WEBVTT - Ask Uncut - Why Did We All Google This? 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.400 Life on Cut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.160 lands were never seated. We pay our respects to their 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.600 elders past and present. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.399 Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. This episode was 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.360 recorded on de rug Wallamuta Land. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.479 Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:25.800 on Cut. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.320 I'm Brittany and I'm Laura. Today's Sandstead. What's funny, Laura? 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.000 Okay, I've tried to start this three times and Laura's 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.479 having a little laughing fit every single time, but I 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:36.480 can't be sure. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:37.879 Why do you know why? 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.040 Because we're ten days away from Christmas, but it still 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.000 feels like February. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:43.000 Okay. 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.080 I literally had this thing this morning where I was like, oh, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.000 I wanted to listen back to Okay, I'm not I 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:49.640 shouldn't say this. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.680 Wanted to listen back to my own podcast. I wanted. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.440 I really felt like because the content is fire, Yeah, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:55.080 well that's why. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.560 I just really felt like a laugh. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:57.800 And I was like, I'm going to go back and 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.760 listen to Joann McNally's episode, and I was like when 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.160 I was like, it was a couple of months ago 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:03.680 and I was trying to scroll through, I should have 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:04.120 just searched it. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:05.720 But I didn't think it was that far back. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.399 I was like, I'll go back a month or two 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.400 maybe to August, and I was like, August kept going. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.200 Joanne McNally was in April. It feels like yesterday, but 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.440 it was the start of the year. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.240 Yeah, I know, And I've said this to you before. 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.080 As we get older, time goes quicker, no concept of 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:21.920 time none. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:23.000 Do you know when you have kids? 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.240 Though, I think that kids are a very good daily 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.720 reminder of how quickly time is going, because. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.480 All of a sudden, at Uni, he's got a dummy day. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.880 Yeah, because every day you wake up tired and you're like, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.240 oh my god, is this going to be my life 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.360 of the next forever, for the rest of the next nineteens. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.720 You're about saying that it's like the years are short, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:40.600 but the days along. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.679 Is that a parenting thing? I feel like I've heard that. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.399 I think it is. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.160 It's all around like the phases of parenthood, because like 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.760 what you can get into like a phase like right now, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.080 as I said on Tuesday's episode, we're in the dummy phase. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.680 We're in the waning phase. It's not a great phase, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.400 and you think it's never going to end, and then 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.240 all of a sudden you're in another phase. You know, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.600 it just goes in these circles. I must listen to 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.520 this and think I hate parenting. No, I think you 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.560 just say things that people don't say. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.480 I think you're not negative about parenting, but you don't 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.560 just say the good stuff, which I think is important 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.519 because people know there's good stuff, but a lot of 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.239 people don't say the stuff that bothers people. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.280 I like, I cannot even tell you how much I 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.000 love being a mum. I love being a mum. I 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.000 love my kids so much. But it's a thing that 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.280 goes without saying. It's like, I feel like I don't 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.560 need to say that to you all on constant repeat that. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.600 I love being a mum. I love my children like 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:29.240 I'm disgusting. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:30.919 I lay in bed and I like stroke their faces 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.640 and I try and like kiss their little fat cheeks 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.440 and put their fat cheeks inside my mouth. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:35.519 And it's weird. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.600 You get you become so weird as a mum, but 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.840 also simultaneously there's moments where you hate it. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.720 I've just completely remembered this. I forgot to tell you 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.240 the other day. I was lucky enough to come along 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.640 to pick up Marley and Lola from daycare, and a 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.520 couple of weeks before you'd spoken about how you can 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.920 have that real intimacy with a kid that's not romantic, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.200 Marley reached out, grabbed the side of my face and. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.000 Brushed my hair. And I have never felt oxidosin flow 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.560 my brain more quickly than that moment. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.840 I was like, I feel like that when the messuse 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.119 touches me. That's why I get massages. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.240 Wasn't there an article about that? Yeah, there was long 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.440 distance relationship. So you go and get massages quote unquote, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:16.640 just to be touched. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.160 You wrap them up in a little ball and you 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.720 just like want to breathe in every part of their 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.240 body and like suck their toes and stuff if you could. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.640 But then at the same time they do things that 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.359 drive you absolutely fricking mental. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.800 I do that with Delilah. You suck a toes smells 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:31.359 like popcorn. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.359 I suck it. Oh her feet smelling popcorn. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:34.760 I like it. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.120 Like I'm okay, now, I'm not a mum, But I 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.720 do have a question because I saw this article going viral, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.680 and I have feelings there was just this woman online 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.680 from the UK I think irrelevant. But she she has 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.720 two little kids, ones three I think, and one is 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.560 like under one I think eight or nine months, and 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.680 she's like, Hey, I'm not getting my little kid a 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:59.960 present this year for Christmas from anyone because it's hard times, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.880 hard financial times, and also the kid's not gonna remember, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:03.840 They're not gonna know. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.080 And a lot of people kicked off. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.600 I was like, fair, if times are tight with money, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.480 I don't think you have to buy an under one 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.200 year old a present, because you could give them a 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:13.880 cardboard box. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:14.680 Then gonna be stoked. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.960 I could not believe people kicking off about the fact 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.599 that she wasn't going to buy her kid a present. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.000 They're not going to experience it. But you, as the 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.200 only mum in this room, Laura, what are your thoughts 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:24.359 on that. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.520 I feel like this is a perfect example that people 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.200 kick off about things that they shouldn't. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.520 Care about, like this is what this is. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.839 No. I did the same thing with Marley and Lola 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.640 for birthday parties. So we did like a big birthday 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.920 party for Marley when she was one year old, and 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.680 then when Lola turned one, we were like. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.800 Let's have cupcakes and have Ann and Kate over. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.680 We didn't do anything, and didn't you forget one not forget, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.400 but you did it like two days late or something. Once. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:47.919 Yeah, we didn't do it on her birthday. We did 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.880 it when it was convenient for everyone, and it wasn't. No, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.679 she doesn't know, and that's what we realized. It's actually twelve. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.520 She does not know she's really twelve. We did Marley's 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.480 one year old birthday party, but realistically it was for us, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.279 you know, I mean, it wasn't for her. She did No, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.400 she didn't care. She has no concept of it, doesn't 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.320 remember it. But then at the same time, it actually 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.560 wasn't that enjoyabooks. I spent the whole time running around, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.279 like making sure everyone had food. I did the cleanup, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.040 like I was the one who had to do everything. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.160 So I was like, who was that for? What did 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.080 I do that for? And yeah, we have photos from 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.480 one year old birthday party, be like who cares? So 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.640 then when it was Lola's we kind of just did 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.680 things very small, had cupcakes, and I mean we still 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.840 got her at present. The only thing I do question 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.800 about that, and I say, this is a second child 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.080 slash middle child. Do you then grow up with immense 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.320 middle child second child syndrome, because it does create a 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.800 flow and effect. And when you are the hand me 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.320 down child, which is what I was, you always feel 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:38.359 a little bit less loved. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.080 I am the third child, I'm third out of four, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.920 and I definitely never felt that. But we were handing 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.359 me down children as well. But my problem was my 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.719 older brothers and boys. Well my older siblings are boys, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.039 so like that's why why I was a tomboy, because 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.680 everything got handed down was the boys stuff. But I 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.440 personally don't feel that. But my sister Sherry, so she's 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.240 the fourth kid. Every year, you know, you get around 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.840 the Christmas time around the family gets together and you 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.719 always go through like old photos. You always talk about 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.200 old memories, like it's always that walk down memory lane. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.479 And we were looking at all these old photos of 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.240 all of the kids in these albums and it was 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.320 so like nostalgic and so nice, and all the kids 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.680 would getting their photos out, and Mitch the eldest, was 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.159 going through his and there were like five albums of 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.520 photos of just him. Then it was Dane's the next kid, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:20.880 and then there were a little bit less of him. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:22.760 Me was a bit harder. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.080 I maybe had one album and then poor Sherry by 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.000 the time the fourth kid came, because mom had like 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.400 four kids under six, Sheridan was like, where are my albums? 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.400 We could find one photo? No, not an album one. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.000 She's like, am I as a kid? 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:36.160 One? 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.520 Because mom shows adopted at five? Mom's like, I'm too busy. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.120 I had By that point, you had three other kids. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.919 You've done it all one hundred times, and so I 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.040 think in that capacity, the fourth or the third or 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.120 the fourth kid definitely gets left behind a little bit. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.400 I would say, though in your case, brit I would 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.120 say it's a slightly different experience because you had two 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:52.799 older brothers. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:53.720 You were the first girl. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.080 So that's still an exciting difference for a lot of parents, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.599 especially when you've had two children, you're having a third 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.400 and it ends up being a different gender. No, gender 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.240 shouldn't matter, but for a lot of people it does. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.919 It's why people have bloody gender reveals and stuff like 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.120 so fresh Start. Yeah, So I would say that you 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.240 probably wouldn't feel the same as someone who is a 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.440 second or third child to two older sisters or one 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.480 older sister, and that being like the hand me down 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:15.280 kind of process. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:16.560 Anyway, that's enough. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.960 I think it's good for them. I think it builds resils. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.200 It's resilience building. Okay, So we was speaking of resilience building. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.600 Last night we went out to the RSL Club, and 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.560 part of the RSL Club, they do a raffle on 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.640 Tuesday night, and because it's pre Christmas, it's a really 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.480 substantial raffle. So the raffle was the very first person 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:33.040 to get a ticket. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.080 Drawn won this like toy package which was like the 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.600 value of one thousand dollars worth of toys, right, and 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.480 then there was a few hams and a pork that 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.280 were going right, So like if you didn't get the toys, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.880 you could win one of three hams, or you could 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:45.200 win a. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.720 Pork still a great price. It lives hands mate, I 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.560 was all. I was like, I would love to win 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:51.360 a ham or a pork. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.160 That's Christmas Day done anyway, So we all buy raffle tickets. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:56.400 There's a couple of tables around us. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.880 There's not a lot of people in the RSL Club, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.160 so like, your chances are high of winning something we 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:00.480 put on. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.840 I just imagine you there were your tickets, Like, come on, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.040 I'm like eleven guys. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.239 I'm not someone who candone gambling, but when it comes 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.720 to raffles, I am like Queen Raffle. I am the 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.400 woman who when I'm in my eighties, I'm going to 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.320 buy that little booklet where you could win a house. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.040 That'll be me. I do I do that. I love it. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.040 I'm always into those, A sucker. I always wonder if 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.040 they actually even are really given away. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.800 A raffle. I'm there, fifty bucks, put me down. Love it? Okay. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.640 So anyway, we're there with all our little ripedapt tickets 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.000 sitting there, and the first ticket gets called and it's 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:30.280 the thousand dollars worth of toys. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:31.560 We did not win that. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.560 Marley may the absolute fucking tantrum that she threw. She 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.200 was hysterical. She hasn't quite understood or grasped the concept 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.640 of raffles. Every other child was like a little bit disappointed. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.280 Marley was like inconsolably crying and sobbing for about fifteen minutes, 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.520 to the point where the family that won the toys 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.000 was like, oh, well, just you can have one. We 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.600 don't need all these toys. Have one that's age appropriate 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.920 for her. And I was like Nope, you will not 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.000 give her a toy because this is a moment in 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.199 life that she needs. She needs to know that she's 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.880 not always a winner. I'm glad you did that. I 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.800 was like, this is resilience building, this is a lesson 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.240 that fell into our lap. But she screamed for literally 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.920 twenty minutes on and off. It was a fifteen minutes solid. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.720 But then the reason why she cried for another five 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.360 minutes was because Mamma won a ham and I was so. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.640 Excited, and she walked up with her ticket and she 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:20.040 was like, oh dude, what a ham? Were you like, well, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.559 mom wants a ham? Oh my god, congratulations, thank you 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:23.640 Ronn one of my Christmas ham. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.720 I haven't won anything since I won the year five 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:26.600 Easter Hat parade. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.560 That was a time. Mom has so much main character energy. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.679 Correlation doesn't imply causation, But here I'm saying she had 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.679 a one year old birthday party. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.200 And now she's a brat when she doesn't win. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.160 Yeah. No, it was a moment in my life where 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.360 I was like, Okay, I have a very spoilt child 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.080 and she has been and I don't mean spoilers in 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:44.600 that we don't go out of our way to spoil her. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.959 But she has had zero nothing has happened in her 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.880 life at all at the beautiful age of four and 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:50.560 a half years old. 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.040 That has been a resilience building that she has. She 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.160 has lived a good life. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.800 You do, and I'm not saying this in a bad way, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.800 but you do buy her a lot of random presence. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.520 I know there's a rule with her and your family 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:03.880 that like, if you go to the airport, you'll always 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.400 buy them present. And Matt and I were at the 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.280 airport not long ago. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.320 When you say rule I do that, Matt is very no. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:09.160 Well that was it. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.200 Matt and I were watching it go down from a distance, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:12.760 so you're like, I'm just gonna go get a packet 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.920 of chips and a coke from the shop in the airport. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.480 So we were just sitting there waiting and then Marley 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.120 runs over. He goes, watch this, within two seconds, she's 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.520 gonna be able to pick a toy. He's like, it's 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.360 a nightmare, and I was like, surely not. She already 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.000 bought her a toy like twenty minutes ago. She's like 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.800 watch she runs over and you're like, yeah. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.640 Hunt picked what you would And I was like, this 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.480 is the problem. It was, it's just creating a monster. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.280 Yeah, look, I find it hard to say no to her. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.679 But also I have realized that I use it and 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.440 this is bad and I'm being heaps better. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.400 I use getting a present. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.240 So, for example, when we were doing the live shows 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.000 and I was traveling heaps, if I go to an airport, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.120 if I'm away, if Mummy goes on like on a 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.040 plane trip without her, but she gets a little thing 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.959 from the airport, and that's kind of become. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.040 That was like a thing that we started doing. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.040 And it was infrequent because I rarely ever went to 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.240 an airport without the kids. But then during live shows 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.160 of November, I was going every couple of day and 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.800 that's been an increasing thing this year. So it's a 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.959 bad precedent to set. But at the same time, it's 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.160 compensating for the fact that I wasn't home. So it 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.880 feeds into this guilt that I have around not being 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.080 present and so yeah, literally buying their love. Thank you 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.400 for bringing that up for me. It's pard, Laura, I 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.680 understand where that comes from. But I've got an idea 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.199 start bringing home Christmas hams. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.360 Okay bean. That is the end of the year. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.760 This is one of my favorite times of year, right 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:27.800 the Google searchers. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.360 I find it such a funny. I mean, because everyone 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.240 does it right. It's like the Dictionary does, like the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.680 word of the year, which no one even knew what 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:35.200 that word was. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.199 It was like rizz or something. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.000 How did they come up with that? Does every like 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.679 I just picture a room of like dumbledores in a library, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.160 and everyone brings a word and then they just say 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.240 which one they thinks the best. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.920 Who knows, honestly, maybe it's like a most Google or whatever. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.160 Whoever's asked that question. If you have the answer to it, 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.040 slide into the DMS, we would love to know. But 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.200 also like Spotify rap lists, it's every single thing puts 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.200 out there like this is how engaged you are with 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:57.800 our content. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.320 I mean an assumption that one. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.920 Of the top things to be googled would have been 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.240 something like Donald Trump or Kim Kardashian. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.440 My opinion, Kim Kardashian has lost the shine recently. I 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.280 think if I was going to pick someone for this year, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.520 I would have thought Taylor Swift would have been especially 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.480 within Australia with the aristol. I would have thought that 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.120 she would have been one of the highest Google searchers. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.640 I think this list is very surprising. I reckon we 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.280 can rattle through what they are in terms of like news. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.760 I don't think the news things will be surprising because 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.160 every single one of these things has had quite a 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.119 big impact socially. Some of them I think are very problematic, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.080 but we'll get into it. The number one most googled 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.360 news search this year of twenty twenty three, drumroll please, 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.760 is something that I think will surprise no one. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.600 It was the optus outage. See. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.240 I'm so surprised by this because the irony is that 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.880 the people who had the optus outage weren't able to 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.680 google optus outage. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:48.880 No. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.000 But the reason why I'm not surprised is because I 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.559 mean I was affected by the optus s outage. I 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.160 woke up that morning and it was like is the 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.080 world ending? What is happening? And as soon as I 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.520 did get internet again, that was the thing I was googling. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.199 Or when I and Wi Fi at work, I was 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.720 googling why wasn't my phone working? Like I think everyone 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.160 that was affected, every single optist person ended up googling it. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.400 But every single or non optist person was googling it 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.600 as well. If you own a small business and you 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.320 run your finances, your fplus machines, your booking system, total 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.920 everything via that it was a hugely, hugely problematic day. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.560 And also on top of that, the way in which 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.080 that was handled just showed like such a lack of 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.920 understanding as to how everyday people live their lives and 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.400 how fundamental having access to the Internet is. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.000 Number two I thought would be number one, which is 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.240 the current war in Israel and Gaza high one hundred percent. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:35.960 This is why it shocked me because I would have 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.679 actually said that was number one. So surprising that the 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:39.920 Optus outage beat. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.959 That I wonder though, is like how do they aggregate 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.760 those searches because people would search for all different things 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.040 that pertain to the war. It's not one singular search, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.680 whereas optus outage is one singular search. And I think 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.960 that maybe this as a combined search because I think 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.960 so many people are trying to educate themselves on what 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.360 has happened. I would say that this is probably a 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.400 tricky one because there'd be such a scope of Google 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.760 searches that have been done about it. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.480 Number three is the referendum results Number four is very 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.920 problematic to me. We've spoken about him on the podcast before. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.160 Andrew Tate, who is the self proclaimed misogynist, the fact 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.040 that he's the fourth and most googled person in the news. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.480 I'm hoping more people are googling him in shock, horror 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.880 and to find out what his punishments were and to 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.240 learn more about him and his crimes, as opposed to 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.080 googling him out of interest and wanting to follow along 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.520 with his teachings. And I say teachings because he literally 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.480 runs classes on how to be a misogynist. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.920 Well, yeah, Andrew Tate had his social media taken away, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.640 so I'm not surprised that people had to google him 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:39.880 to find out, do you know what I mean? If 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.200 it was an Instagram search and he still had active profiles, 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:43.880 I think that there would have been people checking out 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:44.400 his stuff. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.520 We did like figuring out who he was. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.640 You know, there's a curiosity around him because everyone was like, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.400 this man is such a bad person. That immediately makes 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.200 people go, I don't know who it is. I'm gonna 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.040 find out one hundred percent. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.560 I mean, we spoke about him earlier this year, and 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.640 we spoke about how he is more Google searchers around 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.800 him than Kim Kardashian than other very high pro fast celebrities. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.640 But I would question that not all of those are 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.800 positive Google searchers. I mean, every single person in this 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.760 room has googled who he is. He is prolific, but 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.360 that does not mean that it's from a positive perspective totally. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.160