October 16, 2024 • 29 mins
Fitness influencer and entrepreneur, Steph Claire Smith has been forced to defend her decision to blur her son’s face on social media.
Matt Zukowki says he was forced to 'savagely' 'uninvite’ guests from his upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembrow due to numbers being too tight.
A Sunshine Coast content creator has sparked debate online over the decision to bulk freeze her sons' sandwiches.
And our highs and lows of the week.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Sophie Tuba and I'm Amy Torber and coming up on
today's show, why Matt Zukowski savagely uninvited friends to his
upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembro, the Frozen Sandwich debate, dividing
the Internet, and our highs and lows of the week.
(00:23):
But first, fitness influencer and entrepreneur Steph Claire Smith has
been forced to defend her decision to blur her son's
face on social media. Yeah so. Over the weekend, Steph
uploaded a video of her and her husband Josh Miller,
taking Harvey, who's three years old, to a monster truck show.
It was a really cute real but all I could
(00:44):
focus on was Harvey's pixelated face. It almost looked like
he was on the news and he'd been accused of
a crime or in witness protection because it switched between
his whole face being pixelated or a large emoji. And
it was quite funny because at one moment and everything
disappeared and you could clearly see his face. I also
noticed the blur moved at one point to a man
(01:06):
who was sitting behind them. I was like, why is
going on here? And as somebody who does video editing,
it actually takes a lot of time to pixelate people's
faces because you have to keep moving where the pixelation goes. Yeah,
definitely makes it more complicated. Now, this is, of course,
off the back of Steph announcing last week that going forward,
(01:26):
she would no longer be sharing Harvey's face online, and
the decision was sparked by Harvey being recognized in the
street by strangers. So when he wasn't with Steph and Josh,
when he was in childcare or he was with his grandparents,
Rando's would come up to him and be like, hey, Harvey,
which would be so creepy. Well, last week we were
debating how Steph and Josh would navigate no longer including
(01:47):
Harvey and their vision. I just assumed that she was
going to keep him off socials altogether, but no, they've
decided to go with the pixelation, which has elicited a
huge response from Steph's followers, and I think it's partly
because it's one of the first times that we've seen
a local influencer conceal their child's face in this way. Now.
(02:07):
While some followers commended Steph's steps to protect her son's privacy,
the vast majority seemed very confused by this approach, particularly
those who had missed her updates about it. So one
follower tagged her friends under the post and said, oh
my god, Nah, that's it. I'm done. Blurred face has
done it for me, whilst another said it's literally three
(02:29):
years too late. All you have to do is go
back through her page. Are the three thousand photos and
videos of him. People know who she is, they know
who he is. Blurring his face won't make a difference,
not now now. One of Steph's followers jumped to her
defense and wrote back, it's all about consent, right. You
may have said yes to it before, but you have
every right to change your mind and people should respect
(02:51):
that a yes before doesn't mean a yes every time.
And I tend to agree with this now. Steph was
really visibly upset and frustrated by the critic, and she
responded to the negativity by saying this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It absolutely baffles me how people feel like they can
absolutely chime in to your life and your choices. I
understand that there's photos and stuff of him up there
from the past. Intention was not to erase him completely
from the Internet. It was to avoid putting up anything
from now as he's growing into as he looks like
(03:24):
a little boy. Whether or not you agree with what
we're doing that is totally up to you. But I'm
so sick of it. I'm so sick of people's judgment
on our decisions for our family. If it's not what
you would do, that's fine. I've been avoiding ping contact
of his face and that's been fine. That monster truck
(03:47):
video was really special to me. It was really fun
outing as a family. I really wanted to be able
to share it as like the cutest reactions from Harvey
and we had the best time. And so the way
I talk to sharing that was blurring out his face.
That might not make sense to a lot of you
who has seen his face on social media before, but
(04:08):
it's what we've decided to do. So maybe I'll just
go back to not putting him up much at all.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is a really hard one because I can see
both sides. I think that parenting in this digital age,
particularly when you have a large following like Steph, would
be really tough to navigate, and I truly think that
people do have the right to change their mind and
put boundaries in place to protect their children. However, I
can see why this elicited such a big response because
(04:37):
it was really jarring and confusing to Steph's followers who
missed these original posts about it, and it just looked ridiculous.
But on Steph's comment about it was a really cute
video because of the way Harvey was reacting, we couldn't
see his reactions because his whole face was pixelated, And
that's the issue I think with this video is that
(04:57):
there was no point in sharing it because the Picks
took away from this fun family day. It was so distracting.
I think, moving forward, if they don't want to share
Harvey online, which is one hundred percent fine, maybe choose
other content to share that doesn't involve him. The thing is,
because we've already had all of this access to his
life for three years. To someone who hasn't seen her updates,
(05:20):
they're sort of like, oh my god, what has happened
to him? Why is he suddenly being blurred like you're
just comical? Didn't Yeah, the thing that's concerning is that
if suddenly every child's face is pixelated and blurred, or
mummy bloggers suddenly cut children out of their content, where
are we seeing real life parenting play out? Because for me,
(05:42):
I don't have children yet, but I think it's really
worthwhile to see the realities of parenting and hear about
what it's like instead of being fed the highlight reel
all o the time, I have to see their face constantly.
I mean, there's also the other debate about, I suppose
the safety of the children and how much information is
being shared about them online. I understand that you don't
(06:03):
want to totally eraise mother's and father's experiences, but is
it that necessary for us to see Harvey's reaction to
the monster trucks or could we just see that they're
on a family day out and here's the back of
his head, and Steph could explain what they'd gotten. Also,
because all we saw was her reaction, that's what yeah, yeah,
and that's what it seemed like she wanted to put
out there. I can also see why people are questioning
why she hasn't got rid of the other photos of
(06:26):
Harvey in her feed. I mean, I'm not suggesting that
she has to go back and delete three years of content,
but you might remove the stuff from this year because
she said, oh, he's growing into a young boy, his
features are becoming more recognizable. We'll then go back and
delete the recent photos of him. That would make a
lot more sense. But maybe it's just a decision they've
(06:46):
made from this point forward. We've both agreed as parents
that we're not going to share his face anymore. Obviously
he's going to change over the next couple of years.
But it seems to me that they've just gone from
now on, we're doing it. Do you know What's funny? Though,
no one's having a crack at and saying, oh, he
better go and delete all of the photos of Harvey,
Like I hope he's not going to be making Harvey
baby chinos and have Harvey's face blurred as he drinks there.
(07:09):
That's just the odd thing about it. I'm really interesting
to see how Steph navigates this. Now, will the blur continue?
I don't think it will. Do you know what? Seeing
that blur actually reminded me of when I used to
work it today tonight, and I used to feel so
bad for the editors because, as I said, It's quite
a lengthy task to actually blur someone's face because you
have to keep moving the blur. And I remember there
(07:31):
was a story and this man's face had to be
blurred for legal reasons, and in one scene the editor
missed the blur. So this ten minute was like blur, blow, blur,
and then it just dropped off. Oh my god. I
do think it sends a strong message to her followers though,
because this has been covered in a lot of mainstream
media publications, that she's wanting to conceal his identity because
(07:53):
people have been coming up to him. Now, when people
see Steph, Josh and Harvey on the street, they know
not to come up and say hello.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It's pretty savage, like that's red hot from you.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's a wedding.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Matt Szakowski says he was forced to uninvite guests from
his upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembro due to numbers being
too tight. Talking on his podcast alongside his co host
Anna mcavoyd, he revealed his mates were upset when he
cut their girlfriends from the list.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Are people asking for more plus ones?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Not really a couple? They know that the list is
really tight, Ye, Like I've leaned it up. I actually,
originally this sounds shit. Has invited a lot of my
mates girlfriends that I know and I've known for years.
And then I had to send him a message saying, hey,
I've had to lean up the list. They're not like
I have to uninvite, Like, sorry, dude, that's me. One
(08:48):
of my mates was pretty up mortified. Yeah, because but
we hadn't handed out the invitation yet.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Sorry, so you hadn't.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'd asked for names and addresses, full names, spelling of theirs.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
If they're and they just assumed their partners have been back.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So one of my mates is pretty savage, like, that's
red hot from me. It's wedding, It's the wedding of
the year, baby.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
How pissed off would you be if you were one
of these girlfriends. You'd probably been telling everybody you're going
to the wedding of the year, going to Tammy and Matt's,
only to find out last minute that you have been
bumped from the invite list, especially because this is a
destination wedding and all of Matt's friends and family are
in Melbourne. So as soon as you heard it was happening,
you would have jumped on booked flights, booked accommodation. I
(09:34):
just think the thing that makes it worse is also
that Matt has clearly known his mate's girlfriends for years.
He said that these people are genuinely friends and he's
gotten to know them well. It'd be different if your
friend had a new girlfriend maybe you hadn't met. But
this is really brutal. I got the vibe from Matt's
grub that Tammy had asked him to un invite the
(09:55):
guests because maybe she hasn't met the girlfriends. I think
it's really different when you were bride and there are
restrictions on how many people you can invite. I know,
for me, I didn't really want people being at Dale
and My wedding who didn't know us very well. I
get that in a normal situation you want to invite
people that know you as a couple and have seen
you hang out as a couple before. But in their case,
(10:17):
they literally got engaged after knowing each other for a
couple of months and then forged ahead with this very
fast wedding. So I'm sure there's a lot of people
at this wedding who haven't hung out with them as well.
I wonder if Tammy's had to uninvite her friends, like
her female friend. I doubt it. He's probably covering the bill.
That's the other thing I don't understand. I know some
people have to keep their guest lists really tight because
(10:41):
of budget constraints, but when you're worth fifty million dollars,
you think you can invite a couple of extra people
just to save the piece. But maybe it's a specific
venue that has restrictions as well. It's quite funny because
Dale has been in that situation before before I knew him,
and he was with his ex. He got invited to
a wedding, but the ex was told not to come,
and all of his friend's partners were also not invited,
(11:03):
so it was just one big boy's table. That's just
asking for drug.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I actually thought, you know what, sometimes there's nothing worse
than going to a wedding where you don't really know
the people that well and they're not really your friends.
So I actually don't mind it. But it's clear that
he is friends with these people. It is totally offensive.
And what makes it even worse is that one of
the girlfriends who has now subsequently been uninvited. It's actually
(11:28):
her birthday the weekend of the wedding, so she is
flying over to Byron Bay to basically sit in a
hotel room by herself. Well, let's be honest, she's probably
not gonna be by herself. All of the other jaded
girlfriends who got uninvited are probably gonna be up there
as well. That's what makes it even tougher though, because
if you're invited as a couple, you can split the
cost of the accommodation. But I mean, I suppose they
(11:51):
could bunk in with other guys there, but it just
makes it more complicated. And I personally be pissed off
if my husband was going away and sending all of
this money to go to a wedding that I hadn't
been invited to. It's really cute because Matt also mentioned
on the podcast how he'd recently caught up with his
grandparents and thank goodness, they have not been uninvited. So
(12:11):
they went ahead and booked flights, but they went to
flight Centered and booked in with a travel agent to
get their flights and accommodations sorted. That is so cute
for interstate travel is absolutely darling that they did that,
and the grandma actually brought in her invite which had
all of the information on it, and apparently one of
the travel agents spotted it and was like, oh my god,
(12:33):
is this for Matt and Tammy Hembro's wedding And she
was like, please don't say anything. You can't tell a
soul about it, and was really worried about it. I
wonder if this was after the whole Sofa dofa leaking incident.
What I want to know is if Matt's having to
uninvite all of his friend's girlfriends, how it held it
Sofa dofa Coppy an invite because I have never ever
(12:54):
seen her hang out with Tammy Hembro, which isn't to
say that they're not secretly friends behind the scenes, but
they don't even live in the same state. What doesn't
not add another level of disappointment for the girls who
were uninvited, because this place will be crawling with influence.
It's been the best people watching spots, and Matt has
actually experienced being uninvited to a wedding himself, which I
(13:16):
think makes this even more of a dick move because
he knows how shit you feel when you're not included.
So a few years ago, when he was attending a
wedding with his ex in Geelong, he spent the whole
weekend sitting in a hotel room in a suit, waiting
to see if he got a call up. And Anna
said that it's so hypocritical of him now to do
the same thing to others, because he literally would not
(13:38):
stop going on about being not invited to this wedding. Now,
in tomorrow's subscriber episode, we're going to be talking more
about wedding invite etiquette and about a couple who actually
sent out You're not invited cards to family of friends
ahead of their wedding. Maybe they could have done this. Well,
that's just a huge slap in the face, isn't it.
And if you do want to listen to that episode,
(13:59):
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Speaker 5 (14:03):
I'm gonna pop this altogether and into the freezer.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This week, a Sunshine Coast content creator sparked a huge
debate in our Facebook group to freeze or not to
freeze sandwiches for kids lunchboxes? Now, Amy, this post went
off in our group. Can you bring us up to speed? Yeah? So,
Asia Easel who shares cooking videos and budgeting tips on
Instagram and TikTok, shared with her fifty nine thousand followers
(14:26):
on Instagram how she just got back into bulk prepping
her three sons sandwiches for their school lunchboxes. Let's have
a listen to what Asha said.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I'm trying to encourage you togs pack their own lunches
in the morning. If it means I just would make
chanveranges once every couple weeks, freeze it and they packed
the lunches, that would make my life so much easier.
Let's tell me why I took three full loads of
bread just make eight days worth of sandwiches for my boys.
Like I did not realize, Like this is how many
(14:57):
sandwiches I make in eight days. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Her spreads of choice were veggimie and cheese honey and
also Ntella. Oh that's the winner there. Yeah, I wouldn't
mind a Natella sandwich when I was at school. And
I've got to say, eight sandwiches each for three boys,
that's a lot of food and requires a lot of
freezer space. Is it a sandwich a day?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Is this covering eight days of school? Lunchboxes. Yes, that's
exactly what it is. So the idea is that in
the morning, the kids grub out their sandwiches from the
freezer and buy lunchtime. These sandwiches are dishausted, perfect for lunchtime.
How soggy would that be? Though? I have never eaten
a frozen sandwich before, and I can imagine it would
(15:43):
be even more difficult to persuade a child to eat
a frozen, soggy sandwich. There was a lot of mixed
reaction in our Facebook group. So some people like you,
were disgusted at the thought of eating frozen sandwiches, and
the main concern, as you said, was that the sandwiches
would be so by the time they were defrosted. However,
there were a lot of group members pointing out that
(16:04):
because of the spreads she had chosen, they would not
be soggy by lunchtime. So Asia said she's specifically chosen
to tell her honey and also veggimie and cheese because
they're not It's all like you're putting a salad sandwich
in the freezer, it's gonna get gross, really good point,
or a tuna sandwich. A lot of members in our
Facebook group who were mums were saying that this is
(16:25):
something that they do all of the time. And because
when I first saw this, I thought, well, how long
does it take to make a sandwich in the morning?
Do you really need to freeze and a tell a sandwich. However,
I'm not a mum disclaimer, so when I have children
and I'm making the kids lunches, who knows I might
be fucking freezing everything over It is actually so refreshing
(16:48):
to see a mum sharing a realistic lunch box, because
as someone who's not even a parent myself, I get
enrage seeing these influencers sharing these fancy is it called
a bear toe box or whatever the other week and
it's like, oh, look at these different apartments and everything's homemade,
everything's made by scratch, and it's meeting all of my
(17:08):
child's nutritional needs. And it's like, I'm sorry, but when
you've got a life, a job, you're looking after a
busy household, probably most of the time because your husband's
not helping, when you have the time to be coming
up with these extravagant lunch boxes. And I think a
lot of mums are really loving Asia's content because it's relatable.
They're getting good tips on it, and it's budget friendly
(17:31):
because I creating one of those big Bento boxes would
be so expensive. But I like her content. I had
never heard of her before this sandwich debate. I went
and checked out her content. She's a Hillary Duff fan,
so she's high up there. My only thing is, I'm
going to be real. I hate the taste of frozen bread,
like I just don't know what is. It just has
a weird after taste to it. However, these kids are
(17:53):
being given to Tella sandwiches, So if I was a child,
I think I could put up with that taste in
order to get an a Tella sandwich lunch. Yeah, frozen
sandwiches just remind me of aeroplane food or I mean
even they seem to serve up very cold sandwiches in
nursing homes. I don't think a sandwich should ever be
in the fridge. Well, do you know what the worst
(18:13):
thing was? Remember when we were all at school, and
of course no one had the fancy Stanley cups. You
all had an ice drink bottle and it had a
tea towel around it with a rubber band, and often
that would sit on top of your lunch box, and
our mum would always pack us. It was like a
bread roll for lunch plane because I think we'd complain
about having soggy sandwiches. If there were salad, we'd have
(18:35):
an apple for recess. But every time it would get
to lunch, because your drink bottle had been sitting on it,
it would inadvertently get soggy. And the worst thing is, yeah,
they're trying to stomach this bread roll, and there would
be kids chowing down on fucking dunk a use yogos
roll up Simber. I won't name names, but there was
this one girl who her mother. If they had Instagram,
(18:59):
like twenty years ago, oh, probably longer than that, twenty
five years ago, she would have been the one with
the perfect lunch box. I mean, I don't think it
was nutritional at all, but she literally had marble cake
every day, She'd have chocolate beats, slammed shoes on TikTok.
Everyone would abuse her for serving a chiwre well, they would,
but I remember she had the most envy lunch box
(19:20):
out of anyone. One of our friends used to bring
in a whole wheel of bree or cameon beer cheese, yeah,
and eat the whole thing at lunchtime. That's a great lunchbox.
Do you remember? This is so random, but one of
the news stations came down to our school when we
were in reception because they were doing a story about
junk food. Yeah, and I was in that yees report.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So our mom's a dental therapist and as I said,
she would only pack like fucking apple and too bread roll. Anyway,
so the cameraman's there filming at lunchtime and he pans
to Sophie. And in this shop that was aired everywhere
was Sophie opening one of our friends very sugary musley bars,
and you had a lot of explaining to do when
you got home to her. We were not allowed to
(20:04):
have muslee bars, and I was having to explain to
Mum that I was merely helping my friend open it
for her to remember ghost drop. Sorry, this is getting
really nice because we were the best. There was a
girl at school and was so terrible because I don't
think she had many friends, but she would try and
buy friends with these ghost drops, So I shouldn't love
but well, actually, recently we found out that one of
(20:25):
our really good friends. I won't our best friend. Well, yes,
I hope she doesn't mind us telling the story. But
we found out that she got a lunch order every
day at school. She was living every child's dream. And
her mum is American. So she pointed out, well, that's
just normal for my mum, because in American schools, everyone
goes to school and gets lunch. But for us, we
(20:48):
got a lunch order like every term. It was every term,
and we would decorate the paper bag. We were that excited.
We draw cartoons on it. We'd say thank you to
the ladies working in the care I want to know
in our Facebook community how frequent your lunch orders were
and did every school around the country have pizza around us?
(21:10):
What else when you served up? I remember there were
Wienas like. I used to be so embarrassed. I worked
in the canteen and people be like, could I have
a Wiener please? Would it be like fruit balls slash puppies? Yeah?
What else? Well, they'd have macaroni and cheese cups for
lunch orders. I remember they would have the salads and
the teachers would always get it to have like a
boiled egg. I would order the salads because I wanted
(21:32):
to be like the teachers and they'd have they just
have like a pizza that was just in a box.
I don't know what that's so much pineapple on it. Yeah,
I used to love pizza around as at school, and
I went on a mission last year to see if
I could find the original ones they'd serve at the canteen.
They do still exist, but you literally have to do
a bulk order of around fifty of them to get
(21:53):
your hands on them. I've seen them at my local
Coals and Woolies. They look pretty similar. They don't have
vegetarian versions, though, which is what I want. Well, that
was a debate we just had off microphone. I think
I think they did have vegetarian they didn't. I think
the shit ones at the store have ham in it,
which is why I've never bought them. Can someone settle
(22:13):
this for us? Put in our Facebook community if they
had some sort of handy bacon in the See Sophie,
this is a picture of ones with hands I understand.
I used to order them at the canteen and cam
and we pick it out. Let's get into our highs
and lows of the week, and I want to start
with my low because it's pretty funny. So this last weekend,
(22:36):
I had my family and also Dale's family over for
an afternoon tea, and Dale's little nephew came over and
he's around twelve, and the poor thing, he had no
one to play with during this afternoon tea because everyone
was adults, so he was kind of just roaming around
the house trying to entertain himself. I was outside chatting
to all the other adults and Dale's nephew came running
(22:59):
out and in front of everyone, amy, why do you
own a penguin shaped dildo? And I just the conversation stopped.
Everyone's heads just looked at me. I said, what are
you talking about? He's like, you have a penguin shaped
dildo inside.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
What he was actually referring to is the porcelain penises
that we painted at Kate's Hen's party, which was almost
two years ago. And I told you that this does
not belong in your kitchen. So these are if you're
in Adelaide. We've got the plaster fun house and Sophie
and I collected these plaster penises for everyone to paint,
and I turned mine into a penguin at Kate's hen's party,
(23:39):
and it has been sitting on my kitchen bench. I
actually had a little hat on it, like your little
Mexican hat. You couldn't even really tell what it was anyway,
So we quickly catton onto what he's talking about, and
our mum, who was at the hen's party, goes, oh,
it's fine, sweetheart. We all have them, and everyone just
looks at her, like, what on earth it's fine, sweety
(23:59):
before all have large diodos in our home. Is quite
funny because our mum also has her porcelain penis still
on display in her kitchen, which she's quite conservative. I
thought she would have gotten rid of that. Mine was
living in my garage. That was until I moved house
when my in laws spotted it and it got a
bit awkward. I think that they should have been disposed
of straight after the hen's party. I think I'm gonna
(24:21):
have to share a photo of this penis online because
it looks very cute. That's why I haven't thrown it out.
It's really quite funny. The sweetest thing was one of
Dale's friends. Later in the evening, his son came around,
and he's five, and we were telling Dale's friend about
the incident. Anyway, He's like, bring it out and show
Arlo and see what he says. Anyway, we showed him
(24:43):
and go what do you think this is? And he goes,
it's a penguin that was very whole, so cute. Now,
what's your high of the week. My eye of the
week is probably a work one because we just attended
one of our clients' events and it was a banana split.
What would you call it?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well, they were attempting to beat the record in South
Australia of the most banana splits given away, so they
gave away over a thousand banana splits and so it's
quite incredible for banana days. So I was filming this
and my favorite part of the day was everyone was
literally dressed up in bright yellow and then seeing all
of the confused shoppers who had also worn yellow trying
(25:23):
to work out what was going on. Also, seeing you
chow down on a banana split at around ten thirty
am was pretty entertaining, going down quite nicely. Isn't that
such an old person? Dessert? Like, the majority of the
people lining up for these banana splits were elderly men
and elderly. They were like, well between fifties, like fifty plus,
I say fifty to seventy.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well you could tell who the Almond moms were because
there were all these older women that were like, no, no, no, no,
I'm not having anything. Oh they'd say, I'm just grabbing
this for my husband.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
My high of the week is that its events season.
I feel like it's actually getting exciting. I feel like
there's so many things coming up. And one of the
things I'm looking forward to most is your Halloween party.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
We're having it next Friday. You say Halloween party, I've
literally only invited a handful of we I still think
that's a party when you're in your thirties. And I
have found the perfect pop culture costume.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
So you say.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Perfect pop culture. Everyone is coming. I don't want to
Taylor Swift. Everyone's Swift, but it's Taylor and Travis at Wimbledon.
It's basically Sophie rocking up in a nice dress and
then everyone be like, who is she meant to be?
It's a real token effort. It's not a token effort.
I have gone and sourced the red dress. I've got
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the sunglasses, I've got the jewelry. I'm thinking of buying
a clip in fringe. And then it's really Brandon who
is going to add to my costume because he is
going to be wearing that iconic Gucci outfit that Travis
wore with the bucket hat. And has he even got that? Yeah, Well,
we are currently going through his wardrobe and we're going
to be adjusting and adding a few of the red
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and green stripes. I'm going to make him a special
bucket hat. I think it's going to look really good.
I'm looking forward to it, and I'm really excited because
a few of our friends have surprise outfits, so I'm
one of those people. You're one of those people, and
it sounds like the outfits are going to be quite rogue.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The people who have the surprise outfits, they're going for
the laughs. Well, I certainly am. Yeah. My love of
the week is that I can no longer trust food
that is not in a package, and I know that
that is not environmentally food. I was at the supermarket
the other night and I witnessed a child pick up
a bunch of broccolini, put it in their mouth, suck
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on it, and then proceed to put it back in
the box, and it they missed because they were so sure,
and it ended up dropping on the ground, and the
person's parent came over and proceeded to pick it off
the ground and put it back in the box where
people were purchasing from. And I was horrified. And my
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partner pointed out to me, he said, why didn't you
remove it from the box so that no one else
end up buying it? And that you that's a very
good point. But I was almost frozen in disbelief at
I kept All I could think about was, Oh, my god,
what have I eaten from here in the past that
kids have put their hands and possibly mouths all over.
(28:21):
So this is your body to wash your vegetables? Yes,
I think that is important to what I get confused
because I keep seeing these tiktoks pop up and it's
people washing berries. They're going through all this stuff like
they're putting in all these different cleaning products or just
well just to get rid of all of the nasty
chemicals that are sprayed on them. Yeah, Sophy, I do
have an update for you, and this could add to
your high of the week. I have actually found the
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ingredients lists for pizza around us. Why would this be
my home because it does say that they contain pork
told you all right anyway, So just to save people
from writing in but you are wrong, Amy, do you
know what I'm actually gonna make for my TikTok? This
is a subtle plugged to go and follow my TikTok
which has like ninety seven followers. I'm gonna make my
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own pizza round us and not have any meat in them.
So for people who don't actually, Oh, Sophie and I
we grew up vegetarian. I do eat a bit of
chicken now, but I'm mainly vegios. I'm gonna fucking flogging
your TikTok amy at Amy Torbol. That is all we
have time for. On that note, thank you so much
for joining us. If you have enjoyed today's show, could
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you please make sure you are subscribed on Apple Podcasts
and also on Spotify. This episode was recorded on the
traditional land of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Planes.
We pay respect to elders past and present,
Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Sophie Tuba and I'm Amy Torber and coming up on
today's show, why Matt Zukowski savagely uninvited friends to his
upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembro, the Frozen Sandwich debate, dividing
the Internet, and our highs and lows of the week.
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But first, fitness influencer and entrepreneur Steph Claire Smith has
been forced to defend her decision to blur her son's
face on social media. Yeah so. Over the weekend, Steph
uploaded a video of her and her husband Josh Miller,
taking Harvey, who's three years old, to a monster truck show.
It was a really cute real but all I could
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focus on was Harvey's pixelated face. It almost looked like
he was on the news and he'd been accused of
a crime or in witness protection because it switched between
his whole face being pixelated or a large emoji. And
it was quite funny because at one moment and everything
disappeared and you could clearly see his face. I also
noticed the blur moved at one point to a man
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who was sitting behind them. I was like, why is
going on here? And as somebody who does video editing,
it actually takes a lot of time to pixelate people's
faces because you have to keep moving where the pixelation goes. Yeah,
definitely makes it more complicated. Now, this is, of course,
off the back of Steph announcing last week that going forward,
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she would no longer be sharing Harvey's face online, and
the decision was sparked by Harvey being recognized in the
street by strangers. So when he wasn't with Steph and Josh,
when he was in childcare or he was with his grandparents,
Rando's would come up to him and be like, hey, Harvey,
which would be so creepy. Well, last week we were
debating how Steph and Josh would navigate no longer including
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Harvey and their vision. I just assumed that she was
going to keep him off socials altogether, but no, they've
decided to go with the pixelation, which has elicited a
huge response from Steph's followers, and I think it's partly
because it's one of the first times that we've seen
a local influencer conceal their child's face in this way. Now.
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While some followers commended Steph's steps to protect her son's privacy,
the vast majority seemed very confused by this approach, particularly
those who had missed her updates about it. So one
follower tagged her friends under the post and said, oh
my god, Nah, that's it. I'm done. Blurred face has
done it for me, whilst another said it's literally three
(02:29):
years too late. All you have to do is go
back through her page. Are the three thousand photos and
videos of him. People know who she is, they know
who he is. Blurring his face won't make a difference,
not now now. One of Steph's followers jumped to her
defense and wrote back, it's all about consent, right. You
may have said yes to it before, but you have
every right to change your mind and people should respect
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that a yes before doesn't mean a yes every time.
And I tend to agree with this now. Steph was
really visibly upset and frustrated by the critic, and she
responded to the negativity by saying this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It absolutely baffles me how people feel like they can
absolutely chime in to your life and your choices. I
understand that there's photos and stuff of him up there
from the past. Intention was not to erase him completely
from the Internet. It was to avoid putting up anything
from now as he's growing into as he looks like
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a little boy. Whether or not you agree with what
we're doing that is totally up to you. But I'm
so sick of it. I'm so sick of people's judgment
on our decisions for our family. If it's not what
you would do, that's fine. I've been avoiding ping contact
of his face and that's been fine. That monster truck
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video was really special to me. It was really fun
outing as a family. I really wanted to be able
to share it as like the cutest reactions from Harvey
and we had the best time. And so the way
I talk to sharing that was blurring out his face.
That might not make sense to a lot of you
who has seen his face on social media before, but
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it's what we've decided to do. So maybe I'll just
go back to not putting him up much at all.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is a really hard one because I can see
both sides. I think that parenting in this digital age,
particularly when you have a large following like Steph, would
be really tough to navigate, and I truly think that
people do have the right to change their mind and
put boundaries in place to protect their children. However, I
can see why this elicited such a big response because
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it was really jarring and confusing to Steph's followers who
missed these original posts about it, and it just looked ridiculous.
But on Steph's comment about it was a really cute
video because of the way Harvey was reacting, we couldn't
see his reactions because his whole face was pixelated, And
that's the issue I think with this video is that
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there was no point in sharing it because the Picks
took away from this fun family day. It was so distracting.
I think, moving forward, if they don't want to share
Harvey online, which is one hundred percent fine, maybe choose
other content to share that doesn't involve him. The thing is,
because we've already had all of this access to his
life for three years. To someone who hasn't seen her updates,
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they're sort of like, oh my god, what has happened
to him? Why is he suddenly being blurred like you're
just comical? Didn't Yeah, the thing that's concerning is that
if suddenly every child's face is pixelated and blurred, or
mummy bloggers suddenly cut children out of their content, where
are we seeing real life parenting play out? Because for me,
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I don't have children yet, but I think it's really
worthwhile to see the realities of parenting and hear about
what it's like instead of being fed the highlight reel
all o the time, I have to see their face constantly.
I mean, there's also the other debate about, I suppose
the safety of the children and how much information is
being shared about them online. I understand that you don't
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want to totally eraise mother's and father's experiences, but is
it that necessary for us to see Harvey's reaction to
the monster trucks or could we just see that they're
on a family day out and here's the back of
his head, and Steph could explain what they'd gotten. Also,
because all we saw was her reaction, that's what yeah, yeah,
and that's what it seemed like she wanted to put
out there. I can also see why people are questioning
why she hasn't got rid of the other photos of
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Harvey in her feed. I mean, I'm not suggesting that
she has to go back and delete three years of content,
but you might remove the stuff from this year because
she said, oh, he's growing into a young boy, his
features are becoming more recognizable. We'll then go back and
delete the recent photos of him. That would make a
lot more sense. But maybe it's just a decision they've
(06:46):
made from this point forward. We've both agreed as parents
that we're not going to share his face anymore. Obviously
he's going to change over the next couple of years.
But it seems to me that they've just gone from
now on, we're doing it. Do you know What's funny? Though,
no one's having a crack at and saying, oh, he
better go and delete all of the photos of Harvey,
Like I hope he's not going to be making Harvey
baby chinos and have Harvey's face blurred as he drinks there.
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That's just the odd thing about it. I'm really interesting
to see how Steph navigates this. Now, will the blur continue?
I don't think it will. Do you know what? Seeing
that blur actually reminded me of when I used to
work it today tonight, and I used to feel so
bad for the editors because, as I said, It's quite
a lengthy task to actually blur someone's face because you
have to keep moving the blur. And I remember there
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was a story and this man's face had to be
blurred for legal reasons, and in one scene the editor
missed the blur. So this ten minute was like blur, blow, blur,
and then it just dropped off. Oh my god. I
do think it sends a strong message to her followers though,
because this has been covered in a lot of mainstream
media publications, that she's wanting to conceal his identity because
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people have been coming up to him. Now, when people
see Steph, Josh and Harvey on the street, they know
not to come up and say hello.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It's pretty savage, like that's red hot from you.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's a wedding.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Matt Szakowski says he was forced to uninvite guests from
his upcoming wedding to Tammy Hembro due to numbers being
too tight. Talking on his podcast alongside his co host
Anna mcavoyd, he revealed his mates were upset when he
cut their girlfriends from the list.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Are people asking for more plus ones?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Not really a couple? They know that the list is
really tight, Ye, Like I've leaned it up. I actually,
originally this sounds shit. Has invited a lot of my
mates girlfriends that I know and I've known for years.
And then I had to send him a message saying, hey,
I've had to lean up the list. They're not like
I have to uninvite, Like, sorry, dude, that's me. One
(08:48):
of my mates was pretty up mortified. Yeah, because but
we hadn't handed out the invitation yet.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Sorry, so you hadn't.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'd asked for names and addresses, full names, spelling of theirs.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
If they're and they just assumed their partners have been back.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So one of my mates is pretty savage, like, that's
red hot from me. It's wedding, It's the wedding of
the year, baby.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
How pissed off would you be if you were one
of these girlfriends. You'd probably been telling everybody you're going
to the wedding of the year, going to Tammy and Matt's,
only to find out last minute that you have been
bumped from the invite list, especially because this is a
destination wedding and all of Matt's friends and family are
in Melbourne. So as soon as you heard it was happening,
you would have jumped on booked flights, booked accommodation. I
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just think the thing that makes it worse is also
that Matt has clearly known his mate's girlfriends for years.
He said that these people are genuinely friends and he's
gotten to know them well. It'd be different if your
friend had a new girlfriend maybe you hadn't met. But
this is really brutal. I got the vibe from Matt's
grub that Tammy had asked him to un invite the
(09:55):
guests because maybe she hasn't met the girlfriends. I think
it's really different when you were bride and there are
restrictions on how many people you can invite. I know,
for me, I didn't really want people being at Dale
and My wedding who didn't know us very well. I
get that in a normal situation you want to invite
people that know you as a couple and have seen
you hang out as a couple before. But in their case,
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they literally got engaged after knowing each other for a
couple of months and then forged ahead with this very
fast wedding. So I'm sure there's a lot of people
at this wedding who haven't hung out with them as well.
I wonder if Tammy's had to uninvite her friends, like
her female friend. I doubt it. He's probably covering the bill.
That's the other thing I don't understand. I know some
people have to keep their guest lists really tight because
(10:41):
of budget constraints, but when you're worth fifty million dollars,
you think you can invite a couple of extra people
just to save the piece. But maybe it's a specific
venue that has restrictions as well. It's quite funny because
Dale has been in that situation before before I knew him,
and he was with his ex. He got invited to
a wedding, but the ex was told not to come,
and all of his friend's partners were also not invited,
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so it was just one big boy's table. That's just
asking for drug.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I actually thought, you know what, sometimes there's nothing worse
than going to a wedding where you don't really know
the people that well and they're not really your friends.
So I actually don't mind it. But it's clear that
he is friends with these people. It is totally offensive.
And what makes it even worse is that one of
the girlfriends who has now subsequently been uninvited. It's actually
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her birthday the weekend of the wedding, so she is
flying over to Byron Bay to basically sit in a
hotel room by herself. Well, let's be honest, she's probably
not gonna be by herself. All of the other jaded
girlfriends who got uninvited are probably gonna be up there
as well. That's what makes it even tougher though, because
if you're invited as a couple, you can split the
cost of the accommodation. But I mean, I suppose they
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could bunk in with other guys there, but it just
makes it more complicated. And I personally be pissed off
if my husband was going away and sending all of
this money to go to a wedding that I hadn't
been invited to. It's really cute because Matt also mentioned
on the podcast how he'd recently caught up with his
grandparents and thank goodness, they have not been uninvited. So
(12:11):
they went ahead and booked flights, but they went to
flight Centered and booked in with a travel agent to
get their flights and accommodations sorted. That is so cute
for interstate travel is absolutely darling that they did that,
and the grandma actually brought in her invite which had
all of the information on it, and apparently one of
the travel agents spotted it and was like, oh my god,
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is this for Matt and Tammy Hembro's wedding And she
was like, please don't say anything. You can't tell a
soul about it, and was really worried about it. I
wonder if this was after the whole Sofa dofa leaking incident.
What I want to know is if Matt's having to
uninvite all of his friend's girlfriends, how it held it
Sofa dofa Coppy an invite because I have never ever
(12:54):
seen her hang out with Tammy Hembro, which isn't to
say that they're not secretly friends behind the scenes, but
they don't even live in the same state. What doesn't
not add another level of disappointment for the girls who
were uninvited, because this place will be crawling with influence.
It's been the best people watching spots, and Matt has
actually experienced being uninvited to a wedding himself, which I
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think makes this even more of a dick move because
he knows how shit you feel when you're not included.
So a few years ago, when he was attending a
wedding with his ex in Geelong, he spent the whole
weekend sitting in a hotel room in a suit, waiting
to see if he got a call up. And Anna
said that it's so hypocritical of him now to do
the same thing to others, because he literally would not
(13:38):
stop going on about being not invited to this wedding. Now,
in tomorrow's subscriber episode, we're going to be talking more
about wedding invite etiquette and about a couple who actually
sent out You're not invited cards to family of friends
ahead of their wedding. Maybe they could have done this. Well,
that's just a huge slap in the face, isn't it.
And if you do want to listen to that episode,
(13:59):
don't forget to subscribe to Outspoken Plus.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I'm gonna pop this altogether and into the freezer.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This week, a Sunshine Coast content creator sparked a huge
debate in our Facebook group to freeze or not to
freeze sandwiches for kids lunchboxes? Now, Amy, this post went
off in our group. Can you bring us up to speed? Yeah? So,
Asia Easel who shares cooking videos and budgeting tips on
Instagram and TikTok, shared with her fifty nine thousand followers
(14:26):
on Instagram how she just got back into bulk prepping
her three sons sandwiches for their school lunchboxes. Let's have
a listen to what Asha said.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I'm trying to encourage you togs pack their own lunches
in the morning. If it means I just would make
chanveranges once every couple weeks, freeze it and they packed
the lunches, that would make my life so much easier.
Let's tell me why I took three full loads of
bread just make eight days worth of sandwiches for my boys.
Like I did not realize, Like this is how many
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sandwiches I make in eight days. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Her spreads of choice were veggimie and cheese honey and
also Ntella. Oh that's the winner there. Yeah, I wouldn't
mind a Natella sandwich when I was at school. And
I've got to say, eight sandwiches each for three boys,
that's a lot of food and requires a lot of
freezer space. Is it a sandwich a day?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Is this covering eight days of school? Lunchboxes. Yes, that's
exactly what it is. So the idea is that in
the morning, the kids grub out their sandwiches from the
freezer and buy lunchtime. These sandwiches are dishausted, perfect for lunchtime.
How soggy would that be? Though? I have never eaten
a frozen sandwich before, and I can imagine it would
(15:43):
be even more difficult to persuade a child to eat
a frozen, soggy sandwich. There was a lot of mixed
reaction in our Facebook group. So some people like you,
were disgusted at the thought of eating frozen sandwiches, and
the main concern, as you said, was that the sandwiches
would be so by the time they were defrosted. However,
there were a lot of group members pointing out that
(16:04):
because of the spreads she had chosen, they would not
be soggy by lunchtime. So Asia said she's specifically chosen
to tell her honey and also veggimie and cheese because
they're not It's all like you're putting a salad sandwich
in the freezer, it's gonna get gross, really good point,
or a tuna sandwich. A lot of members in our
Facebook group who were mums were saying that this is
(16:25):
something that they do all of the time. And because
when I first saw this, I thought, well, how long
does it take to make a sandwich in the morning?
Do you really need to freeze and a tell a sandwich. However,
I'm not a mum disclaimer, so when I have children
and I'm making the kids lunches, who knows I might
be fucking freezing everything over It is actually so refreshing
(16:48):
to see a mum sharing a realistic lunch box, because
as someone who's not even a parent myself, I get
enrage seeing these influencers sharing these fancy is it called
a bear toe box or whatever the other week and
it's like, oh, look at these different apartments and everything's homemade,
everything's made by scratch, and it's meeting all of my
(17:08):
child's nutritional needs. And it's like, I'm sorry, but when
you've got a life, a job, you're looking after a
busy household, probably most of the time because your husband's
not helping, when you have the time to be coming
up with these extravagant lunch boxes. And I think a
lot of mums are really loving Asia's content because it's relatable.
They're getting good tips on it, and it's budget friendly
(17:31):
because I creating one of those big Bento boxes would
be so expensive. But I like her content. I had
never heard of her before this sandwich debate. I went
and checked out her content. She's a Hillary Duff fan,
so she's high up there. My only thing is, I'm
going to be real. I hate the taste of frozen bread,
like I just don't know what is. It just has
a weird after taste to it. However, these kids are
(17:53):
being given to Tella sandwiches, So if I was a child,
I think I could put up with that taste in
order to get an a Tella sandwich lunch. Yeah, frozen
sandwiches just remind me of aeroplane food or I mean
even they seem to serve up very cold sandwiches in
nursing homes. I don't think a sandwich should ever be
in the fridge. Well, do you know what the worst
(18:13):
thing was? Remember when we were all at school, and
of course no one had the fancy Stanley cups. You
all had an ice drink bottle and it had a
tea towel around it with a rubber band, and often
that would sit on top of your lunch box, and
our mum would always pack us. It was like a
bread roll for lunch plane because I think we'd complain
about having soggy sandwiches. If there were salad, we'd have
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an apple for recess. But every time it would get
to lunch, because your drink bottle had been sitting on it,
it would inadvertently get soggy. And the worst thing is, yeah,
they're trying to stomach this bread roll, and there would
be kids chowing down on fucking dunk a use yogos
roll up Simber. I won't name names, but there was
this one girl who her mother. If they had Instagram,
(18:59):
like twenty years ago, oh, probably longer than that, twenty
five years ago, she would have been the one with
the perfect lunch box. I mean, I don't think it
was nutritional at all, but she literally had marble cake
every day, She'd have chocolate beats, slammed shoes on TikTok.
Everyone would abuse her for serving a chiwre well, they would,
but I remember she had the most envy lunch box
(19:20):
out of anyone. One of our friends used to bring
in a whole wheel of bree or cameon beer cheese, yeah,
and eat the whole thing at lunchtime. That's a great lunchbox.
Do you remember? This is so random, but one of
the news stations came down to our school when we
were in reception because they were doing a story about
junk food. Yeah, and I was in that yees report.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So our mom's a dental therapist and as I said,
she would only pack like fucking apple and too bread roll. Anyway,
so the cameraman's there filming at lunchtime and he pans
to Sophie. And in this shop that was aired everywhere
was Sophie opening one of our friends very sugary musley bars,
and you had a lot of explaining to do when
you got home to her. We were not allowed to
(20:04):
have muslee bars, and I was having to explain to
Mum that I was merely helping my friend open it
for her to remember ghost drop. Sorry, this is getting
really nice because we were the best. There was a
girl at school and was so terrible because I don't
think she had many friends, but she would try and
buy friends with these ghost drops, So I shouldn't love
but well, actually, recently we found out that one of
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our really good friends. I won't our best friend. Well, yes,
I hope she doesn't mind us telling the story. But
we found out that she got a lunch order every
day at school. She was living every child's dream. And
her mum is American. So she pointed out, well, that's
just normal for my mum, because in American schools, everyone
goes to school and gets lunch. But for us, we
(20:48):
got a lunch order like every term. It was every term,
and we would decorate the paper bag. We were that excited.
We draw cartoons on it. We'd say thank you to
the ladies working in the care I want to know
in our Facebook community how frequent your lunch orders were
and did every school around the country have pizza around us?
(21:10):
What else when you served up? I remember there were
Wienas like. I used to be so embarrassed. I worked
in the canteen and people be like, could I have
a Wiener please? Would it be like fruit balls slash puppies? Yeah?
What else? Well, they'd have macaroni and cheese cups for
lunch orders. I remember they would have the salads and
the teachers would always get it to have like a
boiled egg. I would order the salads because I wanted
(21:32):
to be like the teachers and they'd have they just
have like a pizza that was just in a box.
I don't know what that's so much pineapple on it. Yeah,
I used to love pizza around as at school, and
I went on a mission last year to see if
I could find the original ones they'd serve at the canteen.
They do still exist, but you literally have to do
a bulk order of around fifty of them to get
(21:53):
your hands on them. I've seen them at my local
Coals and Woolies. They look pretty similar. They don't have
vegetarian versions, though, which is what I want. Well, that
was a debate we just had off microphone. I think
I think they did have vegetarian they didn't. I think
the shit ones at the store have ham in it,
which is why I've never bought them. Can someone settle
(22:13):
this for us? Put in our Facebook community if they
had some sort of handy bacon in the See Sophie,
this is a picture of ones with hands I understand.
I used to order them at the canteen and cam
and we pick it out. Let's get into our highs
and lows of the week, and I want to start
with my low because it's pretty funny. So this last weekend,
(22:36):
I had my family and also Dale's family over for
an afternoon tea, and Dale's little nephew came over and
he's around twelve, and the poor thing, he had no
one to play with during this afternoon tea because everyone
was adults, so he was kind of just roaming around
the house trying to entertain himself. I was outside chatting
to all the other adults and Dale's nephew came running
(22:59):
out and in front of everyone, amy, why do you
own a penguin shaped dildo? And I just the conversation stopped.
Everyone's heads just looked at me. I said, what are
you talking about? He's like, you have a penguin shaped
dildo inside.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
What he was actually referring to is the porcelain penises
that we painted at Kate's Hen's party, which was almost
two years ago. And I told you that this does
not belong in your kitchen. So these are if you're
in Adelaide. We've got the plaster fun house and Sophie
and I collected these plaster penises for everyone to paint,
and I turned mine into a penguin at Kate's hen's party,
(23:39):
and it has been sitting on my kitchen bench. I
actually had a little hat on it, like your little
Mexican hat. You couldn't even really tell what it was anyway,
So we quickly catton onto what he's talking about, and
our mum, who was at the hen's party, goes, oh,
it's fine, sweetheart. We all have them, and everyone just
looks at her, like, what on earth it's fine, sweety
(23:59):
before all have large diodos in our home. Is quite
funny because our mum also has her porcelain penis still
on display in her kitchen, which she's quite conservative. I
thought she would have gotten rid of that. Mine was
living in my garage. That was until I moved house
when my in laws spotted it and it got a
bit awkward. I think that they should have been disposed
of straight after the hen's party. I think I'm gonna
(24:21):
have to share a photo of this penis online because
it looks very cute. That's why I haven't thrown it out.
It's really quite funny. The sweetest thing was one of
Dale's friends. Later in the evening, his son came around,
and he's five, and we were telling Dale's friend about
the incident. Anyway, He's like, bring it out and show
Arlo and see what he says. Anyway, we showed him
(24:43):
and go what do you think this is? And he goes,
it's a penguin that was very whole, so cute. Now,
what's your high of the week. My eye of the
week is probably a work one because we just attended
one of our clients' events and it was a banana split.
What would you call it?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well, they were attempting to beat the record in South
Australia of the most banana splits given away, so they
gave away over a thousand banana splits and so it's
quite incredible for banana days. So I was filming this
and my favorite part of the day was everyone was
literally dressed up in bright yellow and then seeing all
of the confused shoppers who had also worn yellow trying
(25:23):
to work out what was going on. Also, seeing you
chow down on a banana split at around ten thirty
am was pretty entertaining, going down quite nicely. Isn't that
such an old person? Dessert? Like, the majority of the
people lining up for these banana splits were elderly men
and elderly. They were like, well between fifties, like fifty plus,
I say fifty to seventy.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well you could tell who the Almond moms were because
there were all these older women that were like, no, no, no, no,
I'm not having anything. Oh they'd say, I'm just grabbing
this for my husband.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
My high of the week is that its events season.
I feel like it's actually getting exciting. I feel like
there's so many things coming up. And one of the
things I'm looking forward to most is your Halloween party.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
We're having it next Friday. You say Halloween party, I've
literally only invited a handful of we I still think
that's a party when you're in your thirties. And I
have found the perfect pop culture costume.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
So you say.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Perfect pop culture. Everyone is coming. I don't want to
Taylor Swift. Everyone's Swift, but it's Taylor and Travis at Wimbledon.
It's basically Sophie rocking up in a nice dress and
then everyone be like, who is she meant to be?
It's a real token effort. It's not a token effort.
I have gone and sourced the red dress. I've got
(26:36):
the sunglasses, I've got the jewelry. I'm thinking of buying
a clip in fringe. And then it's really Brandon who
is going to add to my costume because he is
going to be wearing that iconic Gucci outfit that Travis
wore with the bucket hat. And has he even got that? Yeah, Well,
we are currently going through his wardrobe and we're going
to be adjusting and adding a few of the red
(26:56):
and green stripes. I'm going to make him a special
bucket hat. I think it's going to look really good.
I'm looking forward to it, and I'm really excited because
a few of our friends have surprise outfits, so I'm
one of those people. You're one of those people, and
it sounds like the outfits are going to be quite rogue.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The people who have the surprise outfits, they're going for
the laughs. Well, I certainly am. Yeah. My love of
the week is that I can no longer trust food
that is not in a package, and I know that
that is not environmentally food. I was at the supermarket
the other night and I witnessed a child pick up
a bunch of broccolini, put it in their mouth, suck
(27:35):
on it, and then proceed to put it back in
the box, and it they missed because they were so sure,
and it ended up dropping on the ground, and the
person's parent came over and proceeded to pick it off
the ground and put it back in the box where
people were purchasing from. And I was horrified. And my
(27:58):
partner pointed out to me, he said, why didn't you
remove it from the box so that no one else
end up buying it? And that you that's a very
good point. But I was almost frozen in disbelief at
I kept All I could think about was, Oh, my god,
what have I eaten from here in the past that
kids have put their hands and possibly mouths all over.
(28:21):
So this is your body to wash your vegetables? Yes,
I think that is important to what I get confused
because I keep seeing these tiktoks pop up and it's
people washing berries. They're going through all this stuff like
they're putting in all these different cleaning products or just
well just to get rid of all of the nasty
chemicals that are sprayed on them. Yeah, Sophy, I do
have an update for you, and this could add to
your high of the week. I have actually found the
(28:43):
ingredients lists for pizza around us. Why would this be
my home because it does say that they contain pork
told you all right anyway, So just to save people
from writing in but you are wrong, Amy, do you
know what I'm actually gonna make for my TikTok? This
is a subtle plugged to go and follow my TikTok
which has like ninety seven followers. I'm gonna make my
(29:04):
own pizza round us and not have any meat in them.
So for people who don't actually, Oh, Sophie and I
we grew up vegetarian. I do eat a bit of
chicken now, but I'm mainly vegios. I'm gonna fucking flogging
your TikTok amy at Amy Torbol. That is all we
have time for. On that note, thank you so much
for joining us. If you have enjoyed today's show, could
(29:25):
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and also on Spotify. This episode was recorded on the
traditional land of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Planes.
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