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Sarah's Day's Gender Reveal, Mitch Orval's Tiny Truck PR Push, Tammy Hembrow Hits Back After Wedding Invite Leak & Britt Hockley’s Epic Engagement · Outspoken the Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
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Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
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Speaker 1: Sophie Torber and coming up on today's show, Tammy Hembrough
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Speaker 1: forced to change wedding plans after invite leak. As she
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Speaker 1: binds shut center activewear brand amid health battle. Brit Hockley's
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Speaker 1: epic engagement and the PR push for Mitch Orville's tiny trucks.
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Speaker 1: But first, the wait is over. Sarah's Day has finally
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Speaker 1: revealed the gender of her baby after keeping followers on
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Speaker 1: the edge of their seats for four weeks. Prior to
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Speaker 1: breaking the news, Sarah's comment section was inundated by impatient
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Speaker 1: followers urging her to share the news. Amy, this week,
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Speaker 1: one follower's question was the last straw for Sarah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so under one of Sarah's recent posts, a follower excitedly asked,
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Speaker 1: when is the gender reveal? I cannot wait. To which
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Speaker 1: Sarah responded, I answered this in depth two days ago.
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Speaker 1: Kurt has basically been away and MIA, so I am
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Speaker 1: raising two children alone. I have them basically every single
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Speaker 1: day and have no time to even film an outro.
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Speaker 1: It will be uploaded when I have time. I want
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Speaker 1: to add there were no smiley face emojis. No emojis
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Speaker 1: to speak of. I was very taken aback by this response.
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Speaker 1: As you could tell that this follower was just genuinely
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Speaker 1: excited and they weren't asking out of malice at all.
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Speaker 1: I was also surprised that she threw so much shade
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Speaker 1: at Kurt because she is basically saying Kurt has left
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Speaker 1: his pregnant wife alone to raise two kids. I wonder
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Speaker 1: if they had just had an argument or something and
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Speaker 1: she responded mid-argument because it was a bit harsh. It's
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Speaker 1: confusing because in her vlog, She was singing Kurt's praises
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Speaker 1: and saying just how hard he had been working. Apparently
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Speaker 1: he had shoots from 7am till 9pm. So it's not
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Speaker 1: like he's off on some boy's trip. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if she was so much singing his praises.
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Speaker 1: I felt like she did have a bit of a
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Speaker 1: dig at the end of that video because she complained
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Speaker 1: that he wasn't even around to film the outro because
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Speaker 1: he is so busy. There are quite a few reasons
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Speaker 1: why there has been so much anticipation about this gender reveal.
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Speaker 1: And the first is because Sarah has confirmed it will
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Speaker 1: be her last pregnancy and it is her last opportunity
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Speaker 1: to potentially get a girl. And before she was pregnant,
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Speaker 1: she did make a very clickbaity YouTube thumbnail saying, my
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Speaker 1: boys want a sister. And it made it quite clear
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Speaker 1: that she and the rest of her family were very
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Speaker 1: excited for a girl. Well, she'd also been sharing clips
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Speaker 1: of Fox praying for a baby sister. Yeah. So there
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Speaker 1: was a lot of anticipation from the general public to
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Speaker 1: see if this was going to be a girl. And
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Speaker 1: I think the second reason there is so much anticipation
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Speaker 1: is because in a vlog four weeks ago, she told
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Speaker 1: her audience that they had already filmed the gender reveal
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Speaker 1: and it would be out very shortly. So this got
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Speaker 1: her followers ultra excited about this video. So A lot
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Speaker 1: of people were questioning, was she holding off from releasing
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Speaker 1: this video in a bid to generate more excitement, more anticipation,
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Speaker 1: more views? Because at the time of recording, her gender
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Speaker 1: reveal video is sitting on over 400,000 views, which is
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Speaker 1: quite a large amount of views for her currently. I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of people also assumed that maybe she
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Speaker 1: had got the news that she was having a boy
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Speaker 1: because she wasn't quick to put out the video because
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Speaker 1: perhaps she was disappointed because as we said, There has
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Speaker 1: been a lot of content around wanting a baby sister
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Speaker 1: for Fox and Malachi. Now, the highly anticipated gender reveal
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Speaker 1: video did come out on Thursday with Sarah revealing that
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Speaker 1: they found out the gender of the baby on the
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Speaker 1: 16th of April, so two months ago. And their doctor
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Speaker 1: did call with their NITP test results and Sarah said
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Speaker 1: that she cried with relief when she found out that
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Speaker 1: she was having a healthy baby. It would have been
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Speaker 1: a really stressful wait for them because during Sarah's last
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Speaker 1: pregnancy with Malachi, They did have abnormal test results show
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Speaker 1: up on his NITP test. Yeah, it would have been
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Speaker 1: such a relief for them. The doctor explained on the
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Speaker 1: phone to Sarah that she had sent through an email
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Speaker 1: of the test results, which also contained the gender. And initially,
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Speaker 1: Sarah and Kurt said that they were going to sit
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Speaker 1: on it for a week. And I think they were
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Speaker 1: going to film one of those I keep seeing them
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Speaker 1: around the place at the moment, a gender reveal, which
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Speaker 1: is filmed on the beach and they've got a cake.
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Speaker 1: And I think it was going to be very aesthetically pleasing,
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Speaker 1: but both of them said that they could not wait
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Speaker 1: any longer. So maybe that's why she's been so pissed
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Speaker 1: off at Kurt though, because I think She wants all
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Speaker 1: of those special, very Instagram worthy videos like they used
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Speaker 1: to film when Kurt didn't have so much work on.
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Speaker 1: So maybe that's where all the passive aggressive comments are
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Speaker 1: coming from. And I think also because she knows that
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Speaker 1: this is her last pregnancy, she did say that she
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Speaker 1: wants to do it right and she wants to really
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Speaker 1: enjoy those moments. They did end up getting Sarah's girlfriends
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Speaker 1: in on the act because Sarah forwarded her friends the
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Speaker 1: test results and they all got together to make her
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Speaker 1: a gender reveal cake. I don't know how I'd feel
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Speaker 1: about my friends knowing before me. I noticed she kept
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Speaker 1: referencing that she was sending her boys and Kurt over
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Speaker 1: with cake mix and also food dye. And I think
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Speaker 1: she was pushing that point because she didn't want to
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Speaker 1: get criticized for making her friends foot the bill of
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Speaker 1: the cake. I could tell in this vlog she was
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Speaker 1: very mindful of how she was coming across. I did
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Speaker 1: think it was funny because she said that she couldn't
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Speaker 1: see her friends' faces because she would instantly know the
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Speaker 1: gender of the baby. So she made them leave the
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Speaker 1: cake at the door. Was it just me or did
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Speaker 1: you think that maybe she had seen the results before
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Speaker 1: she had sent them to her friends? Because there was
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Speaker 1: this part of her video where she was talking to
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Speaker 1: Kurt and saying, Because I forwarded it, the PDF document
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Speaker 1: came up on my screen and I blurred my eyes
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Speaker 1: so I couldn't actually see the gender. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't think she did see the gender. I think
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Speaker 1: she really wanted to wait and have that moment on
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Speaker 1: camera with Kurt. Yeah. But was she potentially preparing herself
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Speaker 1: for the disappointment of having a third boy? Yeah. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you do have a point there. I mean, before they
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Speaker 1: actually revealed the gender, she did also say on camera
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Speaker 1: that she genuinely thinks it's a boy and she already
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Speaker 1: feels like she knows her third son. But I was
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Speaker 1: wondering if that was her trying to look, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't bothered. Well, no, I don't know if woo-woo
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Speaker 1: was the right word. Like, oh, I've predicted this because
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Speaker 1: all along she said, I've always thought I'm going to
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Speaker 1: have three boys. But she did point out that statistically
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Speaker 1: her doctors told her that if you already have two
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Speaker 1: of the same gender, you're 70 to 80% more likely
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Speaker 1: to give birth to that same gender again. She also
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Speaker 1: spoke about how that if she doesn't have a girl,
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Speaker 1: she will mourn and also have a sense of sadness
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Speaker 1: that she'll never have a daughter. But she wanted to
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Speaker 1: point out that it doesn't mean that she's sad about
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Speaker 1: having another boy. And I actually think that she was
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Speaker 1: quite tactful in the way that she spoke about it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because she has been criticized in the past for not
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Speaker 1: being very tactful, especially when she's talking about baby related issues.
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Speaker 1: And I actually, hats off to her, I think she
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Speaker 1: did a good job in this video. Because she also
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Speaker 1: spoke about how she was quiet. impacted by a couple
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Speaker 1: of her friends who were struggling with fertility at the moment.
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Speaker 1: And I think that you could tell that she was
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Speaker 1: really relieved to find out that her baby was healthy.
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Speaker 1: I found it amusing because you could tell Sarah was
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Speaker 1: trying to tiptoe around the fact that she really wanted
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Speaker 1: a girl, but Kurt was just there. Yeah, I want
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Speaker 1: a girl. Yeah, there Sarah is literally doing gymnastics to
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Speaker 1: sort of jump around the fact that she wants a
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Speaker 1: girl and be tactful and say all of the right things.
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Speaker 1: But Kurt was pretty honest about it. Is it wrong
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Speaker 1: to want a gender though, like a specific gender? I
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Speaker 1: don't think it is. I think we've spoken in the
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Speaker 1: past about gender disappointment and how it's okay, especially when
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Speaker 1: you've always thought you're going to have a particular gender.
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Speaker 1: I mean, even with Kate, when we found out she
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Speaker 1: was having a boy, I was really excited. But for
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Speaker 1: some reason I had in my mind that we were
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Speaker 1: going to have a little girl in the family. It's
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Speaker 1: hard when you have imagined something. I feel like we're
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Speaker 1: dragging out this gender reveal at this point. Let's get
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Speaker 1: into it because the gender reveal cake, it was a
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Speaker 1: homemade number by her friends. It was this white, long,
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Speaker 1: log looking cake with blue and pink sprinkles on top.
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Speaker 1: I felt like the homemade vibe of it was very
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Speaker 1: on brand for Sarah because it looked wholesome. It didn't
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Speaker 1: look like she was trying to be too garish and
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Speaker 1: over the top, which influencers can be criticized for. I
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Speaker 1: really liked it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was shocked that it was a homemade cake because
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Speaker 1: I saw the little thumbnail on YouTube and I assumed
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Speaker 1: they'd bought it. Well, at this stage, when the cake
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Speaker 1: was dropped off, it was 9.40. So her sons had
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Speaker 1: been put to bed and Kurt and Sarah were finding
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Speaker 1: out this information on their own. And when I first
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Speaker 1: watched this, I thought, well, that's a good move in
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Speaker 1: case there is some disappointment from the boys over what
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Speaker 1: it is. Now, we have been dragging this out for
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Speaker 1: long enough. I think it's quite obvious what the outcome is.
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Speaker 1: Let's throw to the clip of when they found out
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Speaker 1: they were having a boy. Ready? Set. Go. I got nothing. Oh, boy.
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Speaker 1: There's like one bit in the middle.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you can see it there.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I knew it. I've called this since I was seven,
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Speaker 4: but I still can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I am a boy. you can really see
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Speaker 1: it written all over their faces, the disappointment. It's like
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Speaker 1: when Ralph Wiggum gets his heart broken by Lisa Simpson
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Speaker 1: and you can pinpoint the moment of the disappointment coming through.
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Speaker 1: This is what I don't like about gender reveals because
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Speaker 1: it is literally written all over the parents' faces of
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Speaker 1: how they're feeling. And it's just that element of surprise
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Speaker 1: that's always awkward on camera. It is really awkward. What
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Speaker 1: was more awkward though? was when they revealed to the
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Speaker 1: boys what the gender was. Yeah, because questions quickly turned
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Speaker 1: to how they were going to tell their sons this news.
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Speaker 1: Straight away, as Kurt found out that it was a boy,
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Speaker 1: he was like, how are we going to tell the boys?
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Speaker 1: And he said, maybe we can just give them a
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Speaker 1: piece of this blue cake. And Sarah's like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: let's get a balloon and do one of those exciting announcements.
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Speaker 1: But that's unfortunately not really going to work with a
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Speaker 1: kid if it's the news that they don't want. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and it was disappointing news, especially to Fox, who burst
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Speaker 1: into tears when the blue confetti came out.
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Speaker 3: Of that balloon.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, in true vlogger style, of course, they
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Speaker 1: filmed the boys' reaction for this vlog. And it was
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Speaker 1: very uncomfortable to see poor Fox burst into tears. But
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Speaker 1: Sarah was crying too. Well, he was sobbing in her
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Speaker 1: arms and she said that she was crying because She
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Speaker 1: just felt sad because she could feel his disappointment. Let's
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Speaker 1: throw to what Sarah said about that moment.
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Speaker 4: So the next night we wanted to surprise the boys.
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Speaker 4: And honestly, it was a pretty emotional experience.
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Speaker 1: Fox was really looking forward to having a sister.
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Speaker 4: He has been pretty honest from day one that he
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Speaker 4: wants a sister. For the past few weeks, we've just
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Speaker 4: been navigating the these emotions and this conversation. Although Fox
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Speaker 4: was shocked and kind of disappointed in the moment, he's
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Speaker 4: definitely come around in the last six weeks where we've
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Speaker 4: just explained the dynamic of a boy household and having
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Speaker 4: another brother. So he's super excited to meet his brother,
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Speaker 4: but this was just an honest experience of him finding
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Speaker 4: out because sometimes it's not as we imagined.
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Speaker 1: I get that social media shouldn't always be a highlight
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Speaker 1: reel because that is definitely not the case when it
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Speaker 1: comes to all gender reveals. I think that there is
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Speaker 1: a level of gender disappointment that plays out across all households.
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Speaker 1: But where I feel uncomfortable is the fact that this
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Speaker 1: has been filmed and played to a large audience because
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Speaker 1: this little boy is going to watch this video one
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Speaker 1: day and always remember that his brother was disappointed that
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Speaker 1: he wasn't a girl. And I have spoken to so
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Speaker 1: many people growing up who still hold on to the
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Speaker 1: fact that their parents are disappointed that they were a
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Speaker 1: particular gender. The only thing I disagree with is that
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Speaker 1: I actually like that Sarah honestly shared the disappointment from
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Speaker 1: the family, because as you said before, it is a
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Speaker 1: really common thing. And I think it sort of normalizes
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Speaker 1: that people talking about it because before I think people
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Speaker 1: felt shameful for thinking, oh, well, I wanted a boy
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Speaker 1: and I got a girl. And You know, especially because
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Speaker 1: there's so much talk around being grateful for having a
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Speaker 1: healthy baby. It was quite funny because Sarah did check
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Speaker 1: in with Fox four weeks later to report how he
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Speaker 1: was travelling with this disappointment. But I think it made
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Speaker 1: things more awkward. Here's what he said. How do you
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Speaker 1: feel now?
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Speaker 4: Pretty good, but I want to see stuff.
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Speaker 2: What are we praying for?
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Speaker 1: I want to see stuff.
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Speaker 4: No, praying for just a healthy baby.
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Speaker 1: That is just such a realistic portrayal of children, though.
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Speaker 1: They're just not saying the right thing. I actually quite
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Speaker 1: enjoyed that in there. Fox and Malachi did also provide
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Speaker 1: some baby name suggestions, which probably aren't that far-fetched considering
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Speaker 1: their own name. So Fox suggested that the baby be
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Speaker 1: called Storm. I could say that. And Malachi suggested Hoggy
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Speaker 1: Moggy in Socks. I mean, he does get known as,
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Speaker 1: what is it, like Mui?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, I mean, that's not far off. Hoggy Moggy in Socks,
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Speaker 1: Malachi and Fox. Oh my God, that rhymes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You've heard it here first, potential name.
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Speaker 6: Joining us with more is Mitch Orville, co-founder of Tiny
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Speaker 6: Trucks Tribe, which makes machines just like this.
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Speaker 1: Mitch Orville has been lighting up TV screens around the
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Speaker 1: nation in his latest PR push for his new e-commerce business,
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Speaker 1: Tiny Truck Tribe. The latest promotion for his electronic kids
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Speaker 1: forklift comes off the back of mounting criticism over the
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Speaker 1: e-commerce business. Yeah, influencer watchdog account Aussie Influencer Opinions is
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Speaker 1: not happy they called Mitch out for being allegedly deceptive
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Speaker 1: in positioning himself as the founder of the business. When
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Speaker 1: in reality, it appears that there are multiple other businesses
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Speaker 1: which sell the exact same product he is selling. but
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Speaker 1: for almost $ 200 cheaper. Now, this week, Mitch appeared in
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Speaker 1: a Nine News Gold Coast story promoting his $ 575 kids forklift.
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Speaker 1: Mitch's son, Artie, also featured in the story, showing off
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Speaker 1: how the forklift work. Let's throw to the story.
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Speaker 6: Keep your ears to the ground and your eyes peeled.
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Speaker 1: The Tiny Trucks tribe is on the move.
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Speaker 6: A toy forklift founded by Gold Coast mates Mitch Orville
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Speaker 6: and Hayden Lowen designed to get kids outdoors.
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Speaker 5: There's new generations of kids stuck behind iPads and in
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Speaker 5: front of TV screens and, you know, they're our future
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Speaker 5: builders of the world.
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Speaker 6: The all-electric vehicle is rechargeable and comes with a seatbelt, lights,
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Speaker 6: and even a horn. Whilst it is a toy, it
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Speaker 6: is fully operational with a lifting capacity of 10 kilos,
14:35
Speaker 6: which is equivalent to two toy boxes or three planks
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Speaker 6: of wood.
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Speaker 1: It has the durability and safety tick.
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Speaker 5: So we've done all due diligence necessary. We know that
14:44
Speaker 5: when you're working with kids, there's lots of... and things
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Speaker 5: that you've got to take care of.
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Speaker 6: A skill test for parents and grandparents too who'll need
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Speaker 6: to assemble it.
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Speaker 5: It also comes with a remote control too, so if
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Speaker 5: your kid is a bit younger and can't control it themselves,
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Speaker 5: as a parent you can use that.
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Speaker 6: The toy retailing for around $ 600. Works are now in
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Speaker 6: the pipeline for a full fleet of construction vehicles. You
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Speaker 6: can head to Tiny Truck Tribe's website.
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Speaker 1: This is an absolute disgrace. I mean, I'm sorry, this
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Speaker 1: was a complete ad. For this product. I want to know,
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Speaker 1: who does Mitch know at Nine News Gold Coast? Or
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Speaker 1: who's his publicist? Because I mean, we have a PR company.
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Speaker 1: It's really hard to get stories on the news, particularly
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Speaker 1: a story where you're literally just trying to sell a product.
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Speaker 1: Hats off if he does have a PR team, because
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Speaker 1: as you said, the fact that there really was no
15:37
Speaker 1: angle or hook to get any interest in the media, like,
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Speaker 1: How was that even a story in terms of them
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Speaker 1: referencing the website? Like you never, ever as a journalist,
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Speaker 1: like it came across as an advertorial. He head to
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Speaker 1: the website to find out more about this product.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, what? I mean, also from a journalistic perspective, there
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Speaker 1: were no stats. So, okay, let's think about it. Okay,
15:59
Speaker 1: here's a stat showing that 80% of kids are spending
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Speaker 1: time on their iPads and there's, you know, the government
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Speaker 1: is trying to urge kids to get outside. There was
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Speaker 1: nothing like that. I actually just can't even believe that
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Speaker 1: this story went to air. But as you said, it
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Speaker 1: does make me think, who is Mitch Orville friends with
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Speaker 1: that works at Gold Coast Nine News? Because years ago
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Speaker 1: when he sold his house, there was this bizarre news
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Speaker 1: story where they did a whole story about his house
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Speaker 1: selling and they went through it and they did a
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Speaker 1: piece to camera in his movie room. But in that story,
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Speaker 1: they actually acknowledged that he was an influencer and had
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Speaker 1: some level of celebrity. Yeah. But in this story, they
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Speaker 1: didn't even reference that he's an influencer. It's just like
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Speaker 1: local guy sells a fucking truck. Well, the only small hook,
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Speaker 1: if you can even call it that, is the focus
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Speaker 1: on them being from the Gold Coast and some vague reference,
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Speaker 1: as you said, to minimizing the kids' screen time. But
16:51
Speaker 1: they also reference them as founders, which has been disputed
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Speaker 1: because as Aussie influencer opinions pointed out, They don't appear
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Speaker 1: to be founders of this product. This product has been
17:03
Speaker 1: sold on the internet for quite a while. It's exactly
17:06
Speaker 1: like the Olivia White, that glassware. The Alibaba ones. Yeah,
17:10
Speaker 1: the Alibaba glassware that was in the shape of like
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Speaker 1: a woman's body. And she did this huge PR push
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Speaker 1: and she sent it out to influencers saying, look at
17:17
Speaker 1: these glasses. that I have designed. And then it literally
17:20
Speaker 1: was found out that it was like two cents to
17:23
Speaker 1: buy them off Alibaba. That's probably one of my favourite
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Speaker 1: stories we've actually covered. Well, Sophie, if you can believe it,
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Speaker 1: the publicity kicked up a notch the next day when
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Speaker 1: Mitch appeared nationally on the Today Show. So its hosts,
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Speaker 1: Sarah Arbo and Karl Stefanovic, even had their own electronic
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Speaker 1: forklifts in studio as they crossed to Mitch at his
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Speaker 1: home on the Gold Coast. Again, I've got to say,
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Speaker 1: I love Sarah Arbo, but there was no angle in
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Speaker 1: this cross. We actually used to work with Sarah Arbo
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Speaker 1: when she worked in the 10 Newsroom in Adelaide. She's
17:55
Speaker 1: an absolute legend. So this is no shade on her.
17:58
Speaker 1: This story does suit itself to more of a morning
18:01
Speaker 1: show rather than a serious nightly news story because it's lighthearted.
18:06
Speaker 1: It does make sense. You know, it's got the optics
18:09
Speaker 1: of the cool, truck that kids can drive around in. Well,
18:13
Speaker 1: the thing I was surprised about was I thought the
18:16
Speaker 1: morning show might reference Mitch as being angry dad fame
18:20
Speaker 1: and all of that kind of stuff, but they didn't.
18:22
Speaker 1: They really just focused on the trucks. However, at the
18:26
Speaker 1: end of the segment, Karl Stefanovic pointed out that the
18:29
Speaker 1: forklifts shown in the studio were actually supplied by a
18:33
Speaker 1: company called Junior Traders in Sydney. So they hire out
18:37
Speaker 1: construction props for events and kids' parties and So it
18:40
Speaker 1: was their way of making it clear that Mitch wasn't
18:42
Speaker 1: the only supplier of these forklifts. I am impressed that
18:45
Speaker 1: The Morning Show actually did that because I think that
18:48
Speaker 1: they're showing that they're having to live up to a
18:50
Speaker 1: bit of a higher journalistic integrity there because it's misleading
18:53
Speaker 1: to say that this is the founder. He creates these
18:56
Speaker 1: trucks when he doesn't. Well, they kind of still refer
18:59
Speaker 1: to him as the founder, but technically he is the
19:01
Speaker 1: founder of that company. But this story went off on Facebook.
19:10
Speaker 1: thousand views on the today show's facebook page and there
19:13
Speaker 1: were over 2 000 comments from excited potential customers tagging
19:17
Speaker 1: their friends i would assume quite confidently that the tiny
19:20
Speaker 1: truck tribes website would have been inundated with traffic and
19:24
Speaker 1: surely those 100 pieces have sold out by now surely
19:28
Speaker 1: they would have sold out by now i was shocked
19:31
Speaker 1: though When I saw Kayla, it's seen us, was also
19:34
Speaker 1: promoting these bloody trucks. Her son was driving around in one. Well,
19:38
Speaker 1: it makes sense because Kayla's living on the Gold Coast now. Oh,
19:42
Speaker 1: because I was going to say, well, it would be
19:44
Speaker 1: hard to ship such a large thing to Adelaide. And
19:48
Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder if that... means that she's now
19:51
Speaker 1: connected with the orvilles and they're friendly being on the
19:53
Speaker 1: gold coast together i'm not sure but speaking about delivery
19:57
Speaker 1: the tiny trucks tribe instagram has been copying some negative
20:01
Speaker 1: comments since all of the tv coverage So people have
20:04
Speaker 1: been accusing the company of being a dropshipping business. And
20:07
Speaker 1: someone also commented that you can buy the forklift on
20:11
Speaker 1: eBay for $ 400 less. Now, tiny trucks have hit back.
20:14
Speaker 1: They said, we were able to build these products for
20:17
Speaker 1: much cheaper, but unfortunately that meant compromising on the quality
20:22
Speaker 1: of the materials and the quality of the batteries we use. Sorry, what?
20:26
Speaker 1: Since I have kids myself, I understood the importance of
20:29
Speaker 1: using the highest materials We would rather spend more on
20:32
Speaker 1: the product and be able to assure it's used the
20:36
Speaker 1: best material that were made available to us. Could that
20:39
Speaker 1: be any more confusing? Yeah, we are filming this quite
20:42
Speaker 1: late at night and I wasn't sure if you were
20:44
Speaker 1: just tired or if that sentence had no grammar whatsoever.
20:47
Speaker 1: Is he suggesting that there are numerous suppliers who supply
20:51
Speaker 1: these trucks? So maybe this truck is from a supplier
20:54
Speaker 1: with cheaper goods. Yeah, I think that's basically what he's saying.
20:56
Speaker 1: But the fact that he said we were able to
20:58
Speaker 1: build these products, it just gives you this idea that
21:01
Speaker 1: they've got this workshop. Yeah, he's out there. These two
21:03
Speaker 1: dads from the Gold Coast are just putting these forklifts together.
21:06
Speaker 1: I loved it because someone commented, bro, they know he
21:10
Speaker 1: just drop shipping them. To which Tiny Trucks Tribe, aka Mitch, responded,
21:14
Speaker 1: these products are manufactured, not drop shipped. We're happy to
21:18
Speaker 1: show you through our warehouse if you would like to
21:20
Speaker 1: see our physical product. Where are you located? To which
21:23
Speaker 1: someone else responded, we would love to see a video
21:26
Speaker 1: of your warehouse and a video of them being welded
21:29
Speaker 1: up and engineered and painted. Interestingly though, after numerous requests
21:34
Speaker 1: online for people saying, well, why don't you just film
21:36
Speaker 1: the warehouse and show us, there's been no tour of
21:39
Speaker 1: the warehouse shared online. That is disappointing. It is quite
21:42
Speaker 1: interesting to reflect on the fact that Mitch did take
21:45
Speaker 1: such a large hiatus from social media and vowed that
21:48
Speaker 1: he didn't want to return and take part in it.
21:50
Speaker 1: But now he is using the power of social media
21:53
Speaker 1: to promote this new business. Now, aside from that, there's
21:56
Speaker 1: also been questions raised over alleged fake reviews on the website.
22:01
Speaker 1: So when Mitch launched Tiny Trucks Australia, they launched as
22:05
Speaker 1: a pre-sale. So no products had actually gone on sale yet,
22:09
Speaker 1: but there were already 30 reviews on the website. So
22:13
Speaker 1: some super sleuths have uncovered that the customer photos attached
22:17
Speaker 1: to some of these reviews show different product logos on
22:20
Speaker 1: the forklifts, which is quite concerning because Aussie Influencer Opinions
22:24
Speaker 1: has pointed out that fake reviews are illegal under the
22:27
Speaker 1: Australian Consumer Law. So I'm assuming these reviews are from
22:31
Speaker 1: family and or friends. or that these reviews have been
22:36
Speaker 1: lifted from other websites that also sell the product. But
22:39
Speaker 1: in any case, this really should be disclosed to the consumer.
22:43
Speaker 3: You guys might know my wedding details recently got leaked online,
22:49
Speaker 3: posted online accidentally.
22:52
Speaker 1: Tammy Hembrough has admitted her recent invite leak has wreaked
22:56
Speaker 1: havoc on her wedding plans, with the couple forced to
22:59
Speaker 1: change key details that ensure the wedding remains a private affair. Now,
23:03
Speaker 1: we spoke about the leak on Friday's episode, but just
23:06
Speaker 1: to bring everyone up to speed, fellow influencer Sofa Dofa
23:10
Speaker 1: accidentally leaked the details when she showed a close-up version
23:14
Speaker 1: of Tammy's invite on her vlog.
23:16
Speaker 7: What was she thinking?
23:18
Speaker 1: It was just wild. And this led people to discover
23:21
Speaker 1: Tammy's online wedding website, which had even more details about
23:26
Speaker 1: the big day. Now, I really liked it because Tammy
23:29
Speaker 1: doesn't usually address any controversy. She likes to ignore it.
23:34
Speaker 1: But in this case, she created a TikTok addressing all
23:38
Speaker 1: of the recent headlines that have been coming out about her.
23:41
Speaker 1: Here's what she said about the leaked invites.
23:45
Speaker 3: You guys might know my wedding details recently got leaked online,
23:51
Speaker 3: posted online accidentally. This has caused a few issues for me.
23:57
Speaker 3: I've had to change a lot of the details because
23:59
Speaker 3: obviously we want it to be very private and it hasn't, yeah,
24:03
Speaker 3: it's been a bit frustrating.
24:05
Speaker 1: You'd be feeling so bad if you were so fed up.
24:08
Speaker 1: I know that she didn't intentionally do it, but it
24:11
Speaker 1: was pretty careless of her and it has had huge
24:13
Speaker 1: ramifications for Tammy and Matt. Yeah, I don't know what
24:17
Speaker 1: you would do to make it up to Tammy and Matt.
24:19
Speaker 1: There would be so much awkwardness around it. Well, surely
24:23
Speaker 1: she's going to drop a big present in the wishing well,
24:25
Speaker 1: because that's been spoken about a lot. It's funny you
24:28
Speaker 1: bring that up because Tammy in this video, she said that, oh,
24:32
Speaker 1: I've seen somewhere online that someone is saying that I'm
24:35
Speaker 1: expecting three to five grand from each wedding guest as
24:39
Speaker 1: a present. And that was from Amber from Influencer Updates.
24:43
Speaker 1: To be clear, Amber said that she might be expecting
24:46
Speaker 1: presents between one to 2K because it is like a
24:49
Speaker 1: celebrity wedding. But Tammy said, that is not the case
24:52
Speaker 1: at all. That is absolutely absurd. I'm not expecting anything,
24:55
Speaker 1: particularly not that. And she also did clear up the
25:00
Speaker 1: wishing well. So she said that she was asked by
25:03
Speaker 1: her family members, what do you want as a gift?
25:06
Speaker 1: So she said, oh, well, I'll set up a wishing well.
25:09
Speaker 1: Here's what she said.
25:10
Speaker 3: I don't even know what to say about that. That
25:13
Speaker 3: is obviously not true at all. I'm not asking for
25:15
Speaker 3: donations at my wedding. This is meant to be for
25:18
Speaker 3: my family and friends.
25:19
Speaker 1: Remember that.
25:20
Speaker 7: Remember that they wrote this article to do with the
25:23
Speaker 7: fact that we had a wishing well, we will have
25:26
Speaker 7: a wishing well. I think a wishing well is a
25:29
Speaker 7: pretty normal thing for people to have at the wedding.
25:31
Speaker 7: And we literally only had it because I kept having
25:35
Speaker 7: people ask me like, Oh, like what, what about gifts? Like,
25:38
Speaker 7: what do you want?
25:38
Speaker 3: All my friends and family find it so funny that
25:41
Speaker 3: this is even an article. None of them thought it
25:45
Speaker 3: was weird, but apparently, to the world who are not
25:48
Speaker 3: invited to my wedding. They think, yeah, it's really, well,
25:53
Speaker 3: when I'm pretty sure like every wedding I've ever been to.
25:55
Speaker 1: Has had that. I agree with Tammy because I think
25:58
Speaker 1: it was wrong of the media to label it as donations.
26:01
Speaker 1: Nobody thinks that you're donating to somebody. Donating to the
26:05
Speaker 1: charity of Tammy Hammond. They were purposely trying to be
26:09
Speaker 1: misleading in that headline by calling it donations. And as
26:12
Speaker 1: I said on the Friday show, I think that Tammy
26:15
Speaker 1: and Matt have every right to have a wishing well
26:18
Speaker 1: if that's what they want to do. And it's quite
26:20
Speaker 1: clear the family and friends, like as normal families do,
26:24
Speaker 1: are saying, what do you guys want us to get you?
26:26
Speaker 1: Because it's a gift to help set the couple up.
26:29
Speaker 1: And I know obviously Tammy has already established herself with
26:32
Speaker 1: potentially being worth $ 50 million, but it's still a nice gesture.
26:36
Speaker 1: It is. And they might have plans as a couple
26:38
Speaker 1: to put that money towards a honeymoon. Yeah. There was
26:41
Speaker 1: also a lot of discussion around Tammy's decision to have
26:45
Speaker 1: a child-free wedding, and many got their noses out of
26:49
Speaker 1: joint because they assumed that it meant that her kids
26:51
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in attendance. Now, Tammy cleared this up, confirming
26:54
Speaker 1: her kids will be front and centre at her wedding,
26:57
Speaker 1: but she just wants her guests to be able to
26:59
Speaker 1: enjoy the day kid-free from their own children. Of course,
27:03
Speaker 1: my children are going to be at my wedding.
27:04
Speaker 3: I literally got emails from Daily Mail and all these
27:08
Speaker 3: things asking me to comment on the fact that my
27:10
Speaker 3: kids are not going to be at my wedding and
27:13
Speaker 3: my kids are obviously going to be there.
27:15
Speaker 1: I went to a christening recently and everybody brought their
27:18
Speaker 1: kids along, which was fine, but I instantly saw why
27:22
Speaker 1: people don't want kids at big days like weddings because
27:24
Speaker 1: these kids were running amok. They were running down the aisle.
27:27
Speaker 1: You couldn't concentrate on the actual baptism. I think it's
27:31
Speaker 1: pretty shit that Tammy is having to defend her wedding
27:34
Speaker 1: decisions due to this leak, but I kind of enjoyed
27:37
Speaker 1: the fact that she's calling people out. Yeah. I also
27:40
Speaker 1: enjoy that Tammy's been giving extra details, but I would
27:43
Speaker 1: assume they would have expected this kind of media coverage
27:46
Speaker 1: because there has been so much discussion on Matt's podcast
27:49
Speaker 1: about the relationship itself. So of course, there's going to
27:53
Speaker 1: be a lot of interest from the public and also
27:55
Speaker 1: the media. Oh, definitely. I do think that she has
27:57
Speaker 1: played it well, though, PR wise, because she said that
28:00
Speaker 1: she was inundated by emails from journalists from the Daily
28:03
Speaker 1: Mail and those sort of publications, and she didn't give
28:06
Speaker 1: them any sort of quotes. But her going on her TikTok,
28:09
Speaker 1: providing her explanation in her own terms, she's in control
28:13
Speaker 1: of the way it comes across. And now it's led
28:15
Speaker 1: to more media picking up on her quotes and actually
28:18
Speaker 1: putting the article from her point of view. And I
28:20
Speaker 1: think it has garnered some sympathy for her because I
28:23
Speaker 1: think a lot of brides could relate to having to
28:26
Speaker 1: change your plans due to something outside of your control.
28:29
Speaker 1: But don't you think as well that when you hear
28:31
Speaker 1: somebody talking about an incident like that, for example, the
28:34
Speaker 1: wishing well, It makes it so much more personal hearing
28:37
Speaker 1: it from Tammy's perspective. But when you see a headline
28:39
Speaker 1: and it's like rich influencer asked for donations, of course
28:43
Speaker 1: everyone's going to think ill of it. I did notice
28:45
Speaker 1: because the line that Tammy read out was a Channel
28:48
Speaker 1: 7 headline that we read out on this podcast on Friday,
28:51
Speaker 1: but she did omit the part where they said she
28:54
Speaker 1: was worth $ 50 million. I do wonder if she's been
28:58
Speaker 1: forced to change the date. of the wedding because she
29:00
Speaker 1: said that they've had to change things. I do wonder
29:03
Speaker 1: what parts of the wedding have been changed. They could
29:05
Speaker 1: do a red herring, like they've changed literally nothing. I mean,
29:08
Speaker 1: they would have security for the day. Maybe this is
29:10
Speaker 1: all some strategy. Maybe they got Sofa Dofa to release
29:14
Speaker 1: a fake date. Oh, my God, this could be– we
29:17
Speaker 1: could be onto something here. Genius. Yeah.
29:20
Speaker 2: But it was definitely hard because I love love and
29:23
Speaker 2: I started to think maybe it wasn't for me. We
29:25
Speaker 2: love love.
29:26
Speaker 1: Britt Hockley has finally found her penguin. The Life Uncut
29:30
Speaker 1: host announced her engagement to professional Swiss soccer player Ben Sechrist. Now,
29:35
Speaker 1: Ben popped the question whilst the couple were holidaying in
29:38
Speaker 1: the Hamilton Islands. Surely he hired a professional photographer for
29:43
Speaker 1: the proposal because the photos Britt subsequently uploaded were stunning.
29:48
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because it showed that he proposed on this
29:52
Speaker 1: beautiful beach and it was very bachelorette. So he had
29:56
Speaker 1: organized a helicopter and There was also a yacht on
30:00
Speaker 1: standby where they celebrated with champagne. The photographer managed to
30:03
Speaker 1: snap the moment exactly when he was down on one
30:06
Speaker 1: knee and there were all these beautiful close-up shots of
30:08
Speaker 1: Britt's reaction. And, of course, a lot of close-ups of
30:12
Speaker 1: this ring. He did a good job. Yeah, I mean,
30:16
Speaker 1: I have to admit, as soon as I saw this ring,
30:18
Speaker 1: I immediately Googled his net worth. I gasped when I
30:23
Speaker 1: saw it. It reminded me a lot of Kim Kardashian's
30:26
Speaker 1: ring from, was his last name Humphries? Well, I mean,
30:29
Speaker 1: it actually doesn't look anything like it, but the size
30:31
Speaker 1: of the ring. And that is what I'm finding more
30:34
Speaker 1: and more is some engagement rings.
30:36
Speaker 2: Oh my God.
30:37
Speaker 1: You can't even, you're like, is that a real diamond?
30:39
Speaker 1: I think in this case it is because he is worth,
30:41
Speaker 1: it says online, if you're to believe this $ 5 million.
30:44
Speaker 1: And it actually was very reminiscent of Tammy Hembrough's ring
30:48
Speaker 1: because it is a oval diamond it's got a yellow
30:52
Speaker 1: band it is stunning and I'm so happy for her
30:56
Speaker 1: she did share the news on Instagram writing in any
30:59
Speaker 1: lifetime it's a yes just two people loving each other
31:02
Speaker 1: for the rest of our lives I did find the
31:05
Speaker 1: caption kind of funny though because it's like oh it's
31:07
Speaker 1: such a quaint love but then there were these photos
31:09
Speaker 1: of them on this epic yacht living their best lives
31:11
Speaker 1: like yeah but I think everyone or most people are
31:16
Speaker 1: really excited for Brit because she has had such a
31:19
Speaker 1: time of it. Obviously, she's got the Life Uncut podcast
31:22
Speaker 1: and she has shared many stories about awful dating experiences
31:26
Speaker 1: she has had and awful relationships. So I, for one,
31:29
Speaker 1: was really excited when I saw the news and happy
31:32
Speaker 1: for her. I was so happy for her because we
31:34
Speaker 1: all met her when she was absolutely shafted by the
31:37
Speaker 1: honey badger on The Bachelor. Then she's kicked off her
31:40
Speaker 1: podcast by revealing that she actually dated a sociopath. Yeah.
31:44
Speaker 1: And most recently she has had her heart broken by
31:47
Speaker 1: Aussie tennis player Jordan Thompson. So I think everyone has
31:50
Speaker 1: been rooting for Britt and has been really keen for
31:53
Speaker 1: her to find someone special. And Ben seems so nice. Oh,
31:57
Speaker 1: I love them together. They are so cute. As expected,
32:00
Speaker 1: the Blue Tick Brigade were out in force to congratulate her.
32:03
Speaker 1: So her bestie Rebel Wilson wrote under the post, Yes,
32:07
Speaker 1: biggest congratulations to you, babes. I really loved the way
32:11
Speaker 1: that Brit broke the news to her co-host Laura and
32:13
Speaker 1: also producer Keisha. So on Life Uncut, if you haven't listened,
32:17
Speaker 1: they have an Ask Uncut segment where they answer questions
32:21
Speaker 1: about dating and then they give their advice. So unbeknownst
32:25
Speaker 1: to the other hosts, Brit had written a topic of
32:27
Speaker 1: her own. Let's throw to the clip.
32:30
Speaker 2: I've been single for the better part of 10 years
32:32
Speaker 2: and I was always the single friend watching all my
32:34
Speaker 2: friends fall in love, which made me so happy. But
32:37
Speaker 2: it was definitely hard because I love love and I
32:40
Speaker 2: started to think maybe it wasn't for me. We love love.
32:42
Speaker 2: Then in 2022, I met this amazing guy, but he
32:45
Speaker 2: lived overseas. My friends were really concerned because long distance
32:49
Speaker 2: is never easy and I've always had commitment issues. But
32:52
Speaker 2: this time it felt different and I thought he was
32:54
Speaker 2: worth it. Flash forward to now and I've never been happier.
32:57
Speaker 2: And last week on a beautiful island, he asked me
32:59
Speaker 2: to be his wife.
33:00
Speaker 5: You crying?
33:01
Speaker 2: And I just want to know what's a cute way
33:02
Speaker 2: to tell my friends that I'm getting married.
33:17
Speaker 1: Spoiler, it's me.
33:21
Speaker 2: How did you leave it to the third question?
33:27
Speaker 1: Because you've got diarrhea. I was going to tell you
33:29
Speaker 1: on Monday. Because look at it. I've been waiting.
33:43
Speaker 3: So long to tell you guys.
33:46
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? No. What are we going to do?
33:49
Speaker 1: What are we doing now? Jono with the confetti. You
33:53
Speaker 1: told Jono before you told us. I told Jono before
33:57
Speaker 1: you told me. Oh my God, honey. I'm so happy
34:01
Speaker 1: for you. I'm so, so happy. I love you so much.
34:03
Speaker 2: I just never thought it would happen.
34:05
Speaker 1: This clip has gone viral on TikTok. It has almost
34:08
Speaker 1: a million views and it's not surprising. It almost brought
34:11
Speaker 1: a tear to my eye because the genuine happiness and
34:14
Speaker 1: excitement that that Laura and Keisha showed was so nice.
34:18
Speaker 1: It was nice because I think initially everyone had seen
34:21
Speaker 1: the very curated photos. And as you said, there was
34:24
Speaker 1: the yacht and there was the ring. And I was
34:26
Speaker 1: so happy for seeing the photos, but I was even
34:28
Speaker 1: happier when I saw her genuine joy and the joy
34:32
Speaker 1: in her friends' faces as well. I was surprised to
34:35
Speaker 1: later find out that Laura was actually in on Ben's
34:39
Speaker 1: engagement plans all along.
34:40
Speaker 2: What?
34:41
Speaker 1: Yeah. So on their radio show, Laura revealed that two
34:44
Speaker 1: months prior, Ben had slid into her DMs asking her
34:48
Speaker 1: for help with an engagement ring. And for those who
34:50
Speaker 1: don't know, Laura is a jewelry designer. And Laura said
34:54
Speaker 1: they ran into a problem because Ben sent her through
34:56
Speaker 1: a photo of a white gold diamond ring. And Laura
35:00
Speaker 1: had to be pretty blunt and say, look, Brit is
35:03
Speaker 1: not going to like that ring and she's not going
35:04
Speaker 1: to wear it. So luckily, Brit was filming for I'm
35:08
Speaker 1: a Celeb at the time. So Laura had access to
35:11
Speaker 1: her Instagram and she was able to look at her
35:14
Speaker 1: saved photos where Brit had saved a ton of engagement
35:17
Speaker 1: ring inspo photos. And Laura did say that she spotted
35:21
Speaker 1: a current theme. And the theme was that all of
35:23
Speaker 1: the photos Brit saved had massive stones. So it's not
35:27
Speaker 1: a surprise that Brit has ended up with a massive rock. Well,
35:30
Speaker 1: maybe Laura knew that he was going to propose, but
35:32
Speaker 1: she didn't know the moment.
35:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:34
Speaker 1: But that being said, anytime a friend goes on a
35:37
Speaker 1: luxury holiday with their partner, everyone's like, get your nails done,
35:41
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Then she probably had some idea.
35:43
Speaker 1: She probably assumed that Brit would have rung her the
35:45
Speaker 1: moment that she got engaged. Well, this has left many
35:48
Speaker 1: people wondering what does this mean for Brit's future in
35:52
Speaker 1: Australia because Ben does live in Scotland so the couple
35:56
Speaker 1: have been doing long distance throughout their whole relationship so
35:59
Speaker 1: they've been spending time between Australia and Scotland. Ben revealed
36:03
Speaker 1: last year that he ultimately plans to move to Australia
36:06
Speaker 1: but he is still playing professional soccer so I don't
36:10
Speaker 1: know if that's his long-term goal. What do you think? Well,
36:13
Speaker 1: Britt spoke a lot on I'm a Celeb about the
36:16
Speaker 1: pressure that she faces because it's such a difficult decision.
36:18
Speaker 1: She's obviously got a great career here in Australia. I
36:22
Speaker 1: wonder if they're able to set up, like surely there's
36:25
Speaker 1: a podcast studio she could go to over in Scotland
36:28
Speaker 1: and record the podcast. I think the issue is, I mean,
36:31
Speaker 1: they're obviously on radio as well. Yeah, but the issue
36:34
Speaker 1: is of the time difference because she'll be having to
36:37
Speaker 1: either record really late or really early in the morning.
36:40
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's secret negotiations going on in the
36:43
Speaker 1: background for Ben to maybe transfer over to an Australian team. No,
36:48
Speaker 1: they wouldn't pay as much for one. And hasn't he
36:51
Speaker 1: signed a four-year deal? Yeah, I guess we'll just have
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Speaker 1: to wait and see what happens. I am very excited
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Speaker 1: for the wedding content that is going to go down
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Speaker 1: because I have a feeling that this wedding is going
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Speaker 1: to come together quite quickly. What country, though, do you think?
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Speaker 1: It'll have to be Australia. I reckon maybe they'll do two.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm signing myself up for this, but
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Speaker 1: it's for you guys. Ashi Bynes has made the decision
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Speaker 1: to close down her activewear brand baseline as she takes
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Speaker 1: a step back to put her health first. Back in March,
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Speaker 1: Ashi was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and in May,
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Speaker 1: her neurologist recommended she undergo brain surgery within the next
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Speaker 1: six months. Now, after weeks of speculation, Ashi confirmed on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday that her activewear brand will be shutting down. She
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Speaker 1: wrote on Instagram, this chapter is closing and a part
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Speaker 1: of me is definitely sad and will miss aspects of
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Speaker 1: this beautiful brand. But all of me knows that this
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Speaker 1: is the right choice for my health, well-being and next chapter.
37:47
Speaker 1: She did use the Instagram announcement to point out what
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Speaker 1: a huge success the ActiveWeb brand has been, saying that
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Speaker 1: over the years, they've sent out 500,000 orders. Wow, that
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Speaker 1: is amazing. a lot of money from this activewear brand.
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Speaker 1: I feel stupid because I didn't even know that Ashley
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Speaker 1: Bynes had an activewear brand. I have to confess, probably
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Speaker 1: six years ago, I did buy some items from this
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Speaker 1: activewear brand. I bought, I love the color, that cobalt
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Speaker 1: blue color. And she had some pants like that and
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Speaker 1: a crop top, but I never wore them because they're
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Speaker 1: just too bright. I love all your admissions on this podcast.
38:22
Speaker 1: Like when you bought the Sunny app subscription. I know
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Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a sucker for an influencer brand
38:28
Speaker 1: from time to time. I felt really sorry for Ashley
38:32
Speaker 1: because it's absolutely horrendous what she's having to navigate at
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Speaker 1: the moment. And she explained that the health scare has
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Speaker 1: made her re-evaluate her business and life. And it's made
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Speaker 1: her realize the things that she wants to let go of.
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Speaker 1: She finished on a high though by saying, that it
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Speaker 1: means that they will be clearing all stock. So there's
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Speaker 1: a huge sale on them at the moment. Got to
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Speaker 1: love a little bit of a spruik at the end. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is all we have time for today. Thank you
38:55
Speaker 1: so much for joining just Amy and I today. As
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Speaker 1: we've mentioned, Kate is on maternity leave because the pitter
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Speaker 1: patter of little feet. potentially be coming this week we
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Speaker 1: don't know just yet yeah we're on baby watch yes
39:08
Speaker 1: we are on baby watch at the moment and we're
39:09
Speaker 1: very excited and if you do want to hear more
39:12
Speaker 1: about kate's baby journey and you know what happened baby
39:15
Speaker 1: journey i mean in terms of the birth and all
39:19
Speaker 1: those kind of details let us know because we might
39:21
Speaker 1: do an outspoken plus episode on it if there is
39:24
Speaker 1: demand and if we sound like we're going a little
39:26
Speaker 1: nuts or we're tired that is because we are recording
39:28
Speaker 1: this quite late on a Friday night because we are
39:31
Speaker 1: trying to make the most of next week where we
39:35
Speaker 1: potentially might have our nephew here. So it's one of
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Speaker 1: those times where you really want to enjoy the moment
39:42
Speaker 1: and not feel stressed. So we are working overtime to
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Speaker 1: make sure we get all of our episodes out to you.
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40:06
Speaker 1: our shiny, grim and deep dive. I have felt so
40:10
Speaker 1: nostalgic going back and watching Shani's old videos. And if
40:14
Speaker 1: you head to our TikTok account, we are sharing quite
40:17
Speaker 1: a number of reels, flashback reels, which are so funny. Oh,
40:21
Speaker 1: my God. Chloe Zepp from like 15 years ago is hysterical.
40:25
Speaker 1: She looks so much like Artie. 15 years ago? It
40:28
Speaker 1: was like eight years ago. Oh, I'm sorry. Again, I
40:30
Speaker 1: am tired. I have just aged them, but it feels
40:33
Speaker 1: like a hell of a long time ago. It actually
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Speaker 1: has made me want to go back and relive all
40:38
Speaker 1: of those moments, like watch all of Shani's videos in order.
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Speaker 1: This episode was recorded on the traditional land of the
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Speaker 1: Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to
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Speaker 1: elders past and present. Thank you.