Life Uncut - The Best Of The Pick Up - Plane Poonamis and Accidentally Outing Yourself To Your Boss

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: This poor mum had an interesting hack for a plane 'poonami' What did you accidentally say to your boss?  Laura was caught in the nude by a tradie Did you have a Missed Connection? The worst typo we have ever seen on a wedding invitation 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 where we package up all the best bits every week of The Pick Up and we bring it here just for you guys, our lifers. We love you. Why are you talking so seductively?

It's been a big day. Yeah, it's been a really big day. So it's also been a big week. It's been a big year. It's been a big life so far and I'm tired. Yeah, yeah. June's, I mean, May. May's been a big year.

It really has. Hey, do you know what, though? I had a really good time on this show this week. Oh, great. No, I really did. And I told a story. Last week I talked about how Marley drew me naked at school and everyone now knows what the state of my downstairs pubic hair is like.

Love that for me. But also, you want to know who also knows about my downstairs pubic hair? Matt. Nah, the electrician down in Ulladulla. and I'll tell you all about why coming up on the show. It's a real theme. I like to be naked. I'm a naked person.

If I'm not at work and I'm at home and not in front of my mother-in-law, I'm naked. I love nudity too. Nudity also comes with limits. You live on your own so you can be naked all the time. I was about to say something, but I don't want people to turn up to my house. Yeah, I'm naked a lot, but I don't want to give too much away. Here's the question.

Don't have to give your address. It's okay. I have a question for you. At what age do you think you'd stop being naked in front of your kids? I can't answer this. It'll get me into trouble. But I also don't have kids, so I don't know. But I just think nudity is a beautiful thing.

To what age? Also, is it different if your kids are daughters versus sons? Yes, there's a lot to it. That's not enough time to unpack it now. So I don't know why you asked life's deepest question right now. Sorry. Sorry. Also, what do you think the meaning of life is?

Okay. You know what I loved this week? I also had a great week this week. Well, it wasn't just you. I had a brilliant week. No, something that I really want to, I want to make this a thing. Like I want to bring this onto the radio show, onto the pod. Missed connections.

You know when you've locked eyes across the train station platform and you thought, oh, my God, there's a moment, there's chemistry, there's heat. That's my person. That could be my person. I might go over and talk to them. Then the train comes, they get on the train, they go away and you're never going to see them again.

And for the rest of that week, you're like, I feel like something's missing in my life and I need to find that person. So you go and post it online and you try and look for them. You, standing on the platform, green shirt, locked eyes, platform four at Waterloo, whatever. We have the funniest misconnection on the show today, but it's made me want to do it in real life. Like it's made me want to find a misconnection for you guys.

So please let us know. Slide into live uncut podcast DMs, email us the pick up DMs. Let us know if you've had that moment with someone, you haven't been able to stop thinking about them. We want to help you find them. Can I just say it's a real fine line between being like cute and creepy, right? The line is so thin between the two. Usually it comes down to whether or not you're attracted to the person

as to whether it's, like, endearing or creepy. Yeah, but what happens is if they think it's creepy, they're not going to respond. Like, if you pick up the paper and you're like, oh, my God, that was me on Platform 4 in the green shirt, if you're not into it, you don't respond. But if you are into it, maybe they were equally trying to find you. All right, well, that and so much more is on the show.

Let's get into it. Now, Britt, I want to talk about something that I feel like most parents have been faced with at one point or another, and that is the punami. The Poonami with no tools. If you have little kids and you've forgotten a nappy or you've forgotten wipes or it's been explosive and you've forgotten a change of clothes, everyone has had to deal with something going very wrong and having to come up with a quick and fast and hard solution.

Okay. Is this one of your kids? They're not in nappies anymore, are they? No, I've got a five-year-old and a four-year-old. It's been a long time since we've dealt with a Poonami. This is off the back. There's a woman who's going viral online because she has shared what seemingly is quite a resourceful solution to a punami that she experienced however the whole situation sounds like an absolute

disaster if you ask me so they're on an international flight it is 3 30 in the morning and she has realized that she didn't pack a spare nappy for her one and a half year old this little kid looks like on an overnight flight on an overnight imagine waking up at 3 30 in the morning to a turd and being like oh god here we go here we go code brown everyone so she what she did is she didn't have a nappy she had wipes but she had panty liners like her own panty liners so she slid a panty liner into the nappy i'm guessing to try and absorb as much of the excess fluid and everything else as possible oh no which you know what i heard about like i read this and i I was like, I guess it would kind of work.

But I'm left with a lot of questions. I feel very sorry for her because I can't imagine. I have not been in that position. But I would imagine on a flight, like an overseas overnight flight, there are a lot of people on there. There is guaranteed to be other families with kids. I'd be patrolling those aisles until I found like another mum and begging for a nappy.

That's what I'd be doing. You know what that is? That is spoken like a true dog mum who's gotten to the dog park and didn't have a bag. That is a true dog mum response because I didn't even clock that one. Did you not? That seems like the most obvious solution. Do you know why?

Because I think if you went and asked someone else for a nappy, the judgment of like why didn't you pack enough nappies, like I just wouldn't even think to ask someone for a nappy. No, I wouldn't. You just say, hey, they've pooed way more than I would have thought. That's also what dog people say. So when like your dog has pooed more and you've run out of bags, you're like, sorry, they usually only do one.

They've done like four. But realistically, you just left with one rogue bag and that was it. I will never forget I was on a flight and it was an international flight but it was a day flight we were going to Bali and you know that's a six-hour flight and the family that was sitting directly in front of me had a little baby and I also had my kids with me so like we were surrounded by kids and their little daughter I think she must have been about maybe two so that's not like baby baby like two is that is full-blown toddler territory yeah and everyone could smell that someone had pooed their pants like it was very evident in the whole of that area of the seating

and so everyone was kind of quietly being like oh like who is and I sniffed both my kids and I was like my kids it's not me the you know I'm not responsible for this anyway 10 minutes later the family in front she just lays the little girl down on the seat and uses the seat that's right next to her as the change table to change the nappy like starts fully changing the nappy in the middle of a is that like a no-go i don't know no you have to take them to the toilet and use the fold out change that i think it's okay to change a nappy in lots of places like i'm an i'm a change nappy on the go kind of gal but absolutely not in a packed flight where every single other person has to sit there and smell your kid like that's to me that was absolutely

wild them down on someone's lap no no absolutely not anyway so much so that the air flight hostess came over and she was like I'm really sorry but you cannot do that there you have to go to the toilet like yeah that's fair she looked horrified also the walk of shame like when you've got to then stand up with a stinky baby and everyone's like off you already because you're like you already stunk out the cabin then you got to walk a shame like the next morning the smell's got nowhere to go it's got nowhere to go all right well you heard it first pack your nappies and go to the toilet no I do feel sorry for it because like I said I've been called out before and you really have to get resourceful like you really have to think about like what is it that I can

news? Do you water down there with some toilet paper? Like what do you do to try and save your kid from a nappy-less punami situation? Forgive me for taking this sidestep, but this is where my brain has gone when you just said being resourceful. I do remember a time that you did a poop. You what? Yeah, you, Laura, you did a poop. Oh, this is really taking a sidestep and I don't know if we need to talk about this on radio. Yeah, you already spoke about it on radio. You've just reminded me. You already forget that you added yourself. You did a poop and there wasn't any toilet paper so you went into your handbag and you found one of the girls socks yeah that was that was a low point in my life that was a low point for that talking about being

resourceful you've got to do what you've got to do yeah I was reading this reddit thread Laura that gave me a bit of a chuckle and it reminded me of a couple of things I've done in the past and something that I've heard you throw around a little bit oh yeah what have I done now well this could go either way but this woman was was talking about this awkward encounter she had with her boss and the way she signed off a phone call so this is her thread I accidentally said I love you at the end of a call with an important client yesterday I heard him giggle as I hung up and I was absolutely mortified today I received an email from him now imagine the fact that you've had this awkward moment you've said I love you to someone you absolutely shouldn't and then you see an email

pop up you're like don't do you not just like hit that one on the head and be like sorry that was I don't actually love you is that what I don't I don't love you I actually don't have feelings for No, I don't know. I think it's better that you don't try and double down. You pretend like it didn't happen. Yeah. So this is the email. Hey, Sarah.

Just wanted to say that I didn't mean to laugh at you when you accidentally signed off on our call with I love you. Oh, he was just worried about getting in trouble from HR. HR, yes. He's like, oh, God, here we go now. Someone's going to complain. I just found it funny because I've definitely done that before and I know it happens.

I'm glad you have enough love in your life that the response comes naturally. If anything, you should be proud of that. smiley face have a great weekend and we'll follow up about my call with chris on wednesday as discussed no i love you sign off would you want that response or would you want just like to pretend it didn't happen i've done some doozies actually just the other day our radio boss tony walked into the office we're having a chat and then i called him honey by accident and we just steamrolled like it wasn't even a thing he didn't even notice i was like thanks honey oh he noticed

He looked at me and winked. Ew. Sorry, Tony. I must admit in that moment I was in the room and I did feel viscerally uncomfortable. I'm a words of affirmation kind of person. Like I'm an endearing term. Everyone's honey or darling or something.

I know, but you boss. I didn't mean to. It was not intentional. Also, no offence, Tony, if you're listening. Tony doesn't give honey. He's not honey vibes. He's not a honey vibe. He's going to hate that.

Poor Tony. Tony could be a honey to someone. Not you. Do you know what I'm really guilty of? and I'd probably have to work on it. I throw kisses around. Yeah, kiss, kiss. Like they mean nothing.

They don't though. Well, they do to me. But whoever I'm emailing, it doesn't matter whether it's like the finance guy or the boss or it's a client. I just throw in kisses and I'm like, I don't know if you could do that. I have one other example. There's many of them, but this one just lives rent free in my mind. So like I run another business where I was talking to a client of mine

and she had wanted to get a piece of jewellery made specifically for her mum for Mother's Day. it was a custom piece and like I'd not been on comms at all my sister who's my business partner had been managing it and I just chimed in because I was like hi so lovely so excited and I signed off with have a lovely mother's day with your bum sent oh my god have a great time with your bum anyway so obviously she can read between the lines but that's a typo it does rhyme with mom and there's two letters that shares the word I know but really sometimes autocorrect does you dirty because there's not it's not an incorrect spelling but you would think that ai would be

intelligent enough by now that it would go you've said mother's day you probably don't want to refer to your butt so no because a lot of just gonna guess that this is a mom or like what are you doing on your mother's everyone needs to enjoy themselves in different ways don't they but play on mom day all right all right hey the lines are going off we've got sarah on the phone hey sarah what did you accidentally do to your boss um as i was leaving i blew her a kiss okay so it's a female we've got that and so you want some content yes we do so I'm a disability support worker and it's not unusual for when I leave for my client to blow me a kiss but this particular day I she didn't and I um I it wasn't her though I walked outside of her bedroom and

her parents were there and i blew them kisses as i said man you're just giving these kisses out left right and center who doesn't i'd be offended if i didn't get a kiss yeah bless you i feel like you can get away with it did you say anything else or did you just leave it you just walk away i didn't say anything to them i just walked out the door and i got out there and i just died and i thought oh there's no way that they haven't just turned to each other and gone what the hell just happened. Oh, you're just a loving, caring person. Good on you.

Thanks, Kate. Thank you. Hey, Kasia, what did you accidentally say to your boss? I accidentally sent my boss a message saying she's being an absolute C-bomb today. How do you accidentally send that? I feel like that's pretty well thought out. I was sending it to one of the girls that wasn't at work that day.

No. Did she have her emails forwarded or did you accidentally just CC in your boss? Just so, can you get the memo? It was a text message, so I sent it straight to her. Oh, my God. You were doing the old, like, when you're thinking of someone, so you go and type in that message instead. Oh, did she write back or are you fired?

She pulled me into her office and, yeah, she wasn't too impressed. I tried to tell her that it was an accident and that it was actually aimed towards a friend called Tracy, but she was on to me. and she wasn't impressed at all, so I still kept my job. Oh, thank you so much. I'm glad you're still there. Thank you.

Thanks, Kasia. This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, but I've been questioning whether or not I should tell the story. If you ever question if you should tell a story on national radio, usually the answer's no. Well, usually, and also sometimes I'm like, do I have any dignity left? Also, no.

Do we need content for the week? Fine. here it is, here's my soul. So we've been doing quite a big renovation down south at the moment, like of a house, a couple of hours drive from where we live. And when we've been heading down there, we've been staying and it is so close to being finished, this renovation. Like I just feel like it is the reno that never ends. Yeah, you're on the home stretch. But we were down there staying in the house and there was some issues with the electricals because this is what happens, right? When you're renovating a house, the first time you stay in it, you start to see like,

what are the little things that haven't quite been done or need to be fixed so we had had an electrician come out for the day there was quite a lot of jobs that he needed to do he needed to install the outdoor lights and some inside blah blah blah blah blah on the edge of my seat what other lights did he have to install the ones in the bathroom needed to be fixed the the outdoor lights weren't connected to the indoor whatever it was a whole thing right also he wasn't bad to look at the man was very attractive that's convenient it was a good looking rooster easy you on the i so he's in the house running around and my husband matt's there and we've all kind of like been trying to get organized for the day at the same time but also at the same time we're

having to like talk to the electrician who has questions anyway matt left and it's just me and it's the electrician in the house and he's finished for the day he's been there for quite a few hours and he says like oh like see you love all done i'm gonna leave now and the house is really close to the beach i had been waiting for him to leave so i could go for a swim i was desperate to just get out of the house for the day. And I left the garage open, the door open, and I saw, you can see from inside the house, straight out into the street. So I saw him get in his car and I saw him drive away by a good looking Mr. Electrician Man. So I got to my bedroom and I get naked and I'm like, oh, I'm going to get my simmers, but except I couldn't find my simmers. They were obviously

downstairs in the laundry. So I get out from the bedroom and I walk straight downstairs and I'm midway between the upstairs and the downstairs, coming down the stairs, like I'm trapped in the flight of stairs. And standing there in the lounge room is the electrician. So he's come back to the house because there's something that he's forgotten, didn't make it known, didn't call out. He probably didn't think you were going to strip off within 30 seconds. He walked in and I was completely butt-ass naked with nowhere to run except to turn around and run back up the stairs, which meant not only did he see my front, he also saw my behind. I feel like you didn't have to run.

How do you do it? How do you navigate it? You didn't have to run away. He had to run away. He had nowhere to go. He would have had to run up the stairwell as well. No, he could turn around. I think it's, I don't know, if he's already seen the front,

I'd just back away slowly. I'd walk backwards up the stairs, like crab claw around the corner. I just had like this three seconds of like absolute fear take over my body and I was like, how do I get out of this situation? Because the only way forward is backwards and now I have to turn around. Also, you just finished telling us how good looking he was. Are you sure he said goodbye? Are we like, oh, my God, whoops, I didn't know you were here.

I thought you'd left. I just happened to be naked upstairs. I told Matt this story and he was like, whatever, Laura, shut up. Because as, yeah, when the electrician did come in, I was like, he's a good looking rooster, isn't he, Matt? And then I had to tell Matt that I got naked in front of him. It didn't go down well. Imagine if Matt walks in and just has this awkward moment

where he sees you naked on the stairs looking down at him, looking at you, you looking at him. Yeah, it's like the awkward triangle. Anyway, I can't ever see him again. No, he's coming back to the house and I have to leave. He's got to put the solar in. Yeah, I'll tell you all about that. Oh, go away.

Laura, remember back in the day, those missed connections that people used to do, like the equivalent of a newspaper dating site. So if you had a moment with someone in real life, like you were getting the train to work and you looked across the platform and you saw somebody and you had this moment across it and you were like, wow, and they were giving you the eyes back, then they got on the train

and you never saw them again. You know what this was? And I wonder if it rolled out all across the country or not, but this was the free newspaper that you would get on the train. And there was a column, a special dedicated editor's column where you wrote into the editor and you were like, platform two, one o'clock, you were wearing a red hat. It always says you, green shirt, me, high ponytail, laughed at you, whatever.

It's like it's always these and then they're supposed to find it and find you and you live happily ever after. I remember this like vividly because I would always look to try and see if someone had sent one in about me. Oh, my God, you're such a narcissist. What a loser. I don't know if narcissist is the right word or just loser is the right word. I was like so desperate for someone to love me.

Well, I have had an idea off the back of one that I have seen one. So some people are still putting them online. Like some people are still finding them and putting them online. It's not a thing like it was. But I just need you to listen to this because I was laughing out loud. This is on a site, Miss Connections site. You were the tall brunette with a near-perfect body that farted in the bread section last night.

I was the tall guy next to you that looked over and asked, was that you? You quickly replied, no, it wasn't. You almost seemed insulted that I would even ask. As the stink grew, you continued to deny your flatulence, but it was evident. I tried to get rid of the stench by waving two loaves of ciabatta bread. You proceeded to storm off in an angry manner.

You are beautiful and even if you are a liar and you fart like a Clydesdale, I'd still love to meet up. That's not real. I died of laughter. That is not real. It was so funny. It got me thinking it could be real. People let them drop accidentally all the time

and when there's only two people in an aisle and there's a smell and you know it's not you, you then know it's the only other person there. When you started that, I thought you were about to say this has been written about me but then as it proceeded to be talking about farts. Do you know, okay, this is a real tangent. We don't have to go down this path, but I'm going to say it anyway.

I walked into a Lyft the other day, got on at level two. There was only one person in Lyft and then we travelled together and it was so evident that they had just farted in the Lyft before I got in. Also not okay. I need to tell you a funny story. Sorry. Are you okay?

I've just been thinking about it. So dumb. So I never fart in front of my fiancé, Ben. It's like a thing. I've just said I don't front in front of partners. Like I'll do it in other locations. So recently, so dumb, recently I was over visiting him and we were practicing our first dance for our wedding

and we filmed the whole thing. We put the camera up and then we just proceed to do our dance. Now it's only he and I in the hotel room. That's it. It's not a dance studio. We're just in a home. Anyway. He lifted you up and you accidentally farted.

No, but I farted. But it was quiet. So I was like, didn't care. Then I smelt it. And I was like, oh, my God. Got to get on the front foot. Yeah, but I don't know what I was thinking. I stopped and I was like, babe, did you just fart?

And he was like, I know. It's so obvious because he knows it wasn't him. And he's like, no. And I was like, yes, you did. That's disgusting. He's like, oh, my God, you did. And that was me trying to get myself out of it. We're only in this.

Anyway, we had this full fight on camera about who farted. But obviously it was me. Like, what was I thinking? I'm sorry, but are you 14 years old? And secondly, what has this got to do with lost connections? Oh, sorry. No, it's not. It was back to the fart.

So hang on. Okay, I took it a little sideways. Here's my idea. I want to help people. There are people out there. I know there's someone listening right now that has had that moment. Who's farted. I mean, sorry, who's had a misconnection. Who's farted in the supermarket. I want to help a misconnection. Like I want to find one and make it happen. So we are looking for people that might have had that moment anywhere in a nightclub or walking to work or at work or in a cafe. Anytime we want you to call up and we're going to try and help you and we're going to make this well this is my plan it might not work after

a couple of weeks and the producers can it it's going to be a mini series but let's go let's go whole hog in the interim until that happens let's put everything all the resources we have what's more important love or money or love and money maybe we'll find you both call up or write into the pickup write into laura and myself on instagram or the pickups instagram or the win page whatever if you have a missed connection or somebody that you are looking for we want to help you find them. Like we genuinely want to try and make this happen. Britt, I also want to point out to you that these things only end well if the other person is interested. Otherwise it comes off like they're a stalker. But like, that's okay. We can figure that out live on air. You just said

you looked every week to see if you were in it. People want it. Britt, you were telling a story a while back about your wedding invitations and how you got into a little bit of strife because of the language barrier. When you set out your invites, you said no thongs and it was taken very incorrectly. Because my fiancé's European, so all of his friends and family are Euro, and they thought when I said no thongs that they weren't allowed to wear a G-string. Yeah. So that's a pretty strict dress code if I'm monitoring their underwear. You're like, everyone that walks in, you're like, I'll just have one quick look before you're allowed to. It's not the dress. Yep, you're in.

Well, this is going to make you feel a little bit better, Britt, because there is a wedding invitation that's gone viral off the back of a very unfortunate accident that was made. a spelling error. We've all been subject to spelling errors. You know, we've all sent a message and then accidentally it's like auto-corrected to a word that we didn't want it to be. There's not that many people that use the word duck all the time, but apparently that's what iPhones think. You know, it just, you know, yeah. Should we unpack that one at three o'clock in the afternoon? Okay. So there's a couple who sent out their wedding invitation and lovely. They had hors d'oeuvres on the menu was one of the first things that was written. Unfortunately, they did

not spell check or proofread their wedding invitation that was sent out. But not only was it sent out, this wasn't a digital invitation. This was a printed hard copy invitation, which had lovely gold embossing on it. So I'm sure it cost them a pretty penny. I do have the invite here. Yeah, it looks beautiful. It doesn't say hors d'oeuvres though. What it does say, unfortunately, is horse ovaries. I can see how this has happened. Hors d'oeuvres is actually spelled sort of like horse ovaries. It's like H-O-R-S. That's essentially horse, right? Hors d'oeuvres, if you're going to say it phonetically. How they say hors d'oeuvres looks like almost ovaries. So I can understand why Google's been

like, oh, they must be trying to talk. Maybe they're a vet. Maybe they're talking about the horse over imagine getting to a wedding and and they're serving you horse ovaries thank you that's delicious imagine the steam or fried do you think people picked up on that and thought oh it's a spelling mistake or people were like is this some sort of weird like cultural thing or like who's eating in horse ovaries well look we've come across some very unfortunate spelling errors and i'm not just talking about like sending an incorrect text to someone who you're friends with i'm talking about businesses that have printed signs or things that are like truly embarrassing that you kind of like once it's up you're like well what do we do now do we have to

take that whole thing down and start again. And I wanted to read some of them out to you because they're so great. McDonald's wrote hiring smiling faces for afternoon shits. No, that's intentional. There's been a 16 year old that's been employed to go out the front and do that. They're earning $11 an hour. Some, some little kid hates their job and they thought this was funny. They were in fact the little shit. Okay. Another one here. This is a very old sign that's been up for a really long time it's in a parking lot and it says illegally parked cars will be fine no that has said find and someone's taken an offset that they can park there 100 that is actually really smart all right well what is this one how do you describe this one then brit

please pay your parking fee before existing not exiting existing and i really like this one this was in front of a donut king and it said mini dog nuts i feel like i feel like grace on the case has something over there i found one said i was replying to a high level executive called trudy the whole team was cc'd on it one of them pointed out to me that i'd called her turdy i don't reckon that's the first time i just want to finish it off with this because i feel like we've all been in the boat where we've made a spelling error mistake and this is going to live rent free in my mind. Somebody wrote, when you can still smell his colon on your pillows, even when he's not there.