Don’t Go To Uni, Baby Doll Dresses & The World’s Coolest Wedding Hat
6/1/20261 hr
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First 90 secondsHolly Wainwright· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Mamamia Out Loud. It's what women are talking about on Monday, the 1st of June, the first day of winter.
Claire Stephens· Host0:09
Oh.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:10
I am Holly Wainwright. And Out Louders, we need to give you an enormous thank you.
Claire Stephens· Host0:16
We do.
Amelia Lester· Host0:17
Yes.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:17
Because we were nominated in the People's Choice category for the Australian Audio Awards, and we asked you, we came to you and we said, "Will you vote for us, please? Will you tell people that you love your show?"
Amelia Lester· Host0:29
Please navigate the very confusing form.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:32
Yeah.
Claire Stephens· Host0:32
Yeah.
Amelia Lester· Host0:32
Scroll down and vote for us.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:33
Download a thing. Exactly. Scroll, cl- click link and- No one has time to scroll, click link.
Claire Stephens· Host0:39
No.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:39
No.
Amelia Lester· Host0:39
But they did it for us.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:40
They did, and we won.
Claire Stephens· Host0:41
We- You are listening to the most popular podcast [laughs] in Australia ... in all of Australia. [laughs] Which is bloody huge. And, I mean- It's- It's a big country ... yeah, it's a big country.
Amelia Lester· Host0:54
There's a lot of podcasts.
Claire Stephens· Host0:55
And the things- Thank you for scrolling ... the things we will do with that accolade, we've already talked about updating our bios.
Holly Wainwright· Host1:00
Oh, yeah.
Claire Stephens· Host1:01
Like, whether we update an Instagram bio- You're about to see it on this shelf ... our professional bios. Yeah [laughs] And it will, it won't move. Yeah.
Holly Wainwright· Host1:06
[laughs] Like, in fact, maybe we'll just move it so it's in every shot. Um, in classic Out Loud fashion, the award is not here- [laughs] ... for us to show to you today. So, um, our group EP boss lady of content things took it home.
Amelia Lester· Host1:20
Mm.
Holly Wainwright· Host1:21
And, uh, she's not here today. So it's in an Uber. So what we're hoping- Is she ever going to come back? [laughs] Well, that's true. She mightn't. She might have gone home specifically to hide it.