The ‘Roommate Phase’ - Are You Resting or Rotting?
6/2/202647 min
Hey Lifers!
We kick off this week with Britt calling in from Italy (hungover, again 👀) and why it took us YEARS to stop performing on camera and actually just be ourselves with our naturally low voices.
Laura had a suspicious parcel arrive at her front door. It was full of syringes, tiny vials, and one very tanned man who came to collect it. We speak about the world of Melanotan, carrot maxing, and the very real question of whether eating 20 carrots a day will make you glow.
The roommate phase
Is your relationship resting or rotting? There's a big difference, and we break it all down from the red flags that say you're rotting to why the roommate phase is actually really common, and sometimes even kind of… nice? We chat about the trenches of parenthood, feeling a little flat in your relationship and finding novelty. Keeshia opens up about where she's at in her relationship and why she's genuinely embracing the rest.
We wrap up with sucks and sweets; Britt is a year into marriage and almost forgot her anniversary, Laura's baby Poppy is pulling herself up on everything and immediately face-planting, and Laura's heading to India with her sister.
TIMESTAMPS
- 0:00 — Britt's calling from Italy, hungover (again)
- 2:00 — 7 years of podcasting and our voices have completely changed
- 7:40 — The mysterious package
- 14:00 — What IS carrotmaxxing?
- 17:20 — The roommate phase: is your relationship resting or rotting?
- 19:30 — Having kids and the relationship shift — does it have to be negative?
- 22:30 — How to tell if you're just in a lull vs. something more serious is happening
- 30:00 — Keeshia opens up: she's embracing the roommate phase
- 35:20 — Resting vs rotting and what the real line is between the two
- 43:00 — Suck and Sweet
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First 90 secondsBrittany Hockley· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hi, guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany, and I just wanna confirm I have pressed record on all of my equipment. We're both recording. We've got the camera. We've got the laptop. I've got the machine. I'm good to go. I'm really proud of you, because if you guys listened to last week's Wednesday episode, we had nothing but tech issues, and then this week Brit arrived and she said, "I'm actually a bit hungover again," which I think- [laughs] ... just completely shocking for the multiple reasons. [laughs] One, because you don't drink, and two, because it's a school/work night again. Do you know, but I think- But here we are ... I think those things play into each other, Laure. I think I get more hungover because I don't drink. It's like I'm not a frequent drinker, so when I do, it just hits me. And the problem is, I don't think the problem is that I've had drinks on a school night. Hey-o. [laughs] The problem is that we get up and record at now, like 6:00 AM. Laura's like, "Can we bring it back early a little bit? I need to go," and I was like, "Yeah, absolutely. No worries," and then at midnight last night- It's 4:30 AM ... I was like, "I," [laughs] I was like, "I deeply regret what I said to Laura." I was like, "I deeply regret that I have to work tomorrow." But it, it's fine. It's Italy. It's what we do. I just wanna preface this. I don't just get wasted on a school night alone. I did have a- Do you sound hungover? [laughs] Do I? Do I? "I don't just get wasted." [laughs] I put the blackout blinds down. [laughs] I just sit in a dark room and drink away my worries. [laughs] No, I, my friend was... I told you guys that my friend