Rachael Finch hits back at critics after running video goes viral. Skye Wheatley is scammed by a Thai eye clinic. Sarah’s Day’s surprising admission… AND a cafe is slammed for its secret charges.
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Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm Sophie Torbert and coming up on today's show, Rachel Finch hits back at critics after running video goes viral. Sky Wheatley is scammed by a tight eye clinic, Sarah's Day's surprising admission, and a cafe is slammed for its secret charges. But first, gold COO's influencer, Georgia Richards, has sparked debate by revealing she prefers flat soft drink. I feel like this is really criminal to a lot of people, but I've been keeping my Pepsi Max in the fridge with no little on so that it goes flat quickly because I love flat soft drink.
I look you for they got psycho behavior, but can't change who I am.
I've never heard anyone do this before. I always thought that once the soft drink goes flat, you throw it out. Yeah, because the whole point of soft drink is it's supposed to be bubbly in light and refreshing.
And I think that when soft drink is flat, it tastes all gross and sea Europe it's like a different drink. Have you guys seen all of.
Those people on TikTok in America who adds some kind of sashet to their diet coke. Yeah, and they talk about the diet coke being crispy, and I know exactly what they mean, and there is a certain art to it. So you have to have the diet coke not to the point that it's frozen, but very very cold. And then you also have to have pellet ice with it. And yeah, there's like this sachet of lime juice that you can put in there. And there definitely is a difference between a good diet coke and a bad one. I hate drinking soft drink out of a can, like I must have it in a glass with ice.
But back to flat PEPSI maybe it's so you can drink more of it, or that you don't blow after you have it.
Personally, I think that any sort of flat soft drink it almost makes me feel like I can taste the chemicals in it.
Just have cordial if you want something flat. Do you know what the worst is? Though?
Post mix, any sort of post mixed drink, Because if I get a post mixed coconut sugar from McDonald's.
For some reason. This is TMI, but it makes me constantly.
See I don't usually like post mix, but I do like a McDonald's coconut sugar. I think post mix is different at McDonald's compared to a restaurant. That's when it tastes like She doesn't make you need to we constantly when it's post me. I think it's any diet soft drink does that to me. The air go Gyt guy Rachel Finch has hit back at critics after vision of her screaming and running behind her daughter went viral. The former Miss Universe contender has defended her actions, claiming she was merely trying to motivate her child. Now, for those who missed it, last week, we discussed how Rachel's behavior an eight year old daughter's school cross country race had sparked debate. To give a context, Rachel said this about the race.
Across country time. Oh my gosh, I think I'm I'm more nervous than VI. I'm running to the first checkpoint. I'm about to throw off. I'm gonna get all these feelings back when.
I used to do it.
She then shared shaky vision herself running behind her daughter, screaming encouragement in a clip she named crazy Cam.
Okay, here we go for second downhill, sucking the air, Suck in the air. Goy goye guy, what's sucked?
That's it?
Violet, well done.
Now, as we usually do, we created a promo clip based on the Rachel topic and shared it on Instagram. Now that reel ended up getting over fifty thousand views and attracted a lot of commentary. Rachel's friend and former MKR contestant, Ashpollard wasn't happy with the real and tagged Rachel in it. She accused us of being mean and cruel and demanded that we removed this pathetic opinion piece before we destroyed a well meaning human's day. Ironic that she tagged her friend in it to ruin her day. Yeah, that's I didn't get, because she's like, you better take this down before it ruins Rachel's day, but tagged her in it. She then proceeded to private message us saying that it was pathetic material and that we weren't impacting the world in a positive way whatsoever. Now presumably this caused Rachel to hit back, so she jumped on her Instagram story and said this just a.
Quick message to anyone else wanting to criticize or personally attack me for wanting to support, encourage, and motivate my child to do the very best that she can do a couple of things. Just one check your facts, and two check back in eight or so years when Violet is an adult to see the progress.
Since then, Rachel has blocked Outspoken and our personal Instagram accounts from being able to view her account.
Quite a reaction.
I was quite taken it back by Rachel's comment telling people to check back in eight years time when Violet's an adult, because firstly, if we're fact checking, Violet will be sixteen then, so still not an adult. And secondly, if anything, that comment has proven just how much unnecessary pressure she is placing on Violet. She's eight years old, who knows if she still will be competing in cross country in eight years time. Yeah, it's also a strange way to defend yourself because there are many parents of sporting legends out there that conducted themselves in terrible manners to help their kids achieve success. So think Andre agacy. It doesn't mean it's the correct way to act just because they then achieved success as an adult. Also, our issue wasn't with her screaming encouragement at her child. It was the fact that she was actually physically running around the track after her, which was potentially putting off other children in the race. Yeah, she interfered with the race. And funnily enough, since the story went viral, people claiming to be parents of children at Violet School have come out of the woodwork. One woman alleged that Rachel's behavior impacted her own daughter's performance. She wrote, my daughter was running directly behind her. She was too intimidated to overtake due to the mum yelling and getting in the way. Unfortunately for Rachel, her commentary seems to have just drawn more attention to the story because it has been picked up by some pretty large media publications, including Sunrise, The Daily Telegraph, Sky News, the Daily Mail, and Pedestrian. I did find Sunris's coverage very interesting because they ended up sharing this edited version of the clip of Rachel running behind her daughter, and they cut certain bits out that made Rachel look like she was yelling, and they also didn't include the clip of Rachel saying how nervous she was before the race, So I don't feel like they set it up correctly. And it appears that they were moderating comments on their social media too, And because I had a look at them and I compared them to other media publications, and on the other media publications comment section, all of the comments were negative, but then on Sunrises all of them were positive and saying what a great mum she was and being negative towards us.
Yeah.
Well, it's interesting when you consider that Rachel previously worked as a weather presenter on Sunrise and Amy you sued the network so ironic.
I mean, the whole thing was misleading though.
The fact that they edited the bits that they clearly deemed to prove what we were saying out of the cliffs just speaks volumes. Also the headline that they ran with when they put screaming in inverted commas and it's like, well, in our commentary we said she was screaming motivation, and a lot of parents were in the commentary saying there's nothing wrong with screaming motivation. It's like, as you said, Amy, issue was not with the motivational talk. It was with running behind her daughter, putting pressure on her and also interfering with the overall school race, but it was clear that Sunrise were trying to paint a different, a completely different picture, And I think that they were trying to relate to those parents who think that some school communities have gone too woke, not allowing kids to get first prize or second prize.
That's not what the story was about.
And having previously worked in the media, you obviously have different contacts working in different publications. Whether Rachel reached out to Sunrise and said, hey, can you help me out a bit? I need a bit of pitive publicy around this, because most of the commentary, probably ninety nine percent of it was saying that she had done the wrong thing by running after a daughter on the track.
I do understand it must.
Be difficult for Rachel to hear people talking about her parenting techniques. But if you are going to be sharing that type of content online, surely you're going to assume that people are going to talk about it, especially when it's such controversial behavior.
Yeah, and it's not the first time.
I mean, in our original segment we spoke about how she had been criticized for feeding her kids a very ultra healthy diet, and in that instance, we actually stuck up for her and said we don't really see anything wrong with that. Again, though she chose to share that content, she captioned it crazy cam herself. I don't know what she thought she was doing by putting that out there. And again, I think that people were particularly critical because they felt as though her behavior was detrimental and impacting other students at the school, not just her own daughter. And I think there were question marks around whether a parent who wasn't a celebrity would have been able to act like that. I would love to know the conversations going on at that school, because now that it has attracted widespread media attention, it almost feels like the school needs to come out and commit I mean, I'm guessing that it's an elite private school, and yes, I think that a lot of questions will be asked why a parent was allowed to run the race and impact the other students in that way. They will not be coming out and publicly commenting about this. However, I would love to be a fly on the wall of the staff room that's just.
Going balls tick. Yeah, disclaimer, I'm not proud of this moment.
Sky Wheatley has revealed she's been scammed by a time medical clinic she found on TikTok. The winner of I'm a Celeb was so deaf to get rid of a benign eye condition that she purchased eye drops from doctor jam Medicine.
Now.
After using the eye drops consistently for five months without any results, she asked her followers if they thought she'd been scammed. I just find it crazy that she used the eye drops for five months. That made me feel really ill when I heard that, because I'm like, what damage has been done? Well? Also the fact that she is taking medical advice from TikTok. Yeah, that is I suppose the scariest part of this whole story.
Now.
To help solve the case, Sky provided receipts, including a message thread between her and doctor jam Now. In the messages, Sky demanded the doctor send her videos of inside the medical center and a machine that they had been talking about. So I'm guessing this is a machine they said would help with her eye condition. The doctor refused, saying that there were no videos and the doctors were busy treating patients. So Ski replied saying, I'm sure they would send some for me. I spent that much money I'm a loyal customer. She also shared a very dodgy looking review and added, haha the review fucking hell, I'm such a dumb bish. She also said that she tried to call the clinic but no one answered. Sky also shared screenshots from the clinic's TikTok. So I have had a look, and not to victim blame, but I cannot believe that she purchased from this TikTok. It just looked like a complete scam. Why didn't she just visit her local GP or get a referral to an eye clinic.
Well, this is the whole issue.
So she has got an eye specialist in Australia and she has spoken about this eye condition that she suffers from for quite a while. So it's called pindicular and it is characterized by a harmless yellowish raised growth in the white part of the eye and it can cause eye redness and irritation and dry eyes.
So it doesn't sound very.
Nice and the exact cause is unknown, but it is believed to be caused by exposure to sun, wind and dust. It's also been linked to the use of tanning beds, which is quite ironic considering that Sky has been criticized for.
U tanning beds in the past. Wow, that's scary.
Do I think this is just a sign of the time though, in terms of everyone is now using TikTok as a search engine, a bit like how people would use doctor Google. Yeah, but I'm surprised in this case because, as you said, Kate, not to victim blame, but this TikTok account didn't look very legit. It does have thirty nine thousand followers, and there is one video that has over one point seven million views, but the majority of the content is entire so I don't know how she could understand the content. But when you're desperate for a solution, she's been told by her specialist, really, there's nothing else we can do for you, apart from if you want to have surgery. You know, they've told her it's not actually bad enough to have the surgery.
So surgery is.
Only recommended when it potentially could be a cancerous growth and they're worried about that. But it sounds very full on the surgery that you need to have, like the growth is removed and it has to be replaced by bits of eye. Like it just sounded so gross. But The thing is, if something sounds too good to be true, quite often it is. Because I tried to click on the website to find out how much these eye drops cost, but it took me to some weird link, and I was worried that I was going to get a virus on my phone. But then I found a video that is converted into English, and it claimed that the eye drops will cure the condition that Sky suffers from in a matter of days without surgery. So that does seem quite unbelievable. I just hope that whatever she's been putting in her eyes is just a clear solution or something that it's not actually hasn't made it worse. Yeah, that it's just vizine or something. One of her followers did ask her why she would purchase a medical product from Thailand, and she replied, because it's making me sad and I focus on it a lot, and I just want healthy looking eyes. I was hopeful, loll but I kind of thought it was a scam. But the eye drops actually came. I was like, oh, maybe it's legit, But I've also been using them for five months and no change. I mean my eyes were less inflamed haha. But no change. It's really sad that people prey on people's vulnerability, because in this instance, she's obviously so desperate to fix this condition that she's willing to try some random eye drops that she already thinks possibly are a scam. Yeah, but I thought she might have been more savvy after the whole botched Thai breast implant issue, because she's been very vocal about that around is.
It around ten years ago?
Now?
She did have her breast implants done in Thailand and she has had so many medical issues off the back of it and had to get them fixed in Australia. Well, I think it's just a warning for everyone not to buy any medicine off TikTok.
Yeah.
Well I am a little bit concerned because Sky did put up another Q and a box asking if castor oil helped with her eye condition.
Just don't put random shit in your eyes.
Yeah, I think she needs to go back to a specialist, Dollie.
I'm not the only one.
I feel like most families have certain items in their household that they would like call them names that they're not.
Sarah's Day has admitted she didn't know the names of some household items until she was in her twenties. The fitness influencer confessed that her family made up new names for everyday items, which led to confusion in her adult years.
Starting off strong with toasted sandwich, I didn't call it a toasted sandwich. For the first twenty years of my life, all my friends called them jaffles. I was like, what the heck is jaffel? I thought they were talking about jaffers, like those lollies, like the chocolate lollies. My family called it brevels, like the brand of the sandwich press, like I thought they were called brebels, and I would honestly go to cafes and order brevels.
It's so funny because our family did the exact same thing.
We had so many made up names for just everyday household things. And it wasn't until I was quite old until Brandon paid me out and said, what.
Are you talking about?
Oh.
I couldn't believe when she said brevel because that's what our family have always called toasties, and I've never heard anyone else say it before. I find it funny that there are so many different terms for toasty, like toasty is such a simple way of explaining a toasted sandwich, but it seems like everyone has grown up with a different one, Like Rhese's family used to call them toasty toasties. I know Dale and his friend's debate whether it's a toasty roasty or a toasty pasty. Toasty roasty sounds delicious, but I feel like it should have some other like that doesn't just have cheese.
I feel like they would have potato a bit.
Yeah, that's because there's two different types of toasted sandwiches. So there's toasties or jaffles. So jaffles are made in a special jaffle maker and they have special grooves to create a pattern on the bread, and there's a clamp and it seals the edges. In a jaffle, you could have things like can spaghetti because it's not going to fall out the edges. But with a toasty, it's a flat iron, so you can do it on a pan or it's just a flat toasty is more of a traditional basic sandwich. I prefer a toasty really wow. I much prefer a jaffle. We grew up with jaffles. You know what Dale makes Sometimes in the jaffle maker, he will do two minute noodles with baked beans and cheese well all together.
Yeah, that is disgusting. Do you want to argue for the use of the word brevel.
I would like to know how many listeners also referred to toasties as brebels growing up, because when Brebels came out in nineteen seventy four, their whole marketing was around, let's cool this a brevel Like.
It was great brand.
Awareness because they had ads saying this is a brevel, this isn't.
A toasty or a jaffle.
Yeah, but as my husband said, it's not as if you call toasties sunbeams, and I'm sure sun Beams also have jaffle maker. It is a great marketing technique because we're still talking about it, what thirty years on? God, does anyone else feel like a toasty at the moment?
Yeah?
My go to one is baked beans, cheese and a little bit of chili flakes. I haven't had baked beans and a toasty for a while because I think it just gets so messy and if I'm having to.
Clean it up.
I actually like putting a bit of veggie mite in my toasties with the cheese. It's like a bit of a cheesey mite.
Well that's the other thing.
How the hell are you meant to clean the jaffle pan oh or your brebel? You never do like And I think that's why it tastes so good, because it has years and years of coated butter in there and you just wipe it out with a piece of paper towel. We actually have Reese's grandparents old one and it's like the one Dad and Mum have antra flavor so good. Yeah, fifty years of flavor on that one. Now. One of the other names that Sarah wasn't sure of until she was in her twenties was a TV remote, So she used to call it the Zappa, and she said it wasn't until one of Sarah's friends came over and Sarah said, could you pass me the Zappa? And a friend was like, what on earth are you talking about? She realized, I haven't heard of zappa before. I've heard of clicker, the flicker. I mean we just called it the remote at home or someone wrote in saying they also called it buttons.
Growing up buttons is kind of cute. Get the buttons. That's actually very cute, doesn't it sound so? Kath and Kim. I can imagine them being like, yeah, hand over the zappa.
I feel like our family made up so many of these. The ones that I could think of was Curry in a Hurry. So it wasn't until I was twenty four that I realized that Curry was just Curry twenty four, Yes, because I mentioned it to a boyfriend and he's like, what are you talking about when eighteen?
No, I was twenty four, that's really so.
Another one is Taja, So that is the nickname for Target. Our parents would always say I'm going to Taja, and I always thought it was a different store. Taja does sound a lot fancier. I think that's one that they probably embraced themselves. Another one that we get paid out a lot about is sleepy man. So apparently that's just called sleep that that stuff that's in your eye after you get asleep. But my mum used to be like, oh, you've got a sleepy.
Man in your eye. She also, I don't know if this is on the same.
Page, but when we were little, she also used to tell us that if we didn't come inside when it was cold, that Jack Frost would get us.
I'd pass that on to friends and stuff, and they're like, what the hell is that? It's a character in a book, isn't it, Jack Frost? I think it is.
It makes me excited to think of all of the stupid things that Kate, we're going to be able to tell your baby just.
Like make up. Yeah, we'll have to completely mess with him.
So it's not until he gets a girlfriend who's like, what, let's put a threat in the Facebook group and people can share some funny ones in there and that maybe we can implement those.
We've never gotten so many complaints every two minutes? Where's the top of this muffet? Who ain't the.
Rest of it?
Melbourne cafe owners have been forced to apologize after podcaster Peter Williams slam their venue for secretly charging him one dollar to have his muffin heated.
I just got the quote from me and girls in my head. Would you like someone saying to butter your muffin?
Yeah?
Well.
In a post which has recently gone viral, Peter, who is also a motivational speaker, explained that he recently dined at Leaf and Vine at Ringwood in Melbourne's East when he was charged one dollar to heat up his seven dollar raspberry and white chocolate muffin.
Now.
He alleged that the charge was added to his bill without his knowledge, and he told his twenty six thousand followers on Facebook that left a real bitter taste in his mouth.
He wrote, I.
Was having a fantastic time all until that very moment that I got the receipt. I wasn't in a space or position to argue for it. Always make sure you are checking. We have to lift the standard here. I feel for him because this happened to me the other day at a venue I won't name, but I got a hot chocolate and I wanted to get it in a paper cup because I was getting the absolute ick. This place usually serves them in a mug, and they poured chocolate all around the edge and it's absolutely delicious. But when I was sitting in the cafe, I could see everyone else like licking it the cup, and I was like, oh, how clean really is that?
And then they they charged me. I think it was.
Nine dollars fifty for hot chocolate in a takeaway cup, and rageous yeah.
And I went to pay and I must have given the.
Girl a weird look and she's like, oh, sorry, yeah, it's a bit more on a takeaway cup, and I'm thinking, why, Yeah, you don't.
Have to clean it. To be fair, it was a monstrous cup. Yeah, I mean it was delicious. And I think that this.
Is why this post went viral because so many people could relate to it because at the moment, the cost of living is so astronomically high and a lot of businesses are taking advantage of customers by adding in little surcharges that don't need to be there. I don't think that it's small businesses that are screwing people over because they're having to also compete with the cost of living, and they're having to pay staff wages, which usually at a cafe is the bulk of your bill, so normally they're having to charge a lot for coffees to make up for the fact that they're having to pay staff so much. Yeah, I totally understand that it would be such a difficult time to have a small business, but I also think that in this circumstance, it was one of those.
Sneaky little charges that didn't have to happen.
Because we also have to remember the people are struggling so much at the moment and I think they're going out for a treat of having a muffin.
I mean eight dollars in total. To be certain, I.
Assume that the owner probably thought, look, if you're paying seven dollars for a muff and you're probably not struggling that much, does it? This not just feel very twenty twelve though, that this post went viral on Facebook because I feel like the core demographic of Facebook is Gen x's and baby boomers, and they would have been livid about this. They hate any extra charge and they will quibble over it, even though they're probably the ones who can afall.
It just comes down to communication.
So if the person had said, hey, that's an extra charge of a dollar, and then given the guy the option to say, no, I don't want to pay an extra dollar. Well, on Wednesday, the cafe owners Beck and Pete Murray Pete Murray, yes it's not the Pete Mumray. Well, they made an appearance on Channel nine's A Current Affair defending their store from the hate and negative comments. They said, yeah, so this was the perfect A Current Affair story because they live for petty disputes like this. Now. Beck and Pete told the program that the charge was a mistake. Beck said, it was a mistake by someone who was in training. We don't charge to heat up a muffin. We never will and never had. They then might want to explain that the error was apparently due to a new employee getting confused over the stores two thousand plus buttons. I'm sorry, I'm calling bullshit here as someone who has been a very hopeless waiter in the past, and there is no way that I would have been able to accidentally stumble over to find the exact button that specifically charge patrons specially.
I know what I think it is. I think it was a dickhead charge.
You know, when someone's rude to you at a restaurant and there's probably that button where you're like, I'm gonna charge you a little bit extra because you were rude to I think that's a bit harsh for this poor guy. I actually think that when you're a new employee, you're a real stickler for the rules, and they were probably told, yes, you have to make sure you put these extra charges on, and now they're playing dumb and saying, oh no, it was an accident, as you said, So, I remember we used to work at Baker's Delight, and there was a button for every single product. I used to get so flustered. I have noticed at Zambreros that they do charge you for extra stuff too, but I think it depends on how nice you are, because I'm someone, Yeah, I'm someone who orders extra sauce, and sometimes I'll get charged, and sometimes I would know. I'm not saying this guy's a dickheady sounds really nice, but I'm saying sometimes there are instances where cafes will charge you extra, maybe if you didn't is nicely, or if they.
Don't know if it's not fair.
I actually think it seems like it's been a direct instruction from someone high up that okay, when someone orders a muffin, here's a little extra if they asked for this to be heated up.
I also question why are there two hundred plus buttons. They must have a pretty extensive menu. But you asked that question.
Yeah, every time we go out with friends. Most of our friends have dietary requirements, or you want something particular removed from a you type.
That in that's not a special button.
No, yeah, But also with all the different milk variations these days, and people are very picky. I mean, I actually probably would pay a dollar to have a muffin heat it up, because there's nothing worse than a stale muffin.
I mean, we were at a cafe the other day.
We ordered savory muffins and it could have been hotter. It actually ruined the overall. It's kind of like I've got into a bad habit of getting cheesy mitees girls from Baker's Delight, and one time the girl.
Offered to heat it up. Oh that was a lead. I was there with.
You don't believe I was charged for it and now I just can't have it cold. Anyway, back to this story, Beck did continue saying those two hundred items don't always work to plan. In this instance, this one had a surcharge attached to it, but it shouldn't have. The couple also said that they would have given Peter a refund if he asked for one, and wish he wouldn't have named and shamed them online. I am sorry again. I am on Peter's side here. Why is it up to Peter to scrutinize every receipt that he gets. You don't expect people to be sneaky and adding extra child, so like this, when it's only a dollar, it is a bit embarrassing to say something. Because again, when I got charged nine to fifty for my hot chocolate, inside I was dying.
I was like, this is ridiculous.
I would never pay nine to fifty or choose to pay that amount for a hot chocolate. I felt ripped off, but I just said, yep, cool whatever, got on with it. Like I suppose it's funny because he has gone the extra step to name and change them online. But I think there's a difference between saying gosh's anyone else outraged by this on social media to actually saying something in person. Well, the cafe owners, they really did use the current of fee story as an opportunity to blame Peter. So they said it's unfortunate that when I contacted Peter, he took six hours to reply to me. After watching the plethora of a snowstorm of comments on social media damning us. Now, Peter declined to speak to a Current Affair and claim the coverage of the story was heavily edited, leading him to release a four page statement that reputed many of their claims. So you just love how much time has been wasted over this dollar search uge. So he explained that he had spoken to the owners privately and they apologized over the extra charge and explained that they received significant backlash because of the post, so he agreed to remove the post because it was not his intention to call out the business specifically and because they apologized the Dutch. He then explained that he refrained from talking to the media because he felt like the matter had been resolved. He then wanted to explain why he went to social media instead of approaching the cafe to sort out the issue. He said he was disappointed when he saw the charge, but had already left the cafe and was traveling into State. He wrote, to be honest, I did not believe it was an error, system, trainee or otherwise. The charge was specific, purposeful, and perfectly aligned with their actions, no different to the charges of alm and milk and mug charges on the previous receipts from the cafe. If the charge was for something completely random or a double up that I thought was a genuine error, of course I would have taken it to them or more than likely not bothered with any action at all. I felt the charge and more importantly not being told about the charge was wrong, so I called it out.
I agree with everything he said.
I think the mistake was he maybe just shouldn't have named the cafe. Yeah, but I think he's within his right to do so because he's warning people if you go to that cafe, be careful, you might get.
Some extra charges.
I don't think you should have named and shamed them, because at the end of the day, it is a small business. Everyone is struggling. I think it is just an interesting conversation to have about how we feel about these additional charges and whether we think that they're fair, and how they should be communicated, because that should be on a menu. I also don't think he thought that it would get the attention that it did as well. Yeah, well, I mean he also has taken a pretty big swipe at a current affair. He said that it's important to note that a current Affair put his face and business on screen without permission and at a post that he had taken down, and he said he'd been made out to be the bad.
Guy for calling something out that affects everyone.
And that's a prime example of sometimes why you should talk to the media. We often tell our clients that that sometimes it's better to be giving your opinion in a story as opposed to them just taking grabs.
Off the internet.
Yeah, you've got to be proactive in sharing your side of the story because, as we said, this is a perfect current affair style story.
So they needed both.
Parties to speak, and in most instances they probably would have been on the customers side because their audience would have heavily related to being stung. But because he didn't speak, they thought, fuck this guy. We're gonna make him the bad They didn't even necessarily think fuck this guy. But if you're giving all of this airtime to the rest owner, they're going to be able to have more time to get their point across. See, I actually thought they would have thought fuck this guy because from someone who's worked amy, we both worked at Today Tonight, it's very frustrating when someone does refuse to speak, and in this situation, with a current affair style story, it's a bit more opinion, like you can actually more make it a bit more biased than a straight news story. Yeah, but we've been approached before by different news outlets to commentate on different issues, and if you're busy, sometimes you're like, oh, I don't really have the time to do it, and you might not want to put your face to a story where you're squbbling over a dollar. But I can totally understand why he didn't want to talk to a current affair because I think he was shocked how much attention this post actually got and maybe thought by not talking it would shut it down. Well, I think that's where we're going to leave things today, because I feel like everyone is extremely hungry after.
All of these foods must and a toasty Yes.
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