Emily Vernon

This will evolve, I'm sure.

We're calling it the Sunday roast.

If you have any ideas, inclusions, improvements, objections, please share.

That is from our outlouder, Lee.

It sparked such a good conversation and got us thinking about how we keep group chats alive.

We tried to do this in one of my friendship group chats because we live all over Australia, all over the world, and we did it where it would be a voice note.

and you had to say what the highlight and low light of the week was.

But it ended up being like a six-minute voice note from my friend who I adore who lives in Western Australia and he'd be like, I found a possum.

And I'm like, I just, I care, I care.

But the obligation to respond to like each element of him finding a possum was a lot.

Which, can I say, is so fucking indulgent of us to not listen to other people's voice notes.

Like, I'm sorry, we'll just record hours of podcasting a week that some of our friends listen to and then they send me a voice note and I'm like, ew.

Oh, so they're going to tell me something juicy.

And the ones, the voice notes that you do over text disappear once somebody's listened to them, which can become confusing if I wasn't concentrating the first time.

But no, I've had people where they're telling me gossip and I'm like, oh, that's quite clever actually.

Okay, so like Em got like both sides of the – so I've got my husband's family group chat absolutely dead, no vibe there.

Sorry, guys.

No vibe there.

And then my family group chat, which is mostly mum sharing things with no context.

Her favourite thing and what you say, Em, about –