> 0:52:53.600
<v Speaker 3>boat because they were sort of towards the back of

0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:55.120
<v Speaker 3>the boat, and I was just like, I'm not going

0:52:55.120 --> 0:52:57.160
<v Speaker 3>that way. And so I actually ended up having to

0:52:57.160 --> 0:52:59.560
<v Speaker 3>be lifted off the front of the boat by this

0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:02.920
<v Speaker 3>crew and her dad and try not to like scream

0:53:02.920 --> 0:53:04.880
<v Speaker 3>as they like pushed me up. And then it was

0:53:04.920 --> 0:53:06.959
<v Speaker 3>just like hobbled over to an ambulance and she helped

0:53:06.960 --> 0:53:09.279
<v Speaker 3>me get into an ambulance, and yeah, then things get

0:53:09.320 --> 0:53:11.160
<v Speaker 3>a bit messy for me there, because yeah, we had

0:53:11.160 --> 0:53:13.080
<v Speaker 3>a couple of paramedics come out and made us on

0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:15.040
<v Speaker 3>the boat, and so I think I had stuff shoved

0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:17.400
<v Speaker 3>up my nose for the pain, and so she obviously

0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:19.759
<v Speaker 3>gave me so much that my brain sort of like

0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:20.839
<v Speaker 3>got a bit fuzzy there.

0:53:21.520 --> 0:53:23.440
<v Speaker 2>Do you know at this point, I mean, I know

0:53:23.480 --> 0:53:25.120
<v Speaker 2>it's not something that you would have found out until later,

0:53:25.200 --> 0:53:29.239
<v Speaker 2>but what percentage burns to your body? Did you experience.

0:53:29.080 --> 0:53:32.160
<v Speaker 3>Forty five percent full thickness burned to my body. So

0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:34.920
<v Speaker 3>it was pretty much from my shorts line to my

0:53:34.960 --> 0:53:38.840
<v Speaker 3>boot line, fingertips to t shirt line, my lower background

0:53:38.840 --> 0:53:41.359
<v Speaker 3>onto my stomach got burnt because when I was crashed out,

0:53:41.440 --> 0:53:43.480
<v Speaker 3>my shirt must have rolled up and so you exposed

0:53:43.520 --> 0:53:45.400
<v Speaker 3>all my lower back and then I do kind of

0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:47.799
<v Speaker 3>have a little bit of like burns on my neck

0:53:47.840 --> 0:53:50.480
<v Speaker 3>and face and everything. But yeah, I've got like fairly

0:53:50.520 --> 0:53:53.359
<v Speaker 3>lumpy legs, now fairly lumpy limbs because there's like bits

0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:55.040
<v Speaker 3>of muscle that had to be cut out and stuffy

0:53:55.040 --> 0:53:57.080
<v Speaker 3>that because as it was acid, it just kept burning

0:53:57.160 --> 0:53:59.360
<v Speaker 3>until it was removed. Even though we came back on

0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:02.279
<v Speaker 3>the boat and we were getting dust with water, it

0:54:02.360 --> 0:54:04.360
<v Speaker 3>wasn't constant water like you know, when you get a

0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:07.320
<v Speaker 3>chemical burn, you're supposed to like flush it for twenty

0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:09.919
<v Speaker 3>minutes straight. Like we didn't get that because they didn't

0:54:09.920 --> 0:54:11.520
<v Speaker 3>have the capacity of to do that on the boat,

0:54:11.560 --> 0:54:13.360
<v Speaker 3>which I mean, that's not their fault, that's just the

0:54:13.360 --> 0:54:16.200
<v Speaker 3>way it was. Basically, we got to hospital and I've

0:54:16.239 --> 0:54:18.319
<v Speaker 3>heard I don't know if it was true or not,

0:54:18.360 --> 0:54:20.080
<v Speaker 3>but I've heard a lot of stories, but one of

0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:23.600
<v Speaker 3>them was that they debrided us. So basically cleared off

0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:26.920
<v Speaker 3>all the burnt material and then we'll go back the

0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:29.640
<v Speaker 3>next day to check how we were doing. And it

0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.319
<v Speaker 3>was like it was still burning and so that it

0:54:32.360 --> 0:54:34.480
<v Speaker 3>wasn't until they realized what had actually burnt us, that

0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:37.120
<v Speaker 3>it wasn't therm or it was chemical, that they actually like,

0:54:37.200 --> 0:54:39.080
<v Speaker 3>oh okay, we need to remove more. So they went

0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:41.680
<v Speaker 3>a bit deeper and yeah, so missing a bit of

0:54:41.760 --> 0:54:43.920
<v Speaker 3>muscle and all sorts of other tissue.

0:54:44.239 --> 0:54:47.560
<v Speaker 2>Kelsey, you said something just before, and I wonder if

0:54:47.719 --> 0:54:50.480
<v Speaker 2>because it was your job as being a tour guide,

0:54:51.040 --> 0:54:54.160
<v Speaker 2>did you feel a sense of responsibility, like for the

0:54:54.239 --> 0:54:57.239
<v Speaker 2>people that you were on tour with. And I don't

0:54:57.239 --> 0:54:59.960
<v Speaker 2>mean a responsibility as though you're responsible for what happened.

0:55:00.080 --> 0:55:03.480
<v Speaker 2>I made a responsibility for trying to help, and you

0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:05.600
<v Speaker 2>know when you're in a situation where you need to

0:55:05.640 --> 0:55:08.319
<v Speaker 2>be helped. But you mentioned that you were thinking you

0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:11.080
<v Speaker 2>wanted to go back and find your friend Hayden. Was

0:55:11.120 --> 0:55:14.400
<v Speaker 2>this something that you think came as part of the

0:55:14.440 --> 0:55:16.759
<v Speaker 2>fact that you were a tour guide or was it

0:55:16.800 --> 0:55:19.480
<v Speaker 2>simply that you had these beautiful connections and friendships with

0:55:19.520 --> 0:55:21.960
<v Speaker 2>people who were also on the island that were experiencing

0:55:22.000 --> 0:55:23.279
<v Speaker 2>the same thing you're experiencing.

0:55:23.560 --> 0:55:27.160
<v Speaker 3>I guess both. And for me, obviously, I didn't really

0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:31.480
<v Speaker 3>understand that really what had happened, I suppose until like

0:55:31.520 --> 0:55:33.200
<v Speaker 3>a few months later, because it was kind of like

0:55:33.239 --> 0:55:36.400
<v Speaker 3>for me, it was like, well, if we survived, everyone survived.

0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:38.720
<v Speaker 3>So it took a long time before I actually realized

0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:40.839
<v Speaker 3>that this wasn't the case. And a lot of that

0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:42.719
<v Speaker 3>was actually due to the fact I was on so

0:55:42.840 --> 0:55:45.040
<v Speaker 3>much medication. It was basically would have been like fifty

0:55:45.040 --> 0:55:46.640
<v Speaker 3>first dates. I would have had to have been told

0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:49.319
<v Speaker 3>every single day because I just would have forgotten. So

0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:51.440
<v Speaker 3>the choice was made to basically keep that from me

0:55:51.520 --> 0:55:54.359
<v Speaker 3>until I was on lower dose of medication and could

0:55:54.360 --> 0:55:57.120
<v Speaker 3>hold a thought. So I didn't find out about the

0:55:57.200 --> 0:56:00.640
<v Speaker 3>kind of severity of it all until weeks after.

0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:02.160
<v Speaker 2>Did Hayden make it through?

0:56:02.600 --> 0:56:07.319
<v Speaker 3>No? No, so Hayden. Yeah, Hayden didn't make it off

0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:09.839
<v Speaker 3>the island, and he is one of the two that actually, yeah,

0:56:09.920 --> 0:56:10.560
<v Speaker 3>never came home.

0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:14.279
<v Speaker 2>I'm so sorry, Kelsey. Yeah, it's so incredible that you're

0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:16.319
<v Speaker 2>here to tell your story, But then there is such

0:56:16.320 --> 0:56:18.920
<v Speaker 2>a side of your story that is there was so

0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:20.840
<v Speaker 2>much loss. There are so many people on the island

0:56:20.880 --> 0:56:22.839
<v Speaker 2>who didn't make at home, and yeah, you know, even

0:56:22.880 --> 0:56:25.800
<v Speaker 2>in watching the documentary, there are people whose whole families

0:56:26.000 --> 0:56:28.840
<v Speaker 2>who were on that island, and you know you almost

0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:30.560
<v Speaker 2>kind of think like, well, why did I survive and

0:56:30.640 --> 0:56:34.200
<v Speaker 2>somebody else wasn't able to? How was your recovery once

0:56:34.239 --> 0:56:35.560
<v Speaker 2>you got to a point where you came out of

0:56:35.600 --> 0:56:39.560
<v Speaker 2>your coma where you understood the magnitude of what happened

0:56:39.600 --> 0:56:41.600
<v Speaker 2>not just to you, but to the people who were

0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:43.200
<v Speaker 2>on the island who were your friends, and to the

0:56:43.200 --> 0:56:45.520
<v Speaker 2>people who are on the island as customers wanting to

0:56:45.560 --> 0:56:48.800
<v Speaker 2>experience the world. How was your recovery after that point?

0:56:49.120 --> 0:56:51.799
<v Speaker 3>It was pretty rough, Like it was pretty horrible to hear, Yeah,

0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:55.000
<v Speaker 3>what had actually happened and unfolded after we lived? Because yeah,

0:56:55.040 --> 0:56:58.240
<v Speaker 3>I kind of, just, like I said, assumed that because

0:56:58.400 --> 0:57:01.520
<v Speaker 3>we'd survived, everyone had I been. That made sense to me.

0:57:01.560 --> 0:57:03.520
<v Speaker 3>It was like, well, we weren't supposed to anyway, so

0:57:04.000 --> 0:57:06.160
<v Speaker 3>if we have, they have, so Yeah. Once I kind

0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:08.640
<v Speaker 3>of found out, it was a pretty hard pell swallow.

0:57:08.760 --> 0:57:12.200
<v Speaker 3>And I was banned from watching the TV in my

0:57:12.360 --> 0:57:14.960
<v Speaker 3>hospital room because it was just all over the news,

0:57:15.040 --> 0:57:16.960
<v Speaker 3>Like in New Zealand, I think it was on the

0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:19.360
<v Speaker 3>news for like pretty much three months straight. It was

0:57:19.400 --> 0:57:22.640
<v Speaker 3>just in every single headline, and because it was really

0:57:22.640 --> 0:57:25.400
<v Speaker 3>early days, especially only three weeks after, there was still

0:57:25.400 --> 0:57:27.640
<v Speaker 3>a lot of false information coming out as well about

0:57:27.680 --> 0:57:30.120
<v Speaker 3>what had happened, and yeah, allus of stuff like there's

0:57:30.160 --> 0:57:31.680
<v Speaker 3>things that I've read and it just yeah, it just

0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:33.760
<v Speaker 3>makes my blood boiled. But it was pretty rough to

0:57:34.040 --> 0:57:36.600
<v Speaker 3>find that out and then be like, well, why am

0:57:36.640 --> 0:57:38.520
<v Speaker 3>I still here? That doesn't make any sense of all

0:57:38.520 --> 0:57:40.880
<v Speaker 3>the people to make it off, like Hayden trained me like,

0:57:41.320 --> 0:57:43.520
<v Speaker 3>so to me, that was a very hard pell to swallow.

0:57:43.600 --> 0:57:46.720
<v Speaker 3>So even now, like I have said, I still say,

0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:49.040
<v Speaker 3>I still expect to get a text from him sometimes

0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:51.560
<v Speaker 3>because I wasn't here for that whole blo. I wasn't

0:57:51.560 --> 0:57:53.720
<v Speaker 3>home for three months. I was kind of removed from

0:57:53.720 --> 0:57:56.040
<v Speaker 3>all of that. So I wasn't here for his memorial.

0:57:56.080 --> 0:57:58.040
<v Speaker 3>I wasn't here when they were trying to find his body.

0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:01.480
<v Speaker 3>So for me, that hasn't had So there's kind of

0:58:01.520 --> 0:58:05.280
<v Speaker 3>like this weird gap where like, I know what's real.

0:58:05.440 --> 0:58:07.480
<v Speaker 3>I know that he didn't make it off, but then

0:58:07.480 --> 0:58:09.840
<v Speaker 3>there's like this weird gap where it's like, but I

0:58:09.840 --> 0:58:12.440
<v Speaker 3>didn't go to his funeral, and I didn't hear all

0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:15.000
<v Speaker 3>this stuff. It's just as far as I'm concerned or hearsay,

0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:17.240
<v Speaker 3>So there's kind of a bit of distance there where

0:58:17.280 --> 0:58:19.560
<v Speaker 3>it kind of just doesn't feel real. I mean, the

0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:22.080
<v Speaker 3>whole thing is a bit in that category really, because

0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:23.880
<v Speaker 3>it's just so wild.

0:58:24.880 --> 0:58:28.360
<v Speaker 2>It's almost like beyond human comprehension, you know, And I think,

0:58:28.400 --> 0:58:31.360
<v Speaker 2>like so much we talk about the physical side of it,

0:58:31.400 --> 0:58:33.680
<v Speaker 2>like we can talk about the physical side of your recovery,

0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:36.760
<v Speaker 2>or we can talk about the physical side of the

0:58:37.000 --> 0:58:39.320
<v Speaker 2>impact and the trauma and the burns, But there's the

0:58:39.360 --> 0:58:41.840
<v Speaker 2>whole other side of this, which is like the mental healing,

0:58:42.240 --> 0:58:44.520
<v Speaker 2>Like how do you go through an experience like this

0:58:45.080 --> 0:58:47.360
<v Speaker 2>and still remain positive on the other side of it.

0:58:47.720 --> 0:58:50.080
<v Speaker 3>I Mean, I've said quite a bit over the last

0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:53.440
<v Speaker 3>especially the last year, like I would much rather be

0:58:53.520 --> 0:58:57.400
<v Speaker 3>burned again than have PTSD, Like it's just horrific. Like

0:58:57.520 --> 0:58:59.800
<v Speaker 3>I thought the physical stuff when I was in hospital

0:58:59.880 --> 0:59:02.120
<v Speaker 3>was the worst that could ever get because it was

0:59:02.120 --> 0:59:04.480
<v Speaker 3>pretty pretty horrible because I had to relearn how to

0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:07.400
<v Speaker 3>use my arms my hands, and relearn how to walk

0:59:07.480 --> 0:59:09.840
<v Speaker 3>and even just like teach my body how to stand

0:59:09.880 --> 0:59:12.040
<v Speaker 3>up again or sit up again and like you had

0:59:12.120 --> 0:59:15.600
<v Speaker 3>my blood pressure stable and stuff like that. So I

0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:18.800
<v Speaker 3>didn't ever think that I would be saying that I

0:59:18.800 --> 0:59:21.560
<v Speaker 3>would rather go through all that again than have PTSD.

0:59:21.680 --> 0:59:24.360
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, like it's just the mental side is so

0:59:24.440 --> 0:59:26.680
<v Speaker 3>much harder than the physical side, the physical sides of

0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:29.280
<v Speaker 3>walking the park being to the mental side, and there's

0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:31.480
<v Speaker 3>such a stigma around all the mental side of it

0:59:31.520 --> 0:59:34.280
<v Speaker 3>as well, where it's just like people can't see it

0:59:34.400 --> 0:59:36.960
<v Speaker 3>and they don't understand it. And admittedly I didn't understand

0:59:36.960 --> 0:59:38.880
<v Speaker 3>it up until recently either, because it took a long

0:59:38.920 --> 0:59:41.040
<v Speaker 3>time to find the help that I actually needed and

0:59:41.120 --> 0:59:43.120
<v Speaker 3>the help that actually worked for me. So it took

0:59:43.160 --> 0:59:45.480
<v Speaker 3>me two and a half years to actually find that help.

0:59:45.640 --> 0:59:46.720
<v Speaker 2>What did that help look like?

0:59:47.480 --> 0:59:50.440
<v Speaker 3>So I had to change psychologists to someone who was

0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:53.720
<v Speaker 3>actually far more better equipped to deal with PTSD. So yeah,

0:59:53.720 --> 0:59:55.360
<v Speaker 3>I had to change that in the middle of last

0:59:55.440 --> 0:59:57.760
<v Speaker 3>year because I just needed their extra help. Like I've

0:59:57.760 --> 1:00:01.560
<v Speaker 3>tried hypnotherapy, I've tried EMD, god, you name it, I've

1:00:01.560 --> 1:00:03.880
<v Speaker 3>probably tried it. I ended up getting in touch with

1:00:04.080 --> 1:00:07.360
<v Speaker 3>a she's like a trauma focused well being coach, which

1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:09.800
<v Speaker 3>sounded very airy fairy, but last year was really rough

1:00:09.800 --> 1:00:11.640
<v Speaker 3>for me, and it was like, I'll bloody try anything

1:00:11.680 --> 1:00:14.360
<v Speaker 3>at this point, Like give me a lobotomy, I'll do it.

1:00:15.800 --> 1:00:18.160
<v Speaker 2>You're like, I will be an experiment taken out.

1:00:18.400 --> 1:00:21.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was like desperate times, desperate missious. So she's

1:00:21.640 --> 1:00:24.640
<v Speaker 3>probably been the biggest turning point for me, and yeah,

1:00:24.680 --> 1:00:26.880
<v Speaker 3>getting my shit together and trying to deal with everything.

1:00:27.240 --> 1:00:29.760
<v Speaker 2>How did the PTSD present itself for you? Like what

1:00:29.840 --> 1:00:30.880
<v Speaker 2>were you managing with?

1:00:31.640 --> 1:00:34.880
<v Speaker 3>Oh? I was blessed with all the symptoms, so if

1:00:34.920 --> 1:00:36.760
<v Speaker 3>you google it, it's like you name it. I had

1:00:36.840 --> 1:00:39.320
<v Speaker 3>a hypervigilance, Like I was just always on the edge.

1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:41.920
<v Speaker 3>I was always prepared for something to go wrong. Anger.

1:00:42.000 --> 1:00:44.640
<v Speaker 3>I really struggled with my anger, especially last year. It

1:00:44.760 --> 1:00:47.959
<v Speaker 3>just really rammed up a notch for the first six months. Yeah,

1:00:48.000 --> 1:00:49.760
<v Speaker 3>so it was pretty grim. And then just like I

1:00:49.840 --> 1:00:51.680
<v Speaker 3>just cried at the drop of her hat over something

1:00:51.840 --> 1:00:53.440
<v Speaker 3>really not worthy crying of.

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<v Speaker 1>When you say hypervigilance, that you were always thinking something

1:00:56.120 --> 1:00:58.080
<v Speaker 1>was gonna go wrong, do you mean literally day to day,

1:00:58.120 --> 1:00:59.439
<v Speaker 1>Like you didn't want to get in a car because

1:00:59.440 --> 1:01:01.120
<v Speaker 1>you thought they'd be a crash, or you didn't want

1:01:01.120 --> 1:01:03.000
<v Speaker 1>to fly somewhere because you thought the plane would like

1:01:03.040 --> 1:01:04.880
<v Speaker 1>what does a hyper vigilance on a day to day

1:01:04.880 --> 1:01:05.240
<v Speaker 1>look like?

1:01:05.560 --> 1:01:06.960
<v Speaker 3>For me? It was like I would always sit where

1:01:06.960 --> 1:01:08.520
<v Speaker 3>I could see the door, so it was like I'd

1:01:08.520 --> 1:01:10.400
<v Speaker 3>have to know my way out, and it was like

1:01:10.480 --> 1:01:12.400
<v Speaker 3>people walking towards me, It's like, are they going to

1:01:12.440 --> 1:01:14.400
<v Speaker 3>attack me? I couldn't walk with anyone behind me, And

1:01:14.480 --> 1:01:17.040
<v Speaker 3>it was just fear, just so much fear and just

1:01:17.280 --> 1:01:20.080
<v Speaker 3>terrified of everything, and like it's so hard to just

1:01:20.120 --> 1:01:22.040
<v Speaker 3>live a normal life like that, Like you don't have

1:01:22.120 --> 1:01:24.240
<v Speaker 3>a normal life with that. It's so hard. And like

1:01:24.280 --> 1:01:26.120
<v Speaker 3>even though people were like, know what you've been through,

1:01:26.400 --> 1:01:28.720
<v Speaker 3>no one actually knows really what I've been through. And

1:01:28.720 --> 1:01:30.840
<v Speaker 3>like even with my family and friends, I haven't described

1:01:30.880 --> 1:01:33.840
<v Speaker 3>everything to them because it's like it traumatizes it, Like

1:01:33.880 --> 1:01:35.720
<v Speaker 3>I don't want to traumatize you, and like I know

1:01:35.720 --> 1:01:37.680
<v Speaker 3>how much it's traumatized me, And like it's only been

1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:40.880
<v Speaker 3>in the last seven months that I've actually understood what's

1:01:40.920 --> 1:01:43.080
<v Speaker 3>actually been going on in my brain and why it's

1:01:43.120 --> 1:01:45.200
<v Speaker 3>happening in the way that it's happening. The new site

1:01:45.200 --> 1:01:47.480
<v Speaker 3>that I have and this well being coach that I have,

1:01:48.000 --> 1:01:50.480
<v Speaker 3>both of them right back to basics, this is why

1:01:50.480 --> 1:01:53.760
<v Speaker 3>havings with PTSD, this is why everything coming up. So

1:01:53.800 --> 1:01:57.880
<v Speaker 3>your fear, your hypervigilance, your anger, that's all just the symptom.

1:01:57.920 --> 1:02:00.680
<v Speaker 3>It's not the cause, it's not what's the problem. So

1:02:00.720 --> 1:02:02.840
<v Speaker 3>it's going back and stripping back the layers to actually

1:02:02.840 --> 1:02:06.720
<v Speaker 3>figure out what's setting that off in that situation. And

1:02:06.760 --> 1:02:08.800
<v Speaker 3>it's like, Okay, there's your work, and it's just like,

1:02:09.040 --> 1:02:11.920
<v Speaker 3>oh my god, that makes so much sense. And even that,

1:02:12.040 --> 1:02:13.919
<v Speaker 3>it's like it just feels like you're not stabbing around

1:02:13.920 --> 1:02:16.200
<v Speaker 3>in the dark just trying to like get anything. So

1:02:16.600 --> 1:02:19.400
<v Speaker 3>even just the understanding and their knowledge is just massive.

1:02:19.440 --> 1:02:22.400
<v Speaker 3>It's such a big, big feeling to actually know what's

1:02:22.400 --> 1:02:24.400
<v Speaker 3>going on in your own brain. Then you've got the

1:02:24.440 --> 1:02:27.200
<v Speaker 3>whole recovery on top of it, Like burns recovery is

1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:32.080
<v Speaker 3>just horrible. So I actually have people like reach out

1:02:32.120 --> 1:02:34.240
<v Speaker 3>to me over like Instagram and stuff being like, oh, look,

1:02:34.280 --> 1:02:37.160
<v Speaker 3>I have burns five, ten, twenty years ago. Just know

1:02:37.240 --> 1:02:39.040
<v Speaker 3>that everything you're going through is normal and like you're

1:02:39.040 --> 1:02:40.760
<v Speaker 3>going to have all these feelings and like these weird

1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:42.760
<v Speaker 3>things are going to happen and weird feelings in your body,

1:02:42.800 --> 1:02:44.920
<v Speaker 3>which is massive. That was huge, like for my physical

1:02:44.960 --> 1:02:47.840
<v Speaker 3>recovery or that was massive, but then the mental recovery.

1:02:47.880 --> 1:02:50.640
<v Speaker 3>It's like no one talks about PTSD. No one has

1:02:50.640 --> 1:02:54.360
<v Speaker 3>the same PTSD, like no one's brain has triggered in

1:02:54.360 --> 1:02:55.880
<v Speaker 3>the same way, and so it's just like all of

1:02:55.920 --> 1:02:59.200
<v Speaker 3>a sudden, your family doesn't know what's going on. Yeah,

1:02:59.280 --> 1:03:01.560
<v Speaker 3>my now ex didn't know what was going on. I've

1:03:01.600 --> 1:03:04.360
<v Speaker 3>lost friends, I've lost my partner, and I've just like

1:03:04.440 --> 1:03:06.240
<v Speaker 3>lost all the stuff because of it because it just

1:03:06.280 --> 1:03:08.760
<v Speaker 3>got too big, too heavy, and I tried all these

1:03:08.760 --> 1:03:10.919
<v Speaker 3>things and none of them were working. People just can't

1:03:10.920 --> 1:03:12.760
<v Speaker 3>handle it. And it's like fair enough because I want

1:03:12.760 --> 1:03:14.439
<v Speaker 3>to walk away. I want to check out because I'm

1:03:14.440 --> 1:03:16.040
<v Speaker 3>done with this. And it's like but I can't walk

1:03:16.040 --> 1:03:18.600
<v Speaker 3>away from it. I'm just sick of healing and trying

1:03:18.600 --> 1:03:21.280
<v Speaker 3>to recover and just like trying to explain this to

1:03:21.360 --> 1:03:23.160
<v Speaker 3>people and just having no one get it and no

1:03:23.200 --> 1:03:25.160
<v Speaker 3>one understands, no one can help, and it's just like

1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:28.400
<v Speaker 3>this just sucks. Unfortunately, it took a break up with

1:03:28.440 --> 1:03:31.160
<v Speaker 3>the partner last year that they basically just go, Okay,

1:03:31.200 --> 1:03:33.400
<v Speaker 3>you have to find something. There's got to be something,

1:03:33.720 --> 1:03:36.600
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, thankfully changed my sight found this well being coach,

1:03:36.720 --> 1:03:38.760
<v Speaker 3>and thankfully it's working for me.

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<v Speaker 2>In terms of where you're at now, I mean seven

1:03:41.440 --> 1:03:46.440
<v Speaker 2>months of rehabilitation, that seems to be rehabilitation that's working

1:03:46.440 --> 1:03:49.439
<v Speaker 2>for you. And this also goes to show like that

1:03:49.920 --> 1:03:52.480
<v Speaker 2>if you are in the healthcare system, if you are

1:03:53.040 --> 1:03:56.600
<v Speaker 2>receiving care and it's not working, like changing is so

1:03:56.680 --> 1:04:00.200
<v Speaker 2>important and getting second opinions, and you know, advocating your

1:04:00.240 --> 1:04:02.280
<v Speaker 2>own not just your physical health, but your mental health

1:04:02.360 --> 1:04:05.280
<v Speaker 2>is so important because nobody else knows and understands you

1:04:05.320 --> 1:04:07.959
<v Speaker 2>as well as you know and understand yourself. I hate

1:04:08.000 --> 1:04:10.720
<v Speaker 2>to make you talk about when you're at your darkest days,

1:04:11.280 --> 1:04:12.760
<v Speaker 2>but do you think you're now at a point where

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<v Speaker 2>you can see the light?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? I do. I've made some really good friends, Like

1:04:17.480 --> 1:04:19.840
<v Speaker 3>we just became best mates at pretty much overnight. It

1:04:19.920 --> 1:04:22.480
<v Speaker 3>was just the weirdest thing, but most brilliant thing. They

1:04:22.520 --> 1:04:24.520
<v Speaker 3>get it. They totally get it, and they don't judge

1:04:24.520 --> 1:04:27.160
<v Speaker 3>me for it, and they just accept me totally as is.

1:04:27.600 --> 1:04:29.320
<v Speaker 3>They don't make me feel bad when I have a

1:04:29.360 --> 1:04:32.439
<v Speaker 3>blow up or something's going on, and they're just like, look,

1:04:32.480 --> 1:04:34.680
<v Speaker 3>it's fine, like of course this is happening, and They're

1:04:34.720 --> 1:04:37.600
<v Speaker 3>just like so understanding and like that's massive for them.

1:04:37.640 --> 1:04:39.680
<v Speaker 3>I know it's a lot of work, like should it's

1:04:39.680 --> 1:04:41.120
<v Speaker 3>a lot of work for me, but I kind of

1:04:41.160 --> 1:04:42.960
<v Speaker 3>know what's going on now. So their understanding and that

1:04:43.080 --> 1:04:45.800
<v Speaker 3>patience is just massive in those friends, and I'm so

1:04:45.840 --> 1:04:48.400
<v Speaker 3>grateful for them. And then the help that I'm getting

1:04:48.600 --> 1:04:51.040
<v Speaker 3>is just so good and it's finally just making me

1:04:51.080 --> 1:04:54.280
<v Speaker 3>feel like I'm not insane. Yeah. No, I'm probably in

1:04:54.280 --> 1:04:57.720
<v Speaker 3>the best place mentally that I've possibly ever been. It's

1:04:57.800 --> 1:04:59.080
<v Speaker 3>so nice to feel.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is so nice to hear when you say that.

1:05:01.520 --> 1:05:03.760
<v Speaker 2>Do you mean pre the accident as well?

1:05:04.080 --> 1:05:06.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it's been a hell of a long

1:05:06.120 --> 1:05:07.680
<v Speaker 3>road to get here, and it's been a hell of

1:05:07.680 --> 1:05:10.280
<v Speaker 3>a lot of work, like blood sweat in tears literally,

1:05:10.600 --> 1:05:15.240
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, like I just feel calmer. I just feel clearer,

1:05:15.600 --> 1:05:16.760
<v Speaker 3>basically all the good.

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<v Speaker 2>Shit, Kelsey, what's your relationship Like, I mean, obviously, experiencing

1:05:21.240 --> 1:05:24.800
<v Speaker 2>physical burns that changes your body. You spoke about the operations,

1:05:24.840 --> 1:05:28.520
<v Speaker 2>you spoke about having pieces of your calves removed and

1:05:28.560 --> 1:05:31.320
<v Speaker 2>the physical burns that you have. How does that change

1:05:31.360 --> 1:05:33.320
<v Speaker 2>your relationship with your body?

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<v Speaker 3>It took a couple of bunths a meter. I guess

1:05:35.600 --> 1:05:39.280
<v Speaker 3>totally accept what my new normal was. But then again

1:05:39.360 --> 1:05:42.560
<v Speaker 3>that normal and hospital is totally different now because when

1:05:42.600 --> 1:05:44.640
<v Speaker 3>I first saw my arms and my hands, which is

1:05:44.720 --> 1:05:47.520
<v Speaker 3>the parts first after grafting, it looked like they put

1:05:47.600 --> 1:05:49.720
<v Speaker 3>like the Walking Dead's arms on to me. And it

1:05:49.800 --> 1:05:52.120
<v Speaker 3>was just like, what are those? What have you done

1:05:52.120 --> 1:05:54.640
<v Speaker 3>to my arms? They were black, and they were just

1:05:54.720 --> 1:05:59.600
<v Speaker 3>like so swollen, and my nails were all like not good,

1:06:00.720 --> 1:06:04.120
<v Speaker 3>and I was so so gross, like it was just

1:06:04.160 --> 1:06:08.160
<v Speaker 3>like so fig and like they were hyper sensitive as well,

1:06:08.200 --> 1:06:10.440
<v Speaker 3>and I had to have all this like moisturizer pumped

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<v Speaker 3>onto me many times a day. I remember one day

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<v Speaker 3>in particular, my family was doing my arms and my

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<v Speaker 3>legs at the same time because my nerves had all

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<v Speaker 3>been obviously fried. It was just information overload and I

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<v Speaker 3>just panicked and I was just like, get off me,

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<v Speaker 3>stop touching meatlus like one at a time, don't touch me.

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<v Speaker 3>And so it was a lot to sort of taken

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<v Speaker 3>that way. When I finally actually looked at my arms,

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<v Speaker 3>finally started accepting those because I was like, well, it's

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<v Speaker 3>stuck to my body, so I'm kind of stuck with them,

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<v Speaker 3>and I better get used to them. So I was like,

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<v Speaker 3>I just like wait untill my family left the room,

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<v Speaker 3>and they just stare at them and like wig all

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<v Speaker 3>my fingers a little bit and be like, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 3>they're mine. And then when I saw my legs, I

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<v Speaker 3>just burst into tears because I don't I can't remember

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<v Speaker 3>my legs being sore or feeling them burning or anything.

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<v Speaker 3>I just I don't remember my legs. I just remember

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<v Speaker 3>my arms in my hands. And then I saw my

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<v Speaker 3>legs and it was just like black and purple salami.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was just like, oh, not again. And so

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<v Speaker 3>I had to like learn to I live with that.

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<v Speaker 3>And then once I started walking again, every time i'd

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<v Speaker 3>stand up because my body was used to being horizontal,

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<v Speaker 3>because I've been horizontal for six weeks by this point,

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<v Speaker 3>I'd stand up and my blood would all just pull

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<v Speaker 3>and my feet in my hands, and so it took

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<v Speaker 3>a few months for that to sort of stopped happening.

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<v Speaker 3>And then even then, I remember faces from the island

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<v Speaker 3>as well, and I remember thinking, oh my god, like

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<v Speaker 3>my face mustle quite that as well. So for months

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<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't look at my face and I hadn't seen

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<v Speaker 3>my reflection. Probably before it must have been the second

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<v Speaker 3>to last week of January in twenty twenty. I had

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<v Speaker 3>just started learning how to walk, and I was having

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<v Speaker 3>my little lunch break where it was like two hours

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<v Speaker 3>where I could just have a sleep, and I was

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<v Speaker 3>just like, I need to see my face and I

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<v Speaker 3>want to do it alone. And so I was really bad.

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<v Speaker 3>I got out of bed and I was still like

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<v Speaker 3>leading assistance, but I'm out of here. I need to

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<v Speaker 3>see my face and I want to do it alone.

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<v Speaker 3>I just wanted to do this on my own. And

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<v Speaker 3>everyone was like, oh, bring a mirror, and I said,

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<v Speaker 3>don't you bloody deare and because people were coming and

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<v Speaker 3>they'd be like, your face looks really good. Your face

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<v Speaker 3>looks really really good. And I was like, what is

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<v Speaker 3>wrong with my face? Like everyone keept mentioning my face

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<v Speaker 3>and it was just like what's happened to it? And

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<v Speaker 3>so I basically slithered out of bed and t Rex

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<v Speaker 3>walked over to the bathroom and managed to open the door.

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<v Speaker 3>And I walked into the bathroom and I looked at

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<v Speaker 3>my face and it was like oh, and then I

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<v Speaker 3>actually went back to bed. Yeah. I was just like, oh, okay,

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<v Speaker 3>that's disappointing, I suppose, well, not disappointed. I was like

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<v Speaker 3>quite pleased, but it was just like I was so

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<v Speaker 3>underwhelming for what I've been building up in my head. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>it was just like, oh, I still look like me,

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<v Speaker 3>that's okay. Once I sort of started getting back on Instagram,

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<v Speaker 3>so many people message me and they'd be like, why

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<v Speaker 3>is your face not burnt? Why's your face not burnt?

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<v Speaker 1>And it was like sorry people wrote that, Oh.

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<v Speaker 3>I've had some weird shits into me. It was so weird.

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<v Speaker 2>What the fuck?

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes I hate social media, Like, who in their right

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<v Speaker 1>mind would think that that is okay to message somebody

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<v Speaker 1>at any stage of life, but someone that's going through

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<v Speaker 1>what you've just gone through.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's it's so weird. Like, thankfully I've just seen

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<v Speaker 3>the funny side. And like that's been just one of

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<v Speaker 3>many really weird messages that I've screenshotted and send to

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<v Speaker 3>my friends and I'm like, look another one, and they're like, what,

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<v Speaker 3>at least you can.

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<v Speaker 1>Laugh about it, though, But it's lucky that you can.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. No, I'm lucky that I'm in a place where

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<v Speaker 3>I just find all those messages. Yeah, quite funny and

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<v Speaker 3>like even since, like the documentary came out, obviously it's

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<v Speaker 3>been a bit of an influx on the old Instagram

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<v Speaker 3>and some of those message like some of them are

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<v Speaker 3>just like lost in translation. It's like, I know what

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<v Speaker 3>you're trying to say, but that's not what it's come

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<v Speaker 3>across as. And then some of them you're just like

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<v Speaker 3>what is going through your head? Like someone said, of

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<v Speaker 3>all the people, you're my favorite survivor, and it was like,

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<v Speaker 3>thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>This is not a reality TV show. But also I

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<v Speaker 2>think this is the issue on one side of the

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<v Speaker 2>coin with documentaries. It's amazing that we're able to see

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<v Speaker 2>and understand what happened and understand the magnitude, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think that that gives some people, even maybe people in

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<v Speaker 2>your own life, clarity around something that you experienced. But

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<v Speaker 2>it also I say this because you know, we have

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<v Speaker 2>spoken to many people who have been parts of documentaries

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<v Speaker 2>but almost characterizes what happened as well. It's like you

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<v Speaker 2>are one of many people who are telling their version

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<v Speaker 2>of the story, and people watch it and they sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>forget that you're a real person, that you're not that

1:10:15.560 --> 1:10:17.960
<v Speaker 2>person who is just on the documentary, and that even

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<v Speaker 2>speaking to today, you know that Kelsey on the documentary

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<v Speaker 2>is and know that that is a part of who

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<v Speaker 2>you are. This like very recovered in a lot of ways,

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<v Speaker 2>very positive, has this bright outlook on what has happened, whereas,

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, having a more in depth conversation with you,

1:10:34.360 --> 1:10:36.639
<v Speaker 2>there is way more color as to how this has

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<v Speaker 2>deeply changed you as a person and how this will

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<v Speaker 2>forever be part of your story. One question that I

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<v Speaker 2>have for you, I don't want this to be taken

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<v Speaker 2>the wrong way because I don't think that you can

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<v Speaker 2>ever be grateful for a situation like that happening. But

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<v Speaker 2>do you feel as a survivor, do you feel grateful?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean like there's a lot of stuff that

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<v Speaker 3>I have in my life now, People that I wouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>try the world in my life now they have only

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<v Speaker 3>come about and I've only met because of what happened.

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<v Speaker 3>So in that sense, yeah, I'm grateful that my wildlife

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<v Speaker 3>has brought me the people that I have in my

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<v Speaker 3>life now because I can't imagine life without them, and unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if favor would have met them if

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<v Speaker 3>this hadn't happened. I'm definitely grateful to be alive for.

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<v Speaker 1>Anyone going through anything, Kelsey, that like, what you've been

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<v Speaker 1>through is just horrific, but you've come out the other side.

1:11:26.479 --> 1:11:29.599
<v Speaker 1>For anyone going through any sort of really hard time

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<v Speaker 1>in their life, dark time, trauma, what do you.

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<v Speaker 2>Want to say to them?

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<v Speaker 1>Is someone that has been you know, the lowest of

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<v Speaker 1>lows and you are where you are now, which is

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<v Speaker 1>just like a bright shining light.

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<v Speaker 3>Unfortunately, all the things I can think of a like

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<v Speaker 3>horrible cliche.

1:11:43.080 --> 1:11:45.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I love a horrible cliche life.

1:11:46.120 --> 1:11:49.400
<v Speaker 3>Unfortunately, that's true. Like that's why they're cliches. So like,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I hope one the other day and it

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<v Speaker 3>was like, if you're going through how why would you

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<v Speaker 3>stop there? Like you got to get out of it,

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<v Speaker 3>so keep going. So it's like, yeah, that makes sense,

1:11:57.479 --> 1:11:59.200
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, you just you just can't go up, Like

1:11:59.320 --> 1:12:01.519
<v Speaker 3>you just have to keep hunting for the thing that

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<v Speaker 3>works for you. Like it took me. Took me two

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<v Speaker 3>and a half years to find the thing that worked

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<v Speaker 3>for me, unfortunately, and even then I had the thing

1:12:08.000 --> 1:12:10.080
<v Speaker 3>that was helping me, and it was the early stages

1:12:10.120 --> 1:12:11.960
<v Speaker 3>and it still didn't feel like it was enough, and

1:12:12.040 --> 1:12:13.840
<v Speaker 3>I still wanted to give up then. But I mean

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<v Speaker 3>you just have to lean on your people and have

1:12:16.200 --> 1:12:19.120
<v Speaker 3>a good trust circle. I suppose, and I mean that's

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<v Speaker 3>where you can do. Just don't give up, just keep

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<v Speaker 3>trying as shit as it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Kelsey, thank you so much for giving us your time,

1:12:24.680 --> 1:12:27.519
<v Speaker 2>for telling us your story, for sharing so openly. We

1:12:27.560 --> 1:12:29.240
<v Speaker 2>are so grateful for you coming and being part of

1:12:29.280 --> 1:12:29.840
<v Speaker 2>the podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh he is so welcome. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, you know that we never finished an

1:12:33.560 --> 1:12:35.920
<v Speaker 2>episode with our suck and our suite, our highlight and

1:12:36.000 --> 1:12:38.599
<v Speaker 2>our low light of each and every week. Brittany, what

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<v Speaker 2>is your psaki duck duck?

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<v Speaker 1>My psaki ducky duck is of Delilah. Delilah cut her

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<v Speaker 1>paws open.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and she hasn't walked. She hasn't been on a

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<v Speaker 2>walk for a couple of days.

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<v Speaker 1>Must have been on a rock or an oyster or something,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's I've checked it out.

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<v Speaker 2>She went to the bed.

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<v Speaker 1>She's fine, but she can't walk anywhere. She's like Buster

1:12:55.400 --> 1:12:55.960
<v Speaker 1>with three legs.

1:12:55.960 --> 1:12:58.240
<v Speaker 2>She's just like whole fun. Sorry, she's like Buster.

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<v Speaker 1>Just hold the poor up.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just been like this for eight and a half years,

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<v Speaker 2>so he's pretty well versed. I feel like for dogs,

1:13:03.000 --> 1:13:04.400
<v Speaker 2>who have four legs. It's a bit of a bother

1:13:04.600 --> 1:13:06.360
<v Speaker 2>it is. It's fine, it's healed fine, But that's just

1:13:06.600 --> 1:13:08.080
<v Speaker 2>my sucking. It's like a kid. You don't want to

1:13:08.080 --> 1:13:08.879
<v Speaker 2>see your dog.

1:13:08.800 --> 1:13:10.599
<v Speaker 1>Or you're an animal, or your child in any any

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<v Speaker 1>sort of pain. So like when I knew her little

1:13:12.360 --> 1:13:14.360
<v Speaker 1>poor wassaurs, Yeah, I thought you were.

1:13:14.240 --> 1:13:15.680
<v Speaker 2>Going to say that like she had cut it and

1:13:15.760 --> 1:13:17.680
<v Speaker 2>then there was just like carnage through the house. But

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<v Speaker 2>just in general, I'm oh, that sucks.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, My sweet for the week would have to be

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<v Speaker 1>that I have in your nephew. So little bear Anthony

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<v Speaker 1>Hockley entered.

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<v Speaker 2>The well, Yah and Rah.

1:13:26.520 --> 1:13:29.400
<v Speaker 1>He came out being like rah, and he's absolutely durable

1:13:29.400 --> 1:13:30.320
<v Speaker 1>and I can't wait to meet him.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's nice to add to the family. Oh what

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<v Speaker 2>about you? It was nice to add to the family.

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't doing no adding. Okay, well, I'm when we're

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<v Speaker 2>not recording this, want to see photos because now that

1:13:39.920 --> 1:13:41.759
<v Speaker 2>I have my own children, I'm sick for other people's

1:13:41.840 --> 1:13:44.439
<v Speaker 2>children and that's just kind of what happens. Okay, So

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<v Speaker 2>my suck for the week is that I have This

1:13:47.760 --> 1:13:49.800
<v Speaker 2>is going to sound so dumb because I'm a big

1:13:49.920 --> 1:13:53.080
<v Speaker 2>loser that gets allergies. But I have the most raging

1:13:53.240 --> 1:13:56.240
<v Speaker 2>MSG allergy at the moment. If anybody is allergic to MSG,

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<v Speaker 2>you will know what this is like. It is fucked

1:13:59.160 --> 1:14:01.479
<v Speaker 2>I have. I have like proper. I get like I

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<v Speaker 2>can't read, I can't see, I can't think. My body hurts.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just like the weirdest side effect to MSG. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's not like a normal Oh we get rashes. I

1:14:11.760 --> 1:14:14.360
<v Speaker 2>get like this full body fog that happens that next

1:14:14.360 --> 1:14:17.840
<v Speaker 2>time hungover and I can't record MSG. I had tie

1:14:17.880 --> 1:14:19.680
<v Speaker 2>last night. It kind of feels like that, kind of

1:14:19.680 --> 1:14:23.120
<v Speaker 2>feels like a big dirty hangover, except everything inside your

1:14:23.120 --> 1:14:25.799
<v Speaker 2>body feels like it's foreign to you. Like my body

1:14:25.840 --> 1:14:28.240
<v Speaker 2>inside feels itchy. I don't even know how to describe it.

1:14:28.280 --> 1:14:30.080
<v Speaker 2>But I don't get it as bad as I used to.

1:14:30.080 --> 1:14:32.000
<v Speaker 2>I used to get full line of fluxus. So if

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<v Speaker 2>I keel over in the record, you will know. I

1:14:34.320 --> 1:14:39.400
<v Speaker 2>can't make is in my bag. I want to because

1:14:39.400 --> 1:14:41.479
<v Speaker 2>you're attracted to people who look like me. And my

1:14:41.520 --> 1:14:43.000
<v Speaker 2>sweet for the week is just that we went to

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<v Speaker 2>Hamilton Island. It was phenomenal. We had such a beautiful time,

1:14:46.560 --> 1:14:48.479
<v Speaker 2>like as a parent of a three year old and

1:14:48.479 --> 1:14:50.519
<v Speaker 2>a now two year old. I love that we get

1:14:50.560 --> 1:14:52.599
<v Speaker 2>to do these really awesome things with the girls. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think for a while there we kind of like

1:14:54.439 --> 1:14:55.680
<v Speaker 2>tossed it up and we were like, well, will the

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<v Speaker 2>kids be old enough to remember it, or to enjoy it,

1:14:58.320 --> 1:15:01.000
<v Speaker 2>or to even have fun on these experiences. We took

1:15:01.000 --> 1:15:03.960
<v Speaker 2>Mali snorkeling for the very first time, and she was like,

1:15:04.000 --> 1:15:05.720
<v Speaker 2>she wasn't petrified, but she didn't want to put the

1:15:05.720 --> 1:15:07.160
<v Speaker 2>goggle in the mask on. It took her like a

1:15:07.160 --> 1:15:09.839
<v Speaker 2>lot of encouraging because it was the very first time. Obviously,

1:15:09.880 --> 1:15:11.479
<v Speaker 2>they can't breathe through their nose, they got to breathe

1:15:11.479 --> 1:15:13.360
<v Speaker 2>through their mouth. It was a big process of trying

1:15:13.400 --> 1:15:15.760
<v Speaker 2>to like build up her confidence to snorkel. But she

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<v Speaker 2>put the mask on and I put my mask on

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<v Speaker 2>at the same time, and I was like, just put

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<v Speaker 2>your face in the water. Just dick it in the

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<v Speaker 2>water for two seconds and get used to it. And

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<v Speaker 2>finally she got the courage up and she did it,

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<v Speaker 2>and she stuck a face in the water, and just

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<v Speaker 2>as she did it, a turtle swam past. So that

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<v Speaker 2>was the one and only time she put her face

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<v Speaker 2>in the water and she saw a huge It was

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<v Speaker 2>like incredible. No one else on the boat saw a

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<v Speaker 2>turtle except for Malee because she was like sitting on

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<v Speaker 2>the little jetty part and then she saw a turtle.

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<v Speaker 2>So like, we had a beautiful time. It was an

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<v Speaker 2>amazing couple of days. Now I'm back of work. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>now I want to go to Hamilton on maybe we

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<v Speaker 2>need to do a work trip for very important Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>work trips in one yeah, by the pool having panicolatas.

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<v Speaker 2>And that is it from us, guys. We hope that

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<v Speaker 2>you enjoyed the episode. We know that the chat with

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<v Speaker 2>Kelsey was a really big and I mean it was

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<v Speaker 2>a heavy one, but we watched the documentary and just

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<v Speaker 2>thought it was so incredibly phenomenally done, incredible story that

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<v Speaker 2>we really wanted to share it with you, and we

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