Life Uncut - The best of THE PICK UP - 23rd April

Episode Date: April 23, 2023

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Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands were never ceded. We pay our respects to their elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. This episode was recorded on Darug Wollamutta land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. And I'm Bobby.

And you're who? We just do it every week. I wanted to spice things up. People might not know who you are. What if it's the first episode they've ever listened to and they think you're Bobby? That's alright, we can roll with that. Who do these girls hitch their wagon to? Okay, anyway, we have a very, very big show for you guys today.

We had so many amazing guests this week on the radio show, but one that really, I mean, a conversation we had that really touched me, we spoke to Tamin Sersok. She is an Australian actress. She's living in Nashville at the moment, and her daughter, Phoenix, goes to school at the school, which is directly next door to the one where there was the mass shooting recently.

And I just cannot even imagine the fear that Tamin would have experienced when she found out that there was a shooting in the area and that three students had died. And she opens up about it. It's horrible. And also like the back end because we see these school shootings and you think this is awful, but there's preparation that goes into making sure if it does happen at your kid's school that things

are in place to make sure they're safe. Yeah, and you made a really good point actually in the interview, Mitch, that there's been more mass shootings this year in America than there have been days in the year. That's fucking wild. Which is when you think about that statement for a second, That's out of control. It's disgusting.

It is. It's disgusting. But we have some other great guests. We have Hugh Sheridan coming in. He is in the play at the moment, Tick, Tick, Boom. He's an Australian actor. Well, we thought he was secretly married for nine years because that's what all the headlines say.

But he tells us otherwise. And you know what? Something else I think is really important to point out in that conversation is that Hugh speaks about pronouns and how he wants to be addressed. Spoiler. Because I know there's going to be people who listen to the intro of this and the first thing they're going to think is that we're saying it wrong.

So I just wanted to be very clear. We spoke to Hugh about it, and so that's in the conversation. Yeah, and also I address the question on everyone's lips. Was I attacked via an anthrax letter? And yes, the answer is yes. I was sent a mysterious letter. I sent it to the police for testing, and I've got the police report. You are a hypochondriac.

We're not even getting into that. The fact that you sent it away. Mitch is not even joking. He thought he was sent anthrax, and he sent it away to be tested. But it doesn't shock me because this is, I feel like it's standard for you on a Friday. It's like, oh, I haven't gone to the police or the hospital this week. I better go. Just in case I need to cover all grounds.

Do you guys have an EpiPen? I feel itchy. I'm itchy. Get your defibrillator. I'm Bobby again. I'm itchy. Let's get into the show. I want to get some of your thoughts on a dating profile and your general opinion in the dating

world. Now, I know you're both taken, but I have been single for a long time. Carolina. Carolina. I don't know how to pronounce that. from maths she's been called out pretty publicly for her dating profile because she put a prerequisite on there that said you should only leave a comment on my profile if you're six foot or taller now she's being dragged she's being dragged through the mud by shorts by tools by all different sizes

yeah what do you think about that because i i'm sort of into short people would you Now, in my heart, I'm dating a six foot six boy. I was going to say, coming from the girl whose boyfriend is literally a giant, his head is in a different hemisphere. He's the BFG, yeah. You know, he's literally in a different hemisphere. So would you date someone, and I'm not saying like similar heights, I'm saying like a foot shorter than you.

Would you date someone a foot shorter than you? I have. I fell wildly in love once with somebody that was probably half a foot shorter than me. I'm 5'9". I'm quite tall, but then I wear heels too. So when I would wear heels, he was like shoulder. Under your armpit. Yeah, I have dated multiple.

Yeah, perfect. Hi. Did he order off the kids menu as well? Yeah, chicken nuggets. Yeah, baby food. Yeah, milkshake. But I don't think there's a problem with it. I've dated guys who are shorter than me in the past.

But look, do I have a preference? Yes. Am I going to get cancelled for saying that? Probably. But I think. So you want a taller man than you. I'm attracted to men who are taller than me. Is your husband, Matty J, taller than you?

He's a bit. He's short, isn't he? No, Matt's like 6'1", 6'2", or something. He's tall. Yes. Interesting. And, I mean, I think it also comes from being a tall girl as well that I've always liked to feel, I don't know, I mean, this is my,

I like to feel little. I like to feel like I'm encapsulated by my man, not like I'm encapsulating them. I agree because I'm tall and I'm broad and I feel like I'm, like, a big energy as well. So I feel like a giant when I'm with someone shorter than me. But, like, I'm sorry, are you telling me you'd kick Zac Efron out of bed, Laura?

Because Zac Efron's 5'8". He is shorter than me. He is tiny. And you would hit that with a run-up. I know it. What? You would. You'd hit it with a run-up and Mitch, you wouldn't kick it out of bed either.

I would. I'd high jump over the top of him if I went with a run-up. Oh, my God. If I slept with Zac Efron, I'd roll over on him and kill him in the middle of the night. Do you know what, though? Okay, you can't bring Zac Efron into this. Oh, I can and I did. Do you know why he doesn't count?

Because he's very, very hot. So, therefore, he's an outlier. Hold on. So, you think good looks outweigh. No, you're saying that short people aren't hot. Yes, they are. No, I'm not saying that they're not hot. but I'm saying that you would make an exception

for a short, extremely hot person. Quiet on set, please. Joe Jonas, 5'7". Tom Cruise, 5'7". Bruno Mars, 5'5". He's a little baby. He's a small baby. James McAvoy, 5'7".

He's hot. Robert Downey Jr., 5'8". So he's not an outlier. There's a lot of show. Laura, Danny DeVito. No. I would not. There we go.

We got to the bottom of it. Do you know what, though? We, I feel like, hey, I'm not backing Carolina because I truly could give two hoots about who she wants to date or what she thinks. But I think people get very offended these days when you say you have a type. I think we all have types of what we're attracted to.

Yeah, but when it's discriminatory, when it's leaving out. Hightest exists. But there are a lot of positives, a lot of pros for dating a shorter man. Like think of how quick intimacy is. Boom, height level, eye level, you're there. Yeah, good call. More room in the bed. What are you trying to do?

Pop it in his mouth while you're walking down the street? You can do whatever you want. standing up, laying down. Not everyone can do that. Do you know what they do say? Everyone's the same height laying down. That's incorrect. No, that's not true.

I don't think that's true at all. My mum used to say that. Was your dad short? You've got Kiss. It's The Pickup with Brit, Laura and Mitch heading to Chemist's Warehouse today. Great savings every day. Guys, I'm so excited for our next guest.

You'll know him from Packed to the Rafters, House Husbands, Isn't It Romantic, The Divorce Plus, The Real Dirty Dancing, Christmas on the Farm, The Divorce. The list goes on. I'm exhausted. What a rap sheet. A lot of lovey-dovey romantic stuff in there, isn't it?

It's you, Sheridan. Yeah, that's me. Is that the genre of choice? No, I guess that's just what I get cast in. You do have that sort of Ryan Gosling-y vibe about you. Yeah, I have played a serial killer once, but it was like a short film. Did you? Yeah, yeah.

Homemade? No. No, that's a weird question. That's creepy. No, yeah, I just thought I'd make one at home. A homemade serial killer. Was it a documentary? I was doing a little showroom thing.

It was the way you said where you were like, oh, it's a short film. I was like, it sounds like a dodgy homemade version. Well, I think that we're going to turn it into a feature. I also did a film called Ball where I got eaten by a pig. That wasn't very lovey-dovey. Hugh, we got ourselves into a bit of a pickle the other week. Oh, no. Because we were talking about you on the radio show and we said he.

Yeah. And everybody came to your defence and said, how dare you call Hugh a he? No. I actually had to put my pronouns on Instagram, which I've never, I've never had them up because I don't really, for me, I don't identify as anything. I actually wrote a whole essay on it. Yeah, I wrote a paper.

Yes. And said that I'm human. I'm just like everyone. So I did actually say, call me whatever you want. And then, I don't know, someone wrote, a journalist wrote, you know, a huge non-binary. And at the time it was just so close after everything else, I decided that I would just, I had said, call me whatever you want.

Just don't call me late for dinner. And so I just, I let it go because I thought I don't want to upset any more people. But it is ironic that, you know, people get upset about their pronouns, even though I specifically said I don't have any. They get upset for you. Yeah, people. On your behalf. People were angry for you. And then we even went on to Instagram and we wanted to check.

No, no, no. I checked Instagram before. I put he, him on Instagram just to clarify that people can call me he, him. I hope you took advantage of the pun there when you wrote that essay and said I'm only human. I did. I'm Hugh, man. I'm Hugh, man. Oh, I'm Hugh, common man.

Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Because that was a whole missed opportunity there. Later on, I created a whole show called Human. It was H-U-G-H-M-A-N. And I became a DJ. So, no, I'm definitely he, him. But you can, you know, people call me all sorts of different things.

So, I do prefer to go by he, him. But I've made a point of saying call me whatever you want. And I've been called all kinds of things. But nothing appropriate to say on the radio. Well, you're also in Tick, Tick, Boom. at the Sydney Lyric Theatre the 21st to the 26th of April. First show is tonight, technically. Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the preview, but it's going to be like the first show for all of us, so it's going to be very exciting. I was going to say, Hugh, tell us how all the rehearsals have been going. Well, we've already toured the show to Melbourne and to Brisbane to great acclaim. It was really, really fantastic, but we've just had about six weeks off and we're seeing each other for the first time yesterday,

and it's, you know, it's a lot for me to do. Yeah, it's great. You've said here that this will probably be the role of my lifetime. So correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying this is bigger than your pig-eating role? Yeah, it's definitely. No, what I mean is the hardest role. It's like it's the hardest role because this show was originally written

as like a one-person show and it's been, we've now got a cast of about five, but essentially it's just me running the show. So there's a lot of talking to do and a lot of singing. and a lot of dancing and it's non-stop. There's no intermission. It just goes for 90 minutes and then you're out. So it's fantastic.

Moving past that, you recently on Jess Rose's podcast mentioned that you had a marriage, a secret marriage of nine years. That was my so old news. But nobody knew that. You know what? When I got engaged, it was on the front page of, I don't know, one of those magazines because someone that I had been married to came out and said it like the week that I'd gotten engaged.

And I was like, well, that's really sick timing for them to like pull that out of their hat. But, yeah, look, I mean, it was sort of old news and that's where she got it from. So when we say secret, secret marriage. It wasn't a secret marriage. It's just you weren't flaunting it around to the media. No, everyone that I knew, like, I mean, everyone that I knew,

you know, people that were close to me all knew. I had a really big crush on him. On who? On the ex. Can I say the name? I haven't confirmed nor denied. No, no. Oh, no, no, no.

No, no, no. So it is a secret marriage. Well, I mean, out of respect to the other person, whether it was a guy or a girl or whoever, I would never confirm. Well, I had a crush on them. I had a crush on them. They are very hot. You don't even know who it is.

I do. All of the people that they said that I could have been married to were all hot, so I was very pleased. I mean, that's nice, isn't it? And I don't even know if they got one of them right. That's the truth. I mean, speaking of love. It could have been a little closer to home than you think.

Yeah, Hugh and I have been friends for a while. It was us. We were married. That was my past relationship. Everyone came out and said, oh, we know who it was. But do they? Are you breadcrumbing right now? I could be.

I'm not going to. That sounds like an exclusive that it could be Australian or Kiwi. Yeah. Yeah, closer to home. Yeah, because that was, I mean, yeah. Hang on. They went for some pretty far-fetched ones, I thought. I was like, I don't know if they've got it.

You're like, I've never met that person. But I'll take it. Yeah, we met twice. Yes, it was Jason Momoa. It was Elton John. You're all right. The rumours are true. Oh, look, if it was Elton, do you think I'd be sitting in here doing this conversation?

I'd be on a yacht. Girls, I've got an update on the anthrax that I was sent in the mail here to the radio station. What do you mean you were sent anthrax? I've shown you guys this. This is a true story and I haven't spoken about it on air. And I'll get rid of the silly music because it was frightening. A package was sent to the radio station here and it was addressed to me and it had razor blades in it. It had a note from a murder mystery book in it

with different letters circled that spelled out murder and then there was a white powder substance that went all over my hands when I opened the package. And it was from a creep. It was actually frightening. This was true. I remember you receiving this package and at the time we were all a little bit worried about it.

Well, it's also because it's copycat. There was a serial killer that was his actual M.O. He did that. Identically, that's what he did. They had a Ziploc bag with Frosty Fruit in it and wrote, I'm a serial killer. That's true. Where did the anthrax come into this package?

Listen, I've seen a lot of movies and I've known that if something opens and there's white powder on it and if it's a male, if it's said in the male, it's most likely anthrax. And I touch it on my hand and then all that day my hand became swollen and I was dizzy and then my throat was getting itchy. But anthrax is a bacteria. Your hands were not swollen. They were.

But also it's a bacteria, not a white powder. It sounds like something cocaine-y. No, no, this was anthrax. Did you dip your finger in it and rub it? Oh, my God, I would not have lived if I did that. You know me. That would have freaked me out. I called the poison spot line.

Mitch, it was probably icing sugar. He sent you a box of cereal. It was probably to, like, put the icing sugar on the cereal. Well, I'm here to report that it was sent to the police, they did testing, and it was, in fact, icing sugar. Oh, my. I have never, even, I have never known anybody in my life to overreact about possibly every sort of ailment as much as you do.

Are you being serious? And I don't mean that as offensively as it sounds. I know, I know that like, you know, if you have a cough, you're like, it's definitely COVID. Yes. Like it always goes to the most dramatic, you're like, I have emphysema. No, I don't smoke.

Which is, you would still think that. I would. I worked in an emergency department for 13 years for those playing at home. Mitch knows this. I can't tell you the number of calls I have gotten at 10, 11, 12, 1 at night and it's Mitch on the other line saying, do I need to go to hospital, telling me his symptoms. They're always wild symptoms and they're so wild that I'm like,

I have to legally say yes, go to the hospital, but it's never anything. I once went to the emergency department and I had one air pod and it was Brittany just giving me advice. And I was going, I need an ECG. They said, you're in here because you think you've got gout. I went, still, I need an ECG. That's it.

I was like talking to him through the one air pod and he was telling them what to say. But you never have anything. Okay, I have a question for you, Mitch. Yes. How many times have you been to hospital this year? I can't hear you. I've just developed tinnitus.

How many times have you taken yourself to emergency this year? Three times. You know what the best part was? That's once a month. I mean, yes, it is, but actually it was all in one month. It was a bad month. The best part was when we – It was all in one week, actually.

The best part was a couple of weeks ago, Mitch, when we went out for a drink and you're like, I have to go home, I think I have alcohol poisoning. You don't even drink. No, it was lemon in the drink and I didn't realise I had lemon in it and I thought I was poisoned. So I went home and then I had three hydrolytes to flush the system. Listen, fellow hypochondriacs,

It's a real condition rally around me. People have and go through these things on a daily basis. I'm just precautious. I don't want to get ill. So you go to emergency for the fear of being ill? No, no, I have real symptoms. Do you? Yes, I do.

He talked me through his symptoms one day and I was like, if this is real, I think you're having a stroke. You need to go to the hospital right now. It wasn't. Bridget's called. Hello, fellow hypochondriac. What happened to you? When were you a hypochondriac?

Yes, hi, team. Well, recently I woke up in extreme pain. I was up all night with, like, really bad pain in my head and a headache. I made my husband hate me too. I know. I actually thought I was dying. Like, it was really extreme. I made my husband hate me to the doctors, like, urgently.

Had to get a babysitter. And they ran all these testing. And I said to the doctor, I think I'm dying. Like, I don't have a will. I don't know what I'm going to do. And it was pretty extreme. I didn't have a will already made. So I was pretty freaked out.

And it turns out they, yeah, did testing. I'm going to just have sinus allergies. You have a stream of sinus? That'll get you. Do you have a will now? It's liquid coming from my nose. It's a runny nose. It's a runny nose.

I've been there before. I thought I was dying. Hi, Laura. When were you a hypochondriac? Hi, Laura. Hi. So I actually noticed one day that my toenail had gone a bit black. So I freaked out a bit.

yeah that's where my brain goes i was like what is this so i freaked out and then i started you know the doctor googling and i went to the doctor thinking that potentially it could be something like really serious like melanoma exactly so i went to the doctor and he actually had a look at it as well and was like oh yeah he was like look it's good that you kind of thought that it could potentially be this we need to check it out so i actually had to have it sampled so they had to Like, it was so embarrassing. They had to, like, take a clipping of my nails. I would have done the same thing, smart.

I hope you got a pedicure while you were there. And what was it? It took, like, apparently they have to wait, like, a while to get results back. It took a while. And then they came back and said it was totally fine, but he got me to come back in to have a look at it again. And he, like, got me to, like, rattle my brain about, like, if I dropped anything on it or anything like that.

We had already gone through that process. How long was it? I could not think of anything. and then I realised I'd worn like a really tight pair of high heels to my work Christmas party a few weeks before. I got wildly drunk and walked around in them for 12 hours and that was why it like killed the actual toenail. You wore a size 8 when you were a size 9.

That was the problem. It's a black toenail. Not worth a specialist appointment. You know what? She was safe and she got that sample. I would have done the same thing. It's the best thing. Ronella, quickly, hi.

What were you a hypochondriac about? Oh, it's actually not me. It's my son. We were away on holidays one time down at the Snowy Mountains and I walked the kids down to their local skate park to go for a bit of a skate on their scooters and my son stacked off his scooter and fell on his hip and he was convinced it was broken.

So we took him to the hospital and they did x-rays and everything like that and the doctors were like, no, no, no, there's nothing wrong. Nothing wrong with him. He refused to walk. I had to buy a pair of crutches for him to leave the hospital and he used those crutches for everything for about two weeks. So he needed help to go to the toilet, needed help to have a shower. Well, he committed to the cause.

And what was wrong with him in the end? Nothing. It was just a bit of a bruise. Can we get a beer? Is he old enough to drink a beer? I think I'd be really close with your son. We'd get along like a house on fire. Oh, far out.

He was only nine at the time, but he was always a drama queen. Smart kid. Yeah, Mitch never grew out of it. Real smart kid. Oh, my God. See, us fellow hyper country. Yeah. He milked it.

He milked it. He milked it. For every penny it was worth. So $25 for the crutches so that he could milk it for two weeks. Nah, he sounds like a good man. Oh, my God. Fellow hypochondriacs. See, I should maybe start a group.

We could all get coffee. Oh, but then we'd all think we're going to have an allergic reaction. Worst idea ever. No, don't hang out together. You're each other's worst enemies. Oh, my God. The fire alarm's about to... There's a light above us that's flashing,

and Mitch probably thinks that it's a... The fire alarm's going off. Well, that's what happens when the fire alarm goes off, Laura. Is the fire alarm going off? Am I on fire? Now, guys, the pick-up, three of us, we're on every afternoon, three to four then after will and woody take over right they're the drive show well usually yeah but one of them's run off into the jungle we've lost woody he's on i'm a celebrity and we've gained

welcome to the studio oh thank you i feel a bit bad for woody that we were so excited then though oh no just like should we dial it back a little bit because he what if someone tells him they got He's off eating testicles. He's fine. This is just a normal weekend. I might go in the jungle if that's the case. Will? Oh, my God.

That's a Saturday night down King's Cross. On the record. That is a lovely Thursday afternoon if you ask me. Yes, thank you. On the record, we all love Woody. Everyone loves Woody, right? What were you going to say? On the record.

We love testicles. We all love testicles. We love testicles, but we all don't love Woody. Everyone in this room does. We love Brooke that you're filling in because obviously you're the entertainment host on on the today show yeah um have you found radio like duck to water because you've done radio in the past i've done radio in the past but it's been like five years so you know it has been a little bit of getting used to is it not like riding a bike if you no you can't ride a

bike i can't i skateboard i'm a boarder no i get that from you i don't i actually don't you're a liar mitch was about to get his skateboard out and make you do it all right prove it pop pop Panoli. I used to ripstick. Do you guys want to know what a ripstick is? That's your partner. No, what's a ripstick? It goes like this.

Like a Yo-Ho Diablo. It goes like this. It's got two wheels and you've got to be really good in the hips and you've got to forward and back, forward and back. I feel like you weren't good at it and that may be why you gave it away, Mitch. I did ripstick. I don't anymore. I sold my ripstick.

I'm gum tree. These ripstick days are over. We're done. What do you think you prefer? Now that you're back in the radio and you put your fingers, your fingers, your feelers back in, your mouth around the microphone. Your big ears, your mouth, your all limbs. That's why we love you.

So first I take my hand out of it and then I wash it. I have a hand sanitiser. No, do you know what? They're both so fun in different ways. Like I forgot how much fun it is to do radio because the breaks are so long. Yeah. So that's like very technical. But you get to like really have a good old chat.

But TV, it's a lot tighter, you know? Yeah. There's someone in your ear going, wrap up, say this. Yeah. It's also a little bit more scripted, I would say, as well in terms of TV. Like you've got a real point that you've got to make in your hour, Whereas I feel like sometimes Raider really gets off track. You know what I love about you, Brooke,

is that you don't have a classic journalist voice, which I love. Because sometimes you watch the nightly news and these journalists are brilliant at their craft, they're fantastic, but they've got the voice of, yes, John, I'm here. The tsunami ravaged the town. You come on, you go, that's Brooke Boney and I know it's her. I'm getting a real Brooke. I can hear it.

Yeah, in her voice. But, you know, I can do it. Oh, my God. Give us an example. A Sydney man has staged a kidnapping to propose to his girlfriend. Now we've heard of some cooked proposal stories, but this one is next level. A Sydney man decided to stage a kidnapping to propose to his girlfriend.

The bizarre prank was shared to TikTok by the sister of the proposer, mastermind Adam Risk. Very good. It's so good. It's very good. That was brilliant. I don't even know that my voice would do that for an extended amount of time. Is that how you dirty talk in the bedroom as well?

Do you know what? I always wondered if these news reporters, do they really sound like that or is that put on? But now you've convinced me it's all put on. Well, I think it's more because it's like authoritative, you know? People want to get their news. No, because I think they talk through the nose, right? Don't insult the profession.

No, it's not. That's how you get the serious voice like, Australian TV presenter, entertainment reporter for the Today Show, Brooke Boney. Well, I think that what we're getting to with this is that Neither Brit or myself will ever be that person on the news doing it. I could never trust you, Laura, delivering the news. No, I'm pretty untrustworthy.

You'd be surprised. I mean, they got me to do the project a few times, so I can't be that bad. Yeah, true, true, true. Exactly. Don't tell Australia I'm not part of it. But have they got you to come back? Brooke, on a serious note, we did hear you speak this week

and I think this is something I related to you a lot on, is that there's a bit of a society pressure as a woman in their 30s to lock it down, have a baby, get that fertility going in case your last little egg drops out of you as you're walking. Wow, that's a real mental image. Hey, watch out when you're rip-sticking around here. I just dropped it. There's a scrambler.

Exactly. Yeah, you cannot rip-stick in your 30s. How do you find the society pressure in that sense? I think it is one of those things where you internalise a lot of what other people think or where you think you should be at by a certain point. But then if you reflect on it a little more honestly and be really realistic about where you're at

and what you actually want, sometimes there's a bit of a gap between it. I did freeze my eggs. I did a couple of rounds during one of the lockdowns in Sydney. Nothing else to do. Why wouldn't I just jab myself in the stomach? I did it too in lockdown. Yeah, it was a good time to do it, I think. And, you know, everyone was thinking a lot about our future

and, you know, putting your life on hold as well, like no one was meeting anyone during that time. I personally, like my perspective has changed so much over the last few years. If you would have asked me this a few years ago, I would have been like, I'm really, really desperate to have a baby. I really, really want to get married. I really, really want a boyfriend. All of that sort of stuff.

Now I'm like, actually, I'm pretty content with my life. Like if it happens for me, then I'll be so happy. And I do love babies and, you know, all of that sort of stuff. But if it doesn't, I'm like, oh, actually, my life is pretty lovely. You're okay with it. You get to a point. Are you single now, Brooke? Yeah.

Well, with that sort of perspective, though. Do you think it's more freeing having that feeling and going into dating? Because I feel like when you're really attached to wanting a partner, wanting to have kids, then there's pressure when you are dating because you're like maybe this one might be the one. I think you sort of go into every interaction thinking like, oh, is this person like potentially, you know, someone that I can settle down with?

Yeah. And you don't want to think of that. Are you on Raya? Are you dating on Raya? No, I don't like that sort of stuff. I joined it and then I was like, oh, I don't know. Yeah, it's not my thing. Well, Ray is the dating app for people with profiles, isn't it?

Well, it used to be back in the day, like the Brad Pits were on there, but now I feel like it's every Joe Blow. It's not exclusive. It's not every Joe Blow. It's Paul Brook. Well, now clearly it's for every person in the world. No, but I don't want people to think. It's for every Brook Boney walking down the street.

Anyone dropping eggs on the freeway. Anyone on their ripsticks. No, but it really is because I think a lot of people out there think it's still this super exclusive app, but it's not anymore. It's like there's all sorts on there. Yeah, because there weren't enough famous people. They'd all dated each other and then they were like, okay, we've got to open up the bracket.

It was a small pool. I feel like you sort of know everyone anyway, right? Yeah, exactly. Raya is just living in Australian media or working in Australian media, right? Broccoli, you are such a trusted voice on Indigenous issues. Do you feel that there's pressure? Like do you feel the pressure to kind of represent such a big population of people and that you have to do and say, I guess,

the right thing um or know the right thing to say when you're representing i think the thing for me is like i don't want to represent anyone because there's like the voices are so broad you know there's so many different perspectives but you do hope that you know when you do say things that people are proud of you and that they at least feel understood or that they feel heard i think that that's something that was always really missing from mainstream media because you know you look around like 10 15 20 years ago there were no blackfellas in the mainstream and that's something that's really shifted and i'm so proud to have been like a small part in that shift because it means that you know when you turn on the tv or when you turn on the radio you're like

oh that woman's got the same last name as me or you know from the same home country or she sort of looks like me or has the same experience as me and for a long time that perspective was missing And so to be someone who can sort of throw their voice in that mix, I think is so important because otherwise, you know, if everyone's from the same background or has the same perspective. It's an echo chamber. Yeah, it is. And, you know, Australia is more than that.

We're many voices. Have you ever experienced any trolling off the back of it or any pushback Any time you open up about it, right? Yeah, like literally every day. It is horrific. Wow. How do you cope with that? I track them down.

I find out where they live. I've got a very specific set of skills. Send the air tracks. Oh, my God, it was Brooke sending the air tracks. It was you trying to kill me. No, I think, do you know, I actually sort of just try to ignore it and don't look at it because it does hurt my feelings because I'm quite sensitive.

The thing that makes me upset is if, like, my family see it and I'm like, oh, no, my sister's going to get into a fight with someone on Facebook comments. Like, just stop. Do they defend you? They do. Well, they don't, like, jump in there, but, like, they want to. Yeah.

And that makes me feel so sad because I'm like, oh, they're hurting. You're like, don't you get dragged down into this. I can fight my own battles. Yeah. Hey, man, on a ripstick. Just kidding. Speaking of us. Yeah, look at you, big strong Brooke Boney coming at you.

Speaking of battles, you've got a bone to pick with Brooke Mitch. I do, Brooke Boney. I've got a bone to pick with you, Miss Boney. My pick's going to be bone and I'm going to bone the pick right now. Please don't bone the pick. Something's happened, Brooke. between you and I. We've known each other for a while.

Yeah. And I do think we're quite good friends. Yeah. However, Brooke, I don't know if you're aware of this. I mean, actually, you'd have to be considering it's an act that you have done. This is like Days of Our Lives. It's X-Files.

It's X-Files. I'm not a dramatic person, Brooke Barney, however. 18 months ago. Oh, cast your mind back. Cast your mind back to 18 months ago. I went to send Brooke Barney a message on Instagram. And I check. I go, hmm, she hasn't replied to me.

That's odd. For days, weeks, no reply from my good pal. So I thought, Brooke Boney. So I just thought I'd check what's going on in Brooke's followers. I tap to find that what I thought was my good dear friend, Brooke Boney, has unfollowed me on Instagram. Unfollowed. Oh, you've refollowed now.

Oh, yeah, you've unfollowed because you're such a famous person. One of her people have told her. I'm not an unfollower. You did. No, he showed us. It must have been an accident. That's what they all say. A bony accident.

There's no way. That's not what you told me before. It's true. It's real. Do you know what? Guys, this is bigger than us. What it does mean is that we need to get the police involved. Someone's obviously stolen my phone.

Mitch, how do you actually, why are you checking who's unfollowing you? Don't flip this around on me. I was a victim. I got you, Brooke. Thank you. That's the real question. Because you're a journalist, she's weaseling her way out. Yeah, this is what she's doing.

Mitch says that he just went on there to check. I reckon you've got one of those unfollow apps where you know exactly who is and isn't following you. Maybe at one point I did have the app, but I got a new phone and the app's no longer with me. But then couldn't you have noticed when it happened? We're being told we're out of time, aren't we? It's been a pleasure.

We've got plenty of time. Because you're up next. Brooke's on with Will and Woody. Do him a favour. Just follow him back now. It'll make his day. Don't I follow you now? You follow me now.

You follow me now. Yeah, because clearly the guilt hit her hard one night. I mean we are hoping that Woody comes back from the jungle safe and sound but we love having you on the

airwaves I love coming in here and having a little chit chat in the kitchen yeah it's good fun what about on the radio not just in

the kitchen no but like seeing everyone around because I'm also I do the night show as well so I see Brooke in the night in the evening and we have

little hooks she's still here we've kept her under the desk no actually I sleep in here and go straight to the today show

and come back have another sleep and then in between when you break you just press unfollow Yeah, go around thinking about unfollow. And send anthrax too. This is something we do on the podcast, Life Uncut.

It's called Ask Uncut. We love it. We call it Therapy Thursday because we do it every Thursday. You guys write in some predicaments, your deepest, darkest, weirdest questions. We do our best to answer them. We have a really good one today. Am I being unreasonable wanting two weeks with no visitors

after my baby is born? I'm pregnant and due to give birth next month. It's our first baby and we decided that we wanted the first two weeks by ourselves, just my partner and I. We just want it to be special and intimate without the chaos of our families. Now, both our families live overseas, so they're flying in for the big moment. When the discussion came up with our parents, my mother didn't take it so well, but my mother-in-law lost her mind.

She went from zero to 100 saying things like, we just wanted to pop in when the baby was born, have a little peek, some champagne and then come back again in two weeks to have some more time we expressed to her that we understand that's the way she imagined it but this is really important to us to just be on our own for these first two weeks she began saying things like well the birth is spoiled now and that we're really selfish now because of our request of two weeks that somehow translates to them never coming to see the baby because apparently we are telling his family to f off question am i being unreasonable wanting two weeks with no family after my baby is born I have a few questions I

mean when I first saw this I was like nah take your two weeks it's fine but wait are they flying in from overseas and then expected to just wait around for two weeks to see the baby like why are they coming early if they can't see the kid that's correct have they booked tickets already correct ah nah that's a bit crap I think I mean I'm and I'm usually on the other side of this I'm like if you have a baby and you want to spend time by yourself like if you want to if you want a month just to kind of get all down in your little nestle town with you and your new bub and you don't want visitors it's absolutely your prerogative to say no I don't want visitors but if you've told them the date if you've allowed them to book flights if they've organized their life to come and be here

why didn't you make that clearer earlier on you can't have people come and fly in from overseas and then say to them no sorry I don't want to see you I actually agree I think you're so entitled when you have a baby, you can set whatever rules and boundaries you absolutely want. You've gone through it. It's your child. You're raising it however you want. If you don't want anyone to come that's not vaccinated,

if you want two weeks, three weeks, four weeks to yourself, you're entitled to that. But these people have spent a lot of money and they're flying a really long distance. I don't think you can say thanks for coming, stay in another hotel and I'll see you next year for Christmas. I think it's up to the parents to then provide entertainment. So buy zoo tickets or maybe send them to the movies

or perhaps, you know, a nice meal. Shout them a dinner. It's on you. No, they're not coming for an Aussie holiday. They're coming because you're having a baby. Yeah, the baby's the entertainment. I want to see the baby. I agree.

If I had flown to the other side of the world and then someone's like, psych, you can't see it, I'd be like, WTA. Exactly. It's so hard because I do want to, I mean, and I feel like the mother in me wants to say, you know, whatever you need as a new mum, you take priority, which you do. You do. But, I mean, I say this and then even in my own experience,

it was kind of the complete opposite. it so matt forgot to tell me or he just didn't mention it or somehow it never came up that he had invited his mom to be in the room when i gave birth and then he said to me hey babe you don't mind mom's gonna be in the room when you give birth and i was like what as if it's like mom's coming over for lunch oh my god ellie's coming over she's gonna be in the room and he was like she's my support person and i was like wait you're my i was like did you ask have you already asked your mom and he was like yeah i asked her and he's like and she's so excited and i was like but you haven't asked me yet anyway that's wild ellie was in the room and it was actually really beautiful

and i'm so happy that she was there but at the time i kind of wished i got asked first if there's one thing that you can't just do without asking it's inviting people into your wife's birth matt yeah didn't understand the reason why that might be problematic and he was like but it's my baby as well. And I was like, and it's my vagina on display. It is me on display. But that's okay. Ellie has seen more of me than she probably has of her own son. Well, listen, if you

want advice like that, slide into the DMs. The Pickup. Advice like that. If you want some terrible advice, please send in your questions. Nothing but the best here. The Pickup. Send us a DM. Hey, we've got a star on the line. I'm so excited for this. Temin Sersok. You'll know her from Home and Away. She was in Pretty Little

Liars. Neighbours. Yeah. Young Wrestler. She's done a lot. Yeah. an Aussie star. She's coming all the way from Nashville at the moment. Yes, in the US. Yes, she joins us now. Hi, Tamin. Hi, guys. I just got out of my movie premiere, so I'm like buzzing with energy. So it's like the perfect time to chat. Oh, congratulations. Great to have you. This is Blood, Sweat and Cheer that's come out. Yes, Blood, Sweat and Cheer just came out this weekend. You guys can watch it on

the second new free platform in Australia called Tubi. and, yeah, I get to kind of be a little crazy and a little wild and a little fun. So, yeah, it was an awesome experience. I hope you guys like it. Well, Tamin, you have so many exciting things happening in your life at the moment, but something that you were thrust into the media about

were the recent school shootings that happened in Nashville. Now, you're living there at the moment whilst you've been filming, but, I mean, for anybody who, you know, just to cast your mind back about six weeks ago or last month, there was the school shooting that happened in Nashville. And I remember I was sitting here in the studio when the footage of that school shooting was released, the shooter going into the school.

It was harrowing, absolutely harrowing. And your daughter, Phoenix, goes to the school next door. Yeah, we actually drive past that school every day. So, yeah, it's like walking distance away from her school. You know, obviously for Australians, I'm Australian, It's quite shocking, you know, especially because there is no such thing as gun violence in Australia. But, you know, there was another shooting today where 14 died and 28 were injured. And it's been every single day, I think, of this year that that has been the case.

So to say that it's shocking for us, of course, but like it's almost like we kind of expect a shooting to happen every day. of course you don't expect it to happen in your own backyard and I think that that sometimes is the hottest part about all of it so yeah it's it's been really traumatic for us and our family and we're just trying to figure out the next steps and and what we're going to do we're always going to school the kids um high school in Australia that was always the plan but we're trying to figure out you know if we can do that sooner it just depends my husband's director it just depends on like it's between providing and protecting. So it's trying to figure out a balance, obviously.

Well, there's been 131 mass shootings this year alone in the US. There has been more school shootings than days in the year of 2023. Isn't that just revolting to hear? It's absolutely petrifying. Tam, when you say that you're thinking about coming back potentially earlier or that you're going to school the kids here, I mean, do your children at the age of nine, do they understand what's happening?

and do they feel scared to go to the school? What's that conversation like in your household at the moment? You really have to try not to scare your kids so you give them the information that's all age-appropriate. I find it really sad that schools send us some therapists what to say to kids according to their age group. So you tell your kids that they're safe and that if they just listen to what the teachers ask of them,

they'll be safe. you know, but again, you sometimes don't know what's going to happen. Um, but I think the, when I looked at my husband and we bought like two bulletproof backpacks for our kids, was that was kind of the deciding when I was just like, and we threw away all their shoes. Cause when you have laces, um, the kids can trip over them. So now my kids have Velcro shoes and I was just like, this is not a way to, it's just not a way to live. And it's really, really sad because 73% of all Americans want some sort of gun reform. And I think that the narrative is that, you know,

I've been to seven gun protests in the last two weeks, and people think, you know, everyone's sitting there saying, we don't want guns, and that's actually impossible. There's no way that the Second Amendment will ever change. Like, guns will never not be in America. That's never going to happen. But there are so many different ways that we can, like, gun reform, gun safety so many different legislation um laws that we can pass that means there's way less of it

you know and that's what everyone's fighting for is just less they're not fighting to take anything away it'll never happen but like just having access to you know military weapons like you know there's really logical um assault rifles like that yeah yeah making it you know i could go by I can go buy a semi-automatic rifle today. I've never shot a gun in my life. With no mental health check, I can go up the road and go buy an AR-15 that shoots, like, up to, like, 40 bullets a minute, and, like, I don't know what I'm doing.

So, I mean, that just, to me, just seems really illogical. Tam, and there was about 10 minutes where the shooting was happening and you didn't know what was going on. What was that like in that moment? Like, how did you find out something was happening? Is there an Amber Alert that goes out? Are they just literally mum's groups that are messaging each other? Is it on the news?

What was that 10 minutes like? My friend actually called me and she was hysterical because she knows that my daughter goes to school in the area. And, yeah, she just didn't know if that was the school or not and I didn't know either. But we got pretty soon, like a couple minutes, we found out the name of the school. But, again, I'm new to Nashville so I'm not exactly sure if it's like,

is that the nickname of my school like you don't know like you know what I mean like I'm like well do people call our school this school's name like I don't know so yeah it was just really confusing for like a while and it really rattled the community Nashville is a really beautiful place and has really beautiful people they call it the volunteer state so like we have such incredible people in our lives there like that dropped everything and came to our house and we've only known them for four months um you know they're just really really good people but it's just it's hard to like you know know what to do next tammy well i think what next is coming back to australia isn't it yeah i know yeah i mean yeah that moment of you just saying that you had to

buy bulletproof backpacks i don't think that there's anybody listening to that that didn't have a shiver through their spine like the fact that they even exist that a child would even need to have one. Oh, they're sold out. Wow. It's petrifying. And I can't imagine. And what's even worse about that, sorry to interrupt, what's actually worse about that and which is like not acceptable is that these bulletproof backpacks, I'm really very fortunate and privileged enough that they were $350 and I was like, just throw money at it. Like, and I was disgusted that they were so expensive because people can't afford that. And that's not, that's not, yeah, that's not fair either like how how dare you firstly well thank god they're there but then how dare

you make them that expensive that everyone can't have them and then also they're sold out you know so it's just yeah there's a there's a lot of problems with all of it it's a scary time it's so scary i think for australians watching in it seems the answer seems so obvious and it's so frustrating for everybody like just have gun reforms but you know it just doesn't seem like it's something that's going to pass in the states oh totally i can only imagine your frustration as an Aussie living over there in the US, Tamar. But you know what? You're putting out the content into the world that makes us all laugh, and it's escapism

at the end of the day, that what you're putting out into the world and your creativity, and you can get the new season. Well, it's not a season. It's a film, right? Sure, yeah. So I shot this film. It's called Blood, Sweat, and Tear. We shot it within 15 days.

We just had the premiere tonight. It's like Jawbreaker, Election, like all those kind of, it's a very dark comedy, which is like my favorite space to play in sandbox um it comes out in it was just so great about this film is there's so many streaming platforms but this platform actually streams like worldwide so everyone can watch it at the same time which has been really cool because sometimes you know somebody will come out in the states and my aussie followers will be like oh my goodness i can't see it you know and um so i've had so many people on instagram just saying oh my gosh we've watched it and it's very akin to my character Jenna from Pretty Little Liars.

I know. Big fan, big fan. It's like Jenna, but it's also like really funny at the same time. She's like, oh, my God, like what is this? And I'm really hoping we get a sequel. So I actually wrote the treatment for the sequel. So hopefully, I hope it becomes like a little cult classic because I think it's really great.

And people don't understand if you're not in the film business how hard it is to like make a movie in 15 days. Yeah. And I dance and I kill people and I – Oh, it's a bit of some high school noise. Yeah, you covered the ground there. There's no stopping you. Kevin Serside.

I'm just cheerleading. You're a star. You can get Blood, Sweat & Cheer. It's streaming now on Tubi. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, Taman. Thanks for sharing, Taman. Really appreciate it.

Thanks, Taman.