Life Uncut - The Best Of The Pick Up - F Around And Find Out

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: Today is International Lazy Day Britt & Laura have figured out the best songs of all time What is FAFO Parenting? Laura finds out she's been pronouncing a word wrong her entire life Britt's deep dive on cryogenic freezing What did your kid steal? Marlie Mae drew on her face with a permanent marker and it didn't go down well Laura tests the new Esther Perel Hinge Prompts on Britt Your Worst First Date Stories (but on the radio) Fun Fact Friday is BACK! 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 our radio show, The Pickup. It is. So every day of the week, if you are new here, we do a radio show called The Pickup and this is like the little bundled up cute package that we drop at the end of the week where we pick out our highlights or our favourite bits from the week. Yeah, we pick out the best bits. All of the worst stuff just gets...

It's all good. Well, you know, sometimes live radio, you don't know what's going to happen. But, you know, when you get to pick out the parts you like the best, it definitely comes together in a needed package, put it that way. I did take a class on how to deliver a child in case you go into labour. So Britt said the first thing she learnt about whether or not, you know, what to do if someone goes into labour is to give them a stretch and sweep. No, but you've also got to feel if they're crowning,

how long they're crowning. You've got to get in there. And I just really wanted to point out the length of your nails is not conducive for you to check if I'm crowning or not. It doesn't bother me. It doesn't do anything to me. If you're delivering a child, that's the least of your worries. If you're delivering a child and I'm the one delivering it,

you need to not worry about that. If I'm having a baby in the studio, please don't finger me. Just let me go. Just leave me be. I wouldn't even call an ambulance. But pretty. No, because the story's too good for me to have delivered it. You need the content.

We'd have to get the cameras on. We'd have to get the content. Do you know why? We actually haven't spoken about this. I'm sure we'll go into more depth soon, but I'm working up until the day that I'm being induced basically. So I could be induced or I could have a baby and we just don't know. Why did this course?

So Brit's getting prepped. Anyway, look, we have a few things to talk about in the show. I very poorly pronounced a word. There is no word in the English language that's called gemut. We won't tell you what the word actually is but on radio this week, I said gemut. I think I can figure it out. I said gemut.

Spell it. And I said it so confidently as well, okay? I said, I just said gamut. That's our favourite part. And also something that happened was this week Marlee May did something and she's learnt the hard way that there are consequences in life and you should listen to your mother. You do have to learn.

So I hope she never does it again. Hey, on the podcast, if you listened last week, we were talking about first date stories but like not good ones, obviously. No one cares about those. Horror first date stories. You guys shared so many and they're fucking hilarious. The horrific ones. And like Laura and I have lived through it.

We've done it. We did our time. I have brought you so many rogue stories over the years, but I just don't have them anymore because unfortunately, I'm in a healthy, safe relationship. It's lovely. Can I just say that we did literally one call out, like one call out on socials and hundreds, hundreds of you. It's so funny.

And I actually thought that we'd had some bad dates in the past, but you guys have trumped us. So we decided to bring it over to radio and do some call outs as well. And we got some real bangers. Anyway, let's get into it. Oh, happy Monday. I'm actually, I shouldn't say actually, I'm so happy to be here today. You've lost the plot.

But I'm often happy to be here. But I'm particularly happy to be here today. Do you know what today is? You know how every day has like an international day? It's Monday. Yeah. Because you often forget. You know how every day has like an international day of something?

Like international pie day. Talk like a pirate day. Arr. Yeah. What's today? Can I tell you a joke quickly off the top of my head? Hang on. Just quickly while we're sitting in it.

Why are pirates pirates? I don't know, Brittany. Because they arrr. you can use that it's not copyrighted what is today laura today is international lazy day so if you've been feeling particularly lazy today we're actually going home it's been a great show everyone yeah could be tomorrow could it be oh whoa whoa i think my sorry i just got you something fat toes out of it laura laura acts like whoa what happened but she's like this sorry i'm i'm so lazy i just pulled my headphones out i've decided to finish yeah well we'll see you tomorrow

It was a nice show. Will and Woody will be up in an hour. No, they're even lazier. They're not doing it. Okay, we're on the hunt, everyone. We're on the hunt to try and find the best song of all time. And then I've been crying in the break. It's a big endeavour to undertake.

No, it's not because we're stressed about it. I am. I'm really stressed. I feel like giving somebody that title is a huge responsibility that I don't know if I'm prepared for. I deeply agree. But also we were just touching on some of like the songs that were real nostalgia songs for us when we were kids.

You were like Applebottom Jean. From the windows to the walls. No, do you guys remember the song Butterfly Kisses? Yeah. It's so sad. I mean, it's written by, God, I think he was a one-hit wonder. Bob Carlyle was his name. But that song, every time I hear it, I am in tears.

Yeah. Although it's not my number one song of all time. Well, okay. I did feel a lot of stress. The pendulum was swinging between Hootie and the Blowfish and Cat Stevens. I was an old soul when I was younger and I do love that music. But I somehow found myself gravitating towards Aerosmith, Don't Wanna Miss A Thing.

I don't wanna close my eyes. I don't wanna fall asleep cause I miss you, baby. What a banger. I can't, like, the emotions are going, my heart's palpitating. I'm like, I'm feeling the emotion in his voice. Okay, so my song that I put forward as the best song of all time is definitely debatable and I think a lot of people would disagree, but it brings me a lot of joy, brings me a lot of passion, hits me out on a dance floor.

DJ Grace, hit it. And it's TLC, No Scrubs. Does that not just transport you back to your hen's party, Brit, when everyone was up on the boat trying to do a crump? It's trying. Sorry, we crump. I was heavily pregnant trying to, what is it, twerk. It doesn't work.

A crumple? I don't even know if it's a terminology. I've just also had a realisation Nelly was pretty good, some of Nelly's songs too, but we're not going there. Okay, my next song is I think that it's hard to overlook this one. You Will Feel The Same, Laura, because it was a song at your wedding, but I think it's at everyone's wedding. This is my first.

Yeah, it was my first dance song. Grace is like, shut up, Laura. It's hard not to. I would go so far as to say if you were at a wedding and that song came on and you didn't get up, you're a sociopath. It's impossible. I would agree. Do you know what's the most devastating part?

Every time I hear that song, I'm just reminded about the fact that I don't have a video of my first dance for my wedding because the cameraman stood in front of his own camera. Yeah, well, let's be fair. I have a video of a cameraman's back from my wedding. It was truly devastating. I haven't posted my whole wedding dance yet because I still think of you and I don't want to rub it in your face.

But mind you, I might actually post it this week. All right, I have one more and I think everyone loves it. It's also an iconic wedding song. But the reason why I'm putting this one forward is because we call it our family song and so we sing it to the girls and they love it and they sing it to us and it's a real sentimental piece for us. It is I Love You Always Forever. I love you always forever, near and far.

We'll sit together everywhere. I will be with you everything. Oh, the best songs of all time. It's a tricky title to try and pin down. I feel like we like to put a label on everything, Britt, especially relationships, labels. We've got them for everything. 100%.

Also parenting styles. There's even that parenting style show that's on at the moment. I forgot what it's called. I'm pretty sure you've recommended that show before. It's got Ally Langdon in it, but, like, they use different parenting styles, like, you know, the tech parenting or the gentle parenting. Is it parental guidance?

That's it. Thank God for producer Grace who actually knows things on this show. Thank God. All right, but there's a new type of parenting style that's been spoken about recently. It's called FAFO parenting. FAFO, like FIFO, flying fly out. It's when you tap in, tap out. You just fly out and come back.

No, what it stands for is F around and find out parenting. So it came from Kylie Kelsey, who is Travis Kelsey's sister-in-law, and she was talking about it on her podcast. And I guess that that's what's brought it into mainstream attention. But there's a lot of experts who have some strong opinions about this. Have a listen to this. F-A-F-O parenting, which stands for f*** around and find out parenting, is the act of having your kids experience the natural consequences of their actions without getting too involved.

So an example of this, right, a really casual version of F-A-F-O parenting might be if your kid's having a tantrum because they don't want to put a jumper on, but you know that it's a blizzard outside and you go, fine, don't wear a jumper. Go outside and figure it out for yourself. And then you go outside. You don't have a jumper. They don't have the jumper. You don't give them your jumper because you didn't prepare and they freeze to death in your hypothermia yeah and it's like you know what if you're not gonna pay attention to me and the things i tell you i'm not gonna help you i mean it depends it depends on what the extreme is i don't have kids i'm not a parent i can still have an opinion my opinion is i think that's absolutely fine i

think we i think we we coddle children too much like if there are no consequences people don't learn anything kids or adults like you have to have consequences and like this is how you learn anything in life. Every action has a reaction. Britt, I just honestly thought you were going to say the opposite. So you really threw me a spanner. Did you? Oh no, my kid. Good luck to him. That's what I think. There's got to be levels to this, right? Like, I mean, okay, you're at a red traffic light. Stop at a red traffic light. If my kid's just going to run across the road, I'm not going to be like, F around and find out. Like, there's got to be rules that you implement and you enforce with your kids to keep them safe. Like our primary

job as parents is to keep your children safe and so if you're not doing that because your kid put up too much of an argument you can't be bothered to like pick your battles with them I don't know I think it's just lazy ass parenting I think it's pretty obvious that people are trying to keep their kids safe no one's gonna let them run out in traffic and see what happens like that's not what we're talking about I think it's more just about like what you said like if you don't put on jumper go outside fine you'll be cold they'll come back in in 10 minutes because they're cold but you gotta let them work it out yeah but sometimes I'm like okay cool if I'm gonna have that fight with my kid like they don't want to pack a drink bottle or they don't want to pack

a jumper and they're five and I know that they're going to be freezing I'm gonna pack the drink bottle and the jumper because even if I don't want to pick the battle to get out of the house I don't want to have the battle for the rest of the day I don't want to then deal with the next three hours of my kid complaining because they forgot the thing that I told them I don't know I feel like to be fair if your kid is thirsty you will give it water that's not what Laura say I think the difference is yes you will pack the drink bottle Laura but you let them for that moment feel what it would feel like if, oh my God, I wish I had my drink bottle. I can't believe I brought that. You're not going to make them thirsty, but they have to have that moment of

like, oh, I get it. I get why mom wanted me to bring that now. Consequence. That's the lesson learned. Yeah. Because I think that if we're not letting our kids understand that like not everything is easy, not everything's given to you. Actions, you know, have repercussions and all of this kind of stuff. How are you supposed to learn? Yeah, but I don't know. I mean, like I do agree to some extent. But I think that there is probably kind of ways than like the extremism of like, F around and find out. Like they're kids, they're learning, of course, they're going to push boundaries. And I still think that as parents, it's our responsibility to guide them in the best way. And that might be sometimes having an argument about like doing what's the best thing from the

get go. And don't get me wrong, I do think pick your battles. Like my kid walks out of the house with earmuffs, a tutu and a swimmer over the top. Like she wears whatever the hell she wants. I don't care about that battle but I think with some things I'm like I'd rather just do it the safer way than worrying about them making their own decisions and figuring out consequences that could adversely affect them I'll send my kids to your house that's what I reckon we have to address the elephant in the room there is no elephant tell everybody no one would know if you weren't going to say it well producer grace said I have to say it we were just having a conversation evidently before we were on air and Laura was telling like a really serious story but just

repeat the sentence you just said just as you said it please please I said the full gamut the full gamut and Grace and I look at each other and we're like sorry what and you were like it's you know like the full gamut and Grace is like do you mean gamut and you're like no gamut no the second it came out of my mouth I was like I really took a punt and I don't think it paid off You had like a 50-50 chance. I've read the words so many times, but never in my life have I had to put gamut in a sentence. But you didn't admit defeat straight away.

Grace did have to do that Google voice translator where he says it out loud. No, that's because everyone wasn't quite sure. I think I said it with such confidence that everyone else in the room was like, is that how it's said? Grace, were you sure? Full gamut. Look, she did say it very confidently,

and I said maybe I've been saying it wrong. Yeah, she did say it so confidently that we both questioned ourselves, but I'm glad we stuck by it. Anyway, if you want the full gamut of today's show, stick around. We've got some pretty gross things coming up. I'm almost 40 years old and it is amazing that there's still words that to this day I've only read in a sentence I've never said out loud and then you say them incorrectly.

I'm so glad that we have a national radio show to share them on. Do you know what I said once? Say investigative. Investigative journalist. How about you say it first? Say it. Investigative. It's a difficult word.

You say it, Grace. Investigative. See, it's a bit tricky. It is hard. It's a tricky word, but it's always a real. But we know what it means. It's a point of joy whenever Brit says it because it's always a mistake. And I just needed to throw you under a bus because I'm under it

and I wanted to drag you down with me. But you threw yourself under it by trying to throw me under because you couldn't say it. It's a really hard word to say. Laura, picture this. You could freeze your body after death, sleep frozen for 200 years and then wake up in the future, would you do it? No.

Really? You didn't think about that? No, I have thought about it. We talked about it earlier. The answer's no. I don't want to – firstly, cryogenically frozen me doesn't want to come back in 200 years when all my friends and family are dead. No.

Okay, listen to this. There's this German startup called Tomorrow Bio and I just got like down this rabbit hole at this place. They're charging people $200,000 to cryogenically freeze yourself for this exact purpose so that in 200 years when the technology is available, you can defrost and be brought back to the future with the technology to like help you revive whatever illness might have killed you.

So like maybe if it was a cancer or something like that, you can literally pay now to be frozen for 200 years. Pay now, live later. Yeah, buy now, die now, live later. That should be their motto. I think that this is a scam. I think it is a scam and a very lucrative one. They're making $200,000 a pop.

Okay, hear me out. This puts the funny a bit. Not that it's funny. If you don't have $200,000 to freeze your whole body, you can just pay $80,000 and just do your brain. But, like, where's your brain coming back? You're going to wake up and just be a little brain that can't do anything? Hear me out as to why I think this is a scam.

This just to me reeks of, do you guys remember the Theranos story? The woman who, like, brought out, it was like a blood test. They could detect cancer. She's ended up in. Elizabeth Holmes. She's a scam star. She's in prison for it. And it was like a company that was worth billions of dollars.

It's one thing to say we're going to cryogenically freeze you as that in 200 years when the technology is there, we can bring you back to life. Is the same company developing the technology? Like how do we know? The technology has never been there. It's still not there. 100 years ago or 50 years ago, whatever it was,

everyone was saying, oh, we'll be there in 200 years. We're never going to be there. I sort of get it though because what they're saying is they're not saying, I guess if you're going to die, you have two options, right? You die and you never get brought back or you die, freeze yourself and potentially have an option of coming back. So I guess there are the people that are like, hey, I get it's not a guarantee

but cool, maybe I can come back in 200 years. Maybe it makes more sense if you're like in your 30s or your 20s or your 30s or your 40s, right, because you didn't get to live your full life. Like if you were – if there was a possibility that you're going to die young, you might then explore it. But if you're 80, like who wants to come back as an 80-year-old and be like, well, I've got five more years left in my life.

Let's go. So far, the company has preserved six people and five pets and there are 650 people who have already paid, because you obviously pay before you die. The rules are you don't get put to sleep. It's not like a euthanasia thing. You have to pre-book it, wait till you die and then it has to be done really quickly after you pass away. But 650 people have paid and are waiting their turn.

I wonder if that's like a family because like you don't want to do it on your own. If you're freezing your pets, you're freezing someone to come back together. We'll do the pick up in 200 years' time. Producer Grace, you were saying you've got some stats. Grace is on the case. Yeah, so there was a big thing about cryogenically frozen people back in the 60s, but every single person that was frozen back then, none of them are still frozen because you have to rely

on their family members to keep paying to keep them cold. Oh, you'd be devoured. To keep them cold. So what, it was like 40 years and they were like, we're done. Yeah, there's only one person that was cryogenically frozen frozen before 1973 that's still frozen. Dears, imagine growing up and you're a kid and it's like, hey, these are like your bills you've got to pay

and also this is to keep your great-great-great-grandpa frozen in case he comes back to life. Like, you're going to be like, stuff that. Which is why I am convinced it's a scam. I am so convinced that these companies know that people are not going to be able to upkeep the payments for 200 years because no one's going to do that. So they're like, well, there's probably only going to be

one or two people who can afford it and therefore we're not going to be, who's going to sue us? They're dead. Like, it's the perfect model. I think it's going to happen. I wish I was around in 200 years to see. Okay, I asked my Instagram followers personally because I found this really interesting.

Britt did some research. 70,000 people saw this. 8% of people said that they would do it and 92% said no way. But 8% is pretty big. That's a lot of people that are like, yeah, I'd do that. I'd stick around. I have no interest. I'm just going to like do this life to the fullest

and then I'll be done. I'm happy with that. All right, well, I'll track down your great, great, great, great grandkids. Now we're asking the question, give us a call, what did your kid steal? Maybe it was by accident. We're not dumping them in. They're not going to get in trouble.

Maybe they will. Maybe your child's a kleptomaniac and we want to know about it. But let us know. The reason why we're asking this is so my daughter, Marley May, she is six years old, just six, right? And, like, kids at that age are still learning about right and wrong. Theft and not theft. Theft and paying for stuff.

No, firstly, they're learning about money. They're learning about like the inherent value of money. That's still kind of a tricky age. Or lack of. Or lack of the inherent value of money. They're also learning to push boundaries. Now, Marley made a mistake and it turned out that actually maybe it was partly our mistake. You know how like you have your apps and whatnot linked to your phone and to your credit card and everything else.

And like sometimes these payments are automated, you know, like you've got your Amazon Prime automated payments. You've got your Disney Channel automated payments. And it just comes through what she bought. She's got a shopping spree. She's bought Bentley. So we never use, like I rarely have we like logged on and used our Amazon Prime recently. Marley doesn't watch a lot of TV

and she definitely doesn't watch TV unsupervised. Like what we do is we go and we put a movie on. That's the movie. She watches it. And then when the movie ends, I usually know it's ended because like I can hear her trying to flick around and listen to like something else or watch something else, right? and it was only that Matt, he changed some settings on his phone recently,

my husband Matt, and the movie had finished that she was watching and then he got this ping notification and it pinged to his phone and it was like your $30 purchase from Amazon Prime has just gone through. So Marley had just sat there using the clicker and she'd scrolled through and she'd just purchased, there's a new movie on which is called How to Tame Your Dragon, which firstly we'd said she can't watch because it's too scary. She just went on to Amazon Prime and she bought it for $30

I wonder how many things she's bought. Bing, bing, bing. So we went – the thing is, though, she's been buying movies and has never watched them because she doesn't get to – she had no concept that she was actually purchasing these things. So when we went back through the Amazon Prime account, she's done it loads of times. It would be interesting to see just what exactly she's bought,

like her taste in film. It's all kids. It's all like – none of it – I mean, thank God she hasn't discovered Roblox or anything like that. But she's been buying, like, movies. But they're so expensive because they're still out at the movies. Oh, my God. So in real time.

She's spending more than you would spend as a family to go to the movies. And then never watching them. To sit at home with a beer, a milk, kick her feet up. Do you know? Okay, let's give her the past because she didn't know. When we explained it to her, she was genuinely devastated. Like she didn't understand that that was a thing. Stealing from your parents.

Well, I guess it's not, right? It's like a loan. No, it's stealing. I've only ever stolen one thing, but it really stuck with me when I was a kid. And we just like lived in this really healthy family. And I say that because my dad had a heart attack when he was in his late 30s, very young. And that just like changed the way we could consume food.

I really wanted all the kids at school, remember when that pink Hubba Bubba came into fashion? Oh, yeah. And it was like a metre long and you'd pull it out and like rip it off. I remember we were going through Target and they were at the, you had to throw a chocolate in at the checkout. And I begged my mum for it and she said no. And so I just pocketed it, just took it.

And then we were walking out, I slipped a little bit in my mouth and I was like, I just won't chew when she sees me. But she could smell it. Anyway, she made me pull it out of my pocket, made me admit to stealing it, marched me back and in front of everybody at the checkout, I had to pull it out, put it on the counter and say, sorry, excuse me, I just stole this.

I had to tell everyone that I stole it. Oh, my God. But it worked, man. I was so embarrassed to tell people that I stole something that I never stole anything again. We've got Kate on the line. Kate, what did your kids steal? You know, in Seed, they have all these kind of kids' toys at their reach.

She really wanted this hard sausage dog, one of those ones that you squeeze and the little poop comes out of its bottom with a balloon. Anyway, she was pretty content with that and we walked out and she started to walk really funny. I let it go. I asked if, like, maybe she'd pooed her pants or something. And then when we got home, Dad realised it was a sausage dog. Do you know what it is?

It's when they act all innocent. When you say, sorry, you can't have that, they don't put up a fight and they just go, okay, mummy. And you're like, why was that so easy? I'm sorry. Check their pants. I'm still stuck on the fact that you can buy a kid's toy and wear a dog poos.

They're popular. Actually, one of my girls in my other job has one sitting on a desk, so I think adults like them too. That's so weird. Yeah, I think it's just like they're like maybe a sensory toy, but it was a cute brown sausage dog. Like I thought it was really cute, but not $10.95. No, terrible.

Thanks, Kate. thanks for the call. No worries. Bye. Now, earlier in the week, if you guys were listening to the show, we were talking about a new parenting trend, new parenting name. It's called FAFO parenting, which means F around and find out. Have a little listen to this. FAFO parenting, which stands for F around and find out parenting, is the act of having your kids experience the natural consequences of their actions without getting too involved. Now, I wasn't really sure on this parenting style. I mean, like, I get it.

I love it. Let your kid be cold. They'll figure it out. So I never expected that this would happen in real time in our household. And I say this because Marley May, she's six. She's in kindergarten. She's my oldest.

And we have some rules when it comes to dinner time in our household, right? Like, you've got to sit at the table. You've got to eat your dinner. And that's because... Strict, strict, strict. Wow, you've run a regime there, Laura. You laugh, okay?

It's really hard to get a six-year-old and a four-year-old to sit at the table and eat their dinner and not be distracted. I came bare grills. I got it. She gets down off her chair. She's like, I've got to go and poo. I've got to go and do this. Like, of course, they can go to the toilet if they need to,

but it's usually just used as a distraction, right? Sit in your poo and eat your vegetables. No, but honestly, I'll turn my back for two seconds. They've gone and got pens, a colouring book. They've gone and put the TV on. Like, they just don't listen to me when it comes to dinner time and I'm so sick of sitting at a table with them and hand feeding a six-year-old

so that she'll eat her dinner. Do you know what I mean? She's not a baby bird. You can do this. You don't need to regurgitate your food in. Anyway, last night I reckon I felt like such a broken record. I'd said like 10 times, like, get in your seat, eat your dinner.

I was also trying to prep our dinner at the same time. Anyway, it would have been like two minutes since I just said, can you get in your seat and eat your dinner? And I turn around and Marley and Lola have both gotten a texter and they've drawn on their faces. So Marley has drawn around both eyes

and she's drawn like a clown mouth around her mouth. Lola has just coloured in her eyelids so she's got blue texture on her eyelids. And they both look like, you know, fair enough, they looked very funny and we all had a little giggle. And then I looked at the texture that they'd used. Oh, no. And they'd both drawn on their face with a brownie box.

That stuff does not come off. It does not come off. So they effed around and they found out is what it turns out. So Marley thought it was all really funny until I explained to her that I didn't think it was going to come off very easily. And she was like, get me a baby wipe. So I got her a baby wipe.

We sat down, tried to get some of it off. Britt, I just want to show you. Oh, no. I mean, I can. To be fair, we got a lot of it off, that this is how my child went to school today. She has a little permanent marker, like a clown smile around it. Oh, my God, I can't laugh, but I am.

We honestly scrubbed until the poor thing was like red raw. But you can't have that sent her to school. Totally. She wanted to keep going. She was like, get it off, mummy. Get it off. I look stupid. And I was like, sweetheart, we can't.

We cannot get any more of this off. But this is a prime example of let them figure it out. She's never doing that again. I know. Maybe she'll actually eat a dinner for a change. But no, she was like, please don't make me go to school. And I'm like, well, you're not sick. You can't miss school just because you've got men.

I'd be making up a – Just because you look like a clown, okay? I was about to say, I'd be making up a story like she's got a side gig. She's a clown on the weekends. She's a personal entertainer. She's a personal entertainer. and she's like, oh, sorry, this is for my job on the weekend. Yeah, she entertains at kids' parties.

We rent her out. If you want Marlee May to come to your kids' party, she's dressed as a clown. Anyway, I am going home to figure out how today has gone for her and we will soon find out. Hopefully someone at school had a better idea as to get the marker off. Producer Grace was telling us something that she did when she was a kid. I didn't quite get it.

What did you do to your hair? Okay, so I did something similar to Marlee May, but I was not six. I was 17. and for some reason I was doing the 40-hour famine and I decided that instead of eating, I would spray paint my hand gold but with just like regular house spray paint and it did not come off for four days. I was at school doing a speech for my HSC with a gold hand holding my hand.

I snorted. Michael Jackson, show me. Did you moonwalk off the stage as well? it's fully cold oh my god why did you you're an embarrassment to everyone i know do you know what doesn't make sense in this story the 40 hour famine has nothing to do with this no that was just me setting the scene i like to think it's because i was so hungry i wasn't thinking properly i reckon it wasn't but anyway good cover brit it has been a long time since you have been online dating i know i've been off for three years

but I was on for 10. You did hit them hard back in the day. I feel like where's this going? Yes, I had every dating app, sure. I don't understand. I'm sorry,

is this a Britney roast? What are you doing? No, my question is were you using online dating at the time when the prompts came in? You know like how Oh my God, yeah.

You know how now it's like because back in when I was online dating and this is a long time ago now it was just swipe, swipe, swipe from a picture. You swiped on like a fishing picture.

Yeah, it was just men holding fish and now at least those men have to explain the fish. I've been through all the updates. I've been through the paid subscriptions. I've done it all, but I was deep in the prompts. I hated the prompts. Okay.

What were some of the prompts that you had to fill out? Because you can choose them as well, can't you? Yeah. So it comes up with like, there might be like 50 or 60 different prompts, for example, but you have to just pick like four or five. Some of the apps actually make you pick a minimum of three or you can't even have an app. You can't have a profile now without at least a couple of prompts.

I kind of like that though, because at least you've got to show a bit of your personality. It's like we would get along if, and then you've got to feel it out. You love ice cream. We're the same type of crazy if. You're both on medication. On the weekends, you'll find me. Asleep. Next to you in bed.

Help. But that's what I used to say. Okay, right. Did you? No. Oh, my God. The reason why I'm bringing this up is because. That's why I got so lucky.

So Esther Perel, she's a relationship expert. Like we adore her. We've had her on our podcast, Life Uncut Podcast. She is truly amazing. So she's teamed up with Hinge and she's done a whole lot of new prompts. Some of them, I'm like, yes, I get it. I love it. Oh, you know, tell me more about yourself.

And other ones, I'm just not sure whether I would find it really cringy if someone was answering these things before I met them. You could an online date now. Don't ever split up with Matt because you just can't do it. You would drown. Okay. You can't see. Hear me.

Look, I don't trust my – I have to go on a reality TV show to find my husband in the first place. I don't trust my tasting men apart from him. All right, okay. Here are some of the prompts that are supposed to inspire more surprise, curiosity and playfulness between people. Oh, hit me. Okay, number one.

In my friend group, I am the one who... Goes home first. Okay, something my pet thinks about me. I'm a legend. Fair. Delilah's got great taste. It's not a vacation unless... We're not at work.

An award my family would give me... Biggest procrastinator. I could stay up all night talking about? Taylor Swift. Where I go when I want to feel a little bit more like myself? Bed. All right, look, guys, I would love to know. Send them on in to us.

You can go to our socials to pick up and send it because I would love to know what do you answer to these prompts? How do you describe yourself? Also, if you've ever come across anything just ridiculously cringe, send them to us as well. I feel like there's more to this. All right, you answer this one before you go. All right, let's go.

Let's do it. You'd never know it, but I... Can pick things up with my feet. Everyone knows that. You should put it all on social media. We are talking about your worst first date stories. Because we love a good, bad first date. Hey, we've had a few between us.

But the reason why we're talking about this is because the other day I was scrolling Instagram. I was watching stories. And Michelle Bridges, who we love. We adore Michelle. Yeah. We had her on our podcast, Life Uncut, not so long ago. And she was talking about menopause,

but she was also talking about getting back into the dating world and whether she was going to do it or not do it. Anyway, turns out. She did it. She did it and it didn't go so well. So she got back into the dating world and this is what she said on her stories. That she rocked up for her very first date.

In five years. I know. First date in five years. In five years, her first date, and the man was a complete no-show. She got totally ghosted and stood up. Makes me so angry. Yeah, I know. It really does because, like, it's so easy just to send a text

saying you're not going. And for a woman who gets stood up, it's so much effort. Do your hair, do your makeup, like, pick out your clothes. You don't just get dressed and rock up. Like, it's preparation. But bless her, she said that there was this other younger guy in the, like, the bar or restaurant that she was at that saw her by herself and ended up talking to her for hours,

like, spending hours with her. So she actually ended up meeting someone from it. Not someone to date, but, like, she's like, there was this guy that sort of made up for it. Yeah, she had a nice night. Well, you know what? If you're out there and you're going through the throes of dating, we know it's a cesspool because we did it ourselves.

So we thought we would, firstly, if you've got a horror dating story, we want to hear it. Give us a call. But also, Britt, you have some doozies in your mind. No, mine's a proper spectrum. Mine's a spectrum of things I can't repeat on the 3 p.m. show. I know. Some of them are, yeah, real bad.

They're too bad. But, like, you know, I've written a book about it, but you can go and read that if you like. But I just remember, like, hey, range. I remember this one guy picked me up for a date and, you know, you put in effort as a woman. You pick what you're going to wear. You've done your hair and makeup.

He picked me up and I was walking towards him down my driveway and he looked me up and down and said, are you going to wear that? That was the first thing he said. Yeah, so we hooked up obviously. We went on the date. That was what he said and I said, yeah, I was. And he was sort of like, oh, okay. And I was like, is that a problem?

He's like, no, not. But I was like, you're a jerk. Yeah, but I will still date you because the options are few and slim. But where are we going? But also you know that your self-esteem and your boundaries are on the floor when you still go on that date because you're like, I might as well, I'm still here. I had this other guy that I don't know if I'm, bless his honesty,

I was actually in London when I was living in London and he asked me on this date where I had to go across the city on the train to a museum, which wasn't my kind of a date. He was 45 minutes late, turned up to the date, he was so boring and then he said, sorry, I've got to go. I actually have another date lined up. You're like, even you can get multiple dates. And I was like, I'm sorry.

I was like, how are you my option? And you've got more dates to go to. And I was like, good riddance, mate. I'm going to look at these dinosaurs on my own. Yeah. Well, look, I mean, if this one makes anyone feel any better, I once went on a date with a guy and he was, I thought, I just thought he was a dream.

I matched with him. We had such good chemistry on text. And then we got to the restaurant. We're having dinner together and stuff. And we'd had some good banter. And then I asked him a question about his like dating history, not specifically expecting him to go into anything of specifics. And he started talking about his ex and how he'd recently broken up

and then he started crying. And then he said, I don't know if I'm that over my ex. And I was like, well, evidently not, pal. So thanks for the great night. I also had a guy take me to a bar and he talked for two hours only about tennis. And he didn't play tennis. He was just really into tennis.

He spoke continuously about tennis. Did he think you were a tennis player maybe? I don't – I'm not a tennis person. I have not – I don't really understand. I don't watch it. I'm not really into it. Anyway, he spoke to me relentlessly about tennis and then he tried to open mouth kiss me but came in with his tongue out.

So he's like a little – Like a gecko? Like a little pointer. He just came at me with a tongue. It was the weirdest two hours of my life. Anyway, I did not take him home. Producer Grace, you've had – I mean you got stood up at an inquiry once. Yeah.

That was four months into the relationship though, so not quite a first date. Okay. But I definitely have a trove of stories also. We all do. Everyone does. Anyone who's ever dated anyone has horror stories. I remember I once went on a date with this guy called Kevin,

I think his name was. That's the problem there. Yeah. And it was a great date. We were sitting in the car afterwards because he dropped me home and he kind of lent in for a kiss and then he just goes, you silly banana. And I was like, I need to get out of this car immediately.

I'm sorry. This very silly banana must split. we are talking your worst first date stories because well i mean everyone here has a real doozy but everybody if you're dating everyone has terrible dating stories the only thing that's never happened to me to be honest is being stood up but half the dates i was on i wish they stood me up i was like why did you come i was like why i feel like you have some that you can't tell on live radio because they're so bad. They're also just a bit X-rated maybe.

Oh, do you know what? I just have embarrassing ones. I'll tell you one thing because I know we've got the calls going off here. But one, I remember I went on this date with this guy and he must have said it was like, he must have thought it was a flex. And I remember at dinner and he was like, so, just so you know, I've been with 400 people. Oh, I've dated that guy as well.

And I was like, same guy. I think I was one of the 400. I absolutely went on a date with a guy who was like, I've slept with this many people. and it was like the first thing he said. But I was like, nothing to turn me off quicker. But it doesn't bother me. The number doesn't bother me.

It was the flex. It was the weirdness that he felt the need to tell me. Do you think it's so that they're like trying to say it's like their experience? I don't know what they're thinking, to be honest. I was like, cool. Well, it's not going to be 401, buddy. I'm going to show you.

All right, we've got Emma on the line. Emma, what was your horror first date story? My first date story is I had a guy take me through Macca's drive-thru and we got there and he didn't even ask what I wanted. and he just ordered me a bunch of yellow tulips. What? And as we drove on through, they handed them through the drive-thru window.

Oh, my God. So he'd pre-planned this. He'd organised. I sort of think that's cute. No way. It's weird. It's weird because it's a first date, but credit where credit's due. He pre-planned that.

He likes you enough. Okay, Emma, were you just like, all I wanted was a burger? God. Where have I not won? Well, he told me we were going somewhere nice. So when we started going through the drive-thru, I was thinking, hang on. Yeah, he did a bait and switch. He did.

He totally did. And do you know what? We're married now. I was about to say, did you hook up? But you locked it down. We love it. Thank you. That's very cute.

Rachel, what was your horror first date story? Yeah, a guy picked me up for a first date and I didn't realise because it was dark, but he had a taxidermy pig trotter gear stick in his car. That is so disgusting. Did you ask him about it? I didn't notice it at first because it was dark and then as we were getting out of the car when the lights came on, I saw this hairy thing in between us and, yeah,

he said that he hunted this pig and had the trotter made into a gear stick. Wow. That actually makes me unwell. Do you know what, though? I feel like all of this stuff, it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy. You're like, oh, this date was terrible and now I also know why you're single. So this has worked out great for both of us. And maybe you should assess this.

Look, it was one of many and now I'm a single mum by choice. Oh, good for you, Rachel. Was he the dad? No. Don't a conceived child? I gave up on men after that. Fair. I would too.

Rachel, I get it. I get it. You can blame the pig trotter guy. It's all his fault. And he wanted me to touch it as well. Oh, Jesus Christ. I bet he wanted you to touch it. I didn't even want to know what he wanted you to touch.

Thank you, love. Thanks, Rachel. No worries. Do you know what, though? It's really kind of, there's something really unifying about it because we've all got the stories. What about the woman who we had on our podcast recently who went on a date with a wizard?

She's like, so what do you do? He's like, I'm a wizard. She's like, no, what do you do? And he said, no, I'm a wizard. Yeah, he said he was from a long line of wizards and it was part of his ancestry. Imagine doing your DNAancestry.com, finding out you're a wizard. I'd love that.

Imagine going to Hogwarts. Hey, well, guys, if you are out there and you're dating, you're single, just thoughts are with you, prayers praying for you. Hang in there. Do you know what it's time for? And I could not be more thrilled because this is a break that I have been, I would say for years, trying to get it to come back and be a staple of the show.

And finally. She's so exaggerated, so dramatic. The bosses heard the elite radio that went down the other week and they were like, yeah, all right, Laura. Have your break. And it's time for this. Friday. Everyone, it's Fun Fact Friday.

Britt, I'm going to read out a few facts to you because, you know, every day is a school day here at The Pickup. And, Britt, you're going to have to try and tell me if you either know the fact or, I don't know, because half of these, I was like, these are amazing. I love facts, but I love to give them to people. I'm the person you don't want on your team at Trivia. Same.

But this is also why it's nice because then you can go into your weekend, go to the pub with your mates and be like, hey, did you know this? Like today, producer Grace said, did you know that Australia is whiter than the moon? Ah, bring that one out when you're having a beer with your besties. And like yesterday, Laura learnt that it's not in fact pronounced Gamut. That was a fun fact.

It's gamut. It's gamut. In case you've also been reading Gamut your whole life. Okay. All right, fact number one, off the top. Where did the saying razor toast come from? I've never heard of that saying. Raised toast.

Oh, I thought you said razor toast, like razor. Raisin toast. Delicious. Raise a toast. I think that came from a castle in Scotland in the 1700s. I love that. No, unfortunately it came from the ancient Romans who used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health.

That's why you would literally raise a piece of toast. Okay, yeah. All right. Why does a chef's hat have 100 pleats? Didn't know it had 100 pleats. No, I didn't know. That could have been how many plates does a chef – why does it have 100? Why does a chef's hat have 100 plates?

Because they have to do 100 hours to be trained in chopping an onion. No, no. It's meant to represent the 100 ways that you can cook an egg. There's 100 ways? I know. I always thought you'd just scramble, fry or boil. Sorry, there are three facts in that fact. There you go.

I've got one for you. Hit me. Wow, the tables have turned. The turns have tabled. How many noses does a slug have? It's going to be a trick question. None. Four.

Oh. Okay. The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie Mouse, what relationship did they have on the outside of being cartoons? That's a terrible question and a terrible segment. It's brother and sister. They weren't just colleagues. They were married.

They loved each other. There you go, Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Why are we doing this? No one cares. Mickey and Minnie Mouse were in a real life relationship with each other. I care about love. I don't think anyone cares. Okay, what do you call the blob of toothpaste on a toothbrush?

Toothpaste? No, when the toothpaste comes out of... I don't want to play this anymore. I think I'm getting dumber, to be honest. I don't think I've learnt one thing. Okay, this one is really, really something you will learn because I don't think anyone knows this. The blob of toothpaste on a toothbrush is called a nurdle.

Why is it not toothpaste? It's still toothpaste. No, it turns into a nurdle. As soon as it's on the bristles, it's a nurdle. You're literally the worst. Hey, honey, could you just put a nurdle on my dildo? Sorry, guys. We have to go over this.

No, hang on one more. I just Googled a fact, but it's so bad. Did you know you can't see your ears without a mirror? Obviously. Who wrote that fact? You also can't see my butt without a mirror. You can. Just turn your head around.

Not really. You can go underneath, between your legs. I'm not that flexible, but I've got a belly in the middle. We'll be right back.