Talking Contraception

Hi, guys, and I'll welcome back to another episode of Life unput. I'm Laura and I'm Brittany, and sometimes I just can't even with you. Laura, What have I done?

Just everything? What did I do? It just made me lowell in general?

Do you know what?

I started back at pilates this week, and I think Brittany is laughing at the fact that I can't actually move and I have to lower myself onto the seat like I'm an old lady going to the toilet, not gonna lie.

Watching you crab walk around the room. Is that has been the highlight of my day.

You're welcome.

I have a question for you, though, Oh straight up, straight in, just gonna get straight into this. So I have something to admit, and that is that I missed a couple of Paradise episodes. I'm sorry, excuse me. I know I haven't been there for you. I feel like a shit friend. But I did watch last night's episode. So guys were recording tonight. Tonight is Monday, which means we're really doing a mad dash to the finish line

Where the fuck were you?

Do you know how many messages I got been like, hey, Britt, only watching for you, but where are you?

Do you have diarrhea as well?

Like I know Jess was out because she was sick and she had to take some time out, but I did were you? Were you out shooting yourself in a tent that actually was a little gashtro outbreak. There were a few people that ended up getting sick. I actually was not one of them. I think from my liver a parasite from the Amazon, Like I have guts of steel. Now, nothing you can get, nothing can bring me down.

But you would think with a few people out for the count that you would have gotten more airtime, But if anything, they took the airtime off you. What were you doing that was so boring that you didn't get any airtime on that episode?

The drama started and I just jumped in a canoe and necked it out of it.

You were like paddleboarding your way out of paradise. No, I'm do you know what? I think?

It was just there was so much other drama going on, and I do not get involved in the drama ever.

I don't want a piece of it.

I have never wanted I said this on my Instagram. I've never wanted to operate more than I.

Did at that dinner party.

I wanted out, what does apparate mean?

Oh my god, you guys, you know how she doesn't watch friends?

Do we all just learn a new word? Apparate? Operate? It's oh, I like you so much. It's from Harry Potter. It's where they disappear.

It's like a magical power and they can trans they like they can transport from where they are to somewhere else.

Like that.

You're calling me cute because I don't know some weird Harry Potter reference. I'm gonna say there's probably a lot of people who just listened to this podcast who had no idea what apparate means. I thought that you were just using a big word, but now you're quoting her.

Your husband, Matt commented on my photo and he was like, yes, strong use of the word operate.

He was roping. He's also a manchild, so don't think that that counts.

No. I just not involved in the drama and it just went down high. You guys only saw a snippet of it. It was just the most intense dinner. It was like, I don't want to say it. I felt like married at first sight or something. I just wanted to dig a hole, put my head in it like an ostrooch, and wait for the night to be done.

I was going to say that the new format with the whole dinner parties and the unboxing of these questions has a real Maths.

Vibe, and I mean, look, I'm not against it. I don't hate it like I love Maths. You guys all know that, but I kind of dislike the lack of originality around it. And I also dislike the fact that it is just to really trudge up true drama. At least with like the Maths dinner party, I feel like they ask loving questions as well, and they kind of draw out the romance a little bit, whereas with this and the way that they've framed Paradise, all of the questions that have come out of that box.

As soon that box is on the fucking day, we were like, that is doom and gloom and misery.

We started to get anxiety when we saw the box come out, or someone or usher was like, blul a banquet nite, We'll getting anxiety because no, no, I mean, there were some nice questions that came out here and there, but we all knew essentially it was to get down to the nitty gritty and get answers from things that everyone was talking about. And you know what, I just want to go and drink some wine, eat some oysters and just like fall in love too?

Is it too much to us? I love?

I think you went on the wrong show for that, babe. Anyway, it was, it was eventful, but you need to catch up.

I know, I know, guys, I'm going and catching up.

We're also missing tonight's episode because we're recording the podcast, but please jump on our Facebook group and update us, because as soon as we are done recording this, I'm gonna get on there and I'm going to get deep in the comment section to know what's going on.

Funny because when you don't actually watch because we can't watch it now, like Laura just said, I'm like, oh my god, what's actually happening right now?

What is everyone seeing that?

I don't know because we don't get to see the episode, so we watch it as you guys watch it, so I don't know what I'm doing right now. I don't know what's being said. So it does make me a little bit anxious that I'm not in control right now.

Just the woosa. We're here doing the podcast. You're in your safe.

Space, But how is your weak enough about my island life.

I had a very eventful thing happen to me, and it's something it's something that I have been expecting, but yet when it happened, it was particularly unexpected and I didn't know how to process it when it was happening.

Oh my god, Marley pood in the bath for the first time.

She's never done that. She took a dumb that's so rank, Like, that's my worst time. Man. It really was like I just I knew it was coming. I knew the day.

Would come eventually and it would dawn on me. I just didn't expect it to be so so now boyant. What was I think this is like a critical question. What what was a consistency like submarine log or like buoyant or spread out and running.

Look, it was very dispersed.

I would say that it had absorbed a lot of the water in very quick succession, but it was very buoyant.

So anyway it was. It was extremely confronting, but.

The even even more confronting part of this story is that I got Marley out of the bar, I obviously put it straight in the shower.

We cleaned her up.

I came out and I was like dying in hysterics, and I told Matt what had happened, and he was like totally random, Like this is the most random segue of what had happened.

But Matt was like, oh, did you know.

That there was a study that came out this year that reported that.

One in thirty people shit in the shower. What so like adult grown people, like adult humans.

So there's this study that came out of the UK. There's a company called QS Supplies, and they have found that one in thirty people. They interviewed one thousand and ten different individuals from Britain and from the States, and they found that one in thirty of those thousand admitted to shitting in the shower.

That that is messed up.

Have a lot of feels about that, Like I guess I need to know are they sober, are they drunk?

Are they like?

What what conscious state are they in?

They really redefined the whole idea of having a shit shower and a shave doesn't it. But then how does it go down the drain?

Well, I think you have to just stomp it down. Well, okay, okay, right. There was more to this study as well.

I'm sorry guys that this has taken a really graphic turn for really early on. But if I had to experience a poo in the bathtub, it's all fun and gains until someone poos in the pool, You're all going to experience it. So there was more to this study. Basically, there were five different questions. It turns out that one in three people pee in the shower, which I'm going to admit to I pee in the shower.

I've definitely done it. It's a lot on a regular like i'd prefer to use the toilet. But also if.

You're in there and there's and it hits you real hard and fast, I'm going to get out.

And sometimes it hits you hard and fast because it's so warm, you can't stop, and you're like you're so pree, so relaxed, it's like so warm, it small winter.

Would I would be surprised if eighty percent of people didn't wean the shower.

So it says one in three people wei in the shower, which makes me think that two people are lying. And then the next one was one in four people blow their nose in the shower.

Yes, I think every man in the universe does. I also blow my nose in the shower.

Give it a good bush turkey with its tissue, just like straight down.

Nah, just straight down the drain, wash it off. A bush turkey. It's not called a bush turkey. Isn't it a bush turkey? Thought? Sorry, I don't know what Harry Potter is. Okay, you're just such a lady, and you've clearly never gone camping.

A bush turkey is where only go camping. Bush turkey is where you put one finger over one nostril and just as as hard as you can.

We do that in surfing.

It's called tap noose when you surf, so I grab surfings tap nose. You get really running nose and you have to like shoot it out into the ocean. Okay, so tap nose must be the coasty version of this. But a bush turkey is when you're from.

The inland, or if your dad is from the army. So so okay.

One in three people urinate one and four people blow their nose. One and five people spit in the shower, which I'm like, I'm not gonna make a habit of it, but if you need to do it, sure whatever.

It doesn't offend me.

Yeah, I don't know why you'd need to do it, but also I don't I mean, that's just gonna go down the shower.

That's okay, Yeah, okay, right, one and twenty people masturbate in the shower. And I'm gonna say that if one and twenty people masturbate in the shower, it's probably mostly men.

Like, I don't think it's twenty.

I think it would be a bit awkward for a woman to masturbate in the shower. I think it'd be better for a woman to do it than a man because a bit too like not enough grip. Oh No, I think a lot of men masturbate in the shower, Brud, I don't know. Yeah, I think that that's a pretty many think they do it everywhere. Ladies go and ask your husbands, your boyfriends. Don't ask your brothers or your dad's it's weird do they masturbate in the shower? Doing our own poll?

Okay.

And then lastly, number five on the list was that one in thirty people pooh in the shower.

I'm just sorry, but I feel like i've been here by bus. I am gobsmacked. I just don't know who these people are and what went wrong in their childhood. I am also traumatized because, like most bathrooms have a toilet like right next to the shower, also perfectly perfectly manufactured and designed receptacle for poohs.

It's definitely not your shower, and.

It's always next door, so it's like two steps, maybe two long lunges at the most, and even mine literally just walk out of the bar.

We're all out of bed. We're all out of bed, and you're in the dummy.

I'm an on sweet's what Britney's talking about. We don't have a bed pen under the ben or anything.

Guys.

Okay, so this this all got a bit wild. I'm sorry if that was a bit much for you. Where it for ten minutes into the episode and we've talked a lot about number two.

It's actually interesting. They were interesting statistics.

But I'm I'm a mum and so much of my life is taken up by pooh. So you're welcome, So what do you Okay, here's my question how did you actually deal with it? You just push it down and drain, or do you have to get a bag like a dog boo and pick it up? Well, the good thing when you have a dog is that we have plenty of doggy bags lying around. Then I used a good solid amount of Domestos bleach and really gave that bath tub a clean.

All right, guys, with that well and truly done my event for week, Brittany, your eventful week. It is time for our favorite part of the episode, and that is Accidentally Unfiltered, where we tell you your most embarrassing stories and we all laugh at you together because we're.

A community, and that's what communities who love each other do, laugh together, laugh together and at each other and with each other, and we build each other up and then break each other down.

Brittany, give me number one.

Am I gone straight to her?

Yeah? Accidentally unfiltered me? All right?

I just really felt for this girl.

I do you know.

I think I say it every week because every time we go all right.

Songing in, I'm like, oh I would die, Okay, rip my pants. I don't even know how you come back from this one. So I had just gotten back from a contiguing trip that I had gone on with one of my girlfriends, and I was so excited to show my mum and dad all of my photos from the trip. They wanted to see them on the big screen, of course, but they didn't have a fancy TV, so we needed to download my camera rel onto a USB and then

That is so aggressive.

I was starkly reminded of this when they proceeded to roll through onto the big screen in front of my whole family, one after the other.

They just kept on coming. They kept coming through, and every time I pressed next, next, next, next, next, next photos to pump me.

Through, I was mortifyingly trying to skip through them, much to my dismay. I thought the silence from my dad was the worst until my mum blurted out how nice she thought my strip was.

A why would you keep flicking through why wouldn't you just stop and be like, everybody close your eyes. I think it's so funny.

I actually love my I loved the sign off that her mum in that moment could be funny enough to say looks like a great strip instead of true, like your mom is the real mvpmvap.

Oh my god. I'll never forget the day I was like maybe fourteen years old or fifteen. I don't even know how old you are when you get pubic hair, but however old, however old I was, I decided to shave it all off, and I remember my mom walking in on me in the shower and she was like, oh, what have you done? Have you done? And still to this day, as a thirty four year old woman, every time I shave myself, I think of my mom going, oh what have you done? So why was she just

She just walked in and I'd obviously already done it, and she was like, oh, like baby.

Care everywhere, clogging the drains. Oh I didn't know that was funny.

I also think it's probably something I would have done, where you panic and instead of just like closing it down, you just start clicking next, and it just goes through like the whole real every angle legs up, upside down, inside out.

I'm just imagining getting worse and worse is worse, like progressively more x rayded and poor dad and Nana. Betty's just sitting there like, oh God.

Also, who's it worse for the parents or her? Because I think their dad would be. I don't know how you recover from that.

I don't think there's any winners in that. Okay, alright, I have I have a less x rated accidentally unfiltered, but it's very adorable. But I kind of feel like we can all relate a little bit.

Recently, my ex boyfriend has started dating a new girl. It was a really really bad breakup and I have been completely heartbroken. And then, to make matters worse, they've been really over the top on social media flaunting their new relationship. So of course I've done what any normal girl would do. I've stalked the shit out of this new girlfriend, whose name is Brianna. So anyway to cheer

That's not gonna end well.

I woke up the next morning to seven miscalls from my ex boyfriend and then I thought to myself, why on earth would he be calling me? And it dawned on me the fucking photo I didn't tag my best friend Bianca. I had tagged his new girlfriend Brianna. And now I want to move to a different country, change my name. Except we're all stuck in a pandemic.

But I just think I feel like this is common.

We all stalk people and then their names just show up as like the most recently searched. And I just feel that this poor girl has gone and tagged her friends and gone to bed and everyone has seen it, Like everyone can imagine if you had but if you were without your girlfriend and you were like what the fuck?

Like dish, she just want me to see that she's having fun with.

Her friends, Like it just wouldn't make any sense. It's like, look how much I've moved on, Like what would she be thinking?

No, I actually think that the new girlfriend would see that and realize that she's accidentally tagged her and being like, I want a loser.

She's stocking me. I would love to know what what then new girlfriend was thinking.

I have told you guys a story before about like this is so many years ago, but when Facebook used to have the function where you would search and then directly below is where you would update your status, and they looked like the same columns and I had put in as my status I'm not going to say her name home. I had just put in my boyfriend's ex girlfriend's name, updated my status, and then.

Corn about my day. Yes, I used to store her so much. I was obsessed. So for me, this is a very status that was her name.

It's like you're writing like a Brittany Hockley. That's it, it's your status. That's what I did. I just put her full name, first name, and last name as my status update on Facebook, and then I went to work and found out nine hours later, but that's what I had done. So I honestly I read this and I was like, I feel for.

This killing your pain.

Okay, So moving on to our next favorite section, which is can't believe that they said that, which we brought in last week, and it's a new section where it's just like, literally, you cannot believe someone said that new favor section. But before we jump into that and have a lull, we just thought we'd tell you what the

Guys. We brought in Brittany's sister, who's just giving another perspective because like Britta and I, I mean, we are both really familiar with using the pill and we can talk about our own personal experiences. But it was nice having somebody to talk to who's used a completely different type of contra which is I mean, some of you guys might know it as implan on, other people might

I took a go home when I was working as a personal trainer, which I already told him I had done when you asked what I do. We went back to my house and were fooling around. He grabbed my stomach fat and said.

What's this? I thought you were a personal trainer? Oh so bad, my actual god, And then what does she do?

I kicked him out of my place immediately, but he left his expensive belt and tie, which I gifted to my really good friend, which he walked to his friend's house and got loads of compliments on.

For this kind of I mean, like, not the bad part, but so kind of reminds me of a thing that happened a very long time ago where a guy accidentally left his jacket at your house. And now I see you every day wearing that jacket. Brittain has no contact with this guy anymore. This is like many moons ago. There's a really nice jacket and it's now.

Become a staple of your wardrobe. Oh yeah, look, I was seeing someone. He had a nice coat.

He left it in my house and I took that as a down payment because he's a fuck boy.

And then when we.

Stopped seeing each other, I just thought, well, why would I give up this Kashmir hold on?

I completely understand.

All right, I have I like to air your dirty laundry on the podcast. Okay, so this is one that was written in from someone. Oh guys, these like these I can't believe they said that.

They absolutely kill our soul. But they're also kind of funny at the same time. So this girl writes in, So I'm very tall. I'm six point one and I grew very quickly. I was six foot by the time I was twelve. And when I was about thirteen, I was in a supermarket and a man and his wife came up to me and said, oh my god, you're so tall, which, of course, at that age I got all the time. And then the man followed up and said, no one's ever going to love you.

Oh my no, he didn't.

And this was said to this girl when she was thirteen, so she is obviously held onto this as like what the fuck?

I mean her entire adult life.

At thirteen, all you think about is no one's gonna love me anyway. And when an adult man tells you, what did you ax?

Why would no one love he? Because she's tall?

It's like goals. Everyone wants to be tall.

Maybe he was intimidated because he had short man syndrome, which is what this sounds like. Meanwhile, I was danging Dovito's four until we started doing this segment. Something I'd never really thought about is that growing up, I used to cop at least once a week from complete strangers.

Oh you must be a swimmer. You've got swimmer shoulders.

And I never really took it as a I never really took it as being like super offensive because I was a swimmer and I was really broad. But that's just like now, as one who's a little bit older, it's not a compliment either, Like it's not an insult, but it's not a compliment. And I just think we can't make we shouldn't be passing any comments on people's bodies. I got exactly the same thing. I was a surfer and a swimmer, and I'm very broad. You guys know

I mean we'll measure it out.

That's not a broad But I used to get it all the time too, But unlike you, I was so offended by it because I didn't want it.

I didn't like it. I thought it was unattractive.

There was this one time I was in Greece and it's like it's ingrained and ascarred me because I was like, yeah, my bikini like feeling saucy, feeling confident.

I was like, you're feeling yourself. I was just like happy in my skin.

I was on holiday and having a great time and I was swimming in the ocean. And he, by no means men don't mean a fence by it. Half the time they think they're giving you a compliment, but they don't know that you take offense. And he just came up to me out of nowhere, looks me up and down and goes, look, god, athlete, are you dull?

And I was like, so squeeze me, so what, Oh, well, you're obviously an athlete.

Look at the shoulders on you.

And I was like, oh my god.

And I was like, well, yeah, okay, I used to surf and do hitch sports and then I just ran away.

I like that. He wasn't like, you're a summer, He's like, what kind of athlete are you? Are you a forward?

Are you a rugbyople?

I don't know, maybe you're a sumo wrestler. Are you a goalkeeper? Like that kind of athlete? Let's talk through this. Yeah.

I was just like, I know, H meant it as a compliment, but I was very vendans. So I feel that this girl's pain.

A lot of the like I can't believe they said that that's come through. A lot of them are pretty dark and pretty twisted. There's a lot of body shaming that happens as well, Like we've had loads sent in.

But you know what, I.

Think it's the kind of stuff where if you don't laugh, you'll cry. And that's the whole reason why we wanted to start this segment because I think that there every single woman out there has experienced a time with something totally inappropriate has been said to them. And I think that every single person who has written in these sorts of stories have done it because they can see the humor in it and they're not taking it to a

Do you want to know? I don't know if I've ever said this. I'm gonna give you some inside a goss on. The first thing Nick Cummins aka or Badge.

The first thing he said to me at the cocktail party.

Right, So we met on the red carpet, and I was very fit when I was on there. I used to do I used to love doing weights and stuff, and I'm ran every day and did a lot of squats. Anyway, Yeah, you're in shape.

I was strong, specifically like I had strong legs.

I went up to him to talk for the very first time on camera. He grabs I had this thigh high dress on, like had this huge wit. He grabs my thigh like a friend and starts to wriggle my leg like picture it slaps his hand down and goes.

Would you look at the quads.

On those you must squat and I died.

I died a slow, horrible death, and I thought that to me, I'm walking out right now. First thing he said to me, I know I died, but he was actually I was like, oh, thank you, and then he kept going.

He didn't get it. I was like, thanks, okay, so like what do you do.

And he's like no, but really do you squat it?

He just kept going and I was I just you're like, mister honey Badger, I'm not a race horse. I know that you.

Feel like you're here to pick a winner, but please, that's what you need to step down.

Picture me day one from my quad.

But you know what they say, like, if a race horse has good legs on them, they're gonna go far.

You really went far, Bret.

I went as far as humanly possible for the honey Badger.

That's so intense. I can't believe I've never heard that. He was bless his soul. I called him out on it, like a few weeks later, and he was like, I didn't know you'd be offended.

I was giving I thought I was giving you a compliment.

I was like, no, it was no girl, wants you to grab her thigh and shake it and say look.

At the cop on that thank God. All right, all right, guys, I think it's time to get into the episode I reckon too. That's deep and dive and get right in.

So, as Britt said, today we are talk about contraception, which I mean, obviously this is such an interesting topic. I mean, we talk a lot about relationships, we talk a lot about sex, we talk a lot about the end goal, and not a lot about the protection prior to the end goal. So we thought we'd put together a list of all the different contraceptions that are available,

You need to be reminded about using them.

So Britt, tell me about your experience with contraception. I think that that's a nice way to start if you talk to me about your journey, what you're using, what you have tried in the past, what you're currently using to protect yourself, and then I can talk about what mine has been.

Yeah.

So I guess for me and I reckon, you're probably gonna end up being the same because we're the same age. I first went to get contraception when I was about sixteen, I'd say, because I had been with a boyfriend. My boyfriend for a year, and my mom sat down and had the conversation with me. She was like, look, if you're even remotely thinking about doing the horizontal dance and love, you need to go on contraception because you're not gonna

There was just in my.

Mind it was like, oh, okay, it's time to have sex, let's.

Go on the pill. There was not options.

There weren't discussions about all these things now and nextplan on and bars you can get in your arms and things you can put in your cervix, and there was just nothing.

So I remember we went to the doctor. Mom said, let's just do it. Even if you don't. You don't have to have sex. She's like, it's just that if it happens, you're safe.

And also she's like, I knew you'd been together for a year, and you know, little teenagers together for a year, they get serious.

And she was like, I was sixteen once, Brittany, I see what's going on here.

But yeah, So we went to the doctor and it was literally we went in together, we need to put Brittany on the pill. He's like cool. Think he asked me like one question, or do my blood pressure? And then he put me on the pill and that was it. It was just like that was it. There was no deep dive into any thing. There was no discussion about options.

And then I have literally been on the pill ever since.

I'm thirty two and I had been on it since about fifteen sixteen, and I've had one break where I tried to go on a break from it when I went to London, so I went traveling for a few years, and I thought, I'm just gonna get my body a break, see what happens. And to be honest, it was horrible. My skin was breaking out, I was hormonal. I was getting depression because my body didn't know how to deal with hormones. So I didn't even I didn't see it through.

It was too much.

I want to enjoy my traveling.

Went back onto the pill.

So that was that I don't really have experience in anything else other than like condoms, which which an added effect because not only are they.

Birth controlled, but they stop st eyes.

We'll get into that later, because I think a lot of people forget that other forms of contraception don't actually stop sties, whereas I mean, even condoms aren't fool proof, but you need to be wearing a condom. But that's They're the only two things I've ever tried. So what pill were you using, Like, what name of the pill? Because I think that they, especially from our generation, there are some pills that are like very well known, like

I have a kind of similar story, I guess. But I started the pill when I was fourteen and have used the pill my entire life. I didn't go on the pill at fourteen because I was sexually active. I went on the pill at fourteen because I also, yeah, sorry, mat No, I had really wild skin and I used to get I used to get really really bad bacni when I was fourteen, like severe severe bacne. I never had acne on my face or anything, but I was

Don't whatever else.

You cancel each other out totally. So they totally cancel each other out. So I was on the pill and I got pregnant, and then that is what kind of started my journey with coming off the pill and you know, having babies and kind of dabbling in different types of contraception. So I obviously got pregnant.

It was a surprise, like a total surprise, and I obviously went back to that hair specialist and was like, dude, you did this, and he was like, I didn't make you, I don't.

Have any hair, and I've got a baby. Something has gone wrong. What the hell have you prescribed me?

Like?

This shit is wild, it's a baby in a bottle.

And anyway, So basically there was kind of a conversation that was missed in in my consultation and he should have explained to me that I needed to use other types of contraception, but it just it just got lost in translation. And that set off our journey because we then realized we wanted to have kids. And then I came off the pill, and then obviously Marley happened very quickly. I had stopped taking the pill, so I was more actively trying. But yeah, so both of our experiences so

Yeah, so this is true.

You do really, really really need to take it at the right time, and if you do, it is ninety nine percent effective, but about one in ten, so nine percent of people one in nine, one in ten taking a pill can still fall pregnant. But this is usually because they're not taking it at the same time, so they just haven't been regular with it, or they've had extreme vomiting or diarrhea around the time they're taking it.

But I think also on that when you think about you know, ninety nine percent sounds so it sounds so effective. It really does. But if you if you've been using the pill for ten years and you think that that's you know, twelve periods a year over ten years, then statistically over that ten year period, there's still a really good chance that you could be that one percent that

A lot of people are like, I can't be on the pill because I always forget to take it or whatever else.

They're not gonna be regular with it.

But for me personally my experience, I just started doing it at such a young age, and I was so bur dantic about it at a young age because obviously that was just not on my radar that I have just never in fifteen years, never missed it, never forgotten it, never do anything because it's literally my routine. It's always in my handbag. And this is what I recommend, like if you're younger and thinking of going on the pill, if you're a younger listener, I just carried my handbag

It's always there. You're like breakfast and no babies.

Absolutely breakfast and no babies. It's my life motto.

Something that I find really interesting about the pill though, So like I think we often talk about when we talk about contraception, we talk about all the different types of side effects that can coincide with taking contraception. And you know, each different type of contraception has a different, happy, little mixed bag of side effects.

But something that we don't really talk about, I guess because side effects is kind of seemed like it's deemed as a negative. We don't always talk about how the pill actually it came astered a lot of negative side effects. So, for example, people take the pill for loads of reasons.

Like I said, I started taking it because I had really bad hormonal bacne, I guess we'll call it. And then some people take it because they get extremely heavy periods. Other people take it because it helps to regulate their flow if their periods are very irregular.

And like really bad period pain and pre menstrual symptoms.

Yeah, there's loads of reasons that actually are beneficial reasons for taking the pill. I do also think that like when people who have taken the pill to try and resolve an issue. So if you're taking a pill because you're trying to resolve the fact that you have really heavy period cramps, or because you get migraines when you

Speaking of going off the pill, I have a friend that's been on a pill like, you know, I just grew up with her. So she's been on the level this same amount of time. I've been on fifteen years. She recently went off because she's like, okay, cool, I'm gonna start trying to have a baby. She said that her sex drive, like her libido, has increased dramatically since going off, and she said, I've never I've never known that it was reduced because my whole life this is

May you be a sex demon? You don't never get this podcast done.

Brittany is too busy in a couple of stirrups and some wall straps who dominatrix.

Holy, I don't know where do you come off the pill?

You know, I'm not.

Oh my god, that just reminded me this is totally off peace. But I got a I got a message sent to us on like the on the Facebook group. A girl had sent me a message and she was like, hey, so my mom. It was it was like a very rogue accidentally unfiltered. And she's like, hey, so my mom just slept over last night, and then she sent me a photo of her bed.

But what she'd forgotten.

To do was take down her arm straps that she'd put up with her boyfriend, and her mom had slept in the bed. Next to the bed, there were two rope tied to the bed still, and her mom had just never seen anything, gone to sleep, pretended like it didn't happen. They were read with like love hearts and stuff on them, but they were full on ropes.

It was amazing, and he's so embarrassed her.

Back to the topic of contraception, though, that was a little bit ran So there is another type of pill which I think is far less common spoken about, and that is the progesterone only pill. And now I only learned about the progesterone pill when I was breastfeeding, because when you are breastfeeding, you can't take a pill that has estrogen in it, because that just MUCKs up with

Yeah, and it's the same statistics actually as the pill in terms of one in nine women can still fall pregnant on it. It's just that, whilst the statistics are still the same, easier to fall pregnant on the mini pill because your window is smaller of when you have to take it. So does that make sense to you guys are following me. Just with a normal pill, you have a little bit more leeway if you're like, oh shit, just three hours ago whatever, I was supposed to take

Yeah, there's just more room for error, right.

A dark omen of being on the pill is that there is always this chance that you're going to forget the pill. And I guess that's why we have backup and emergency contraception like the Morning After pill, which you know it is one hundred percent only supposed to be an emergency contraception, and it's more effective the earlier you take it. After having sex.

However, I do think there are a lot of people out there who take it more on the regularly as like a oh, whoops, got to take that again. Why it's only considered an emergency is because it's way less effective than taking a pill or using other forms of contraception, which have like a ninety nine to a ninety nine

I mean, if you really don't want to have a baby, idan't want to be risking thirteen percent.

Of my life on that.

So that is why you know, they really talk about it as your absolute plan be to contraception, because it's not. It's nowhere near as effective as all of the other choices that you have and the choices that you can make around contraception. And you know the reason why we wanted to do this episode is because your only option isn't the pill. There are other options, and they have some of the hormonal based and some of them are more physical implantation based, and that's why we thought we

You guys will know if you haven't used this.

That little bar, it's like three centimeters two centimeters. It goes just under the skin on the inside of your arm.

There.

You literally go to the doctor, they make a little incision, they insert the bar, they sew you up. It's minimal. It's radio opaque, so you can see it on X rays. You can feel it so small. But essentially just really the hormones. And the benefit of implan On, slash and exploit On is that you only have to get it changed and updated every three years, so it's almost full proof. It's not you're trying to remember to take appeal every single day you put it in. You forget about it

Then my sister shown we have a cameo. Guess. Hi, guys, welcome to my bedroom, I mean the studio.

Hi, Sherry, what do you think of out studio renovation?

I really love the addition of the gold guys. Thank you. What about the photo that we have of ourselves on the wall?

At least three million photo?

Thank you?

And next week will be a three million photo, don't you worry. We also have a coffee munk that has a picture of ourselves carrying two million.

I mean, you're really staying Trap brand.

Little bit of vanity may have gone into that, but anyways, the reason why you're here is because, like brit said, we don't have experience with Implanon or Nextplanon, and obviously, like your experience is going to be isolated to your experience, but brit mentioned that she had a lot of troubles yeah, and that it was something that really affected you, and so we wanted to better understand what your contraceptive journey was and how you ended.

Up making the decision to use Implanon for sure. So obviously I can only speak to my own experiences. But I decided to go on the pill when I was sixteen because I wanted to have sex with my boyfriend. Yeah, so my mum took me to the doctor to go on the pill when I was sixteen. Shout out to mum for mma hawk, for being responsible.

Should we just quickly ask what was that conversation like for you, like when you went to mum and said you want to have sex?

Because I remember what it was like for me.

It was it was awkward.

I did say, Mom, I think I think it's time to go on the pill. It's time for me and leap to do it. I'm not gonna say it is naming case. He listens today, I reckon, he's like an avid listener of life. On card. I mean, you don't know, do you, but his current girlfriend maybe so okay, all right, well we'll keep him anonymous.

Had the conversation with your mum, ended up at the doctors, went on the pill. Took me through that.

So I was on the pill for maybe a good year two years, and then on one visit to the doctor, they told me that I had really high blood pressure, like just have a stroke kind of high, which was concerning for my age at eighteen. So if you don't know, your blood pressure is supposed to sit at about one twenty on eighty, which is a healthy range, and mine was about one point eighty on one hundred and ten. So I don't know what that means, but that sounds very high.

I think that's when you would do this. No, that's extremely high. That is the level that you sort of panic. And I remember they sent you straight to the hospital for a test because they were like, you you're gonna have a stroke, like something is severely wrong with you.

Go to the hospital immediately.

And just a question, did they think that this was a result of using contraception or was this just your body of itself was very high, Like you had very high blood pressure or did they think it was a side effect of the pill? Right, So at this point they didn't really know, so that's why they sent me up to the hospital for lots of investigation.

So I had like c TE scans. I did a twenty four hour urine test, which is exactly what it sounds like. Yere we for twenty four hours. They give you a four liter apple juice bottle and you just do away into that for twenty four hours and then they test it for a bunch of things. Wow, that was fun. I also did a twenty four hour blood pressure monitor, so it takes your blood pressure at like intervals throughout the day. And I do remember I was having sex with my boyfriend when my blood pressure comes

When you when your doctor was reading the results, did he ask you if you remember what you were doing when it peaked?

Yeah? No, I think I like straight up told him.

Was he like, were you going for a run right now or were you doing a doggie style? Because it could be interchangeable with these two, Like.

I sense an increased heart rate, have you been getting freaky?

Were you running your dog or doing doggie.

Then you had to come off. Obviously you had to come off using the pill. They took me off the peil decided to put me on the implan On which is now then explan On, just because that is the progesterone only, so they were thinking that the estrogen is what was leading to the high blood pressure. So I actually had a good experience with the implan On for a really long time. So for eight years it was a dream for me. I didn't get my period at all. Can you leave the implan on in for eight years

Your arm and feel it under the skin, can't you?

Yeah, so you can. You can feel it if you like rub the inside of your arm, you should be like definitely be able to feel it. If you can't, it's too deep.

The only reason why I remember this is like I never had it myself, but a good girlfriend of mine in school had it, and you could feel it this like little hard rod sitting right inside, just like next to the bicep. And so you have to get that changed every three years.

Yep, every three So they make a little incision and they basically pull it out of the soft tissue in your arm and then they can replace it. Like, so you said you had a really good experience with it for eight years, what changed, Like, what was the moment where that went downhill? So yeah, everything was hunky dory for eight years, and then on that eight year mark, it just went downhill and I just started bleeding constantly.

I love that mister Hockley listens to shout.

Usually me though. Yeah, super low sex drive and super low mood in the months leading up to having it removed, So that was definitely a reason that I wanted to have it removed.

And then I went back on the pill. And so you've been using the pill ever since? Yeah, so did it affect your blood pressure again? Like, are you now at a point where your blood pressure stabilized that you're able to use the pill without it? You know, this chance of stroke or without it being a risk for you.

Right, So my blood pressure is still quite high and I have seen many specialists about this and they have determined that I am just a hypertensive person. So it's something I need to monitor basically forever, especially when I get pregnant. You know, I'm at risk of preclamsier, so I'm monitor my blood pressure through food and exercise. I'm a nutritionist, so I try and be super healthy. I try and work out a lot. I have been cleared again to go back on the oral contraception.

I guess this is why it's so important that you do, if you're thinking about it, you do go and speak to your doctor properly, because if you don't, you don't know that these things can happen. You don't know the risks associated with it. You don't know if you're actually compatible with a certain type of contraception or a certain type of medication. So I guess this is point in turn that you absolutely have to go and speak to a medical professional before you go and make any decisions.

And like we said earlier, and you also said, Shery, like this is your experience of something, and it's it's pretty incredible that you can be using a drug, or you can be using contraceptive method for so many years and then all of a sudden it just doesn't work for you anymore. For whatever reason. Your body's like, this is not the time, we are not doing this anything, not like this anymore yeah, I am gonna unsubscribe from you,

And you definitely change as you get older as well, so your hormones do change throughout your twenties and then into your thirties. So I think it's a case of, yeah, I was coming into my late twenties and body just went, no, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm just gonna bleed constantly. Have you got back on track now, do you think? So? The thousand year flood wasn't a heavy period. It was just constant so I needed to use like quite a heavy lineup every single day. And then now I am

I was just about to say that I've been on some trips with you guys.

I know where it's at. Do not hold that.

But also I guess like maybe this is like your repentance, Like you didn't get a period for eight years and then your body was like, I'm gonna give you fucking eight months of this.

You deserve this, you know. I used to be so smug too to my friends. I was like, Oh, I forget what it feels like to even have a period, and then bear is a bitch.

Sherry, thanks so much for helping us and like coming on here and sharing your experience, because honestly, when we were talking about doing this episode, we were thinking, like, well, our experience with contraception is only limited to what we've

Of course, I have one last question.

I remember that when you came off when you had the implan On out there was a period that you couldn't go back on the pill for a while, and I remember you were just using condoms. So you've done condoms, you've done implan On, and you have done the pill. What have you just found was the easiest? What did you find was the easiest all things aside apart from the thousand of your flood, Just like in general forms of in terms of contraception.

I think that the implan on was the best for me if it works for you. So if you can find that that works really well, then it is one hundred percent the best because it's you know, it's thirty dollars, it lasts for three years, you don't have to remember to take anything. But there is a high percentage of people where they do just bleed either constantly or they have really irregular period. So it is just a matter of finding what works for you. So I yeah, like

In addition to like having abnormal bleeding, which can happen with this Next Planon implantation. People who use Nextplanon have also reported different side effects, which are things like headaches, vaginitis, which is an inflammation of the vagina, so it sounds pretty painful, weight gain, acne, breast pain, viral infections such as a sore throat or a flu, lac symptoms, stomach pains, painful periods, moodswings. There is loads of different types of

Speaking of IUDs, we should probably talk.

I feel like we're doing this in order of popularity, Like for Australians, I think the pills first and I think it's an explan on and then I think it is iud's which is an inter uterine device.

So just going to jump in here because what I think is so crazy interesting is that in doing research for this, IUDs are at the bottom of the list for Australia. They're not something that's very commonly used or something that's even very commonly talked about. However, that the practice of using IUDs is increasing. It's also considered to be the gold standard of contraception because it is the

The absolute pants suit off them, which you would expect, but it also put a lot of doubt and a lot of controversy around using IUDs, which over the next forty years, obviously that has started to change and you know, people are much more accepting of it, and it's considered the role's royce of contraception.

Now, well, yeah, like you just said, it's not like it's actually last up to five years and it's ninety nine percent effective, so we should be using it, but we just don't know about it because none of us use it, so we don't tell our friends about it, and it's just not spoken about. But with a ninety nine percent effectiveness and five years, it's definitely something we should look at.

So if you don't know what these IUDs are, there are two types. Google what they look like.

They're like these little T shaped plastic things. They're inserted into the uterus.

It looks like a little anchor, like a hook anchor or like a fish hook. It actually that's what it is.

It looks like you're eficient in the womb, but not a sperm. But basically there are two types. One is hormonal base and the other one is a copper a copper base, and it doesn't release hormones at all. It just sort of acts as a barrier. So they're two important differences. One's hormonal and one is not. One is copper and one is plastic.

Copper IUD and the other one is called the marina.

Yeah commonly not. Its has a few names, but we would know it as a marina. You guys would all know it as a marina. They insert it into your uterus and it releases the hormone.

I have spoken to a couple of women who've had it inserted. It needs to be done under general anesthetic. I mean I had a girlfriend who had it inserted after she had a baby, and she had to have it done in hospital and I think a lot of people can find the insertion process pretty painful, and it can be painful for a couple of days after having it inserted. However, once it's in place and once everything has healed, you can't feel it.

You don't know what's there.

You can have sex and it's like never gonna move apparently, but then brit you.

Tell me that it can move. Yees.

So I was just about to say, I do have some friends that have literally had it's been a breeze when they've put it in and they've had no problems with it. And then I've had other people that it's been disastrous putting it in. So we don't want to scare anyone off. Some people it is easier, some people might take a little bit of maneuvering around. But yeah, in terms of and this is like, this is not common, but it does happen.

Sometimes.

I've been called to operating theaters to literally look for migrating IUDs, like migrating marinas, et cetera. Because what can happen is they can perforate, and basically perforation is just where something migrates through, So think of it as like cutting through the uterus. And migrating somewhere else in the body.

So it's like an almost like dislodge from the place that it's been positioned and move somewhere else.

It goes on a VAK. Think of it like that. Straight up.

It goes on VAC and that's really really really bad. Like that can cause all sorts of problems. A. It's really really painful, but B you open yourself up to all sorts of things like infections within the body. Because it's a passage. Think of it like a building, a tunnel made an opening. You've created an opening because it's cut through the layer. Now this is this is drastic, but it does happen, and I have seen it.

But I'm going to guess that this is like the absolute minority case. However, it's still something that can happen, and it's still a side effect of what can happen using an IUD. Also, when I was researching for this, there is a dark and very deep Reddit thread. So this is all about copper iud's and there is a reddit thread where so many men have said that the their dicks have gotten punctured by the copper IUD, which

I don't know if they're grateful.

I don't know if you'd ever be grateful for being punctureding your penis.

Also, I mean, like we are always the ones, we are the ones that have to take full responsibility for contraception. We're the ones that have to take responsibility for whether or not we get pregnant. And you know, like this is such a personal choice. Your contraception is such a personal choice that the only person who should be deciding on that is yourself. Like, it's not a conversation for you and your partner. It's just whatever is best for

Yeah, Look, it's funny that you say that women and we have to do everything. They actually are trying to develop and I think they're close to it. It's in the works. They're trying to develop a pill for men, a male pill, So the onus is on them, But I don't know if I ever trust that.

Well, I think, I mean, I think it's interesting because like, at the moment, we have how many different types of contraception for women. There's like more than what we've just commented. I mean, we've commented on the three major ones, but there are so many different types of contraception for women. If even a quarter of the money that's gone into creating contraception for women. Has got would go into making contraception for men to make them also.

Like then I think like we would have a solution by now.

But the question is would you trust a guy if it was the other way around and you weren't on the pill but he was.

You went home with him and you're like, are you on the pill?

And he was like, yeah, would you try, babe?

I don't need a condom, Like, I just don't know if we'd ever trust them.

Depends on your relationship, like obviously, like Matt and I, of course I think that.

In a relationship, for surely, but not when you're just out there, like just say, in a relationship, but when you're just out there gallivanting around, if you are out there having a good time, you know, getting your freak on, then of course you have to take that responsibility on yourself to make sure that you're protected, and a part of that is also ensuring that the person you're having sex with is using a condom so that you don't end up either a pregnant or two with an STI

I don't even know what that is like. So I think, you know, it would work very well for certain relationships, but I agree it doesn't work for all situations, and you know we know better.

Yeah, I entrust with no man with a pill obviously.

Lastly, there are more types of contraception than this, Like there are diaphragms. I don't even know what a dental dam is, but I'm going to say that that's out there. Vaginal rings, there are so many others. But I think, you know, I've never met or know anybody who has used a diaphragm, and I don't think that vaginal rings are as common either, But obviously condoms is something that we need to talk about.

And I actually think they get a bad rap.

Rap What do you mean they get a bad rap in what way?

Well, I think a lot of people are quick to say they don't want to use them because they don't like the way they feel, and I think that that's a pretty common conversation that happens around condoms.

I think it's I think that's the general consensus though, because it definitely does take away from it.

Yeah, one hundred percent, it doesn't feel as good as what not using a condom feels, I think for.

The majority part.

But also not being pregnant to someone you don't know feels pretty good too, or not catching an STD that you you know may potentially be with you for the rest of your life. Like, there is a lot of stigma that surrounds STDs, and I think that that's something that we need to break down because it doesn't make you a bad person. It doesn't mean you've made bad decisions, it doesn't alienate you from society. But if you can take steps to control that, and you can take steps

COVID and STDs guys, watch out. That's what's about to say.

Melbourne's their sci capital, shut up, COVID and probably more.

But it's really important to know that.

If you haven't had an STI check, I just want you to ask yourself this now.

If you haven't had one recently.

But you know you've been sexually active, it's really important you go and get checked because you can have things that don't show any symptoms, so you won't know that you've got it the guy that you were with, or that the guy you are seeing might be amazing and really trustworthy. That doesn't mean that he doesn't have an SDI that has been laying dormant and he doesn't know he has either, and that's the whole reason they spread.

If you don't like using condoms but you've started seeing someone and you now are exclusive with them and you both go and get an SDI check, then you know it means that that's your benchmark. You can obviously have unprotected sex, just use contraception and which is you know. Obviously we've talked.

About and kind of fleshed out, But one thing I want to say, ladies, be aware of condom cod artists and.

Artists.

Brittney, please explain.

Now I make jokes about this, but there are a small portion of men out there. Obviously, there will be guys who when you ask them to wear a condom, they will try and convince you that they've had their CD checks or they don't need to, they're not sleeping with anybody else.

They'll pull out whatever it is.

But if you really want a guy to wear a condom, and that's where you feel comfortable, make sure that that they follow through with it. If you ever find yourself in a position where a guy says they're using it and they actually don't follow through with it, or they pull it off last minute, or they in any way trick you into thinking that they used it when they didn't, there is a name for that, and that's non consensual condom removal. Which is not something to make a joke about.

I didn't know that was a thing. Not gonna lie.

Yeah, non consensual condom removal. It's also known as stealthy I'm reading this verbatim right now, practice of when a man covertly removes or damages a condom during sexual intercourse. Whether it's because they want to get you pregnant or whether it's because they don't like the feel of the condom.

It can be either of those things. Yeah, that's really interesting. I actually didn't know that was a thing. But also, guys, just have a look watching put it on, make sure it's on there, Like don't roll over and close your eyes.

But you know, like if you've had a few drinks or you're doing it doggie style, like there's reasons or yeah, in the dark, there's reasons why you might not realize that's true. Practice sex sex. Choose a contraception that works for you. This was like a bit of a random topic. But I think you know, the more that we talk about relationships, the more that we talk about sex, the more that you have to talk about the responsibilities and things that actually go with that as well.

And we do want to talk about things that are relevant to you guys, and things that you want to hear. And we did put a little call out and I was really surprised at how many of you asked for an episode on contraceptions. And I didn't think it'd be top of the list, but there were quite.

A lot of you.

We know, we know that so many of you are going to have different experiences like we, like we've said all along, like we are not medical experts. We don't have any more than our own personal experiences with these

Absolutely, writ Yo, Laura, it's time for our sign off. We don't ever end an episode without our suck and our suite, the best and the worst, the highlights and the low lights.

And I love hearing yours. You just sounded so radio.

Then Yeah, we're we gonna talk about us. Let me talk to you about the weather today. Step aside, Carl and Jack.

Yeah, actually, steps on, have you seen our gold MIC's in our new studio.

We are coming after you.

Ah dear, Okay, my suck a my sweet for the week. Well, I mean, I think my story of the Bathtime episode was probably pretty sucky, but to be honest, look, you know what, we've had a little laughs on this episode, and we're always really upbeat and we always talk about like the great and positive things that are happening in our life and the funny things that have happened to us and we can always find like the lighter side of life, I guess, But I feel like I've had

Yeah, and I want you to remember because obviously Laura and I see each other and speak every day, so we know what each other are going through.

Actually, sometimes I feel like we might rub off on each.

Other, like, yeah, I know when you're sad. I know, but I'm sad too, and we're both sad. You're like I'm feeling this, I'm like, oh my, got me too. But then we both send each other photos of us crying, like it's so funny. Laura and I literally send each other photos like she'd be like, I'm so flat today, I'm really upset, And I send her a photo back and being like I'm in bed crying right now, and she's like me too.

It's so it's a really weird thing.

Also, I don't want you guys think we seen men cry all the.

Time, because we don't. But it has been a bit of a it's been a bit of a rough week, and like, I don't have a reason for it, and I know that that's it makes it almost makes me feel guiltier that I don't have a solid reason for why I feel the way I do. But I've had a really bad anxiety and I've just felt really down this last week, and and then I struggle and I feel ungrateful because I feel like I shouldn't feel like that. And so it's this weird cycle that is not very fun to be in.

But it's also and this is what I was going to say before we started the crying photos thing, it's so normal too. Everyone goes through these funks, and do you know what you're allowed to feel these I think this is what people forget. You might feel something and you don't know why, and that's okay, and that is normal and you don't have to have this huge reason. You don't have to have something horrific happened to you

So I think that that's like such a good point.

I think we often rationalize why we feel bad, and we don't allow ourselves to be sad because other people are going through so much worse, and then we seem like we're being entitled, or we seem like we're not being empathetic of other people's problems and actually carry bigmore said it perfectly on the project the other night. She was like, just because there are so many other shit things happening in the world at the moment doesn't mean

Yeah, what's your sweet.

My sweet for the week is that I've been cheating on you, Brittany. Some of you might know I have done a short podcast called Me After You with Mum and mea just about parenting, and I mean, if you're a new mum and you want to have listened to other mums experiences, it's called Me After You, and it did really well on the podcast charts, and we launched it last week, and so that's been my highlight.

I had a lot of things to say. Brittany's life so much suck is that you cheated on me? And how dare you host another podcast? You all, I feel got a lot of feelings. I feel like you don't see me anymore. No, I'll see you every freak from day man. First of all, like you cheated on me. For sure, we lost some condemn but whatever.

I am. So Laura's been humble. The podcast did really well, guys.

She went to number one, so I think she's been a bit a little bit humble. So I'm just gonna throw it out there. Podcast is number one. She knocked A Life Uncut out of the top ten.

Wish I wasn't thrilled about it.

I'm you're trying to be like the supportive friend, Like I'm so happy.

To kind of like prep you guys if you're going to jump over and have a listen at all. It is a very different type of podcast to this, Like, I'm so proud of this podcast because I love that we get on here, we have a laugh, it's very conversational. I feel like it's you know, obviously we feel like we're sitting down with girlfriends because Britt and I are

You might also enjoy it. Give it a chance.

No congratulations, you should be really really proud and as I'm joking, guys, I don't more jealous.

Well she's not. But anyway, okay, right, enough about me to you after the pot. What is your suck o? M actual g.

I can't believe I forgot to talk about this. You guys might have seen all my stories this week. This is the suckiest suck. I had just been working like a beast again at the hospital because COVID is still a thing.

And sort of athlete. Are you working like a beast?

I'm working like an athlete.

I got into my car and turned it on and went to drive off, and I noticed that there was a note on the front of my car, on the wind screens. I thought, oh, awesome, like someone's written me a love letter, like in my wildest dreams. So I get the note off and I have a look and it is the I'll try and post it again on our Life Uncut Stories tomorrow so you could see it if you missed it. The note looks like it has been written by a four year old and I'm not exaggerating, like,

No, Britain sent it to me, and it's such a fucking jerk thing. This person has obviously written it like so you can read. The first half of the letter is legible, and then when they've gotten to the number, they've purposely written it so it is entirely illegible. It literally says, hi, I bumped your car this morning, bumped at one hundred colms an how bumped?

I bumped your car this morning? The back left, this is my number four, This is my number call me, and then I'm not I can't even a there's not even enough digit in a number, and it is like it goes down on a tilt, it goes into each other. It's like another language, and it is it's physically impossible to decipher. Like obviously someone's seen them hit my car, so they felt like they need to look like they're doing the right thing.

Anyway, I got out. They didn't bump my bloody car. Whatever.

It was like full on hitting dinted in panel and a bit flapped out the side. And I don't know, I don't know the technical terms, but it wasn't a little bump.

I think the flappy side bit sounds pretty technical. We're talking about a vagina. Are we talking about your brainch drover? No, my range, it was like a flappy panel thing. Anyway, I like popped a bit out. I've made it look a lot better than it was, but I was so mad. Anyway, what I loved the most is I was just so mad. I put this up on my story and I put a picture of the note up. Hundreds of you wrote in what you thought the number was. They like, Babe, I think this is the number to call.

No one of them was the same, Like every number was different, and then people were going just go through them all until you get them.

Do you know, do you know statistically how many numbers I would have to call?

Like it's impossible, every single number. I was just really mad.

Because I thought, what a jerk thing to do, Like, you've just ruined my day, absolutely ruined my day.

You've obviously pretended to be a good person, which is worse because you're not. You're a bad human. And you know what, you're probably listening to this.

Nah, it was a guy. Well maybe he's listening. But okay, we will put this if you guys don't follow our Instagram, it's life on Cut podcast. We're gonna put the note up on our stories because it's so post. Let's just post. Okay, we're gonna put up on our socials. We're gonna go wild.

It's so hectic what this person did. Anyway, all right, what is your sweet because that's a really shitty sucks. So give me a highlight.

Oh I don't even have one. This week.

I've like, on top of that, I've had a week like you you where I don't know if it's Bachelor in Paradise, I don't know what it is, but I have had I've flatlined this week. It's like I've gone to work when I'm not even work. I'm in better, I'm at home. I'm just like I have had a really, really hard few weeks. And we'll talk about, like Laura said, like we both have so much we want to talk about when we get upcoming episodes.

Guys, it's coming.

But I think it's fair to say that, like Paradise is pretty hectic at the moment. There's lots of stuff in the media, there's lots of people speculating, and it's a really it's it's hard.

Like you're still in the thick of this experience.

And I think as soon as you were able to exit Paradise and talk about your life and be open about who you are and what you have been experiencing for the last X amount of months, you will feel like this weight has been lifted. And we're just not there yet. But you brought chocolate over.

Today and you had a glass of wine, so I think you're feeling a bit better. I brought Laura this.

Chok I was like, Laura's really, I'm said, I'm just going to bring a block of chocolate over. So I brought the block of chocolate and then didn't even notice that. I've just sat here moaning eating the whole block on my own.

Like I don't even know if you've had any anyway, Guys, thank you so much. I haven't touched my sweet. Oh you said you didn't have one. I have to have one.

It's a rule, okay, right, what's your sweet?

I ordered a Liita tub of Anita's ice cream and had it for dinner on top.

Of the chocolate. That's a pretty sweet sweet.

Literally, it's the sweetest of sweets that you can have a leader of sweet. All right, guys, if you haven't, like I said, if you haven't joined our Instagram page yet, it's Life un Cut podcast, jump on there.

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People share their ask gun cuts, they share their own personal stories.

We talk a lot about Bachelor and Paradise.

It's just a nice little community that is a nice extension of this podcast. So if you haven't already jumped on there, I highly recommend it. And you know, if you haven't left us a review yet. I said in the last four I said in the last episode that you're a bloody scallywag, and I've got a few.

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