Life Uncut - The Best of The PickUp - A jar of farts

Episode Date: March 10, 2024

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. Every week we are joined by our radio co-host Mitch Churi at 3pm on the KIIS Network. You can listen live on iHeart radio, or catch up here each week!For more follow @THEPICKUP on socials.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. I'm Laura. I'm Mitch.

Get in there, Mitch. I'm Brittany, and Mitch just couldn't wait. He feels like he didn't talk a lot this week, so you had to go get your word count in there now. No, no, we're just on the show, like, talk about the balance of our voices because it's a three-host show, so sometimes we have to make sure there's more Laura, more Britt. But this week I got nothing.

That's not true. You're full of it. You speak more than anyone, but sometimes this is not about personal stuff, but you spoke a lot this week. Oh, is that the problem? It's exhausting. No.

No, it's funny. Okay, if you guys don't, if you don't know what this is, I mean, I'm sure you do. Everyone knows by now. But The Pick Up is our radio show. It's every week, three to four. We package up all the best bits and we put it here so that you can hear not just Britt and I but also Mitch Turi, who is our beautiful co-host.

We love you. And this week, Brittany, what did you do? I had to prank my partner Ben this week, which didn't go very well. Tried to make him believe that I was going to be earning some extra Pat Cash in an unusual way. Does no one know who Pat Cash is? I don't know who Pat Cash is. You don't know who Pat Cash is?

One of Australia's greatest tennis players. So you had to pack cash in it. Are you Australian? Yeah, I have no idea. That's you saying I had to make some cash, but you say pack cash. Yeah, it's just one of those Australianisms where people are like, hey, you got any pack cash? That's his name.

I literally never heard of it. Everyone's like, oh, did you have a post-minna? And you go, what? They go, I mean, roast dinner. They say different things for other words. It feels very Australian, doesn't it? It's so Aussie. Yeah, it's just like you're going to hit the frog and toad.

What does that mean? Are you going to hit the road? You're going to get on the road and drive. How old are you? No, you're just Paul McQuarrie. Did you not grow up like that? I grew up in the city. We had buildings and elevators.

Oh, we had one roundabout. No worries. I'm Paul McQuarrie. Nah. All right. Well, you guys know earlier in the week I was talking about how I got a kitten for the girls and they've named it Raspberry. And we did touch on this earlier, I think it was Thursday's episode,

how Matt being in Vegas was kind of the perfect time for me to go and get the cat because he didn't really get a say in it. The betrayal. Well, he's not thrilled about it, but he's coming around already. That's all I have to say about it. But you guys think that it was kind of the wrong thing to go behind Matt's back and get a gap. It was just sneaky.

Also, I'm not sold on the name. Raspberry is not a strong name. Three-year-old named it. Lola named it. Can you give Lola a break? She's three. Her frontal lobe is very underdeveloped. She came up with Raspberry.

It's cute. That's good. She calls it Strawberry though. She's already confused. And we had a good chat with Libby Trickett, Australian Olympian sweetheart, an amazing swimmer and Olympian because she's going viral for a conversation that she overheard between someone in her family and her eight-year-old.

And Mitch, you related a little bit. No, I did. I did. Having lost a bit of weight recently and then being a bigger kid, like I was always bigger growing up as a little kid, and it just struck a chord with me. Laurie, you sent me the article. It was on Mamma Mia, and an adult basically said something

to a kid about the kid's weight, and you'll hear it in the interview. But, yeah, it struck a chord with me, so we connected over that. It was a very good interview. You definitely didn't connect over the Olympic swimming. No, but I was a swimmer. If I had a water polo player, I should have brought it up. No, but I think the big thing about this and I think that was a real highlight from the conversation with Libby is just how much parenting

and the way in which we speak to our children has changed because what used to be normal and what we have been subjected to so much with diet culture has shifted so much in how we want to raise our kids and I really appreciated that part of the conversation. Yeah, I agree. It was good. Anyway, let's get into the show. If you're just tuning in, we're talking saucy age gap relationships.

Well, I mean, Mitch, you were telling us about this guy who's 48 years old. He's now in a relationship or trying to claim that he's in a relationship with a 104-year-old woman who is actually the widow. Yeah, well, it's kind of like his step-grandma. He dated his dead granddad, yeah. So his grandfather died and his widow is now the person he's in a relationship with. It's as confusing as it sounds. Correct.

But also the question was is how far is too far when it comes to an age gap? What's the line? I'm saying when they're 100 and they experienced a war that you weren't even born for. For me, that's probably the line. Look, I love age gaps, as we know. Like, literally, I date younger. I have dated seven years younger.

Historically, you dated younger men. How young would you go, though, Brie? That's the question. Because you say, I date younger. Seven years is your ex. What would be the youngest? What I'm going to say is, here, as long as they're of legal age. No, what I'm going to say is I genuinely believe most of the time

when it's not an obvious green card grab like this guy's obviously doing because he's not from Australia. He's dating a 104-year-old. It's very obvious what he's doing. For me, age is just a number. It's their maturity level. So, like, my ex was 26, but I didn't notice that difference. My partner now is five years younger than me.

I don't notice a difference either. To be fair, though, this guy's 48. Like, I mean, he's mature enough to make a mature decision about who he wants to date. If he wants to date a 104-year-old woman, let him go for it. See, where I stand is that... He's trying to get an inheritance and an Australian citizenship, guys. Call a spade a spade.

If it makes her happy in her final years, whatever. I agree. Think of the tech support. If she had a HDMI problem with her telly, he'd fix it. Come on, sweetie. She probably doesn't even know who he is. That's the problem. It's power imbalance.

I'm in an age gap relationship. The person I'm seeing is six years younger than me, but they're 21 and I'm 28. So then I think anything younger than 20 – it's an age thing, you're right. Anything younger than the 20s I think is an issue. Yeah, because they're a teenage age, not of age. That's also seven years, sorry, not six. I think it's interesting, though, because people always have a different variable, right?

So I would go up by 15 years, but I'd probably only go down by three. So I'd date someone 15 years older than me, but I'd probably only date someone three years younger than me. Laura, how old's Matty, your partner? He's one year younger than me. He's the youngest person I've ever dated. I've only ever dated older guys. But it's also more of a shock horror when it's the woman that's older.

Age gaps are always fine when the man's older and he's dating down. Totally. That's so true, Britt. Yeah, but when you're a 104-year-old woman, I mean, what a boss. Hey, we've got some people calling in. We've got Lee. Hi, Lee. What's the age gap ceiling for you?

Ceiling-wise? Oh, gosh. Probably depending on the person, I would say. I mainly date based on maturity, like matching-wise. So if the person was, say, like, you know, 10 years older or so, but they were still under a same life circumstance that I was, like similar job industry or whatever, then yeah, I'd definitely consider it. But younger, oh God, I don't think I'd go more than two, to be honest. I feel the same. I'm taking that personally.

But I think when you say it's maturity wise, like everyone has a line in the sand, like 10 years, 20 years, 15 years. Like, there's got to be an age where you go, okay, even if our maturity levels match, it just feels a bit too old for me. But, Leigh, what's your thoughts on this situation where there's a guy that's 50 dating a 104-year-old that was his grandma? That's definitely a money grab, absolutely. You should see the photo of the two of them. Yeah, she doesn't even know.

I'm sure she knows. She knows. There's plenty of 104-year-olds who have still got their wits about them. Well, they're not giving her enough credit. She could be making the choice. He could be the one being taken advantage of. I doubt it. He's not.

Okay, I just want to add some chemistry to it. Thanks, Lily. Some drama. We all know that it's like a pretty tough cost of living at the moment. Everything's skyrocketing. Rent's skyrocketing. Prices. No one's getting paid more.

People are coming up with really creative ways to make money. We love to see it. Have you solved inflation? Is that where this is going? Yes, that's what I'm going to say. No, there is one woman that has come up with the most incredibly creative, stinky way to make some money. Oh, I feel like I know where this is going.

Well, there's a Singaporean influencer. Her name is Kiara Kitty. That's just like her online name. And she's making absolute bank by selling her farts. She's putting her farts. This is not new. There's another one who was doing this a couple months back. Sweat, underarm sweat.

No, and we've spoken about farts in a jar before. Really highbrow here at The Pickup. Well, for £237, which is $460 Australian dollars, she's selling her fart in a jar. Now, disclaimer, it can take up to 30 days to create the jar. Does she fill it? What? Does she go and top it up each day?

It's not one. What? Sorry, Laura, that was gross. Not on air. I was filling the jar. Laura's got Tupperware under her chest now. So she's filling the jar and it is completely sold out. Wow.

No, she's sold out. She's got a line-up of people. She's also, like, if she can't get gassy enough, she's selling her used bath water. On her online shop reads, are you curious how your favourite streamer, Kiara Kitty, smells like? Don't just imagine it.

Feed your curiosity. It may take some time to craft a scent jug, so processing time may change without prior notice. So if she's not gassy, she's putting extra delivery time. So she's selling her used lingerie and also her bath water as well and making some extra. She's making bank, like, $766. Clearly, there is a market of people out there who are buying this stuff.

She is an entrepreneurial genius. That's what she is. Would you guys ever sell it? I don't think my farts are – I could fill a jar in a minute, I'd say. I can confirm you can. Mine are long. But I feel like your two, because you're gorgeous women, I think that ties into the fetish of it all.

Would either of you ever sell farts? Sorry to interrupt. Can confirm people are calling and would like to buy both of yours in a jar. No. None of them are appropriate to put on air. Wait, wait. People are calling the show live. Yes, people are calling.

but they are not getting through to chat to you. Oh, my. Wait, wait. I want to know, who are they going to spend more money on? Yeah, have they specified Brutal Loris? Because I'll do it. Time's a tough. It's pretty 50-50, I'll be honest.

Has there been one Mitch fart, Bowie? Not as of yet, but I can keep answering them for you and see. Guys, I reckon Ben would kill me. Your boyfriend, Ben, would have a few. My boyfriend, Ben, if I started selling farts, because he said no to OnlyFans, no to selling my feet. If I started selling farts, I think he would die, But to be honest, I think this is brilliant.

And if I was single and strapped for cash, I'd probably be doing whiz pops left, right and centre. You actually would. Well, why not? If it's literally just like gassy air in a jar. I once gave my friend a jar of cloud. A jar of cloud when you're 12 is very different to being in your 30s and selling baths online.

I didn't make any money from that. If I could make bank. How much would you – wait, no, I want to know this. Would you actually do it if you thought you could make a decent income from it? Like would you put your name on it and everything? Brittany Hockley's Farts in a Jar. Well, I'd sell more for it to be named. You know what we could do?

What? We could set it up. You want me to fart in a jar, don't you? No, no. Well, I mean, that was where I was going. But I think we could set up like a – we could make him believe that you're selling farts. We could set up a fake website.

We could post it to socials. Okay. The only way that – and for everyone, so for anyone who doesn't know, the only way that that would work, though, is because Ben is on the other side of the world. He's not – can't listen to this. He's not here. Okay, hold on.

We're going to come up with a master plan next here at The Pickup. so we're talking about a woman that is making absolute bank some extra cash by farting into a jar and selling it to people there's a lineup of people around the world that are buying this and she's selling them for like 500 bucks this is a lot of money she's sold out and now making so much money and we are in the wrong business everyone well yeah and now for some reason i don't know how we ended up here but all of a sudden you guys want me to trick my boyfriend ben into thinking that i'm selling my farts in a jar no we're just we're just creating new business ventures for you you said that if you weren't in a relationship you would do this you were adamant

no i did not say you did you said no i said we could go we can get the flashback you literally just said if i wasn't in a relationship strapped for cash okay all right well look you know it's it's everyone cost of living is also also we have to point out that you have said on this show before brit that you have never farted in front of your partner ben yeah i don't i don't like the idea of I think Ben would actually just be more upset that you're willing to offer it to other people but you won't do it to him. He's like, hey. So we've come up with a plan.

I'm tricking Ben into thinking that I'm selling my farts online. How am I doing this? What's this big idea? Okay, so my theory is what you do is you pretend you're doing it for research for the pickup or for your podcast, Life Uncut, and you post an Instagram story but you put it on close friends. So you've got two Insta feeds. You can do your main feed if you post to your Instagram

or your close friends, which is just a group of people that you can select. That's smart. Make it just Ben. So he thinks only your closest friends, me, Laura, blah, blah, blah, are seeing it, but it's just him. But now that the rest of the country knows anyway, part of me is like just go the whole hog and see how much money

you can make from it. I'm not actually saying that. Everyone knows she's doing it. So message Britt if you want to buy her farts. No, okay. All right, I'm going to fake it on my close friends on Instagram just so Ben sees and I'm selling them to see what he says. But the big question here is, what's my price point?

What is my fart worth? Like $2.50? I don't reckon it's as high as this. More than that. How much do you make? It's a starting price. In one toot. How big's the jar?

How big's the jar? To be fair, I would have to do a lot to fill a jar. So maybe I'd do it in one of those micro Vegemite jars. But hang on, I'm not actually doing it, guys. This is just a fake Instagram. Okay, I reckon you need to go to the chemist, get those like specimen jars that you get when you need to, you know. We've all done a wee in a jar.

Do one of those. Sign it. Brittany Hockley. You can even date it so people know when the used by date is. Laura, I'm not actually selling my bar. I know, but you still need to take a photo for this Instagram thing. You do, need for props. So you need to make it look legit, okay?

So take a photo, sign it all, and then say that you're raising money for charity. This can all go into part of it. Raising money for charity, Ben will be fooled by this. He's going to think that you're Good Samaritan's Bar selling. He'll probably allow me to do the charity one. I think I can't say charity. I think I can just say I'm just trying to make a personal gain. I'm trying to buy a house.

I know you're not actually doing that. I need a house deposit, so I'm going to fart into a jar. I think she'll need some PVC piping or some, like, silicon tubing. To ensure that it goes straight in. Yeah, and then you – Syringe it in. Oh, my God. You're not actually doing it, so I don't need to think about it.

You need to post on your story and say, hey, guys, like I'm doing research for The Pickup, the afternoon radio show. I'm farting into a jar. This is what I'm charging. Out of interest, would anyone buy it? And see what he replies. No, you could make it an auction. It's a silent auction.

Literally, people can DM you and the person who DMs you the most amount of money will be the winner of the fart chart. Because if he loves you, he'd be the highest bidder. It wasn't a silent fart, but it's a silent auction. Yes. I love that. That's the heady. All right.

So we're going to post. Producer Grace, can you help facilitate this? We'll post it to BritSocials and we're going to fool her, Ben. Then we have to get, we have to record Ben's reaction. Yeah, I think we've got some props we can use. We can make it happen. So the last couple of days, we've been trying to prank my boyfriend, Ben. Long story short, we were talking about this woman in Singapore

that's making absolute bank online by selling her farts in a jar. Hundreds. Like she's making like $400 a pop. No, I think it's like – A pop? Funny, I see what you did there. That's good, Laura. It was like $600 or something or $700 a jar.

She's making a lot of money. It's good. It's more than what most people are making for, you know, a day of work. Yeah. Then we had the idea, Brit, let's see if you can sell your farts. Well, I thought Ben – I thought it would be funny, but I thought my partner Ben, he lives over in Scotland, I thought he would be really against it.

So I took all my close friends off my Instagram list and just basically left Ben on there. So he's the only one that's going to see it. And then I made up a post and the post said, hey guys, I'm just putting some feelers out before we go public. Would you buy my fart in a jar? And if so, would you buy it for $350? That sounds like a bargain to have Brittany Hockley's fart. And then I said full jar.

So you put that on your close friend's story and just him. And I was waiting for him to take the bait. He took it straight away. And the first thing he said was, why would I buy it? I get them for free. Very funny. I mean, that's very supportive. Nice.

Very funny. And I obviously got highly offended because I said I don't actually fuck Ben and I'm offended by that. But then I was really shocked by this. I thought he would say there's no way in hell you're going to be selling your farts online. So I thought he was going to, like, cut it. And he was so supportive.

He was really cute. Listen to this. Farts in a jar. Is that what it has come down to? Really? Okay, that was first when he didn't know if I was, that wasn't supportive. That was where he was like, is this, are we taking the piss here?

Is this real? For me, there's a tone in that, Britt. Better than I thought, though. He's a bit like, surely you're not serious about this. And then when I told him it was serious, then it was probably going to get a charity. This is what he said. Like, do I feel like you need to do this?

Probably not. Do I think it's a good idea? No. Will I support you regardless? Yes. Aww. But I don't think I'll be a customer. Wait.

So he said that's the wrong thing. He should be a customer. He should be putting top dollar forward to buy all of his girlfriend's farts. That's what he said. He goes, I get them for free. I'm not paying for them. But he's like, guys, the point is at the end of the day, he supported me in my venture.

Britt, did he send you them on WhatsApp? Is that where he messaged? On WhatsApp, yeah. What time did he send you those? Go to the timestamp of those voice messages. 8.04pm. He's pretty good, Ben. Yeah, because at 8.09, Ben sent me this voice message.

Seriously, I don't care what time it is in Australia right now. You need to wake up and sort this out. This cannot happen, okay? Like, you need to seriously get a move on and tell her she can't do it. He came to me to fix the mess. Literally. Wait, this is so bad. It's almost like he doesn't want to.

So that was four minutes later. Four minutes later. He said, yes, babe, I support you. Then four minutes later told you to deal with me. This is even worse. He's like, it comes across as you that he's like so nice and supportive. And then really behind the scenes, he's like, sort this out. Who does he think he is?

Tony Soprano? Mitch, sort this out. I don't care what Tony is. Yeah. Well, no, I've got Paul. I've got Paul. Because he knows that I always go to Mitch with like my ideas. He would know.

He probably thinks you're behind it. I'm such a yes man, though. I'm such an enabler. Would you want to be behind that, though? Not behind me. I'm going to hold that jar. All right. It's a successful prank, but he's not as sweet as you think.

I'm so offended. I would love to know. Truly, deeply, I know that this is only a prank, but there's a part of me that wants to know how much someone would sell, like pay for your farts. Why don't we actually put a call out? I don't care. I'm not afraid.

I could make some extra bank this week. Ben said yes. To you. I mean, let's pretend like you never heard that voicemail message. Let's steamroll ahead with this. Oh, God. I'm going to kill him. What about me, guys?

Does anyone want to buy my farts? No, I want your farts. I don't know. That's a shame. They're good. So we were just talking about the fact that yesterday me and the girls. But you're a slider. No, don't you dare, Brittany Hockley.

Don't you dare. That we adopted a kitten and we're such good people. We got it from a pound. We're saving the life of this poor little innocent kitten. You keep saying we, but who made the decision? So when I say we, I mean me and my two daughters who are pretty much toddlers. But my husband, Matt, was, look, he wasn't as keen on the idea of getting a cat as what I was. He said no.

He said no. But then he went to Vegas and I did it anyway. And now he's going to grow. So bad, Laura. That is so toxic. No, he's going to grow and love the cat. I'd divorce you and take all your money. Well, then it would just be me and my cat.

Yeah. And the kids. Deal with it. Yeah, also where are the kids? Me, the cat and the kids. Well, there's a book in that. There's a reality show. I'd watch that.

So it got us thinking, what did you sneak in past the keeper while your partner was away? Because I think a lot of people do this. I think a lot of people that, you know, if you don't get exactly what you want in a relationship, sometimes you just have to wait for your husband to go to Vegas. Well, Britt, you are constantly away from your boyfriend, Ben, because he lives over the other side of the world. Britt, do you ask permission for anything, though? He's got no idea what I do, that kid.

I can live any life I want. That's dangerous. What am I going to ask him? You and Laura are the worst partners in the world. But I don't live with my partner, and I'm not married, and I don't have two kids. I live alone in another continent. Like Nush is called.

Hi, Nush. What did you hide from your partner? I hide Uber Eats. So I go crazy. I just buy so many things, like a meal for free. This is so innocent. What do you mean? No, my partner doesn't like getting Uber Eats

because then he spends two hours trying to find something to eat. Oh, he just takes too long to make a decision. That's annoying, though. Yeah. So when he's not there, you're just ordering up. I've got two things, sushis and halal snack packs, so I go crazy. I love you. That is innocent and sweet, and I think that that's okay

How do you hide them, though? Does it go on the bank account? Do they ever check? No, it goes on my bank account, but then I hide the takeaway containers, so I put them directly in the outdoor bins. That is so smart. You put them in a neighbour's bin, really? Because what if he takes a rubbish out one day and he sees them?

Oh, I could do the neighbour's bins next time. You guys are toxic. Don't give noosh ideas. Jamie, hi. What do you hide from your partner? My husband went away for the weekend. I knocked out a wall in our bedroom. What?

Sorry. You got into that too quickly. Take it back. Why did you knock a wall down? I was 34 weeks pregnant and we were turning our walk-in robe into our nursery and my husband had been like, I'll get to it, I'll get to it, and then he went fishing for the weekend, so I got to it.

Fair. I think that is powerful and fair. What did you take to it, like a sledgehammer? Yeah, it started with a sledgehammer. I did not finish the job. It was quite a tacky job, but it was started. At least I started it. I do like that you made enough of a mess that he then had

to get it finished when he came home. He no longer has a choice. I think that's cool. Exactly, there was mess everywhere. And now he's going to grow to love the nursery in the same way that Matt's going to grow to love the cat. No, he loves the hole in the wall because he ain't never fixed it, did he? My God.

He did, actually. We got it sorted. Oh, congrats. Guys, I'm encouraging this. I'm encouraging this behaviour. If your partner goes away, it's time for you to do the things you've always wanted to do, get a cat. I'm encouraging this Jamie's knocking down of the wall.

I get that. I get that. But buying an animal that you have to look after for the next 15 to 20 years, Laura? No, I know, Britt. I joke. I joke. I do know Matt better than he knows himself and he will grow to love this kitten so much.

It's so beautiful. Now she speaks for Matt. I'm going to bring the kitten into the studio next week. Do not bring that rancid thing in the studio. Mitch is allergic. I'm allergic to cats. I'll wait until you're not here and then I'll bring it in anyway. I'm here every day.

Rub it in your seat. Do not bring that thing near me or let me tell you. Now you all would have known about Australian sweetheart, she's an Olympian but she's an ex-swimmer, Libby Trickett. Oh, yeah. Incredible. She's won so many gold medals. she still holds records she's truly amazing and now she is a mum of four beautiful children and

recently she wrote an article for Mama Mia around something that her eight-year-old experienced and it really I mean as a mum it really struck me but also just as a woman it's something that I think everybody has been through at some point in their life and that is conversations around your weight and especially as your body changes. Now Libby's little girl is eight years old and we have her on the phone not the little girl we have Libby on the phone to talk about it hi Libby hi Libby welcome to the show thank you so much for having me on Libby what has happened because there's a lot of dialogue between something that's gone down between some of your friends and something they said to your daughter basically what happened was I was in uh the kitchen area just around the

corner from where my daughter was with uh someone close to us and they basically said to her oh oh, Poppy, you look like you've lost weight. You're looking fantastic. To your daughter. You've lost weight. Yeah, to my eight-year-old, like directly to her. And because I wasn't in the exact presence but, you know, was overhearing the conversation, I was just completely shocked

to the point that I had no words. Yeah. I felt really annoyed at myself that I didn't kind of call it out in the moment, but I actually think it was for the best because then I could pull Poppy aside later, try not to make too big a deal of it and we just basically said look this is not how we talk about bodies that's not what is valuable what we care about as a family is that you know we're moving our bodies we're healthy we're strong and we're fueling it in ways that it is is what is needed

she's eight years old right like this is just so far from her brain it shouldn't have to be that's the thing it breaks my heart to think that she would then she could then go and look in a mirror and go, wait, am I bigger? Do I look fat? It is something that I think all of us have experienced on some level. I know my sister is in a larger body and has been most of her life and has recently lost a significant amount of weight. And she just is horrified by how much better she's treated now. And that's horrific. Like we shouldn't, as a society, we shouldn't be doing that stuff but it starts at eight years old when someone says something that seemingly on the surface is a compliment right it's something that is totally well saying actually looks great you

know but that means that maybe she looked worse before or exactly you know from the person's perspective she looked worse before and that can get internalized and those insidious little toxic comments become something that this never should have been anything do you think it's generational though because you know i think all of us are growing and we're raising our children in more of a conscious way because we think about the things that we experienced as kids and whatnot but it is sometimes the older generation i don't want to stereotype but that's where some of the negative comments can come from absolutely and and you know this person is of an older generation and it's and we spoke to them right and we had that conversation directly with them we said this

isn't how we talk about bodies now we don't talk about weight we don't talk about you know how we look we talk about being kind and funny and smart and hardworking and that's what is valuable not what we look like yeah but you know as a society we still have a huge issue with looks and that being the the value of of someone's um importance were they okay with it once you explained it to them like your friend did they understand the problem and where they went wrong Yeah, they actually responded really well. And that was heartening, I think. But I also know that that is conditioning for them because I then overheard them say something about someone else in another conversation. They're conditioned, right? That's how they were brought up. That's what was valuable to them. and so I'm going to still be very conscious when these people are around us because it's hard to know that those behaviours will change immediately.

I think over the long term it will change but it's being conscious about what is happening in our house and what my girls are exposed to, what Alfie, my son, is exposed to and be open to having those conversations because I think the thing that we experienced is that it was just all swept under the rug. We wouldn't even approach it. We would just kind of internalise it and get sad and completely different times.

Well, I went to all the weigh-ins with my mum when she was on Weight Watchers as a kid. That's what made me gay, mum. You were shocked when I came out. It's because I was with all the women going, did you lose weight this week, Betty? No, I wasn't. You were always gay. All right, leave your ticket. Thank you.

If you want to read that article, it's on mamamia.com. Go have a read. Thank you for coming on The Picker. We adore you. My absolute pleasure, guys. I'm proper scared of spiders. You are. Britt, you are.

Even thinking about it makes me vomit in my mouth a bit. You know when you can picture one in your room and you're like, oh, it's the spiders, don't bother me. Really? No. So I quite like them. I just think that they're pretty harmless. Unless you've got a trapdoor or something.

Red back, yeah. A trapdoor? Our house was uncalled for. For some reason I pictured a doggy door where the spiders came in. I met a trapdoor spider. But, yeah, no, they just don't bother me. Well, I have this thing, right, where I'm petrified of them, But I've always lived alone, so it's really hard.

So when something happens to the spider, I have to deal with it on my own. And I've always wished, and I hate to say this out loud, especially on International Women's Day, but I also always wished that I had a man around to do that kind of stuff. Do you kill him, Brit, or do you catch him in a jar and let him go outside? She kills him. I've been in her house when she does it. Brit goes full Ivan Milat.

She gets the legs. She doesn't chop them up. She does. She gets a pair of chicken shears. If I can save them. I get a glass and I put a glass over it and a piece of paper. That's the way they do it. Okay, Mother Teresa.

All right, art attack. Who has the time to get an A3 piece of paper and some clag glue? Grow up. Grow up. Go get your trapdoor. No, I try to save them when I can. But if they're in my bedroom and they're going to get lost in my doona cover or something, I'm sorry, but I have to kill them.

See, that's where your brain goes, they're not going to get lost in your doona cover. They're not going to get you. Are you kidding? I woke up with a huntsman on my face. It's a huntsman. It's not going to hurt you. It's like a cockroach.

They actually help birds. They do. They do. They help birds. I won't even tell you my story. I'm not even going to tell you. Tell us what happened. They helped the birds.

Well, there was this spider. I've got the giggles. There was a spider that I have never seen before. And by that, I don't mean he hasn't visited me before. I mean a type of spider I have never seen before. A breed. A breed. It was above my car.

I live in an under the ground garage. A bunker, yeah. You don't live in it, but your car is there. By the way, Brits in Hawaii with Zuckerberg. Anyway, above my car was this humongous spider that I haven't seen before. Like huge. And I'm talking about all these. It looks dangerous.

White stripes, red light. Like, oh, it looked like if anything was going to eat me, this spider was going to. And there was a bit of the web that was attached to my car and a bit of the web that was attached to the person's car next to me. So I knew that this spider had made plans to travel south to my car and I was worried he was. Well, it was 50-50 at this point.

Yeah. But I was worried he was going to get into my car and then I was going to die on the highway. So there's a tradesman that was like floating around my house and I was like, oh, perfect. So I put a bit of mascara on and I went outside and I flatted my eyelids and I was like, excuse me, sir. And he was like, yes.

And I was like, oh, can I ask you the biggest favour ever? And he's like, sure, what is it? I was like, I just need you to help me with something in the garage. And he was like, okay, sure, no worries. And I was like, it's a spider. He's like, what do you mean he's a spider? I said, there's a really big spider by my car and I would just love for you to get rid of it and help me out.

I've not met him before. And he goes, hang on a minute. He's like, how big is this spider? And I was like, well, it's pretty big. That's why I want you to help me. And I could tell that he was starting to drop nuggets a little bit and I was like, oh, no, this guy's not going to help me. So I was like, just follow me.

Come down. So I took him to the garage to show him this. He goes, oh, there is no way I ain't touching that thing. and the big manly tradie refused to save me from this spider. He was scared of it. The big manly tradie was scared of it. I don't think that just because you're a man means that you have the, you know, that you have the bravery to go up against a spider.

Go up against it? It wasn't a war. I agree with you. You were scared, but I think it's unfair to expect that just because someone's a man that they'll be less scared than you. And I say this because a very similar thing happened to me recently. We've got like a, we have like the world's dumbest little spar, like a 90s spa in our backyard, and we had a guy come over and clean it.

He had to pull the lid off it because the whole thing was green inside, disgusting. Anyway, he pulls the lid off it, and there was this humongous huntsman. I'm talking like the whole, like think about the top of a coffee mug. Huge. Like it was huge. And he pulled the lid off, and he ran and screamed down my backyard. This was a four-grown burly man screaming.

He's like, I'm sorry, love spiders are the one things that do me over. And I was like, okay, I'll go get it. So you had to get it. So I had to walk inside, get a piece of paper from the craft box and a cup, and then I had to rescue it. I feel like everyone has a little phobia that it would surprise them. You know, like spiders, I'm not worried about spiders at all, but a magpie, I will not look them in the eye.

Those things, don't trust. Magpies? Don't trust a magpie. You're not supposed to turn your back on a magpie. That's when they get you. I've never had a good conversation with a magpie. I've never had a good experience with a magpie. My deep phobia is you eating chewing gum in the studio.

Oh, yeah, if I eat chewing gum, that sets Laura alight. Oh. If you're just tuning into the show, maybe tune out. Why? Don't you now. Don't change the... We're about to get to the bottom of, like, the biggest, weirdest phobias. Yeah, because Brit is terrified of spiders and had one in her subterranean palace that terrified her.

That no one would help me with. Yes, and also I think that there is a misconception that men should be braver when it comes to spiders. I think it doesn't matter if you're a guy or a girl or whatever's going on. If you're scared of spiders, you're scared of spiders. Totally. Jessie, are you scared of spiders? Tell us what you're scared of. Yeah, I hate spiders, but I'm actually petrified of cockroaches.

I hate them. They're not going to hurt you, though. What are they going to do to you? I think it's because they're quick. They're really quick. And they fly at you. Recently I discovered they can fly at you, and that's just, oh, beside myself.

Apparently, surprisingly, they're quite clean. They're really clean. Well, apparently they're only attracted to clean houses, but I don't like them. Like I'm getting the heebie-jeebies and like the sweats just talking about it with you now. Yeah, there's something about the fact that they can withstand a nuclear bomb that just is really unsettling.

Totally. Because you can smash them with an R.M. Williams boot all you want, but no, those things are outliving us. Hey, Maddie, are you phobia-ed by what? I have a phobia of tsunamis. What? Mate, where do you live? I have a phobia of quicksand, but I think we've been lied to.

Okay, so why are you scared? What's caused this? Well, when I was six years old, I went to Thailand on a family holiday, and mum and dad thought it'd be just a fabulous idea to buy the Thailand tsunami documentary. Oh, that's terrorising. Terrorising. Yeah.

So six years old, we watched the documentary in the Taiwan hotel and ever since I've been absolutely petrified. Just worried it's going to happen. Yeah, thought the Nepean River, we're going to have a tsunami in the Nepean River. No, not possible. That's terrorising your children. Don't take them on a holiday and then show them the worst thing that's happened. I guess the good thing, Maddie, though, is that tsunamis you get warning

because it's normally there's an earthquake, then a tsunami. You're never going to get a random tsunami. Yes, you can because sometimes the earthquakes are so minute that you don't feel them. Surprised or not. That makes me feel so much better. Yeah, Britt. Great job, Britt.

We said call up and we'll help you with your fears and we're like, actually, it could happen anywhere, anytime. Amy on 131065, what's your weird phobia? Horses. Horses are majestic and beautiful. Did you have a bad experience? They are absolutely not majestic and beautiful in my eyes. They are terrifying.

What about them? Like, did something happen? Did you fall off a horse, get kicked by a horse? Laura, we went to the same high school, St Mary's. Oh, no way. I don't know if you remember the year seven, I think it was year seven camp, there was some sort of farm involved and we had to go horse riding.

Yes, 100% I remember this clear as day. Wait, were you in the same year or were we in different years? No, I was a couple of years below you. Okay. What was she like at school? I was always in trouble. I don't remember. So you had the same horse experience as Amy, Laura?

Well, it's like part of like school camp. You would go and there was, yeah. It was like a trail ride, and I remember saying to the teacher, I don't want to do that. And they were like, no, get on the horse. And I bawled my eyes out the whole time because I just was so terrified of this thing, and it was probably just this poor little, I don't know. Probably a pony.

We went to an all-girls school. There probably were girls who were mean off the back of it as well. Oh, that's awful. You two can catch up privately. That's good for you two, but everyone else is a bit worse. Well, guys, I have an update. Yeah. I was also doing some Googling while you were talking.

In six days' time, on March 14th, there is actually a day dedicated to spiders. Oh. There's a spider day. International spider day. It's called Save a Spider Day and it is to help reduce arachnophobia or the fear of spiders and help conserve spiders. So that day is for you so that we can start saving the spiders with a little cup and a piece of paper.

There really is a day for everything, isn't there? There really is also. We've got one last call. Buttercup has called. Hi, Buttercup. I'm 131065. Oh, stop it. Oh, Buttercup.

No, I agree. The only thing I want to say about that, Brick, going back to the one day of spiders. I think we're done with it. No. We're done. One more thing. We're going home.

It's Friday. Okay, why do the spiders? Laura. Is there anyone in the car that wants this? Why do the spiders get as much time as women? It's International Women's Day and the spiders get an International Spiders Day. They're females too, Laura.

And they have eight babies at a time, so consider yourself lucky. We'll be right back.