Life Uncut - The Best Of The Pick Up - Laura's Maternity Leave Fill In Host Is Revealed!

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: Would you leave your friend at the airport if they couldn’t run fast enough for the connecting flight? We announce that Matty J is filling in on The Pick Up while Laura is on Maternity Leave Britt's Phobia Quiz What was your medical mishap? Singles lists at weddings - hot or not? 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 Camarago land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. Probably is weird hearing from me now because I, by this point, have definitely had a baby. And to give you a little peek behind the curtain, which... Not Laura's curtain. Well, she spreads her legs. Sorry, let me give you a little peek behind the labias.

So this week on radio, we actually had to pre-record this week. and so I did have the week off. I wasn't actually on air up until the day that I gave birth. But, you know, it was announced that Matt's going to fill in while I'm away but it was really cute. He came on the show this week and he actually like, you know, was weirdly excited. It was like he'd taken some dexamphetamines before he got on the show.

Oh, I'm pretty sure he was high. Something was going on there. Do you know what it is? It's Matt's coffee order is actually so fucked up that if you get him in the 15 minutes after he's finished his coffee, it's like he's just – What does he have? So he has a triple shot coffee, but he always has another double shot very shortly afterwards. That's five shots.

So within a few hours of the morning, he has had five shots of caffeine. That's actually, I'm pretty sure that's like not medical guidelines. The weird thing about Matt is like Matt does not do drugs. He does not drink. He doesn't do anything other than like really goes hard on caffeine. Okay. Well, thank you for updating me on Matt's coffee order. I will make sure I have him a five shot coffee.

Yeah, Laura has had a baby. So I hopefully, I don't think I would have met her by now because I will be with Ben. So it's weird. It's like, we're talking about it. I know she's in the universe right now, but I'm on the other side of the world. It's all very strange. Yeah. I mean, hopefully you were there for the birth.

So we'll know more. And like we said, and we've been saying all week, as soon as we know more, we'll share with you. If you like did, we keep joking about you going to labor early. If I go into labor tomorrow, I'll call you. If you had to give birth now. So my sister went into labor five weeks early and had a baby within 40 minutes. So if that happened to you and you had a baby here and I helped you,

would you give it some kind of, like, name from me? Like a middle name? Maybe it's Mayo. I was just about to say I love you dearly, but your middle name is Mayo. And as much as I, like, love a sentimental name, Poppy Mayo ain't hitting the sides for me. Poppy Mayo's cute, man. Poppy Mayo sounds like something you get in the condiments aisle.

Like, it really is. That's the deli aisle. That's a gourmet deli spread, Poppy Mayo. All right, whatever. Look, this week, how do you feel about if you went to a wedding and you were put like on a laminated sheet, like a menu, but it was like a singles menu. So every single person that was at the wedding,

every guest was on one separate sheet so that you could hand it out and you knew exactly who you could approach. I think if it's done in a way where it's sensitive to the people who are single and not shaming them, it could actually be really, really beneficial. I don't think there's arrows like, ha-ha, lose a single, aisle four. It's like when you have a kid's table at a birthday party, but actually they just have the singles table

We'll then put them all together. That could work as well. I'm a genius. Anyway, let's get into the show. Laura, picture this. You're at the airport. You've just gotten off a plane with me. Let's just say me.

I've done that before. I can visualize this. Yeah, but there is a connecting flight that you guys are running for and you need to make. So you're running through the airport, but one of us is faster. Let's say you. Let's say you. How about we say you because I am eight months pregnant,

so I reckon you would be able to beat me. Okay, you and I set off. We've gotten off the plane. You and I set off. We're like, quick, run. Like, we've got to make the flight. So we're running, but I'm faster than you. You're waddling behind me with your pregnant belly.

Actually, you're not pregnant. That takes away from it. You're just not pregnant. I make the plane. I know, because that makes it worse for me. I'm on such a journey with this. I know. I know.

Stick with me. I make the connecting flight, but I don't look back for you and I don't wait for you. Are you mad at me or would you rather us both miss the flight? Whoa. Okay. All right. Variables.

There's variables here. if we both got off the plane we're both fully able and capable people like I'm not eight months pregnant if you ran off and just dashed off

and left me to lug my bags by myself and waddle to the airport like to the next terminal and then you boarded the plane and didn't even ask the gate to wait for me

I'd be pretty pissed no okay I've said wait but then you just didn't make it but if we were like if I wasn't pregnant we were both the same and we both got off

and you were like we're gonna miss it and you start running and I don't run then that's on me I think go for gold. Yeah. So you think it's okay if like you would rather your friends make the plane and you miss it because you weren't fast enough, then everyone missed the plane.

I don't know. I need to know why you're asking me this first. Give me the context. Well, it happened to someone online and it really got me thinking, would I be mad if I was in this position? So I'll just tell you. So she's basically asked, am I the a-hole? Like, are my feelings justified because I'm hurt? I do love that Reddit thread. Yeah. So there were, there were like four of them. They boarded a plane together. They got off, But they were boarded in different sections. You know how it's like A and B can disembark first. Yeah, so maybe someone's at the front of the plane,

someone's in the back. Yeah. But they all knew they only had like a really quick 40-minute layover to navigate this huge airport and get to the connecting flight. And so they got off and they started running just on their own. Like they all knew they're – They've got to run. Well, they had the same responsibility.

You all know your flight is in 40 minutes. You all know the gate number. Like you all have the same information. Anyway, so these girls just legged it to the next flight, but they didn't look back for this one other particular girl. I guess they all just assumed it was like the Amazing Race and it's like every man for themselves. And they get there without sort of looking for her,

messaging her, seeing where she is, whatever. So they board the plane. And now she has come online saying, are my feelings justified to think that this is cooked of my friends to do? Like to run ahead without me and try to board a plane not even knowing if I'm going to make it or if they're going to continue the holiday without me. Did they not?

Well, you know when you get to the gate, did they not tell their air flight hostesses to wait? Like one of our friends is coming. They're going to be here in 20 seconds. She said they didn't even ask the flight attendants to notify the next gate. Yeah, that's an a-hole move. Yeah, so you think it's an a-hole?

Well, I mean, look, would I want my friends to miss their flight because I am not moving as quickly if I'm fully able and capable? Then no, I don't want them to. But also I think whoever gets there first, it is like the unspoken rule that you say, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. Like we've just gotten off an interconnecting flight. I've got two friends coming. They're going to be here in a minute.

You know, you do that. You do your due diligence. Did she make it on the flight or she didn't make it on the flight? She missed it. Well, okay, so firstly, I personally think that it's okay. You would leave me for dead, Britt. Yes, I would. I would.

But I would want you to leave me as well. If it was the difference between you getting to go on your prepaid, pre-booked holiday because I was rolling around whatever I was doing. Your holiday without your friend because you left them at the interconnecting airport. Yeah, but anyway, I would say go for it, Laura. Would I be devoed? Yes, but it's on me.

But at the end of the day, the funniest part about this is she actually did make the flight. She's just upset that she may not have made it. So she made the flight. They all got on the flight, but this woman is just upset at the fact that her friends tried to go on without her and, like, didn't – she even says they didn't even look back, which I think is so dramatic.

No, I think this is silly then. Look, I would say a fair assumption is that they probably got to the gate, they checked themselves in, and they were like, hey, our friend is coming. She's one minute away. It's fucking done. The person who's written this in is assuming that none of that was done. Like I think that there are very few friends who are just going to run

off the plane, never look back, bored, and like never speak to you again. Firstly, you made it onto the flight. You're fine. I think we're all being a bit of a princess here. It would be very different if, say, like you ran away from your nana. She did say. You know, you're like one of us is going to get on this flight, man. She did say.

Carry your own bags. I tried to keep pace, but I found it difficult after a long first leg. Oh, get a grip. Yeah. Get a grip. It's a bit funny. Anyway. I remember this one time we were travelling Brit and we misjudged when our return flight was

and we got to the airport with very little to spare. To be fair, we definitely kept up with each other, but it was a bit of an every man for themselves situation. I tried to shake you. We let go. No! But you weren't as heavily pregnant, so you could keep up. laura i cannot believe we are here at this next chapter of our relationship it is time

we've been talking about it all show i think that look i i don't want to go on maternity leave i actually don't but i do want to have the baby because i can't physically keep it in any longer like i'm so uncomfortable but we've been teasing or show that i will be having some time off after the end of this week which checks out that's what people do when they have birthed something out of their vagina. Well, usually people check out earlier than this. I think I'm going to have this baby potentially Tuesday next week. And I'm still on air until Friday. I have been, to be honest, I've been in denial and I haven't really thought about what it means for me, probably because it's not about me, but it sort of is. So like, I just didn't really understand

that it meant like, oh my God, Laura's having a baby. That it means I would either A, be left to host this show alone or B, do the unthinkable and replace you. I thought you were about to say, or have a holiday also. I tried to ask for a holiday to my own maternity leave. They said no, you're not pregnant. They said no. Okay, so we have been teasing that we do in fact have a replacement. There have been many names that have been thrown around this show.

Someone said Russell Crowe. I think we're aiming a little bit high. Can I say when we chose to replace you because they said I couldn't go on holiday, I put a call out and I said who wants to replace Laura Byrne and be my co-host? I cannot tell you how many people were so quick to replace you, Laura. People, they were walking all over you. People you know. Who?

Can you name me who this is so I can send them a really nasty message afterwards? Well, we had one of Australia's most loved dads. Who? Larry Emdahl. Oh, yeah. He would also do a great job though. Yeah. I don't mind being replaced by Larry Emdahl.

Toadie from Neighbours. Yeah, Toadie. Chris Hemsworth. He really wanted it actually, but I just didn't. I don't think I could work opposite him. Yeah, I feel like your husband would get jealous. Yeah, I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. So I vetoed that even though he really wanted it.

Well, look, I think we have dragged it out long enough. We do actually have the replacement, Laura Byrne, here in studio sitting right next to me. Drumroll. Drumroll, please. The new host of The Pickup is... Maddie J! It's so good to be here.

Laura, get out the door. This is my place now. We did keep it as close to home as humanly possible. We decided just we'll get my husband to fill in. What better person? The interview process was very rigorous. Do you know what they said? They did ask if we could all do a chemistry test to see if you have,

and I was like, I am married to the man. I think we've got some chemistry. That's why we had sex, isn't it? I'm in. I was trying to bring on labor, God damn it. Get this baby out. No, it was a rigorous test. What did you have to pass to get in here, Matt?

No, I literally just said, just get here for 3 o'clock and you're fine. But actually, when? I need to double check. When do I actually start? Well, I mean, I'm having the baby on, we're hoping Tuesday. We are. I think I'm getting induced. We can't be sure.

We can't be sure. It could happen in the next few days. You don't need your life story. You just need to know what date I'm going to start. You don't even know what day we're having this baby. How many times have you asked? No, because it keeps changing. The goalposts are forever moving, so I can't keep track.

It can't move that much. It is. That week, gosh. So because we're getting induced, Matt keeps asking for the specific date. She won't tell me. I'm like, I don't know. It's dependent on the hospital. I'm like, what do you mean you don't know when you're having a baby?

I was like, it's dependent on the hospital. But he keeps booking things on days. And I was like, you know you have to keep three days free. About the week, Matt. Forget the baby. When do I start? You start when I tell you to start. Does anyone know what's happening?

No one actually knows, no. We're all taking a week of paternity leave. How do you feel about the fact that you're going to be juggling a newborn baby and also a brand new sparkly radio career? I could not ask for anything more right now. It's a dream come true. How do you feel about your new co-host? That's the big question that everyone, me included, has been asking.

Britt, you know, we get along so well. We've always had a great relationship. And, you know, to sit alongside you on air, 3 p.m. It's 3 p.m. pickup? It's 3 p.m. pickup. 3 p.m. Welcome. You know, it's just I'm so honored.

I'm flattered. and I can't wait to see where our relationship goes from here. I can. Let's not let it go anywhere else. We have had a tumultuous relationship, which I'm sure we have. What? Us? Well, everything was great until you outed my wedding to Australia before I got married.

I was promoting it. I was helping you. For anyone who doesn't know the behind the scenes of this, Britt was trying to keep the date of her wedding private and Matt accidentally on his podcast. Accidentally slash one of the downloads. Can I just say, our most downloaded episode ever. Matt said to me recently, so he's actually done three things on his podcast

where he gave away Brit's wedding date, he gave away the first name of our baby, and then recently he gave away the middle name of our baby. I've not talked about these things on any platform. And Matt says to me casually, he goes, God, our downloads have been up. Yeah, but well played, though, because he got himself a radio gig. To the listeners of The Pickup, strap on in. You're going to find out a lot more about Laura than you anticipated. You're not even welcome in the birthing suite now.

I don't want to be there. I've got a radio show now. This is where I live. I just want it to be known, whilst I'm on maternity leave, I take no responsibility for what this show spirals into. It's all on you now, Maddie J. Is there any beer here? What's going on?

Get the man a beer, yes. Do we talk about football scores? We use poppers here. We have poppers, not beer. Oh, God. We're catering to people who are picking up their kids from school. So, no, there's no beers. But there are poppers, juice boxes.

Do you talk about fish? I can. No, yeah, I used to be a spear fisherman, had a Rob Allen gun. Of course you did. We can talk about that. Anyway, guys, that's all we've got time for today. I've done every job in the world, Hockley.

How do I know what a Rob Allen spear gun is then? Tell me that. She's good. You don't even know. He doesn't know what a Rob Allen is. Okay, guys, we've got to get out of here. Will and Woody's up next. What date do I start?

We'll tell you off there. When do you want me? We'll put you out of your misery. Maddie J is going to be on the pick up from October 6, everyone. Laura, add that to my calendar. Add it to your own calendar. Lorsi, do you have any unreasonable fears or phobias, I guess? I want to say phobia, but phobia is a bit different,

but like an unreasonable fear. Yes, I do. I don't have a phobia. Like I don't have like a clinical phobia where I'll run out the door screaming. I cannot be in the same room as someone brushing their teeth or chewing chewing gum. That is irrational. You know what mine is?

Dolmardies. Oh, I love Dolmardies. Or if you chase me around a party with a Dolmardie. It's the feel and the texture in my fingers and my mouth. Grace, can we please get a tin of Domates? And I'm going to throw one at Brit on tomorrow's show. We did that last year. I forgot.

Did I throw it at her on the show? Yeah, you did. I'm really pregnant and my memory is not good anymore. Everything's gone down the gurgler. I found this really interesting. According to Psychology Today, at least 60% of adults admit to having an unreasonable fear. And then it went into phobias, the number one most Googled phobia in Australia. I was gobsmacked at these phobias.

I went down a phobia rabbit hole of things I didn't even know existed. I disagree. I think phobias are totally reasonable. The reason why I have a deep inherent fear of chewing gum and it makes me just like, it makes my skin crawl. Sorry, I did think we'd moved on. Sorry, I will tell you. Tell me more.

When I was little, I almost died from choking on chewing gum. And since then, I can't have it. I can't be near it. Yeah, I end up in hospital. That was really tragic. Took a serious turn there. I'm so glad that I'm still here to tell the tale. I am glad you're here.

I don't want to revisit that. Let's move on. Okay, so the number one most searched phobia in Australia is agoraphobia, which is the fear of leaving your house. So believe it or not, that's the number one. I thought it was a fear of symmetrical little dots. So I was really wrong. Anyway, that was really random.

Well, no, the number two most searched is trypophobia, which is a fear of holes. Yes, that's the little dots one. I didn't know people were so scared of holes. Okay, so there's, like what, what is happening? There is this, it's not a flower, but it's kind of like a seed pod that you sometimes get in floral arrangements. And I remember I posted on Instagram this beautiful bunch of flowers

that I'd received and it had this random little, I think it's called a lotus pod and it's got these little holes in the top of it. The amount of people who messaged me and were like, oh my God, I am so triggered by that flower. And I was like, that's weird. How do you get through life? Well, I thought of the brand new pick-up benchmark.

And your game. Brittany's phobia quiz. What I'm going to do, Laura, is I have gone so deep to find the weirdest, most unusual, strangest phobias. It's three options, multiple choice. You're going to pick what you think it is and I'm going to score you. Can I call a friend? Grace, are you my backup?

No, I wrote these questions. All right. Iraqi beautiophobia. It's a fear of beautiful spiders. So, is it A, a fear of a spider crawling into your ear at night? B, a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth? Or C, fear of the number eight? I think it's a fear of a spider crawling into your ear.

Wrong. It is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. That's the weirdest phobia ever. But fair. Do you know when it's like really dry and you can't get it off the roof? What's way worse than that is the fear of dry Milo hitting you in the back of the throat. That's a real fear. Yeah, okay.

We've all been there. Nomophobia. fear of homophobia fear of the sound of squeaky shoes fear of being without your mobile phone i'm pretty sure homophobia is the phobia of homosexuals yes i'm so glad you put that one so is it a fear of the fear of that uh no i don't i don't think it is i think it's squeaky shoes wrong fear of being without your mobile phone oh you would have that i'm really bad at this game Pluto-phobia.

Fear of the planet. Is it a fear of outer space, a fear of money, or fear of having too much responsibility? Fear of too much money. Yes, one point on the scoreboard. Oh, fantastic. All right, what's the next one? I'm on a roll now.

You've got one. Xanthophobia. Fear of gardening. Fear of roller skates. Fear of the colour yellow. I think it's the colour yellow. I just took a little while to warm up to this. I think I'm going to be good at it now.

All right. What about this one then? Hit me. Globophobia. Fear of traveling in a plane. Fear of balloons. Fear of round fruit. Oh.

It's tricky, isn't it? I am going to say being in a plane. Fear of balloons. Damn, I was going to go with that one and then I second guessed myself. All right. You might get this one. Pogonophobia. Fear of beards.

Fear of pogo sticks. Fear of the smell of ants. The smell of ants. Wrong. Damn it. Pogonophobia is a fear of beards. Oh, I don't have that. I like a beard.

You do love a beard. Climb inside of it and wrap it around me. This one I think you'll get. I threw an easy one in for you. Phobophobia. Is it the fear of having a phobia? Fear of people being afraid of you? Or fear of talking on the phone?

I think it's the fear of having a phobia. Yes, three on the board. Surely you can't have a fear of having a phobia because then it's not really a phobia. Right? But you are. This is from science, too, right? But if you're so frightened that you're going to be frightened about something,

just stop being frightened about all of the things and then you're fine. That is said by someone that doesn't have phobophobia. No, I don't have phobophobia. Sorry. Last one. Yep. This is all or nothing. You can get 100% if you get this.

I like that the rules just keep changing on this game. It's my quiz game. I'm really into it. It's my game. Lachanophobia. Fear of vegetables. Fear of people named Lachlan. Or a fear of the Loch Ness Monster?

I'm going to say vegetables. And she's taken 100%! I'm the winner! I know so much about deep-seated fears. Isn't that so unusual? It's very sad. I think it would be very, very hard to get through life having like a debilitating fear of something

that other people think is irrational. Imagine if your fear was Lachlan and he's like, hi, I'm Brittany, hi, I'm Lachlan. My first boyfriend's name was Lachlan, so I know I don't have that. He was nice. Of all the boyfriends, I have nothing bad to say about him. He was a lovely boy.

That's wonderful news about your relationship history. Okay, cool. If you have a phobia, call us up. Now we are talking medical mishaps. What did you go to the hospital for or to the doctors for and you were accidentally misdiagnosed? Maybe something even crazier happened. Now the reason why we're talking about this is because something

happened to me quite a few years ago. I think I blocked it from the trauma. somehow it came up in conversation and I honestly forget how wild this was so I was in my 20s and I had really bad back pain like I and it was getting progressively worse and I remember going to the doctors and the doctor did some tests and doctor was like go straight to hospital do not pass go do not collect $200 just go to the hospital and I got in there and I got admitted and they did some scans and stuff and they did like an ultrasound and whatever other scans and I got the results back and there was an issue with my gallbladder. So my gallbladder was completely

filled with gallstones. I think I was like 26 at the time. Explain the back pain. Well, it's like pain, like all around my soft organs, you know, in this, like around my back. Anyway, it was like spinal pain, but I remember so vividly him even being like, gosh, it's crazy. You literally have the gallbladder of a 90 year old woman. And so this is dire. Yeah. I was prepped for surgery. I went in and I did like the clear liquids diet overnight. The surgeon came in the next day, sat on the foot of my bed, talked me through what was going to happen. And at the time, I'd just been through a breakup with a guy who worked in hospitals. So like he was also a different field, different everything. And I was like, I feel really lonely and sad. I'm just going

to call him. Also, you were probably thinking, oh, this is my way to connect with my ex. Literally, I called my ex-boyfriend. So many red flags. He'll definitely want me back when I'm in a medical gown. So anyway, he came in and he was like, it's just so weird. He's like, it doesn't really make sense. I want to have a look at your scans. And so he got my, I can't remember if it was ultrasound or something else, but he got my scans and he was having a look at them. And he goes, I just don't believe that this can be your gallbladder. He's like, it doesn't make sense for you to have that many gallstones. You're not that unhealthy. Anyway, they did some digging and it turns out it was in fact not my scan. Mine had been mistaken with the woman who was in the bed

next to me who was a 90-year-old lady and she needed to go and have her gallbladder removed and had that been three hours different, I would have gone in for a surgery that I absolutely didn't need. Poor Mary. They're like, Mary, you look like a 20-year-old. Get out of here. I had a kidney infection and a bladder infection, which I'm pretty sure the ex-boyfriend gave me.

You had a UTI and an STI at the same time. That could have been a bad ending. It really was. It really was. Well, look, we've got Eloise on the line. Eloise, what was your medical mishap? So in 2018, I had a reconstruction surgery of my right rotator cuff. It was meant to just be day surgery.

So I went in, in true day surgery form. Everybody's running late. My doctor comes and sees me, marks up my shoulder, says this shoulder don't operate on the other, obviously. And my anesthetist was running late. They're like, we'll meet you in the lift. He'll give you a nerve block. We'll go in, we'll do the surgery.

Meet you in the lift? Where are you? Yeah, like in the lift. Are you in Turkey? in the lift to go into the theater. So like they're in the elevator and he's just like, we're going straight into the theater. We'll do your nerve block here. We'll do the surgery. Everything will be great. So he comes in, quickly checks my details, gives me a nerve block. And that's really the last thing I remember until I wake up. I wake up in complete agony, feeling like

I've just had my arm cut open, which obviously I had, but the anesthetist put a nerve block in the wrong arm so they blocked my left arm and they cut open my right and I woke up being like crying being like this I don't think this is right like I can feel everything and they're like well kind of funny story but you can our mistake not funny this is akin to the urban legend of the person who went in for an amputation and they amputated the wrong leg that's not an urban legend no I know it's I it's a real story it happened at the hospital I worked at I have worked at a hospital that took something that they weren't supposed to take. They took something from someone that they weren't supposed to take.

Yeah, it is a real thing that happens. Wow. Human error, hey? You can get anyone. They do it all the time and that's why they mark up your shoulders and like everything saying not this leg. So it didn't turn out to be a day surgery. I had to stay in overnight because I had no arms working

because one was nerve blocked incorrectly and one was cut open. And I was maxed out on pain relief already. So I was like excruciating for the 24 hours. I had everybody in the hospital coming to apologize and obviously getting me to not sue. Oh, my God, Eloise, you poor thing. Oh, I would have sued. Got some money.

That is awful. I know. You don't always get presented with these opportunities. Oh, my God. We've had so many of them come in. Some of them we absolutely can't share. Or we might get sued. There was a while there that we were talking about weddings every week.

It's because I had multiple weddings. You had so many weddings. We talked about every type of like wedding taboo, wedding themes, wedding rights and wrongs, the do's and don'ts. But there's something that's just recently gone viral online. It's garnered millions of views. And it's a very unconventional practice that potentially we could bring into weddings to better suit all of our single friends in the hopes that maybe they will find love. And I say this because we all know that weddings can sometimes be, they can sometimes be that romantic meeting point, right? Like everyone's just watched the bride and grooms say how much they love each other and then you look across the room and you're single and you

see another single guy and look it's the platform for love I'm pretty sure you met someone it wasn't love I didn't meet someone you Matt's cousin your husband's cousin kissed me and I was like what because see love it's because the only other single person there exactly exactly I was the bulk I was best on ground for the singles people because I was the only single person so the thing is, is that the singles at weddings always manage to sniff each other out, right? It happens. Well, there is a couple who has made it that little bit easier. So they created a laminated sheet at their wedding that says, tonight's most eligible, flirty, fabulous, and potential for your future plus one. And they have put a photograph of every single, single person that is at the

wedding to make it easier for them to find each other. Would you like this if you're a single person going to a wedding? Or would you be absolutely mortified? And like, I mean, is it akin to public shaming? I mean, I feel like I have two feelings about it. I think it's a pretty good idea. As long as everyone has been asked if it's okay, like if every single person on this list consented, consented, if they were like, hey, we're gonna this could be funny. It's a great idea. We're gonna put a single list out. Are you happy with it? It's a problem if they're not. But if somebody asked me and I was like, yeah, then I think it's funny because you know what happens at a wedding, the number one thing you're asking if you're single is like, oh, I wonder

if that person's single. Like, because you want to meet people, right? So this is just like a foolproof way. You've locked eyes with someone across the room. You're like, he's cute. I wonder if he's single. Let me just pull out my list. And you're like, oh, yep, he's number 5B in row 5B.

Do you know what's more embarrassing though is if you walk over to the laminated piece of paper that's stuck on the wall to check, right? Because it's not like they've got a little pocket card to take around with them. It is next to what you would assume. So like, you know how you go up and it's got like your table numbers and everything? next to that is this laminated picture frame that's full of everyone's faces like a school photo they said it was passed around the reception like a wine list like you could choose from it but i'm looking at some of the comments here someone said they were going to take back their

gift that's a big call um some felt humiliated that it's public shaming disguised as cute and then others said it was genius and they'd love it i think if everything runs on board and it's consensual it's a bit of like hard fun like totally what's the difference with your own dating app. You can pull up a dating app and put your vicinity of like a hundred meters around you and you can see all those people. You're like, I want my dating app circle to be only the people that are at this wedding. And is that guy here? I look, I mean, the people who are having a real poo poo at it are not people who are at the wedding. I would assume that if you're doing this, you've kind of vetted it with your friends. It's fine. But I also think it's cute. The only

thing I guess like maybe I would be upset about is if I was not one, I didn't want to be like actively looking for someone at that wedding. And so I'd been like kind of just dumped in with the rest of the people like if I wasn't looking to date I don't want that sign above my head like I am single but also I think it's because like sometimes we look at being single and dating as just being like oh you feel as though like oh here we go again on that single person at this event everyone's got to pass one and it can be really hard I think the reason this is different is there's like often you go to a wedding and there's only a couple of people that are single and I say that because I went to a wedding and I remember being mortified it was time to throw the

bouquet. And everyone was like, oh, the single people come out. And I was like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. And I was like, I'm not going out. And then there were, you know. Isn't that what happened at my wedding? Yes, I was trying to say it was you. It was just you that came out. There was like five people that came out. And then Matt's cousin was like, she'll be, she's good.

It's happened twice. I was trying to not say it was your wedding. Yes, I was humiliated. Your wedding. But this other one, both weddings I was humiliated because the pool of single people was so small. So all of a sudden you walk out, there's a circle of people looking at you. And there's two of you that are supposed to fight over a bouquet to, like,

please somebody pick me in the future and I get married. Anyway, I remember being mortified. But there's 24 people on this singles list that was being passed around. Yeah, it's a great wedding to be at. Your chances of meeting on that list are pretty high, so I'd be about it. All right, well, look, maybe you can, if you're getting married and you've got a lot of single friends,

maybe you can play Cupid and just return the favour. Thank you.