The Best Of The Pick Up - Laura Has Sent Us All Into Duress
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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 our radio show, The Pickup. This is what we package up the best of the radio for the week and put it here in one little place. Don't you dare put that butter menthol back in your mouth. Laura, she's so annoying. I just had a butter menthol in my mouth. I put it in just before recording. I thought... Which checks out.

I can suck this whilst I record. But apparently it was clicking on my teeth too loud. Yeah, because butter menthol, it's like having gold in your mouth. I would almost argue that butter menthols have increased in size. You know how everything is decreased? Look at the size of that thing. Okay, just for you playing at home, because Laura's upset I've asked her to take it out. Put it in, please, and show us what you wanted to do this with. Click it around like it was.

Yes, exactly. Did you hear that? Yes. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode. I can't hear it. Yeah, get it out. Anyway, look, it was the pick up. Oh, see, I can't speak. So this was our radio show and we had a really fun show this week and

I shared a story about how I sent our entire office building into duress. Oh, it was very funny because I didn't know this story. Laura told me live on air and I nearly wet my pants. It was not a highlight of my week, let me put it that way, and it certainly was not a highlight of any of the bosses' week. I got into a lot of trouble for this. But it also was...

Like whilst it was hilarious to me, there was nothing about it that was surprising. Like it didn't shock me that you would have done what you did. That I did it? To me it's more shocking that no one really knew what to do in the situation. Yeah, it was very funny. We also spoke to Reggie Bird from I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. She's the twice over winning Big Brother contestant. She also came in the top three of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and she is losing her eyesight. She's vision impaired and she is going blind and she's just –

Such an inspiration. She's so cool. She's such a lovely woman. And honestly, when I was away and got to spend a bit of time with her, she was the one person that I was like, I would love to get Reggie on the show. Her outlook on life and also the challenges that life has thrown at her, it really is one of those examples of like –

Some people manage to make the best out of a situation that just seems deeply unfair. Yeah. We weren't able to get into it on the show because obviously the radio show is a bit quicker, but we talked about her losing her eyesight. But also on top of that, she also has a son who has cystic fibrosis and so she's had a chronically ill child for his whole life and...

And she's just a really remarkable woman. I think, you know, her putting herself out there and going and doing I'm a Celebrity is such a testament to the type of person that she is, regardless of the limitations that she felt around it. And that was such a great chat with her. All of that and so much more is coming up on the show now.

Now, we get asked a lot on our podcast, Life Uncut podcast, about wedding questions and hen's parties questions. And there's a thread that's going off in the Mamma Mia community Facebook group that has sparked a really big debate surrounding hen's parties. So I'm just going to read it for you. A pretty good friend of mine is having a hen's party. It's a $250 per person lunch.

It's going to be a struggle to afford that in our budget, especially when I have the wedding in a few weeks because I have to factor in expensive gifts, accommodation and babysitters. She's the type of person who is going to be upset and angry if I don't go and it will likely damage our friendship. So she goes on to say like, knowing I can't afford it, do I put myself and my family first and not go knowing that she's got all these other expenses coming up or is

Does she have to like make some really personal cuts and cuts in her lifestyle and her family and home life so that she can afford this really expensive lunch so that she doesn't quote unquote lose her friend? I think hands parties in general are getting too expensive. Absolutely.

Absolutely. And I get it. Like if you want to do something nice for your pre-wedding celebrations, often that comes with a price tag. I mean everything's kind of expensive at the moment. But I don't think that you can be angry at someone if they have said that they're not able to afford it. Like I think if it was free and they turned around and said, oh, I can't come, then you could have a reason to be like, well, you've not prioritised something that's important. Yeah, they hate you. Yeah, but if you're expecting something,

someone to pay a lot of money to come to the wedding. They've got to pay for babysitters. They've got to buy a present. It's, you know, they've got to travel to the wedding. I don't think that you can be personally offended if someone tells you that they can't afford to go to your hen's party. Well, it makes you think like for you to make the statement, I might lose her as a friend if I don't go. Like spoiler, that's not a friend. Yeah. If a friend is going to drop you because you say you can't afford to go to her hen's party, knowing you're going to her wedding, I don't think that's a very good friend. But get this.

According to Wedded Wonderland, Aussies are spending on average $614 just on the hens. That's crazy. I actually can't believe that. I feel like that's too high. And when I think about it, I'm like, I would normally, I guess the kind of going rate amongst my friends in the past few hens parties I've been to has been over $200. But $600 seems absolutely crazy. Like, where are these people going? Are they going away on holidays? Are they going away on mini vacations? Yeah.

Like it's one thing to have a lunch for a hen's party. It's another thing to have like a full weekend away or something and expect everyone to pay that sort of money. Well, even for the $250 for this lunch, like this question, it was just a lunch and like two drinks or something. It's not like they're going to a buffet. It's not like they're going on a boat or it's nothing like elaborate or luxurious. That's just like a standard eat lunch. And what if you don't drink? Actually, that's a whole other thing. There's a lot of people who don't drink these days and then they get footed with the same bill that everyone else is. You're like, I had a Coke.

zero. I don't know. My thing is, and like, I mean, I know I've already said it, but whatever hen's party you want to have, it's absolutely fine. You can organize and do whatever it is that you want to do. And it can be whatever price you want it to be, but you cannot be angry at people who don't want to go. I think that like at the end of the day, if people opt in to spend that money because they want to be there and because they have...

very happily voluntarily paid that money. But you don't want people going and putting themselves into a financial situation that is like too hard for them simply because they're scared of disappointing you. Like that's a terrible place to be as a friend. Totally. And my, so my wedding later in the year is international because my fiance is international. He lives overseas. So it's just hard to work out. Yeah, it's going to cost a bomb. But I...

I had no expectations on anyone coming. And, like, that's on me. And I put on the invitation, I totally understand if there are people in a situation that this is unfathomable for them. Unfortunately, as, like, an international couple, this is how it is. But I don't want anyone to feel bad or guilty or if this is not on your agenda for 2025. And, like, I genuinely mean that. I would not hold one thing against anyone that can't come. Britt, how would you feel if I didn't come, though? Mate. Mate.

It's too expensive. I can't afford it. I'm trying to be diplomatic. You're like, I know how much you get paid. You're coming. We get paid the same amount. So, yeah, no. If you actually said to me, I can't afford it, but I'm seeing what you spend your money on. You're coming. You're coming. You're there. But you know what? Even that. Got to take the kids. Got to pay for nannies. It's tax deductible. We'll do a podcast over there. We'll do a radio show. It's tax deductible. Yeah, I'll make my way.

make my wedding tax deductible? I think we need to stop talking about how it's going to be your tax deduction. It's not. Yeah, it's not. It's a joke. Yeah, kidding. Now, you guys are very well aware that I was a big fan of I'm a Celebrity this year. I watched every episode. What do you mean this year? Well, I was on it last year. Were you not a fan last year? That's true. You didn't even watch it last year, did you? No, I did. I was a fan last year. I was particularly...

I'm particularly a fan this year because my husband, Matty J, was on the show. But we did meet another celebrity again, Reggie Bird. Now, Reggie Bird, she was the winner of Big Brother. She's won two separate seasons. And I honestly felt, and I think most of Australia did, that she was just such a standout in this season of I'm a Celeb.

And Reggie herself, she's vision impaired and she is going blind, but she really rewrote what it means to have a disability and to be able to show up and still do everything that every other person was able to do in that campsite. And it was so inspirational. I loved every moment that she was on the screen and we have her on the show. Reggie, welcome to The Pickup.

Oh, thank you for having me, guys. How are you feeling now that you're at home and you're back to normal life? Are you missing the jungle or are you happy to be out of that hellhole? Oh, look, it is good to be back in your comfort... What is it? Creature comforts or whatever it's called. But I am missing everyone now, dearly. I'm really missing everyone. Reggie, do you think it was harder or easier than you anticipated? Oh, actually...

Really? Yes. I'm weird. I thought the same. I coped mentally really well compared to a lot of the other campmates because I think it's my past experiences

experience of being on Big Brother and doing, you know, I spent, what, three months in Big Brother and being in there for a month was a breeze for me. Yeah. Reggie, you... But not doing those challenges though. Oh, yeah. You looked pretty upset when you had to eat that kale, Reggie. I'm not going to lie. But you... No. It's gross.

You spoke so beautifully about, well, about so many things actually. But one thing in particular is what you are going through with being vision impaired. And I don't want to say it wrong, but is it retinitis pigments? Is that the? Retinitis pigmentosa. Pigmentosa. Can you describe to us, like, what does that mean in terms of what's happening with your vision? Because you can still see a little bit, but you can't see as well as what you were able to.

No, because I've just got nine degrees of pinhole vision and I explain to people it's just like looking through a straw, like looking through straws and also looking

Another way of putting it, like, I can see a pen across the other side of the room, but I'll trip over 100 elephants to get to that pen. Oh, I get you. So I don't see things right in front of me or beside me, above me or below. So it's just a very, very little frame of vision that I have left, yeah. And is that going to stay like that? Is that going to deteriorate completely? Yeah, yeah. So they said to me, you

You've got a 15-year timeframe before you totally lose all your sight. So I'm just very thankful that what I've got left. That's why I just make the most of everything in life because one day I am going to wake up and never, ever, ever see anything ever again. You are such an inspiration on the show. And I think, I mean, I can only imagine...

the questions you would have had about going in there and doing that show. Like everybody has reservations about doing it, but going in and doing that show, but without being able to see, there must have been an additional pressure or fear factor there for you. Yeah, well, I was shit scared anyway about going in, especially, you know, because I'm petrified of everything, you know, especially the heights, spiders, bugs, snakes, everything.

My husband. And I told them. Oh, my goodness. Oh, man. Yes, I was so scared. But they did, of a night time, allow me to have a little head torch to go to the toilet. Yeah. So I could, yeah, use that to try and see where I was going. Yeah.

I only had one really good night sleeping there because every night before going, like when we all went to bed, I'd sit there just worrying about a spider or some animal coming to get me because I can't see in the dark at all. Like I've got no night vision at all. Yeah, so I was

I was really, really worried about that. But prior to going in, yeah, I had a few reservations. But I thought, nah, I've got to do this. You know, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and went with the flow in there. So, yeah, it was good fun. You had a really beautiful conversation with Matt at one point in the show. And he asked you what it was that you're going to miss the most when you lose your vision. And you said it was seeing your kids. Yeah.

And I think every single parent, oh, it's going to be. No, I'm not even a parent and it upsets me. It's just, I mean, they understand what's happening, obviously. Emi is a little bit older, but how do they respond to this?

Yeah, look, they bless them, you know. For them, as they've got older, you know, they help me a lot, like especially when I'm out and about and, you know, they go, Mum, there's a step there or Mum, there's a gutter. You know, they help me heaps and I guess that's all they've ever known with me. So just even when Mia, like when we got the letters from home and Mia wrote him letters

in the letter about my vision and she's going, mum, you're doing so well even though, you know, with your poor eyesight. Yeah, I'm going to miss their faces for sure when I lose my sight. Yeah, that's the biggest thing. People,

really have no excuse to complain about that jungle again. If you have gone in there, I mean, like when I was in there, the people complaining left, right and center, oh, we didn't get any mango tonight. We didn't get avocado. The worst thing is Reggie didn't poo for a whole week. I got in there and she was like, I haven't gone to the toilet in over a week. But like you to go and navigate that the way you have Reggie, it's like you've just won over so many hearts in Australia. I know that, oh, I hope you know that by now, but you really have.

Oh, thank you. Yeah, today's the first day I've actually got on and looked at my social media stuff. So, oh, man, there's some horrible comments as well out there. I'm just like, wow, especially about my eyesight because, you know, a lot of people say, no, she's fake and that. Oh, right. She's in there for sympathy. You know, it's just full on and I'm just thinking, wow, there's so many people just –

are so quick to judge and if they spent a day in my shoes, they would understand how I get about. So I try. I just don't want to give up. So, and that's what I do. Like, especially like, I make little cooking videos and again, people commenting, oh, how can she use a knife? We're not that,

What's the word I'm trying to say? Ignorant. They're so ignorant. Yeah, like vision impaired blind people can still live their lives and do things. But this is... Yeah, like you look at those who are in the Paralympics, like they're an inspiration. And that's what I say to people is...

If I was a Paralympian going into the Olympics, they'd be cheering me on instead of knocking me down for having a go. So it's really weird. Reggie, I'm so sorry that you have to put up with that type of commentary because all it really shows is that there is such a lack of understanding around what constitutes blindness and people think it's black or white. You can see or you can't see. They don't think about it as a spectrum and that some people's vision is so impaired that their daily life is impacted by it. I don't even think...

I think it goes further than that. It's just, it's hideous. No, we're being too lean on them. They're just trolls. They're bullies. There's not the lack of education about what happens with blindness. That's not it at all. The world is full of these people that get off on bringing other people down. All I can say to you, Reg, as someone that has been in that reality world many, many times.

You will hold on to the negative things that people write to you but try to ignore it and look at how much support and love and all the beautiful comments you've got because the negative comments stand out but I would hate for you to have gone through this experience and you listen to these keyboard warriors. Like, please don't. Yeah, we adore you, Reggie. Yeah, yeah.

my sister's here, she's going, stop reading it. Don't look at it. Anita's right. She's right. Reggie, we absolutely adore you. Congratulations on everything and for coming so incredibly close to getting the crown of the jungle. We're just so stoked for you. Oh, look, I had the absolute best time ever in there. It was amazing. I'm so glad that I got

got asked to do it because I'm a massive fan of the show and I thought I'd never ever in my wildest dreams ever get a chance to go on the show. And, you know, it was awesome coming in top three. But even if I didn't go that far, just to have that opportunity to go to South Africa and be part of it is just a blessing. I'm so grateful for going on there. You're the best, Reggie. Yeah.

Laura, I know you usually every single year are so up to date on maths. You are sick for it. I am getting up to date now. Yeah. I've missed a few episodes, but now I'm like, I'm in there. Every year you think that the show can't be more rogue or go more wild or be more dramatic or more controversial. And every year they never cease to surprise us. It gets worse. Well, there's a bit of a like,

Maths mutiny is how it's being described. I couldn't think of the word mutiny. Thanks. You're welcome. I was thinking of like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So there's a maths – thanks for telling us you're running internal monologue, Britt. That was my internal monologue. There's a maths mutiny going on. And one of the contestants from last year's season, Ben Walters, if you remember, he was married to Ellie Dix. So he has basically come out – is that right? Yeah. Why are you laughing? Funny last name. Okay.

So sorry. Producer Grace Dix, D-I-X, you're so immature. She thinks it's funny because she's a lesbian. LAUGHTER

So he has basically come out and he's sharing on TikTok, he's sharing his contract. So you're supposed to sign your life away, but you're also not supposed to share the details around it. Well, part of the signing of the contract is that you will not talk about the signing of the contract. Like the contract itself has an NDA around it. Oh yeah, well, he is giving no beeps. Have a listen.

There is a Married at First Sight mutiny going on right now, and to help their cause, I'm gonna expose some of the juiciest parts of the Married at First Sight f**k.

contract they would have signed. These ones are my favorites. To include any such information, material, appearance, depiction, portrayal, action, or statement by the program, and skipping on to point B, transmit, otherwise exploit the program, material, or advertisements containing such information, appearance, depiction, portrayal, action, or statement in edited in any way, shape, or form they bloody want. In other words, if it's out of context, they can snip it up for dramatic effect.

Okay, look, I have conflicting feelings about this. Partly, I think it is unfair for a production company to completely misconstrue or completely take out of context something that you do or say. But I also think if you're signing up to a show like Maths and you're signing that contract, like you read the contract. 100%. You know that it's a possibility that they're going to do those things.

Why is it that when they do them, you're so surprised and so angry? Like it happens every year. It's discussed every year. Shouldn't we as contestants on these shows take some agency that maybe the way that we're going to be portrayed is not desirable? I feel the same way. It was the same contract for us on The Bachelor. Like we signed literally almost the exact same thing. And I remember thinking like, wow, like,

they're going to own me. They can do whatever they want with me. They're going to destroy me. But then I remember like looking up to my imaginary future bubble and I was like, well, I'm going to take the risk that I will fall on the 50% of the good edit and not the bad edit. Like there's part of you that thinks when you go into these situations that if you know you're a good person, you think that they're going to see that and they won't give you the bad edit, but it doesn't work like that. Sometimes good people get a bad edit, but at the end of the day, does this contract suck? Absolutely.

Absolutely. Is it wrong that they can manipulate the situation? Yes. Did you read, sign and agree to it? Yes. Like you did that. I mean, I know I said I feel 50-50 about the contract in itself, but I also feel a bit 50-50 about this whole idea that like really good people can get bad edits.

I think that there are enough people on these shows that are behaving pretty poorly, that have questionable behaviour or say questionable things, that they don't need to make really nice, upstanding, like, people who don't step out of line look like arseholes. I don't think they do. Yes, I do agree that it's harder to make a really good person have an entirely bad edit. There's obviously moments that they can make look bad and I've seen it happen to people I know. I've seen it happen to myself. I know it can happen.

But I do know a producer that has worked on maths and I have had conversations with them where they've said sometimes it's infuriating because the worst person on that show, the biggest bully, gets the really good edit. And sometimes it's hard for them to sit back and watch. That's interesting. Yeah. Like sometimes it's like that person shouldn't have got the edit that they got.

And sometimes the better people, maybe they were a good person but boring or not good content. So they're like, well, you can't be the hero of the show because you don't give enough. So there are so many reasons. Hey, can we get that producer on the show? No. And tell us who the biggest bully was. I can tell you off air. Not now. Beep. I think you already know.

The other day, I've been meaning to tell you this story. I know. I have been waiting with bated breath. You're like, oh, wait till I tell you what I did. I'm worried because it's actually not that good, but I've really built it up. In my head, this is the best story to ever land on the pick up. It's not, but it did get me into so much trouble. So last week you left.

after work. And we all said goodbye. Kiss, kiss, kiss. Lovely day. Enjoy everyone. Have a great weekend. Because we kiss goodbye every day. And always hug. And you left. You were out of here. And I walked out, but I realised I'd forgotten something that I needed. I'd forgotten my handbag. Something that I needed as in like I forgot that letter I needed to post. Your entire handbag.

That does not surprise you about me, does it? The thing is, though, like we obviously finish at four o'clock. I got my shoes. I was halfway to the car. No pants on. My pants weren't on. So we finish at four o'clock, which means like most other people in the building are still working, right? Like, you know, people are having meetings and whatnot. And we work in a very busy, very tall building. There are many offices in this building. There's 17 floors.

Yeah, 17 floors. So anyway, I was like, oh my God, my handbag. I need that. So I tried to get back into the studio, but you know I also don't have a fob. You always lose your key to get in, yes. So we have these little security tags that you buzz to get back into the studio. It's a fob was right. I don't have one. You had one three days ago. I went to the front desk and there was no one at the front desk. And I was like, how am I going to get around this? I can see where this is going. Okay.

So the woman at the front desk always just presses a button and the door opens for me. So I was like, how hard can it possibly be? It's magic. So I pressed a button. Nothing happened. So I pressed it again. Nothing happened. So I pressed another button. Nothing happened. And then out comes running. The FBI. No, out comes running one of our bosses. And he's like, who's in duress? Yes.

And I was like, what? And then I realised that I had set off the duress button across the entire building and everyone was running around. I'm talking like every single radio network, the duress button's going off. Every single floor, the duress button's going off. I was like, I just need that. I was like, I'm sorry.

I'm having a problem. I can't find my handbag. I'm in duress because my pants are still inside. The problem is, though, the woman who works at the front desk has never, ever had to press the duress button. So she didn't know where the key was to stop it. So the duress button went on and it went on and then people arrived to try and save me. So I was down here collecting my handbag and our bosses came down and was like, you, you press that button. Was it Tony? Yeah, it was Tony. Oh.

I got in big trouble and I had to beg for forgiveness. That is actually.

So funny. Yes, producer Grace. No, I was saying I got an email from someone in HR, though, about this. What did they say? And they were like, you know what is a beautiful silver lining of this? We've done drills. We've had people like go, hey, I'm pressing the duress button. Here's how you have to respond. We've never had an idiot press it for a handbag. But they got to see that everyone actually knew. Actually, no, they didn't know what to do. No one knew what to do. Not a single person in this building.

building knew what to do. Now they do. So that's good. Wow. I'd be concerned that the only person that came to save me if I'm in dress was our boss Tony. I'd be like, sorry,

Like, sorry, is there someone more equipped? Like, not that I don't want your help, but like if you get someone that might have some accreditation. Yeah, anyway, it was bad. It was really bad. But I'm really glad that I helped out HR with that. They're welcome. They should thank me. Send me that email. But was it a silent alarm on every level or the whole building? Why did you press it three times then? Why did you keep pressing it? Because I was like, surely one of these is going to open the door. I pressed every one.

You're like a child. You are actually, it is actually so funny.

It is time, being that it is a Thursday, for something we do every Thursday. We also do it on our Life Uncut podcast, and that is Ask Uncut, where you guys call out with your biggest, your deepest, darkest dilemma, and we do our absolute best to answer them, even though we are technically very unqualified to do so. Stop telling people that. They won't call anymore. We give good advice, though. We are qualified. We give good advice because we've lived through some pretty wild, terrible relationships, I would say. But anyway, here it is. Okay, Alex, she's

She's giving us a call because she's got some very strong feelings for her boss. Alex, you there? Hi, yeah, and I'm hoping you guys can give me some good advice. What is going on? I've been working at this company for a couple of years now and I've got a crush on my boss.

What's the type of company? And don't tell me where you work. But like what kind of industry are you in? Drop us your location. And also, is there a big age discrepancy with your boss? Or is it like... Discrepancy? Age disparity. Well, look, is it silly to say like I assume he's in his like late 30s?

Oh, he's young. He's young. Young boss. How old are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How old are you? I'm in my mid-20s. How big is the company? Do you work really closely with him or do you just like have to brush past him and smell his cologne in the hallway?

So to explain it, it's like we work on an office floor. So like there's heaps of people around. But with my position, me and him talk a lot. Has he given you any indication? Is there any flirting? Do you get the vibe that there is something there? Or is it just a kind of feeling a bit one-sided?

I feel like I'm flossing talking about this. I can hear it. Yeah, of course. We're like always flirty. And there was this one time when we went out for work drinks, like conversation was flowing and stuff. And we like almost kissed, but like didn't. Sounds like a movie. Yeah.

So I definitely feel like the vibes are reciprocated. But like I totally get the whole like it's inappropriate because I'm his employee. You know what I mean? Now, I used to feel that, but I don't anymore. I used to. In some instances, I still do, Britt. I used to say don't poop where you eat. You know, there's a power play here and all this stuff. And all of that is true. But what I do want to say is if this could be your penguin and you think that this could be the love of your life, you can't not try just because he's your boss. Yeah.

You might be jobless. You cannot try because he's your boss. Yeah, but then you can sue him. They can't fire you. Oh my God, Brittany, this is the worst advice. No, it's not. If you think it's reciprocated and there are proper feelings there, there are definitely ways around it. And it depends on what your industry is and what the company setup is. And if you have to go and let them know you're dating. People date at work all the time. It just has to make, you just have to make sure that no one's being taken advantage of. It's all on board. It's all consensual. And then I think go for it. Also, you might get a pass.

Alex, I think be careful because it depends on multiple things. One is like how much you actually really like your job and where you work because the relationship dynamic could change if you've read things wrong. And also you definitely don't want to be in a situation where he feels uncomfortable because I think, you know, think about it on the flip side.

if you were made to feel uncomfortable because someone in your workplace was making advances at you, like that would be a whole different situation. So, I mean, could you ask him out for a drink or something and see what his response to that would be? And gauge that. She's gauged it. You're just still giving her the same... One hand you're saying, don't do it. The next one you're like, ask him for a drink. You're the one giving conflicting advice. I just think...

Only go there if you think it's going to be something remotely or relatively serious. If you're just looking for a hookup or something, it's absolutely not worth making this chaos in your work environment. Like on a serious note, don't touch it. Do you even know if he's single?

Yeah, he's definitely single. And like he is flirty. Like he likes to ask me what I'm up to on the weekends and stuff. It just never like eventuates in the conversation, you know what I mean? So maybe he's also feeling the same thing. Like he doesn't want to be inappropriate and take the wrong step. Yeah, he's keen. Is it keen just because someone asks you what you're doing on the weekend? Is that flirting these days? She said they nearly kissed unless that was fake and you imagined it. How did you almost kiss but then didn't kiss? Like what happened?

It was like a goodbye sort of situation. We were both lingering and I could see he was looking at my lips, like total signs that he was going to kiss me. Did he lick his lips? And then, so we're waiting for a taxi and somebody just came out and kind of like interrupted it type of thing. Yeah. It is a movie. That's devastating. Maybe next Christmas party. Yeah.

I don't know if I can wait that long. No, I can try and hang out on a weekend. But I think it most probably has to come from you because it probably can't come from him. He'll get fired. But if it comes from your end, it might be all right.

Okay. Or is he into like fitness stuff? Could you go for a run? What? Or go and do like a big walk or something? Or because that's hot. Go for a run and then pash, sweaty pash at the end. I don't know. Guys, it's been a long time since I've dated me. That's not a bad idea. A hot girl walk is always an option. Yeah, you could be like, I found this really great cafe. I'm into my walking now. Come for a walk. Yeah, but you're never going to kiss on a walk. I have tried every date in history. I've done it. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, swims, hot girl walks, saunas, dinner dates, barbecues.

full degustations. I've done it all. You ain't passionate at the end of a hot girl walk. What's a guaranteed pash? Dinner in the dark. You can't even do daylight savings dinner. It has to be like when the sun's gone down. 7.30pm start. Yeah, because you're not going to like mack on out in the daylight. Alright Alex, well you heard it here first. Let us know how it goes. I genuinely want to know if this eventuates. Okay, I will. I will. Thanks guys so much. Thanks for the call Alex.

Laura, I've been having a wild time on the Reddit threads. It's a good place, isn't it? I get stuck down a rabbit hole on Reddit. My favorite is am I the asshole thread? Yeah. Well, there's one at the moment that is people sharing like the weirdest habits about their partners that they didn't know until they moved in with them. So, you know, it's all like happy families when you're dating. It's

The chemistry is there. It's all sexy and attractive. Everyone's so quote unquote normal. Because everyone's on their best behavior before you move in together. And there's only a certain amount of time that you can hold up that sort of life for. Yeah, well, everyone's like going on and talking about the things that they discovered after the fact. I don't live with my partner, Ben, my fiance, because he lives on the other side of the world. But since we've like committed to each other and we're locked down and we're getting married, the first two years, he was the neatest person.

person you've ever met, like the cleanest person. And I was like, what a unicorn. Like this man that has- Oh, it's not real. It's not real. It's not real. He's such a slob and everything is so messy. And when we used to FaceTime long distance, he would clean a section behind him and around him and then he would FaceTime so that the section-

He committed. Okay, my husband, so I've been, I mean, I was about to say I've been living with him. We've been together for eight years. There is one thing I discovered after we got married and it still horrifies me to this day. Matt brushes his teeth without using any water at all. He puts toothpaste...

straight onto his toothbrush, brushes dry and then just wipes his mouth on a towel. It is like it's criminal. It makes me feel physically sick and we have to wash every towel in our house because every time he brushes his teeth, instead of just washing his mouth like a normal human, he wipes his spitty toothpaste onto a towel. We have had so many fights over this. Well, speaking of dry, someone said he'll, speaking of dry, he will occasionally...

Eat dry tortellini straight out of the bag when he's reading in bed so he doesn't cook it. It's raw. That's fine. No, it's not. Yeah, when I was a kid, I used to just eat it raw all the time straight out of the fridge. Yeah, tortellini with the meat inside, like ravioli. Oh, that sounds healthy. You just eat it, but it's cooked. The meat inside is already cooked. It's like eating ham. You can choose to cook it or not. Yeah, you do some weird things, so I'm grain of salt. There was another one on there. She found out that when her boyfriend gets out of the shower, instead of drying his body,

with a towel. He dries them with a hairdryer.

Which I think is very thorough. I wonder how normal that is. It just means he's quite hairy down there. He doesn't want it all wet and stuck together and stuff. So he gets out of the shower, cocks one leg. Do you reckon he combs it? Gets out the Dyson and just gives it a little blow dry. Okay, this one's a sociopath. He wanted to put all the cutlery just straight into the drawer without any dividers. So like knives, forks, spoons, everything's mixed together. No, no. That's crazy. No. Do you know what? I've got another one for you.

When I moved in with my ex-boyfriend, the poor guy, because I talked about on yesterday's show as well, he didn't have a bed base. He had a mattress on the floor and we lived like that for years. I did that for a while, but that was a choice. It was like a feng shui thing. He only got sheets because I moved in with him. Prior to that, he had no sheets and just kind of like had his blankets in a pile on his bed, like a nest. What?

What about this one? He won't dry using a towel. Instead, he just chooses to dry naturally. So he just walks around naked until he dries. I think that's fine. It's your own home. Be free. Be comfortable. Hang on. We've had Jo call in. Hi, Jo. What weird thing did you discover? Hey, girls. Love you both. Hi, Jo.

I discovered once I moved in with my partner that he, on occasion, but quite frequently, head bangs at night. He head bangs? Like bangs against the wall or like tries to rock out? No, so on his pillow, he will literally, like all of a sudden, out of nowhere, just start banging his head up and down on the pillow. When he's asleep? Yeah. Is he sleepwalking? Yeah.

No, I think it's an anxiety thing, but it's so weird. I thought he was like having a seizure or something the first time. I'm really sorry, Jo. Call the emergency services.

Poor guy. Give him a break, hey? Thanks for the call, Jo. Thanks. Bye. We've got another special caller on the line, actually. We've got your husband, Matty J. Laura. Oh, God. I'm an angel. Hello, my darling. Look, you are perfect. I just wanted to get something off my chest. Oh, please do. What could I possibly do that annoys you after I've been single parenting for the past five weeks? What could it possibly be? Oh, yeah, thin ice, Matt.

Yeah, thank you for bringing that up. Well, I've just noticed that I've looked at the bins and there's actually, there's a huge stack of cardboard boxes that aren't in the bin. They're just next to the bin. That's because it's your job to physically put them into the bin. I put them within the vicinity of the bin and then you've sought them.

Okay, so that was one. I've got a second one if I can also. We've got time. How long have we got? No, we've got time. What's the second one? I've talked about this a lot before, but it was when I looked at Laura, I thought she would have been having a shower before she went to bed, but what she was actually doing was fully dressed, not brushing her teeth in the sink, but she was brushing or washing her feet. In the sink? Yes.

Yeah, so she doesn't shower at night time like most people. I sometimes shower at night, depends on what I've done in the day, but sometimes my feet just need a wash. No, Laura, you always need a wash. Just showering your feet isn't a thing. But what if I've had like a shower at four o'clock and then my feet just need a rinse? A lot happens between four and eleven. Sometimes I don't want to be damp when I go to bed and I just want my feet to be clean. You can dry yourself before you get into it.

Also, who are you kidding? When have you ever had a shower at 4 o'clock? That's not happening. You have a shower at like 6.30 in the morning when you wake up. All right, we've had enough callers. I reckon that that is it. Let's get out of here. Tori Spelling. Do you remember Tori Spelling? Yeah, 90210. Yes. Yeah, I loved 90210. I mean, no one cares this, but she was my least favourite person on that show. You're right, no one cares, but I hope Tori's not listening.

But I love the show. Brian Austin Green. Oh, so good. Yeah. What's happening with him now? Oh, so the judge on Dancing With The Stars, Shana Burgess, because I'm on Dancing With The Stars right now, is married to Brian Austin Green. So essentially I'm basically in the cast of 90210. Okay, well look, going back to Tori Spelling, she's in a bit of hot water, okay? And that is because she's been getting her son to do something that people online think is very weird and questionable.

So you know how when your kids hit a certain age, they start to want pocket money or, you know, they want money. They want to buy things. They want a bit of financial autonomy. I remember my childhood, yes. We could like wash up or wash the car or mow the lawn. Like there were a bunch of chores we could do to get like a fiver. Yeah. And you get like the going rate, five bucks, something, you know. So Tori's come up with a new idea. She's like, okay, my son's at an age where he wants to make some money. He wants to do some chores.

Bo is his name. And she's like, well, I am going to get him to give me a nice little massage. So she's posted a photo of herself laying face down on a bed with just like a blanket or towel covering her butt. And then her seven-year-old is giving her a massage. Now people think this is just really strange. Firstly, people are like, why would you post this? That's weird. It's just a weird and wrong thing to do. WTF? We all know what that stands for. This is so strange and so wrong. I think people think...

think it's a bit disturbing because she's obviously nude. I think she has undies. I'm looking at the picture. So from, she's laying on her stomach and from her neck down to her butt line, she's got nothing on. Then she's got a blanket draped across her butt. Then her legs are exposed and he's rubbing her legs. Yeah, she looks like she's in a massage parlor except the masseuse is a seven-year-old. She would have undies

underwear on. So yeah, I'm looking at some of the comments. It's going off. Like people are going, that's just weird. So wrong. Austin Butler's unofficial publicist is on there apparently. He has said WTF. It's not probably getting the response she wanted. And I'm a bit torn about it because it's

I think it's okay for children to do chores for money. That's normal. Obviously, but not like... I think it's okay... Shave my butt crack, I'll give you a fiver. Like, that's weird. No, I don't think she's asking him to do that. I don't know what your butt crack looks like. I also think it's okay if they want to earn a fiver and it's like, rub your feet, give me a neck massage. I would probably do that to my kid. I get migraines. I'll be like, yeah, I'll give you a 20 to rub my neck.

The weird thing is it's because she's got no clothes on. But then it goes to the point where it's like, well, does that mean that we're sexualizing it? But we don't normally sexualize a massage. Like you don't go to a normal massage at your local massage parlor and sexualize that. So it's...

It's weird for me but I also sort of understand why she's done it but I think she should probably put the top half of her clothes on and just get a calf massage. It's a bit much. I think the reason why she shared it is because in her mind it is totally harmless. There's nothing about it that the kids giving her her calf a rub. Do you know what I mean? I don't think that there was any part of her that didn't think it would be received well and people have put their own feelings on it. Now that said, do whatever you want but like

maybe just could be more considerate about what you share on social media. I say that as I'm about to share a story on national radio. Almost every night when my kids are in the bath, I will like sit on the edge of the bath and I put my feet in the bath. And that's how you shower. We know, Matt told us. No, I put my feet in the bath and I use like one of those foot scrubbers, right? To like scrub the heel of my foot. In the bath that they're in?

No, just scrub them clean. Everyone's getting clean in the bath. All your chunky heel cracks are floating through the kids' bath. I don't shave the dead skin off on there. Like the brushes. Yeah, but there's an exfoliant. And anyway, Lola's now taken up. Lola will be like, I'll do it, mummy. So sometimes I just sit there and she washes my feet while she's having a bath and she'll wash my feet in the bath. That's child labour because you don't pay her. She doesn't even know she could be earning a wage. So I reckon just Tori's doing it wrong. You don't have to pay him for it. He owes you a massage. You birthed him.