Life Uncut

Hey Lifers!
Britt is living her best life in Italy so it's Laura and Keeshia holding down the fort for this one. Laura gives us a little update on her first weekend away without the kids; two whole nights, dinner at 6:30pm with a seven minute door-to-car turnaround, and it’s pure bliss. She's also heading to India tomorrow at 5am for a ten day work trip and we get a bit of the BTS of what’s in store for the trip.
Keeshia is in one of those ‘scattered’ phases where she keeps doing stupid things that frustrate her, the people around her and also can be quite expensive ‘accidents’.
We share your worst roommate stories and they are some of the most unhinged messages we’ve ever read. Some are disgusting, some are absolutely deranged, and one involves a Tinder date being called to fix a blocked toilet.
A self-described comedian posted a video that racked up nearly two million views, cost her a job, and ignited a national conversation about race, satire, and what Australians are and aren't allowed to say; and she has not apologised to a single person. We question if "it's just a joke" can protect you legally in Australia? What are your actual rights as an employer when a staff member's public views trash your company values? And what does it say about us as a society that there's now a $46k crowdfund in her name?
“Optimisation culture has made us all miserable.” Stephen Bartlett said that three glasses of wine ruined his life for three days. We ask whether we've all been so busy tracking our bio stats that we forgot to actually have fun. We chat sleep scores, going alcohol free, nonna maxxing, friction maxxing (more maxxings, we know, we know, we’re all over them) and adding ‘whimsy’ into your life in 2026.
Don't forget to slide into our DMs @lifeuncutpodcast with your questions or any remaining unhinged roommate stories we didn't get to.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — Intro
1:45 — What's dropping over the break
3:00 — Laura's heading to India tomorrow — ten days, three kids left behind, 5am flight
8:12 — Keeshia's been having a scatterbrained week
14:36 — Laura's first ever kid-free weekend away
18:26 — Your worst roommate stories
31:32 — Lisa Jane Spencer: the viral racist skit, the firing and the $46k crowdfund
45:30 — Optimisation culture
46:50 — Stephen Bartlett had three glasses of wine and it "ruined his life"
1:01:10 — Sucks & Sweets!
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Hosted by Laura Byrne & Keeshia Pettit
Produced by Keeshia Pettit
Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley
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Welcome back to Ask Uncut where we answer your deepest, darkest and most burning questions!
Big news this week: this is Britt's last episode before she heads off on a month-long holiday through Europe with Ben. Laura and Keeshia will hold down the fort next week and no, they are not wheeling in the big box TV like a substitute teacher. Fresh new content is dropping throughout, so don't go anywhere.
Vibes of the week:
Britt 📺 Worst Ex Ever on Netflix
Keeshia 🩲 Aunt Flow period underwear
Laura 🧳 Cubey Packing Cubes by Holly Kingston and Jimmy Nicholson
Then it's into your questions!
Q1: MY MOTHER-IN-LAW IS POSTING PHOTOS WITH MY HUSBAND'S EX-WIFE ALL OVER FACEBOOK
They've been together ten years. He was married before and, from what he's told her, his mum and his ex-wife didn't get along. Then out of nowhere: three separate Facebook posts of the mother-in-law at brunch with the ex-wife. Her friends think it's a deliberate dig. Her husband won't say anything because he hates conflict.
Q2: MY FRIEND IS PREGNANT AND I KNOW IT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT
Her friend has had an on-and-off friends-with-benefits situation for years with a guy most of their group doesn't approve of. Now she's pregnant. The problem: just weeks earlier, the friend had told her she was thinking about not taking the morning after pill and that "if there was anyone to have an accident with, it was him." She doesn't know how to show up, can't pretend to believe it was a surprise, and doesn't know whether to say anything.
Q3: SHE CHEATED. NOW HE'S USING IT AS AN EXCUSE TO BARELY COME HOME OR BE A DAD
A six month old baby, both on six-figure salaries, and the husband has decided to take a career change that means he'll only be home once or twice a month. When she raised concerns, he turned it back on her and accused her of not wanting to take responsibility for their child. The reason he's doing this? She cheated on him.
Q4: MY EX LEFT ME FOUR MONTHS INTO OUR MARRIAGE FOR THE LOCAL BARMAID. NOW HE WANTS ME BACK.
Five years together, two kids, four months into marriage - and he left. It's been two years of courts, separation and his bad behaviour (which he now admits was jealousy over her new partner). He's begging to come back. She still loves him. She misses the family unit. Her little boys keep asking for Mummy and Daddy to live together again. She's now in a new relationship with a man who is wonderful to her kids. She doesn't know what to do.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
2:08 - Vibes
9:40 - Q1: My mother-in-law posted photos with my husband's ex-wife all over Facebook
17:10 - Q2: My friend is pregnant and I know it wasn't an accident
25:50 - Q3: She cheated. He's now barely coming home and barely being a dad.
34:00 - Q4: He left me for the barmaid four months into our marriage. Now he wants me back.

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Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne
Produced by Keeshia Pettit
Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley
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Hey Lifers! Welcome to your little weekend snack!
We kick things off with Laura's post-baby-number-three return to exercise, specifically, an aggressive 8.5km power walk that has left her pelvis in absolute ruins. We also cover the lengths we've gone to impress men in our past lives: spearfishing, drones, the works.
Then we get into it:
Clavicular is… ‘penismaxxing’.
The "high value woman doesn't accept coffee dates" TikTok trend
Young Australians are collectively wasting $2 billion a year on skincare they buy and never finish.
A woman in America has been arrested for posing as a real estate agent to film luxury $12–13 million Bel-Air mansions for her Instagram.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — Intro
0:56 — Laura's post-baby 8.5km walk broke her pelvis
6:19 — Clavicular is penis maxxing
13:56 — Matthew Hussey on the "high value woman doesn't accept coffee dates" trend
21:45 — Australians waste $2 billion a year on skincare they never finish
27:27 — Woman arrested for posing as a real estate agent to film Bel-Air mansions for Instagram
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Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne
Produced by Keeshia Pettit
Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley
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Today’s episode is with one of our very favourite Bach alums Tara Pavlovic. Tara was on Laura's season of The Bachelor back in 2017, and despite the slightly unusual premise of competing for the same man, she's one of the people Laura has genuinely stayed close with ever since.
Tara is currently going through a separation. Not in the past tense, not with the benefit of two years of hindsight. She’s currently in the thick of it, while co-parenting two young kids and figuring out what life looks like on the other side. And she wanted to come and talk about it, because she knows there are women out there sitting exactly where she was sitting a few months ago, wondering if it's okay to make the decision to leave.
We chat:
The post-Bachelor world: fake attention, disingenuous people, and why it made trusting anyone so hard
Years of couples counselling, trying everything, and the moment the penny finally dropped
What it physically felt like in her body when the relationship was no longer working
Why "staying for the kids" isn't always the best thing
Separation and equal parenting
The judgment that comes when you're the one who leaves
Discovering she can kill spiders, mow lawns, and do everything she thought she needed someone else for
"Do I believe in love anymore? Absolutely not" and what she actually means
Life now: calm, present, peaceful, and genuinely happy
Tara also teases an upcoming podcast she's launching with Bachelor alum David Lloyd! Watch this space.
You can follow Tara on Instagram

Timestamps
0:00 — Introducing our sister wife: Tara Pavlovic
9:45 — Tara's love of kids, starting in childcare at 18, and becoming a mum
11:10 — What the post-Bachelor world was really like
16:00 — Dating again after BiP and why she went back to someone she already knew and trusted
17:15 — Getting into the separation: years of trying, couples counselling, and going quiet
19:45 — The cruise that changed everything — feeling peace for the first time in years
22:20 — How couples counselling helped, and when the counsellor finally said "staying for the kids isn't enough"
24:55 — Why staying together isn't always the answer for kids
28:25 — Did she feel guilty? Honestly, no — here's why
29:00 — The mental load she didn't know she was carrying
33:15 — Navigating what to share (and not share) on social media during a separation
37:30 — The surprising things: friendships shifting, being seen as the one who "broke the family"
38:30 — All the things she's discovered she can do by herself: spiders, lawns, everything
47:00 — Dating with kids: what she would and wouldn't introduce into her children's lives
46:45 — "I'm living the fairytale right now"
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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
You can watch us on Youtube
Find us on Instagram
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Or join the Facebook Discussion Group
Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne
Produced by Keeshia Pettit
Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley
Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! Xx
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