Life Uncut - The Best Of The Pick Up

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: Leonardo DiCaprio emotionally feels 35 Britt & Laura chat about Alien Encounters  Laura left something on the roof of her car (again) Bella Thorne 'proposed back' to her fiancé A woman was charged $18 to hang her bag in a restaurant Laura is taking Marlie to her first ever concert + Gen Z experiences concerts differently to Millennials Fashion Critical weighs in on Lola's Book Week costume You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. And this is, it's actually not Life Uncut. It's The Pickup. It's our radio show. Brittany, stop banging your microphone around.

Sorry, I wasn't ready. I didn't even have my earphones on, my headphones on. I mean, you never have your headphones on these days. It's my birthday week. Whatever, you can't come for me. Sorry, sorry. It is. It was your birthday week.

This is The Pickup. It's where we package up all the best bits from our national radio show and we play them here for you. This week, can I just say, I did really control myself on the pod because I didn't talk about book week. And all I've done for the last several weeks of my life is talk about book week. We've been talking about it on radio nonstop. And this is the thing, right?

And I know I've said this before, but if you have a kid in school, you do book week is one day. So you just get one costume. But if your kid is in preschool, every single day of the week is book week. And so you have to come up with a different outfit. It does make sense. Because otherwise some kids get left out because some kids might only go to daycare on a Tuesday.

You know what I'd say? Friday. Snooze you lose. Suck it up, princess. I think you have to just make it fit. Like they don't know what they missed out on. They weren't there. So Lola had lots of costumes this week because she obviously

had something different every day. But she had one very, I don't want to say questionable, I'm like go off queen. Yes, you be you and you lean into what you're passionate about. She was supposed to go as an astronaut on the last day of school but she had a little quick swap and change. And the book that she chose may not be age appropriate. Yes, there may be swear words in it, but I didn't realise that

until we had Fashion Critical herself on the show and she was reviewing Lola's outfit, her book week costume. I think she can live her best life. I think it was cute. I think the astronaut was boring. She lent in to who she really is. No, she walked into the shower this morning. So, like, Matt had got her dressed in the astronaut outfit

and you would think that she was just, like, you know, being murdered or, like, held against her will. She came in bawling her eyes out, did not want to wear the astronaut and was so keen on doing this, like, fashion-critical look that she put together. I was like, girlfriend, you're four. Good on her. Live your best life.

Well, I had a conversation this week of probably one of my favourite conversations we've ever had. Is Machine Gun Kelly related to aliens? I'm not sure if this is the worst radio we've ever done. Britt's like, I loved it so much. I just can't get behind alien chat. Yeah, but we're different. I'm a sceptic.

You can't get behind ghosts. You don't get behind like the manifestation. You don't get behind aliens. I'm into that kind of stuff because it's like I don't necessarily have to believe it but I find it fascinating and I love hearing people's stories. No, I get behind the manifestation stuff more. I'm a bit of a sceptic and also even the ghosts I've come around to

but then every year you come out with, you're like, now we're going to talk about aliens. Whatever. I just want to explore the world and know what's possible. That's all. Yeah, I did have to drag Britt out of the corner and take the tinfoil hat off her head. Still got it on. Anyway, let's get into it. Laura, I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio,

we grew up with him being, he was a bit older than us, but he was the heartthrob. He was, he was the one that you would stick on your wall as a poster. Like, you know, when he did that. Well, him and also Hanson. So yeah. Oh yeah, Hanson. But he was like, I don't know. He was of our time, I guess. And I think he's probably for me, one of the most controversial people at the moment in Hollywood. And I don't know whether to love him or hate him. You know how always gets this controversy about dating younger women well he went from being i mean do you remember him in romeo and juliet he was so young he couldn't do anything wrong he was so hot no and everyone loved the beach like he was just beautiful and then the beach was like that lived

around for him he really was he was a beautiful beautiful man and then everyone wanted to date him and then somehow he went from being this beautiful heartthrob to being a cringy old dude who's now dates 19 year old kids so believe it or not that much time has gone past that he has just turned 50. So he's in his 50s. Happy birthday, Leo. Well, it was last year, but he's kicked off. The internet's kicked off again because people, he became a bit of a butt of all the jokes. The oldest woman he's ever dated is his current girlfriend right now, who is 27 years old. And we've spoken about it and we've had laughs on the podcast on the radio show before about the fact that like he was dating 20 year olds as like 48 year olds. And we're all for the age gap. It's

fine, but not when it's a bit, becomes a bit predatory. And like when it's your MO on repeat. I mean, to be fair, I have no issue with a 50-year-old dating a 27-year-old. I have an issue with like a 48-year-old dating a 19-year-old. Especially when that is your only type and you're only dating people who are under 22 or something. That's gross. He's kicked off the internet again. So he just did an interview with one of his directors, Paul Thomas Anderson.

And this was for Esquire. You know Esquire magazine? Yeah, I'm super familiar with it. I read it all the time. It's my favorite mag. I'm telling you because I know. It's a very famous magazine. So basically during the interview he was asked,

if you didn't know how old you are, how old are you right now? So like how old do you feel in this moment, age taken away? And he replied that he feels 32. But then he went another step and he said, but emotionally max 35. That's what he's saying. So he's 50 and he feels like he's in his early 30s. And I think that that – That gives me the ick.

Well, people are calming for him. I'm like saying like this is why you're only dating younger girls in your 20s and blah, blah, blah. It's like another reason for them to hate on him. But I think the reason why people are coming for him is because people – when I first read that and I've seen it going viral on socials and stuff, I thought he meant it in reference to his dating life. I didn't realise the question that made him answer that.

I kind of feel a bit sorry for him because that feels like a little bit of a set up. He just answered honestly. He's like, I'm 50 but I feel 35. And emotionally I feel like this and people are like, well, that's why you date 19-year-olds. But I get it. I actually really feel what he's saying. And I think when I was younger and I remember my parents saying the same thing. Like I remember my parents being, I think it was their

40th or 50th. And I remember them saying like, I still feel 21. Like you age, but inside you don't feel the age you are. And I feel like that now. I'm 38 this week. And I, if you ask me how old I feel, I'm constantly being like, I'm not ready for kids. Like I'm too young. And it's because of course I'm almost aged out. I'm a geriatric pregnancy at this point. You're not almost aged out. But inside, no, like my eggs are almost aged out. Not me, like physically. Not the age. But I feel

28? I'd almost take 10 years off what my age is. And I don't know what that is. I don't know if that's because I don't have the responsibility of kids and I am living this like, this life with a lot of freedom and spontaneity. I don't know what it is. But I feel for him because I get it. I was like, I do.

How old do you feel? You're like, and I also date down in age. I do. I do. Okay, I'm currently five weeks from having a baby and I genuinely feel like I have a head hanging out of me. I'm so uncomfortable at this point. No, I don't actually care how you feel. I mean, how old do you feel? Well, yeah, I would say I feel, I feel old. I feel like my body hurts, my back hurts, my hips hurt, my everything hurts. So you're the opposite. You feel like 50. Yeah, I'm like 50. I'm like, yeah, I'm having a hard time. But I would say that it's only because I'm in this very specific stage of pregnancy, like third trimester asking someone, so how old

do you feel when I haven't been for a walk longer than 600 meters in about six weeks? Probably doesn't really equate to feeling my best. I mean, it's that old adage, right? Like you're only as old as you feel. My mom says that. My nan said it until she was 86. But like, you know, it truly is. It's you're only as old as you feel unless you're Leonardo and you're dating 27 year olds. And then you're as old as the media says you are. All right. Well, anyway, let's give Leonardo a break. No, I think he's fine. I think he's all right. I reckon he's fair game. i know that you don't want to talk about this laura but i am so excited to talk about machine gun kelly actually i think he just goes by machine now i think we're just calling machine

he dropped the rest of it anyway he has come out and said that he thinks it's a possibility that his dad is an alien now i know how that sounds straight off the bat a bit cray cray oh yeah just a little a little bit of dash of a cray but he's talking about there are some things that happen to him that he just can't explain have a listen i don't know many facts about my life so i don't know i'm starting to just be like like my skin like if it rips open it heals really quick like there's just things where i'm starting to be like who's my dad you know do you think that you could be like other world there that i've asked my mom i said was it had any period of time you went like missing and what did she say ever like a tall slender you know creature that right she told me

She felt like she got abducted at one point. No, this sounds like two drunk dudes at a party. It's 2 a.m. and they've been there for too long. It's Andy Cohen. No, I don't know who it is. I don't care. You don't know who Andy Cohen is? I know who Andy Cohen is.

But even the like, wow, do you think you could be otherworldly? Like it's just no. No, I think that makes a good interviewer, to be honest. He's leaning into where the conversation is going and he's probing for information. But I think who are we to say? I think he's joking. No, he's not joking.

He's spoken about it before. He's actually got like an album song video for one of his songs that's about aliens. I think because if you look at him, people have likened him in the past to looking alien-ish and when I say that it's because like you know how aliens have the very, you know, our look of aliens. Who knows what an alien looks like? I can guarantee you everyone is picturing an alien right now

and it's the head that's like the inverted triangle. That's what the shape of the head and they're tall and skinny. Every alien show you've ever seen looks like that. Yeah, but that doesn't mean that's because actually what aliens look like. It's just because it's being made up. But who are we to say they don't exist? I know you're a bit of a skeptic, but like surely it is ignorant of us to say that we are the only species in this universe,

knowing how many other planets there are. All I've taken from this entire show today is that Brit just really wants to talk alien stories and I think it's way too woo-woo. But when you know how many planets there are, why do you think you're the only one? I don't think I'm the only one, but I also just don't believe in aliens. No, I don't. I'm sure there could be something, but do I think that they're arriving here

in ships and flying around? No, I just. So you think there is something in another life? I need to hear you say it. I don't care enough to have an opinion. Well, it's your job to have an opinion. I'm asking you, do you think that there is life on another planet? No.

Yes, but not in the form of an alien. No, yes, she doesn't know. No, because I don't think, if I'm going to be honest, I mean I think it's a silly conversation, but I don't think it's in the form that we make it out in, like, E.T. and movies. I think that there's probably some microorganism that would indicate that there's life on a planet, but I don't think it's in the way

in which sci-fi films lead us to believe. Oh, that's boring. Okay, well, anyway, let's go to Wendy. Wendy, tell me that you have some sort of alien UFO encounter. Yes, I do, but I just wanted to put it out there that I did not get probed. That was our first question. Thank goodness for you. So I didn't get probed and I didn't see any little green men.

So I grew up in country Victoria, little farming town. There's a couple of power stations around the area. Not abnormal for stories to come out around the power station. So anyway, when my brother and I were little, we went out onto the porch, looking out into the paddock and above the tree line, probably a couple of paddocks away, we could see a silver disc. And we just couldn't believe what we were seeing, you know, looking at each other in absolute disbelief,

but more than anything, terror. So we went inside and got mum. She came outside to have a look and by that time it was gone. But in saying that, she had stories, you know, from when she was little too growing up in the area. Wait, was it night time or day time when you saw the disc first? So it was dusk. So it was just on dusk.

Okay. And, yeah, generally that's the time that they come out. I just always think – Hang on, hang on. It's generally the time they come out. Wendy, when did you become the alien expert? You have to be careful what you say sometimes too because people think you're crazy or you've got a tinfoil hat on or whatever.

I thought you were going to say you have to be careful what you say in case the alien's here. I promise you I'm not sitting at home with my tinfoil hat on, but I'm just going to say I really am a believer. Oh, Wendy, thanks for the call. Now, I don't know why I'm admitting to this. I could just not tell you. That's a good start.

And then you would think more of me. But prepare to think less of me. I don't know. I don't know. I think there is actually something wrong with me And I think there's maybe something wrong with my brain, as in I'm very forgetful, I'm a little bit chaotic, but I tend to lose things pretty easily. Would you agree, Britt?

Am I being lulled in? I think this is like a trick question. Like how many times have I- Can I be honest? How many times have I lost the swipe card for this studio? Let me be honest. You've got ADHD. You're just un-diagnosed ADHD.

We all know it. You know it. We don't love you any less. I feel like my dream day would be when you come to work and you'd be like, hey, I've decided to get diagnosed and take my medication. Do you know why I'll never do it? I never am going to go through the process of ADHD diagnosis. I just don't want you to be right.

I don't want to lose that battle. I'll pretend I'm wrong, but it's for you, no one else. What have you left on your roof? So I have this really bad habit of putting things on the roof of my car and then just driving away. No, like everything, small dogs, children. Everything. Wallets.

It's like I don't know why, I don't know how I managed to do it. I don't even know what I'm doing. I put my phone on there, get in the car, drive away. It's because you always have a lot of things in your hands. The first place to do it, to open a car door, is to put something on your roof. So it's like it happens. It just happens to you an astronomical amount.

Yeah. So the other day I was driving to work. So like I didn't even have the kids or anything. I just put my handbags in the car and stuff. I got in the car, turned the car on, and I'm driving to work. When you leave like where we live, Brit, and then you're going to go to the other side of the city there's this one little area where it goes from I think it's like 50 kilometers to 80 kilometers

but it's a really short strip of road right so I speed up and I go down this 80 kilometer bit of road I hear this I was like what was that even the dog was like what the hell was that Molly's like mom that's our kid on the road no we shouldn't joke anyway I um sorry we're in trouble I get to I pull into my garage and I was like, where are my car keys? So this is meant to be a feature of the Kia, right? Like your car's not meant to turn on if your keys are not in the car. Yeah. So I then spent a good 20 minutes looking, could not find my keys,

can't find them anywhere. They're on the highway. I'm not joking. My entire car keys, my house keys, my office keys, I have this like janitor wad of keys. I put them on top of the roof of the car and I drove to work. So then how do you, knowing now that you can't restart your car because your keys are 100 kilometres away, how do you, did you go back and just drive that road?

I couldn't, I didn't have any keys. But then, so what did you do? How were you driving your car? I was very disappointed with my husband when I called him and asked if he could come get me and bring me my spare set of keys. So the problem is I had to admit it this time because normally I can get away with like driving away with a coffee cup on the roof or a wallet or I just don't have to tell people because the only person it affects is me.

But when you don't have your car keys to the car that you've just driven to an entirely different suburb and also you'd be the sort of person that has your full name and address on your keys too so someone picks up every key that you've got to everything in your life. I had a real bone to pick with the car company because I was like normally it says your keys are not in the car or it gives you some sort of like warning but no nothing. But I guess on the car is close enough it probably has a radius so it must have just like scooted in the radius because it's like that's that's pretty close to being on the car. But you would have thought that when it fell off the roof and flew down the freeway you'd stop that the car would have gone like ding something's

wrong. The keys aren't in here. You threw them out the window, but it didn't. Anyway, I had to call my husband. Are you blaming the car? I feel like you're putting a lot of blame on me. I thought I was safe. If it makes you feel better, I don't do this recurrently. I have done it once that I can remember. I don't know how, cause I was so hungry, but I left my lunch and a smoothie. Like I left my whole, I went to a cafe, got everything and left it on the car. And I started to drive away and there was a car beeping me and it was like coming up beside me and I intentionally was ignoring it you know how you pull out in front of someone or something and they're beeping you so I thought the person next to me was road raging me so I just didn't make eye contact was looking

straight ahead and it was only when they like literally wound down and got in my face that I was like what and they were like your food is on the chicken sniffles on the roof I don't think I'm alone in this I think a lot of people have done it yeah once I do it a lot you do it once a week. Phones, keys, wallet, yet to put a living thing on the roof of the car, but I'm definitely a culprit. Right now, we have something that we need to talk about. Do you think it's weird? Like, obviously we all know that the kind of, I guess like the stereotype is that the guy proposes to the girl in heterosexual relationships. It's the patriot. It's the patriot, but you know, I think things are changing a little bit. Like there are definitely,

we've spoken about it before, there are some women who have proposed to their fiancés or partners. Oh, there's nothing wrong with it, but I wouldn't say it's changing that rapidly. I would still say it is like a 1%. Yeah, it's definitely the norm to kind of like wait until the day that your Prince Charming, if you're in a heterosexual relationship, proposes to you, right? So Bella Thorne, if you don't know who she is, she's an ex-Disney star. She's an actress.

She also blew up, like literally blew the hell up because of her OnlyFans. I think everyone started to, she became like more of a household name, but she was, holds the record for the highest earnings in the first week of OnlyFans. She made $2 million within like six days of starting her OnlyFans. And I'm pretty sure she didn't even post anything yet. I think she was like sign up. People were like ready for it. Ready for it. She didn't even have to post. Maybe I'll try that. Good luck. All right. Well, look, she's confused people online more so than anything. I don't think people, no one's up in arms. People are just a little bit like, I don't understand. So two years ago, her partner proposed to her or a year ago, her partner

proposed to her. And he got down on one knee and she posted that she was engaged and it was all happy times. Now, just the other day, she's posted herself down on one knee proposing to her already existing fiance. And everyone's kind of like, hold on, do we have deja vu? I thought you were already engaged. She's decided that she wanted to propose back to her partner to really solidify that she felt the same about him as what he felt about her and to kind of like create this equality in the relationship the question is is this absolutely ridiculous is it worth like the like I mean the reason that someone would do it is it even worth having to to like reciprocate a proposal because I kind of think that like saying yes to it is the reciprocation it is you've already agreed to it

I don't to be honest care that much about this but I understand that our job is to care I do find it unusual that the internet is caring so much no but like it was the comments more so like people in the comments are like like some people were like yes queen I love this for you like, F yeah, girl power. And other people were like, stand up, queen. What are you doing? Why are you down on your knees? Well, I also watched the video and he gets down on his knees immediately. Like, it's quite awkward to watch. But you know what? Who are we to yuck anyone's yum? But I don't understand the point of it. Like you said, Laura, saying yes is you reciprocating and agreeing to that union. Maybe he just wanted a ring. Maybe he brought it up that he would love

for her to propose back. I don't know what it is. Maybe they needed some content for Instagram. Maybe. It's working. Maybe they need to be pushed back into the public eye, like a bit of PR or something. But there's nothing wrong with a woman proposing. We've got a woman in this room, Producer Grace, who proposed. Producer Grace proposed back.

You literally did this, but your situation is a little bit different. Yes. So my wife proposed to me a couple of years ago and then I had a ring also coming and I decided I wanted to propose back. But it was more so because she wanted a ring as well and I also kind of wanted the experience of proposing. Can I say, it really takes the stress out of it, doesn't it? You know that they're going to say yes.

You're like, well, I guess that, like, I don't have to worry too much about this one. It was the best low stakes questions I've ever asked. But how do you ask? Do you say, will you still marry me? Like, what's the question? No, I think we kind of like, we kind of played into the fact that it was a little bit ridiculous.

We were already engaged and I did the full like, will you marry me? It was very romantic, but also very chill. Imagine if she was like, no, that's awkward. I've actually changed my mind. What if you're trying to like proposal top? Like, you know, if the second one's better than the first one, do you then, like, use that against them for the rest of your marriage?

I mean, it would have been used against me, I think, but I didn't do that. I just wanted it for chill. I was like, we're already engaged. Let's not make a big deal out of this. You just did it for the clicks, for likes. I didn't post it. It was just for us.

Oh, it was just real? Yeah. Shock. Weird. In this day and age? That is bizarre. I can't relate to that at all. Laura, before I ask you this question, can you just put this to bed for me?

Is it pronounced Ibiza or Ibiza? Isn't it Ibiza? I don't know. Ibiza, whatever. Well, they're two different things. I don't know. I don't think that's what we're going to talk about though. No, we're not.

But I wanted to get it right before I told you the story, but we don't know. So thanks for making me look stupid on the radio. I don't know. Okay, well, this is a story set in Ibiza. Now, there's a restaurant over there coming under fire for something that they put onto a bill. They charged some tourists.

This couple went to this nice restaurant. They sat down. The waitress came over. It was very lovely. Put the napkin on them. and then said, can I take your bag and hang it up for you? She says, no, do you know what? I'm okay. Like it can stay here. And the waitress was apparently like quite pushy for it. Like, no, it's okay. Like it's just, just let me hang it up. It's going to make it easier. Like whatever.

So after a couple of pushing, they agreed and said, okay, it's okay. Like hang it up. Anyway, the bill comes out and on the bill is a charge, which says gancho boisa, which is $18. dollars. Now Gancho Boisa means bag hook. So they got charged $18 to hang the bag up that they didn't want to hang up. Did they get to take the bag hook home? Or did they purchase it? They got the whole bag hook. Yeah. Well, it's not included normally, but they complained and they're like, sorry, what? We didn't, A, you never said that there was a charge. B, we didn't want to do it. Like you pushed us into it. And it became this big thing so much so that like the boss of the restaurant the manager came out and said that if it makes you feel better you can keep the hook

why wouldn't they just refund the bag charge do you know what they did that too I went to Ibiza when I was in my 20s and one thing though that I did find super surprising is that you know when you go to nightclubs the bottles of water are so expensive this is going back years and years ago and it costs like 12 euro for a bottle of water that was it and they put salt water in all of the tap so that when you wash your hands, you can't just refill your bottle of water. You've got to go and buy another bottle of water because yeah, I mean, we can all probably read between the lines as to why water sells really well in Ibiza. Okay. Yeah. Well, I do want to say, cause I don't want to get in trouble. So I don't want to get this restaurant in trouble. The manager did say,

look, it was a mistake. We enter that in as a reminder to give you back your bag. And we don't know how. There was an amount of money. Yeah, but whatever. I'm pulling beer. No, you can't slam them. But I mean, I think everyone's had like those little daylight robbery moments where you go to pay the bill and you're like, I'm sorry, what is that? I got charged the other day. Speaking of, I get a coffee. My coffee order is a soy cappuccino with a little squidge of honey. Just a dash. Just a little dash. Like instead of a sugar, I just put a little of honey in. $1.50. For a squeeze of honey. For a squeeze of honey. Oh my God. Daylight robbery. Daylight robbery. Daylight robbery. And you know what I think I'm going to start doing? I don't know if

this is classified as theft. I might put the order in and pay and then say, oh, sorry, I forgot to add the honey. And then they'll just couldn't be bothered to charge yourself. Imagine if they were like, sorry, you owe us $1.50. Could you please type your card again? I mean, look. I get it. Usually. And also, I don't want to come from cafes and whatnot. Like they're out there trying to run an honest business and make a dollar. 100%. The one time that it did spring me as a bit of a surprise, I was at a cafe with a group of girlfriends. And this was when I just had my daughter, Marley May. She was a tiny baby. And I transferred her from breastfeeding onto formula. So we were all there having lunch. And I'd asked if I could get a tiny bit of hot water that I

could put into her bottle to warm her bottle up. And then the bill came and on there was a charge for the hot water. I was like, I can't remember. It was like a $3 charge for hot water. And I was like, surely not. Did you say anything? No, of course not. I just paid it. Now I complain about on radio. Hey, we have Jordan on the line. Jordan, what did you get stung for? Hello. I took my three kids to go see a live show and they of course wanted a snow cone. That alone was $26 for a snow cone. Is it a snow cone ice? Yeah, it is with a bit of cordial on top. It was in a fancy cup at least. And then the lady said to me, would you like a spoon with that? And I said, yes. And she charged me six dollars to buy the spoon oh my god the 26 dollars of ice didn't even come with

a way to eat it no no where where were you like don't don't name and shame but like no do like is this a are you like in a fair no like like a live show like at like an entertainment center that doesn't surprise me because anytime i've taken the kids to a concert or something you know you go i think it might have been no i don't know it was the wiggles it was some sort of kids concert and they have those like light up lighty toys so you wait in line forever and then you buy it's like a piece of junk that they can like spin around in the concert and we got

to the front of the line and I bought it and I thought the number that was next to the light up toy was the number saying like what number item it was because it didn't have a dollar sign it just said two numbers and it was $50 each for this little stupid whizzy anyway whatever

daylight robbery guys do you just remind me of something I haven't thought about until now I remember being at this fancy restaurant and the waiter came over and I remember saying like, what do you recommend that's like not too heavy? I just want that something like a little bit extra. And I think you were there, Laura. And he came over and he said, do you know what I recommend?

He's like, it's very light. It's fresh. He's like, we have a beautiful shaved ice. Do you remember? And then I tried to keep it in. In my head I was like, of course it's light. It's water. And I was like, oh, the shaved ice.

I was like, how much is that? He was like, $27. I was like, interesting. I think I'll go for the salad. I was like, I could not believe it. Anyway, absolutely wild. And in the words of Laura Burns' grandma, daylight robbery. It is time for Ask Uncut.

Now, this is something we do every single week on our podcast, Life Uncut Podcast, is where you guys write in and call up with your problems. We do our best to answer them. And we have a range of problems, like from the big, the dark, the heavy to like the light and funny. Today's one is about a clingy ex. We have Sadie on the line. Sadie, you're having a problem with your partner's clingy ex.

Is that right? That's right. We're having an issue with a Snapchat streak that she doesn't want to let go of. So what's, just to be clear, what's a Snapchat streak? It's like that you communicate X amount of days in a row or something? Yeah. So when you send a photo to each other each day, you then get a number. So say you've got number three, well, then you've been Snapchatting each other for three

days. Gotcha. So how many days have they been Snapchatting each other for? And also how long ago did they break up? Probably more importantly. Two years ago and their streak was like 680 days. Okay, but that doesn't make any sense. Have they been just doing this the whole time that they've been broken up?

They've still been Snapchatting? Or is it a case that they did it in the past and she's just kept this streak alive? I don't understand how it works. I assume they've broken up, not had a streak, and then restarted it when they kind of became friendly again. And this is your current partner's and his ex? Yeah, this is my current partner's ex-partner. This is so weird.

Like, hey, obviously you can't control what she does, but have you talked to your boyfriend about it? What did he say? So we've just moved into our new home. We've moved out of the home they owned together and the general kind of idea was once we move out, house is settled, I'm just going to distance myself, kind of get rid of the street, which he did.

And she decided to restore it, which I had no idea she would do. Does that mean that he's also still engaging or can it be one way? So is she just messaging him and he's not responding or is he snapping back? So he wasn't replying to any of the snaps. And then when the streak has died, she's paid to restore the streak. It's been died for the second time. And then she's again restored it again,

just with him not Snapchatting her and she just keeps paying to restore it. Do you know what? I mean, it sounds very weird. And obviously she has something going on that she maybe hasn't resolved or isn't over. But it does sound like your partner's doing all the right things. It sounds like he's not engaging. He's not replying.

So there is no way that you're going to be able to control what she does. Yeah, but you can control him opening them. Like, just because she's sending them doesn't mean he has to open them and have a look at them and have that connection. Is he opening them, though? Or is he just like, this is weird.

What's he doing? I think he's opening them and then just leaving them. But then she messaged both of us saying, you know, it wasn't fair that that wasn't a conversation had that he wanted to delete the streak and stuff. Oh, that's so weird. Nah, Sadie, you had me hook, line and sinker for this convo. She's crazy.

No, she's cooked. She's crazy. He needs to block her. She's repartnered too. So I'm kind of like, how would your partner feel about this? It's a bit weird. Nah, he needs to just block her. Like you can't be holding on to your past like that.

You've sold houses, moved on. You've moved in with new people. Like you are so far moved on. If she's that unhinged that she's messed, like it's almost embarrassing in childlike to message you and be like, you should have told me if you wanted to break our Snapchat streak. That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard on a show. I've actually –

He messaged both of us and kind of had a dig at both of us saying that we're disrespectful and, you know, like thought we were all friends kind of thing. And it's kind of like just leave us alone. Let us move on. Like, you know, just like let us be. I find this so confusing. I feel like everyone who's listening to this now is going to be like,

what? I'm too old for this. I don't understand it. I've never had Snapchat. Sorry, Laura, everyone's too old for this. This isn't an age limit thing. She is. It feels like really childish behavior.

I would be telling him to, I mean, this is up to him and it's on him. He needs to disengage from her. Like by opening them, he's encouraging it. Like whether he's responding. Because she can see that he's seen it. 100%. She knows it's a funnel to him. It's still that connection in this little like secret little tunnel

that she's got to him. It's the last form of connection. He needs to, if he respects and values you, in my opinion, he just needs to end that. Like he can block her, he can unfriend her, he can do whatever. But, like, just so you know, it's weird. 100%. It's a control thing on her side of things, I think.

And I'm just like, you need to cut that last tether. Just send them a Snapchat of you kissing. Just send a Snapchat back of you guys, like, getting engaged or something. Oh, my God. Let us know how it goes. But I do think it's a pretty clear and easy one. I do think that your partner has to take a little bit

of responsibility and make it very clear that the streak is no more. No more streaks. No more streaks. No more streaks. Thanks, Sadie. Thanks so much, Carol. Brit, big exciting things are happening in my household tonight.

It actually is big and exciting. It really, I mean, I'm excited. I don't know if anyone else is going to be, but I'll share it with you anyway. Look, my daughter, she's six. Her name is Marley, and we are taking her to her very first concert to go and see Alex Warren, who, I mean, you guys will know the song if you don't know the name.

He sings massive songs like this one. Oh, banger. Amazing. Well, look, Marley is ground zero of like the Alex Warren obsession in our household. So she came home from school this one day and she was like, Mommy, I heard this song that's going to play at my wedding. And I was like, what are you talking about? She's also red flag.

She's five. She was literally five at the time. Were you like, hang on, who are you marrying? Yeah, no, I know who she's marrying. That love affair has been going on for a little while. She's had a boyfriend since kindergarten. Wow. It starts young.

Like nothing. It's like innocent. So we need to change this break. It's not how young is it can you go to a concert. How young can you have a boyfriend and get married? Anyway, he has a song that's called Carry You Home. She's obsessed with it, right? And he's come to Australia.

He's actually performing all around. And tickets to his concert sold out in literally a hot second. I think their local, like our local concert, the tickets had sold out within 10 minutes. Yeah. Because it's not the big like Olympic Stadium. He's like smaller-ish venues. I reckon he would have sold that out anyway.

Honestly, it went so quick. But I really wanted to take Marley. And then we had the opportunity of interviewing him on the show. So we beg, borrowed and stole and I'm able to take her. Laura's saying, I'm only putting you on the radio. Give us tickets. Give my daughter, my six-year-old daughter, a ticket to go. Okay, so this is my question though.

Like it's an all-ages concert, right? But it's not, the venue isn't particularly an all-ages venue. Like there's no seats, it's standing, there'll be a mosh pit and I'm taking a seat. I don't think Alex Warren has a mosh pit. It's not Metallica. It's not like a mosh as in like everyone jumping but there will be like a lot of people standing.

Marley's just crowd surfing. She'll be light and easy to throw on stage. Someone get that child. Do you think, firstly, do you think six is too young to take a kid to a concert? And also, how old were you at your first concert? And do you even remember? I think I was like mid-20s.

Were you? Yes, I live a sheltered life. Yes, I didn't go to a concert young at all. Not even the Wiggles. There's a lot wrong with tonight. I'm like four weeks, five weeks off having a baby and I'm taking a six-year-old to a concert. What's wrong with me?

I used to go to the theatre as a child. If that sets the tone for who we were. Yeah, it really does. It explains a lot. My mum used to do theatre and we used to go watch her. I think, look, how young is too young? It depends on the concert. No, it depends on the concert for starters.

Alex Warren is very innocent. Like he's not a swearer. He's not rude and crude. He's not, not to like, he's about love songs. He's got the number one wedding song in the world right now. I know, but I did see him on stage the other day and he did throw a few F-bombs around. I think it is going to be slightly less age appropriate

than what I might have thought originally. Is it the Wiggles? No. I think the problem is just like getting her out for the length of the concert. I almost feel like you're probably better off to let her hear those songs that she loves. Like you go for the Carry Me Home, her wedding song, and you go for the Ordinary. And then her lasting an entire concert standing up in a mosh pit might be too long. We're not staying there for the encore, that's for sure.

But I remember going like, so I remember my first ever concert. My mum took me and my sister to Silverchair. And I was so little. I think I must have been 10, 10 or 11. except I never actually saw silver chair we went it was very exciting we saw like the the warm-up band and then I fell asleep in her lap and so she watched silver chair and I slept in my mom's lap whilst it was on okay so I'm very worried you're too young you're too young I'm worried that's gonna be like a retake of that and I'm kind of like I wanted to do this I thought that she would

really love it and now that it's here I'm wondering whether I really just bit off a bit more than I can chew I just remembered my first concert actually it was Robbie Williams wow and I worked it as security. And I wish I was joking. I wish. So you were 18? Yep. And I was security. Me. Tiny little squiggly thing. But it was my only way to get a ticket to see him. So I had to pretend I was security. Sorry, I'm not stopping anyone from getting into that concert. What was I going to do? I don't think it's that. It's more so the fact that you got in to go on a concert so late. No, for Port Macquarie. Oh, that's right. No one goes. No one does anything for Port Macquarie. Brit, when was the last time you went to a concert? Oh, T-Swizzy. No,

don't do a leaper. Yeah, you went to do a leaper. And I, yeah, I think I know what you're going to say. What am I going to say? Are we talking about leaving early? No. Well, did you? Cause I, I always do. Yeah. Okay. How early do you leave from a concert? I leave early enough that there is no battle to get out. Like I'm significantly like a couple of songs, which means I probably miss a song or two and I miss the encore and don't come for me. I know that's bad, but I could think of nothing worse than being in like that swarm of people that can't walk and can't move and are fighting for public transport. So I always, like, make my beeline.

But it is a question, isn't it? Because, like, there are two types of people. There are the people that will stay for the encore. They will chant. They will stamp their feet until the very last – until, like, the lights have been turned on. It's so evident that no one is coming back out. Security's dragging them out the door.

They will stay there. And then there's the people that are like, it's three songs shy. I'm going to get out of here because I don't want to hit the rush, right? So we left early last night. We went to Alex Warren with my daughter and we left early. But that's because she's six and she was very tired and a cranky six-year-old at a concert is not. I don't recommend it actually.

I reckon probably wait until your kids are 10. Six is a bit young. Fair. Lesson learned. But we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. So we were talking about on the show, you guys might remember, millennials and like things that we used to do back in the day, like going out to the club, wearing tiny dresses,

dancing in high heel shoes and how Gen Zs now will wear baggy pants. They will wear joggers. They would never. You know what? They're not even drinking. A lot of them are alcohol free. it's just a different time. It's a time that's based on wellness. It's a time that's based on eight hours sleep. And it's also based on wearing watches that track everything.

So it turns out that apparently Brit, you are indeed more like a Gen Z because Gen Zs are more inclined to leave a concert early because they want to prioritize their wellness, prioritize their sleep. And a millennial is more inclined to be the person who's there holding on to the very end with the lights on because we want to suck every second out of that moment of enjoyment at the concert? So interesting because, well, no, it is. When I think about it, I actually went to an extreme. I'm going to tell you, I was embarrassing, but there are a few people that I would never leave early. For example, Taylor Swift. I couldn't possibly have slept if I went home and she did some surprise songs. Like I was there to the end for that. I will do it a hundred

times over. But for example, when it's someone that like I'm keen to see and it's fun and I'm loving it, but I'm not obsessed with them. So for Dua Lipa, I had Googled her set list and I have the whole list. So I know exactly how much I'm missing out on and what I'm missing out on. And that's when I make the decision of how many songs I can leave early. And it's brilliant because I was like, oh, I didn't actually know the last song very well, didn't care for it, knew that I could get out quicker. And so I did. That is the most grandparent thing I've ever heard you say. I'm an old soul. That the only reason why you Googled the set list is to know that you You don't miss out on anything and you could in fact leave.

But you can't do that with Taylor because sometimes Taylor puts surprise songs in. No, but do you know what? I was reading this. So there's an article that was written about how millennials will hold on to the very end, stay there and suck every inch out of that concert. And the reason why is because half of them are mums.

They're just so thrilled to get a night off. 100%. They don't mind if they get stuck in the car park for an hour and a half. They're just happy to be out of their own home. Do you know, oh, you just got me excited. Do you know who's coming here soon? One of my favourite artists, Lewis Capaldi.

Lewis Capaldi, he's coming to Australia and I'm putting this out to the universe now because he's going to sell out like a hot cake so I need to get those tickets. Who are you putting it out to? The universe. But I, or Warner's Music or whoever's listening, I don't know. But he is someone else that I would never dream of leaving early. Like I am locked and loaded into that.

I mean normally I would say I'm just past the point in my life where I want a late night. I want to wake up in the morning and feel fresh. Yeah, but the last concert you went to, remember you wet your pants and I went down into your booth. I did. I went to Blink-182 and I pissed myself. I'd be leaving too, Laura.

I'd be leaving straight away. All right. No, I didn't leave early. I love Blink-182. Anyway. Now, everybody, parents around the country. Strapping. We have made it to the end.

We have finally come to the close of Book Week. And thank the Lord. You say this. Okay, I'm the one that had to come up with a different outfit every day for Lola this week. because hats off to you. I know. Well, school and preschool are very different. If your kids go to school, they usually have a book day. If your kids go to preschool and kids are going on all different days, they're dressing up every day. So we've had a lot of outfits this week,

but Lola, my four-year-old really went out on a questionable high. Questionable because she didn't go with a kid's book, but also a high because I kind of love the little inner fashionista that is my Lola. So she woke up this morning and she was supposed to go as an astronaut. it had been planned. We had the My First Planet book out. She was ready. We had them sat on the side of the bed. And then we had a full blown four-year-old meltdown because she had a change of mind. Recently, she's become quite in love with another book that she's been going to bed with every night. It's just not particularly age appropriate. So we've spoken about Fashion Critical before on this show. Fashion Critical, she is an anomaly, I was about to say, but she's

Anonymous. She's a fashion critic who has amassed such a following online by critiquing celebrities' fashion choices. She's critiqued us many times over the years. She's given us a serve from time to time. She's also sometimes very complimentary. But recently she just brought out a book. It's called Fashion Critical, Red Carpet Looks,

LOLs from an Undercover Fashion Critic. Now this book has been sitting in Lola's bed for the past week and a half. She looks at it every day. She's quite obsessed with some of the pages. And today she woke up and decided that was the book she was taking to Book Week and she put together her best look that she could possibly do. Do you know what?

First of all, I was like, it's surprising that she's chosen that book and she's become obsessed with it. But is it actually that surprising? It's a book of women dressed up in beautiful dresses and outfits. Like I imagine it's actually quite a colourful, addictive kind of a book for a four or five-year-old. Yeah, well, and she's also a fashion queen.

Well, we do have the- She wears undies on her head. She does. We have the fashion critical here because we thought, what other better way of ending the week after a week of book week costumes than to have Fashion Critical herself critique my daughter's book week outfit. Oh, welcome to the show. Ladies, this is a career high for me. I've reached Nirvana. I know you've critiqued Heidi Klum and like Beyonce and some of the real big

stars, also Brit Hockley. But Lola Bear, really, I think she should be up there. She should have featured. She's best on ground and I won't hear a bad word said against her. I've always called her a little bog. Okay. She's picked a great, a beautiful pink tulle dress. It's gorgeous. She's got a lovely pink parka on. It matches the dress perfectly. Great. But what I love about this is the detail.

She's painted her nails red. The red matches the cover of the book. She did. She has received no toes violation. Her toes are covered. She's got gorgeous little glittery Mary Janes. Her hair's done beautifully. It's the details that make the outfit.

And I have heard, and I don't know if this is true. I'm going to need you to vouch for it. She didn't use a stylist for this look. Is she self-styled? She is self-styled. She recently discovered that being a stylist is actually a job. my oldest wants to be famous and my youngest wants to style her. So they've like slipped into their careers very young.

I mean, that's perfect. What a combo. Well, I'm telling you, the girl's got talent. I can see it. You can see it. All of Australia can see it. And I'm extremely impressed and I look forward to watching her fashion evolution over the years.

So fashion critical, what would you love to see next from Lola? Look, I would love to see a Met Gala look. I was thinking the same. Yeah, she's gone with it, you know, an age-appropriate sort of evening look. It's very cute. It's very girly. I'd like to see something quite avant-garde, something quite out there, a bit of a more artistic sort

of take on fashion. So if you could brief her on that, I look forward to seeing that. That would be lovely. And maybe, you know, we've seen a lot of playing with gender bending, you know, so the women wearing quite androgynous looks, men wearing skirts, so perhaps she could explore that also. I love this because she did want to dress up as Batman,

so she, like, has that dialed. I think she can pull that off. She's quite like an accessoriser. How do you feel about, I mean, she's in this trend of like she likes to put underwear on her head, like that's her accessory. She doesn't want to take it off. She wants to go for a walk and the undies are over her head. Her ears come out like little koalas.

What do you think about that? Do you know what? You know, trends are trends. And that's not. No, no. I was going to say I don't really care for trends. But, you know, true style is choosing something that perhaps other people don't understand.

And no one understands. It doesn't mean it's not stylish. It doesn't mean she's not an artist. She's a visionary. And as I said, I won't hear a bad word said against her or her style choices. And if she's wearing underwear on her head, then I urge you to look to the catwalks of Milan and Paris this summer

because I can guarantee you we're going to see that on the catwalk. I tell you, Fashion Critical, we went to Cairns recently and she spent the entire day wearing fishnet gloves and a pair of fluffy earmuffs. I love it. You live your best life, girlfriend. Honestly. I don't care about what the weather is.

You wear what you want to wear. The weather's got nothing to do with it. You keep going. Can I just ask, though, did you ever envisage your new book as being a kid's book? Honestly, I didn't. I really, really didn't. To be fair, it's not out till October,

so it's not available to the common people yet. They can preorder it, but you received an advance copy. That was not common. We got an advance. Wow, she didn't even realise how special she was. She's got one of only maybe 30 copies in circulation at the moment. She will be thrilled. Yeah, so perhaps next book week maybe we'll see more,

but this is definitely the first. It's not a children's book, but you're absolutely right, Brit, it is full of beautiful, colourful pictures. And actually, why not? I don't think I've dropped the F-bomb that many times in it. No, I hope not because I actually haven't read any of it yet. No, it's who cares what the words say. It's all about the pictures.

It's all about the pictures. Thank God she can't read yet anyway. fashion critical always a pleasure thanks for joining us and good luck with the book thank you love thank you