Speaker 1: Hi, guys, and I'll welcome back to another episode of
Speaker 1: Life unput. I'm Laura and I'm Brittany, and sometimes I
Speaker 1: just can't even with you. Laura, What have I done?
Speaker 2: Just everything? What did I do? It just made me
Speaker 2: lowell in general?
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: I started back at pilates this week, and I think
Speaker 3: Brittany is laughing at the fact that I can't actually
Speaker 3: move and I have to lower myself onto the seat
Speaker 3: like I'm an old lady going to the toilet, not
Speaker 3: gonna lie.
Speaker 4: Watching you crab walk around the room. Is that has
Speaker 4: been the highlight of my day.
Speaker 1: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: I have a question for you, though, Oh straight up,
Speaker 3: straight in, just gonna get straight into this. So I
Speaker 3: have something to admit, and that is that I missed
Speaker 3: a couple of Paradise episodes. I'm sorry, excuse me. I
Speaker 3: know I haven't been there for you. I feel like
Speaker 3: a shit friend. But I did watch last night's episode.
Speaker 3: So guys were recording tonight. Tonight is Monday, which means
Speaker 3: we're really doing a mad dash to the finish line
Speaker 3: whether this needs to be out tomorrow. But I watched
Speaker 3: last night's episode, which was Sunday night's episode and.
Speaker 1: Where the fuck were you?
Speaker 4: Do you know how many messages I got been like, hey, Britt,
Speaker 4: only watching for you, but where are you?
Speaker 1: Do you have diarrhea as well?
Speaker 4: Like I know Jess was out because she was sick
Speaker 4: and she had to take some time out, but I
Speaker 4: did were you? Were you out shooting yourself in a
Speaker 4: tent that actually was a little gashtro outbreak. There were
Speaker 4: a few people that ended up getting sick. I actually
Speaker 4: was not one of them. I think from my liver
Speaker 4: a parasite from the Amazon, Like I have guts of steel. Now,
Speaker 4: nothing you can get, nothing can bring me down.
Speaker 1: But you would think with a few people out for
Speaker 1: the count that you would have gotten more airtime, But
Speaker 1: if anything, they took the airtime off you. What were
Speaker 1: you doing that was so boring that you didn't get
Speaker 1: any airtime on that episode?
Speaker 2: The drama started and I just jumped in a canoe
Speaker 2: and necked it out of it.
Speaker 1: You were like paddleboarding your way out of paradise. No,
Speaker 1: I'm do you know what? I think?
Speaker 4: It was just there was so much other drama going on,
Speaker 4: and I do not get involved in the drama ever.
Speaker 1: I don't want a piece of it.
Speaker 4: I have never wanted I said this on my Instagram.
Speaker 4: I've never wanted to operate more than I.
Speaker 1: Did at that dinner party.
Speaker 4: I wanted out, what does apparate mean?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you guys, you know how she doesn't
Speaker 2: watch friends?
Speaker 1: Do we all just learn a new word? Apparate? Operate?
Speaker 1: It's oh, I like you so much. It's from Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: It's where they disappear.
Speaker 4: It's like a magical power and they can trans they
Speaker 4: like they can transport from where they are to somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 3: You're calling me cute because I don't know some weird
Speaker 3: Harry Potter reference. I'm gonna say there's probably a lot
Speaker 3: of people who just listened to this podcast who had
Speaker 3: no idea what apparate means. I thought that you were
Speaker 3: just using a big word, but now you're quoting her.
Speaker 4: Your husband, Matt commented on my photo and he was like, yes,
Speaker 4: strong use of the word operate.
Speaker 1: He was roping. He's also a manchild, so don't think
Speaker 1: that that counts.
Speaker 4: No. I just not involved in the drama and it
Speaker 4: just went down high. You guys only saw a snippet
Speaker 4: of it. It was just the most intense dinner. It was like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to say it. I felt like married
Speaker 4: at first sight or something. I just wanted to dig
Speaker 4: a hole, put my head in it like an ostrooch,
Speaker 4: and wait for the night to be done.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that the new format with
Speaker 1: the whole dinner parties and the unboxing of these questions
Speaker 1: has a real Maths.
Speaker 3: Vibe, and I mean, look, I'm not against it. I
Speaker 3: don't hate it like I love Maths. You guys all
Speaker 3: know that, but I kind of dislike the lack of
Speaker 3: originality around it. And I also dislike the fact that
Speaker 3: it is just to really trudge up true drama. At
Speaker 3: least with like the Maths dinner party, I feel like
Speaker 3: they ask loving questions as well, and they kind of
Speaker 3: draw out the romance a little bit, whereas with this
Speaker 3: and the way that they've framed Paradise, all of the
Speaker 3: questions that have come out of that box.
Speaker 1: As soon that box is on the fucking day, we
Speaker 1: were like, that is doom and gloom and misery.
Speaker 4: We started to get anxiety when we saw the box
Speaker 4: come out, or someone or usher was like, blul a
Speaker 4: banquet nite, We'll getting anxiety because no, no, I mean,
Speaker 4: there were some nice questions that came out here and there,
Speaker 4: but we all knew essentially it was to get down
Speaker 4: to the nitty gritty and get answers from things that
Speaker 4: everyone was talking about. And you know what, I just
Speaker 4: want to go and drink some wine, eat some oysters
Speaker 4: and just like fall in love too?
Speaker 1: Is it too much to us? I love?
Speaker 4: I think you went on the wrong show for that, babe. Anyway,
Speaker 4: it was, it was eventful, but you need to catch up.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, guys, I'm going and catching up.
Speaker 3: We're also missing tonight's episode because we're recording the podcast,
Speaker 3: but please jump on our Facebook group and update us,
Speaker 3: because as soon as we are done recording this, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get on there and I'm going to get deep
Speaker 3: in the comment section to know what's going on.
Speaker 4: Funny because when you don't actually watch because we can't
Speaker 4: watch it now, like Laura just said, I'm like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, what's actually happening right now?
Speaker 1: What is everyone seeing that?
Speaker 4: I don't know because we don't get to see the episode,
Speaker 4: so we watch it as you guys watch it, so
Speaker 4: I don't know what I'm doing right now. I don't
Speaker 4: know what's being said. So it does make me a
Speaker 4: little bit anxious that I'm not in control right now.
Speaker 1: Just the woosa. We're here doing the podcast. You're in
Speaker 1: your safe.
Speaker 4: Space, But how is your weak enough about my island life.
Speaker 3: I had a very eventful thing happen to me, and
Speaker 3: it's something it's something that I have been expecting, but
Speaker 3: yet when it happened, it was particularly unexpected and I
Speaker 3: didn't know how to process it when it was happening.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Marley pood in the bath for the
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 1: She's never done that. She took a dumb that's so rank, Like,
Speaker 1: that's my worst time. Man. It really was like I
Speaker 1: just I knew it was coming. I knew the day.
Speaker 4: Would come eventually and it would dawn on me. I
Speaker 4: just didn't expect it to be so so now boyant.
Speaker 4: What was I think this is like a critical question.
Speaker 4: What what was a consistency like submarine log or like
Speaker 4: buoyant or spread out and running.
Speaker 1: Look, it was very dispersed.
Speaker 4: I would say that it had absorbed a lot of
Speaker 4: the water in very quick succession, but it was very buoyant.
Speaker 1: So anyway it was. It was extremely confronting, but.
Speaker 4: The even even more confronting part of this story is
Speaker 4: that I got Marley out of the bar, I obviously
Speaker 4: put it straight in the shower.
Speaker 1: We cleaned her up.
Speaker 3: I came out and I was like dying in hysterics,
Speaker 3: and I told Matt what had happened, and he was
Speaker 3: like totally random, Like this is the most random segue
Speaker 3: of what had happened.
Speaker 1: But Matt was like, oh, did you know.
Speaker 4: That there was a study that came out this year
Speaker 4: that reported that.
Speaker 1: One in thirty people shit in the shower. What so
Speaker 1: like adult grown people, like adult humans.
Speaker 4: So there's this study that came out of the UK.
Speaker 4: There's a company called QS Supplies, and they have found
Speaker 4: that one in thirty people. They interviewed one thousand and
Speaker 4: ten different individuals from Britain and from the States, and
Speaker 4: they found that one in thirty of those thousand admitted
Speaker 4: to shitting in the shower.
Speaker 2: That that is messed up.
Speaker 4: Have a lot of feels about that, Like I guess
Speaker 4: I need to know are they sober, are they drunk?
Speaker 1: Are they like?
Speaker 2: What what conscious state are they in?
Speaker 1: They really redefined the whole idea of having a shit
Speaker 1: shower and a shave doesn't it. But then how does
Speaker 1: it go down the drain?
Speaker 4: Well, I think you have to just stomp it down. Well, okay, okay, right.
Speaker 4: There was more to this study as well.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry guys that this has taken a really graphic
Speaker 3: turn for really early on. But if I had to
Speaker 3: experience a poo in the bathtub, it's all fun and
Speaker 3: gains until someone poos in the pool, You're all going
Speaker 3: to experience it. So there was more to this study. Basically,
Speaker 3: there were five different questions. It turns out that one
Speaker 3: in three people pee in the shower, which I'm going
Speaker 3: to admit to I pee in the shower.
Speaker 1: I've definitely done it. It's a lot on a regular
Speaker 1: like i'd prefer to use the toilet. But also if.
Speaker 4: You're in there and there's and it hits you real
Speaker 4: hard and fast, I'm going to get out.
Speaker 3: And sometimes it hits you hard and fast because it's
Speaker 3: so warm, you can't stop, and you're like you're so pree,
Speaker 3: so relaxed, it's like so warm, it small winter.
Speaker 4: Would I would be surprised if eighty percent of people
Speaker 4: didn't wean the shower.
Speaker 3: So it says one in three people wei in the shower,
Speaker 3: which makes me think that two people are lying. And
Speaker 3: then the next one was one in four people blow
Speaker 3: their nose in the shower.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think every man in the universe does. I
Speaker 4: also blow my nose in the shower.
Speaker 2: Give it a good bush turkey with its tissue, just
Speaker 2: like straight down.
Speaker 1: Nah, just straight down the drain, wash it off. A
Speaker 1: bush turkey. It's not called a bush turkey. Isn't it
Speaker 1: a bush turkey? Thought? Sorry, I don't know what Harry
Speaker 1: Potter is. Okay, you're just such a lady, and you've
Speaker 1: clearly never gone camping.
Speaker 4: A bush turkey is where only go camping. Bush turkey
Speaker 4: is where you put one finger over one nostril and
Speaker 4: just as as hard as you can.
Speaker 1: We do that in surfing.
Speaker 4: It's called tap noose when you surf, so I grab
Speaker 4: surfings tap nose. You get really running nose and you
Speaker 4: have to like shoot it out into the ocean. Okay,
Speaker 4: so tap nose must be the coasty version of this.
Speaker 4: But a bush turkey is when you're from.
Speaker 1: The inland, or if your dad is from the army.
Speaker 1: So so okay.
Speaker 3: One in three people urinate one and four people blow
Speaker 3: their nose. One and five people spit in the shower,
Speaker 3: which I'm like, I'm not gonna make a habit of it,
Speaker 3: but if you need to do it, sure whatever.
Speaker 1: It doesn't offend me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know why you'd need to do it,
Speaker 4: but also I don't I mean, that's just gonna go
Speaker 4: down the shower.
Speaker 3: That's okay, Yeah, okay, right, one and twenty people masturbate
Speaker 3: in the shower. And I'm gonna say that if one
Speaker 3: and twenty people masturbate in the shower, it's probably mostly men.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't think it's twenty.
Speaker 3: I think it would be a bit awkward for a
Speaker 3: woman to masturbate in the shower. I think it'd be
Speaker 3: better for a woman to do it than a man
Speaker 3: because a bit too like not enough grip. Oh No,
Speaker 3: I think a lot of men masturbate in the shower, Brud,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I think that that's a pretty
Speaker 3: many think they do it everywhere. Ladies go and ask
Speaker 3: your husbands, your boyfriends. Don't ask your brothers or your
Speaker 3: dad's it's weird do they masturbate in the shower? Doing
Speaker 3: our own poll?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: And then lastly, number five on the list was that
Speaker 3: one in thirty people pooh in the shower.
Speaker 4: I'm just sorry, but I feel like i've been here
Speaker 4: by bus. I am gobsmacked. I just don't know who
Speaker 4: these people are and what went wrong in their childhood.
Speaker 4: I am also traumatized because, like most bathrooms have a
Speaker 4: toilet like right next to the shower, also perfectly perfectly
Speaker 4: manufactured and designed receptacle for poohs.
Speaker 1: It's definitely not your shower, and.
Speaker 4: It's always next door, so it's like two steps, maybe
Speaker 4: two long lunges at the most, and even mine literally
Speaker 4: just walk out of the bar.
Speaker 2: We're all out of bed. We're all out of bed,
Speaker 2: and you're in the dummy.
Speaker 4: I'm an on sweet's what Britney's talking about. We don't
Speaker 4: have a bed pen under the ben or anything.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this this all got a bit wild. I'm
Speaker 4: sorry if that was a bit much for you. Where
Speaker 4: it for ten minutes into the episode and we've talked
Speaker 4: a lot about number two.
Speaker 1: It's actually interesting. They were interesting statistics.
Speaker 3: But I'm I'm a mum and so much of my
Speaker 3: life is taken up by pooh. So you're welcome, So
Speaker 3: what do you Okay, here's my question how did you
Speaker 3: actually deal with it? You just push it down and drain,
Speaker 3: or do you have to get a bag like a
Speaker 3: dog boo and pick it up? Well, the good thing
Speaker 3: when you have a dog is that we have plenty
Speaker 3: of doggy bags lying around. Then I used a good
Speaker 3: solid amount of Domestos bleach and really gave that bath
Speaker 3: tub a clean.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, with that well and truly done my
Speaker 1: event for week, Brittany, your eventful week. It is time
Speaker 1: for our favorite part of the episode, and that is
Speaker 1: Accidentally Unfiltered, where we tell you your most embarrassing stories and
Speaker 1: we all laugh at you together because we're.
Speaker 3: A community, and that's what communities who love each other do,
Speaker 3: laugh together, laugh together and at each other and with
Speaker 3: each other, and we build each other up and then
Speaker 3: break each other down.
Speaker 1: Brittany, give me number one.
Speaker 2: Am I gone straight to her?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Accidentally unfiltered me? All right?
Speaker 2: I just really felt for this girl.
Speaker 1: I do you know.
Speaker 2: I think I say it every week because every time
Speaker 2: we go all right.
Speaker 4: Songing in, I'm like, oh I would die, Okay, rip
Speaker 4: my pants. I don't even know how you come back
Speaker 4: from this one. So I had just gotten back from
Speaker 4: a contiguing trip that I had gone on with one
Speaker 4: of my girlfriends, and I was so excited to show
Speaker 4: my mum and dad all of my photos from the trip.
Speaker 4: They wanted to see them on the big screen, of course,
Speaker 4: but they didn't have a fancy TV, so we needed
Speaker 4: to download my camera rel onto a USB and then
Speaker 4: plug it in. We downloaded them onto the family computer,
Speaker 4: transferred them to a USB, and then the slide show commenced.
Speaker 4: Little did I remember that I had entertained my boyfriend,
Speaker 4: who wasn't on the trip, with some naked photos. And
Speaker 4: by naked, I mean like proper hardcore close up, warm
Speaker 4: mirror selfie naked.
Speaker 1: That is so aggressive.
Speaker 4: I was starkly reminded of this when they proceeded to
Speaker 4: roll through onto the big screen in front of my
Speaker 4: whole family, one after the other.
Speaker 1: They just kept on coming. They kept coming through, and
Speaker 1: every time I pressed next, next, next, next, next, next
Speaker 1: photos to pump me.
Speaker 4: Through, I was mortifyingly trying to skip through them, much
Speaker 4: to my dismay. I thought the silence from my dad
Speaker 4: was the worst until my mum blurted out how nice
Speaker 4: she thought my strip was.
Speaker 1: A why would you keep flicking through why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: just stop and be like, everybody close your eyes. I
Speaker 1: think it's so funny.
Speaker 4: I actually love my I loved the sign off that
Speaker 4: her mum in that moment could be funny enough to
Speaker 4: say looks like a great strip instead of true, like
Speaker 4: your mom is the real mvpmvap.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I'll never forget the day I was
Speaker 1: like maybe fourteen years old or fifteen. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how old you are when you get pubic hair,
Speaker 1: but however old, however old I was, I decided to
Speaker 1: shave it all off, and I remember my mom walking
Speaker 1: in on me in the shower and she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: what have you done? Have you done? And still to
Speaker 1: this day, as a thirty four year old woman, every
Speaker 1: time I shave myself, I think of my mom going,
Speaker 1: oh what have you done? So why was she just
Speaker 1: watching you shave? No? No, no, she was.
Speaker 4: She just walked in and I'd obviously already done it,
Speaker 4: and she was like, oh, like baby.
Speaker 1: Care everywhere, clogging the drains. Oh I didn't know that
Speaker 1: was funny.
Speaker 4: I also think it's probably something I would have done,
Speaker 4: where you panic and instead of just like closing it down,
Speaker 4: you just start clicking next, and it just goes through
Speaker 4: like the whole real every angle legs up, upside down,
Speaker 4: inside out.
Speaker 1: I'm just imagining getting worse and worse is worse, like
Speaker 1: progressively more x rayded and poor dad and Nana. Betty's
Speaker 1: just sitting there like, oh God.
Speaker 4: Also, who's it worse for the parents or her? Because
Speaker 4: I think their dad would be. I don't know how
Speaker 4: you recover from that.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any winners in that. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: I have I have a less x rated accidentally unfiltered,
Speaker 1: but it's very adorable. But I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: we can all relate a little bit.
Speaker 3: Recently, my ex boyfriend has started dating a new girl.
Speaker 3: It was a really really bad breakup and I have
Speaker 3: been completely heartbroken. And then, to make matters worse, they've
Speaker 3: been really over the top on social media flaunting their
Speaker 3: new relationship. So of course I've done what any normal
Speaker 3: girl would do. I've stalked the shit out of this
Speaker 3: new girlfriend, whose name is Brianna. So anyway to cheer
Speaker 3: me up, my best friends recently took me away. It
Speaker 3: was a great, great weekend and many wines, many laughs,
Speaker 3: and it honestly took my mind off my shattered heart
Speaker 3: for a few days. When we got back home, I
Speaker 3: posted the cutest picture of all four of us, and
Speaker 3: I tagged my friends and I went to sleep.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna end well.
Speaker 3: I woke up the next morning to seven miscalls from
Speaker 3: my ex boyfriend and then I thought to myself, why
Speaker 3: on earth would he be calling me? And it dawned
Speaker 3: on me the fucking photo I didn't tag my best
Speaker 3: friend Bianca. I had tagged his new girlfriend Brianna. And
Speaker 3: now I want to move to a different country, change
Speaker 3: my name. Except we're all stuck in a pandemic.
Speaker 2: But I just think I feel like this is common.
Speaker 4: We all stalk people and then their names just show
Speaker 4: up as like the most recently searched. And I just
Speaker 4: feel that this poor girl has gone and tagged her
Speaker 4: friends and gone to bed and everyone has seen it,
Speaker 4: Like everyone can imagine if you had but if you
Speaker 4: were without your girlfriend and you were like what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Like dish, she just want me to see that she's
Speaker 2: having fun with.
Speaker 4: Her friends, Like it just wouldn't make any sense. It's like,
Speaker 4: look how much I've moved on, Like what would she
Speaker 4: be thinking?
Speaker 3: No, I actually think that the new girlfriend would see
Speaker 3: that and realize that she's accidentally tagged her and being like,
Speaker 3: I want a loser.
Speaker 2: She's stocking me. I would love to know what what
Speaker 2: then new girlfriend was thinking.
Speaker 4: I have told you guys a story before about like
Speaker 4: this is so many years ago, but when Facebook used
Speaker 4: to have the function where you would search and then
Speaker 4: directly below is where you would update your status, and
Speaker 4: they looked like the same columns and I had put
Speaker 4: in as my status I'm not going to say her
Speaker 4: name home. I had just put in my boyfriend's ex
Speaker 4: girlfriend's name, updated my status, and then.
Speaker 1: Corn about my day. Yes, I used to store her
Speaker 1: so much. I was obsessed. So for me, this is
Speaker 1: a very status that was her name.
Speaker 4: It's like you're writing like a Brittany Hockley. That's it,
Speaker 4: it's your status. That's what I did. I just put
Speaker 4: her full name, first name, and last name as my
Speaker 4: status update on Facebook, and then I went to work
Speaker 4: and found out nine hours later, but that's what I
Speaker 4: had done. So I honestly I read this and I
Speaker 4: was like, I feel for.
Speaker 1: This killing your pain.
Speaker 4: Okay, So moving on to our next favorite section, which
Speaker 4: is can't believe that they said that, which we brought
Speaker 4: in last week, and it's a new section where it's
Speaker 4: just like, literally, you cannot believe someone said that new
Speaker 4: favor section. But before we jump into that and have
Speaker 4: a lull, we just thought we'd tell you what the
Speaker 4: episode's about, because that's why you're here. So this week's
Speaker 4: actually something that you guys have actually requested a lot,
Speaker 4: something that all women have to deal with and have
Speaker 4: to think about, and it's really actually quite an important topic,
Speaker 4: and that is contraception. So we're going to jump in.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk about different types of contraception, what's
Speaker 4: available to you, what we've used, problems that some people
Speaker 4: have found. We've even got a little cameo guest coming on.
Speaker 1: Guys. We brought in Brittany's sister, who's just giving another
Speaker 1: perspective because like Britta and I, I mean, we are
Speaker 1: both really familiar with using the pill and we can
Speaker 1: talk about our own personal experiences. But it was nice
Speaker 1: having somebody to talk to who's used a completely different
Speaker 1: type of contra which is I mean, some of you
Speaker 1: guys might know it as implan on, other people might
Speaker 1: know it as its an explanon. So Sherry jumped in
Speaker 1: on this chat as well in a little while to
Speaker 1: give her opinions and her experience and kind of what
Speaker 1: she went through when she was using different contraception methods.
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, we have our new
Speaker 1: little segment, which is, I can't believe they said that
Speaker 1: we've got a few doozies. I'm just gonna jump strainium.
Speaker 4: I took a go home when I was working as
Speaker 4: a personal trainer, which I already told him I had
Speaker 4: done when you asked what I do. We went back
Speaker 4: to my house and were fooling around. He grabbed my
Speaker 4: stomach fat and said.
Speaker 1: What's this? I thought you were a personal trainer? Oh
Speaker 1: so bad, my actual god, And then what does she do?
Speaker 4: I kicked him out of my place immediately, but he
Speaker 4: left his expensive belt and tie, which I gifted to
Speaker 4: my really good friend, which he walked to his friend's
Speaker 4: house and got loads of compliments on.
Speaker 3: For this kind of I mean, like, not the bad part,
Speaker 3: but so kind of reminds me of a thing that
Speaker 3: happened a very long time ago where a guy accidentally
Speaker 3: left his jacket at your house. And now I see
Speaker 3: you every day wearing that jacket. Brittain has no contact
Speaker 3: with this guy anymore. This is like many moons ago.
Speaker 3: There's a really nice jacket and it's now.
Speaker 1: Become a staple of your wardrobe. Oh yeah, look, I
Speaker 1: was seeing someone. He had a nice coat.
Speaker 3: He left it in my house and I took that
Speaker 3: as a down payment because he's a fuck boy.
Speaker 1: And then when we.
Speaker 4: Stopped seeing each other, I just thought, well, why would
Speaker 4: I give up this Kashmir hold on?
Speaker 1: I completely understand.
Speaker 3: All right, I have I like to air your dirty
Speaker 3: laundry on the podcast. Okay, so this is one that
Speaker 3: was written in from someone. Oh guys, these like these
Speaker 3: I can't believe they said that.
Speaker 1: They absolutely kill our soul. But they're also kind of
Speaker 1: funny at the same time. So this girl writes in,
Speaker 1: So I'm very tall. I'm six point one and I
Speaker 1: grew very quickly. I was six foot by the time
Speaker 1: I was twelve. And when I was about thirteen, I
Speaker 1: was in a supermarket and a man and his wife
Speaker 1: came up to me and said, oh my god, you're
Speaker 1: so tall, which, of course, at that age I got
Speaker 1: all the time. And then the man followed up and said,
Speaker 1: no one's ever going to love you.
Speaker 2: Oh my no, he didn't.
Speaker 3: And this was said to this girl when she was thirteen,
Speaker 3: so she is obviously held onto this as like what
Speaker 3: the fuck?
Speaker 2: I mean her entire adult life.
Speaker 4: At thirteen, all you think about is no one's gonna
Speaker 4: love me anyway. And when an adult man tells you,
Speaker 4: what did you ax?
Speaker 1: Why would no one love he? Because she's tall?
Speaker 2: It's like goals. Everyone wants to be tall.
Speaker 3: Maybe he was intimidated because he had short man syndrome,
Speaker 3: which is what this sounds like. Meanwhile, I was danging
Speaker 3: Dovito's four until we started doing this segment. Something I'd
Speaker 3: never really thought about is that growing up, I used
Speaker 3: to cop at least once a week from complete strangers.
Speaker 1: Oh you must be a swimmer. You've got swimmer shoulders.
Speaker 3: And I never really took it as a I never
Speaker 3: really took it as being like super offensive because I
Speaker 3: was a swimmer and I was really broad. But that's
Speaker 3: just like now, as one who's a little bit older,
Speaker 3: it's not a compliment either, Like it's not an insult,
Speaker 3: but it's not a compliment. And I just think we
Speaker 3: can't make we shouldn't be passing any comments on people's bodies.
Speaker 3: I got exactly the same thing. I was a surfer
Speaker 3: and a swimmer, and I'm very broad. You guys know
Speaker 3: that Laura and I are both quite broad. I think
Speaker 3: I'm probably broader than you. Actually, no, no, anyway.
Speaker 1: I mean we'll measure it out.
Speaker 4: That's not a broad But I used to get it
Speaker 4: all the time too, But unlike you, I was so
Speaker 4: offended by it because I didn't want it.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. I thought it was unattractive.
Speaker 4: There was this one time I was in Greece and
Speaker 4: it's like it's ingrained and ascarred me because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: my bikini like feeling saucy, feeling confident.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're feeling yourself. I was just like
Speaker 1: happy in my skin.
Speaker 4: I was on holiday and having a great time and
Speaker 4: I was swimming in the ocean. And he, by no
Speaker 4: means men don't mean a fence by it. Half the
Speaker 4: time they think they're giving you a compliment, but they
Speaker 4: don't know that you take offense. And he just came
Speaker 4: up to me out of nowhere, looks me up and
Speaker 4: down and goes, look, god, athlete, are you dull?
Speaker 2: And I was like, so squeeze me, so what, Oh, well,
Speaker 2: you're obviously an athlete.
Speaker 1: Look at the shoulders on you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And I was like, well, yeah, okay, I used to
Speaker 4: surf and do hitch sports and then I just ran away.
Speaker 1: I like that. He wasn't like, you're a summer, He's like,
Speaker 1: what kind of athlete are you? Are you a forward?
Speaker 2: Are you a rugbyople?
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you're a sumo wrestler. Are you
Speaker 1: a goalkeeper? Like that kind of athlete? Let's talk through this. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was just like, I know, H meant it as
Speaker 4: a compliment, but I was very vendans. So I feel
Speaker 4: that this girl's pain.
Speaker 3: A lot of the like I can't believe they said
Speaker 3: that that's come through. A lot of them are pretty
Speaker 3: dark and pretty twisted. There's a lot of body shaming
Speaker 3: that happens as well, Like we've had loads sent in.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I.
Speaker 3: Think it's the kind of stuff where if you don't laugh,
Speaker 3: you'll cry. And that's the whole reason why we wanted
Speaker 3: to start this segment because I think that there every
Speaker 3: single woman out there has experienced a time with something
Speaker 3: totally inappropriate has been said to them. And I think
Speaker 3: that every single person who has written in these sorts
Speaker 3: of stories have done it because they can see the
Speaker 3: humor in it and they're not taking it to a
Speaker 3: fence anymore, and they've overcome this. Even if it hurt
Speaker 3: stung at the time, they can now look back retrospectively
Speaker 3: and be like, that guy's a fuck with and I
Speaker 3: am a queen.
Speaker 4: Do you want to know? I don't know if I've
Speaker 4: ever said this. I'm gonna give you some inside a
Speaker 4: goss on. The first thing Nick Cummins aka or Badge.
Speaker 1: The first thing he said to me at the cocktail party.
Speaker 4: Right, So we met on the red carpet, and I
Speaker 4: was very fit when I was on there. I used
Speaker 4: to do I used to love doing weights and stuff,
Speaker 4: and I'm ran every day and did a lot of squats. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're in shape.
Speaker 2: I was strong, specifically like I had strong legs.
Speaker 4: I went up to him to talk for the very
Speaker 4: first time on camera. He grabs I had this thigh
Speaker 4: high dress on, like had this huge wit. He grabs
Speaker 4: my thigh like a friend and starts to wriggle my
Speaker 4: leg like picture it slaps his hand down and goes.
Speaker 1: Would you look at the quads.
Speaker 2: On those you must squat and I died.
Speaker 4: I died a slow, horrible death, and I thought that
Speaker 4: to me, I'm walking out right now. First thing he
Speaker 4: said to me, I know I died, but he was
Speaker 4: actually I was like, oh, thank you, and then he
Speaker 4: kept going.
Speaker 1: He didn't get it. I was like, thanks, okay, so
Speaker 1: like what do you do.
Speaker 2: And he's like no, but really do you squat it?
Speaker 1: He just kept going and I was I just you're like,
Speaker 1: mister honey Badger, I'm not a race horse. I know
Speaker 1: that you.
Speaker 4: Feel like you're here to pick a winner, but please,
Speaker 4: that's what you need to step down.
Speaker 1: Picture me day one from my quad.
Speaker 4: But you know what they say, like, if a race
Speaker 4: horse has good legs on them, they're gonna go far.
Speaker 1: You really went far, Bret.
Speaker 2: I went as far as humanly possible for the honey Badger.
Speaker 1: That's so intense. I can't believe I've never heard that.
Speaker 1: He was bless his soul. I called him out on it,
Speaker 1: like a few weeks later, and he was like, I
Speaker 1: didn't know you'd be offended.
Speaker 2: I was giving I thought I was giving you a compliment.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, it was no girl, wants you
Speaker 4: to grab her thigh and shake it and say look.
Speaker 1: At the cop on that thank God. All right, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: I think it's time to get into the episode I
Speaker 1: reckon too. That's deep and dive and get right in.
Speaker 3: So, as Britt said, today we are talk about contraception,
Speaker 3: which I mean, obviously this is such an interesting topic.
Speaker 3: I mean, we talk a lot about relationships, we talk
Speaker 3: a lot about sex, we talk a lot about the
Speaker 3: end goal, and not a lot about the protection prior
Speaker 3: to the end goal. So we thought we'd put together
Speaker 3: a list of all the different contraceptions that are available,
Speaker 3: not all the main contraceptions that are available. Mostly when
Speaker 3: I went through my journey, when I was needing to
Speaker 3: use contraception, I don't know if like every option was
Speaker 3: really explained to me, the pros, the cons, the side effects,
Speaker 3: the benefits. So I think it's really nice to kind
Speaker 3: of have a place where we're going to talk about IUDs.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about the difference between having a
Speaker 3: Marina IUD a copper IUD, the difference between the two
Speaker 3: types of pills that you can be on, the difference
Speaker 3: between what next plan on is, And obviously I mean,
Speaker 3: you guys all know what a condom is. We don't
Speaker 3: need to explain that to you. However, I'm sure some of.
Speaker 1: You need to be reminded about using them.
Speaker 3: So Britt, tell me about your experience with contraception. I
Speaker 3: think that that's a nice way to start if you
Speaker 3: talk to me about your journey, what you're using, what
Speaker 3: you have tried in the past, what you're currently using
Speaker 3: to protect yourself, and then I can talk about what
Speaker 3: mine has been.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I guess for me and I reckon, you're probably
Speaker 4: gonna end up being the same because we're the same age.
Speaker 4: I first went to get contraception when I was about sixteen,
Speaker 4: I'd say, because I had been with a boyfriend. My
Speaker 4: boyfriend for a year, and my mom sat down and
Speaker 4: had the conversation with me. She was like, look, if
Speaker 4: you're even remotely thinking about doing the horizontal dance and love,
Speaker 4: you need to go on contraception because you're not gonna
Speaker 4: have a baby. So we had the chat then, and
Speaker 4: there was never a chat to be honest about what
Speaker 4: to use.
Speaker 1: There was just in my.
Speaker 4: Mind it was like, oh, okay, it's time to have sex, let's.
Speaker 1: Go on the pill. There was not options.
Speaker 4: There weren't discussions about all these things now and nextplan
Speaker 4: on and bars you can get in your arms and
Speaker 4: things you can put in your cervix, and there was
Speaker 4: just nothing.
Speaker 1: So I remember we went to the doctor. Mom said,
Speaker 1: let's just do it. Even if you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: have to have sex. She's like, it's just that if
Speaker 1: it happens, you're safe.
Speaker 4: And also she's like, I knew you'd been together for
Speaker 4: a year, and you know, little teenagers together for a year,
Speaker 4: they get serious.
Speaker 1: And she was like, I was sixteen once, Brittany, I
Speaker 1: see what's going on here.
Speaker 4: But yeah, So we went to the doctor and it
Speaker 4: was literally we went in together, we need to put
Speaker 4: Brittany on the pill. He's like cool. Think he asked
Speaker 4: me like one question, or do my blood pressure? And
Speaker 4: then he put me on the pill and that was it.
Speaker 4: It was just like that was it. There was no
Speaker 4: deep dive into any thing. There was no discussion about options.
Speaker 1: And then I have literally been on the pill ever since.
Speaker 4: I'm thirty two and I had been on it since
Speaker 4: about fifteen sixteen, and I've had one break where I
Speaker 4: tried to go on a break from it when I
Speaker 4: went to London, so I went traveling for a few years,
Speaker 4: and I thought, I'm just gonna get my body a break,
Speaker 4: see what happens. And to be honest, it was horrible.
Speaker 4: My skin was breaking out, I was hormonal. I was
Speaker 4: getting depression because my body didn't know how to deal
Speaker 4: with hormones. So I didn't even I didn't see it through.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of friends saying, see it through
Speaker 4: a couple of months and you'll come back on track.
Speaker 4: I had really, really bad pimples, which I never get,
Speaker 4: and then I just thought, I can't deal with it.
Speaker 1: It was too much.
Speaker 2: I want to enjoy my traveling.
Speaker 1: Went back onto the pill.
Speaker 4: So that was that I don't really have experience in
Speaker 4: anything else other than like condoms, which which an added
Speaker 4: effect because not only are they.
Speaker 1: Birth controlled, but they stop st eyes.
Speaker 4: We'll get into that later, because I think a lot
Speaker 4: of people forget that other forms of contraception don't actually
Speaker 4: stop sties, whereas I mean, even condoms aren't fool proof,
Speaker 4: but you need to be wearing a condom. But that's
Speaker 4: They're the only two things I've ever tried. So what
Speaker 4: pill were you using, Like, what name of the pill?
Speaker 4: Because I think that they, especially from our generation, there
Speaker 4: are some pills that are like very well known, like
Speaker 4: your Yasmine, your marvel on. They all had like weird
Speaker 4: chick names mostly yea, what was the one that you
Speaker 4: kind of were on and stuck to. I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm going to pronounce this wrong, and you think that
Speaker 4: I would know by now? Microgynum. Never heard of it,
Speaker 4: Never heard of it. It's actually a really really low dose.
Speaker 4: So for my whole life, I've been on a low
Speaker 4: dose pill. I never I never needed, I never had
Speaker 4: a heavy period. I never had like really bad skin problems.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people often go on the pill
Speaker 4: early for skin problems to manage hormones. I never had that,
Speaker 4: so I I've always been on one of the lightest pills.
Speaker 3: I have a kind of similar story, I guess. But
Speaker 3: I started the pill when I was fourteen and have
Speaker 3: used the pill my entire life. I didn't go on
Speaker 3: the pill at fourteen because I was sexually active. I
Speaker 3: went on the pill at fourteen because I also, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: mat No, I had really wild skin and I used
Speaker 3: to get I used to get really really bad bacni
Speaker 3: when I was fourteen, like severe severe bacne. I never
Speaker 3: had acne on my face or anything, but I was
Speaker 3: a swimmer. As we've established earlier in the episode, I
Speaker 3: can tell from your physics, and I had a really
Speaker 3: bad bacni and it was something that like really got
Speaker 3: me down and I was incredibly insecure about. So when
Speaker 3: I was fourteen or fifteen, I went on the pill
Speaker 3: as a way of controlling my hormones and being able
Speaker 3: to see if that would level out my skin. And
Speaker 3: I was put on a pill called Marvel on twenty
Speaker 3: eight I think it's called, and I still have. I
Speaker 3: used that all the way up until when I got pregnant,
Speaker 3: and I guess I never really had any time off it.
Speaker 3: I was like very very consistent with the pill, but
Speaker 3: I had a really unique situation in that. So I've
Speaker 3: spoken really openly before about how before I had Mali,
Speaker 3: I had a miscarriage, and so when I got pregnant
Speaker 3: that time I was on the pill. That pregnancy was
Speaker 3: absolutely not planned. But what happened was is after the
Speaker 3: show had finished, like after we finished filming The Bachelor
Speaker 3: and after it had been on TV. Because of the
Speaker 3: stress of the show and the stress of being in
Speaker 3: the public eye and everything that was being written about
Speaker 3: me and the papers, and I felt like I had
Speaker 3: no control over my life. I lost a lot of hair,
Speaker 3: like a significant amount of hair just kept on falling
Speaker 3: out of my head. And I went to a hair
Speaker 3: specialist and I explained what had happened, and they put
Speaker 3: me on this medication, which was a medically prescribed medication.
Speaker 3: And what I didn't know at the time was that
Speaker 3: this medication has an ingredient in it called saw palmetto,
Speaker 3: and saw palmetto is contraindicative to the pill, and so
Speaker 3: you can't take it if you're on the pill. You
Speaker 3: have to use other types of physical barrier contraception like
Speaker 3: condoms or I.
Speaker 1: Don't whatever else.
Speaker 3: You cancel each other out totally. So they totally cancel
Speaker 3: each other out. So I was on the pill and
Speaker 3: I got pregnant, and then that is what kind of
Speaker 3: started my journey with coming off the pill and you know,
Speaker 3: having babies and kind of dabbling in different types of contraception.
Speaker 3: So I obviously got pregnant.
Speaker 4: It was a surprise, like a total surprise, and I
Speaker 4: obviously went back to that hair specialist and was like, dude,
Speaker 4: you did this, and he was like, I didn't make you,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: Have any hair, and I've got a baby. Something has
Speaker 1: gone wrong. What the hell have you prescribed me?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: This shit is wild, it's a baby in a bottle.
Speaker 3: And anyway, So basically there was kind of a conversation
Speaker 3: that was missed in in my consultation and he should
Speaker 3: have explained to me that I needed to use other
Speaker 3: types of contraception, but it just it just got lost
Speaker 3: in translation. And that set off our journey because we
Speaker 3: then realized we wanted to have kids. And then I
Speaker 3: came off the pill, and then obviously Marley happened very quickly.
Speaker 3: I had stopped taking the pill, so I was more
Speaker 3: actively trying. But yeah, so both of our experiences so
Speaker 3: far have really been just using the pill. I think
Speaker 3: culturally most Australians like, that's kind of seems to be
Speaker 3: like the cultural contraception that we gravitate towards, especially here.
Speaker 3: So for example, in the States, IUDs and the most
Speaker 3: commonly used form of contraception, they are equivalent to condoms,
Speaker 3: that's how commonly that they're used, whereas here in Australia
Speaker 3: we're still very much pill orientated. But what a lot
Speaker 3: of people probably don't know is that there's two types
Speaker 3: of pills. Now, the pill that's the most commonly used
Speaker 3: pill is the combination pill, so that's the one that
Speaker 3: I think majority of people would use. And what that
Speaker 3: combination pill has is that it has a thing called
Speaker 3: progesterone and it also has another thing in it called estrogen.
Speaker 3: So the combination pill actually works by stopping the ovaries
Speaker 3: from releasing an egg each month, and that's why you
Speaker 3: don't actually get a period when you're on the pill.
Speaker 3: You get this artificial period. But what it also does
Speaker 3: as a secondary form is that it thickens the fluid
Speaker 3: around the cervex and it prevents the sperm from being
Speaker 3: able to actually enter the cervex as well, So it
Speaker 3: kind of has a dual mechanism to stop you from
Speaker 3: getting pregnant. And when used effectively, which means that you're
Speaker 3: taking the pill at the same time every day, it's
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent effective. But obviously if you forget the pill,
Speaker 3: or you don't take it on time, or you're just
Speaker 3: a little bit haphazard with it, then that efficacy dramatically decreases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is true.
Speaker 4: You do really, really really need to take it at
Speaker 4: the right time, and if you do, it is ninety
Speaker 4: nine percent effective, but about one in ten, so nine
Speaker 4: percent of people one in nine, one in ten taking
Speaker 4: a pill can still fall pregnant. But this is usually
Speaker 4: because they're not taking it at the same time, so
Speaker 4: they just haven't been regular with it, or they've had
Speaker 4: extreme vomiting or diarrhea around the time they're taking it.
Speaker 4: And I think, to be honest, I hadn't really thought
Speaker 4: much about that until I started to read it again,
Speaker 4: and I thought, that makes so much sense, Like if
Speaker 4: you have severe diarrhea or vomiting when you're taking it,
Speaker 4: of course it's not going to be absorbed, and of
Speaker 4: course it's not going to work. So that is just
Speaker 4: something's keeping the back of your mind as well.
Speaker 1: But I think also on that when you think about
Speaker 1: you know, ninety nine percent sounds so it sounds so effective.
Speaker 1: It really does. But if you if you've been using
Speaker 1: the pill for ten years and you think that that's
Speaker 1: you know, twelve periods a year over ten years, then
Speaker 1: statistically over that ten year period, there's still a really
Speaker 1: good chance that you could be that one percent that
Speaker 1: gets pregnant. So I think that there are still a
Speaker 1: lot of people who fell pregnant when they're using the pill,
Speaker 1: and maybe they feel as though they're doing everything by
Speaker 1: the book and it comes as a true surprise to
Speaker 1: them that statistically that's not an anomaly, like it's not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent full proof, and obviously nothing is. But
Speaker 1: we can just do our best to try and safeguard
Speaker 1: ourselves as best as possible, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 4: A lot of people are like, I can't be on
Speaker 4: the pill because I always forget to take it or
Speaker 4: whatever else.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna be regular with it.
Speaker 4: But for me personally my experience, I just started doing
Speaker 4: it at such a young age, and I was so
Speaker 4: bur dantic about it at a young age because obviously
Speaker 4: that was just not on my radar that I have
Speaker 4: just never in fifteen years, never missed it, never forgotten it,
Speaker 4: never do anything because it's literally my routine. It's always
Speaker 4: in my handbag. And this is what I recommend, like
Speaker 4: if you're younger and thinking of going on the pill,
Speaker 4: if you're a younger listener, I just carried my handbag
Speaker 4: and I take it in the morning. So for me
Speaker 4: about eight am is a normal time because I'm always
Speaker 4: around at that time, even if I'm at work already,
Speaker 4: I still have my handbag and I just do it.
Speaker 1: It's always there. You're like breakfast and no babies.
Speaker 2: Absolutely breakfast and no babies. It's my life motto.
Speaker 1: Something that I find really interesting about the pill though,
Speaker 1: So like I think we often talk about when we
Speaker 1: talk about contraception, we talk about all the different types
Speaker 1: of side effects that can coincide with taking contraception. And
Speaker 1: you know, each different type of contraception has a different, happy,
Speaker 1: little mixed bag of side effects.
Speaker 3: But something that we don't really talk about, I guess
Speaker 3: because side effects is kind of seemed like it's deemed
Speaker 3: as a negative. We don't always talk about how the
Speaker 3: pill actually it came astered a lot of negative side effects. So,
Speaker 3: for example, people take the pill for loads of reasons.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I started taking it because I had
Speaker 1: really bad hormonal bacne, I guess we'll call it. And
Speaker 1: then some people take it because they get extremely heavy periods.
Speaker 1: Other people take it because it helps to regulate their
Speaker 1: flow if their periods are very irregular.
Speaker 4: And like really bad period pain and pre menstrual symptoms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's loads of reasons that actually are beneficial reasons
Speaker 3: for taking the pill. I do also think that like
Speaker 3: when people who have taken the pill to try and
Speaker 3: resolve an issue. So if you're taking a pill because
Speaker 3: you're trying to resolve the fact that you have really
Speaker 3: heavy period cramps, or because you get migraines when you
Speaker 3: have a period, whatever the reasons are. If you're then
Speaker 3: on the pill for ten years or fifteen years and
Speaker 3: you come off the pill, those issues that you were
Speaker 3: dealing with earlier on that the pill has must for
Speaker 3: all those years are still going to be there. So
Speaker 3: there's often this feeling that like the pill has caused
Speaker 3: these issues. But from all the research that we've done
Speaker 3: really read up on this topic, it seems that it's
Speaker 3: not that the pill is necessarily causing these adverse long
Speaker 3: term side effects. It's that the pill has masked them
Speaker 3: for so long that you think that that was your
Speaker 3: body at normal, and then you have these side effects
Speaker 3: from coming off the pill, But really it's just your
Speaker 3: body going back to what it normally is like and
Speaker 3: the pill has been masking those things for so long.
Speaker 4: Speaking of going off the pill, I have a friend
Speaker 4: that's been on a pill like, you know, I just
Speaker 4: grew up with her. So she's been on the level
Speaker 4: this same amount of time. I've been on fifteen years.
Speaker 4: She recently went off because she's like, okay, cool, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna start trying to have a baby. She said that
Speaker 4: her sex drive, like her libido, has increased dramatically since
Speaker 4: going off, and she said, I've never I've never known
Speaker 4: that it was reduced because my whole life this is
Speaker 4: what it's been. But she said it was very, very,
Speaker 4: very noticeable. So I think that's really intriguing. I have
Speaker 4: been on so long too, I don't I've probably be
Speaker 4: an animal.
Speaker 1: May you be a sex demon? You don't never get
Speaker 1: this podcast done.
Speaker 3: Brittany is too busy in a couple of stirrups and
Speaker 3: some wall straps who dominatrix.
Speaker 2: Holy, I don't know where do you come off the pill?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that just reminded me this is totally
Speaker 3: off peace. But I got a I got a message
Speaker 3: sent to us on like the on the Facebook group.
Speaker 3: A girl had sent me a message and she was like, hey,
Speaker 3: so my mom. It was it was like a very
Speaker 3: rogue accidentally unfiltered. And she's like, hey, so my mom
Speaker 3: just slept over last night, and then she sent me
Speaker 3: a photo of her bed.
Speaker 1: But what she'd forgotten.
Speaker 4: To do was take down her arm straps that she'd
Speaker 4: put up with her boyfriend, and her mom had slept
Speaker 4: in the bed. Next to the bed, there were two
Speaker 4: rope tied to the bed still, and her mom had
Speaker 4: just never seen anything, gone to sleep, pretended like it
Speaker 4: didn't happen. They were read with like love hearts and
Speaker 4: stuff on them, but they were full on ropes.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, and he's so embarrassed her.
Speaker 3: Back to the topic of contraception, though, that was a
Speaker 3: little bit ran So there is another type of pill
Speaker 3: which I think is far less common spoken about, and
Speaker 3: that is the progesterone only pill. And now I only
Speaker 3: learned about the progesterone pill when I was breastfeeding, because
Speaker 3: when you are breastfeeding, you can't take a pill that
Speaker 3: has estrogen in it, because that just MUCKs up with
Speaker 3: your hormones, it MUCKs up with your milk supply. But
Speaker 3: you probably also don't want to be pregnant when you're
Speaker 3: still breastfeeding, because that's crazy, that's crazy, that's wild stuff.
Speaker 3: And so I was put on this thing called the
Speaker 3: progesterone pill. It's also known as the mini pill, and
Speaker 3: the mini pill is a form of oral contraception that
Speaker 3: you have to take every day. You have to take
Speaker 3: it at the exact same time for it to be effective.
Speaker 3: It can't you don't have a few hours windows. It's
Speaker 3: really got to be to the same hour. And it
Speaker 3: contains a very very small amount of progesterone, which is
Speaker 3: a hormone that also works in a very similar way
Speaker 3: to the combination pill. It works by thickening the mucus
Speaker 3: of your cervex and it stops the sperm from penetrating
Speaker 3: into your uterus. This is all very technical, and that
Speaker 3: is what stops you from getting pregnant. But the added
Speaker 3: estrogen in the combination that also stops like bleeding, and
Speaker 3: it stops you from having irregular bleeding. So often people
Speaker 3: who are taking the progesterone only pill or the Mini
Speaker 3: pill have a lot of breakthrough bleeding and they'll have
Speaker 3: very irregular periods. It's not as stable, i think as
Speaker 3: the combination pill. And that's definitely what I found when
Speaker 3: I was taking it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's the same statistics actually as the pill
Speaker 4: in terms of one in nine women can still fall
Speaker 4: pregnant on it. It's just that, whilst the statistics are
Speaker 4: still the same, easier to fall pregnant on the mini
Speaker 4: pill because your window is smaller of when you have
Speaker 4: to take it. So does that make sense to you
Speaker 4: guys are following me. Just with a normal pill, you
Speaker 4: have a little bit more leeway if you're like, oh shit,
Speaker 4: just three hours ago whatever, I was supposed to take
Speaker 4: a pill. It's okay because you've got that leeway. With
Speaker 4: a mini pill, you need to be taking it within
Speaker 4: a one one and a half hour sort of window,
Speaker 4: Like you just need to be a bit more on it,
Speaker 4: which is why it's still one in nine can fall pregnant,
Speaker 4: but more people end up doing it because they're just
Speaker 4: more forgetful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just more room for error, right.
Speaker 3: A dark omen of being on the pill is that
Speaker 3: there is always this chance that you're going to forget
Speaker 3: the pill. And I guess that's why we have backup
Speaker 3: and emergency contraception like the Morning After pill, which you
Speaker 3: know it is one hundred percent only supposed to be
Speaker 3: an emergency contraception, and it's more effective the earlier you
Speaker 3: take it. After having sex.
Speaker 1: However, I do think there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there who take it more on the regularly as
Speaker 1: like a oh, whoops, got to take that again. Why
Speaker 1: it's only considered an emergency is because it's way less
Speaker 1: effective than taking a pill or using other forms of contraception,
Speaker 1: which have like a ninety nine to a ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent effectiveness. So the morning after pill, for example,
Speaker 1: if it's taken within seventy two hours after you've had
Speaker 1: unprotected sex, then the risk of pregnancy is reduced by
Speaker 1: eighty seven percent. So there's still a percentage there that's
Speaker 1: a wild gamble that.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you really don't want to have a baby,
Speaker 3: idan't want to be risking thirteen percent.
Speaker 1: Of my life on that.
Speaker 3: So that is why you know, they really talk about
Speaker 3: it as your absolute plan be to contraception, because it's not.
Speaker 3: It's nowhere near as effective as all of the other
Speaker 3: choices that you have and the choices that you can
Speaker 3: make around contraception. And you know the reason why we
Speaker 3: wanted to do this episode is because your only option
Speaker 3: isn't the pill. There are other options, and they have
Speaker 3: some of the hormonal based and some of them are
Speaker 3: more physical implantation based, and that's why we thought we
Speaker 3: would just unpack what these are. The next one we're
Speaker 3: going to get into is what was called when I
Speaker 3: was growing up, implan On, but now it's been renamed.
Speaker 3: It's exactly the same mechanism, but it's called nextplan On.
Speaker 3: So I think for anyone in their thirties who hasn't
Speaker 3: used it but remembers it, then you know you'll know
Speaker 3: implan on and know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: You guys will know if you haven't used this.
Speaker 4: That little bar, it's like three centimeters two centimeters. It
Speaker 4: goes just under the skin on the inside of your arm.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 4: You literally go to the doctor, they make a little incision,
Speaker 4: they insert the bar, they sew you up. It's minimal.
Speaker 4: It's radio opaque, so you can see it on X rays.
Speaker 4: You can feel it so small. But essentially just really
Speaker 4: the hormones. And the benefit of implan On, slash and
Speaker 4: exploit On is that you only have to get it
Speaker 4: changed and updated every three years, so it's almost full proof.
Speaker 4: It's not you're trying to remember to take appeal every
Speaker 4: single day you put it in. You forget about it
Speaker 4: for three years. Three years later, you get a letter
Speaker 4: from your doctor, but you should probably mark it down
Speaker 4: your diary as well that you need to change and
Speaker 4: then you literally go in, they take it out and
Speaker 4: they put another one in. So obviously, Laura, you and
Speaker 4: I have only ever really used the pill. We've never
Speaker 4: tried an implan on. So when we were going to
Speaker 4: discuss the implan on, the first person that came to
Speaker 4: mind was a very special person in my life who
Speaker 4: I thought, who better to come on and talk about
Speaker 4: their contraceptive journey.
Speaker 1: Then my sister shown we have a cameo. Guess. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to my bedroom, I mean the studio.
Speaker 2: Hi, Sherry, what do you think of out studio renovation?
Speaker 1: I really love the addition of the gold guys. Thank you.
Speaker 1: What about the photo that we have of ourselves on
Speaker 1: the wall?
Speaker 2: At least three million photo?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 3: And next week will be a three million photo, don't
Speaker 3: you worry. We also have a coffee munk that has
Speaker 3: a picture of ourselves carrying two million.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're really staying Trap brand.
Speaker 3: Little bit of vanity may have gone into that, but anyways,
Speaker 3: the reason why you're here is because, like brit said,
Speaker 3: we don't have experience with Implanon or Nextplanon, and obviously,
Speaker 3: like your experience is going to be isolated to your experience,
Speaker 3: but brit mentioned that she had a lot of troubles yeah,
Speaker 3: and that it was something that really affected you, and
Speaker 3: so we wanted to better understand what your contraceptive journey
Speaker 3: was and how you ended.
Speaker 1: Up making the decision to use Implanon for sure. So
Speaker 1: obviously I can only speak to my own experiences. But
Speaker 1: I decided to go on the pill when I was
Speaker 1: sixteen because I wanted to have sex with my boyfriend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so my mum took me to the doctor to go
Speaker 1: on the pill when I was sixteen. Shout out to
Speaker 1: mum for mma hawk, for being responsible.
Speaker 4: Should we just quickly ask what was that conversation like
Speaker 4: for you, like when you went to mum and said
Speaker 4: you want to have sex?
Speaker 1: Because I remember what it was like for me.
Speaker 2: It was it was awkward.
Speaker 1: I did say, Mom, I think I think it's time
Speaker 1: to go on the pill. It's time for me and
Speaker 1: leap to do it. I'm not gonna say it is
Speaker 1: naming case. He listens today, I reckon, he's like an
Speaker 1: avid listener of life. On card. I mean, you don't know,
Speaker 1: do you, but his current girlfriend maybe so okay, all right,
Speaker 1: well we'll keep him anonymous.
Speaker 3: Had the conversation with your mum, ended up at the doctors,
Speaker 3: went on the pill. Took me through that.
Speaker 1: So I was on the pill for maybe a good
Speaker 1: year two years, and then on one visit to the doctor,
Speaker 1: they told me that I had really high blood pressure,
Speaker 1: like just have a stroke kind of high, which was
Speaker 1: concerning for my age at eighteen. So if you don't know,
Speaker 1: your blood pressure is supposed to sit at about one
Speaker 1: twenty on eighty, which is a healthy range, and mine
Speaker 1: was about one point eighty on one hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what that means, but that sounds
Speaker 1: very high.
Speaker 4: I think that's when you would do this. No, that's
Speaker 4: extremely high. That is the level that you sort of panic.
Speaker 4: And I remember they sent you straight to the hospital
Speaker 4: for a test because they were like, you you're gonna
Speaker 4: have a stroke, like something is severely wrong with you.
Speaker 1: Go to the hospital immediately.
Speaker 3: And just a question, did they think that this was
Speaker 3: a result of using contraception or was this just your
Speaker 3: body of itself was very high, Like you had very
Speaker 3: high blood pressure or did they think it was a
Speaker 3: side effect of the pill? Right, So at this point
Speaker 3: they didn't really know, so that's why they sent me
Speaker 3: up to the hospital for lots of investigation.
Speaker 1: So I had like c TE scans. I did a
Speaker 1: twenty four hour urine test, which is exactly what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. Yere we for twenty four hours. They give
Speaker 1: you a four liter apple juice bottle and you just
Speaker 1: do away into that for twenty four hours and then
Speaker 1: they test it for a bunch of things. Wow, that
Speaker 1: was fun. I also did a twenty four hour blood
Speaker 1: pressure monitor, so it takes your blood pressure at like
Speaker 1: intervals throughout the day. And I do remember I was
Speaker 1: having sex with my boyfriend when my blood pressure comes
Speaker 1: decided to go up. So, needless to say, that was
Speaker 1: a high reading.
Speaker 4: When you when your doctor was reading the results, did
Speaker 4: he ask you if you remember what you were doing
Speaker 4: when it peaked?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I think I like straight up told him.
Speaker 3: Was he like, were you going for a run right
Speaker 3: now or were you doing a doggie style? Because it
Speaker 3: could be interchangeable with these two, Like.
Speaker 1: I sense an increased heart rate, have you been getting freaky?
Speaker 2: Were you running your dog or doing doggie.
Speaker 1: Then you had to come off. Obviously you had to
Speaker 1: come off using the pill. They took me off the
Speaker 1: peil decided to put me on the implan On which
Speaker 1: is now then explan On, just because that is the
Speaker 1: progesterone only, so they were thinking that the estrogen is
Speaker 1: what was leading to the high blood pressure. So I
Speaker 1: actually had a good experience with the implan On for
Speaker 1: a really long time. So for eight years it was
Speaker 1: a dream for me. I didn't get my period at all.
Speaker 1: Can you leave the implan on in for eight years
Speaker 1: or do you have to get it changed? So you
Speaker 1: do need to change it every three years, so it
Speaker 1: lasts completely. You're completely covered for three years and then
Speaker 1: you need to replace it. And what does replace in
Speaker 1: it entail? Like, what do you actually have to do?
Speaker 1: Will you go to the doctor They slice your arm
Speaker 1: open and they insert it like a little matchtick rod into.
Speaker 2: Your arm and feel it under the skin, can't you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can. You can feel it if you
Speaker 1: like rub the inside of your arm, you should be
Speaker 1: like definitely be able to feel it. If you can't,
Speaker 1: it's too deep.
Speaker 3: The only reason why I remember this is like I
Speaker 3: never had it myself, but a good girlfriend of mine
Speaker 3: in school had it, and you could feel it this
Speaker 3: like little hard rod sitting right inside, just like next
Speaker 3: to the bicep. And so you have to get that
Speaker 3: changed every three years.
Speaker 1: Yep, every three So they make a little incision and
Speaker 1: they basically pull it out of the soft tissue in
Speaker 1: your arm and then they can replace it. Like, so
Speaker 1: you said you had a really good experience with it
Speaker 1: for eight years, what changed, Like, what was the moment
Speaker 1: where that went downhill? So yeah, everything was hunky dory
Speaker 1: for eight years, and then on that eight year mark,
Speaker 1: it just went downhill and I just started bleeding constantly.
Speaker 1: And then my doctor and I went through the process
Speaker 1: of removing it and putting in a new one, thinking
Speaker 1: that would rectify it. And then I just bled constantly
Speaker 1: for nine months. So I know, you guys know that
Speaker 1: you need to let your cycle settle. So you've got
Speaker 1: to give things a good few months for things to
Speaker 1: settle down, and they just never did. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: I just had like Shark Week twenty four to seven
Speaker 1: for nine months. My boyfriend Jay actually called it the
Speaker 1: thousand year flood that we all survive. He's the real
Speaker 1: MVP shout out to you, babe. So then when you
Speaker 1: had it removed, what happened, Like, how did that change
Speaker 1: your cycle? So as in the process of removing it,
Speaker 1: in the weeks leading up, I did suffer really low mood,
Speaker 1: so like a bit of like borderline depression and a
Speaker 1: really low sex drive, which is really unusual for me.
Speaker 1: Sorry Mum and Dad. Oh wa, God, I'd go for it.
Speaker 3: I love that mister Hockley listens to shout.
Speaker 1: Usually me though. Yeah, super low sex drive and super
Speaker 1: low mood in the months leading up to having it removed,
Speaker 1: So that was definitely a reason that I wanted to
Speaker 1: have it removed.
Speaker 3: And then I went back on the pill. And so
Speaker 3: you've been using the pill ever since? Yeah, so did
Speaker 3: it affect your blood pressure again? Like, are you now
Speaker 3: at a point where your blood pressure stabilized that you're
Speaker 3: able to use the pill without it? You know, this
Speaker 3: chance of stroke or without it being a risk for you.
Speaker 1: Right, So my blood pressure is still quite high and
Speaker 1: I have seen many specialists about this and they have
Speaker 1: determined that I am just a hypertensive person. So it's
Speaker 1: something I need to monitor basically forever, especially when I
Speaker 1: get pregnant. You know, I'm at risk of preclamsier, so
Speaker 1: I'm monitor my blood pressure through food and exercise. I'm
Speaker 1: a nutritionist, so I try and be super healthy. I
Speaker 1: try and work out a lot. I have been cleared
Speaker 1: again to go back on the oral contraception.
Speaker 4: I guess this is why it's so important that you do,
Speaker 4: if you're thinking about it, you do go and speak
Speaker 4: to your doctor properly, because if you don't, you don't
Speaker 4: know that these things can happen. You don't know the
Speaker 4: risks associated with it. You don't know if you're actually
Speaker 4: compatible with a certain type of contraception or a certain
Speaker 4: type of medication. So I guess this is point in
Speaker 4: turn that you absolutely have to go and speak to
Speaker 4: a medical professional before you go and make any decisions.
Speaker 3: And like we said earlier, and you also said, Shery,
Speaker 3: like this is your experience of something, and it's it's
Speaker 3: pretty incredible that you can be using a drug, or
Speaker 3: you can be using contraceptive method for so many years
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it just doesn't work
Speaker 3: for you anymore. For whatever reason. Your body's like, this
Speaker 3: is not the time, we are not doing this anything,
Speaker 3: not like this anymore yeah, I am gonna unsubscribe from you,
Speaker 3: and then you have to look at other alternatives. And
Speaker 3: I think like, there is always other alternatives that you
Speaker 3: can use, and there are so many options available, but
Speaker 3: maybe all those options aren't discussed on first consultation, or
Speaker 3: maybe we don't know what the best options are for
Speaker 3: us straight away without trialing a few different things and
Speaker 3: seeing how our body reacts and what works for us
Speaker 3: one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And you definitely change as you get older as well,
Speaker 1: so your hormones do change throughout your twenties and then
Speaker 1: into your thirties. So I think it's a case of, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was coming into my late twenties and body just went, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this anymore. I'm just gonna bleed constantly.
Speaker 1: Have you got back on track now, do you think? So?
Speaker 1: The thousand year flood wasn't a heavy period. It was
Speaker 1: just constant so I needed to use like quite a
Speaker 1: heavy lineup every single day. And then now I am
Speaker 1: back to super regular periods. I never suffered really bad
Speaker 1: periods or really heavy periods as a teenager, so that
Speaker 1: was never an issue. And now that I'm on the pill,
Speaker 1: everything is completely normal. Mood is normal sex drive is
Speaker 1: above normal.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say that I've been on
Speaker 2: some trips with you guys.
Speaker 1: I know where it's at. Do not hold that.
Speaker 3: But also I guess like maybe this is like your repentance,
Speaker 3: Like you didn't get a period for eight years and
Speaker 3: then your body was like, I'm gonna give you fucking
Speaker 3: eight months of this.
Speaker 1: You deserve this, you know. I used to be so
Speaker 1: smug too to my friends. I was like, Oh, I
Speaker 1: forget what it feels like to even have a period,
Speaker 1: and then bear is a bitch.
Speaker 3: Sherry, thanks so much for helping us and like coming
Speaker 3: on here and sharing your experience, because honestly, when we
Speaker 3: were talking about doing this episode, we were thinking, like, well,
Speaker 3: our experience with contraception is only limited to what we've
Speaker 3: tried and what's worked for us. But obviously there's so
Speaker 3: many people out there who had their stories of what
Speaker 3: works and what doesn't work, and so it's nice to hear,
Speaker 3: even if that is like a little bit traumatic, or
Speaker 3: if it hasn't worked out, it's nice to hear another
Speaker 3: version of someone's story.
Speaker 1: Of course, I have one last question.
Speaker 4: I remember that when you came off when you had
Speaker 4: the implan On out there was a period that you
Speaker 4: couldn't go back on the pill for a while, and
Speaker 4: I remember you were just using condoms. So you've done condoms,
Speaker 4: you've done implan On, and you have done the pill.
Speaker 4: What have you just found was the easiest? What did
Speaker 4: you find was the easiest all things aside apart from
Speaker 4: the thousand of your flood, Just like in general forms
Speaker 4: of in terms of contraception.
Speaker 1: I think that the implan on was the best for
Speaker 1: me if it works for you. So if you can
Speaker 1: find that that works really well, then it is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent the best because it's you know, it's thirty dollars,
Speaker 1: it lasts for three years, you don't have to remember
Speaker 1: to take anything. But there is a high percentage of
Speaker 1: people where they do just bleed either constantly or they
Speaker 1: have really irregular period. So it is just a matter
Speaker 1: of finding what works for you. So I yeah, like
Speaker 1: like you said, Britt, I've done the pill condoms. I've
Speaker 1: done the mini pill as well, which also doesn't work
Speaker 1: for me. I also just bleed constantly on that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: just like speak to doctor and try new things and
Speaker 1: find out what works for you.
Speaker 3: In addition to like having abnormal bleeding, which can happen
Speaker 3: with this Next Planon implantation. People who use Nextplanon have
Speaker 3: also reported different side effects, which are things like headaches, vaginitis,
Speaker 3: which is an inflammation of the vagina, so it sounds
Speaker 3: pretty painful, weight gain, acne, breast pain, viral infections such
Speaker 3: as a sore throat or a flu, lac symptoms, stomach pains,
Speaker 3: painful periods, moodswings. There is loads of different types of
Speaker 3: side effects. But the idea is that you're never going
Speaker 3: to know how a contraception is going to work for
Speaker 3: you until you've tried it for a period of time,
Speaker 3: whether it be three months minimum, to give your body
Speaker 3: that time to adjust and to figure out if something
Speaker 3: is right for you and if something works for you.
Speaker 3: And so I think for some people, Next Planon is
Speaker 3: probably a perfect choice if they don't trust themselves with
Speaker 3: taking a pill, or they don't want to have something
Speaker 3: inserted into their uterus, which is like what we're going
Speaker 3: to get into next, which is an IUD.
Speaker 1: Speaking of IUDs, we should probably talk.
Speaker 4: I feel like we're doing this in order of popularity,
Speaker 4: Like for Australians, I think the pills first and I
Speaker 4: think it's an explan on and then I think it
Speaker 4: is iud's which is an inter uterine device.
Speaker 3: So just going to jump in here because what I
Speaker 3: think is so crazy interesting is that in doing research
Speaker 3: for this, IUDs are at the bottom of the list
Speaker 3: for Australia. They're not something that's very commonly used or
Speaker 3: something that's even very commonly talked about. However, that the
Speaker 3: practice of using IUDs is increasing. It's also considered to
Speaker 3: be the gold standard of contraception because it is the
Speaker 3: most effective with the most minimal side effects for majority people. However,
Speaker 3: I think in Australia culturally we're still encouraged to use
Speaker 3: the pill because it's just kind of what everyone does.
Speaker 3: It's what everyone's friends talk about, it's what our parents did.
Speaker 3: And the interesting thing to me is that in the
Speaker 3: States IUDs are equivalent and used as frequently as condoms.
Speaker 3: That's how much they're the preferred use of contraception in
Speaker 3: the States, whereas like here, it's it's one hundred percent,
Speaker 3: hands down the pill. But it's interesting to see how
Speaker 3: that is shifting. Something that I think may have created
Speaker 3: some stigma around using it is that during the nineteen
Speaker 3: seventies and the nineteen eighties, which was the first time
Speaker 3: that the IUD actually came out. There was this company
Speaker 3: called Dark and Shield and they were the first creators
Speaker 3: of the IUD. However, their device caused an array of
Speaker 3: really serious injuries. There were women who had had this
Speaker 3: device fitted and they came out with pelvic infections, in fertility,
Speaker 3: unintended pregnancies, and there are actually some women who died
Speaker 3: from it. And so this company ended up getting.
Speaker 1: The absolute pants suit off them, which you would expect,
Speaker 1: but it also put a lot of doubt and a
Speaker 1: lot of controversy around using IUDs, which over the next
Speaker 1: forty years, obviously that has started to change and you know,
Speaker 1: people are much more accepting of it, and it's considered
Speaker 1: the role's royce of contraception.
Speaker 4: Now, well, yeah, like you just said, it's not like
Speaker 4: it's actually last up to five years and it's ninety
Speaker 4: nine percent effective, so we should be using it, but
Speaker 4: we just don't know about it because none of us
Speaker 4: use it, so we don't tell our friends about it,
Speaker 4: and it's just not spoken about. But with a ninety
Speaker 4: nine percent effectiveness and five years, it's definitely something we
Speaker 4: should look at.
Speaker 1: So if you don't know what these IUDs are, there
Speaker 1: are two types. Google what they look like.
Speaker 4: They're like these little T shaped plastic things. They're inserted
Speaker 4: into the uterus.
Speaker 1: It looks like a little anchor, like a hook anchor
Speaker 1: or like a fish hook. It actually that's what it is.
Speaker 4: It looks like you're eficient in the womb, but not
Speaker 4: a sperm. But basically there are two types. One is
Speaker 4: hormonal base and the other one is a copper a
Speaker 4: copper base, and it doesn't release hormones at all. It
Speaker 4: just sort of acts as a barrier. So they're two
Speaker 4: important differences. One's hormonal and one is not. One is
Speaker 4: copper and one is plastic.
Speaker 1: Copper IUD and the other one is called the marina.
Speaker 4: Yeah commonly not. Its has a few names, but we
Speaker 4: would know it as a marina. You guys would all
Speaker 4: know it as a marina. They insert it into your
Speaker 4: uterus and it releases the hormone.
Speaker 3: I have spoken to a couple of women who've had
Speaker 3: it inserted. It needs to be done under general anesthetic.
Speaker 3: I mean I had a girlfriend who had it inserted
Speaker 3: after she had a baby, and she had to have
Speaker 3: it done in hospital and I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people can find the insertion process pretty painful, and it
Speaker 3: can be painful for a couple of days after having
Speaker 3: it inserted. However, once it's in place and once everything
Speaker 3: has healed, you can't feel it.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's there.
Speaker 3: You can have sex and it's like never gonna move apparently,
Speaker 3: but then brit you.
Speaker 1: Tell me that it can move. Yees.
Speaker 4: So I was just about to say, I do have
Speaker 4: some friends that have literally had it's been a breeze
Speaker 4: when they've put it in and they've had no problems
Speaker 4: with it. And then I've had other people that it's
Speaker 4: been disastrous putting it in. So we don't want to
Speaker 4: scare anyone off. Some people it is easier, some people
Speaker 4: might take a little bit of maneuvering around. But yeah,
Speaker 4: in terms of and this is like, this is not common,
Speaker 4: but it does happen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes.
Speaker 4: I've been called to operating theaters to literally look for
Speaker 4: migrating IUDs, like migrating marinas, et cetera. Because what can
Speaker 4: happen is they can perforate, and basically perforation is just
Speaker 4: where something migrates through, So think of it as like
Speaker 4: cutting through the uterus. And migrating somewhere else in the body.
Speaker 3: So it's like an almost like dislodge from the place
Speaker 3: that it's been positioned and move somewhere else.
Speaker 1: It goes on a VAK. Think of it like that.
Speaker 1: Straight up.
Speaker 4: It goes on VAC and that's really really really bad.
Speaker 4: Like that can cause all sorts of problems. A. It's
Speaker 4: really really painful, but B you open yourself up to
Speaker 4: all sorts of things like infections within the body. Because
Speaker 4: it's a passage. Think of it like a building, a
Speaker 4: tunnel made an opening. You've created an opening because it's
Speaker 4: cut through the layer. Now this is this is drastic,
Speaker 4: but it does happen, and I have seen it.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to guess that this is like the
Speaker 3: absolute minority case. However, it's still something that can happen,
Speaker 3: and it's still a side effect of what can happen
Speaker 3: using an IUD. Also, when I was researching for this,
Speaker 3: there is a dark and very deep Reddit thread. So
Speaker 3: this is all about copper iud's and there is a
Speaker 3: reddit thread where so many men have said that the
Speaker 3: their dicks have gotten punctured by the copper IUD, which
Speaker 3: seems impossible. However, the more I read into it, I
Speaker 3: didn't believe it at all at it really stood out
Speaker 3: as being a bit of a face. But then the
Speaker 3: more I read into it, the more I realized that
Speaker 3: the copper iud can has a string that hangs down
Speaker 3: so it is inserted into the uterus. However, outside of
Speaker 3: the uterus, it has these strings which are like a
Speaker 3: plastic type material that hang down into the uterus and
Speaker 3: they use them for removing insertion and also removal. However,
Speaker 3: these plastic strings can kind of be a little bit abrasive,
Speaker 3: so some guys who may be very sensitive have in
Speaker 3: fact been either slightly sliced or punctured or I mean
Speaker 3: it's rare as well, it doesn't happen very often, but
Speaker 3: I reckon if you've had a copper iud inserted, if
Speaker 3: you've had the rolls roys of contraception, they should be
Speaker 3: grateful that you just punctured them with with your rolls roys.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're grateful.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'd ever be grateful for being
Speaker 2: punctureding your penis.
Speaker 3: Also, I mean, like we are always the ones, we
Speaker 3: are the ones that have to take full responsibility for contraception.
Speaker 3: We're the ones that have to take responsibility for whether
Speaker 3: or not we get pregnant. And you know, like this
Speaker 3: is such a personal choice. Your contraception is such a
Speaker 3: personal choice that the only person who should be deciding
Speaker 3: on that is yourself. Like, it's not a conversation for
Speaker 3: you and your partner. It's just whatever is best for
Speaker 3: your body and for your choices and your decision. That
Speaker 3: is what you need to kind of take into account
Speaker 3: for this, And everyone's going to be slightly different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, it's funny that you say that women and
Speaker 4: we have to do everything. They actually are trying to
Speaker 4: develop and I think they're close to it. It's in
Speaker 4: the works. They're trying to develop a pill for men,
Speaker 4: a male pill, So the onus is on them, But
Speaker 4: I don't know if I ever trust that.
Speaker 3: Well, I think, I mean, I think it's interesting because like,
Speaker 3: at the moment, we have how many different types of
Speaker 3: contraception for women. There's like more than what we've just commented.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've commented on the three major ones, but
Speaker 3: there are so many different types of contraception for women.
Speaker 3: If even a quarter of the money that's gone into
Speaker 3: creating contraception for women. Has got would go into making
Speaker 3: contraception for men to make them also.
Speaker 1: Like then I think like we would have a solution
Speaker 1: by now.
Speaker 4: But the question is would you trust a guy if
Speaker 4: it was the other way around and you weren't on
Speaker 4: the pill but he was.
Speaker 1: You went home with him and you're like, are you
Speaker 1: on the pill?
Speaker 2: And he was like, yeah, would you try, babe?
Speaker 4: I don't need a condom, Like, I just don't know
Speaker 4: if we'd ever trust them.
Speaker 3: Depends on your relationship, like obviously, like Matt and I,
Speaker 3: of course I think that.
Speaker 4: In a relationship, for surely, but not when you're just
Speaker 4: out there, like just say, in a relationship, but when
Speaker 4: you're just out there gallivanting around, if you are out
Speaker 4: there having a good time, you know, getting your freak on,
Speaker 4: then of course you have to take that responsibility on
Speaker 4: yourself to make sure that you're protected, and a part
Speaker 4: of that is also ensuring that the person you're having
Speaker 4: sex with is using a condom so that you don't
Speaker 4: end up either a pregnant or two with an STI
Speaker 4: I like that, I said A and N two A or B.
Speaker 4: But on top of that, I think if you're in
Speaker 4: a committed relationship where you trust the person that you're with.
Speaker 4: I hate that the onus is always on me to
Speaker 4: have that contraception. I mean, you know, I would love
Speaker 4: there to be a period I could totally go off
Speaker 4: the pill and not have to worry about having a
Speaker 4: baby when I don't want to or I'm not ready
Speaker 4: to have a baby. I would love it if Matt
Speaker 4: could take the pill for a few years, just to
Speaker 4: kind of give me that break and that ability to
Speaker 4: know what my body feels like when I'm either not
Speaker 4: pregnant or on the pill.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is like. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it would work very well for certain relationships,
Speaker 1: but I agree it doesn't work for all situations, and
Speaker 1: you know we know better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I entrust with no man with a pill obviously.
Speaker 3: Lastly, there are more types of contraception than this, Like
Speaker 3: there are diaphragms. I don't even know what a dental
Speaker 3: dam is, but I'm going to say that that's out there.
Speaker 3: Vaginal rings, there are so many others. But I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I've never met or know anybody who has
Speaker 3: used a diaphragm, and I don't think that vaginal rings
Speaker 3: are as common either, But obviously condoms is something that
Speaker 3: we need to talk about.
Speaker 1: And I actually think they get a bad rap.
Speaker 2: Rap What do you mean they get a bad rap
Speaker 2: in what way?
Speaker 3: Well, I think a lot of people are quick to
Speaker 3: say they don't want to use them because they don't
Speaker 3: like the way they feel, and I think that that's
Speaker 3: a pretty common conversation that happens around condoms.
Speaker 4: I think it's I think that's the general consensus though,
Speaker 4: because it definitely does take away from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, it doesn't feel as good as
Speaker 3: what not using a condom feels, I think for.
Speaker 1: The majority part.
Speaker 4: But also not being pregnant to someone you don't know
Speaker 4: feels pretty good too, or not catching an STD that
Speaker 4: you you know may potentially be with you for the
Speaker 4: rest of your life. Like, there is a lot of
Speaker 4: stigma that surrounds STDs, and I think that that's something
Speaker 4: that we need to break down because it doesn't make
Speaker 4: you a bad person. It doesn't mean you've made bad decisions,
Speaker 4: it doesn't alienate you from society. But if you can
Speaker 4: take steps to control that, and you can take steps
Speaker 4: to prevent it. I also think it's really important that
Speaker 4: people realize I mean sti's in Australia, I mean everywhere,
Speaker 4: but they are rife. I think, actually well, I think
Speaker 4: they're running wild where they are.
Speaker 1: COVID and STDs guys, watch out. That's what's about to say.
Speaker 4: Melbourne's their sci capital, shut up, COVID and probably more.
Speaker 1: But it's really important to know that.
Speaker 4: If you haven't had an STI check, I just want
Speaker 4: you to ask yourself this now.
Speaker 1: If you haven't had one recently.
Speaker 4: But you know you've been sexually active, it's really important
Speaker 4: you go and get checked because you can have things
Speaker 4: that don't show any symptoms, so you won't know that
Speaker 4: you've got it the guy that you were with, or
Speaker 4: that the guy you are seeing might be amazing and
Speaker 4: really trustworthy. That doesn't mean that he doesn't have an
Speaker 4: SDI that has been laying dormant and he doesn't know
Speaker 4: he has either, and that's the whole reason they spread.
Speaker 4: So if you haven't had a check, it's just we
Speaker 4: advise you to go and get a sexual health check.
Speaker 4: It's completely normal, nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone does it.
Speaker 4: More people should be doing it.
Speaker 1: If you don't like using condoms but you've started seeing
Speaker 1: someone and you now are exclusive with them and you
Speaker 1: both go and get an SDI check, then you know
Speaker 1: it means that that's your benchmark. You can obviously have
Speaker 1: unprotected sex, just use contraception and which is you know.
Speaker 1: Obviously we've talked.
Speaker 3: About and kind of fleshed out, But one thing I
Speaker 3: want to say, ladies, be aware of condom cod artists and.
Speaker 1: Artists.
Speaker 2: Brittney, please explain.
Speaker 3: Now I make jokes about this, but there are a
Speaker 3: small portion of men out there. Obviously, there will be
Speaker 3: guys who when you ask them to wear a condom,
Speaker 3: they will try and convince you that they've had their
Speaker 3: CD checks or they don't need to, they're not sleeping
Speaker 3: with anybody else.
Speaker 1: They'll pull out whatever it is.
Speaker 3: But if you really want a guy to wear a condom,
Speaker 3: and that's where you feel comfortable, make sure that that
Speaker 3: they follow through with it. If you ever find yourself
Speaker 3: in a position where a guy says they're using it
Speaker 3: and they actually don't follow through with it, or they
Speaker 3: pull it off last minute, or they in any way
Speaker 3: trick you into thinking that they used it when they didn't,
Speaker 3: there is a name for that, and that's non consensual
Speaker 3: condom removal. Which is not something to make a joke about.
Speaker 3: It's not something that's funny. It is actually considered sexual
Speaker 3: assault because that's not you giving consent to the type
Speaker 3: of sex that you want to be having. And I
Speaker 3: think that that's something that women need to be more
Speaker 3: aware of. And my younger self wasn't fully aware of
Speaker 3: how manipulative that is. And I think being older and
Speaker 3: having a little bit more understanding around what that is
Speaker 3: and the top topic of it, I just think it's
Speaker 3: really important to kind of make sure that other women
Speaker 3: are aware of that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, non consensual condom removal. It's also known as stealthy
Speaker 3: I'm reading this verbatim right now, practice of when a
Speaker 3: man covertly removes or damages a condom during sexual intercourse.
Speaker 3: Whether it's because they want to get you pregnant or
Speaker 3: whether it's because they don't like the feel of the condom.
Speaker 4: It can be either of those things. Yeah, that's really interesting.
Speaker 4: I actually didn't know that was a thing. But also, guys,
Speaker 4: just have a look watching put it on, make sure
Speaker 4: it's on there, Like don't roll over and close your eyes.
Speaker 3: But you know, like if you've had a few drinks
Speaker 3: or you're doing it doggie style, like there's reasons or yeah,
Speaker 3: in the dark, there's reasons why you might not realize
Speaker 3: that's true. Practice sex sex. Choose a contraception that works
Speaker 3: for you. This was like a bit of a random topic.
Speaker 3: But I think you know, the more that we talk
Speaker 3: about relationships, the more that we talk about sex, the
Speaker 3: more that you have to talk about the responsibilities and
Speaker 3: things that actually go with that as well.
Speaker 4: And we do want to talk about things that are
Speaker 4: relevant to you guys, and things that you want to hear.
Speaker 4: And we did put a little call out and I
Speaker 4: was really surprised at how many of you asked for
Speaker 4: an episode on contraceptions. And I didn't think it'd be
Speaker 4: top of the list, but there were quite.
Speaker 1: A lot of you.
Speaker 3: We know, we know that so many of you are
Speaker 3: going to have different experiences like we, like we've said
Speaker 3: all along, like we are not medical experts. We don't
Speaker 3: have any more than our own personal experiences with these
Speaker 3: different types of contraceptions. So if you've had a particularly
Speaker 3: interesting experience, if you understand know more about it, if
Speaker 3: we've said anything that's incorrect or that you don't agree
Speaker 3: with Like, we would love to hear your feedback on
Speaker 3: this because it's stuff that you do want to talk
Speaker 3: about with your girlfriends. It's stuff that we should be
Speaker 3: discussing and just have a little bit more open dialogue
Speaker 3: and awareness around so that we can make the best
Speaker 3: decisions for ourselves to be able to protect ourselves.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, writ Yo, Laura, it's time for our sign off.
Speaker 4: We don't ever end an episode without our suck and
Speaker 4: our suite, the best and the worst, the highlights and
Speaker 4: the low lights.
Speaker 2: And I love hearing yours. You just sounded so radio.
Speaker 1: Then Yeah, we're we gonna talk about us. Let me
Speaker 1: talk to you about the weather today. Step aside, Carl
Speaker 1: and Jack.
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, steps on, have you seen our gold MIC's
Speaker 4: in our new studio.
Speaker 1: We are coming after you.
Speaker 3: Ah dear, Okay, my suck a my sweet for the week. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean, I think my story of the Bathtime episode
Speaker 3: was probably pretty sucky, but to be honest, look, you
Speaker 3: know what, we've had a little laughs on this episode,
Speaker 3: and we're always really upbeat and we always talk about
Speaker 3: like the great and positive things that are happening in
Speaker 3: our life and the funny things that have happened to
Speaker 3: us and we can always find like the lighter side
Speaker 3: of life, I guess, But I feel like I've had
Speaker 3: a really challenging week and I feel like we'll talk
Speaker 3: about it more in future episode when I can can
Speaker 3: actually talk about things properly. But I've just been super emotional.
Speaker 3: I've I've felt really down about a lot of stuff,
Speaker 3: and it's been hard to just be positive. I feel,
Speaker 3: I feel really I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you guys ever get into these funks, but it's like
Speaker 3: I feel very easily mad about stuff and I just
Speaker 3: don't feel myself and that's been really hard to kind
Speaker 3: of process this last week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I want you to remember because obviously Laura
Speaker 4: and I see each other and speak every day, so
Speaker 4: we know what each other are going through.
Speaker 1: Actually, sometimes I feel like we might rub off on each.
Speaker 4: Other, like, yeah, I know when you're sad. I know,
Speaker 4: but I'm sad too, and we're both sad. You're like
Speaker 4: I'm feeling this, I'm like, oh my, got me too.
Speaker 4: But then we both send each other photos of us crying,
Speaker 4: like it's so funny. Laura and I literally send each
Speaker 4: other photos like she'd be like, I'm so flat today,
Speaker 4: I'm really upset, And I send her a photo back
Speaker 4: and being like I'm in bed crying right now, and
Speaker 4: she's like me too.
Speaker 1: It's so it's a really weird thing.
Speaker 2: Also, I don't want you guys think we seen men
Speaker 2: cry all the.
Speaker 1: Time, because we don't. But it has been a bit
Speaker 1: of a it's been a bit of a rough week,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't have a reason for it, and
Speaker 1: I know that that's it makes it almost makes me
Speaker 1: feel guiltier that I don't have a solid reason for
Speaker 1: why I feel the way I do. But I've had
Speaker 1: a really bad anxiety and I've just felt really down
Speaker 1: this last week, and and then I struggle and I
Speaker 1: feel ungrateful because I feel like I shouldn't feel like that.
Speaker 1: And so it's this weird cycle that is not very
Speaker 1: fun to be in.
Speaker 4: But it's also and this is what I was going
Speaker 4: to say before we started the crying photos thing, it's
Speaker 4: so normal too. Everyone goes through these funks, and do
Speaker 4: you know what you're allowed to feel these I think
Speaker 4: this is what people forget. You might feel something and
Speaker 4: you don't know why, and that's okay, and that is
Speaker 4: normal and you don't have to have this huge reason.
Speaker 4: You don't have to have something horrific happened to you
Speaker 4: that week. If you feel shitty, you're allowed to feel shitty,
Speaker 4: and you're allowed to sit in bed for a few days.
Speaker 4: You're allowed to cry. We're women, we have hormones. You
Speaker 4: have a lot going on, you have so many jobs,
Speaker 4: you've got stresses, you've got a one year old, we're
Speaker 4: in a pandemic. Like feel it and it's okay. And
Speaker 4: as long as and if you guys are feeling this too,
Speaker 4: as long as when the time comes, you know, to
Speaker 4: ask for help or just to reach out to someone,
Speaker 4: just to have a shoulder to cry on, just to
Speaker 4: have someone say you know this too, and you'll be
Speaker 4: okay and I'm here for you, and just just to
Speaker 4: have someone to listen.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's like such a good point.
Speaker 3: I think we often rationalize why we feel bad, and
Speaker 3: we don't allow ourselves to be sad because other people
Speaker 3: are going through so much worse, and then we seem
Speaker 3: like we're being entitled, or we seem like we're not
Speaker 3: being empathetic of other people's problems and actually carry bigmore
Speaker 3: said it perfectly on the project the other night. She
Speaker 3: was like, just because there are so many other shit
Speaker 3: things happening in the world at the moment doesn't mean
Speaker 3: that the way that you feel is invalidated. So I, yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess I'm kind of saying this to myself, but
Speaker 3: I'm also saying it to you. If you have been
Speaker 3: feeling anxious, or you have been just struggling a little bit,
Speaker 3: and when you do struggle a little bit, as we
Speaker 3: all do, yeah, those feelings shouldn't be invalidated because we're
Speaker 3: all entitled to feel shit at certain points in our lives.
Speaker 3: And right now, that's me my week. But I also
Speaker 3: have some positives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your sweet.
Speaker 3: My sweet for the week is that I've been cheating
Speaker 3: on you, Brittany. Some of you might know I have
Speaker 3: done a short podcast called Me After You with Mum
Speaker 3: and mea just about parenting, and I mean, if you're
Speaker 3: a new mum and you want to have listened to
Speaker 3: other mums experiences, it's called Me After You, and it
Speaker 3: did really well on the podcast charts, and we launched
Speaker 3: it last week, and so that's been my highlight.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of things to say. Brittany's life
Speaker 4: so much suck is that you cheated on me? And
Speaker 4: how dare you host another podcast? You all, I feel
Speaker 4: got a lot of feelings. I feel like you don't
Speaker 4: see me anymore. No, I'll see you every freak from
Speaker 4: day man. First of all, like you cheated on me.
Speaker 4: For sure, we lost some condemn but whatever.
Speaker 1: I am. So Laura's been humble. The podcast did really well, guys.
Speaker 4: She went to number one, so I think she's been
Speaker 4: a bit a little bit humble. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: throw it out there. Podcast is number one. She knocked
Speaker 4: A Life Uncut out of the top ten.
Speaker 1: Wish I wasn't thrilled about it.
Speaker 4: I'm you're trying to be like the supportive friend, Like
Speaker 4: I'm so happy.
Speaker 3: To kind of like prep you guys if you're going
Speaker 3: to jump over and have a listen at all. It
Speaker 3: is a very different type of podcast to this, Like,
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of this podcast because I love that
Speaker 3: we get on here, we have a laugh, it's very conversational.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's you know, obviously we feel like
Speaker 3: we're sitting down with girlfriends because Britt and I are
Speaker 3: girlfriends and we that was weird. You like we sit down,
Speaker 3: we have a laugh, But we also feel like this
Speaker 3: is such a fun community because you guys are all
Speaker 3: a part of this, and you know when you write
Speaker 3: into us saying that you feel like you're just sitting
Speaker 3: down with us, being your besties and having a glass
Speaker 3: of wine like that means so much to us. But
Speaker 3: this other podcast is very different. It's it's like a
Speaker 3: narrated storytelling type podcast. So if you go and listen
Speaker 3: to that, you might be like, who the fuck is
Speaker 3: this bitch? She's like a chameleon.
Speaker 1: You might also enjoy it. Give it a chance.
Speaker 4: No congratulations, you should be really really proud and as
Speaker 4: I'm joking, guys, I don't more jealous.
Speaker 1: Well she's not. But anyway, okay, right, enough about me
Speaker 1: to you after the pot. What is your suck o?
Speaker 1: M actual g.
Speaker 4: I can't believe I forgot to talk about this. You
Speaker 4: guys might have seen all my stories this week. This
Speaker 4: is the suckiest suck. I had just been working like
Speaker 4: a beast again at the hospital because COVID is still
Speaker 4: a thing.
Speaker 3: And sort of athlete. Are you working like a beast?
Speaker 2: I'm working like an athlete.
Speaker 4: I got into my car and turned it on and
Speaker 4: went to drive off, and I noticed that there was
Speaker 4: a note on the front of my car, on the
Speaker 4: wind screens. I thought, oh, awesome, like someone's written me
Speaker 4: a love letter, like in my wildest dreams. So I
Speaker 4: get the note off and I have a look and
Speaker 4: it is the I'll try and post it again on
Speaker 4: our Life Uncut Stories tomorrow so you could see it
Speaker 4: if you missed it. The note looks like it has
Speaker 4: been written by a four year old and I'm not exaggerating, like,
Speaker 4: that's not exaggeration, And it says I deciphered this. It's
Speaker 4: got to be four year old doctor too. Have you
Speaker 4: seen doctor's handwriting?
Speaker 1: No, Britain sent it to me, and it's such a
Speaker 1: fucking jerk thing. This person has obviously written it like
Speaker 1: so you can read. The first half of the letter
Speaker 1: is legible, and then when they've gotten to the number,
Speaker 1: they've purposely written it so it is entirely illegible. It
Speaker 1: literally says, hi, I bumped your car this morning, bumped
Speaker 1: at one hundred colms an how bumped?
Speaker 4: I bumped your car this morning? The back left, this
Speaker 4: is my number four, This is my number call me,
Speaker 4: and then I'm not I can't even a there's not
Speaker 4: even enough digit in a number, and it is like
Speaker 4: it goes down on a tilt, it goes into each other.
Speaker 4: It's like another language, and it is it's physically impossible
Speaker 4: to decipher. Like obviously someone's seen them hit my car,
Speaker 4: so they felt like they need to look like they're
Speaker 4: doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I got out. They didn't bump my bloody car. Whatever.
Speaker 4: It was like full on hitting dinted in panel and
Speaker 4: a bit flapped out the side. And I don't know,
Speaker 4: I don't know the technical terms, but it wasn't a
Speaker 4: little bump.
Speaker 3: I think the flappy side bit sounds pretty technical. We're
Speaker 3: talking about a vagina. Are we talking about your brainch drover? No,
Speaker 3: my range, it was like a flappy panel thing. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I like popped a bit out. I've made it look
Speaker 3: a lot better than it was, but I was so mad. Anyway,
Speaker 3: what I loved the most is I was just so mad.
Speaker 3: I put this up on my story and I put
Speaker 3: a picture of the note up. Hundreds of you wrote
Speaker 3: in what you thought the number was. They like, Babe,
Speaker 3: I think this is the number to call.
Speaker 4: No one of them was the same, Like every number
Speaker 4: was different, and then people were going just go through
Speaker 4: them all until you get them.
Speaker 2: Do you know, do you know statistically how many numbers
Speaker 2: I would have to call?
Speaker 1: Like it's impossible, every single number. I was just really mad.
Speaker 4: Because I thought, what a jerk thing to do, Like,
Speaker 4: you've just ruined my day, absolutely ruined my day.
Speaker 2: You've obviously pretended to be a good person, which is
Speaker 2: worse because you're not. You're a bad human. And you
Speaker 2: know what, you're probably listening to this.
Speaker 1: Nah, it was a guy. Well maybe he's listening. But okay,
Speaker 1: we will put this if you guys don't follow our Instagram,
Speaker 1: it's life on Cut podcast. We're gonna put the note
Speaker 1: up on our stories because it's so post. Let's just post. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put up on our socials. We're gonna go wild.
Speaker 3: It's so hectic what this person did. Anyway, all right,
Speaker 3: what is your sweet because that's a really shitty sucks.
Speaker 3: So give me a highlight.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't even have one. This week.
Speaker 4: I've like, on top of that, I've had a week
Speaker 4: like you you where I don't know if it's Bachelor
Speaker 4: in Paradise, I don't know what it is, but I
Speaker 4: have had I've flatlined this week. It's like I've gone
Speaker 4: to work when I'm not even work. I'm in better,
Speaker 4: I'm at home. I'm just like I have had a really,
Speaker 4: really hard few weeks. And we'll talk about, like Laura said,
Speaker 4: like we both have so much we want to talk
Speaker 4: about when we get upcoming episodes.
Speaker 1: Guys, it's coming.
Speaker 3: But I think it's fair to say that, like Paradise
Speaker 3: is pretty hectic at the moment. There's lots of stuff
Speaker 3: in the media, there's lots of people speculating, and it's
Speaker 3: a really it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: Like you're still in the thick of this experience.
Speaker 3: And I think as soon as you were able to
Speaker 3: exit Paradise and talk about your life and be open
Speaker 3: about who you are and what you have been experiencing
Speaker 3: for the last X amount of months, you will feel
Speaker 3: like this weight has been lifted. And we're just not
Speaker 3: there yet. But you brought chocolate over.
Speaker 1: Today and you had a glass of wine, so I
Speaker 1: think you're feeling a bit better. I brought Laura this.
Speaker 4: Chok I was like, Laura's really, I'm said, I'm just
Speaker 4: going to bring a block of chocolate over. So I
Speaker 4: brought the block of chocolate and then didn't even notice that.
Speaker 4: I've just sat here moaning eating the whole block on
Speaker 4: my own.
Speaker 1: Like I don't even know if you've had any anyway, Guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I haven't touched my sweet. Oh
Speaker 1: you said you didn't have one. I have to have one.
Speaker 2: It's a rule, okay, right, what's your sweet?
Speaker 4: I ordered a Liita tub of Anita's ice cream and
Speaker 4: had it for dinner on top.
Speaker 1: Of the chocolate. That's a pretty sweet sweet.
Speaker 3: Literally, it's the sweetest of sweets that you can have
Speaker 3: a leader of sweet. All right, guys, if you haven't,
Speaker 3: like I said, if you haven't joined our Instagram page yet,
Speaker 3: it's Life un Cut podcast, jump on there.
Speaker 1: We also have such a great little Facebook community. It's
Speaker 1: our Facebook group. It's Life on Cut podcast as well.
Speaker 1: Who would have thought you can join there. You have
Speaker 1: to request to be a member, but it's great.
Speaker 3: People share their ask gun cuts, they share their own
Speaker 3: personal stories.
Speaker 1: We talk a lot about Bachelor and Paradise.
Speaker 3: It's just a nice little community that is a nice
Speaker 3: extension of this podcast. So if you haven't already jumped
Speaker 3: on there, I highly recommend it. And you know, if
Speaker 3: you haven't left us a review yet. I said in
Speaker 3: the last four I said in the last episode that
Speaker 3: you're a bloody scallywag, and I've got a few.
Speaker 1: Of you writing in reviews. So someone wrote that someone in.
Speaker 4: The reviews was, Hey, I've just realized after Laura's spiel
Speaker 4: that I'm a scally way She's like, I've been listening
Speaker 4: since the start, and I'm like, well, Laura's called you
Speaker 4: out and you've left her review. That's great, But we
Speaker 4: honestly means so much to us everybody who's left a review,
Speaker 4: like we've had over three thousand, two hundred reviews now
Speaker 4: and this this blows my mind. Two hundred reviews and
Speaker 4: only thirty seven of them have been negative. Every single
Speaker 4: review apart from thirty seven we don't talk about those people,
Speaker 4: has been positive, and we just it means so much
Speaker 4: to us that you value the content we're putting out,
Speaker 4: that you love being a part of this podcast as
Speaker 4: much as we love making it, and it means the
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Speaker 2: And share the love because we love love.
Speaker 1: I can get that tagmyview, we should make some cups
Speaker 1: or some jumpers. We love the La Cuta, the company
Speaker 1: Da cut A name