Life Uncut - The Best of the Pick Up - Laura Has Forgotten Who Her Husband Is

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: Laura accidentally introduced Matt to someone as the wrong name A man came home to find his Bumble date had deep cleaned his entire house Should we lower the voting age to 16 in Australia? A 'self-worth influencer' broke up with her boyfriend because he didn't propose within two years Britt has found herself in a parasocial relationship with someone very famous Marlie had a very specific question about the way the new baby will be born Britt has found her calling in a new career 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, well, I mean, yes, it's Life Uncut, but it's also The Pick Up. So if you're just listening to Life Uncut for the very first time, this is all of the best bits from The Pick Up, our radio show, our national radio show, brought here in a nice little morsel just for you, for your weekend. We did have a funny week, actually.

You told us some really funny stories this week, Laura. You've been a bit of a mess. Yeah. I say that with love. I'm going to put it down to pregnancy brain, really. I do actually think it's a real thing. No, it is scientifically a real thing. Is it?

Yeah, no, it is, yes. Scientifically proven. Is it really? It's your hormones, right? Yeah, it's like a brain fog hormone thing. I always just thought it was because you're a bit tired and like you're a bit, you know, like everything. I don't know.

I just feel like I'm exhausted and I'm tired of everything in life. so therefore I'm making mistakes more than what I normally would but also I got myself into a bit of trouble with Matt because I forgot something very important about him like I just completely forgot I completely forgot and also for a second uh maybe I confused myself with you Brit it is something that you could get a divorce over I would say I would go so far as to say no no I've done my worst to Matt well that's concerning we had a really funny week but we did talk about some more serious stuff. Something I found really interesting, and I'd love for you guys to talk amongst your friends and stuff, let us know, but the UK are lowering the voting age from 18 to 16.

So they're going to let 16 year olds vote for the next election. It's not compulsory, but I find it really fascinating. Is Australia going to follow suit? And do we think 16 is old enough? What is like the age when people can opt out of voting in Australia? Do we know this? Because there has to be like an age in terms of being considered elderly where you know you can't make it down to the voting polls you don't want to like there has to be some sort of I think you do an online vote do you there's got to be an age where you like you become exempt producer grace is on the case I think I can't find a specific age but I know like my nan has dementia so she doesn't have to vote so do you have to be like medically I think you have to like apply to not vote yeah otherwise

Otherwise, if you're living and breathing and well, you're supposed to vote. Yeah, right. But what if you forget to apply to not vote because you've got dementia? You're excused. I don't think you have to worry about that yet, Laura. I think you're safe. I'm close, guys. I have pregnancy brain.

Can I not vote? I don't know. Look, there's so much to this show. There was also another very funny conversation that happened with Marley as well. But it's all here. Let's get into it. Something happened to me on holidays, which really got me into the bad books with my husband. Tell me you're weak to pants again.

That's a daily occurrence now. Okay. Somebody messaged me on Instagram and said, Laura, you've been talking about wetting your pants. For context, people, I'm having my third baby and I'm in like well into third trimester. And so it's just now a regular thing. And I got a message from a very concerned listener who said,

I think you might have a prolapse. Maybe you do. I think I need to stop talking about it. Do you know there's a seat you can, I've done it before once. I forget what it's called, but you sit on it for pelvic floor and it puts these vibration tightening things into you and it helps to tighten it. It's a seat that you sit on.

I've sat on it. I would like it to be known I don't want to sit on the same one. No, it's a proper thing at a physio. Okay. Okay, I don't wet myself. I've just dug myself a hole. You really have. I tried it for a friend.

She is the physio and she's like, hey, I got this new equipment. Do you want to try it? And it tightens. Can we get back on track? I'm doing my Kegels. We have to. I'm doing my Kegels exercises at the traffic lights and I'm sure everyone is thrilled to know if I'm stopped at a red light, you better bet I'm doing Kegels exercises.

Look, producer Grace is on the case. She's Googling the seat. Okay. So this happened to me on the holidays though. I went into Kmart and I was with my husband and my kids. We were running around and we were down the coast. So we were like a couple of hours away from where we usually live. So I'm walking around Kmart and Matt's next to me and I see this guy who I have not seen him in, oh my goodness, like what, 20 years. Have you hooked up with him in the past? No, no. He used to date a friend of mine, but it was just this weird moment

because it's been 20 years since I've seen him. We used to play water polo together and he was there with his two kids and he looked like this guy I knew from 20 years ago, except 20 years older. You know, we all just look a lot different to back then, right? And I saw him and I was like, whoa, Liam? Is that you? And then he looked at me like he had no idea who I was.

You're like, don't you listen to the pickup? So then I had to explain who I was. I was like, oh, it's Laura. We used to play water polo together and this is my husband, Ben. Wait, you introduced your husband as my husband? Now, just for reference, everyone, my husband's name is Matt. And my husband's name is Ben. And I didn't even realise I had said it.

I just steamrolled, kept talking to this Liam guy, started trying to hit up a conversation about water polo and Matt just stood there. And then Liam goes to shake his hand and Matt turns around And he goes, oh, sorry, mate. My name's actually Matt. This is a bit awkward. And then he goes, I think that's her other husband.

And honestly, I don't know why I did it. I think I. Are you fantasizing about my husband? Do you want to talk through this with me? Is there an intervention here? To be fair, my ex-boyfriend's name is Ben. And I, it was just the most Freudian slip ever. I don't know why it came out.

And then, you know, when you know you've made a mistake. Also, Liam thinks you're cooked. He's like, you don't even know who your husband is. Well, then when you know you've made a mistake and you get a bit embarrassed because I was... Laura, why were you embarrassed? I couldn't imagine why. Well, just like nothing that was coming out of my mouth would have made any sense. He's like, oh, Laura. Wow. She went downhill rapidly after water polo when we were 19. Okay. So you've had this moment because I imagine if I was Matt and that happened,

I would want to talk about that when we left. Did he ask you like where that came from? Or like, did he feel a bit put off by it? I apologized and we walked out and I was like oh my god that's so embarrassing I'm very sorry that that happened I was thinking and I don't even think this is true I think I just made it up I was like I was thinking that I need to message your Ben to say congratulations which wasn't even true I hadn't thought that I don't know why I said your husband's name but I introduced my husband as your husband there's no good way out of it nothing he knows you only know two Ben's an ex or my husband like there's there's two paths you could take. Robert Frost, the poem. I just, I'm sure Liam's not listening since he had no

idea who I was. I'm not concerned about Liam. I'm concerned about Matt. Liam's gone. Liam's lost in spotlight, wherever he is. This is about your husband. And I think it's funny that you're still concerned about Liam. I was so embarrassed. Matt got over it. He knows I've done worse. I did a lot of embarrassing things during this holiday break. I do think it was weird. Ben asked me last night. He's like, why has Matt blocked me on Instagram? Nah, yeah. It was one time, Matt. Britt, I'll tell you about it another day. Now, Britt, when it comes to hookups or, like, bringing home potentially a one-night stand or someone who you're in the very early stages of dating.

Yeah, I did have a one-night stand and then I married him. You don't count because I feel like you did it wrong. I'm talking about, like, what is the etiquette? When you bring them home, when do you ask them to leave? I feel like most people have good intuition and they're like, Most people do leave either the night of or they leave in the morning. But would you ever like leave and go to work and just let them lay around in your bed? Absolutely not.

If I didn't know them and it really was like, I guess, the epitome of a one night stand, I would never leave someone I don't know in my house alone with my stuff. I guess it differs. Sometimes when you're online dating, it might be the first time you've met up with them, but you might have had an online connection with them for weeks or months or whatever and you feel like you know them. So maybe. but I wouldn't be leaving anyone in my home that I don't know.

Yeah, okay, I think it's weird. I think that you've got to at least be in on a few dates before you get to the stage of, not a few dates, like they've got to come to your house a few times before you get to the stage of like just lull around in bed for a while and I'm going to go to work, leave whenever you're ready, lock the door behind you. But there is a guy who has gone viral online because he had a very well,

look, it's turned out very fortunate for him how his date ended up leaving after he said she could stay around for a bit longer. Have a listen to this. So I had a bumble date last night and I left at 4 a.m. this morning and just told her to lock up. Dude, she cleans my bathroom, makes my bed. And the kicker is she done all, like 90% of my laundry. And I hate doing laundry. So I don't know if I done something right, maybe done something wrong.

Maybe she felt sorry for me or I give a second date. Who knows? But that was definitely the best one ever. Oh, you're getting a second date. Some chick's not doing that for you and never seeing you again. You have to see this video. She hasn't just, like, tidied. She's deep cleaned the bathroom.

She has folded every piece of his wardrobe that was, like, left out. All of his laundry is folded in piles on the bed. She's completely vacuumed, made the bed. Like, the house is pristine. I would love that. I would love someone to come and clean my house. Where I think I would draw the line is the washing. Like, ain't no one touching my dirty clothes.

No one's going through my stuff. You're not sniffing my undies. Like, get your head out of my dirty clothes basket. I just think, firstly, you've peaked too early, girlfriend. Like what standard are you setting for yourself? What does that say? There is no need. I think the absolute most that you need to do is like pull the covers up

and kind of makeshift make the bed and then get out of there. That's it. You're not responsible for their living arrangements. I have – I will put my hand up and say I have done this in my younger years when I was like in the early throes of dating, not like the first time. You deep clean someone's house for free after a one-night stand? No, because I never had a one-night stand. But in those really early days and it comes back

to this really cooked idea that women always have that we need to please and you need to be like looking after somebody and the only way they're going to like you is if they think you're exceptional at everything and like I would not do that right now. Ew, clean your own stuff. That's what I would say. But back then I was like, oh, he'll be so chuffed

if he gets home and like I cleaned his room and his house and I think now it makes me just vomit in my mouth thinking about it but I did it. only memory I have of this, and it is not a good one, is I remember I'd been on a couple of dates with this guy and similar situation, couple of days, it was early doors and he'd come home to my house and I was like, you can stay. And I'd gone to work in the morning because I opened a retail shop at that time and he had nowhere to be. And I came home in the afternoon expecting, like, I don't think you expect much, but like, you know, you don't expect it to be worse than

when you left it and he had gone to the toilet and not flushed and I still remember that he just left a poo sitting in the toilet the entire day, the entire day. Surely that's not intentional. It had to be. It had to be a mistake. No, it had to be. It has to be like you've taken a phone call at the last minute

and forgotten to flush. It had to be. No one is taking a dump being like, I know how to get a second date. I've got to leave a poo in the toilet. Or maybe he's just someone who just doesn't normally flush. Maybe he just forgets. He does it in his own house. No, people don't not flush.

Or he thought he was going to come back and do it. You've got a poop fester in your bathroom. I couldn't even tell you that man's name, but I still remember. He left a shit in my toilet and didn't flush it. Is he in your phone as Poop Boy? Laura, there's a huge conversation coming out of the UK at the moment and it has come over here to Australia because we often follow suit with what the UK does.

But basically the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has said that he's going to lower the voting age in the UK for the next election. Do you think he's popular with the young'uns? Is that why? Maybe. I don't know. but they're lowering the age from 18 to 16 years old. Now, the vote is not going to be compulsory,

but they're allowed to do it. And this has kickstarted a bit of a divide between young people and people in the older demographic. Some people are saying 100%, if you're old enough to work and you're old enough to pay taxes, you're old enough to contribute to the way you see your government. And I would want to agree with that. But then there's another bunch of people saying, hang on, technically brains aren't even fully developed. Do they quite have the life experience yet? You're not able to buy a lottery ticket. We're saying you're not capable enough to be able to drink alcohol, but you can vote for the government. So there's, I don't know, there's this divide between two sides. How do you feel about lowering the voting age to 16?

I mean, firstly, is it not compulsory because it's like just the 16 to 18 or is it just voting in the UK is not compulsory anyway? Voting in the UK isn't compulsory. And I guess the way I feel is I do think that you should be able to vote at 16. And I like the fact that it's not compulsory because we don't have that choice. Yeah, look, I'm not against it. I think it's twofold though, right? Like if 16 year olds are working, if they're paying taxes, I mean, they're the ones who are going to have to live in the world or the country for a lot longer than the really

old people who are also voting. So I guess like they should have a say in the government that is going to be making decisions for their welfare. The only thing is, is like, I also think that maybe politics should be more taught in school so that kids have a better literacy for it. Because the problem is, is for a 16 year old, unless they are seeking out that information themselves, and unless they're educating themselves on their government policies and politics and everything else, which may not be happening at that age, then I wonder like, well, are they making informed choices? And I think it's probably a bit of a stretch to be like, 16 year olds don't have fully formed brains.

There's fully-fledged adults who don't have fully-formed brains either. But they're still, you know, at their voting. There are 16-year-olds whose brains are more formed than some of them. Yeah, and so I think that that's an unfair stance. But I think making sure that information is readily available, that, you know, people who are 16 have – and I guess, like, if it's an opt-in situation, that they can be really informed in the decisions that they're making.

I think that's so important, though. Well, there's a lot of videos going around online, just on Instagram, reels that people have gone and just stopped randoms on the street of all ages. but there's a lot of young kids that they stopped to ask them their own opinions. And some of them said, no, like, don't give us that responsibility. There's no way we're ready. But then there was one that stands out for me, but he just said, I absolutely want to be able to vote. I think we should be able to vote because we are interested in contributing to our future. And then he said,

having said that, will we be influenced by our parents? Absolutely. Like, and that is a risk you're going to take, right? Like, and I even think about us growing up. I used to say to my parents when I was younger, who are you voting for? And then I just go vote for them. When I didn't have the wealth of knowledge. But he said, the only reason we've been influenced by our parents is because we're not taught enough at school. So it's come back into this full circle loop. The thing is, there is so much information online now accessible to everyone that wasn't around when we were 16. Yeah, but I think on the flip side of this, and I absolutely don't want to be ageist with this at all, because, you know, I think you've worked so hard to contribute to the

country that you live in, you have a right to vote up until the age that you're not able to vote anymore. But there are people in their 80s who will still be voting and they're not going to be here to see the world that they're contributing to or the country that they're voting for. So is someone who is like, you know, rearing and getting near to the end of their life, is their opinion on the country more important than someone who's going to spend their entire life living in it? In which case I'm kind of like, maybe it's, maybe it is important to let people who are slightly younger have more of an input. But I absolutely come back to the education piece that I'm like, I just don't want anyone who's uneducated or doesn't, is just doing it

for the sake of doing it voting. And maybe the whole non-compulsory thing is quite an important part of this. Whereas in Australia, voting is compulsory. It means people who are educated on it are voting. People who are not educated are voting. People are doing donkey votes. People are doing all kinds of things. Whereas over there, the people who are voting are people who are considered, who at least have an opinion, I would say. Or who have made the choice to say, yeah, I care enough to do my research and physically get up and go and vote. And I think that's the difference.

If it is brought in in Australia, I would only want it here if it wasn't compulsory from 16 to 18. Britt, do you think it is ever okay to give someone an ultimatum around marriage? And what I mean by that is if you are currently dating and you want your partner to propose to you, is it okay to give them a timeframe, ultimatum, as to when they need to propose by? I cannot hear the word ultimatum without in my head saying old tomato. I don't know why. Old tomato. I think like how long is a piece of string? You're the only one.

Firstly, how long is a piece of string? I do think that is situational. How old are they? Have they set their boundaries from the start? Are they being played along? Does the person know they want to marry them, but not yet? Are they confused if they want to marry them? So I need a bit more context to this story. I mean, firstly, I feel like a lot of people have been in situations where like you're not on the same page, right? That's kind of different. I'm talking about when you are in a relationship with someone, you absolutely adore them.

You want them to marry you. You want to spend your life with them. And you've said, okay, if you don't propose to me by this date, then I'm leaving. The reason why we're talking about this is because there's a self-worth influencer. I don't even know what that is, but they exist. Her name is Bella Marie. Now she's posted a video on TikTok. It's gone viral.

It's had over 10 million views and it has divided the internet because she said, on our very first date, I told him that I had a two-year plan, two years to propose. On our two-year anniversary, I broke up with him. She broke up with her boyfriend because he did not propose to her within the two-year timeframe, the boundary that she set at the beginning of their relationship. Thoughts, considerations?

She's a head case. Your first date? Like, I get it's okay to maybe say, hey, I would love to be engaged in two years. Like that's how I see my future. That's insane. But I just read ahead, Laura. The crazier part about this is she said,

on our two-year anniversary, after he flew me out to Catalina, he surprised me with a suite and a beautiful boat around the island to celebrate our love. He planned a beautiful long weekend trip, but he didn't propose, so I broke up with him. That's insane to me. This guy sounds like a catch. Literally, he flew you to an island, got a boat to celebrate your love,

gave you everything you wanted on a weekend. That is so much more important. Finding a good partner that loves you and is committed is so much more important to fitting into your two-year time frame. Okay, this is what she does have to say though. Ladies, time is not a love language. If you have big dreams and goals that require a male counterpart, like marriage and a family, I wholeheartedly believe

you should not waste more time than necessary on the wrong person. I think it really comes down to how much you want to be married. and how much you want those big life goals. Because on one hand, yes, I do agree with you, Britt. I think she sounds insane. But then I also think that you can run the risk of staying in a relationship for a really long time, hoping that all of those things come into fruition

and they just never do because that person was never going to make that decision anyway, like a time waster. If she thinks that he's the one and she wanted him to propose, then you would stay with him hoping he proposes in the next year. Like if you've said, I hope he proposes today,

That means you think he's the one. I know. I have conflicting feelings only because I stayed in a relationship for six years. Mind you, it was never very good. It wasn't like he was like a prince. He was cheating on you. He was never prince charming. And then I was like, all of a sudden, you know, it dawned on me.

But six years for me to get to the place where I realized, oh, okay, he's never going to propose. He's never going to. And so I think that it's okay to break up with someone if your life is not aligning in like the right path. If you get to a point where you're like, I'm never going to get what I want out of this. But I think giving someone an ultimatum around marriage, I don't know, maybe it's worked for some people. Maybe you did get the proposal out of it. But do you really want someone to

propose under duress? No, I can't even, I'm trying to have like a balanced argument. I don't have one. She's an idiot. Like, I'm sorry. I understand exactly what you're saying, Laws. Like, of course, if you don't think you're aligned and you're going different directions, the worst thing you could do stay in a relationship and wait. Yeah, or put blingers on hoping that someone's going to change. Yeah, they're not. She was waiting for the proposal. Like she wanted that person in her life, which means they do want the same things. Also, just because he didn't propose is not to say he doesn't want to marry her. He might just not be ready. Maybe he had planned it in a month's time. Like you just don't know. I also just think when people label them as self-worth advocate on

Instagram, I think we have to unpack where did their degree come from? Is it real? Do they have any qualifications or are we simply just spouting out? I mean, to be fair, we have no qualifications either and we're just here spouting stuff out on the radio. We definitely do have qualifications. I mean, I've got a fine arts degree, that counts, doesn't it? Well, just to give you some stats here, in a recent survey of 8,000 fiancées conducted by The Knot, only about 30% of couples dated for two years or less before getting engaged. So it's not a huge percentage anyway. 53% of couples got hitched two to five years and 17% waited six years or more. So she is in a small percentage of people that get married. I mean, I did. I got engaged in under two years. I got engaged

in 18 months. Good for you. I baby trapped my husband and then he proposed to me. So it all worked out. You were really quick. No, I wasn't. I was after the batch. Yeah, but I was eight months pregnant when Matt proposed. That's my point. He was locked and loaded, baby. He had nowhere to go. He had a baby on the way. Laura, last week I came across some pretty big information and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. Like I have not stopped thinking about it. It is living rent free. I am beside myself with happiness for this person. The problem is it's a person that I don't know, but I have this like weird parasocial relationship with them. So hear me out. The biggest crush of my life is Jennifer Aniston. I thought it was the

guy from Outlander. Sam Heughan? Yeah. You've got to stop talking about him though now because he's She's a bit more accessible. I think Brit slid into his DMs. We were going to go on a date once. Yeah, I can't actually talk about that anymore. Okay, Jennifer Aniston. That wasn't going to be on my bingo card. Jennifer Aniston to me, I don't know what it is.

She's the apple of my eye. I've just had a crush on her forever. If I could come back in this world and be someone, I feel like I'd want to be her. I loved her in everything that she's in. I think she seems like a really wonderful person from what she puts forward to the world. I did not pick you as like a full Jennifer.

How have I known you for six years and didn't know that you were a closet Jennifer Aniston fan. I've definitely said it before. I think you've checked out. No, I love her. I knew you liked her. I didn't realise you were this far up a rally. I also just think she's beautiful.

I think she's so funny. She seems really nice. But I think a big part of it, to be honest, I think I connected with her a lot over the years because she's had a horrific dating life. I know. She's been through the ringer and I don't like to pick sides, but when it was Jen and Angelina, I was always team Jen.

Okay, I always thought about this because, like, Remember when Mr and Mrs Smith was a thing? So cast your minds back, that was when Brad went and he filmed the movie Mr and Mrs Smith with Angelina Jolie and that's when their affair started, allegedly. I'm sure neither of them are going to come and sue me if I say the wrong thing. I don't know, they are suing each other.

But imagine your husband having an affair with who was quoted as the hottest woman in the world at the time. I wouldn't have let him film the movie. And everyone saying that they shipped that relationship. Like you're married in real life and the public is saying, oh, you should leave your wife and go be with Angelina Jolie. And he did. And I just thought, yes, and I just thought she's always from not just

that situation but she was with John Mayer, she was with Vince Vaughn. She'd been through the ring up. She'd picked the naughty boys. But I've always thought she held herself with such class. Like in that breakup, I cannot imagine what it would be like for the world to have shipped Angelina and Brad when it was your literal husband. It was very obviously an affair.

She was always so quiet and just like, I don't know, She always took the high road and I had a lot of respect for her. But she's just come out that she's in a new relationship and she hasn't been in a relationship in ages and she's been spotted with this new man and I'm just like so happy for her. It was weird. I felt like I could have cried with her happiness

because she looks really happy. Hear me out. He's an author, speaker and coach. His name is Jim Curtis. I know. I'm just here for it. Let me just live out my happiness. Please tell me more about him.

What else did he do? Well, he... Did you look at his Wikipedia page? This is why it's interesting. This is why I think it's funny because I am slightly concerned for her. He's a hypnotherapist, a neuro-linguistic programming practitioner. Oh, he's brainwashing her.

Whoa, has he hypnotised her into this? This is like somebody sent help to her. Is she truly happy or has he hypnotised her and tricked her into a relationship? Britt, I think your concern for Jennifer Aniston is erred into a territory where it's a little bit strange. But in all seriousness, can I show you him? He's like a daddy.

He's hot. Have a look. Oh, yeah, he's nice. He's a beautiful man. Hypnotise me any time. Actually, that's not true. I've got a husband who I love. Who you fall asleep with.

Who I fall asleep next to. But I just think like, I don't know, parasocial relationships are weird. Like there's a few people that you get so invested with in life and then you have to remind yourself that you don't actually know them. I don't think I have a parasocial relationship with anyone. You had one with Jason Momoa. You were in a relationship with him in your brain. No, I just thought he was hot and said I would climb him like a tree.

But apart from that, no, I didn't have a relationship with him. I didn't know much about him. I thought you were going to say you didn't know him. No, I didn't. I clearly don't know him. No, I don't think so. I don't think that there's anyone that I've really... But then again, you look at social media, for example, and I think sometimes we follow people online. Like there's definitely other people who work in media or influencers who I've never met in real life, but I've met them online, if that makes sense. Like maybe that's my extent of a parasocial relationship. Oh, you have full relationships with people online that

you have to remind yourself of. We've never seen each other in real life. Do you even know who I have we actually met? Like, do I just follow you online and know everything about you? Which I think is now quite a weird phenomenon because back in the day you'd have celebrities, you'd have movie stars and they were so inaccessible. The only time that you got little bits of them was either through tabloid magazines and most of the stuff was made up or it was because you've gone to see the movie that they're in. Whereas now a lot of celebrities and especially that middle tier of celebrity share so much of their lives online and they're also starring in films and everything else. And it's like the accessibility to their life is what

I think makes people a bit obsessed with them. I would go so far as to say it's not even the middle tier celebrities. Some of the biggest celebrities in the world are like Instagramming on selfies and stuff. Do you think that? Like a lot of them are oversharing. I think of like Justin Bieber's now, but then a lot of massive celebrities don't need to be that public because they've already got everything they need. They don't need to share their entire lives because it's not a bargaining chip for them. Yeah, you tell them Laura. Now I feel like I, this is a very relatable thing for parents. I think that you reach a destination earlier than you expect to get there when it comes to kids, right? Like they ask questions and then sometimes they floor

you and like, hold out. Like what's Pythagoras theorem? No, like things that you're just not ready to answer. Like little kids ask big world questions and then you have to try and navigate like how am I going to answer that in a way that is accurate but is also G-rated and appropriate for your age. Sometimes it's about the birds and the bees. Sometimes it's about babies and how they got into your belly, like whatever it is. It's funny because when we were kids, I think that we used to go

and ask our parents whatever, right? And even if they didn't know the answer, they could lie because there was no Google. We couldn't go and look it up. Like we had to take their word for whatever they said. We can't do that now. It's so true. But I mean, to be fair, my kids are too young.

They don't have phones. It's not like they can go and Google it. But Marley, anytime Marley asks a question, I don't know the answer to it. She just goes, mum, why don't you just Spotify it? And I'm like, close, but not quite the same thing. So, okay, I'm nine weeks away from having this baby. It's happening very soon.

Not okay. And it's been an interesting journey because like Marley, who is six, is now old enough to really understand that there's a baby in my belly, but then you can just see the cogs. There's questions. How did the baby get into your belly, mum? What's the baby doing in there? like what's happening? So she really wants, how does the baby come out of your belly? Like

all of these questions we have kind of hit at different milestones, right? The first one was like, I understand there's a baby in your belly, but how did it get in your belly? And so, you know, I think I navigated that okay. I was laying in bed the other morning and Marley walks in deadpan, like she's on a mission. And she really seriously, she comes over, she gives me a cuddle and she, like, starts rubbing my belly like I'm a Buddha, which she does every morning. And she goes, Mum, I've been thinking. And I was like, okay.

And she goes, is Poppy, that's the name that we've given the baby, is Poppy going to come out the same way that I came out? Out of the same canal? Yeah. And she had this real look of concern on her face. And she's my little sensitive soul, right? So she looked really concerned. And you're like, oh, my God, how much do I tell her?

Well, yeah, and also I'm of the opinion that you want to be kind of accurate with your kids, right? Like you want to be, you want to call things by their proper names. You want to give them as much but also as little information as possible. So she says, is it going to come out the same way? And I said, oh, do you mean out of my vagina? And she looked at me horrified, horrified.

And she goes, no, bald. And I was like, what? Oh, she means physically look the same. She's so worried that the baby's going to come out bald. She doesn't care about my vagina. The kid doesn't care if mummy's in pain. She, in fact, didn't know how they came out, but she does now. Well, no, she kind of did, and that's why I thought that maybe

she was worried that I was going to be in pain, like that it was going to cause me some sort of turmoil. She could not care less. She doesn't want to have a bald sister. You have bald kids. You have bald kids. I don't know why. Maybe this one will come out with heaps of hair.

Have you seen it on the ultrasound yet? My run so far would suggest that it's going to be a totally bald child. Because, you know, you can see hair on ultrasound. Can you? Yep. If you have like a head of hair, you can see it. No. Well, no one's told me that the kid has a head of hair.

That's definitely not been said. And Marley's just so concerned because she wants it to look like a girl. And I was like, it's going to look like a baby. And she's like, like a princess baby. And I was like, it's going to look like a baby. My sister's baby, Maya, she's 10 months old now, but she was not born with any hair either. And it's been quite slow growing.

and even if Sherry dresses her in pink, no matter what she does, she could be in a pink little thing with love hearts and frills and someone comes up and says, what's his name? All the time Sherry's like, goddammit, what have I got to do to say it's a girl? That was the same thing with Lola. Lola was just bald until she was two and a half, completely bald. And I was like, I don't know if this kid's ever going to grow hair, but the problem is my dad went bald at 24,

so I don't think that we've got good genetics when it comes to hair density. And yours is thinning. Shut up. No. Hang on. Anyone listening that doesn't know that backstory thinks I'm mean. Laura speaks about her hair loss all the time.

That's what I'm going to say. You guys heard it here first. She's always picking on me. It's a workplace harassment. Okay, look, I have a double crown. My hair's sitting too, okay? Sure. Dig up.

So, Laura, I don't want to alarm you, but I am thinking of a little bit of a career change. Now, it's not by choice. It has been thrust upon me. I may have found my calling. If you say that after Dancing with the Stars, I'm a dancer. You're going off to join some sort of dance.

On a boat. Like a cruise ship. I'm a cruise ship dancer. Because I honestly, what would you do if you weren't doing this? Oh, my God. Can I tell you something? You can. Okay.

Okay. I forget that I'm on Dancing with the Stars right now. But this is not the story. But I just segued. I'm on Dancing with the Stars as we speak. And so my husband, Ben, lives over in Italy. And a teammate, one of his teammates yesterday came up to him. And he must have been looking on Ben's page, seen me, clicked on me,

had a look at me. Anyway, his teammate came up to him and says, wait, is your wife on Dancing with the Stars? And Ben was like, yeah. And he's like, wow, I didn't know she was a professional dancer. She's really good. And I thought, what if he's like, she's not the dancer. He thought that I was the dancer.

So I just needed that. You sure fooled him, didn't you? Yeah. He must have looked at like a two-second clip. To be fair, you have done amazing. Like you do look like a professional dancer on there. Stop it. And then there's Osha.

Keep going, stop it. Oh, poor Osha. No, we can't do that. He got slayed. Oh, she got slayed like a dragon. Back to what I was talking about. I'm in my like health and wellness era. I've been in it for a while, but I love the sauna.

It was my sacred place. I would sauna probably four times a week, maybe five if I can. And it's not an individual sauna. It's like a group sauna. But I would go at different times and quite often I'd be on my own. And I imagine it's like the escape that mums feel when they get a bit of time away. Like headphones in, lay down, and just like just zen out. So you lay down in a group sauna?

Oh, yeah. I've fallen asleep in the sauna. I don't know how I feel about group saunas. Like I've done it a couple of times, but I just feel like there's other people's sweat is so close to me and I feel encased in other people's. Yeah, I get that too, but we wear a towel and it's cleaned. But my point is like I often go at times of the day I know are quite quiet

so I can like have that moment. Not peak hour. But what has happened is loads of the people at the gym and this wellness centre know what I do for a living. They know that we have Life Uncut, the podcast, and they know we do Ask Uncut and that it's like very relationship based. They know we do Ask Uncut on the radio. And it started to become like a therapy session. So people come in now and they'll see me in there and then they come in and they're guys, not girls. I'm talking men.

And then they start to ask me relationship advice. Oh, they're trauma dumping in the sauna. Yeah, they're trauma dumping, but it's not necessarily trauma dumping. I'm actually so fascinated by it. And it is literally like you could take bookings. I could be a psychologist therapist in the sauna. They come in one-on-one. Have you? Not intentionally. I'm not like wait outside everyone. But then they ask me all of their deepest, darkest relationship questions and I have to give them advice. And then they literally say, okay, I'll update you next week. And they circle back in a week to give me the update on the advice that I've given them in the sauna. I have a question for you. Have you told any of them that you're actually not qualified?

Well, I haven't specifically said that. No, maybe they think that I am. I'm not that I'm qualified. I think that they know I'm not. I don't know what it is. Maybe men have a hard time asking their friends for certain advice or maybe it's different getting advice from like the opposite sex. I often ask guys advice when I want a male's perspective, but it's sort of just become who I am in the sort of now. What's an example? I need to know like an example of something you've been asked recently. Yesterday, yesterday's one was really, really nice guy that his therapy sessions have been going on for quite a while. He hasn't been able to find the right person. And I've been guiding him and encouraging him to date because he was

giving up on dating so this has been like going on for quite a while and I'm like you're such a catch get out there it's not going to come and find you in your house kind of thing and so we got the update recently that he in fact met someone amazing etc etc and then it's turned into long distance so you know she's going to chase her dreams and we had to unpack because he let her go chase her dreams and we had to unpack like why he just let her go if he's constantly thinking about her now and wants to work it out and like wants that to be a thing And then so we spent that session trying to work out like if he can go and voice to her how he really feels and like chase it down

and make something of it. I feel like you need to charge for this. I love it. It sounds like too much mental load. I don't want to go home and take on any more. I want to go home and have a nap. I can put one of those, you know, when you go to the deli, there's a ticket machine and you take a ticket off the deli,

get some ham and then you can trauma dump. I don't know. I love it. I'm about it. We'll be right back.