Life Uncut - The Best of the Pick Up - Whether It’s An SUV or an STD, You Get 15 Minutes

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: Hailey Bieber was caught allegedly liking a shady post about Selena Gomez When did you acci...dentally like or follow? Laura's friend had a VERY unfortunate word mix up An investigation into why people love to go back to their exes (*cough* Ben Affleck) Lola has (almost) learned her ABCs and it is VERY cute When did you celebrate prematurely? Britt and Laura received a gift that feels a little.......too old for them There's a new study that says that you shouldn't wear pyjamas to bed You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. And this is our radio show, The Pickup, where we package up all the best bits that was on air this week and we bring them here to you, our lifers. Question. This is something we do talk about in the episode today. If you won the lotto, Laura, would you quit? How much are we talking?
Starting point is 00:00:26 50 mil. If I won $50 million, I'd take a break. Like I'd have a holiday. Would you give me anything? Yeah. We joked about this recently. It's like if you win the lottery, will you give me money because you took a holiday?
Starting point is 00:00:39 But also that wasn't me joking. That was a genuine question. Because it impedes my earning capacity. Well, it does because if you leave, I can't earn as much. Yeah, it's true. It's true. You're connected to me forever. You need me.
Starting point is 00:00:51 So you'd swing me what? Three mil? Four mil? Five mil? If I won $50,000. Five. Seven. Nah.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Three. Sadie. Three million. Five. Five. 5K. No, five million. Are you kidding me?
Starting point is 00:01:07 I meant five million. Five dollars. Five cents. 5K. I meant five million, but like that type of money is like so obscene that my brain was like a thousand. Yeah, five million for sure. I think you'd be fine with five million, Britt.
Starting point is 00:01:20 Look, the reason why we're talking. Oh, do you just miss 45 billion? I've got my house to feed. The reason why we're talking about this is, Brit, you brought a very funny news story that has been circulating around for a long time, but it's kind of like been uncovered from the depths again. As a man that jumped the gun when he thought he won the lotto, I don't want to give too much away because it's the story of the year.
Starting point is 00:01:44 It's been the story of three years, so it seems. But look, if you found out that you ever win the lotto, and this is like a pre-warning to anyone who's like out there who enters just don't celebrate until you're absolutely certain that that money's in your bank account until it is in there until you have seen those dollars go up that would be my advice 100 also i shared and look i know that this is kind of reminisce of like a parent that's just like a little bit too proud of their kids and is trying to force you into watching photos of them at like a party but i kind of did that live on air this week so So Lola has learned to sing her ABCs.
Starting point is 00:02:18 It's very cute. I'm not even sure if it's, like, an age-appropriate milestone or she should already have it down pat at, like, four. Is it late? No, I don't think so. I don't know. She's only just turned four. Kids, like, learn that stuff at all different phases.
Starting point is 00:02:31 Yeah, I don't know. Like, Marley was doing multiplications at that age, but, like, Lola... Oh, I was doing Pythagoras. She literally was. She was, like, reading the dictionary. That's the square root of 79, just two years old. And Lola's, like, just...
Starting point is 00:02:40 She's chill. She's, like, ABCs, man. I got this down pat. It's like CDA, whatever. Even with her sometimes I'll be like, hey, Lola, what's this letter? And she'll be like, apple. And I'm like, no, no, no, but what's the letter for the apple? And she'll go, C.
Starting point is 00:02:55 I'm like, we're so far. We're so far from where we need to be. We're so far from school. I don't know how to get there. But anyway, look, she's learnt the alphabet. Not well, but it's very cute. Well, she's learnt the rhythm to the alphabet. We'll say that.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Well, nah, I reckon she's learnt like 60%. Yeah, actually, I'd give her more. I reckon she's like 75-ish, 80. But she does it with the confidence of a child who knows it all well. And that's what I love about her. Because, like, it doesn't matter what it is. It's like she will do it with 110% confidence. Swim?
Starting point is 00:03:25 No, she can't. But she tries with 110% confidence. But that's half the battle in life. Fake it till you make it. That's where that saying is. If she can convince her teacher that she knows the alphabet, which she absolutely doesn't, then she's going to be just fine. You know what she's going to be good at?
Starting point is 00:03:38 Debate. She's going to be so good at debate class. Manipulation. So long as she can, you know, learn to speak. i before e all right well look there's a lot more coming up in this show it was a fun one and it's coming up now this is the beef that is that just keeps on giving it's the beef between hayley that's not what i'm saying it's the gift that keeps on giving the beef doesn't keep giving it's not a butcher no but it's like it's a beef that's never ending one might say okay maybe
Starting point is 00:04:06 that's a better way of putting it it's like a string of sausages okay hayley beaver selena Gomez. Everyone was speculating that there was a crossover between Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez when they were dating Justin Bieber. I just want to put my two cents in quickly. Does anyone go for it? Excuse me? What did you say? Does anyone care? Yeah. Probably, yeah. I'm on this show as a host, so I'm hoping that
Starting point is 00:04:25 someone cares what I have to say. My two cents is that I don't think it's beef between them. I think it's one-sided beef. I think it's Hailey Bieber. I think Selena Gomez is fine with it. She's down. She's moved on with her life and Hailey cannot let go. Yes, I agree.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Oh, so you do care what I'm saying. Sorry, I do, I do, I do. I thought you were going to talk about the overlap of their relationship from like five years ago. No, I couldn't care less. Okay. Benny Blanco and Selena obviously moved on. They're happy.
Starting point is 00:04:51 They're so happy and in love that they're doing really cringe photo shoots together because they don't care. They just want to like explore their happiness and in loveness. I'm here for that. So there's these photos that are going around and it's like Selena's kind of half naked and she's got a finger in Benny Blanco's mouth and then she's laying down on the ground and she's got her feet on his face.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Objectively, they're kind of a bit odd, the photos, right? But I think they're cute. But they clearly love each other so much and, like, who cares? So there's a TikToker who's created a compilation of all of these pictures and she's written, if I had to see these, so do you. That's the caption. Now, Hailey Bieber has liked the very catty pose
Starting point is 00:05:31 that this woman's put together. Have a listen to this. hayley bieber herself liked my tiktok i feel like this is definitive proof that when hayley bieber is like oh it's all love it's all good we have absolutely no beef everything is completely fine she's lying so i don't think that there is any like reality or any world where she's purposely like this i think she's been scrolling through she's seen something she lingered too long on TikTok. I know that she knows what it was, but I don't think she meant to like it because I don't think that anyone who is as much of a public figure as what Hailey Bieber is would want this
Starting point is 00:06:08 sort of thing to come back up again. I disagree. She has done this so many times that you would be more careful. This is an active decision to double tap that love heart. I don't know. I just think it's so deeply petty. Like surely no one is that petty. I say this because I feel like I've made a lot of mistakes on social media over the years. And I think it's really easy to do so. It's really easy to accidentally like a photo that you didn't mean to like. It happens. Many moons ago, so I was a little bit, I don't want to say I was obsessed because I wasn't obsessed, but I was very interested in my current boyfriend.
Starting point is 00:06:41 You were obsessed. So, okay, I was very interested in my current boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. He's not my current boyfriend anymore. I'm now married. I've moved on. This was my 20s. At the time. At the time.
Starting point is 00:06:51 My boyfriend at the time's ex-girlfriend. The reason for that is because there had been like a bit of crossover, kind of similar to Hayley and Selena. Yeah. Yeah, very similar. He had lied to me about it. And she was like always posting things that were kind of cryptic and for him. And it was very messy, but I was like hooked on the drama of it.
Starting point is 00:07:08 So I would always like look up her Facebook profile. But you weren't with him. Yeah, he was my boyfriend of like six months. And she was the ex. And she was the ex. So this one day I went to look up her profile on Facebook and then I got distracted and I had to go to work. Like I just typed it in, off I went.
Starting point is 00:07:23 And then I went to check my phone, which has been sitting in the pigeonhole at work. and I had all these missed calls from my boyfriend and also all these messages from people on Facebook. How long ago was this that you had to put your phone in a pigeon hole? I was a waitress. Okay, so I had updated my status with her full name. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Her entire name, just Hannah Chuck, and I'd updated my status. Press post. As my current boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's name. I am deceased. I hated myself. I'm sure a lot of people hated you. He called me and I'll never forget it. He goes, I don't know what was going on in your life this morning,
Starting point is 00:08:00 but you might want to take down your status update. And I went on there and I was like, oh, yeah, I hate myself. I'm so embarrassed for you. That's how Hayley Bieber feels. That's definitely not the same thing. I remember I did something similar but not quite as public, so mine was more internal. But I had been sort of seeing this guy and I had a huge, huge crush on him.
Starting point is 00:08:19 And he started dating this new girl too, this like hot little blonde thing. and I became like so also equally interested in her life. Not obsessed, just very interested. Yeah, and so I remember looking her up on Facebook too. I don't even use Facebook now, but I remember looking her up on Facebook, trying to see it and then she was private. I can't see anything, so there's no point.
Starting point is 00:08:39 Left it, got on with it. And he messaged me later from like another country and he's like, why are you trying to like infiltrate my relationship? And I was like, sorry, what? He's like, why are you trying to be friends with Sarah? And I was like, I don't understand what you're talking about. Anyway, I'd accidentally friend requested her.
Starting point is 00:08:55 And so she's gone on and been like, hey, why is your ex trying to be my friend? And he was like, I don't know. That's weird. Let me talk to you. She's like, can you talk to me? I was so embarrassed. And I had to just own it. I was like, oh, look, I was just trying to suss out who you were dating and why she was
Starting point is 00:09:08 so good. And I just sprung. So embarrassed. You just have to own it. You really do. Everyone, if you've done this, if this is something that's happened to you, give us a call because there are way worse stories than this, Brit. Like, we are not alone in this.
Starting point is 00:09:20 No. And Hailey Bieber's not alone in what she's just done either. Vanessa wrote into the text line and she said that she accidentally responded with a laughing emoji to someone's funeral notice. It was a total mistake. You can't recover from that unless you say you think that they're tears. But even then, just a throwaway emoji isn't enough for a funeral announcement. Like, you need words.
Starting point is 00:09:40 You need dialogue. I don't think you just need pictures. They were tears. Yeah, you could get out of that. You could say, I thought that was sad. I doubt it. All right, Hannah wrote in. I took a video of myself doing a huge fart to send to some friends,
Starting point is 00:09:57 but I accidentally posted it on my story. No, Hannah. Don't give that content away for free, Hannah, you silly thing. Hang on. What groups of young females are sending farts to each other genuinely? I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum. I am. If you send me a fart, I will block you.
Starting point is 00:10:13 Look, we've got Molly on the line. Molly, what did you accidentally do? So I had a friend, her ex messaged her like three weeks prior to me seeing her asking to catch up and she was like, hell no. Three weeks later, she's showing me the messages and I accidentally sent him a thumbs up from her account. Three weeks later after a hell no, it's like, hey, I've had a change of thought. Did he write back?
Starting point is 00:10:41 He did and she really just had to pretend that she didn't know what happened and then just stopped replying and pretended like it. What did she say to you more so rather than what did she say to him? Look, I'm probably the joker of the group. So if anyone was going to do it on purpose, it was probably going to be me. And I was like, no, I swear I won't. And I accidentally just brushed it and I've just gone, oh, I'm so sorry. We are still friends.
Starting point is 00:11:07 We managed to laugh it off. So hang on. Molly accidentally clicked into emojis, responded with a thumbs up and sent it. Lots of accidental clicking. I think I'm calling BS. Did you mean to do that? No, you know, like, on the right, how Messenger already has the thumbs up there.
Starting point is 00:11:22 Oh, yeah, so you react. And you just do the one click. Yep, that's what I've done. Likely story, Molly. Easy mistake. Easy mistake, Molly. All right, we've got Julia on the line. Julia, what did you accidentally do?
Starting point is 00:11:31 So my mum was interstalking my brother's new girlfriend and whilst trying to zoom in on a picture, accidentally double-tapped on Instagram and liked it. No, that's such a rookie error. People who don't know how to use Instagram who try and zoom. They need Instagram supervision. They can't just go double tapping all the time. Do you know what my mum did?
Starting point is 00:11:49 This is, I mean, not the same, but when Instagram first came out, my mum didn't really understand it and so she used to comment on my photos but she didn't know it was public so it would literally just be like she was messaging me. So she used to write to me like, hey, Biddy, what time are you home for dinner tonight? Schnitzel okay? Like she would write to me like it was a private DM.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Like on your wall? But just on my page and I'd have to write back and be like, mum, this Schnitzel's fine but you can text me. Julia, I had a very similar situation to this happen to me. So this will make your mum feel better. I was very casually dating a guy for only about two or three weeks and his mum friend requested me. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:12:24 I was like, this is too much. And it just didn't work out. Very good. Thanks for the call, Julia. See, it's relatable. It happens to everyone. It absolutely happens to everyone. I think we need a new segment.
Starting point is 00:12:36 Maybe it can be a benchmark that's like phone files, you know, like things that go wrong with the phones because so much stuff happens. I know. And you're not alone. We've all done it. On the weekend, I went to one of my beautiful girlfriend's baby shower
Starting point is 00:12:49 and I got into a very funny conversation with another woman who was there who was telling me about something that had happened to her on the weekend. And I have secondhand embarrassment for her. She's a mom. She was stressed. She's got two kids.
Starting point is 00:13:02 Like, you know, she was six months old. Like, it's busy. And she was saying that she had an SUV, like a bigger car. Yeah. And there's rules around, and I didn't know this, but apparently there's rules around loading zones. So if you have an SUV or bigger,
Starting point is 00:13:16 you can have up to 15 minutes in a loading zone without having to prove that you're a work car or like, you know, you're there for trade or anything. What, even if you're not loading? Yeah. So, oh, I didn't know this. Apparently you don't get booked for 15 minutes. It's like a little bit of a, it's like a little bit cheeky,
Starting point is 00:13:31 but you can get away with a very short drop off in a loading zone area. News to me, news to everyone maybe. I'm just getting an SUV. Yeah, if you're driving an SUV right now, jump on into a loading zone, 15 minutes. So she had to run into the chemist to go and get nappies, emergency nappies for her little six month old. Realised she didn't have any. It was like a very inconvenient time of day. So she gets to the chemist and right out the front, there's a
Starting point is 00:13:53 loading zone. She's like, okay, I'm just going to nip in. So she pulls up, gets the kid out of the car, runs in, gets nappies, gets back into the car, knowing that she's got this like 15 minute time like zone in her head. And when she gets back to the car, it's a bit awkward because there's a truck that's pulled up and he's waiting there to go into the loading zone because he legitimately is allowed to use it. So she gets into the front seat and this guy comes up to the front window and he goes, what are you doing parking here? You know you're not meant to. And she yells at him through the window, I have 15 minutes and an STD, which is not what she meant to say. She meant to say that she had an SUV, but STD came out, which sounded even worse considering the fact that she
Starting point is 00:14:35 was right across from the chemist. But you know what? If anything, he's probably going to let it go. Like the STD is probably where he's going to be like, sorry, ma'am. I didn't know. Clemenia's rampant at the moment. Off you go. As you were. I'm sorry, but if you have 15 minutes and an STD, you can run into the chemist. Take 20 minutes, babe. 100%. Take your time. That's way better excuse than saying you've got an SUV. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Do you know what I do? And I only discovered it this year. We've spoken about it before, but I spent my whole life thinking that the saying was nip it in the butt yeah no i know this about you you say it a lot nip it in the butt because i was grown woman straight in that butthole yeah right in there like not the butthole
Starting point is 00:15:14 but like a cheeky little pinch on the butt like if you nip it in the butt that that person will hurry up and you'll get things going so i always thought it was like nip in the butt like let's just get this going and it wasn't until this year where i found out it was bud of a rose yeah makes less sense to me like it makes so much less sense to say well i think it's to do with like cutting back a tree. So if you like nip it in the bud, it won't. No, I got it now. Okay, good. All right, look, give us a call. If you have mistaken something, if you've accidentally used the wrong words, we want to know about it. Maybe you also nipped it in a bud. We want to hear about that too. We've got Hayley on the line. Hayley, what did you confuse? What did you get wrong?
Starting point is 00:15:52 Hey girls. Yeah. Until quite recently, I thought the saying was stab in the duck. instead of stabbing the duck. I know, I now feel bad that this poor duck in my mind was being stabbed instead of the duck. How did the duck make sense to you? Like, where did you think that saying came from? Oh, stab that duck. I'm really not sure.
Starting point is 00:16:12 I think I just misheard the word one day and was like, you know what, that makes sense. Thanks for the call, Hayley. Hi, Emma, what did you get wrong? It wasn't me, but it was my brother-in-law. I had a phone conversation with him and he finished it with, from the gecko. So I was like, ha-ha, that's funny.
Starting point is 00:16:28 I thought you said the gecko. And he's like, yeah, I did. And I said, you fool, it's from the get-go, not the gecko. From the get-go, like a lizard? Yeah. So he was like, I always thought it didn't make sense. Now I know why. I always wonder how, like myself included,
Starting point is 00:16:45 how did we get to like this part of adulthood and no one ever called us on it? Because maybe you didn't use it frequently enough. Or like, you know, if you say like from the get-go, maybe someone just thought they must have said get-go because no normal person would say gecko. Do you know what else I said far too long? I used to say when someone sneezed
Starting point is 00:17:00 because we didn't grow up in a religious family. I always thought it was bless you, like B-L-E-S-H. Bless you. So I used to say bless you. Cute. Yeah, no one ever corrected me. The story that everyone is gripped by is Ben Affleck trying to rekindle his love life.
Starting point is 00:17:15 I thought it was if I'm going to get a stripper for my hand. No, I mean, we've moved past that one. Okay. But the new story that everyone's gripped by is Ben Affleck trying to rekindle his love with Jennifer Garner. Surely not. So there's been quite a few articles that have come out
Starting point is 00:17:29 off the back of some relatively cute family photos. Like it looks like they're co-parenting really well. They're getting along really well. And then a undisclosed source has said that Ben would really like to rekindle his relationship with Jennifer Garner. She's not interested at the moment, but he holds hope that in the future.
Starting point is 00:17:47 At the moment? Was that a public statement, Laura? Well, I'm currently not interested. You know. Come back, circle back after the next gen. You know when it's an undisclosed source and it's just totally made up by the journalist that actually no one's ever said this?
Starting point is 00:18:00 She's in a relationship. Is she? Yes, that's why she's not interested. She's very happy, she said. Okay, well, that's interesting. Because, like, I mean, he does have a track record of this, right? Like, he has a track record of going back to exes. Very famously, he married Jennifer Lopez
Starting point is 00:18:15 after a, what, like, 20-year hiatus. Yeah, this thing is married to 35 times now. Yeah, I know. But, bless, maybe they've really ended that now. Like maybe it's properly dead in the water. They're never getting back together is the words of Taylor Swift. Getting back together. But I don't actually think, you know,
Starting point is 00:18:30 I don't think he pinballed between the gens as much as we think he did. I think he kept going back to the same gen, but I don't think his ex, Jennifer Garner, ever actually took him back. No, I agree. But I do think it raises questions because a lot of people do seem to gravitate back to old relationships, even if those old relationships weren't very good in the first place. it seems like sometimes we have this like very romanticized memory around old relationships or
Starting point is 00:18:55 maybe they're just like an easy springboard when you're lonely and like needing someone to fill a hole not realistic. Wow. Fill a gap in your heart. Like a life hole. Yeah I say this there was a really interesting article that Body and Soul published around this and it was like a lot of people talk about it as though it's like divine timing the relationship didn't work out in the past, but maybe in the future you come back together and you get this second chance of love that I often think it just doesn't work out because I don't necessarily agree that it's divine timing that one person slipped into the other person's DMs. I think it's usually that one person's single and you go back to familiarity and usually you go back to something that you have
Starting point is 00:19:35 romanticized that it's like going to be a better version or you remember all the best bits about the relationship, but you don't remember all the crappy bits and all the reasons why you broke up in the first place it's the devil you know it's a comfort it's easy you've been there you know you can fall back into it you don't have to go and do the powerpoint presentation again from like this is where i grew up this is what i like this is my job this is my history like you just pass all the bs i don't know if i agree with you so much because talking about divine intervention i had a friend who was like the pleb version of jen and ben as in like exactly what you want to be called in life i mean they're not in the public eye they're just normal people but they got
Starting point is 00:20:12 married at like 1920 they were school sweethearts and they were together for a few years and then realized this is not it we're too young like we want different things we're growing in different directions so they divorced proper divorce didn't stay in contact like dated other people had other relationships not even like maintaining they were like we don't we're not each other's lives didn't follow each other on instagram like they just moved on because they were young and then probably a decade later she had had a relationship with someone else had had a baby like fully moved on and she was in the supermarket in this new town and she went down the aisle and she ran into her first husband of when she was 20 and they're like oh my god like how you been whatever like and he's
Starting point is 00:20:52 like oh you've got a kid and she's like yeah but she's like we're not together anymore whatever they ended up remarrying and having more kids together so that's crazy genuinely for them was that right person wrong time they needed to go and live their lives and then they came back together. They've been married now for like eight, nine years. Yeah, but I think there's always exceptions to the rules. But I'm a bit of a cynic about it. And I think the reason that that is, is because like in my 20s, I was like the relationship ping pong. So I would be in like a long term relationship. One word. We would break up because obviously it was not a good relationship. It was not going anywhere. Then I'd have like five years of dating other people. And
Starting point is 00:21:29 one lonely night, I'd be like, Oh, what's that guy up to? And I'd go back. I often would end up re-dating people that I had had long-term relationships with. Yeah, we have analysed you over the years though. It's because you're a monkey brancher from relationships. And if there wasn't a new relationship for you to monkey branch to, you monkey branched back. I did. Unfortunately, we don't need to psychoanalyse me on this show. I've spent six years psychoanalyzing you. I know you. I was a hot mess in my 20s, everyone. It was not good. Thank God for that Bachelor show. I don't know whether I'm just having one of those very proud parent moments. You know when you find yourself sometimes
Starting point is 00:22:04 or maybe you've been on the receiving end of this Brit where someone's like showing you photos of their kid and you're thinking to yourself, please stop showing me photos. I'm on the receiving end of that daily with you. Yeah, okay. You're so proud of your kids. But now I'm doing it on national radio. So call me out if I'm self-indulging.
Starting point is 00:22:19 No, it is cute. Every so often they do things where you have these real moments where like you realise that they've kind of moved to a new phase or they hit a new milestone and it's particularly cute. now with Lola she's only four years old I I think one of the big things I've loved about parenting and like it's it's very small but it's something I find very very sweet is that kids often say words the wrong way and then one day they figure it out and they say it the right way and then they never ever say that cute thing ever again right so and I him no I mean this like Lola used to say
Starting point is 00:22:53 boo-boo berries for blueberries and it was adorable and I never realized how much I was going to miss it until one day she just started saying blueberries and she never got it wrong again. Where is this going? Are we in a therapy session? So long. Do you not say booboo berries anymore? Are we
Starting point is 00:23:11 mourning the lot that she can speak? She doesn't say booboo berries. My baby's growing up. No. She's just started to sing her ABCs. Very cute and important for school. Yeah, she's just turned four. She doesn't sing them exactly correctly by any means but I almost don't want to correct her because it is so cute.
Starting point is 00:23:30 You have to correct her. You can't send her off to school for her whole life not knowing ABCs because you're holding on to boober berries. I don't have my boober berries anymore so now I need my ABCs. Anyway, have a listen to this. She's so proud of herself. She performs it every day and I got it on record because it was the cutest thing ever.
Starting point is 00:23:49 Ready? One, two, three. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, I, S, Q, I, B, W, S, Y, and Z. Now I know your ABC. Next time won't you sing with me? Oh, that was amazing. I think she slipped in their BWS, the B1 spirit. So I think she's spending too much time going there with you guys.
Starting point is 00:24:18 I like how she's like, now I know your ABCs. It's definitely not mine because this is, I don't know, what I just made up, but that's what you've been singing. Element of beer, beer, wine, spirits. It's very cute. To be fair, I was following that along as it went. I reckon that was like 97%. There were only a couple of.
Starting point is 00:24:35 I like how she really doubled the Q, like, you know, Q-R-S-Q-U-V. W-B-Y-S. Bring your own. D-I-Y. B-Y-O. Do it yourself. L-O-L. To me, I've watched that video so many times.
Starting point is 00:24:50 I know I'm biased. I find it, like, the cutest thing in the world. But I do want to say this to parents because I feel as though you miss the – What's the message? I can't wait for this. What's the message for – what is the story here? You miss the little weird words that your kids used to say when they were little and also the way that they speak when they're little.
Starting point is 00:25:08 They have such sweet little voices. And then one day you look at your six-year-old and you're like, oh, my God, you're a kid. Like, you're not a baby anymore. One day you look at your kid and they're doing drugs and they're dropping out of school. Hold on to those Bibber Berries. But I'm always recording the girls and, like, voice recording them.
Starting point is 00:25:25 I have little podcasts that I've done with them from when they were little. So, like, I would ask them. Are you trying to replace me with your kids? I'm trying to get a new co-host. So one day when you move overseas to be with your fiancé, Lola and Marlee May are stepping right in. Well, I'm not overly worried after hearing that. No, but what I mean is, is, like, I so encourage,
Starting point is 00:25:41 I know everyone takes photos and everyone takes videos of their kids, but I really encourage to record audio of your children because their voice has changed so much and so quickly over the years. And these little nuggets of memories I think are just as special as having the videos and everything else. Like I love going back and listening to them answer questions in their own weird little way and then asking them the same types of questions a year later and seeing like what's their responses
Starting point is 00:26:04 as they've grown and they've changed. Well, I feel like if there's anything that you can hold on to, it's the fact that your husband, Matty J, still says senile instead of cynical. So there's still mistakes being made in your family. I know, and I record that as well. Even when your kids grow up, you've always got that. It's cuter when the four-year-old does it as opposed to the 38-year-old, but anyway.
Starting point is 00:26:22 So today on The Pickup, a bit of a change of pace, but we're talking about what did you celebrate prematurely. Now the reason we're talking about this is because I stumbled... I'm still unsure of the reason, to be perfectly honest. I stumbled across an article that I cannot confirm or deny if it's even real, but it had me in hysterics. I want to think it's real just because of how funny the story is. It's gone viral over the last couple of years.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Like it's not brand new but it keeps rearing its head. Like every year it makes a comeback. It's made a comeback now and I was like surely there's other people that have celebrated prematurely. There is a guy in Africa who had worked at the same job for like just say 20 years, a very long time, in and out, didn't love it, had a problem with his boss. He did not like his job. He'd been slaving away but doing it because he had to.
Starting point is 00:27:13 Well, you've got to, right? you gotta work gotta make the money so very very luckily like the odds were against him but he won the lotto like a huge sum of money so he was told he won so he was like oh my god i am out of here he goes to his boss's desk the same day quits pulls his pants down and takes a dump on his boss's desk have a listen now after being told that he won the lottery jackpots a western cape man peed all over the office floor of his boss of over 23 years and proceeded to take a dump on his boss's office desk before quitting his job on friday morning now when he went to go claim his winnings this morning he found that he had never won anything
Starting point is 00:27:55 my apologies actually the reporter's laugh is the funniest part the video is quite long the The reporter couldn't speak for like 10 minutes. He was in hysterics. So he did go and find out the next day after taking said dump that he didn't in fact win and he's now unemployed. Like he doesn't have a job and he doesn't have money. He doesn't have a reference either. His boss isn't going to give him one.
Starting point is 00:28:20 No. Look, can you blame him though? Yes, you don't have to take a dump. No, but if you hated your job and you hated your boss and you'd been there for 23 years, 23 years. Would you take a dump? And you won the lottery. When you quit the podcast and radio, are you going to take a dump on my desk?
Starting point is 00:28:39 I'm not going to take a dump on your desk. But I just like, part of me thinks he probably had this moment of like, I don't need this anymore. Like, screw them. I'm levelling this up. I've given away two decades of my life to this hellhole. I'm going to give away my poop. And I'm going to give you a bit of my hellhole.
Starting point is 00:28:54 I probably, when I'm trying to think of if I've ever like prematurely celebrated, there's no big thing that comes to mind. The only thing is that it was a bit of an internal celebration. When I was in the Bachelor finale, I thought I had it in the bag. I thought I was like, I thought that was a bit of a win. I was in a white dress. I was the last person there. I was like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:29:16 I reckon I've snagged myself a boyfriend. Then he dumped me. So he took his own dump. That also just wasn't you prematurely celebrating. Like he told you that he was going to choose you the night before and then within eight hours changed his mind. Not in so many words. I don't want that headline getting out.
Starting point is 00:29:32 He definitely didn't say, I choose you. I choo, choo, choo, choo. What did he say then? I can't imagine life without you. Something, I can't remember my quote. That is like a typical date line. I cannot imagine life without you. No.
Starting point is 00:29:43 To only break up with you eight hours later. Don't take that quote either. It was just something that alluded to the fact of like, I'm so glad we, how's like I'm being so pedantic. I'm so glad we met. I never thought I'd meet someone like you that we connect with so well. Like something that basically alluded to like, it's you, baby. Hey, we've got Emma on the line.
Starting point is 00:30:00 Emma, have you celebrated something prematurely? Hey girls, I love the show and yes, I certainly have. I got offered a job and I was going massive pay rise. This was going to be a six figure job and I was losing my mind of it. I got so excited and I thought with all that money coming in, what am I going to do? I'm going to be a new woman. And like the other guy who won the lottery, I was like, what am I going to do? I've won the lottery. I want to treat my parents. I think that's something we always go back to. I want to do something for my parents. They do stuff for me all the time.
Starting point is 00:30:35 It's the least I can do. They've never been on a cruise before and I was like, I'm going to treat them with a little holiday away, buy them a cruise trip. How cool am I? Best daughter ever. Yeah, nailed it. Daughter of the year. But it turns out I jumped the gun a little bit and I didn't actually get the job.
Starting point is 00:30:54 And so with a deposit down on a cruise and I've already told my parents, I really had to do the call of shame, not only to my parents and tell them they can't go on the cruise anymore, but I had to call the booking company and try and get my deposit back. Oh my God. It was terrible. Look, I question whether or not we should talk about this, but I... Nah, I think we talk about it.
Starting point is 00:31:16 It's funny. I don't know whether or not I should be thrilled or offended. Like I'm still sitting on the fence. I fluctuate between the two. Recently, Britt and I came into work and... It was a gift. It was a gift. It was a beautiful gift sitting on top of a big box.
Starting point is 00:31:32 Not going to lie, I love a gift, love a surprise gift. Like especially when that gift is skincare. You do too, Britt. Like you love a bit of skincare. I stick for it. So here is this big old box with skincare inside from a brand that I'd not heard of before, mind you, but I was like, cool, happy to try, very excited about this.
Starting point is 00:31:49 And I excitedly opened the box and there were many layers, lots of packaging, and then I got it out and I was like, okay, it's a serum. Love serums. delightful. I need a bit of serum on my face. That's going to make me feel glowy and fresh. Quite a niche serum. And then I read the back of the box of the serum that had been so generously sent to our work. And it said this, it is a transformative serum designed for women over 40 navigating menopause. And I read that and I was like, well, I'm still technically under 40. And I
Starting point is 00:32:24 And as far as I'm aware, I'm not yet in menopause. I had to have a laugh because I also was like, this is a backhanded compliment. I mean, you, Laura, I'm going to say I get it. You've got your kids. What? Do I scream menopause to you? No, just for the kids' part, not the age.
Starting point is 00:32:39 But I'm like, cool. For me, I'm publicly like have fertility issues. I'm doing IVF. Maybe you're in menopause. Well, maybe I am. Maybe that's not why it's not happening for me. Maybe I am in menopause. It's not true.
Starting point is 00:32:51 I joke and it's not a funny thing to joke about. It's not at all. take that back no I actually said to myself maybe I am in perimenopause and that's why they've sent it but I was like I'm publicly trying to do IVF and someone sent me a menopause cream I was like have I missed the boat I don't know I got this and my instant reaction was to feel offended and then I kind of checked myself and I was like why is it that at 38 years old I find the idea of menopause so offensive because the reality is so many women do go through early menopause or they They go through perimenopause.
Starting point is 00:33:23 It can take up many years. And like 40 is not far off. Like I turned 39 in a couple of weeks. So like to be fair, the brand is not far off being, you know, aligned with the age that I'm at. I'm still 37. But I think that there was something about receiving it that maybe it wasn't so much even the menopause reference.
Starting point is 00:33:43 I think there was something about it that made me really realise my age. And I think I was like processing that in real time. Because I also kind of, I read it and then I felt offended And then I was like, oh, it looks good. I'll probably use it. Oh, no, it looks like a brilliant cream. It's got some really good things in it. I think it's got some good peptides in it.
Starting point is 00:33:58 I'm 100% going to use it. As much as we lull and say we're not in menopause, I think it would be really good for us. Okay, here's my question. I mean, you don't have to call up. You can if you want to. But would you be offended? Is this a normal thing to be offended by or are we just taking this too personal?
Starting point is 00:34:13 Well, now that you said out loud that you're about to turn 39 and it's for 40-year-olds. People like grow up, Laura. Yeah, for you, I think that's a stretch. for me at 37 I think it's I've got a couple of years left I know but maybe it's because like no female wants to be aged up like we've been so conditioned to think that being younger is better younger skin is hotter all this sort of you know crap but reality is is like no one wants to be thought of as being older than what they are and I guess like receiving something that's specifically
Starting point is 00:34:42 targeted for women who are in a different stage of life a stage that we're all told we should be frightened about. There's something that feels quite ominous about it. Yeah, no, we are grateful. Thank you for the cream. Yeah, I'm processing. Anyway, if Cedarfield wants to send some stuff my way, I still use that. That's 14 year olds, right? Isn't that what you use when you're like young and... Oh, I was heading to Kemmer's Warehouse. They've got loads of stuff in there. There is, I guess, the kind of assumption that as the longer you're in a relationship, the more that your love life kind of dwindles and dies off. I don't think it's an assumption. I think it's pretty standard.
Starting point is 00:35:14 I think that's absolutely what happens. Like you stay in love, but maybe the chemistry and the wanting to rip each other's clothes off and all of the above sort of like plateaus a little bit over time. Yeah, and we talk about this quite a bit on our podcast that we have, Life Uncut Podcast. And that's because, I mean, it started off as a sex and relationships podcast. So one of the big questions is like,
Starting point is 00:35:32 how do you keep desire alive in a long-term relationship? How do you keep the spark alive? Is it normal? Is it even possible to do so? And many of the experts that we've spoken to over the years have said, Yes, it is possible, but, like, it requires work, blah, blah, blah, all that sort of stuff. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:35:47 We're not here to tell you about that. We don't want you to keep your relationship. I'm not here to fix your love life, but I did come across an interesting study and it turns out maybe your pyjamas have something to do with the fact that your sex life is dwindling. Oh, we're going to blame our pyjamas now. Wow, no one is safe. Okay, I have a question.
Starting point is 00:36:01 How do you sleep at night, Britt? Not with my morals or my life choices? How do you sleep at night? No, because you obviously do long distance with your partner, Ben. He lives overseas. But when you're together, how do you sleep? Do you wear pyjamas? Do you wear a pair of undies?
Starting point is 00:36:15 All right, strap in. Strap in. When I am at home alone, I sleep in underpants and like a pyjama top, something that's comfortable, like a really nice soft cotton is my choice. Love that. Airy, breezy. Yeah, I love that. But I do like the legs to be free to move because I want to kick around.
Starting point is 00:36:33 I sleep in running man. Four briefs though? No G-strings to bed. Never. You cannot sleep in a G-banger. That's like defying the rules of physics. so when we're when I'm with my fiance Ben I'm either nude or just in undies but I never have a top half on ever so sometimes the undies are like a bit of a sexy one I don't want to say
Starting point is 00:36:53 safety net I was gonna say it's more of a comfort so sorry am I giving too much information I mean like we're all friends here the thing is is that there's a study that's come out how do you sleep I'm okay I'm in a long-term relationship with my loving husband who I am very comfortable with and I sleep in underwear and a t-shirt pretty much every night you sleep in a g-string don't you no never my body would not allow it that's crazy suck it right up to two kids far out I'd never get any sleep lose it anyway that's too much information for everyone but I sleep in like an ugly t-shirt and I and I do I I know that this is like I shouldn't say it's a protection mechanism but it's like if I need to go to sleep I'm going to sleep I'm not there for
Starting point is 00:37:32 fun times at night time I just want to get into bed I want to roll over I'm tired and I know that if I was to fall asleep completely nude, it would be misunderstood as giving a signal that maybe I'd be more into other things than what I am into my sleeping. I don't think it's giving a signal. Hang on, what's the point of this chat? Okay, the point of this chat is this study that's come out has said that wearing sleepwear like fleece, onesies, flannel PJs, yes, that it might make you feel relaxed, but it is absolutely killing your sex life. It is sending a message that attraction is not a priority. There's a relationship coach, her name is Channa Bromley, and she said that when you choose comfort over seduction, it can impact the chemistry between
Starting point is 00:38:14 you and your partner. And I would agree, but I argue it's not always a bad thing. To be fair, I did exaggerate a lot. I actually have this really old grungy t-shirt I wear. It's not really nice, soft cotton pajamas. It's an old ACDC shirt. But when I'm with Ben walking around the house to go to bed, I will just put his clothes on. So I think that that's probably pretty repulsive to him to look at me in his own clothes nah i think guys like that their own clothes yeah i think that that's fine is that hot maybe i don't know i wear matt's clothes does he find hot who knows let's ask him but apparently 62 of people who continue to sleep nude with their partners say that they have more satisfying intimacy than those who wear i don't know maybe
Starting point is 00:38:55 like your cozy peter alexander pajamas that have a bear on the front i'm not convinced we needed a study to figure out that sleeping naked's like you're more inclined to get it on than sleeping in like old disgusting clothes. I don't know. I just kind of think like there's so many things that we can feel guilty about. Surely after 10 years of being with your partner, you're allowed to wear pyjamas that are just for comfort
Starting point is 00:39:16 and aren't for sex appeal. Like not everything that you need to do should be about seduction. Why don't you go and try it out tonight, Laura? See what happens. Go to bed, no shirt on, little G-Banger and report back because that's the only way to really solidify this study. The problem that I have is that my husband comes to bed too late. So, like, I go to bed at 9.30 at the moment.
Starting point is 00:39:36 Do you? Yeah, 9.30, 10 o'clock. Wow. But he comes to bed at 11.30 at night. And so, like, for me, my argument is, like, that is an unrealistic expectation. If you come to bed at 11.30 at night, ain't nothing happening except sleeping. So, if he comes to bed at 9.30, it's on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Until 9.33. You've got until 9.30, until 9.45. And if that window is not happening, it's not happening, pal. The shirt's going back on. Literally. We'll be right back.

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