S3E30 · Georgia Templeton: Being A Teenager Through Covid

We are back! We are absolutely back and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing right now, but we are back for another episode of season 4. Jazz, keep it together. Back for season 4, another episode of The Return. This will be week 3. The Return of the Jedi. You weren't even born when that came out. For like 10 years, you child. And on that note, we have the child of the moment. We have the rook, G-Temps, G-George. Where did you get G-Temps from? Isn't that your Instagram handle? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. My TikTok handle, actually.

So it wasn't made up. It is a thing. Yeah, it's a thing. So if you not know who Georgia is and you are an external Virtus listener, Georgia is our newest employee. Not trainee, employee, somehow. We'll get into that later, don't we? Yep. My favourite thing to say. Yeah. And I have no idea what we're going to do for now, but this is going to be interesting. This is going to be fun. This is going to be interesting. Yeah, okay. Jazz is also here. Welcome, Jazz. Thank you. Jazz is co-hosting today under Duras, as per usual.

Yes. Heart rate. Go on, then. Why are you trying? Apple Watches. Infuria. Take their time. Yeah. Garland's superior. Actually, it's two to one right now. Yeah. Yeah, but mine has the power of yours times two. No, it doesn't. I think it might. Mine is not loading. Rest my case. 64, I am, just for those playing along at home. I want to know what mine is. Absolute pretzel and sort their shit out. It's 96. 96? Oh, my word. My God. One minute ago, it was 73. That's before we started. Yeah, well, true. We might have started. Okay.

Shall we? Yeah, we shall. Where do you want to start? I don't know. Yeah, this is exciting. What do you want to start with, Jazz? How did you find out about Virtus? Oh, we got right in there. Yeah. Go on, then. Well, I actually did a training session at footy here with Mitchell. You're welcome. And, you know, rocked up. Went for white girl. I went for white girl for now. Yeah, we did booty club. Yeah, we did. That was painful. That's probably PTSD, yeah. Peachy. Yeah, yeah, very. Anyway, continue. And after the session, I was like, "Do you guys do work experience?"

And you were like, "Yep." So I then did work experience for exactly 19 weeks. Was it really 19 weeks? Yeah. My maximum was 20, but I was sick one week, so. Felt so much longer. Well, I mean, you were with Mitch every session. Wow. Hey, hey, I am a treat. I actually did extra, too. Are you? Yeah, she did. I did extra, too. She did more than required. Yeah, I came in on school holidays. Little overachiever. When I wasn't allowed to, yeah. Yeah, you didn't end up too badly now, did you? Now you're here. Yeah. So let's go back.

Okay. To little Georgia. When? What's little Georgia like? Well, little her because you are still 12. Yeah, we hired a minor. We are paying minimum wage, I promise. What do you mean little Georgia? Like how long? What was little Georgia like? What was little baby Georgia like? Annoying from what my mom knows. No, no, what was a little Georgia like? Not current Georgia. Primary school Georgia. Let's start there. Private school? No, primary. Oh, primary. Yeah, so before we continue to delve into Georgia's brain, which is a horrifying task, we're just going to clearly outline our roles for the day.

My role is to keep these two on track. Jazz's role is not to laugh and Georgia's role is to somehow put coherent sentences together. So that's where we're at. Thoughts? Feelings? Emotions? Jazz laughed as soon as she said no to laugh. I know. That's what I made. Little Georgia, tell us. Oh, like how far, like what year in primary school? Oh, you can grow specifics. Prep. Prep. Oh my gosh. You can't be that long ago. You didn't, you know. Georgia doesn't remember what she had for lunch, do they? Yeah, if you can hear thinking, that's what it sounds like.

No, what did you like? What were you into? Like, what are your hobbies? What was your friend group like? You know. I played a lot of basketball, actually. I did, I think it was four, four or five years for breakers. Go break. I did day breaks and... Jazz doesn't know what that is, do you? Just like a little starting version. It's like Oz kick. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I did that with my older brother and my sister for a bit. Puts. Yeah, crispy. It was a kombucha. We can't drink her in a minus. That sounds awesome.

Okay. I'm going to like highlight that in the podcast, by the way. I'm going to make that extra loud. Okay. Georgia knows how to edit. Yeah, I do. Anyway, carry on. We're getting distracted. Yeah, I played a lot of basketball. I did, I think I did gymnastics. Did you identify as a baller? I was a baller. Okay. Yeah. Hardcore baller. I did domestic at Mount Eliza and then rep for breakers and that was a time in my life, I must say, some enjoyable, some not, that's why I don't really touch a basketball anymore. But that lasted a while.

That was way before footy. And then my friend group, my little friend. Your posse. Yeah, my one friend that I had for a while. Still friends. It's fun with me. Yeah. She needs to text me back. I'll send this to her. Honestly, she doesn't text me back that much anymore, but that's okay. You want to talk about that? No, just on delivered a lot, to be honest. I need you in the video format of this podcast, Georgia, to put a jazz giggle count in the corner, please. I sure can. Then we just have to watch the whole podcast.

Yeah, you do. Yeah. Okay. No, I'm all for that, actually. Yeah. And there's the sound of thinking. Anyway, basketball, yes, baller, friends. Yeah, I had one friend that I can recall and then another that everyone thought we were sisters and it was a running joke for a while because we were three days apart. It was a running joke that my mum had us both, but she was just in labour for three long days. Your poor mother. Your mother is a saint. Yeah, she is. She's pretty good. And yeah, in year three, people believe you. Year three, four.

So that was pretty funny. I think I could probably tell you that now and I think you would still believe me if that was my story. Yeah, probably. Yeah, probably. What was your favourite subject in class, thing to do? Sport. I've always been... What about apart from sport? Apart from sport? Maybe primary school, maybe like art. Are you creative? Not very. Oh, I think you're pretty creative. I was going to say, you make a good reel. And jazz is here, everyone. Welcome back. Yeah, we are seven minutes in. I think you are a bit creative. I mean, we gave you a job to be creative, so you can't be too uncreative.

That's a good point. It's probably not a word, but... Uncreative? Yeah, all words are made up, so it is now. Wow. That's my way of justifying words, if that makes sense. Yeah, I've never really been a math kid or English kid, to be honest. Not very bright, hence why I'm doing VCal. There's nothing wrong with that. Good things come from VCal. Nothing wrong with it. Yes. Yeah, I liked my art, kind of. More like it. What were your activities at recess and lunch? What kind of... Loom bands, when they were a thing. I actually feel like I remember them.

Were those Scooby things? Yes, Scooby Scoobies, and then the Loom bands. Yeah, I remember them. And you knit, well not really knit, but you had a thing and you made bracelets. I feel like they were called something before that and then they changed them because people started eating them or something and they became poisonous. Yeah, it was Georgia. Honestly, probably. You would have been that kid. But in summer, I never wore a hat, so I always had to be under the big top. I always lost my hat. How did you lose your hat? No hat, no play.

Oh, I don't know, just not in my bag, left at home. Okay, I have no idea what those things are. What? Scoobies, whatever you call them. Oh, they're like long... I have no idea. Like, think of spaghetti, but a piece of plastic, and you like knit them into bracelets. I probably still have some at home, to be honest. I reckon you probably do. I'll bring them in for a Virtus Arts and Crafts session. Can you bring them in for show and tell at next meeting? Thanks. Oh, you know what, I have a funny show and tell story.

I got a guinea pig in year five. We've all heard this story, but I'd love everyone else to hear it. I haven't heard it. Okay, this is primary school. Strap in and strap on. I got a guinea pig, and for context for everyone else, I own a greyhound. A very heavy hunting dog, because they are born and bred to race. She never raced, but still, in her blood. And his name was Sylvester, he was a little black and white furry thing. And, you know, we went out on, I remember, we went on AFL Grand Final Day, Bulldogs won.

Got a hut. Wait, you brought your guinea pig to an AFL Grand Final? No, I got it on AFL Grand Final Day. Or, like, I got the little hut on AFL Grand Final Day. And then, as soon as I brought it home, my grandma said, "That's not going to last a week." And it actually lasted four days. She was right. She was right. Yeah, I was holding him and I was brushing my hair, and I was on my iPad, making a musical.ly throwback. I don't know what that is either. It's like an older version of TikTok.

Like, before TikTok. Is it like before Vine or after Vine? During Vine. Oh man, I'm so old. Very much associated with Vine, I feel like. I'm so old. Yeah, you are. I'm so old. You're literally turning 26 tomorrow, aren't you? No, because this is definitely coming out in the middle of Feb, so I'm already 26. Happy birthday! Yes, 26, but God, I feel like 46 talking to you sometimes. Yeah, literally. Yeah, it feels. Anyway. And I was meant to bring him in for show and tell the next day. And I'm holding him, you know, patting him, brushing my hair.

And there's two ways into my bathroom, the main way and through my mum's wardrobe. And Daisy. Please tell me your dog didn't eat it. Little snake that she is. She came through the wardrobe, snatched him up and said, "See ya." He was gone. No show and tell for old Sylvester. Had to walk into class the next day empty-handed, which was kind of depressing. Must add. My favourite part is your grandmother's right. She knows you. Gotcha. She was very right. How did that happen? I know. I know. Well, you see, Sylvester was here. Oh, you don't need to describe.

Oh, sorry. Georgia! And I was home alone, and I called my dad, and it was raining. And I called my dad and I'm like, "Dad, Daisy got Sylvester. What do I do?" And my parents are split up, so he's at his house, and he's like, "Oh, I'm out. Sorry. Mum's working at Chadstone." And my sister comes home from school after that. And then he's just out on his hut in the rain. And I was fully prepared. I had a bike with a little thing at the front. I was wondering if you'd bring that up, because I thought I was going to make it.

I had a blanket in it. I was searching up the nearest vet. I gave him a call, actually, too. I was like, "Can I bring in?" What did you say? I was like, "Can I bring in my half-dead guinea pig?" Because my dog just basically ate it. And they were like, "Oh, sorry. We actually closed in 30 minutes." And I was like, "Oh, yeah." Anyways. Alright, B. Rip Sylvester. That's dramatic. He was a good bud for four days. Yeah. Yeah. Traumatic. Was very traumatic. I thought I'd never forgive her, but she's forgiven. So, it's okay. Right.

Where were we? Alright, Tyler. Quote, unquote, "tea frost." So, where were we? So, where were we? For reference and for... What's the word I'm looking for here? For description for everyone. It's not the word I'm looking for. That's what we're going to go with. Oh, okay. That is Tyler every goddamn meeting. When we're halfway through talking about something that's probably really important, Tyler goes, "Where were we? What were we talking about?" Yeah, I know. On his phone. Oh. On his phone. Or downing his milo thick shake. Oh, yeah. I missed this, because I was dead. Yeah, you did.

No, you were sick. You did. My gran got me good. It was a fun meeting. Yeah. It's because I was on there. Such a debbie downer. You said it. Well, we should go again. I actually want that milk. I regret not getting that thick shake. Shout out. How good did it look? Shout out, Milk Bar & Co. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. Harpy loved it too. Yeah, we got the same thing. Yeah, we did. It was good. You copied me. Well, I added bacon to it, so. Just got to say.

What do you want to be when you grow up, Georgia? Getting us back on track again, as per my role description for this podcast. That's a tough question. And I actually, thinking about it a lot lately, going into year 12, very stressful as well. I don't know what I want to do. I'm just kind of cruising. What did you want to do? What did I want to do? In primary school. I want to be a race car driver. I can't remember. And for some people that have been in my car, they tell me I'm a race car driver.

That's true. If they met my mother, they'd understand. Oh, I don't know what I wanted to be. Always like your kid. Shoot for the moon. You want to be a national? What are you? Oh. Police woman? No. No, I can't remember. That doesn't surprise me either. It's really just, oh, I'm trying to think. What, do you want to be just? Yeah. I can't answer. Damn it. I thought I lured you into a false sense of security. Damn it. I can't answer that question. I actually really liked animals, so probably like a zookeeper or something. For the sake of the animals, I'm glad that didn't work out.

You know the history. Paul Sylvester. Paul Stallone. Sylvester Stallone, that's good. I know Sylvester is the cat that was probably named after, but yeah. Probably actually. Yeah. Yeah, I actually really liked animals. Meerkats. What are they called? They jump around in the jungle and they're lemurs. I really liked lemurs. You're basically describing two animals that describe you. I remember one time I went to Maccas and there was a lemur toy and I was like, "Oh, I want that." So I got in a Happy Meal and I had it for ages. You just answered that like a meerkat.

Have you not seen the ad? How do you remember that, but you don't remember what you wanted to be? I don't know. All I could think of when you asked me what I wanted to be is one year in primary school so I dressed up as an elephant for dress-up day. That really brought me to liking animals. I wanted a horse. I begged my mom for a miniature horse for a while. I think at least one time, I don't know, this is a stereotype, but I'm sure every little girl wanted a horse for a pony. Or a teacup pig.

A very small pig that fitted a teacup. That's normally what a teacup pig is, yes. It's a small pig. Back on the rails. Welcome back. Okay, bye. Where were we? No, I really liked animals, but then obviously, I probably at some stage really wanted to play basketball. I really liked it until it was ruined for me. That's what not very nice coaches do to you. He's not at Breakers anymore, I've just got to say that. What's the transition from primary school to high school like? Oh, terrifying. It was definitely very nerve-wracking. What high school did you go to?

Mornington secondary, that's where I started. Very nervous. I remember a week leading up to orientation. It was actually not a week, it was Thursday and then I had orientation on Tuesday. I was at primary school and we were playing Paper Toss. Wait, what's Paper Toss? You know, the game on your phone where you can- Now I know what that was. Yeah. I was the lead at it. Throw the piece of paper into the bin. Oh, I remember that. Yeah, okay. Hand-eye coordination. Yeah. My friend was playing Paper Toss, so I'm my friend and I'm playing Paper Toss.

And I was looking over, so it's like she was this and I'm looking over. She got the paper in the bin, flung the iPad up and cut below my eyebrow. And so I went to Year 7 orientation with a plaster on my eye and some stitches and I wasn't allowed to swim. I was so devo because Mornington was like, "Yeah, all the New Year 7s can have a swim in the pool." Oh, no. And I wasn't allowed to because I wasn't allowed to get my- Did you do it anyway? No. I wasn't allowed to get my stitches wet, so no swim.

But apart from orientation day, this really does just be line off from what you asked me, doesn't it? Yeah. That's why I said my job is to keep you on track. But sometimes you've just got to let you go because it's entertainment. Yeah. But I think the most recent was probably going into a new school. That's also very different. So where are you at now? For the people? Cedar College. Yes. Do we? Football at AFL-Frankston. What does that look like? Just an everyday class. Just every day, every day? Every day. Yeah. What's it look like? I'll explain a week.

Being in a different school, yeah. So Monday is VCAL day. We do all of our practical VCAL work and the session in the morning goes for about two hours and we have a break and then the last session is prac. So whether that's like AFL-9s or soccer or cricket or something like that, it's like yeah. Then we end the day at 2.30 and then Tuesday is our vet day. So that's our more like heavy work. We get certificates and everything through vet and that's all like workplace safety and all of that and learning how to like, like a lot with kids because we do clinics as well.

So it's a lot like how do you react when a kid acts like this or like cultural backgrounds and learning words like inclusive language. So yeah, there's a lot of that and then Wednesday is our half day. So we finish at 12.50 and that's mostly just catch up or like a day's left to spare. If we're going out, like a full day activity, it'll be on a Wednesday because it'll either be for like work or something like that. There's no scheduled activity on that day. And then on a Thursday it is a clinic but for

the first four weeks we don't have clinics because obviously like the new kids have got to kind of like catch up and get used to everything. And then yeah, Friday's work placement. So through school we do structured work placement for the whole year starting in term two. So not the whole year, term two, three and four. And I did first like 12 weeks maybe with Frankston Football Club. Shout out Fizz, go Dolphs. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Fizz, probably just not my cup of tea. Didn't really enjoy it. Hey, hey, Fizz is a great guy. Oh yeah, I love Fizz.

No, Frankston. Walked into that one. Yup. It's so easy. Fizz actually, he came into our class one time and then I was like, oh. What was that experience like? Talking about his world travels. He does that a lot. I've heard, I've heard. He's a worldly character. Yeah, we love him though. But yeah, anyways, work placement, yep. I did not like it at Frankston, probably just not my area of enjoyment. I was forced. What made you realise that? Probably just that I wasn't really getting anything out of it and I wasn't really learning or progressing anything. I got to meet Charlie Curnow out of it, so I feel like that was pretty fun.

But I was on the gates at a Carlton v Frankston game and he came through and I was like, "My God, it's Charlie Curnow." That was amazing. He's actually really tall and buff in person, so. Hey, alright, stop filming, come on. I'm in a professional setting, issue. And I don't know, yeah, just, I wasn't really getting anything out of it. I felt like I was just kind of, it was groundhog day. Every Friday I'd wake up and I'd be like, "Ugh." What was it that made it feel like that? The only task being like moving furniture or cleaning.

That'll do it. Yeah. Might do that for a job, so I feel you. Or like cleaning, cleaning all the members' areas or like getting ready for a function or something like that. I don't want to do this when I'm older, like I don't know, I'm not really getting anything out of picking up some chairs and moving them up a five stairs. So yeah, and then obviously when I found Virtus, I switched pretty much straight away. Was that Harvey? It was Harvey. I heard it. He does this. Oh yeah. Oh? Yeah. Is he at the door? I hope not.

I'll be right back. Yeah. And then obviously, yeah, I found Virtus and definitely changed my life. Is he at the door? Welcome, Harvey, to the podcast. Hello, Harvey. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to the podcast, you nugget. Yeah, Virtus definitely changed my life. I don't remember what I was doing before, before I came here. Like, you know, if you get like an app on your phone and you don't remember what you did on your phone before you had that app, no, just me. Explain that to me because I think I know what you mean. That's me with like, like Instagram.

Like what did I do on my phone before I like found myself scrolling through Instagram like every day. Because it was just like so ingrained in part of your life. Yeah. That's me with like here. Like I can't remember what I did before then because like, yeah, definitely changed my life. I'm so much of a better person now. I'll start crying. Careful. I know. Just wait until you read your birthday card. He's already read it. I did read it. Yeah. Um, it said, go fuck your birthday. It was great. Perfect. Yeah. Um, yeah, no, definitely changed my life.

I have a different outlook on everything now. Like I have a different perspective on life. I feel like I'm not really waking up using big words. I'm just waking up every day and, and realize like not taking it for granted, I feel like is the most important thing. Um, and just being grateful at every opportunity I've been given, like through school, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go to SEDA. It's like I'm grateful for them and grateful for a footy for like obviously bringing me here because I wouldn't have heard about Virtus if it wasn't for footy.

I mean, I would have probably down the track cause like people I know go here. But, um, yeah, I can't remember what I did during a day. No, you're part of the cult. Yeah, definitely. One of us. Yeah. One of us. Wouldn't, wouldn't change it for the world though. I love it here. We didn't pay to say that. No, you didn't. I'm not being paid. So. Cop that. But like even like not being like, this is the thing. When I did 19 weeks of five to 10 hours every week, like on one day of work experience, it wasn't me waking up and going, Oh, I have to go to work experience for school.

Like I'm not getting paid for the, so it was like, Oh yeah, like I get to go hang out at the gym and like, you know, because Virtus gave you a purpose. Yes, very much so. What did you find as your purpose? Um, why are you still here or why did you say yes when we said, Hey Georgia, I want to give you a job. Cause I know you didn't say that coming. Yeah, I don't. I did not see it coming. You didn't know how to take it either when I told you. It got to the end of the 19 weeks and I was like, Oh, like, I don't know what I'm gonna, where am I going to go?

Like what am I going to do with my Fridays now or like the rest of my week? Like, um, but yeah, what like purpose? I felt, I don't know, like that is very like hard on my brain. We've got time. It's podcast. Also, you're going to edit it too. Yeah, true. If you pause for two minutes, you know what's going to go. I felt like I, and you don't need to know your purpose either. You are still literally 12 and I don't mean that in a mean way. No one asks you this question until you get old enough to go, shit, I don't really know.

And then you go, Hmm, let me reflect. You've had to retire to reflect on, yeah, I was going to say reflect. No, reflect, reflect on eating cereal. I can't do it again. Eating what? Eating what? Cereal. I can't do it. Yeah. Celery. Celery. It's Friday. Yeah, it's Friday. It's Friday. We're battling. TGIF. You haven't had time to reflect on anything because you hadn't done anything before. Yeah. You've been dictated by a education system that you need to be XYZ here at this time because of this. We're going to do this, which is hard to find a purpose until you get out of that.

Hmm. Yeah. And it also. Well, what's your purpose? You've seen, you said you found one. Oh, I don't like take your time. I'm like really trying to think you're like, oh, we can hear it. The ticking of my brain is like clunking, but yeah, the monkey with the two plates. Yeah. Episode. Well, it's episode two with season four. I don't know what number it actually is, but it's a nice book about being the monkey a lot, which is probably why you two go along really well. Yeah. Me. Yeah. True. Yeah. Light bulb. Light bulb. I actually am very flattered when people say I'm like Tess because she's pretty smart.

She's pretty cool chick. Yeah. She's very cool chick. She's also. Yeah. Shout out Tess. You better watch this. She'll be watching, listening. She'll listen. She'll listen. Yeah. Purpose. Tell me. Purpose. I'm not letting you get off the hook here. I'm like, what? Yeah. You do it first because I'm trying to like get an outline in my head of what I'm trying to think of. Tick. Tock. We are still here. My purpose. I love coming to a workplace where I get to actually see change in people's life and make whatever it is impacting them at all different workplaces of actually seeing results and helping them get better.

Yeah. Just being honest physically or change in behaviour and just being around really good people. Probably my purpose. How'd that thinking time go for you, George? Yeah. My purpose. I don't know if this is a purpose, but this is just what comes to my head. Oh, God. Here we go. Is probably like being able to come into something that I can call work and be like, "Oh, okay. These people actually visibly want me here and they show that they care about me and I enjoy my time." As much as I probably wish it didn't go

fast when I was here because obviously time flies when you're having fun, but when I'm here time does go very fast because I am having fun. Very happy to be in a place where I feel like family because I know for other kids my age obviously like part time jobs just like KFC, Woolies, shout out, shout out Woolies. Is Tyler closing the doors? Yeah. It's not thunder. I thought it was for a second. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh. Anyways. Yeah. Just coming to a place where I can call work and also call it home and also call the people here family and like Jazz says, seeing a change in other people, but also seeing a change in myself.

Yeah. It's also probably the first time you've had ownership over something. Yeah. When I say, "Hey, Georgia, I need this," you go, "What's that? What do I do? Georgia, you're in charge. Go do it. I trust you." Because I've always, I've always just had- You haven't had to. For the most part, you don't need to make your own decisions going through primary school and high school because they're all done for you. Yeah. Very much so, especially like even at Woolies, a lot of it's done for you. What do you want to achieve at Virtus? What do I want to achieve?

Yeah. What do you want to get out of it? That's also very big. Yeah. Welcome to podcasting. Thank you. I could sit back here with my feet up and just ask these big questions to you and watch the wheel burn. What made you say yes to a job first? Because it's not an area you've worked in before. What is your job for those who don't know? I am- What is your title? Social media and marketing manager. Yeah. You're a manager. You're a big dog. Yeah. You are the boss. Big dog. Yeah. What'd you say? What was the question?

I did that about 10 times. Don't worry. Chaz was also like, "Wait, what did you just say?" Yeah. Nervous. What's the question? And then ask again. Yeah. What things do you have ownership of to start with, but then we'll go back to my original question. So I have ownership over platforms, Instagram, done a bit of the website, Facebook. Haven't done much on Facebook, actually. YouTube- That's for boomers, don't worry. Pardon? That's for boomers, don't worry. Yeah. Yeah. I use Facebook. Don't diss. I love my Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't a dig at you. Yeah. I know.

And the podcast, I feel like I'm more heavily involved with, but then Instagram is also a big part. Instagram is a very big part. And I think people don't realise how big of a job it actually is. That's why we hired someone, because we wanted to just do it. How much brain power it takes. Planning something to post, like content scheduling and stuff like that, is actually very- Exhausting. Very hard, yeah. Very hard. Exhausting. And I never really... You look at Instagram accounts like... Yeah. I'm trying to think of one. There's a gym in Queensland called Never Quit.

They have really good content. I go through their Instagram and aspire to be like theirs. And I'm like, "Gosh, how do people come up with creative stuff like this?" How does someone just wake up one day and be like, "Oh yeah, this is a good idea." I don't get it. I've come up with Scarecam, and I remember to scare- It's a good one though. To scare you once. Yeah. You did it to me the other day when I came in from work. Yeah. And you got me. I'll get it. Yeah. You got me too. It's good.

It was a good reaction, but I didn't nearly backhand you. You're allowed to come in, Tyler. Welcome to the podcast. For what? Podcast. Where were we? You'll hear it back on episode three of season four, don't worry. It'll make sense. Of course Tyler's opening food. They're not your brownies, Tyler. You ate another packet. Calories, Georgia. Calories. Do you want to... No. Okay. I thought he was coming in for food. I was about to say, if he orders something, I'll transfer him some food. Georgia has adult money now, so Georgia's really happy that she can order her own food.

Yeah. And it's different. It's not Woolly's money, which is what's so exciting. It's like- Do you get any pride? We do pay minimum wage. Yeah. It's good. In fact, you get more than minimum wage. I do. Yeah. Yeah. Damn right you do. Damn right I do. So back to my original question, because we're going back on track again. We don't want to achieve. What do you want to achieve about us? When I took the job, which is what... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was coming back. I wanted to achieve a sense of belonging, because I feel like I had never really belonged in an area before, especially basketball was pretty tough in the last few years.

Never really felt like people wanted me there. And then also other areas of sport, never really being there. A lot of girls' experience is actually going through high school, never really being the first choice for a friend, I'm sure, unless you've- No, I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. I'm not saying you're alone or anything. I'm just like- I thought that's what you were saying. But anyway. What are you implying? Yeah. A lot of teenage girls go through it. And when my sister said in year seven, year 10, and year nine and 10's going to be really hard, I wish she'd explained it, because yeah, it was very hard.

But now that I've achieved my sense of belonging here, because I really do feel like this place holds a very special spot in my heart. Don't cry. And I don't shut up about it either. I go somewhere and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, today I'm going on the podcast." And my friend's like, "Yeah, you've said that four times." I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I'm excited." But yeah, just happy to feel like I belong somewhere and I feel like a lot of teenage girls wish they could say that, because yeah, high school is very tough.

And yeah, I wish I could say it gets easier, but it doesn't. It does not. I thought moving school would make it a bit. I didn't move out of Mornington for any particular reason other than the fact that it wasn't really what I wanted. It wasn't giving me anything for my sport, or the curriculum wasn't really right for me. So it wasn't like a friend group type of move, but it was more like, yeah, it wasn't really giving me what I needed. But yeah, shitty people follow you everywhere, and it's your choice if you want to.

You have to make the decision if you want them in your life or not. And it's a very confronting decision to make, like, do I actually want this person in my life? How am I benefiting from them being in my life? And that's about growing up, I guess. It's all about going through high school and learning that some people, some friends aren't for the long run. And yeah, very tough decision, very tough lesson about high school. God, there are so many young gals I hope that go to the gym that I can think of. I'm glad you touched on this now, because this is going to be your topic in the next 20 minutes.

We're going to talk about that. So we'll come back to that. What does the next, I don't know, three months, six months look like for Georgia? At Virtus? Yeah. Content planning, event planning, getting content out there that people want to watch and kind of figuring out what people like and what they don't like. What do people like? Lucy. Yeah. I've got to say. They love Lucy. Have a good day. I mean, who doesn't like that, right? Yeah. People love Lucy and Billy. People love having them around the gym. I play those snippets like 10 times in a row.

Yeah. The best. My mum loves it too. I'll come home. I'm like, "Yeah, I have a video." Like, "Here you go." And Georgia's meant to be doing her work. For reference, it came in Wednesday. How'd you go with the podcast? Oh, yeah. I got a little bit done. Oh, yeah. What about this? Oh, I got distracted. I got distracted. I did. I must admit. Throwing Lucy in the air. Worth it. Yeah. Worth it. Yeah. Babysitting. What don't people like? You say me, and I'll leave. No. Your videos actually do get a bit of reach. Oh. I'll take that.

What people don't like. Well, not necessarily don't like, but don't engage with. Don't engage with. As much as what you thought they would. Probably. Something that flopped that you didn't think it'd flop. Just generally. If there is. Oh. Is that thinking losing it? Yeah. Yeah. Trying to think. Clunk. Play some pants, the monkey. I'm going to edit that into the video. I'm going to edit that over. The monkey. This is what Georgia means. This is what I mean with my creativity. I can't sit down for 40 minutes and be like, "Oh, plan." Someone will be like, "Plan this."

I can't do it because I'll just sit there. I feel like you definitely can. No. I'll just sit there fully blanked. Hey, you're also 17. Shut up. You don't need to. Yeah. Exactly. But yeah. What people don't engage with. I want to say some of the informative side of videos, like the how to get your form right or I don't know. People don't get a heap of reach, which I feel like they should because it's a lesson. I feel like unless it's directed at them and what they need help with, then it doesn't really get watched.

Do you think that comes from a background of people being on their phone looking at content that they don't really care about, but it's something to pass the time? Yep. If you're trying to tell me and learn something, I'm probably not going to care about. Exactly. Yes? Yep. Yeah. Definitely, I feel like- What are some things you're excited for? Some things I'm excited for. Maybe get the scare cam video done. TikTok. That'd be good. Just to fully compile all the scare videos that I've done. You guys need to start scaring each other as well. You don't want me to do that?

No. Absolutely not. No. I get taken to HR enough. I don't need nothing. We don't have one for- Yeah, we don't have a HR. No. There is no one above. Yeah, but Jaz didn't back me up. That's my point. What? You're throwing ping pong balls at us before this started? Sting pong. It wasn't lying on my leg. George and I were playing clowns and you were throwing them at me. I know. Yeah. What? Yeah. Where were we? What are you excited for? What am I excited for? Tyler? I am excited for the staff retreat specifically. Would you like to fill in the people of what that looks like?

Weekend. George gets paid holiday. Chicken nuggets. Chicken nuggets. That was pretty funny. You weren't there. I know what he was talking about. At the staff meeting, we were talking about how we're going to plan out each staff member to cook a certain breakfast, lunch or dinner or something like that. I believe Tyler nominated you for fried chicken. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, and he just started listing people. He was like, "George, chicken nuggets." It was pretty funny. You'll probably get chicken nuggets one night. Homemade or just like- Order UberEats. How do you even homemade chicken nuggets? Oh, we're not going to go into that.

You got to grind the chicken and crumb. Where'd the American Texas accent come from? That's one thing I also love doing. Southern accents. Do you actually? That's the third time during the podcast. I need to think of a sentence to say that's in southern. Say exactly what you just did. In southern. Southern accent. Fried chicken. Kentucky fried chicken. Anyway, retreat. Oh, yes. A weekend away at- And that's giggle count. I'm going to say, I'm going to guess before we even start. That's giggle count. I'm going to guess like 32 maybe. I'm thinking higher. Where are we starting it from?

I don't know. The clap. Not that clap. People don't hear that. You just gave away our secrets. People don't hear the clap. Yeah, they do. Do they? I don't edit it out. I thought you did. Oh. Clearly I don't pay attention to the first part. Clearly. Hey. Exposed. You don't listen to the podcast. I don't listen to my own episodes. Yeah. No one accesses from their own voice. No, it's horrible. Yeah. I also got the video on my phone. Retreat. Sorry. Retreat. Retreat. Retreat. It is a weekend away. Well, you might actually be on the retreat when this comes out.

Potentially. Yeah. Actually. Actually, probably. Yeah. Or it might be the weekend before. No. No, I think this actually is the weekend. Happy 26th of Feb. Because that is a Sunday maybe. I'm going to say. You're in charge. I really hope that's correct. I really hope it's correct too. I'm going to edit that out. I have the power. Yeah. Weekend away. Doing what? We haven't actually booked the Airbnb yet. There is presentations taking place. On? Our roles. Yeah. For what purpose? Planning. Brainstorming. Yep. Tearing it apart and putting you back together. What was that? Yesterday, when I said I was brainstorming, you got really excited.

You're like, "Oh, are you coming to Virtus? You're going to brainstorm? Oh, I'll help you." Brainstorm together. I know you're my brave nun. That reminds me. Have you got your brief done? I've done part of it. I've finished it. Okay. I need help. That's all right. We can help you. I'm proud of you. You just asked for help. Thank you. Retreat. We haven't booked the Airbnb yet. Lachie's waiting until we get closer. I.E. can't be bothered. I.E. waiting for the price to go down. Yeah. I.E. doesn't want to. Yeah. I mean, fair enough. Yeah. I'm very excited.

I'll be 18 for all you viewers. Wish me a birthday. Say happy birthday on the 23rd of Feb. Happy birthday for the 23rd of Feb. Because I'll be 18 when these guys are out. Happy birthday me. It's horrifying. Very horrifying. A child's growing up. I'm just happy I'm still in my dad's healthcare. You don't have to go off. Seriously, you're telling me the most random shit. You don't have to go off. I'm like a bird. You don't have to go off healthcare. I'm pretty sure you said that earlier today. Healthcare until you're 21. Did you know that?

Yes. I didn't know that. I'm going to dread turning 21. You got a while. Don't worry. I have to. I'm paying my phone bill and I'm like, oh. Wait till you're closer to 30 than 20. Mitch. Downhill from here. Uh oh. My knees got sore and my back hurts. Hey, Fizz is right next door. Speaking of knees, segue. Yeah. What happened to yours? Um, well where it's, where it all started in March, March 14th, March 14th of 2022. Um, it's a horrible accident. Try again. March 14th of 2022. I, um, I don't, I really am done with this accent stuff until it like whips back up.

Um, I have a video of it, but I'm not going to whip that up cause it will take me ages to find it. Um, yeah. Yeah. Um, in Taz, in Tasmania in the middle of whoop whoop is Campbelltown in Tasmania. Cam, Cam. It's somewhere. So I think it was C. I thought Campbelltown was in New South Wales, but anyway. Anyway, athlete life. Yeah. Yeah. Relevance. Yeah. Judge. Relevance. Relevance count. Zero. You walked into that. Um, I specifically went to tackle a player, came down, weed and knee went that way. Ankle went that way. My head went that way.

My legs went that way. Oh, we were looking at that the other day when Tyler was doing the milk ad. Oh, dollop. That wasn't it. But it's part of the ad. Full cream note. Extra dollop. Oh yeah. Yeah. You weren't here. I was on my deathbed. No, you weren't. This was yesterday. You were playing golf, of course. Damn right I was. Anyway, what happened to your knee? Um, anyways, we went to the physio. This was very dumb. Any athletes out there, if you get an injury, please check it out straight away because it does not help you in the long run.

And I should have listened to my friends. I wish I could go back to March, Georgia and be like, go get an MRI, go get it checked out because it'll be better playing, it'll be better not playing a season than playing a season in pain and not knowing when you're going to be in pain. And so, yeah, anyways, I got back from Tassie. I didn't get it checked out. Six weeks later, it was still causing me issues. Went to the physio. He said it was a possible meniscus. And then it was also kind of the

mental battle of still like walking on it and trying to push myself to get ready for the season and then people at school not believing me and going, oh, she's making an injury and oh, she's this and shitty teenage boys. I've got to say. Why are you looking at me like that? No, I'm just not looking at you like anything. I feel attacked. No, I'm not attacking you because you wouldn't be like that. But, um. Oh, I was a bit of a shithead. Um, yeah, just phases though. Like, wasn't anyone. Um, but anyways, yeah, obviously the mental battle as well.

Coming back from an injury. Well, oh, people in class are watching this. They'll be like, there was no injury. Um, there was anyways. And then stingrays. I think we need an anyways gown too. Yeah. Anyways. When Georgia realises that she's gone off track. Yeah, sorry. Um, oh, have his little head. Um, anyways, and then on December, December 1st or 2nd, try to remember, I tape a lot of dates in my head. Um, I was at training, we were doing shuttle runs and I was, um, like obviously shuttle runs is very new on the first one. Thanks for that description.

No worries. Um, on the first one I ran and went to change direction with my left leg, which is the bad knee. And so speak ill of our knees. What do we call it? Just strong and stronger. My strong and stronger knee. No, no. Left and right. Oh, it's just left and right. My left knee. Correct. Which yet, um, it's my left knee. And, um, then when we did running after that, which steam race running, God gets me dead. Race cave. Yeah. Um, no, I actually don't. Sorry. Smile and wave boys. Smile and wave. I know what that is.

Um, anyway, anyway. Um, and it was causing me a bit of strife during the running and I kind of said to the running coach, which Sammy prime shout out, she's pretty good. She's pretty good. You knew me, Sam. Really? I think so. I think it was same year. Yeah. She has running background. Yeah. Big one. She's a good athlete. Big one. She's very good athlete. She is. Yeah. Anyway. Um, I just said to her, my knees causing me a bit of pain. Um, in the same spot as like my past injury and obviously I hadn't

brought up the part like the March injury to stingrays just cause obviously that mental side again, I didn't really want it to affect any of my game knowing that I'd played that whole season with a taped knee and um, pain to say the least. Um, and so yeah, it's been a long, how long has it been? It's been a long month and a half of 47 minutes. Wow. Yeah. That went quick. Yeah. Especially that podcast. Yeah. It's been a long month and a half of, of no running and just doing weights and then all of that.

But, um, Jim bro, Jim bro, Jim gal, Jim gal. You've been doing your weights. I have been. You did it today again. In pieces. Yeah. Did you do squats and look at the ground? Uh, yeah you did. I didn't do squats today. They went on my program. But when you do, we need the sign back. I did split squats and I wasn't, I wasn't looking, I was looking at the ground and then you walked. Oh, question. In which way do you put your barbell back in front of someone squatting or behind in front? She goes, don't rack up as I'm on my last, my last rep.

I know. Jim etiquette. We've got to teach you a thing or two. I'm sorry, Jasmine. That's okay. I forgive you this once. Don't do it again. You got Jasmine. I know. I know. Anyways, my left knee is, is my left knee. She's good. MRI was clear. I'm back. I had a physio appointment on Tuesday. I'm running. Um, can we have a round of applause? No, it's not on there. Damn it. I changed the buttons. Well, what, what one's like potential. Okay. Let's roll with it. That's relevant. Yeah. Um, I haven't seen it, but no, no, that's sort of Ted lasso.

Yeah. Oh, my dad's watched that. Um, back to running. We'll, we're back to training next week. I got new footy boots. I saw applause. That is blue. Yeah. They're really nice. Career savers. As Mitch would say, they are proper careers. My last ones were career savers. Hey, not gonna lie. Me too. Guess what? Washed up. Very mean to yourself. Oh yeah. Yeah. Self deprecating humans. My sweet spot. It's horrifying. Yeah. It's not about me. I was trying. I thought Tyler was playing Harry Styles song. Sorry. My brain went somewhere else. Um, back to training next week, back to full training in two weeks.

Um, which I actually, I, we have a, probably have a 1.5 K time trial on Tuesday and I mean, I'm not saying I want to get out of it because that would look very bad of me because I actually do want to do it. I feel like when you're injured, um, you kind of want to do anything. I'm not really injured anymore, thank God, but um, yeah. You look at girls are like, Oh, I can't, like, I, I wish I was you like I remember what before they were doing running a couple of weeks ago and I was sitting out on my last session before I went away.

One of the girls was like, Oh, I wish I was you like, like doing a trade, like you run and I'll, you know what happens to those girls? What? Absolutely nothing. And I was like, no, you don't, you do not wish you were me because like, yeah, it's, it sucks watching everyone do something that you are not able to and yeah, anyways, what's football Georgia luck? What do you mean? How would your teammates describe you? Uh, loud. I don't know. How would your team? Everyone describes you as loud. Yeah. What about football Georgia? I'm trying

to think of the word went from Ballora to I think three years with them two or three years with them to Mount Martha to Mornington Bulldogs. Uh, when did you start playing footy 2016 Jazz's question was actually, when did you plant football? Did I actually write that I'm not surprised Jazz's question for you is, uh, when did you start planting footballs? Oh, well my gardening stage actually hasn't come in yet learning, learning how to go with it. Did I really write that? Yeah. I mean you did bring all these plants in, why don't you water them on the front only is dying because it gets very humid there and it's, that's a question from no Oliver just seeing.

Yeah. Don't worry. I woke up with the Snapchat saying they're sick. So anyways, Paul plant, Paul plant, Paul Rudd is his name. Football Georgia. Um, yeah. Loud. I also, one of my friends can vouch for this. I am, what's the word you used before? I mean we've been talking for 54 minutes, self deprecating humor. Yes. Um, very, do not believe in myself at all. Zero faith in myself. Why? Um, I feel like just growing up again in that possible field being told that I wasn't good enough. Yeah. Um, and still believing that I'm not good enough.

Um, and I feel like Ray's has kind of woken me up and gone, wow, okay, I like, I deserve to be here and I'm grateful to be here. Um, but yeah, again, everything comes with a very heavy mental side of stuff and yeah, I have zero faith in myself and I'm very tough on myself. Um, I'll come out of a really good game, but I'll only focus on one really bad, like one really bad play, um, and that'll play on my mind for a few days, which is, yeah, tough. Um, especially when everyone else focuses

on the good side of things, but you're the only one kind of beating yourself up about one specific part of the game, um, which is me. What do you do to combat that? Um, distract myself, like coming here is a distraction, not so much the only reason I'm here is to distract myself from that, but, um, I just do stuff that I enjoy, like going out for breakfast with my sister or like getting a coffee or going on walks, um, going to the gym is one as well, um, yeah. I want to get a diary, actually.

I need to do that. Page eight have good diaries. Page eight? I don't know what that is. Do you know page eight? I don't, sorry. You guys! Page eight is where I got your card from. Is it like, what's, is it, what type of, is it type of, it's like bougie type of, or it's not so much like stationary, it's a bit of everything. They have like travel books and plant books and plant books, plant books, like plant book indoor jungle, um, they have wine glasses. It's very like a spot where like local artists, I feel like go to sell their stuff.

Okay. So yeah, it's a good shop. It's like Etsy, but local. Yeah. Anyway. Cool. Anyway. Anyway. Yeah. I need a journal. Uh, cause I've read that writing stuff down in the journal helps. That's good. Yeah. Good start. Yeah. We had a journal for school. Try to pull. No. Well we actually have a journal for school, but I've never really used it. Why? I don't know. I feel like again, it's just like me, um, telling myself I don't have time to, or like shying away from expressing how I feel, which yeah, a very another thing I do not like doing as you guys can tell, what I know that's coming, don't worry.

What's coming. That's your topic. I'm a season of war has topics. Oh yeah. I'm going to talk about George's feelings. Not yet though. Not yet. Soon. Okay. What do you want to do with football? I want to play VFL. If you were to compare yourself to someone, AFL, AFLW, even both, who would you say you play like? Um. What are your strengths? Uh, good in the air, I have good marks, um, very strong with my hands. Um, I also like to think I have a bit of a strong body, but there are girls that can body me, which is, yeah, you get better at using it.

Yeah. Yeah. I just need to learn how to use it. That's exactly right. Um, I have a good kick when I'm not beating myself up about it, um, and I'd like to think I've gotten faster too with my running, obviously like now kind of a setback. So I kind of hope I get back into it. But last season I thought it was pretty speedy for my height, especially tall girls aren't seen as very fast. So yeah, I'm also like in the rock. I like jumping. Yeah. Being in the air. That's where you live. Yeah. Yeah. In the clouds.

My head way up there. George's world. So who do you compare yourself to? Who do I compare myself to? Um. Or who do you model your game on or what do you, yeah. I, AFLW? Not cause people call me G train, but I do like to think, I like, I model my game on Caitlin Grieser. Yeah. She's very strong body wise. And she's got a good kick. She does. She's got one bomb of a kick. She does. Um, yeah. I like to think I model my game off her. Um, she's very strong. She's very strong. Um, uh, try and think AFL, you don't need to, no, I can't really think of any, any guys I model my game off.

Who'd you idolize growing up? In the sporting field? Anyone. Anyone. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I cannot think. Who'd you put on a pedal to? One direction. There's nothing wrong with that. So did every other basic white girl. I love one direction. So did every other one. Love a good one direction song. Why? I wasn't a Justin Bieber gal. I was a one direction gal. Why? Um, cause I feel like they had, they also go into that sense of belonging. Like they had each other and I kind of wish I had that with, um, which I do now, but yeah.

Yeah. I always find the intricacies of that world mind boggling because I don't get it. Yeah. But sad. They're broken up. Sad. Yeah. Breakups have them for a reason. Everything happens for a reason. Amen sister. Yeah. That is one quote I have been living by anything. Anytime something bad happens, everything happens for a reason. It's only stressful if you make it stressful. Yep. It's only embarrassing if you make it embarrassing. Who said that? You. Yeah I did. Yeah I did. What are you, I was going to say, starting out Virtus, what do you find yourself doing that you didn't do previously?

That's about what I put up on Instagram. I used to never ever stress about social media, but now that I'm like in the eye of it, like and like people see, like I, Oh God, I don't know how to word it, but it's a great little segue. So keep going. Yeah. Like I am uploading what God knows how many people watch. Like a lot of people look at the Instagram and I am the one like trying to upload and make things that people want to watch, which yeah, I never thought I'd be doing that. You do a good job.

Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks. I'd never, I never thought I'd be doing that. And it's kind of funny because when I tell people I work here, they go, Oh, is that like something you see yourself doing in the long term? And I'm like, well, I mean, now that I'm in it, like, yes, like I want to get better at it and I want to learn like social media influences. Like you look at their accounts and it's like, God, how do you make that video? Like I look at a lot of people. I listened to the nine to five fitness podcast, which I don't know what your guys like Tyler and your outlook is on all your outlook.

Do you know who they are? I've actually never listened to them before. This is like a young old person. Oh, sorry. They're like fitness influences, but like people have differentiated opinions about them. I like them. Yeah. I have no opinion at all. Actually. Yeah. I have no aversion or positive outlook to either. It just sometimes comes across my page and I'm more than happy to watch it. They make good content. Like I'm just going on there and it's like their Instagram, even their private Instagrams, like they make good content. They make videos that people want to watch and what makes it good content?

Yeah. What makes it good? That's a question. What makes it? Sorry, I was looking out the window. I know. That's what I had to ask you. What makes good content? Yeah. You want to listen, slash watch what they put out for someone who is in the same field technically. Me? Yeah. Yeah, you. Oh. Georgia's fading. Yeah. I'm fading. I can't think. She needs UberEats. You need a snack. If Mornington and Zambreros want to sponsor the podcast, that'd be fantastic. Oh, it would be fantastic. Georgia, you're right. You're in charge. A Zambreros voucher for every person that goes on the podcast.

You're in charge. But I mean, cause I'm the one setting it up, I have to get a voucher. You're in charge? You're in charge. I'm going to email her. You're in charge. What's that? Jaz, do you have any other questions you'd like to ask Georgia before we segue into the topic of the day? I don't think so. I don't think so. No. Topic of the day. Segway it is. What's the topic of the day? So you half know about what this topic is, but I wanted to put you on the spot so you didn't really have a chance to simmer.

Okay. So the topic for today's episode with Georgia is growing up as a teenager on the Mornington Peninsula, because it is very different to growing up in elsewhere and other places as we all know, but other people don't necessarily. Yeah. But also what is it like going through some pretty important times in your life through the middle of pandemic? I want to know your perspective on that. Oh, hold on. So now your brain has to work for another like 25 minutes and then you go... Can you please repeat the question? Yes. Like at a simpler form.

Yeah. So I want to, that's the topic. Okay. The first question I'm going to ask you is how did you find COVID? Mentally draining. There was a day, I'd say probably a year into the lockdown, the whole fiasco, and I watched, oh, it was a movie, when I was meant to be doing school, which is another thing. School online was shit, very hard. And I mean, I'm grateful that I wasn't doing year 12 through lockdown because I can't even imagine what like they, what year 12's doing online, like VC, like hard work, not having anyone there to help you.

But how, I'm trying to think of the movie. The reason I ask you this question, the reason we're going down this path is I know one, no one really understands what a teenager you go through full stop. And we have a lot of parents at Virtus that have young teenagers that are struggling to an extent coming now out of COVID, which obviously COVID is a byproduct. And when you go through those important times and important years, like it's, everyone experiences it differently. And I think, you know, being 15 when COVID started, right? Yeah, just, just fresh.

Yeah. So pretty impressionable and like pretty high on growth and development. I'm coming this as a perspective of how do we, or how can parents potentially understand and what it felt like to go through COVID as a teenager? I feel like giving their teenagers space, but also not too much space. When I was going... How do you balance the two? Pardon? How do you balance the two? Yeah. Well, when I was going through COVID, my dad would take my phone off me at, I love my dad, by the way, this is not bashing him in any way.

I love you dad, if you're listening to this. He'll listen. But... He gave you a good luck message. Yeah. He would take my phone off me. I think it was past 10 o'clock, 10.30, just because, you know, like I was on a screen all day. I see where he's... I absolutely see where he's coming from, like sitting on a screen all day. He doesn't want me sitting on a screen all night because that's like, yeah, way too much. But he would take my phone off me past, I think it was 10 o'clock, 10.30. And that just...

When your parents do something that you are unhappy with, like I had my phone for a way to connect with my friends, because when I did have my phone, the only way I was able to connect with them was through, hey, do you have this piece of work or can you help me with this? Or do you want to like get on teams meeting and we'll do this work together? Not a, oh my God, like teenager gossip, like this happened, like all this. And that was probably the worst part of it. I learned how to get around a lot of things.

Like I had an iPhone 5 that I used to text friends, and I had Instagram on my laptop, I learned how to download Snapchat on my laptop, yeah, so that I could text my friends and just kind of reach out, especially living in Chelsea. I didn't get to see them as much when I was at that house, because obviously they're all... Your 5K radius is the water. Yeah, literally. And all I went was homework, homework, because I was an essential worker. That was shit. Where were you working? Woolies. Woolies, yeah. Been there for almost three years.

And yeah, I was right in the middle of it too, so anyways, yeah, being in Chelsea, I didn't get to see friends a lot, which was really damaging and very lonely, I will admit. What's the outcome? What does that look like now for you? So obviously you have time to reflect on it and you are getting better at reflecting. Yeah, I guess. No, you are. Positive affirmations, Georgia. No self-deprecating humour. Yeah. Don't be Mitch. Be less like Mitch. Wait, what was it? What's it like to reflect on that now? What's the outcome of that? What do you feel like that's changed or infected you?

It's affected me in a way, I enjoy going out, but I am also, if I go out, I want to end up in my own bed at the end of the night, like I want to sleep in my own bed and I like having friends over, but I don't like having them sleep over, because it's just like, it was so draining of not seeing anyone for so long I got used to it, and it was just kind of an, okay, this is like, I am on my own kind of thing. And yeah, I just got

very used to being on my own, and now that I am comfortable with being by myself, it was, it's something that's definitely like, I've gotten used to it. Yeah, that was... What did you, what do you wish your parents knew that you either couldn't express or didn't know how to or didn't want to? Didn't want to, how hard it was, and I never really wanted to speak back to my dad, like, because like I'd never, living, I'm the only Templeton like child left living in that house, because I have two step-siblings and a step-mum, and

I didn't really want to disappoint him in a way, and it was always like me too scared to, like I'd always argue about it with my phone, but... Don't argue. Please talk about it. What? He'll be happy to hear that. I argue. He'll be like a god damn liar. But yeah, I wish they could, I wish I could go back and say like, Georgia, speak up, like, you have a voice and you mean something and like you have a place in this world and you deserve to express it, and hey dad, I'm feeling really lonely right now, can I have my phone tonight?

Or like, hey dad, I just want to call mum or something like that. It was always, it was always a lot of, you can call her in the morning as well, and you can text her in the morning, and that's what resorted me to texting her on Instagram on my laptop and I texted a lot of friends on Instagram and everything, but yeah, just how hard it was, and I know it was hard for them too, I'm not taking away from the fact that it was hard for everyone. Yeah, you're a little shithead, what are you talking about?

But yeah, it was, and I know a lot of people felt like that, I don't know about other people if their parents took their phones off them, but it was, yeah, a very low time in my life, like, I think I went, like, it made me sleep in as well, because I slept upstairs and my phone was kept downstairs, there was a lot of times I can't even be bothered to go get my phone right now, to like, go downstairs and get my phone and say hi to my friends, like, I'm just going to hop right on to class, or...

What did you use as like a, I don't know, coping mechanism is the right word, but like, what did you do instead of... Watching movies, TV shows, a lot, I spent a lot of my time watching movies and TV shows, yeah. Is, in looking back, do you wish you did something different? Yeah, I wish I went outside more, I didn't go outside a lot. What stopped you from going outside, besides just, I can't be bothered? Yeah, I think the majority of it was the I can't be bothered. Yeah, the majority of it was, oh, like,

I run in so much effort, and even though, like, I was playing footy at that point, but it was also like, when am I going to be able to actually pick up a footy again, and like, oh, if you're only allowed an hour outside a day, and if someone, I just had a lot of friends that really had a problem, like, just because you were on a walk, like, I went on a walk with a friend, and all of a sudden, everyone would be attacking me, and being like, oh, you're selfish, like, you, like, COVID, like, people are dying from this, like, stay inside.

Is that a, I kind of feel like it's an immature mindset, is that like a teenage mindset kind of thing, like? Yeah. No one had anything else better to do? No, yeah, and yeah, that's exactly right, no one had anything else better to do. Like everyone was on their phones all the time, and I was also like, oh, if they're seeing their friends, why can't I see mine, like an endless, like an endless chain, and then it would cause everyone being, being outside and all that, which is yeah, but um, I'm trying to think where we were before I- Doesn't matter, just keep talking.

Beelined. Um, now I've lost my train of thought. Walking. Not wanting to go outside. Yeah, not wanting to go outside, lying in bed, saying like, bed was my comfort, like, I really, it was, I slept in a lot, I slept through classes a lot, I didn't do a lot of tasks, um, it was a lot of, oh, I'll do this task tomorrow, like, I'll sleep through this class, and like, my teacher will talk, and then all of a sudden it'll be the end of the meeting, and they'll be like, oh, Georgia, why haven't you left, and I'm literally asleep.

Like, I was, I was asleep. I wasn't on the meeting. I love that. I didn't, I didn't listen to anything they were saying that whole time, um, but I, a lot of the days, I do not remember a lot of the days, because a lot of them were, alarm went off at 8.45, class started at 8.50, fell asleep from 8.50 to, like, 10 o'clock, and then hopped onto the next class, and just kind of made a list of all, made a list of all the tasks that I hadn't done, that I needed to get done, and then it piled up and it, it showed on my, on my report, um, but apparently my report was good that year.

Dad made a joke and was like, oh, maybe she should be home all the time, oh my god, no. Let the wings fly. Um, what's, I mean, look, what was the difference between normal Georgia school life prior to and after? I was a very different person. I was... Do you find a lot of people were? Yeah. Yeah. In what way? I feel tired, and, I mean, people are, like, I feel like now we kind of say, like, a social battery, but before then, I never, ever heard, heard about it, and people now... Good thing or bad thing?

Uh, bit of both. I feel like if someone doesn't have a social battery, then that's fine, like, it's nothing wrong with it. You just need a day to yourself and, or however long it takes you to recover from it, like, do what you feel like you need to do. Yeah, I think that's a positive outcome of a lot of it, is less, you, I find that people get a less annoyed if you choose not to go to something because you just don't have the energy to do that, which I think is a positive thing, at least.

Yeah, and I feel like COVID also brought out a lot of people, like, learning how to take care of themselves, finally, because I definitely learned how to take care of myself and learn how to treat myself, almost. What did you do to do that? There was a lot of online shopping. I will admit a lot of my money went out. Yeah. A lot of, like, I'd get a paycheck and I'd spend it and then it was all of a sudden gone. And then it's like, Oh my gosh, I need to buy a car in a year.

And now it's, Oh my gosh, I'm buying a car next month. Oh my gosh, I don't have a car. Um, yeah, yeah. I have a lot. Yeah. Same. A lot of clothes that I bought over COVID and haven't seen in a while. You know, when you go into sleep and it's like, Oh my gosh, I haven't seen that top in ages. And all of a sudden you can't get... I most definitely do not do that. Really? I'm like, Hey, I'm going to sleep. Okay, bye. I'm asleep. No way. The other night I hadn't seen the top that I always wore and I was like, I have to find this.

Where is it? Is this how your brain works? Yeah. Yeah. Light bulb. Ding. Um. Anyways. Yeah. Anyways. I haven't heard that in a while. Anyways. Where were we? Social batteries. Social batteries. It's a bad thing and a bad thing. Like obviously you want to have a social battery cause you want to be out and about. But not having a social battery is fine. It's not something that should be frowned upon and like, Oh, like, I don't know how to work. Like I don't know how to talk right now. Who knew that talking for an hour and a half could be so tiring?

Me. Yeah. I've done this a lot. No. Not at all. If you can talk under water, I knew you wouldn't struggle with this part of it. It's more the brain outcome. Harvey's. Harvey's. Harvey's done. Yeah, yeah. Harvey's that cold. Little Harvey. Oh yeah. Um, yeah, it's, it definitely shouldn't be something that's frowned upon because if you can't be bothered to go out, it's, uh, it's your body saying you need to take a break and it's your mind saying, okay, I need a second to just kind of, whether it's like literally just lie on the couch

and like watch a movie or I like just sitting in a quiet room for a long time, not even on my phone, just sat there for a long time. Just like thinking, letting all these thoughts pass over whether it was, Oh my gosh, I'm so behind or like in school, Oh my gosh, I miss footy. Like I want to go back. Like you never really miss something until you like don't, what's that saying? Distance makes the heart grow fonder. Yeah. Definitely. Um, that is a very true statement. I agree with that. Thanks Georgia. No worries.

Um, but yeah, I have never heard the expression like social battery until after COVID and until recently like, um, what do you find about maybe some of your friends or like your network? Uh, one of my friend groups, they love to go out and I love that for them. But I don't have the effort to light discos. Yeah. What was that disco in Main Street called disco? I always, that's all we do as under ages, Georgia. Yeah. I always wanted to go when my sister went to a blue light disco. She's missing the point of it right over your head.

My sister was my age. Obviously not COVID yet. She'd go to blue light discos and I'd be like, mom, why can't I go? And then all of a sudden my time to go to the blue light disco was, um, I was stuck inside. Yeah. Not worth it. Yeah. True. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway. Social group. Social group. Yeah. What changes do you see? Or like what's, what's the difference? Because I'm sure people adapted and changed to it differently, right? Yeah. Yeah. They adapted to it saying, okay, like when you're older, you're not going to remember working every day and you know, like you got to live your teenage years to the fullest, I guess.

Sounds a bit corny or whatever. Oh, it is. Um, and they like, I've a hundred percent, um, like I envy them because they, they go out and they have fun and they're out all night and then I'm just like in bed and I'm like, Oh, like I was invited. It's not a, Oh, I didn't get an invite. It's a, Oh, I, I couldn't be bothered. It's like, I'd rather just lie in bed then catch a train into the city and do something fun with friends. Yep. Um, yeah, people have adopted like that, like seeing that,

um, not every day is promised and that you should, um, not go every day wondering all like, what if I did this or what if I did this differently or something like that? I don't even know what I'm saying. I'm just kind of rambling. Sorry. Um, but yeah, a lot of people are also like me, like they just kind of go out when they feel like it cause that's me. Can you think of like, like a negative outcome or like a negative change that you've noticed? Not necessarily for you. It could be for you if you want, but just in general, um, I'm sure jazz do you for a question?

Yeah, I'm trying to, sorry, I've just been enjoying listening. You're better at making a negative outcome or like something that's not positive. It doesn't necessarily have to be negative, but I'm trying to think like being a teenager at that age, having your best years as a teenager, like blocked. It affects people in different ways. Some people adapt and end up positively or make a positive adaptation. Some people don't have the ability to, or in environments that make that challenging or are in their own way a lot. Can you imagine or think of anything like that? Um, not off the top of my head, I can't really, I'm kind of blanking.

I don't have anywhere for you to go. I'm just, I'm imagining this in my head. Yeah. Um, my gosh, I'm going to be annoying and say, repeat it just so I can really listen. Like what did you, oh, I was like repeat what? Say the question again. Yeah. Like, do you, can you imagine a situation where someone potentially didn't know how to or didn't adapt to being locked inside for 18 months or like, did you notice it changing or affecting any of your friends that you didn't think it would in certain ways? Maybe not any

of my friends, but like people in the public eye, like a lot of influences have really flourished through COVID and they've realised, um, like, yeah, exactly what I said before, that not every day is promised and that they're trying to get the most out of their days. And, um, yeah, just a lot of people in the public eye, like that's, that's really all I can think of. Um, I can't really think of anything for myself. Um, yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. You don't need to have an answer, I'm just, you know, I'm imagining like

my life as being a 15 year old to 17 year old, like going through middle school into VCE, like as much as high school is like amazing and everything like that, there is certain moments that people don't enjoy full stop, but there's also things that are like euphoric in a way that you can kind of look back and go, you know, that's, that's pretty cool. And I can imagine going through that time and obviously being able to look back at it now, you can kind of imagine going, I wish that could do that or, Hey, I wish I didn't do this or Hey, I wish I went and actually tried that.

And I would just imagine that being, having that all taken away, like what kind of effect does that have on teenagers that being a teenager is hard enough having to do it in a pandemic. Um, do you have anything else to add to that? I see you looking and peering like you're thinking as well. No, I was just going to say, what was there anything in particular that you learned or took away from the time during COVID and when you said there was a lot of time on your own, just you and the water, just me and the five car at the radius, scary, um, to be a fly on the wall, George's brain just occupying itself.

Um, Hey Jaz, can you repeat the question? I think, um, one thing I took away from it was, Oh, I'm so jealous of people that didn't experience COVID at my age. Like they actually like the blue light disco. You actually got to experience blue light disco. Like I, I've never, I never have. And a lot of kids, 20 days. I don't even know the 23rd as no, as in like what age you have to be to go to disco. I thought you didn't ruin my birthday. So I was like 20 days like, I don't know the age actually.

I haven't looked at, I forgot about it, but let's go look it up. You might be able to go. Yeah, maybe. Um, but yeah, very envious of people that didn't experience that didn't, they got to experience things without it being interrupted. Like I, there was a program at Mornington, I can't remember what it was called, but for a whole term you went out and like learned in a different area and it was like term one was surf, term two was like horse riding and stuff like that. Term three was snow and term four was like surfing again.

And um, yeah, I got into the surf program. I got in to what I wanted to and then got locked down for 18 months. Like I didn't get to experience that. I'd missed 18 months of my footy. Like it always crosses through my mind, would I be in rays earlier if I had those years of footy. I never got to experience V line. Um, I, yeah, I just never really got that. Um, yeah, I just wish I, I wish I knew like if I, that's one thing that plays through my mind a lot is could

I be playing rays earlier and could I actually have a shot in the draft if COVID wasn't a thing and like would I be where I am right now if COVID wasn't a thing. Like everything happens for a reason, as I said before again, like would I be here if COVID wasn't a thing? Like would I be at sea if COVID wasn't a thing? It's like, it's a very broad topic. Ifs, buts, maybes. Yeah. And I can't live by that. I can't live with like regret because I'd... Overrated. Very overrated. Lots of people hate me for saying that, but they can suck it up.

Oh yeah. Suck it up. Seriously. Um, yeah. I reckon you answered Mitch's question. Did I? Yeah. Really? Yeah. You answered the other question. There you go. We just needed to ask you a different question and we got it. Yeah. We got you. I just, I wish I got, that's one thing I wish I got to experience Feline, a lot of girls my age did and a lot of girls, like the tour last year, like, Oh, Georgia, why didn't you get invited? I'm too old. I missed. I'm old as shit. I'm old. Like, I'm getting older. And it's like...

At the ripe old age of being born in like 2005. 2005, oh God. Let's go back 2000s. You might be our youngest podcast guest. Oh, Lucy. Sorry. I feel like Billy was on it. Yeah. Billy didn't have the headphones on, but she was in one. Yeah. I wish I experienced V-Line and I wish I experienced Tasmania earlier and cause Tasmania was the best trip I've probably been on in my life. Like we didn't have our phone for four days and I got back and got on my phone. I'm like, what the hell do I do now?

What was so good about it? I don't know. Just actually having zero stress. I love how everyone can hear that. Sorry. What is that? You two might be at a different point all the time. I feel like for four days straight, I didn't have any stress other than like, Oh my God, am I going to play foot? Like, how am I going to, how is this game going to turn out? And less time to think. Yeah. And not, Oh my gosh. Like I have this event coming up next week. Like looking at my phone, what am I going to wear or something like that?

It's like less pondering and more doing. Yeah. And it's like Tassie, like if you play in the MPJFL shout out, go to Tassie or New Zealand. 99.9% sure. My sister did that as well. I think back in the day. Yeah. Irrelevant fact. But yeah, irrelevant. Yeah. She's not going to listen. Oh, rough. Pop that. No one needs to hear my voice more than I have to, she's like 23 years old. You guys got a while. Fair enough. 23 to go. But yeah, best four days of my life, I made friendships that I never thought I'd have.

And like a lot of, a lot of my footy friendships now is from Tassie and I know people that I never thought I would and like Ray's wouldn't, I probably wouldn't be playing Ray's if it wasn't for Tassie and yeah, I just wish I got to experience it earlier when I was younger and kind of shape life lessons like teenage, like growing up. I wish I could have, yeah. I wish. Can't live by that. What are you glad was the biggest struggle looking back at being a teenager in COVID? Well, that's a broad... What are you happy that sucked?

Shaping friend groups. Toxic people. Because you don't have to see them. Toxic people follow you everywhere. You probably like all of, I don't know what to say. I forget more people that I know. Everyone probably has people in their life where they're like, oh, they're probably not the best for me at this point in time in my life. Do they need to be in my life? And it's, yeah. It's the age old adage of when you leave high school. I think I probably have four or five mates that I still talk to from high school. My cohort was probably 180 people.

Damn. Yeah. That's a lot. Yeah. I had 42. Shit. That's a big high school. 42. Well, right now I have 26, so. So you win? Yeah. Yeah. It is the age old adage, your parents will tell you, you know, your real friends will stick around. Like COVID sped that process up. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it definitely did. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. I knew a lot of people through COVID and now I'm like, like I know people here and- I made you reflect on this shit, didn't I? Yeah. Damn. Damn. I haven't really like ever thought of this.

Yeah, like my friend group now consists of like people at the gym and like you guys and I'd say- Oh, hey. Oh. Oh. Friends. And friends. Gym friends. And I'd say maybe like, maybe like, oh, 20 people max from my old school from Mornington. Yep. Oh, maybe a bit more than that, but it's like also people I want to spend time with and not people I call, I have to go see them, like, I don't know, but yeah, COVID definitely did speed up that process because yeah, I have a lot of- I don't talk to a lot of people that I did pre-COVID.

Some I wish I still did, some I don't, but even when you graduate high school, like that'll still be in the back of your mind, but yeah, I'm happy with the friendships I've made here, especially. I'm glad. Thanks. Thanks. Yeah, that's okay. Like, I feel like having older friends, like, not that you guys are old, I'm not saying that. Not saying that. No, I see how it is. No. Like, having older friends- There it is again. Sorry, but you guys are older than me. That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm not saying you're old. I'm just saying- You're making it up.

Well, has definitely taught me a lesson. Like, I can't think in like, what way at all, but like, I like- We're also old young people. Yeah. Yeah. That's very true. Easier to relate to, but easier to learn off. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Grandparents. Funcle. Faunty. Fake uncle. Whoa. What does that mean? Fun uncle. Fun uncle. Oh, my god. That is the best. Flip it. Flip it. You just left me hanging. Yeah. Oh, boy. Flip that, too. The wheels are falling off. The wheels are falling off. We're going to wrap this up in a minute, but any other- Fake uncle.

Shit. Fuck. Cop that. I'm just going to fuck myself. Bitch. Norris. You can fucking end this yourself, man. Buddy. Any other passing comments on COVID as a teenager before we wrap this up? Hmm. Don't- Because, let's be honest, no one really understands what a teenager goes through. You only work that out when you reflect on it yourself, but also, no one knows what people will go through during COVID either. Everyone has different experiences, so as a teenager that no one understands anyway. Any other passing comments, thoughts, comments, questions, queries? Comments like COVID and boys, that was something else because I feel like when you're lonely, you are only searching for someone that will try and fill that void.

It could be the right person for you, but it is most definitely not. I feel like everyone's experience, everyone my age experienced different relationships with different people through COVID. I don't talk to a single guy I used to talk to through COVID just because I needed new people to talk to. That's all it was. It wasn't really anything else. But yeah, that's also a big thing as a teenage girl, boys, it's tough. It's tough out here. Yeah, we're dicks. Fucking hell. Language! Language! Careful Georgia. You're under. I am, yeah, and boys will be dicks and girls also are the same.

Girls can be ruthless. I can admit, I've been a bitch to some people in my life and coming here has made me realise that. Reflection! Do I have to cry myself to say, "Shit, why did I do that?" Sounds bad, but when it comes to talking to boys, you want to trust them, but you never really can. Or anyone. Or anyone. Yeah, exactly. People talk about it on TikTok a lot, you can never really trust anyone. And it's like, "Wow, okay." That's very deep. Because it's true. You don't really know who you can trust. And I mean, yeah.

George's brain just exploded because she's like, "I don't know how to think about this shit." Getting a relationship as a teenage girl is hard. It's very hard. And people don't realise it, but it is. And you will probably, if you walk up to any single, well obviously you wouldn't. I'm just saying genuinely, if you walk up to a girl about my age, I'm not saying everyone wants a boyfriend, but I want a boyfriend. I want a boyfriend. Why? I don't know. I just want to feel like I'm someone's first choice. That's what a lot of it is.

I want to feel like I am someone that they wake up and go, "Oh, I've got to text them or I'm going to go make plans or see them or something like that." But yeah, never really got to experience that. It's developmental. It's behavioural. We're technically on this planet to procreate and leave. Yeah, basically. Damn. And on that note. We're out of here. Anything else Chaz, if I just leave on that bombshell for everyone? How have you found being on the podcast? Was it as fun as you thought it would be? Fun. See, it's not that scary.

Nerve-wracking though. What's your heart rate? You two? Well, we're still talking. Mine's definitely lower. I reckon mine would be- I reckon it was because I was chasing Harvey around. Poor Harvey. What do you mean poor Harvey? He's cocked in. He has. He's going to sleep all the way home. All right, boy. Oy, watch it. Sorry, Mum. It's not bad. Yeah. It's not great. It's not bad. Dropped down to 79%. Oh, now it's 67. Look at you guys, see? BPM. What did you enjoy about it that you didn't think you would? Getting so many things out that I haven't talked about for so long.

What do you think I asked you? Come on. So that I could do that? Yeah. Yeah. Character building. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, I don't know. I don't know. Now everyone knows that my dog ate my guinea pig, and called out, and it was most definitely your fault. Yeah. Sure was. Murderer. Who has a greyhound and brings a guinea pig into the house? You. Honestly. Sure. Seriously. Yeah. I'll let you listen. Won't do it again. I hope. Oh. No. I don't want a guinea pig again. Take it away from me. Daisy would not eat Harvey. Uh. He's so cute.

I know. All right, team. We're out of here. Thanks for listening. We got there in the end. I'm gonna go get Uber Eats. We kept it. I was gonna say, we kept the train on the rails, but it definitely came off a few times. Oh, it definitely came off a few times. Definitely. Yeah. Thanks for coming on, George. Thanks for having me. Bye, everyone. Have a good day. Love it. Love you, Lucy.