Speaker 1: Monday, I have I won the pick up. Britt Laura
Speaker 1: and Mitch head into Chemistlare House today. Great savings every day.
Speaker 1: How are we all feeling after that bombshell episode of
Speaker 1: Married at First Sight last night?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: It has been wild.
Speaker 4: I am still I'm very surprised about the whole allowing
Speaker 4: people to go home without actually choosing to leave, you know, like,
Speaker 4: you know, they had that rule where unless both people
Speaker 4: have said leave, if one person says stay, you're stuck forever.
Speaker 5: They broke the rule last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh and Melissa had a real interesting lounge session.
Speaker 1: Is that what they call them lounge sessions?
Speaker 5: We can call it a lounge Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was rough. They both left, first time in
Speaker 1: maths history to both be allowed to leave, and they're gone.
Speaker 1: They're out of the competition. Josh actually joins us. Now
Speaker 1: we had to go straight to the source. Josh. See,
Speaker 1: hi buddy, welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mitch, it's nice to meet You're nice peing
Speaker 2: you too, Brittain Laura.
Speaker 6: Hi, Josh, Hey, Josh, look what a huge night.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine how you're feeling. But how do you
Speaker 3: feel that.
Speaker 6: You were the first person in math's history that the
Speaker 6: experts let go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't feel like Lebron smashing the
Speaker 2: points scoring record. But it was a difficult episode to watch.
Speaker 2: It was. It was also difficult to live as well.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 4: Melissa spoke to Carlin Jackie O this morning and we
Speaker 4: heard her say this, and.
Speaker 3: I took sex off the table. I was like, right,
Speaker 3: I want to get to know this guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just seeing me as this only this sex siren,
Speaker 4: and there's more elements to me.
Speaker 5: There was no kissing. It wasn't it was no interesting.
Speaker 3: It was just a very transaction the prostitute.
Speaker 5: Right, So that's what it meant. It was it was
Speaker 5: no passion, it was and I knew that Josh had
Speaker 5: clicked off.
Speaker 4: How does it make you feel when you hear that?
Speaker 4: And also is that what happened? Was there no kissing
Speaker 4: at all during intimacy Week?
Speaker 2: That's inaccurate. There was physical intimacy during during Intimacy Week,
Speaker 2: there was other forms of intimacy. So that that's a
Speaker 2: complete mischaracterization and representation of what the week was like.
Speaker 2: But that's that's her choice. That's not who I am.
Speaker 2: I don't really want to talk down to any of
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Josh, the part that I found really interesting
Speaker 1: was that you said that she limited your tea, your books,
Speaker 1: and your intimacy, which kind of sounds like what Laura
Speaker 1: does with her kids. Like it kind of felt like
Speaker 1: she was no books, no iPad, and no chicken nuggets.
Speaker 5: Like you tail up off the ground and tell up
Speaker 5: off the ground, and.
Speaker 1: That's to Matt, not even the kids. Did you feel
Speaker 1: like maybe you felt she was treating you less of
Speaker 1: a man and more like a child.
Speaker 2: It was I mean, as I said on the counts,
Speaker 2: it was about the forms of control, right, because if
Speaker 2: you look at those things in isolation, they're kind of
Speaker 2: you know, like maybe they're understandable, but when you lay
Speaker 2: them over the top. That was the point that I
Speaker 2: was trying to make that I wasn't able to connect
Speaker 2: with the outside world, whether it be through my TV,
Speaker 2: through my phone or reading books. It was it was difficult.
Speaker 5: Do you do you think, and I think this is
Speaker 5: a big one.
Speaker 4: Everyone always comes off these shows and says, oh, I've
Speaker 4: got a bad edit.
Speaker 5: That's not who I really am.
Speaker 1: Blame it on the edit every time.
Speaker 4: Do you think the editor of Melissa has been fair
Speaker 4: or would you say, look, it's been unfairly harsh.
Speaker 2: I probably break that, probably break that down two ways.
Speaker 2: I think that people are being very unfair to Smell
Speaker 2: in general. I think that she's copying a lot of
Speaker 2: bullying online, which I don't agree with, and I hope
Speaker 2: people do stop that that just continuates to perpetuate a cycle.
Speaker 2: That's the first thing. The second thing that i'd say
Speaker 2: is that one thing I've always maintained throughout the experiment,
Speaker 2: and not just just Melsia, but everyone, is that if
Speaker 2: you give them the content of the way that you
Speaker 2: act and the things that you say, you can't really
Speaker 2: complain about the edit because it's not like it's computer generated,
Speaker 2: Like they don't insert the words that you say or
Speaker 2: make you say the things you've actually said them. So
Speaker 2: I don't think that when that comes back to you
Speaker 2: you should be surprised because you did say those things.
Speaker 4: So reading between the lines, I think we're getting that
Speaker 4: the edit is fair. And the other thing I wanted
Speaker 4: to ask, and it's because I mean it was mentioned
Speaker 4: to this morning on radio, but also I've seen it
Speaker 4: in the news.
Speaker 5: Aren't you in a relationship with Lyndall? Now?
Speaker 2: No, Lyndall and I are just friends. We're just friends.
Speaker 2: There is nothing going on there at all.
Speaker 5: So what do you think?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Because it's all it's you know, watch this space. The
Speaker 3: evidence is coming out. They're going to be showing that
Speaker 3: they're together. What do you think they're talking about.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what that evidence is. I mean,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned it the reunion, and you know I
Speaker 2: mentioned it since when I came off the experiment, I
Speaker 2: worked very hard on myself to try to understand what
Speaker 2: it was that I had gone through and when I
Speaker 2: was kind of getting out of it and how I
Speaker 2: could improve myself. And then when I came off sorry,
Speaker 2: and then when I would come off the experiment, I
Speaker 2: kind of reach out to them and just say, look,
Speaker 2: this is this is how I felt. If you feel
Speaker 2: this way, then you know, I just know that you're
Speaker 2: not alive. And so that was I mean, I reached
Speaker 2: out to everyone like that.
Speaker 6: H it's I feel like you've left and you've got
Speaker 6: a lot of love, like you have a lot of support,
Speaker 6: and it would have been it was hard to watch,
Speaker 6: so it would have been really hard to watch back.
Speaker 3: Do you think now living through it rewatching it. Do
Speaker 3: you think you would go back and do it again?
Speaker 2: I did. I asked that by friends and family. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I think probably if I did go back again,
Speaker 2: I'd probably be more, probably more assertive about the type
Speaker 2: of person that maybe that I wanted to be with.
Speaker 2: I mean, during the application process, I was pretty I
Speaker 2: was pretty open about, you know, like the type of
Speaker 2: person that I would you know, I could kind of
Speaker 2: see myself spending the rest of my life with. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I probably think i'd I'd do that probably more definitively
Speaker 2: the next time if I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd feel like I want to be able to
Speaker 3: watch TV.
Speaker 1: I want to how to I've got a kindle, and
Speaker 1: I needed to be charged at all times. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to address the elephant in the room here, Like
Speaker 1: you did sign up for a TV show. So I'd
Speaker 1: think to myself, if I said I want someone who
Speaker 1: isn't hyper sexual or doesn't put as much importance on
Speaker 1: that in the same way that I do, They're going
Speaker 1: to match you up with someone who is the complete opposite,
Speaker 1: because that's what a TV show does. They want the ratings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm not blaming you, Josh but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, surely you knew there'd be a certain element
Speaker 1: of they're going to flip this back on me to
Speaker 1: get ratings.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, Well, there's two points i'd say to them. It's
Speaker 2: the first thing is that I am also a sexual person.
Speaker 2: That's just as I said on the show. That is
Speaker 2: a private matter between my wife and I, and that's
Speaker 2: what I was trying to explain there. But the second
Speaker 2: point that I say is that I understand that mass
Speaker 2: has its own reputation and with an audience of it
Speaker 2: either being negative or positive, that I can still come
Speaker 2: into the experiment and try to be myself and genuine
Speaker 2: to myself. I shouldn't have to change just because there's
Speaker 2: a camera pointing at me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good call. You know what I found interesting as well,
Speaker 1: when you were sitting there and you made your points,
Speaker 1: all the boys sitting behind you on the benches, the
Speaker 1: benchwarmers were all clapping and they were on your team,
Speaker 1: which made me think, I don't know, does Melissa not
Speaker 1: have the best reputation with the rest of the cast,
Speaker 1: because they all seemed to be very much team Josh.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I think that they were responding to
Speaker 2: what they were hearing at the moment. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: one thing that you haven't seen from as an audience.
Speaker 2: But the girls were also supportive of me as well.
Speaker 2: They did really nice. No.
Speaker 5: I saw that last night.
Speaker 4: I thought I thought it was very very one sided.
Speaker 4: I thought everyone that was in that roomo's team Josh.
Speaker 4: But it was still very hard to watch, you know,
Speaker 4: seeing you be so upset, seeing how it had all unfolded,
Speaker 4: it was a difficult, difficult one to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Britt, Laura and I have decided we're all
Speaker 1: going to pitch it and we're going to buy you
Speaker 1: any book you want. Well, I'll put in five dollars
Speaker 1: and we'll buy you anything. What do you I'll give
Speaker 1: him a book, it's a relationship book, to send it
Speaker 1: to Josh. Josh will put it in the mail. It
Speaker 1: was great to watch you on our tellies and listen.
Speaker 1: Apparently you're going to be back with Lindall. I know
Speaker 1: you don't confirm, but we might see you.
Speaker 5: Good luck with your dating whatever that means.
Speaker 3: Good luck, Josh.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I really appreciate that. I was lovely talking
Speaker 2: to you, and I hope you have a lovely day.