Life Uncut - The best of THE PICKUP - 7th May

Episode Date: May 6, 2023

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A Life Uncut podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. This episode is recorded on Gadigal land of the Aurora Nation. Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. But this is our radio show where we are joined by the beautiful, the delicious, the highly acidic Mitch Turi.

Oh, I am acidic, aren't I? I think out of context, that doesn't really land. You're acid-y. I'm known for my acid-y. Why are you acidic, Mitch? Brittany Hockley's here as well, everyone. Yeah, thanks. I talk about it on the show.

I was just like, we're joined by the beautiful Mitch, and then who the hell is that over there? Some woman. I said we're joined because people know who we are, but maybe they don't know who you are. Well, it's Britt, Mitch, and Laura. No, I got stopped the other day, and someone said, are you and i went they're about to say it they went are you best friends with laura and grit

they didn't even know my name it's true and i went no i'm not actually and then what happened said no i'm not did you say do you want a photo no then she worked at a store and i asked if she gave me stuff discount she said no but she gave me a free tote bag i'm abusing your names to get free shit you did not say that you don't know us of course i didn't i said i love them i've got them i can i'm gonna see them today and then you asked for the discount yeah and i didn't get it So we don't have much pull, do we? No, I got aftershave this week. I got Le Labo and I was told that my skin is too high on the pH level

and the scent won't last on my skin. That's what Laura's referencing. Yes, but the problem is that the lovely lady who served Mitch at the shops made that assessment purely by looking at him. You cannot make that assessment by looks. She did. She goes, is your silver tarnish? Yeah, you're pH-y.

That's what she said. I wonder, was she trying to say that you looked a bit glistening, like a little bit sweaty when you walked in? I drove there. Like, I didn't even walk there. I think she was probably just trying to sound like she knew more about what she was talking about than she actually knows. Because no one looks at someone and goes up,

flicks their finger and puts it in the air and says, the pH level's up. You just don't do it. Also, can I say, as somebody who owns a retail store, I'd be so mad at my staff if they were actively trying to talk people out of a sale. I mean, you want honesty, but also, like, there comes a point where your job is to sell the cologne.

He still bought it. Just sell it. Against all odds. I'm not doing it now. He's like, I'll show you. I'll show you I'm going to wear this. But I will go to a pool store and get like a pH dipstick and stick it in my nose and see if they're right.

What do you have to do? Wee on it. You have to wee on it. I've got to wee on it like a pregnancy test? Can you do that? Can you actually test your pH level? That would be funny. God, this show.

If we really scrape in the bottom of the barrel. I just snotted out. Today on the show, we're pH testing Mitch's holes. Oh, Laura just. Boogered. Disgusting. I laughed and a whole booger came out of my nose like a child. All right.

Do you know what? We had a really big show. So I think that Tony is laying on the floor in disgust for me. It's because Tony and I just ate. Put your hand up. We're like, here, look at my book. Okay, sorry, everyone. Look, it was a very big show.

I spoke about my beautiful mother-in-law, who I love to death. Ellie, if you're listening to this, you are the best woman in the world. But she also likes to pack, when we go away on holidays, she likes to pack something that I think is unnecessary. Wow. It's probably a little bit of overkill. Yeah. And I want to know whether it's weird or not.

I agree. I think it's very weird. Also on the show, I got baking. I went to a child's birthday party and it pisses me off so hard when children spittle all over a cake. Like they spray it all over a cake when they blow the candles out. Say it, don't spray it. Say it, don't spray it.

So I brought a chocolate cake to the studio and what happens next is I think more disgusting than Laura's booger which she just pulled out. It 100% is disgusting. And that's what Laura blows onto cakes at birthday parties, these big boogies. Something about this show and everything centring around me being disgusting is really making me look inward. Well, Mitch, also you spoke this week about something you read

about how dogs, if you sleep with them in your bed, can kill you, which I think was a big, you either got click baited or a big call, but we speak to Dr Lisa who is the female version of Bondi Vet. She's a very amazing, very well-known vet. She is going to tell us whether it is true, whether sleeping with your dog can kill you because I feel like it's a big call, Mitch. I slept with a dog for a couple of years.

And I'll tell you what his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God, strong. That's a joke about an ex. We got it. It's not funny if you break it down. Sorry. Anyway, so much more on the show coming right up.

Let's go home. Guys, I need to bring something to the show that has actually upset me greatly. And we're all across this because we were talking about it before the show started. But I was scrolling through TikTok. I'm like the resident TikTok lover here at the show. I'm Gen Z, just barely. Don't start me on that. I don't want to debate it.

But I am Gen Z. You are the TikTok king. I live on TikTok. And I was scrolling the other night. And this story has since made it to the news. I came across a video, which I thought was a prank. I thought it was a sketch. I didn't think it was real.

It was these kids. This is happening in Australia. This is happening in Queensland. These kids seemingly kidnapping a cat, a beautiful ginger cat from someone's house, filming it, putting it on TikTok. They're laughing hysterically. You know, there's just a beautiful cat at someone's house. They're filming themselves kidnapping the cat and running off with it. This video is going viral.

It's since been taken down, but they haven't found the cat. As yet, it's made Australian news. Garfield, the cat's name is. Garfield's the cat's name. I saw this on the news as well. Have a listen to this. Teenagers seen here snatching Garfield from his home in the dead of night and throwing him in the boot of a getaway car.

No, you're going to squish it. You're going to squish it. A bunch of kids targeting an innocent animal. Like, what the f**k? The worst part was these kids were boasting about it as if it was an achievement on their TikTok. They've since posted another video bragging that they'd made the news. They're so happy that they've made the news.

To this moment that we go to air, the cat Garfield is still missing. No one knows where it is. This is, I mean, it's viscerally disgusting, right? But the thing that makes me so angry about this and so, like I don't even have the right words for it. It's like where is the line in terms of creating content in the hope that it's going to go viral? It's animal cruelty.

Yeah, absolutely. But there's kids out there who are so social media obsessed that they will do things in order to go viral, regardless of how that affects people or what effect that has on animals. But they're doing it for a viral video. They're doing it to get likes and views on TikTok. These kids need to be found and charged.

This is such disgusting and disturbing behaviour. And the fact is, if you have posted something on TikTok, you have an account. We can find you. Why have the police not tracked them down and found them yet? Why has the cat not been returned? Why have the kids not been charged? And I don't care if you're 13.

You know what you are doing is wrong. If you are a teenager, you know that stealing someone's pet from their house. They'd be on it. And where is it? The cat hasn't been returned yet. I don't know if they've found it. They'd have to be looking into it. The worst part is these kids are gloating.

Allegedly earlier in the week, the same account posted a video saying, I love kidnapping cats. God, I love kidnapping cats. Yeah, and watch this space. We're back at it. We're on the hunt. They're doing it for clout. I don't know if you guys remember this, but only last month,

this also happened in Queensland, there was a little girl who was kidnapped. She was 13 years old. She was kidnapped by her friends. Friends in inverted commas. Friends who were also similar age to her. She was tortured in a house and they posted it live on TikTok. And for me, it's like why is wanting to go viral,

how has that become such an ambition for children? And the problem is kids who are 13 years old, They don't necessarily understand the consequences of what they're doing. Nah, I'm calling bullshit on that, Laura. No, because the want is to be famous, right? The want is to push it and then they get carried away. They don't understand the digital footprint

that they're creating for themselves. No, they can't rationalise the thought. I'm going to disagree. If you're 13, you know kidnapping and torturing a friend is wrong. You know stealing animals is wrong. Look, I'm not saying they don't know what's wrong, but what I'm saying is that social media is warping people's perception around what is ethical, though, and the want to be viral trumps it

and that's really, really scary. Cool. Let's start charging them and arresting them then because what if we keep applauding them and nothing happens and we pat them, we're going to slap on the wrist and say, oh, don't kidnap and torture that person again. Don't kidnap this animal again. Of course they're going to keep doing it.

No, I'm with you. We also know what harming animals is the first step of. Exactly. I mean, we've all seen the documentaries. Harming animals is the first step in a very slippery slope of someone who is not well. So that's horrendous. But also what's happening in their schools?

Are they going to school and because they have gone viral, are they being seen as being, you know, a hero because they've had this viral TikTok. So, yeah, they might be getting publicly into trouble, but are they still amongst their peers being seen as being cool for having a viral TikTok? That's the big question. We heard it here first.

It's not cool to kidnap animals, to kidnap people for animal cruelty. So pull your head out right now. Someone find these kids and charge them. Also, if you're in Australia and you've got a little cat that loves to just sunbake out the front, seriously, like just bring it in. Bring them in because there's weirdos out there. I hope they find him.

Yikes. All right, updates on Garfield the cat when we get it. I hope Garfield's okay. So do I. Well, I mean, lastly, if you're someone who knows anything at all, go to the police. Good call. Yesterday we were talking about near-death experiences.

We've all sort of had one. It came off the back of this French skier that literally was going for a little leisurely ski, plummeted down an ice crevasse. I always think of a bottle of wine when you say that. Like, you know how you pour it in? Nice Grenache. It definitely was it. Crevasse.

But it was his near-death experiences. We chatted about ours and it reminded me of this guy. You guys might remember him. His name is Jake Elvin and just recently, he's a young Aussie bloke. He was flying his, not his plane, but he was doing learner lessons. I think it was only his second lesson. The engine stopped and he plummeted from the sky, crashed the plane, him and his instructor, and survived to tell the tale.

And I thought, who better to talk about near-death experiences? So we've got him on the phone. Jake, welcome to The Pickup. Hi, Jake. Hi, Jake. G'day, guys. This is, I think most people in the world's idea of a nightmare, right? Your plane plummets from the ground, from the sky.

Yeah, how many lessons had you had at this point? Like, were you well into your experience plane flying or were you a real novice? Well, I was well into the second hour of my second, or first hour of my second lesson. So not a lot of experience as of yet, but they just wanted to give me the full experience, you know? Jake, what happened when you were in the cockpit? Did you know how to handle the situation?

Did an engine blow? What went wrong? Obviously not. The plane went down. No, but he still lived. He lived. It could have gone upside down. It could have, you know, exploded.

So talk us through what happened. Did an alarm go off and did you start to freak? No, just like I was a mechanic myself, so as I started letting go, I knew what the problem was. I'm just like, oh, yeah, we're going to have a problem. So I just banked it back, trying to make it back to the runway. And then the flight instructor's like, I don't think we're going to have enough height.

And then it was a really windy day. So we're coming down, those little trees are getting bigger real quick and I'm just like, oh, this is going to hurt. And it went down. So it wasn't user error. It wasn't something that you had done wrong. It was a mechanical problem with the plane. Yeah, no, the engine blew up.

Like we'd been flying for about 20 minutes doing just touching goes, like just landing on the runway and then taking back off again. And I'd literally just taken back off. You know, we'd been flying for half an hour or an hour and a half at the time And, yeah, I'd just taken off, and as I was climbing up to, like, up to 2,000 feet there, the engine just started dying out and then just shut off, and then everything just goes dead silent. And then, yeah, that's an eerie feeling, let me tell you,

as you're just gliding around over the bush, hoping to make it back to the runway. But anyway. I mean, we've seen the pictures of the crash, and we've seen the video of the crash. It looks like no one would survive that, but somehow you seem to be – you got up, you got yourself to the hospital. What injuries did you actually have?

Yeah, so I ended up just like super minimal, some ligament damage, broke my leg, tore some holes here and there, a few stitches, and yeah, other than that, good to go. So you drove yourself to the hospital with a broken leg? Wait, where's the instructor? Hold on. No, where's the broken leg? Was this an auto, a manual?

What are we doing? Is there a clutch? No, so the instructor, I got him out of the aircraft and his wife happened to be at the airfield and where we crashed was close to the, obviously close to the field. We almost made it home. But she'd come running down.

They only had two seats in the car. So I put her, she called the ambulance and was like, the ambulance is half an hour away and I'm an hour and a half from where I live. And so I'm like, stuff that. They're going to send me to a hospital down here. It's all going to be too hard. So I decided to walk up the runway,

jump in the car and drive an hour and a half to a hospital closer to home. Wait, you drove? You drove your car with a broken leg and ligament damage to a hospital closer to you. Yeah, well, it's better than getting stuck an hour and a half away from home in a hospital for five days. So I'm like, oh, yeah, I've still got heaps of adrenaline left.

I'll be fine. Jake, so what did you do? You walk in and you went, hey, I've just crashed my plane. Can I sit down for a bit? Did they believe you? Surely they're sending you to the psych ward. Yeah, well, firstly, it took me 10 minutes, 15 minutes trying to find a car park at the place, so that was

after battle, and then once we got the car park, I'm like, I've got bark hanging off me, I'm covered in dirt, I've got one shoe on, there's blood coming out of me, and I'm walking up, walking to the emergency room, there's a trail of blood in behind me, and I walk up to the desk, like, what happened? I said, I was in a

plane crash, they're like, you're insane, and then so they sit me down, they're about to send me off to the psych ward, and it wasn't until I said, no, look, I'll show you the photo, and I end up showing a photo and a video, that they're like, holy shit and then it rushed me into emergency. That's so good.

Wait, so Jake, were you sharing this on, you were sharing this on social media at the time when this was all happening? Yeah, well, so I was knocked out for a while and then woke up hanging upside down in there and was like, holy crap, I survived. And so I thought, as I was climbing out, the phone came out of my pocket and hit me in the head. So I'm like, oh, I better film it. So then I started filming it all and then I posted it on my Snapchat, but it didn't

load and because there's no reception down there so it only loaded when i got into the hospital and um everyone's watching it all my mates just going ah you know this idiot he's found a plane crash somewhere and it wasn't until i was on the news that night that everyone started getting back to me going holy crap you're actually in a plane crash like yeah but yeah did you ever think you were going to actually die like when the plane's going down i know it's all fun and games now and we're having a laugh because you're all right. But did you actually think, holy bejeebers, this could be the end of my life?

No, not really. Like, I've got a pretty wild lifestyle going on, so there's always something bad happening. But no, it's just more like just thinking about how I'm going to get this thing down. And then the only thing that did cross my mind was as those trees were getting big really fast, I'm just thinking, shit, this is going to hurt a lot.

But no, I never thought I was going to die. But I was surprised when I did wake up, I'm not going to lie. I was like, holy crap, we made it. Jake, you are superhuman. I mean, social media. Or just stupid. Like Snapchatting, driving yourself to the hospital. I mean, yeah, I don't know whether you were delirious or full of energy

or what was going on there, but I can't believe it. Either that, he has died, and this is the afterlife, and you're hallucinating all this. None of this is real. We're in the Matrix. Yeah, no, definitely used one of my lives on that one for sure. Well, I hope you bought a lotto ticket, Jake. Alright Jake, thanks for coming on buddy

There's Jake Elvin, what an interesting story that is We all have a dog in our lives We do What's your dog bitch? Well I've got a childhood dog, Hamish Named him after Hamish and Andy And then yeah, a little radio nerd It's a cute little full circle moment

And I've just been back home with my parents over the last weekend And Hamish was sleeping in bed with me And I kind of got a bit itchy And the poor thing is 13 years old So he's got the skiddy So he left skid mark Hamish took a dump in your bed Hamish took a poo in the bed

And I started googling I thought, is this safe? And I came across this article, right? This is true. I love that that is your thought. Is the poo safe? I showered first. I scrubbed the poo off and then I got to Googling.

62% of pet owners now share a bed in Australia with their cat or their dog, which is what a new poll is saying. Now, it can actually cost you your life. Stop it. You're so dramatic. Sharing your bed with your dog increases the chance of them transferring microbes that sit on a dog's skin, possibly via licking, faeces, and that's me, or from their fur, you can contract Lyme disease

from having these dogs and these animals sleep next to you every single night. It's dangerous. Do you know what? I used to let, so I have a bull Arab. He's like a cross between a Great Dane and a bull Mastiff. He's huge. And when I was single, I used to have him sleep in the bed with me.

Felt like, not like that. She's turned him. I just had a big, it was a big warm body to cuddle. Anyway, he, this one night, I felt him wake up and I was like, oh, what's he doing? and it was pitch black, and then I heard him whimper, and then he vomited on my chest in the middle of the night, like a Great Dane vomit onto my chest.

And people pay for that. No, they don't. No, they do not. Yeah, there are people that are into that. He's never slept in my bed since, so the poor thing. He's out in the lounge room in the doggy bed. That's disgusting. Look, my dog Delilah, she's the light of my life.

I was going to say she's all I've got, but that was a bit doom and gloom. She's all I've got. She can vomit on me. I let her sleep in my bed. She's cute. She's cuddly. She's safe, so she's in my bed, yeah. I think it's fine.

Listen, none of us are vets, and we're not doctors, but we have pets, and I'm worried about your lives, the two of you. Oh, thank you for the concern. So I've got Dr Lisa Chives. You'll know her from the Bondi Vet. She's been on big famous vets. Hi, Dr Lisa. Can you tell us, please, are we going to get sick from spooning our dogs?

Hi, guys. Hey, Lisa. Hi, Lisa. Let's just take a breath here. I'm just listening to what's going on, and I'm just chuckling away at myself. So that article is very sensationalized. Yeah, so no cause for major alarm. I think we have to take it on an individual basis.

If you've got a clean dog that's well looked after and doesn't have mites and doesn't have fleas and you keep up with your vet checks, your dog's going to be fine. If you're healthy, you're not immunocompromised, put the dog in your bed. If your dog's got great behavior, you know, if they're not guarding the bed and they're not aggressive and they're not, you know, overly anxious, put your dog in your bed.

You know, you kind of have to just go on an individual basis. Like dogs all have different personalities, all have different health problems. All of us do too. Yeah, my dogs are in my bed. I have two of them on the bed and we're fine. You have two in your bed? What kind of dogs are you?

Where does your husband be? Is there a husband in the bed too? He squeezes somewhere. The dogs kind of push him to the side. The one dog likes to be on the floor. The other one chooses the bed. The bigger one, she's in the bed, of course. The real question is have you ever had a dog vomit on your chest

in the middle of the night? Then you haven't lived. And did you pay for it, Dr Lisa? Not vomit on my chest. That's a new one. But I have had one multiple times, poo on the floor, and I wake up in the morning and I step on it. I'm like, what?

No, no. Oh, no. You don't need that. As much as they're beautiful companions, you don't need it in your bedroom. I've got two kids to do that. Yeah, true, and Maddie Jan. Yeah, not that.

Well, Laura, you're married with two kids. What about us? I have four kids. I have four, so they don't sleep in the bed. The dogs get to sleep on the bed. We know the hierarchy in your house, Dr Lisa. There is a real hierarchy. All right, thank you, Dr Lisa.

Got to the bottom of it there. I feel like she was mad at me as well. I just found the room with the article. Yeah, because you're spreading fake news, Mitch. That's why. Because you are a hypochondriac, and you often don't read articles. I think you just look at the clickbait. You look at the head and you're like.

To be honest, there was just a photo of a dog and the disease with the skull and the cross, so I just sort of put two and two together. You were playing Pictionary. Yeah, I was like, yeah, not fun. I won the mother-in-law jackpot. I truly did. Matt's mum is an incredible dream come true and I love her so much. But, look, that's not what I want to tell you about.

We recently went on a family holiday to Rockhampton and it was a beautiful holiday. It was all of Matt's side of the family, the kids, his sister, her kids, Matt's brothers and Matt's mum. It's a big trip with the family. It is, isn't it? It was a very big trip. Now, considering that there was quite a few of us in the house,

two weeks before we went away, Matt's mum sent an email saying, email, very formal, saying, I need to know everyone's shopping order because we need to place an order before we get to Rockhampton because apparently there's no grocery stores there. Okay, I like that. I want to know the things ahead. Prepped.

Yeah, she's very, very food orientated. And I understand, like, as the mum, as the nana, she always wants to make sure that, like, the meals are ready and that everyone knows what they're going to eat, that no one goes hungry. And she was a single mum raising a whole bunch of kids. Yeah, five children, you know. So she always had to be planned with what meals were going to pop up

because, you know, she's got four boys. You don't want four hungry boys. Yeah, it's a lot of food. So we arrive at our holiday destination and our luggage has gone missing. But Ellie starts to freak out. She's so upset because she has some things in her luggage that she needs. They need to be refrigerated. Right.

It turns out that not only has she done the pre-ordered packing and the pre-ordered ordering of our food, She's also packed in her suitcase frozen meals for every single dinner. She packed a frozen lasagna. She packed seven chicken filo pastries that were frozen. She packed a frozen bolognese. She packed frozen quiches. Do you mean frozen as in like the pre-made meals from the frozen section

or did she make them in frozen? She's cooked these. She did full holiday meal prep and froze them and put it in her luggage and then checked that luggage onto the plane. Is that legal? Can you even do that? What an absolute dreamboat. Is it?

I think it is the weirdest thing I've ever heard. She packed a frozen bolognese in her luggage with her hairdryer. Think of how often you're at your new accommodation and you're like, man, I feel like a lasagna right now. She's got it. Never. I've never once sat in a tropical holiday destination and thought, you know what I love?

My nana's moussaka. I want to go out and I want to go and get a beautiful meal because that is part of the holiday, the experience of going out. Thank you. I also want the spontaneity. I don't know if I want to have a bolognese on a Sunday night. I want to maybe order Thai on Uber Eats. I think it's more, I don't think she's going to sit you down

and tie you to the chair and say, I made this, eat it. But it's probably more of a backup in case anyone's extra hungry or a snack. But it's meal prep. We can't leave a frozen lasagna in Rockhampton. Of course you can. So, look, I'm not going to lie. It came in very handy on some occasions.

But when you had a bolognese on Saturday night and then Sunday is going to be the lasagna, there was a part of me that was like, why are we doing this? Wait, where does Matt sit on this? Because he's Matt like, hey, Mum, let me get the meat bag. Like, is it something they bring on every trip? Do the kids know that she does this? Is he, like, judging you for thinking it's odd?

I think it is so normal to them. I think it's okay because it's so laced with good intention. That's why I think she wants everyone to be fed. She doesn't want anyone to panic. She wants them to have a good, hearty, home-cooked meal. It's a bit strange that she doesn't let you go out at all. You have to sit down and have every meal in that she's cooked. But I love the intention behind it.

So weird or nah? Fine. You're saying fine. It's weird. No, it's weird. Hey, Mum, you got the Samsonite with the lamb chops in it? Mitch, as if you wouldn't love it. You love a home-cooked meal.

I met Matt's mum at your wedding. She's the best. And we bonded so hard and so well. And you know what's really funny? Because we were staying in a location for your wedding, it was a destination wedding, I remember now, she was getting her bags out of the back of the car and they fell to the ground.

Lasagna. They were full of ice-bricked schnitzels. For the wedding. She catered to weddings. That's why the wedding food felt a bit frozen. It was snap frozen. Look, would I do it? No, but I don't even cook for myself in my house when I live in it

for that night, so no. Do I think it's weird? No, I think it's fine. It's weird, Brit. No, she loves you guys. It's weird, Brit. Also, maybe she was trying. It's economically bad times.

It's hard times. Maybe she's trying to save money for everyone. Oh, are you serious? Oh, babe, welcome to the location. Not everyone goes to Hawaii much like you and has margaritas. Did you bring the sunscreen? Yeah, I did. Did you bring the goggles?

Of course. What about the lasagna? Got it? Do you have the beef bourguignon? Yeah, of course I do. It's stupid. I'm so sorry, but it's so stupid. Never.

That's so good. All right, we love you, Ellie, here at The Pickup, but, you know, go to Subway for God's sake. Ellie, I love you. I want to speak about a man in Turkey's head, believe it or not. That's where we're going today. A man in Turkey's head. We're going all the way to Turkey and all the way to the head.

His head isn't in a turkey. It's right at the top. Is he in the country or the animal? There is a man that lives in Turkey and he is wildly addicted to cigarettes. Two packets plus a day is what he said. His father had lung cancer and he didn't want to do that. He didn't want to die from lung cancer, but he was so addicted he couldn't stop. So he has come up with a very innovative way of quitting smoking.

I want to know what you think about it. He got inspiration from like a football helmet. You know the big American football helmets and they go across the mouth? They've got the mesh. Yeah, the cage across the face. Yeah, like the cage. So he's made his own cage. He got 130 feet of wire, copper wire,

and wrapped it around his head only millimetres apart. Now, I've got a picture here. Have a look. There is a wire cage that goes all around his head, his eyes, his face. And he's put a padlock on it. There's no way in or out of this cage, and it's just around his neck, his face, his head. So he's walking around almost like a see-through bowling ball is on his head.

Well, he made it himself. It's very good. Yeah, he could put these on Etsy. They'd sell well. Yeah, absolutely. Trademark that immediately. But he can't even, not only can he not get a cigarette through it, but he can only eat like a bird.

Like he's got to eat these little crumbs. They feed him crumbs, his family, crumbs through the cage, tiny sips of water, and he goes to work in it. He lives 24 hours a day in it. He only takes it off when he needs a proper meal, and he can only get it off when his family unlock it with the key. Oh, my God. So he has given somebody else full access to keep his head locked on.

A lot of trust. To his cage. A lot of trust. What if you lost the key? Oh, my God. Laura loses everything. I would never give you my head cage key. No, don't.

But you know what? I lock my phone sometimes into those little lock boxes at night time. Do you? Yeah, to just get like an out because I'm very addicted to my phone. Do you actually? Wow, you're all looking at me like I'm crazy. I don't put my head in a metal cage. What, did you go to a bank and go,

can I have one of those lock boxes for my phone? No, I have one of those little lock boxes that's got a timer on it. You put your phone inside it and then you can't get your phone out until the time that you've put on there it expires and then it reopens. Wow, that's really cool. Yeah, I mean, he should have just done this for his head and then he could have pre-programmed it and didn't have to give a key to his wife.

But he put his head in an electronically timed box. But what happens when you're really, really hungry? Or what happens if you're sick and you need to vomit and you don't have the key? And it comes out through the, oh. Or it's like when you push something down a drain, like spaghetti or something. It'd be like vomiting through a fly screen.

Oh, what a mental image. You know what he looks like? You know those roast turkeys you get at the grocery store that have the netting around them? Because he's bald. That's what his head looks like. He looks like a roast. No, he looks like a serial killer.

If I saw that walking down the street, I would run onto the other side. Okay, look, I would run away. Very embarrassing, but very, very effective. And also, some people have to go and take Shampix for smoking. Shampix is like an addiction drug that you can take and it makes you go absolutely loopy. That's one of the side effects is that you have psychosis.

Did he quit? Has he quit? Has he done it? Well, it's actually happening live. Like the world's watching on to Cage Man Live. Was there a GoPro scrapped into that cage? Well, we're being updated live but he currently is down to zero but that's because the cage is still on his head.

Not surprising. I think the real test is going to come when the cage is removed and life goes back to normal. is he going to smoke again? But I'm intrigued. Watch this face. That's crazy. Curbed his addiction. What do we do for sex addicts? Put them in a cage.

Does the cage come in a really, really, really tiny size?