Britt's Finally in Italy! Laura's Brutal Report Cards & When Is a Woman Allowed to Move On?
4/21/202659 min
Hey Lifers!
Britt has officially landed in Italy with a one way ticket! She's back with her husband after nearly four months apart and we are a cross-continental podcast once again.
But before she left, something scary happened. On the last day of filming MAFS After The Dinner Party, Britt completely lost track of what year it was. Her neurologist says it's a new type of migraine symptom.
Laura meanwhile survived a truly feral Sunday with the kids, and then found something in a memory box from her mum that explained a lot; her old school report cards. A five year old Laura's year one teacher wrote that her "incessant talking is annoying" and her "incessant fidgeting distresses others." We get into what that means for a kid who probably just needed support, the difference between how schools talked about kids then vs. now, and Laura's secret coping mechanism she's never fully explained before.
We also had a one hour Uber ride with a man who hunts Yowies, Australia's answer to Bigfoot, and believes one tried to save him from alien abduction.
Then we talk about Aubrey Plaza, who recently announced she's pregnant with her new partner less than a year after her ex-husband died by suicide. The internet has had a lot to say, and we unpack why:
- Why she was always going to lose no matter what she did
- The biological reality of being a 41-year-old woman
- The Victorian widow — the actual rulebook women were held to for 150 years, and how little has changed
- Whether men in the same situation would be judged the same way
- Why grief and happiness are not mutually exclusive
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First 90 secondsLaura Byrne· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hi, guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:13
And I'm Brittany in Italy.
Laura Byrne· Host0:15
[laughs] Ciao. Ciao, ciao, ciao, bonjour. No, that's French. [laughs] [laughs] Ciao, ciao bella, croissant.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:23
Bonjour. Whatever, whatever works for you, Laura.
Laura Byrne· Host0:25
Sorry. Why did I just go French then? The worst French of all.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:28
Well, look, not everyone can speak Italian as well as me.
Laura Byrne· Host0:32
[laughs] Ugh, I hate myself. Anyways, aren't you Italian, Laura?
Brittany Hockley· Host0:35
Yes. [laughs] Okay, yes, I am. [laughs] Yes. My grandfather was born there. And I said bonjour. [laughs] And I wanna press stop record and start again. Anyway, here we are.
Laura Byrne· Host0:46
Well, bonjour, Laura.
Brittany Hockley· Host0:48
B- bonjour. [laughs] You have spent the last couple of days getting over to Italy, and I have spent the last couple of days in Ulladulla with my children screaming at me. Screaming at me. It has been intense. So I would much prefer to hear about your life.
Laura Byrne· Host1:01
What I do wanna start by saying is we have put in so much work and bought so many things like cords and new cameras and technology and this new RODECaster podcasting machine. We bought so much stuff to make sure that when I got here these records would be [laughs] absolutely seamless. And Keisha and I did a test last night. I set up my makeshift studio. I'm gonna probably put a photo up of how chaotic this is. But we set up the studio, and everything was perfect. The camera footage was perfect. It was downloading.