The Best Of The Pick Up - Do all parents have a favourite kid?
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This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany and this is The Pick Up. It is our radio show where we wrap up the best of the week and we put it in one little tight, neat little episode for you to listen to. Do you know what I've been doing now? What? It makes life so much easier. I've started to put the episodic artwork...

So that if you want to find the pickup, it's like it's right bang. So when you click on Laugh Uncut, if you click on this episode, you'll notice. Perfect. The artwork's different. Perfect. Just so that there's no confusion. I love that. I like that you've not noticed it yet. So it shows how much you pay attention to what gets uploaded. I haven't, but in my defense,

It's only been back for one week. That's true. So you can't really come at me for that. It's taken me five years to figure out how to do it. It's the little wins here. We covered one thing on the show this week. Actually, we covered lots of things. But one thing that I thought was particularly funny is that there has been a research study that's come out of the United States that proves the parents may actually have a favorite child. That doesn't shock me. I mean,

What shocks me is the fact that we still put so much money into this research. Like, who is giving these research grants? Guys, it's so obvious that people have favourite kids. There's research into, like, the smell of farts and, like, you know, couples that have happier relationships because they neg each other. There's literally research in every single thing in the world. I think the interesting thing is here, people don't usually admit that they have favourite kids, but we do have someone today, a caller, that decided to vent. Yeah, she had a favourite child. Shocking. But, look, maybe...

No, I was going to say maybe we should be more honest about this, but actually I shouldn't. We shouldn't be because I think that that's just going to end up with a lot of therapy fees that everyone's going to be paying for their kids when they're older. And speaking of healthcare, there is a new tax that's been brought in in America that people are experiencing if they cry at the doctor. All that and more. Let's get into it. I'm going to make an admission, Laura, one that I'm not proud of. Recently we had our Christmas break, like our holidays.

And I went overseas with my fiancé Ben. We had a marvellous time. So we're in Switzerland. Great. Then we were like, we're freezing. We're going to go get some warmth. We went to Dubai. And I officially...

I hate to say it, but I became the person that I hate on holiday. Like I have complained about these people. I detest them and now it's me. You're the person who puts their feet on the seats with no shoes on, aren't you? No, that's you. Yeah, that's me. That's you. I will never. I would never. I would never. Actually, I do do that sometimes now. But this is on par with, you know how much you hate like the carousel where you get your luggage and everyone starts to – it's called the carousel creep. I've just –

to name it that, the carousel creep, where you slowly creep towards the carousel where your luggage is coming. Then all of a sudden it's so congested, no one can see their luggage, no one can get their luggage, but you have to join the forces otherwise you'll miss out. So then you become that person.

The etiquettes on planes, like whether you recline on a short flight or not. Yeah. Well, this one is – this is – I've upped the carousel in my opinion. We're at this beautiful resort in Dubai and they have a beautiful man-made beach that they have all these lovely chairs with umbrellas like lining the beach. But it's such a busy time because it was New Year's and it was such a busy part of Dubai, like huge resorts. Yeah.

And mind you, this is quite expensive. Like because it was New Year's Eve, you were paying through the nose for a hotel. And so each hotel has its own day beds for the beach. So we were going down the first few days and we were struggling to get a seat. We were like, why can we not get a day bed? This is crazy. Like we're paying so much money to stay here and we can't even lay on a bed and enjoy the property.

Then we looked out the window early one morning and we saw people going down and bags in the beds with their towels. They'll put the towel down, put a bag down. And I watched some days. They would not come back for hours. It's like you go down in the morning pre-breakfast. You lay your towels out. You put maybe a hat on.

and some goggles or something that you don't mind if it gets taken and then that's yours. You claim it for the day. Yep. Controversial. So... You're an arsehole if that's what you did. Ben and I, we were having sleep-ins. It's our holiday. We're a little roll in the hay maybe before we got the day started but we weren't early risers. It must be nice. Anyway, we had to start doing it. I said to Ben, I hate that I'm going to ask you to do this.

We got a t-shirt each that we didn't mind if it was stolen and we got towels and I would make Ben go down in the morning and bags beds, then would go to breakfast and then we would then see the people later that would come down that couldn't get the bed. No way. But then what do you do? You can't. But you have to join the dark side or you don't get to live your holiday life. Yeah, but then how long do you take it for? You've monopolised that all day.

Well, no. When we left, we would go down. You didn't just leave it there overnight. You're like, this is mine for an entire week. We set up a camp. Do you know what? This is what people are doing with cool cabanas now. Yes. Cool cabanas are taking over Australia, everyone. It's the epidemic that we never saw coming. People are going down to the beach in the morning in bags in beach space. They put their cabana up. Do you know what?

Do you remember last year we had a caller and they were, this was on Life Uncut podcast, they were angry because they came back and someone was using their kookaburra. But they had also just assembled a kookaburra in the morning. They'd left it at the beach. Then they'd gone shopping. They'd gone and done all their other things during the day and then come back to the beach in the afternoon because they wanted the same spot. It's not real estate. You can't just pitch a kookaburra and leave it there all day. No.

Actually, it's funny you say that because at the time you had the opposite opinion. You were like, yeah, I'd use it. No, I think it's a good thing.

Who's that? I don't think it's okay. If you leave an abandoned cool cabana at the beach, I think it's free game for someone else to seek shade from the sun. I'm ashamed by my behaviour. I will say that. But I do think if you can't beat them, join them. I think there's a limit to it. I think you can, if you duck down pre-breakfast and you put your towels down, then you go and have breakfast and then you make it to the pool, that's okay. But if you're like lulling about in bed and you're making it down there for an 11am start, I just think of,

All of the people who were there with kids trying to get a bed. Do you reckon? I would have just moved your stuff. This is my question. I would have moved it. Do you reckon you can just move some towels? But you can't move it if there's bags and clothes and stuff. If you know for a fact that they are not at the pool, I reckon you can move it. You don't know because they put stuff there. It's like props. They take props. It's an elaborate scheme now, Laura. Britt, did you watch Sex and the City? Yes.

Do you know, I was never actually one of those people that was hooked on it from go to woe. I sporadically tuned in and out over the years. I know that's controversial. I don't think it's controversial. I did a deep binge on Sex and the City after I went through a bad breakup and I sat in my house and I cried and I ate ice cream and I posted a lot of sad quotes to Instagram. Inspirational, live, laugh, love. And I watched the whole thing. Like I was obsessed with it. I think I just

was envisaging living an alternate life at the time. Which character were you? Carrie? No. The sex one. Probably. Samantha.

Well, the reason I want to talk about it is because, I mean, Sex and the City, it's iconic. It was such a big part of our times and it still is. It's such a pop culture moment. But it is currently being spoken about in the news and that's because, you know the really iconic stoop, like the front of Carrie's house? I can't take the word stoop seriously. But yes, her stoop, her stairs. Stairs, we would call them here in Australia. Yeah.

But, you know, in the United States, it's a stoop. So the owner of the building itself has asked for a permit to be able to install a massive iron gate that will go around the front of the steps to stop people from sitting on the steps, from taking photos, from huddling around the area, from creating TikToks, all the stuff that people do. Stoop loitering. Yeah, stoop gate, literally. But, okay, I first saw this and my instant reaction was...

How dare she? How dare this woman? If you're going to buy a house that is known as an iconic piece of like pop culture history, how can you be angry when people want to be involved in it and be a part of it and take photos? I feel like you have to lean into the moment. But there's a big bait and switch, isn't there? There's more to the story, everyone. So it turns out that before the show had even started filming, she owned the house.

and this young 20-year-old location scout rocked up at her door one day and basically told her that he was going to be fired and lose his very first job in the business if he wasn't able to secure this house or a house in this like very specific proximity. And she was like, oh, you know what? Sure. That'll be fun. You can use the

front of my house for your little sex in the city, having no idea how absolutely insane the show was going to become. Now, for the past like 15 or 20 years or however long it's been, she has every single day had to endure 100%.

Hundreds of people rocking up, people engraving their names on her front door. Thousands. People laying down at her front door, people just opening the door and trying to let themselves in. It's called break it in, so it's illegal. Yeah, but can you just imagine like how many drunk people would go to take photos and then be like, oh, let's just see if it's open. Peer inside. I think give the woman a gate. Give her a gate. There is no way she could ever comprehend...

The juggernaut that Sex and the City turned into. Although, hear me out, there is one, I mean, I call devil's advocate on this a little bit because, yes, she may not have known how big it was going to be at the start, but I'm sure she would have as the show grew in popularity, as it was recontracted. I'm sure she also made a lot of money by allowing the house to be part of and featured in the show. Well, you never know, not if she signed an ongoing contract at the start to say shoot for this money. Not for like...

15 years? Yeah, Hollywood's known to like scam people. It did make me think though, you hear about people who move in next to bars or they move in next to restaurants. But I think the really big one around Australia was Luna Park. Luna Park, if you're not familiar with it, it's a very popular like funland park. What do you call them? Funland? What are they called? Like a theme park? Theme park! Theme park.

It's fun land. It's a fun land park. It's a land of fun where you're guaranteed to have fun at. It's a really popular one that's in Sydney. And the apartment block that was built directly above it, like basically just behind it, all the tenants were complaining about the Big Dipper. It was this really famous roller coaster, but it got shut down because of massive noise complaints. And the apartment itself was built after Luna Park was created. So I'm kind of like,

If you're going to buy an apartment above a roller coaster, you can't be mad that there's a roller coaster. Same thing when I used to live over in London, like Notting Hill, you know the movie, very famous movie. So famous, yeah. I lived in Notting Hill and Notting Hill is one of, if you haven't been, it's one of those places that not only is it iconic for the movie, but they have the very famous street where every house and door is painted a different colour. It's the most aesthetically pleasing street you've ever been to.

but it is constantly a thoroughfare for tourists. Like you cannot walk down the street without thousands of people taking photos on your every single stoop. And I just think the same thing. I was like, you could never buy into that street again because you will never ever have privacy. Like people look into your windows all day. To be fair, I watched that just pre-Christmas. It's a great movie. Very sweet. I reckon it's Hugh Grant at his best. Now he's just a cranky old cow. He is. Tell us what you really think. All right, that's the story for another day. That's another day.

Now, you guys probably know by now, my husband, he has gone into the I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here jungle. Crazy cat. Well, he actually, he left last Monday. So, I mean, it's been over a week now that we've been without him. How you been going? Surprisingly well. Surprisingly loving my life. No, I'm not loving my life. I absolutely miss him. But

But I am definitely going better than what I expected. So when Matt very first told me that he wanted to go and do the show and potentially would be away and uncontactable for six weeks...

I was not very keen on the idea. Yeah, I remember vividly. What do you remember? You were like, it can't happen. I can't do it. I can't handle it. I can't be alone for six weeks while he gets to be on a holiday. Well, I think also because I remember you doing it last year, right? And like when they go into the jungle, they are completely uncontactable. So they don't have their phones. You'd have no access to them. There's no internet. There's nothing. So I kind of...

the thought of having to parent without Matt, but not just him being on like a work trip where I could call him if I needed him or have contact with him. For no contact. Yeah. And also like, you know, we both work so much and then both of our kids have just started two new schedules. It felt like,

way too much for me to be able to handle myself. It was more just like bad timing than anything else. Like it could have happened maybe at a different time, but it was the kids' schedules and everything that was happening that just didn't work. Yeah, look, I mean, maybe it's sharing too much, but I was definitely not a fan about it. I'm on board now. I'm very supportive. Go and vote for Matt. Yay! I'm a celebrity. Team Maddie J.

But for the first sort of five days that he had left or four days, he still had his phone with him. He still had access to his phone. So even though he was in Africa, we were able to talk to him on the show. We had him on the pick up last week and I was also still able to message him. And...

After he left, I had this kind of realization that maybe I had been catastrophizing how hard it was going to be without him. The realization came from the fact that I had completely underestimated how much time simply being in a relationship meant

from your day. So hear me out. I would spend hours, like we get home from work, we debrief on our day. He calls me all day when I'm at work to like update me on things or to ask me to check an email or check something. He calls me all day. I reckon he would call me seven to eight times a day. He's needy in the relationship. He's not needy. Eight times a day is needy. He just needs me. That's him. Let me let you know.

you just do the math on that. But I had underestimated that removing the relationship from the equation would free up so much time of my day. So it hasn't been as hard as what I thought it was going to be. Welcome to long distance life, Laura. This is why I choose long distance. Or also maybe

being single, but like not actually, I don't think that being single and dating would be very time efficient because dating takes so much time. But if you're single and you're happily single, you've just removed an entire thing from your life that requires attention, love, detail, your time, your energy, all that stuff. A chore. You can't call my husband a chore. That will end in a fight. So he called me on Wednesday last week and he was like, how are you going?

I'm so sad to have left you and I'm so sad to have left the girls. And he'd already had a cry. Apparently he had a little bit of a teary when he walked through security. And I was like, babe, we're fine. I was like, this is so...

so much easier than I thought it was going to be. And he was like, well, what do you mean? And I was like, well, you're not here. And I've just realised you require way more time than I'd ever anticipated. That went down like a lead balloon. It really did. It really did. And he kind of reduced from that that I was saying life was easier without him, which is absolutely not what I mean. No, it is what you mean. Life is easier.

It's not easy without him. It doesn't mean you don't want him there, but it is exactly what you're saying. It's just an extra thing you have to deal with. He's amazing. It's just more efficient sometimes. That's all. You can just get from point A to point B without having to consider an extra person. I have always said...

And I used to fly this flag proudly. I've always said, I think that you're more efficient and successful and you get more done when you are single because you just have nothing else that distracts you, nothing you're thinking about, nothing you've got to give your time to, don't have to call, don't have to run anything by anyone. Like it's just you. You get shit done. You make your decisions. You don't have to flounder around to anyone. Don't get me wrong. This sounds really negative. We sound like we hate ourselves.

I love my husband more than anything. I cannot wait for him to be home. I just underestimated how efficient I could be without having to be like, oh, I love you every day. And I want to be that and I want to have those moments with him. But I was like, man, I'm going to get stuff done. I have a to-do list while you're gone and I am busy. And I think Matt will understand. I don't know if he will. He's a sensitive soul. Maybe he's not coming back. Maybe he stays in the jungle. No, I can't wait for him to come home. But I hope that he stays to the end. Vote every day, guys.

Let's keep him in the jungle. So much contradiction in this chat. I don't know what my own feelings are anymore. Now, Britt, I want to talk to you about the big age-old question that I think everyone has always asked, whether it's about your own parents or maybe you're a parent yourself and you've been asked it about your children that you have. The birds and the bees? No, I'm not going there at this time slot. It is about whether or not parents do in fact have a favourite child. Oh.

I'm going to go yes. I think absolutely they do. Yeah, okay, when you think about your own parents, do you think your mum and dad had a favourite kid? You're one of four. I'm one of four. Obviously it was me, yes. When you were a child, it was you? I don't believe it for one second. When I was a child, hands down, no. No, I was low on the Richter scale of the four of us. But I think I developed well at school.

And I think that I like won. I think that I wasn't the favourite child, but I reckon I am as an adult. Oh, you think you got better? You're like a fine wine. You sucked as a kid, but now you're doing okay as an adult. 100%. I grew into it, yeah. It's funny because I have two kids and so... And I like one. LAUGHTER

No, no. I think when you're a parent, like it's an expectation that you will be like, absolutely not. Like I love my children equally. And you do. But there's definitely different things about them that you like that are different, right? But I think about my own family and my mum. I was one of three kids. And I would put money on the fact that my little brother was the favourite. My mum would deny it still to this day. But I reckon he's the favourite just because he was young and he was cute and he was the last baby of the household. How?

your mum sort of said that before? No, no. My mum would never be that cruel. I don't think that you can. You're not allowed to say you have a favourite, but you can't not have a favourite. Like your kids are going to be so different. Some are going to be easier to deal with. Some are going to be more tolerable. Some are going to be nice. Some are going to be...

For want of a better word, something going to be nicer, probably more successful. Like you can't help the fact that some kids are going to be easier kids than others. And of course, that's going to make you maybe enjoy being around them in that period of time more. Parenting really is a spectacular joy sometimes. And then on the other hand, you just described it so perfectly. Tolerable. Look, the reason why we're talking about this is because there's proof now. Scientific data has come out. There's been a recent study that's come out of the American Psychology Association, which says that even though

though we might not think that we have a favorite child, subconsciously you may prefer one over the other. So this is what it says. Parents may be more inclined to confer the favorite child award to daughters and also to children who are agreeable and conscientious. Yeah, that's also another way to say tolerable. Yes, but both mothers and fathers statistically prefer daughters over sons.

Scandalous. You know a story you just reminded me of with my parents? My parents are still together now. They've been married 47 years. They have a great relationship. But growing up, I was always closer to my dad. Like, I think I had wound him around my little finger. My mum and I clashed a lot.

In hindsight, I realised that that's because we were so similar. But I remember this one time where I asked mum if I could get my belly button pierced. Everyone else had it pierced. I was in high school and she said, absolutely not. When you're 18, do what you want. Then I went to my dad and I was like, hey, dad, mum said I could get my belly pierced. She said, you'd have to take me though.

full manipulation. No wonder you weren't the favourite child as a kid. You're an arsehole. Well, he took me because I was, I reckon I was his favourite child. And later on in life, I always thought I pulled the wool over his eyes. He's like, I knew. He's like, I knew I'd get in trouble from your mother. You know, he had a soft spot for me. So I think that was because I was one of the

favourite? I think it probably was. I have a bit of a theory around favourite kids. I don't think it's static. I think it changes depending on whichever child is the easiest child at the time. Like, I love both my kids equally, but some days...

One of them is just a little bit easier to deal with than the other. So I can understand why sometimes it fluctuates. Hey, we've got Jamie calling. Hi, Jamie. Hey, guys. How are we? Jamie, what's going on? Have you got a favorite child? I do. I certainly do. I have four daughters and it's my third born. I don't know why. What?

What are the ages? I don't know. I have all of them. The older two are heading towards the teenage years. That's tough. And then we've got a baby who's still kind of like a potato. Also tough. And then the favourite's the four-year-old. So you think it's because they're just at the easier age right now? Do you think that that was going to change, that favouritism? I don't know. I thought, in my head, I thought when the baby comes, like I'll like the baby more.

Maybe because she's not a person yet. She's a potato. She's still a little potato. Jamie, I have a question for you. Do you feel guilty at all about verbalising this? Because this is stuff you take to the grave. Not even slightly. The kids know and everything. The kids know. You've told them? No, you can't tell them. Yeah, they're well aware. How do you tell them?

The older two assumed they already knew. She just got me wrapped around her finger. There's something about the four-year-old. The newborn baby doesn't care yet, but trust me, she can't talk. She will. But the older kids, Jamie, when you tell them,

How do they feel about it? How do they react? Are they a bit upset about it? Could they care less? They could care less because Daddy doesn't have favourites and Daddy loves them all equally. Oh, he's a diplomatic parent. Thank God Daddy stepped up to the plate with that one then. You're like, sorry, this is my little sweetheart. He's trapped with his four daughters. Forever. I'm shooketh. I'm shooketh that you put your voice on national radio. That you've got a favourite child.

We know that going to the doctors can sometimes be a little bit emotional, right? Like maybe you're going there for something. Unless it's a psychologist, I don't really get that emotional. They'll be like, what if you're going to the GP and it's something that has been really upsetting for you? Like, I mean, you get migraine sprit. I'm sure you've spoken to a doctor before and felt emotional. Yeah, I didn't really know where you were going with it, but I get you now. Or maybe you got bad news or something like that. Yeah, I would say that, you know, maybe it's not frequent, but I would say that people do sometimes get to the GP and...

and the emotions come out and you cry at an appointment. Unprompted, you didn't mean to, but like, you know, it's a vulnerable place. There is a TikTok that is going viral at the moment and it is because this woman went to her gynecologist appointment and she did just that. She got a little bit emotional and it took her a little while to kind of get over what it was that she was there to see. So basically she was weighed for the very first time and being confronted by her weight...

sort of caught her off guard. But then she was also caught off guard for a very different reason. Have a listen to this. So I'm sitting there on the exam table, you know, naked. And the doctor comes in and she said, so how is everything? And I just start bawling. And so she was very kind and very gracious. And we kind of talked through some emotional things. So now two weeks later, I see an invoice in my email from the gynecologist saying,

In addition to the yearly exam, she put in a brief emotional intervention. So I today had to pay to cry naked.

at the gynaecologist's office. What? Is that a thing? That's not legal, like a cry fee. Well, I don't think it exists here, but like in the States, yeah. Like $11, that sounds cheap to me. Well, apparently some other people in the comments on the TikTok have said, yeah, that's happened to them as well.

Let me think about this for a second. Okay, hear me out. If you are paying to go to the doctors, you can do whatever you want in that consultation. Hang on, disagree. You can't do a poo on the table, but you can do lots of things in there. If you want to cry, you cry. No, you can't if it's a defecogram. That's where you poo in front of the doctor. Do you? Yeah, it's like defecation gram. Yeah. Sometimes you've got to poo in front of a doctor into a, yeah, it's a whole other thing. Every day we learn new things here. Anyway, I am going to speak my thoughts out loud as I process it live.

Immediately what I want to say here is that's crazy. That's ridiculous. You can't charge that. But what I'm thinking maybe happened is like you book out a slot of time and if you have like a little breakdown in there or you're upset and you're crying and your appointment time goes out into the next appointment time and your doctor's being a great doctor where they're like, well, I'm not going to kick you out while you're crying. Like, let's talk through this. Maybe you're going to book out a slot of time and if you have like a little breakdown in there or you're upset and you're crying and your appointment time goes out into the next appointment time and your doctor's being a great doctor where they're like, well, I'm not going to kick you out while you're crying. Like, let's talk through this. Maybe you're going to book out a slot of time and if you have like a little breakdown in there or you're upset and you're crying and your appointment time goes out into the next appointment time and your doctor's being a great doctor where they're like, well, I'm not going to kick you out while you're crying.

maybe they've labeled it as like the emotional fee, but it might just be to say like, hey, you actually just went double appointment time. I don't think she went over time. I think it was just because she was naked and she was crying and that was a skill set. It's not the nakedness. It's the crying. They're a gyno. It's the crying. That's true. They used to be naked. Hey, I went and had a pap smear and then somehow I managed to forget that I'd had a pap smear. So I went in, I laid down, I did the click, click, click, duck,

bill thing got my pack what do they call it cervical screening now duck bill had it all done definitely don't call it that they put that thing in it goes like click click click yeah

Men have no idea what I'm talking about right now and probably are horrified, but we should all know these things. So somehow I got my results, everything. I completely forgot that I'd had a pap smear, like totally blanked. Sure. Could not remember. Sure, Laura. I booked. You just enjoy it as like a little hobby. That's such a good time. Yeah. That's why I've forgotten. Four weeks later, I booked an appointment at the same doctor's. I walked in and like it was- Laura, you've been here.

Why do you keep coming back asking for service? Just to put me in a recurring appointment. I told you you didn't have to get tested again for two years. Four weeks later, I'm back. Get him. So I was sitting there and she didn't clock it straight away. So like she was like, okay, get up the bed, take your pants off, did the whole thing. And then as I was getting undressed, she was looking at my file and she was like, Laura, get up.

You literally just had this done. You can put your pants back on. But then I sat down and she said to me, I'm not exactly sure how to charge for this consultation. Because I didn't do it. Because I haven't done anything. But I'd still taken up like a booking of her time. Did she charge you? Yeah, I had to pay for like a general appointment for nothing just to be told that my memory wasn't great. That's fair though. It's not on her. Because I did take my pants off in front of her. That you have a gyno addiction. Like that's no one's fault but your own. Yeah, I'm a gyno addict.

I've always had commitment issues, Laws, you know that, but I have committed now to my fiance. Well done. The one thing I've never had trouble committing to is a restaurant. Like, you know, when you just find your groove with a cafe or a restaurant, you know the vibe there, you know the energy, you know what's on the menu, you order the same thing. I developed an unhealthy relationship with this cafe, right, which is my go-to. I go there probably four times a week.

When I go there, I get the same thing four times a week. When you know something's good, you become a creature of habit. I just think about it all the time. Yeah. It's a chicken schnitzel sandwich. Thank you. So it's nothing that's like mind-blowing, but it in itself is mind-blowing. Like it's a top-notch chicken schnitty. So I went there last week and ordered it and they said, enjoy this. It's the last one. No.

And I said, what? And they were like, this is the last one. And I was like, why? Why would you do that? They said, oh, it's been moved out for something else, a different type of sandwich. Because no matter how much you ordered at Brit, you seem to be the only one. No, they just like to mix it up. So they swapped it out with a Steaksanger. Great, but it doesn't have anything on a chicken schnitty in my eyes. So I was really upset, enjoyed every bite. And then I went home and I just thought, this isn't sitting with me.

So I contacted the restaurant. Brittany Hockley, she's a celebrity. I have needs and wants and they're not being met. You wrote a letter. Well, in their DMs, in their Insta DMs. I didn't send it with a carrier pigeon down to the restaurant. What did you say? I just told them my honest feelings. I was quite vulnerable with them and I just said, look, this is a really cool part of my life and I think you should reconsider this.

The classic chicken schnitzel sandwich is a staple here in Australian culture. I think it's a mistake that you're taking it off. I have a question for you. Did you message them from your account that has a blue tick? Did you wield your blue tick around? It wasn't from my burner account. On this poor unsuspecting restaurant. Well, I didn't do that intentionally, but it's my only Instagram account. So yes. Yes, I did. They know who I am.

I am. I go there three days a week. I am this, I frequent this restaurant. There is nothing more devastating in life. Actually, that's a lie. There's plenty more things, but just go with me. So dramatic. It's pretty sad when you go to your favorite restaurant and you have your favorite meal that you get there all the time and you rock up one day and the menu's changed and it's no longer available. This happened to me recently. We go to the pub every Wednesday night and every Wednesday night, because I'm a creature of habit and I do the same thing on repeat, I get the prawn chili pasta.

Last weekend, that's a lie as well, it was a few weeks ago, I got there and the prawn chilli pasta had been taken off the menu. And guess what? I've never been back since. Isn't it devastating? I can't go. But I'm not going to send them a message from Lady and a Cat and be like, put the prawn pasta back on. Well, I just wanted to give them my feedback. I think it's important. It wasn't a rude email. I just said, I want you to know it's a very loved sandwich in the community. I just want you to think through.

I want you to think this through. Their response was... Did you threaten them with anything? Were you like, I'll never come back? Brittany Hockley will never come back unless you put the Sanger back on. No, I didn't. But they responded really nicely. I'll at you on Instagram. Their response was... Their response was...

We hear you. We feel you. It was just time for a change. But can we say the steak sandwich is amazing. We recommend you try it. Anyway, I thought, you know what? I love them and I'm loyal, but I'm going to have to have a break from them. But I figured out the fix. So I went back yesterday and I ordered the steak sandwich and then I said, can I swap the steak for chicken schnitzel? Oh, my God. And they...