Life Uncut - The Best Of The PickUp - There's a button up my nose

Episode Date: April 21, 2024

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP.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.

Hello. This might actually be our last pick-up show without Britt. I think so. The dates do confuse me. I don't know when she's coming home. Even when she is and finally yeeted from the jungle, I don't know when she's coming home. Can I just say, like, her going into the jungle happened so quickly

that she was kind of like, I might be two weeks, I might be five, do the show without me, I'll be back on this date, maybe, goodbye, take my dog, Keisha. Yeah, I do feel as though, no, her dad took her dog this time. Producer Keisha doesn't have Delilah. Really? Yeah, Delilah got shipped off to Port Macquarie. You know why that is?

Why? Because I asked Britt if I could house-sit her house because it's genuine six weeks of house-sitting. Yeah. I'm like, it'd be lovely. I can stay there with my new boyfriend. It'd be nice. No, you were going to just sneak in though, weren't you?

Well, yeah, but I genuinely asked her, could I genuinely house-sit and I'll look after it. Did you genuinely do it? Well, because I've done. Sorry. You're genuinely pissing me off. I was like, can I house-sit? She's like, yeah, but you have to take Delilah.

And I was like, oh, I didn't last time. She's like, yeah, but this is an extended stay. You have to. No. I said, I'm not good with dogs. I work full time. I work nights. And she's like, well, then if you don't do Delilah, you can't have the house.

But you're running her socials. That seems so mean. That could have been payment for running her socials to stay in her house. You know what? You can go and stay there. I'm not going to tell her. Just wash the sheets afterwards and push the cow back. The cow?

The couch. Put the couch back where it belongs. Brittany Hockley, listen, for what it's worth, she's got beautiful cows in her house. People knock her, but her sense of cow is gorgeous. She loves a beautiful mid-century cow. A big, blinky, long-eyelashed cow. You know cows? Your audience will love this.

and no, no, your audience will love this and you'll know this as a Thoreau girl going down Bulleye Pass. Cows have the same temperaments as dogs, but we just don't treat them like that. That's really mean, isn't it, when you think about it? A beautiful, blinky-eyed cow. Just want to give it a big cuddle in a paddock. They will roll around with you if you'd let them.

From Wollongong, I'm not proud of this. I never did it, but people did when I was young. They'd go, is it called cow tipping? Is that a real thing? Where in the night time they'd go and try and push them over. I don't know, maybe it's an urban legend because I've never been around a cow that's fallen over. So I don't know.

Were you with me when I tripped down those stairs that one time? Sorry, such a load hanging through. It really is, but you do it about yourself all the time. I can, I can. You needed therapy. No, no, I do need therapy. It's not working. I need a new therapist.

You need more therapy. We've never bonded over our south coast of it all. Did I tell you my mum, because you're in Wollongong for something and we FaceTimed, and mum was like, what's Laura doing in Wollongong? I said, that's where she's from. She went, I've got more respect for that girl now. Where did she think I was from? Potts Point.

Oh, she thought I was a Sydney, okay, which is nothing wrong with being a Sydney person, but, you know, if you're from Wollongong, you've roughed it a bit more. Wollongong is, yeah. I went to uni there. We've got connections in Wollongong. I went to uni there. I didn't know you went to uni there. Where did you go?

I went to Wollongong Uni. I went to Wollongong Uni. What? How have we known each other for this many years and I didn't know that we went to the same uni? Are we becoming best friends? Oh, my gosh. Are we the same person?

Well, I find it kind of... Hi. No, I had no idea about you. Yeah, I went to... Who are you? We hired you because you're gay and fat. Not anymore. Mitch!

If it's a joke, the audience will laugh. They won't laugh, Midge. People, you don't realise this, and life as I'm speaking on behalf of all of you listening, we're progressive. We care about people. You can't be mean to yourself. I'm a gay, left-leaning man.

I'm progressive too. Yeah, but you're still really mean to yourself sometimes. I know. It's my humans. And I don't like that. It's how I cope. I did media communications at UOW, dropped out after a semester. What did you do?

I did fine arts and graphic design and biology randomly. Yeah, and that's what you're known for in the public eye. I know, I really am. I am a graphic designer though. It's come in very handy with all of my businesses. Like all of them I do all my own graphic design for, which maybe people don't know. Did all of Life Uncut.

Did you do the Tony May logo? 300 years ago, yeah. I did that when I was at uni, the Tony May logo. The little bird. It's time for a rebrand for Tony May, but I'm actually just like it feels too far in the past. You know when something's been that way for so long? It's like when, and I'm not comparing myself to Fitness First

because I'm nowhere near the size. No one's thinking that you are, just by the way. Well, do you remember when Fitness First did the full rebrand and everyone for a while was like, this is weird? It's that feeling. I don't know if I can transition the weird rebrand, that's all. Are people, does anyone care? No.

But your background in marine biology will really help with that rebrand. The next one is Tony Maber with whales. You just changed the animal? There's two dugongs in the oaks. Oh, that's really funny. Just a Wobbegong. What's a Wobbegong? It's a cultural shark.

It's local. It's a local shark is what I mean. Is it? Yes, it's a local shark to my Wobbegong. Stop. Can we, Producer Grace, can you Google where is a Wobbegong from? Where is a Wobbegong? A Wobbegong is a very well-known shark.

The lifers will get it. I don't know what you're talking about. But anyway, look, let's get into what we talked about this week on The Pickup. So this week's radio show, I told a story about Lola. Yeah, you're doing that. They are Australian sharks for the record. Thank you. Okay, thank God we got to the bottom of that.

Lola. Yeah. Lola stuck something so far up her nose, so far up her nose. But I have learned a technique that every single mother needs to know. And I say this with passion. Every mother needs to know this technique for getting a lodged object out of their child's nose. And if you're listening, you will find out exactly how to do this. And just going to say, if you're an adult too, whoever gets anything up your nose, it'll work on you.

It does work. It works on people of all ages and sizes. We put it to practice. So I'm a runner now, by the way. So you'll hear this. This is what I spoke about on the pick up. I've started running and I like it, but I am a bit, I'm in a little too deep. I've got all the gear and kind of no idea.

So if you're a runner, you add me on Strava. Like I genuinely am doing 10Ks. I'm a little slow. How many people are following you on Strava? You are not slow. You're doing like six minute splits or something. I am at the moment. I'm getting better.

It ebbs and flows. You're sprinting 10 kilometers is what you're doing. I'm doing 10Ks. Yeah. I love it. Like, I'm actually really into it, but you'll hear it in the show. I'm anxious about joining a run club because they do intimidate me, genuinely. But we had an idea together for a new kind of run club

that I actually think the lifers will be all for. Yeah, I cannot run. I understand that it's very in at the moment. Everyone has their run clubs happening, and I agree with you, Mitch. I find them very intimidating, and the intimidatingness of the whole thing is what prevents me from getting into running. Like I don't want to, yeah, the 4.30 a.m. wake-ups and all the other crazy shit that people are doing

when they get into running, it's like a religion. That's too much. Yeah. So you hear about my journey on run clubs and I think your life is, if you want to join me in my new way forward, I'd love to hear from you. We have an idea. It's a, look, we might have our own run club happening.

Totally. DM me on Instagram, at Mitch Turi. Anyway, guys, let's get into the show. Mitch, something happened to me that I'm not very proud of. Not particularly proud of what I did. um so yesterday i was having a very challenging day with the kids i went and picked them up from daycare both of them were in a mood and sometimes you just have those afternoons where like nothing is really going quite right um and maybe it was also because like work had been stressful but i

was like i was up to here with my patients it didn't exist anymore yeah and so i got home and i just parked the car and lola my three-year-old she was absolutely losing it in the car seat and i had all their bags and at that time so matt had asked he'd asked if he could go to the gym which I was already a little bit pissy about because I was like, oh, it's a really annoying time but obviously I don't want to say no. Does he have to ask for permission to do many things? No, he doesn't have to ask for permission to do anything.

Does he raise his hand in the kitchen and you go, yes, Matthew, can I go to the bathroom, please, wife? No, he just knows that right at that pick-up time when the kids are getting home from daycare, it's usually a pretty busy time of day. Is that witching hour? Don't they call it witching hour? No, that's when they're like babies.

It's like 7pm at night when they won't go to sleep. Now, my kids are too old for witching hour But it's a stressful time of day. So if you're going to go to the gym, maybe go before that, right? Okay, nice. Anyway, so he asked and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fine, fine, fine. Go, go, go.

Permission. Exactly. I gave my husband permission. Anyway, I'd parked the car in the driveway. I'd put the garage down. So I'm in the closed garage at the time and my kids are absolutely losing it. And I hear Matt coming up the side gate because he'd obviously just parked the car in the driveway behind me. So you're not even inside the house yet.

I'm not inside the house. And he just walked straight past the door, the garage door. and I was like, Matt, can you come and help me? And then he didn't respond and then I yelled at him again and he didn't respond and I was like, are you kidding me? Like I've got one kid screaming, this is happening. Anyway, this went on. You're going in.

Yeah, yeah. I was like, the least you could do is come and give me a hand, I think is what I was saying quite loudly at him. With some colourful language out of Matt. Yeah, and I mean, the guy's just been down to Bondi Icebergs. He's just done a nice little gym and sauna and he's sauntering in and I was mad, okay? Yeah, no, I'm on Team Laura.

Yeah, I'm with her. Thank you. And so I said, are you kidding me? Can you get your ass in here? And then I flung the garage door open and there was the air conditioning man who was coming to repair the air conditioner. And I'd been yelling at him through the garage door for the last 30 seconds and he was like, I'm sorry, love.

Do you need a hand? I need therapy. It wasn't Matt. It wasn't Matt. Oh, no. I feel so humiliated. I also had a real moment where I was like, I'm really glad it wasn't Matt because that's an argument that would have transpired and we didn't need it.

But sometimes you're just not on your best behaviour. Oh, that's so good. Did you tip him? Did you tip the air con man? No, I was just like, could you imagine? I feel hopefully he doesn't listen to the pickup. Hopefully he doesn't know who I am. Oh, that would be hilarious.

I don't think he does. No, he'd be telling that story at the pub for years to come. Laura's a psychopath. You know that bird from The Bachelor? Yeah, she yelled at me and I loved it. She's, no. He would have loved it. No, he would have thought I sounded like an,

He would have said, I'm so sorry for that poor bloke who was married to this woman. She's insane. No, no, no. Did he come in and help with the kids? Did he whip on his hip and make a bowling maze? I wish. I would have paid more for that service.

No, nothing. I bet, I bet. It's normal, Laura. Mums in cars can relate right now. I don't think they can. Dads in cars, on the other hand, think I'm insane and that I should be having a divorce. Okay, Mitch, I wanted to talk to you about something

that I think has gone past the point of being a healthy new habit and it's going really into the territory of being a bit of a, hmm, how to put this, like a weird addiction. Oh, my God. Can I just say? A weird addiction. When I was fat, no one said anything and now that I'm kind of half fat, everyone says you're too half fat.

You're not fat, firstly, and you're not even allowed to say that anymore because usually when we're not on mic, you talk about how skinny and hot you are. So don't try and be a different person when the mics turn on. No, at least in Australia, Laura always says Matt. She calls me Matt, her beautiful six-pack ridden husband. You look so similar now. Yeah, from the side angle, I look like Australian heartthrob Matty J

and I just take that and run. But I'm still a big boy, for God's sake. What's your problem? Oh, you take that and run, do you? That's the thing I wanted to talk to you about. Okay, so Mitch has become really into his running. First it was Hot Girl Walks. I'm a runner.

Say it. Say it for what it is. First it was Hot Girl Walks and Hot Girl Walks was cool. It was like, you know, it was trending. We had the shirts, the Hot Girl Walk shirts. It was a thing. Now Mitch has taken it up a notch and he's into his running. Except the thing is, and now this is no,

I'm not putting down the fact that you're running because running is very good. It's great for your health. Thank you. Mitch is running 10 kilometres max, okay, which is a big deal. That's nothing to scoff at, but it's certainly not a marathon. But you are behaving as though you are Ned Brockman and running a marathon a day.

You honestly, okay, so Mitch is now getting to live it. I don't even know who Ned Brockman is. Ned Brockman. Who's Ned Brockman? Ned Brockman's that amazing guy who ran from like Perth to Sydney and he did 100 kilometres a day. He's incredible. Oh, is that, yeah.

But no, Mitch, you've now gotten a running vest, a water vest delivered to work. I've also seen your fluoro safety running outfit that you now have. Not to mention that Mitch's runs, they usually range from about eight kilometres to ten kilometres. The first two kilometres is a bit of a walk. And then he now takes gels. It's a warm up. Us runners call warm up. He takes gels with him every time he leaves the studio.

You are such a terrible friend. You are such a terrible friend. Birthday cake gels. You are so awful to me. I'm not. I could have taken up an awful hobby and instead I'm running, looking after my health. I get gels, yes, because they help us runners. It's the hyper fixation on all the accessories to do with running.

That's what it is. When you take up a new hobby, you don't just take up the hobby. Because you could walk outside the office in a pair of joggers and run. It's all the other stuff that you think you require to do a very basic activity. How dare you? You know it's all about the fashion. I'm into my fashion. I'm into my accessories.

And I'm on run talk. Is that what those socks are supposed to be? You're wearing them because they're fashionable. How dare you? Lululemon are going to be upset with you. They're very fashionable. They sponsor the podcast. Please keep doing that.

And hockers don't sponsor me. But hey, hocker, listen, I love the Bondi Nines. I don't even know if that's right. No, I just run. See, listen, I lost 45 kilos. I was hot girl walking and now I have to run to kind of like – Take it up a notch. We're going to take it up a notch.

I'm enjoying doing it. It gives me clarity and it actually makes me feel nice. and so what I do it in a $500 running vest and so what I've got the state-of-the-art shoes that I don't need and so what that I like birthday cake running gels. How many pairs of running joggers have you now purchased because of this fixation? Not because you like running and it's good for your health,

which I am all for. Don't try and make me feel bad about this. No, I know. How many unnecessary things have you purchased? I have about five pairs of running shoes. How much money have you invested in the running? Do you want the real answer? Like $1,500.

I honestly think it's more. Well, the running vest was $200. Yeah, and the daily gels, you're right, they're about $6 a pop. It could be close to $2,000. To go for a run! Yeah, but look, good while doing it. I don't get hit by a car. People could go, there's Mitch from the pickup.

You don't want them to be like, oh, look at Mitch from the pickup. You want them to go, there's Mitch from the pickup. Look at his pace. What I want to know is what are you running away from? Listen, add me on Strava. You won't get that. It's running language. Oh, what's the other one?

Tick run. Tock run. What? Is that what it is? Tick tock. it's a famous app now i'm on run talk so i'm watching all the content and everyone listening is on run talk as well people people are running it's a cultural movement i know my husband runs too he's really into it it's cute i can't run to save my life so for me it's still a really

abstract thing and aren't you nice that i didn't turn it on your head because you go mitch only runs 10k i can't run i say this also from a place a place of judgment but also a place of not understanding a lack of understanding as to how someone walks out of the house and runs and then And when their body says it's tired, they don't just stop. That's what I do. Sorry. I bought Oakley running glasses. I forgot.

They were $600. So really, we're up to $3,000 now. Anyway, let's go home. Hey, listen, runners, add me on Strava. We'll run together. We can go on a little, join a run club or something. It'd be cute. Have you started a run club?

No, no. I'm too nervous. Because how does it work? The person at the front and the person at the back, do you have to talk? No, I think you say in the middle. Yeah. It's very stressful. I'm not there yet.

You've got to just run and puff. I agree. I need to tell you about something because I almost ended up at hospital yesterday which was quite dramatic with our little girl Lola luckily she's fine no real big dramas

but it could have ended very very bad so Matt was on his way home my husband Matt with the kids in the car and he called me from inside the car and he was like hey babe can you come out and help me get the kids Lola's been weird so I walk out the front and I go around the back of the car

and she'd been calling for me specifically And I thought it was mostly just because at the moment, Lola is going through this weird thing where she doesn't really want Matt to do anything for her. She only wants me. So she wants me to do everything from wiping her backside to putting her to bed at night time. You're the favourite at the moment. I'm 100% the preferred parent. So I open the door to get her out of a car seat and she goes, hey, mummy, I've got a button in my nose. Oh.

I have a button in my nose. Was she being serious? Was it a joke? Well, I wasn't sure. And like, she's also just three. So her speaking is not incredible. So I was like, what did she just say? And then I asked her again.

She was like, yeah, fair enough. I've got a button in my nose. And I was like, just show me, baby. She tilts her head back. Oh, yeah, she has a massive button that she's not just put into her nose. She's wedged it as far because she's been sitting in the back of the car in the car seat the whole way home from daycare, picking her nose and trying to get it out.

And she has shoved it all the way up inside into her sinuses. Oh, the poor little baby. She was fine. She was quite happy about it. She was like, look, Mom, there's a button. Where was the button from? Was it her button? She'd picked it up from daycare.

They use it for arts and crafts and they stick it on posters and stuff with a bit of wood glue. And she'd taken it home in her pocket and shoved it in her nose in the car seat. So do you freak out? What do you do as a mum in that situation? Do you go, Matt, get the tweezers? So the other thing is Lola's not at an age yet where she quite understands the whole blowing of a nose.

If you tell her to blow a nose, she goes, but she's actually sucking it in. It's the opposite. She needs to learn that. She doesn't know how to blow out. She only always sucks in. So she'd been sitting in the back of the car trying to blow the button out and she was sucking it in further. So this button is so wedged.

So it's deep, okay. It's so wedged. Also, I love that, by the way, she hates Matt at the moment so much. She's just not going to tell him that she's got a button up her nose. She didn't even tell him. She just kept it secret. What do you do? Do you freak?

So I freaked out. Well, I did. And I was about to get, so I was like, Matt, get out of the car, take Marley out, and I'll jump in and we'll go straight to the hospital to get the button out. And it was only that my sister recently, so my sister's, maybe it runs in the family. like, a piece of Lego up the nose of, like, herself.

It's a burn family tradition. It's what we do. It's cute. And she, when she got to the hospital, and before they actually went and operated or they got tweezers to get it out, they showed her this technique, this nose-blowing-sucking technique thing

that I think every parent should know because it is so effective. And I never got, like, I did all the baby safety kid stuff. CPR. Yeah, and I never, ever got taught this. So I ended up doing this technique that I called her, I got the information, and I did it. and out comes flying this massive yellow button.

Oh, it worked? It works. It's perfect. Oh, my God. What's the technique? So you have to stick. Can you do it on me? Can you stick a button in your nose?

Oh, shit. Stick a pen in your nose. Yeah, I'll stick a bottle cap in my nose. Okay, but it does. You can't stick a bottle cap in your nose. Sorry. Also, my nose is not that big. Oh, there's a pen.

All right, I'm going to put a Sharpie. This is, don't do this at home. I don't think you, it does require me putting my mouth. Ow! My mouth. Sharp. You've bitten the end off that, Producer Grace. so I'm going to get a nosebleed.

I need to put my mouth to your mouth to do it. That might be a bit close for the friendship. Didn't stop us at the Christmas party. Come over here. I've got a penalty in my nose. We'll put this video on the pick-up socials. Now I sound like I've got a flu. I've got to go to cancel my house.

I have coffee breath. You don't. That's fine by me. I'm gay. We're not going to fall in love. You might. You might. Okay.

My headphones are still on. All right. Sit down. You talk into that. No, I really have to put my mouth over your mouth. I don't want to. You don't want to? I don't want to.

What do you mean you don't want to? But you could be dying. Okay, sit down. All right. Okay. So this is really aggressive though. Usually the thing that's in someone's nose is your lower. Oh, stop pushing it deeper.

Sorry, I have to go on the other side. Okay. Do you want me to purse my lips for you? Can you make it less sexual, please? Stop breathing heavily. Okay. So maybe close your eyes so they're not making eye contact. Describe what you're doing.

So I think that this is so important for every parent to know this. You have to. If your child has something stuck up their nose, You block the other nostril Not the nostril that has the thing in it But block the opposite nostril So then your kid will have their mouth open And then you put your mouth over their mouth

Do it I can't do it Do it The longer you pause The more it feels like you're on a date I can't do it I've got a purse Could we just be quick

Are you ready It's deeper It didn't work I didn't get it sealed. You didn't get it sealed? It wasn't sealed. Try again. Try again.

I can't put my mouth on your mouth again. No, one more time. One more time. You've got this. Okay. Okay. Okay, ready? Yeah.

It's on the other side of the room. Did it work? I'm alive. Did it work? Oh, wow. Wow, everybody. I have made out with Mitch Turi Twice

He is alive And that was beautiful And also if you ever find yourself in a situation When your kid has a button up their nose It's very effective We're going to post that video to the socials And we're going to get the Australian government involved And that's an initiative that we'll send out

Do you think we're going to get a meeting with HR tomorrow When we come in? I think we've lost the show Oh don't gag Yuck Yuck I'm a beautiful man Yuck

Listen, if you're listening to this and you go, you know what, I'm going to pick the kids up. This is a classic Australian rite of passage. You pick the kids up from school. You go, I'm going to stop by a traditional bakehouse or a bakery. Going to get the kids a custard tart and a scroll. No, my thing is get a finger bun. Love a finger bun.

Kids love a bakery. It's like an Aussie thing to do. Well, let's fly over to Kansas where the owner of a bakery. Wow, that's a real, I'm going on a trip. No, no. You've got the custard tart. Now you're going to Kansas. But we're back in a bakery at Kansas.

Great. We're the bakery owner in Kansas, Sis Monroe. She owns Sis' Sweets Cookies and Cafe. So she's doing quite a bit in this bakery. She is in a real distraught panic because she's been searching the kitchen high and low for her wedding ring. Oh, no. It's actually an engagement ring.

It's quite gorgeous. Here's a photo. It's gold. As a jewellery designer, it's actually quite hideous, to be honest. Sorry, as I look closer. I wouldn't be upset if I lost that, to be fair. That's awful. Monroe says she hasn't gone a day without wearing it for nearly four decades.

Oh, it does. I was going to say, looks like an antique. Correct. It does look like it's been worn for 40 years. She's an old woman. She owns a cafe. It's gone missing. She searched the bakery high and low,

and what she's come to is that she's accidentally slipped it off while she's been making cookies in the bakery, and she's baked it and sold it into a cookie. That could come as a real OH&S hazard, though. Someone could end up choking on an engagement ring. Totally. She actually says, I don't even want it to get the ring back. I'm worried that someone's going to hurt themselves or chip a tooth.

Yes, she's, no, she's not worried about that. She's worried about, this is overseas in the States. She's going to get sued. Oh, my God, she's worried about litigation. Yes, she's trying to cover her ass. She's like, keep the ring, don't get a hemorrhoid as you push it out. That's an emerald cut diamond.

She's like, go dig through that poo because it's worth $5,000. What a winning cookie. How upset would you be if you bit it? You thought it was a, she's got Malteser in it or something. No, it's a diamond ring. It's a really ugly diamond ring. So hideous, I'd be pissed off. I'd be like, God, I wanted a nice one.

You hear this so often, like my mum, right, Michelle Chury, tells this story of when she got married to my dad. They went out on Sydney Harbour to celebrate. They're on a boat. They sunscreen up. This is the month after they get married. She's dancing on the boat, listening to old 80s music, slips off her ring finger, falls into Sydney Harbour.

So it must have been a little bit loose for her. I think that's the problem, right? A lot of people have their wedding rings a little bit big because the person who proposes doesn't know their size. Totally. I think it happens a lot. It flings off. Yeah, yeah.

So they ran into the Sydney Harbour. Luckily, an uncle of a family friend is a diver. He spent six hours uptown, uptown, uptown. He did not. Don't tell me he found it. I don't believe you. Let's get my mum on. She can tell the story better.

I mean, it happened and they found the ring and to this day she wears it. And did she pay for the services of this scuba diver? Absolutely not. Who is it? Just my uncle, Uncle Murray. Oh, it was her brother who did it. Yeah, Uncle Murray. No, no, family.

One of those uncles that's not really an uncle. Oh, yeah. He's like the weird friend. Totally. I don't know where he fits in, but he's somehow related. Somehow it turned into your uncle. Yeah. Okay, there's nothing.

For anyone who has lost a wedding ring, it is very, very petrifying. And not just because, I mean, it's expensive. It's also the sentimental thing. And then you just think, I don't want to go and tell my partner that I've lost this ring that they spent so much time organizing. Or if you don't like your ring, it's a good way to get rid of it. Just putting it out there. But I lost my engagement ring for a couple of days.

I found it in a very unexciting place. It was down the side of the couch. But for the two days that it was missing, pure panic. You were chaos. Is that the ring that Channel 10 paid for when you won The Bachelor? shut up. It is, isn't it? So you didn't even pay for it. No wonder you weren't worried. Didn't cost you a thing. No, that's this one. Yeah, this is the one we got. No, no, this was my actual engagement ring that Matt gave me to my other husband. Sorry, I don't mean that. That's

terrible. We're talking, where did you lose the engagement ring? Because a baker in the US, in Kansas, has baked her own engagement ring into a cookie. She can't find it. She sold it. Someone's eaten it. It's probably in the sewerage system in the middle of the US. 131065, we wanted to know when did you lose your ring because it is so common. People are calling like crazy. My mum, Michelle Turi, who birthed me into this world, in a union with my father, Mark Turi, they got married. She lost her wedding ring and she's told this story like for generations.

We have mum on the phone. Hello, mum. Why don't you tell us what happened with your wedding ring on that boat? Hi, Michelle. Hi, Mitch. Hi, Laura. Well, look, it was a long time ago. We were in Sydney Harbour, just moored off Taronga Zoo

on a beautiful spot. I'd put sunscreen on. I'd only been married about three months. Probably had a few glasses of champagne and jumped off this beautiful boat. Mitch did mention that part. Yeah, I did, yeah. I thought I'd better mention that. Jumped off this beautiful boat into Sydney Harbour

and as I rolled down into the water, I was going, no! I could feel my rings rolling off my finger. And I'm still going, I'm still going down to the bottom of the harbour and I couldn't get to the top quick enough and just came up and screamed to my friends and said, I lost my rings. My rings have come off.

Oh, look, after many hours and many, many dives and people helping, our very dear friend Murray dived to the bottom of Sydney Harbour and he came up without a word of a lie with my engagement ring and my wedding band. And she pashed him and he's my real father. Sitting in the bottom of Sydney Harbour on the base of Sydney Harbour.

I mean, we do love a good happy ending, don't we? That's a good story. And Mum and Dad are still married, not divorced, so that wedding ring is, you know... It's a beautiful omen, not a bad omen. Thank you, Mum. Well, we got more calls too on 131065. Shannon, what happened to your ring?

Well, I was feeding my horses like I do every day and I was pushing the hay down into the feeder. All was good. A couple of hours later, I realised no ring. Wait. So I had to... Did the horse eat the ring or did... How did you... Did you find it?

No, thankfully. I backtracked and I hadn't done too much. Oh, the ring was in the hay. That's where it was. Thank God because no one wants to go digging through horse poo. That's horrific. That's the last place you want to find your ring. But you can put your hand quite far into a horse.

I've seen those videos of when they give birth to a cow, the fowl. Mitch, I think you're meant to wait for it to come out. I don't think you're meant to go looking for it whilst it's still internal. I'm just saying if you wanted to, you could. You could. I've seen some videos. All right, thank you for the call. All right, next up we've got Renee on the phone.

And Renee, where did you lose your ring? Hi, Laura. Hi. I lost my ring in the air con vent of my fiancé's Land Cruiser. Oh, wow. That's a real sentence. Was it like a money slot? How did you shove it in there?

We was in the woods when we were renovating our house. I didn't want to scratch it or get it ruined, obviously. So I took it off and he's got an air con vent like on the top dash of the car. Oh, so it fell down. Yeah, we had to call a mechanic with, like, a microscope and a long, like, it was like an operation camera to stick it all the way down. That's what the horse needed as well, Mitch. Totally.

Nine hours later, the mechanic got it out and he actually got an invitation to the wedding. Oh, that's so funny. Oh, I love that. That's a good story. Caitlin, one last one. Hello, honey. How did you lose the ring?

What happened? So we found out that my dog ate my husband's wedding ring. It was on the bedside table and we then realised that the dog had eaten it. He was just a puppy. So a day later we found it. Why don't you go into the detail? Do you want to describe how you found that one? Was there a ring of fire for the puppy?

Yes, a ring of fire. That was my husband's job for leaving it on the bedside table. So he had to rummage through the number twos. Does your husband like work in mincemeat? Like why did the ring smell delectable for a dog? I think puppies just eat anything. Absolutely. They'll eat sunglasses.

They'll eat wedding rings. They'll eat the crutch out of a pair of undies. They'll eat anything. Wow, I've learned so much today on the show. And a wedding ring. And are you still married? Yeah, we are. Oh, beautiful story.

Beautiful story. Thank you. And does the ring still smell? Oh. Well, we had to get rid of it. What, you put the dog down? You got rid of the ring or the dog? Oh, the poor dog didn't deserve that.

He was just curious. We had to get rid of it. We had no choice. So we took it out back. Oh, my goodness. Mitch, calm down. All right, Caitlin, thanks for your call. Thanks, Caitlin.

Our very own Brittany Hockley is back. She's live from the African jungle. Hello, Britt. Hi, Britt. Oh, guys, I've missed you so much. I can't even tell you how much I've missed you and how grateful I am to have had a hot shower and something to eat. Like I have never been so hungry in my entire life.

Britt, what did you miss more? Did you miss having normal food or did you just miss Mitch and I just being here with us? You know what? The food was probably the hardest part. Like I was super naive and thought, you know, I've done reality TV before. I know that they say they starve you out and that you're on rations,

but I thought left behind the scenes when you're really hungry, they'll slip you some food. They slip you no food. Like you are genuinely, if you don't win stars, you don't eat. you get two spoons of rice and beans for lunch every day and a scoop of oats. That's it. It's insane.

Yeah, but Britt, it wasn't even about the things that you got to eat as in like, you know, the rice and the beans. It wasn't like the food limitations. It was watching you eat the pig nipples and the rotting tofu sauce thing that like you looked like you vomited, but they didn't actually show you vomiting. Was it, are we talking like projector? How did you manage that?

You have no idea. It's probably good they cut that. so what that was it was actually a stink bug it was a stink bug biscuit that literally made from these animals called stink bugs and then on top of it it was covered to make me feel better is that the way stink bugs protect themselves in the environment from being consumed by predators is that they're so vile that a predator can't eat them because they will vomit and so i i could not get this down it would go down my throat and it would immediately come back into my mouth vomiting and then eventually it went everywhere.

I just projectile vomited and I was heaving for like 10, 12 minutes and I just had to cut it because I was like, oh, it was so bad. If it makes you feel any better, Britt, every single person who was eating their dinner at the same time that that was on TV also vomited in sympathy with you. So it was absolutely vile. Who did you connect with the most, Britt? Because we know you and we know who you like, oh, buddies with

and also like, oh, buddies with, like, you know, but you and Frankie Munez looked like you really hit it off. Actually, we were in charge of your socials and then I got the notification, Frankie Muni has followed you and I got so excited, but it was actually on your Instagram. So we followed back. Okay. Frankie was the best.

To us, Frankie was just a normal guy. He's so humble and funny and down to earth and, like, so quirky. And you didn't look at him like he was this huge Hollywood person. He was just Frankie and he was so funny. And in the jungle, he came in, I don't know how much they showed, but like he had never, I've never met someone in my life that's 36 years old, he had never eaten a strawberry, a berry, a banana, a mango, nothing.

So weird, so strange. He only eats two states a day. That's what he eats. He's never even tried them. So it was really amazing to see him like growing in leaps and bounds. And when he left, he was like, I love mango. I'm like, thank the Lord. Like I can't believe that's what he came in to learn.

But of all the things you had to do, Brit, what do you think was the hardest? Because I know you said like the eating stuff, obviously Frankie struggled with the eating stuff, but even just like the ice bath challenge that you had to do, honestly, we were all so proud of you. You did so well in there, but you made it look easy and I can't imagine it was anywhere near that. It was probably the hardest thing and I'm glad you said it was harder.

It looked harder. I hate that it looked easy. I hate that you guys thought it was easy. It was cooked. It was freezing. um our core body temperature so uh after it you don't see this it's off camera but the medics are there to look after you they put you in a hypothermic blanket it was an ice bath the coldest ice bath for 18 minutes and our core body temperature dropped four degrees so we were sitting

at 33 ish degrees 32 degrees is pretty critical so it was really real um it took us 45 minutes in a 40 degree um heated environment to heat up and they had to give us food and blankets and it was really hard i thought i was gonna die i thought i was gonna drown because we couldn't i couldn't get the chains off the water was rising is it not super dangerous though like are they not situations where something could actually go wrong so they give you a code and that is a sign that you need out immediately and they have like those emergency glass breaking hammers so there's people on the outside and if you need help within seconds they just smash the glass and it floods out and they have a diver above you it's really they're prepared for it

but it's pretty scary god i can imagine we'll get these stories when we have you back in studio we want to hear all the ghosts but i think like we want to know have you spoken to ben your beautiful boyfriend like have you have you had a face time is he asleep because of the whole scotland like have you what was the reunion like i did just facetime him really quickly we haven't had a lot of time and he's so cute i thought he might have done to me while i was in there from like the eating and vomiting and that whole that whole thing no he's been so proud of you it was really sweet the one thing he said it's a shame Australia didn't get to see who you were who you are and I've already heard quite a few people say that so I'm interested to see what was shown because he said

they made me look really serious and like boring and he's like I know you're anything but that so it seems like it's a bit of a shame but I'll have to wait and see I guess Brit we watched every show you were amazing. You absolutely shone in the challenges that you got to do. And like there's so many big personalities in there and everybody's competing for airtime. But every single time you got to be and do a challenge, you were absolutely exceptional. And I guess this kind of means that now Mitch and I have to hand you back your Instagram that we have had logins to for the last month. We've been able to go through your DMs. We know everything about you. We know too much about you. I did message Ben

one night after a couple margaritas asking him for nudes and said, it's me, baby, from Africa. I found wife. Did he send them? He didn't fall for it. Oh, damn it.